unlocked for your interest

[toastykitten]

I'm posting this part unlocked because manrobotmonster was referring to it in one of his entries. One thing I forgot to mention is that Mark and I were pretty much joking in this conversation - we don't obsess about it much other than to note it. I will admit that I occasionally obsess more about this stuff than he does. Also forgot to mention: The black guy dies, too. It's actually two cliches in one - the black guy dying, and the guy who discovers the deadly secret and dies before he can tell the protagonist what the one clue is that will solve the whole movie are the same person.

We watched what Zack called "some dumb action movie" - it turned out to be Spartan, this David Mamet movie that everyone gave four stars to. Maybe it was our initial impression that Zack gave us that framed how we perceived the movie, but we thought the entire thing was kind of dumb, and cliched, and the whole Mamet thing with people repeating their lines several times drove us nuts. And there was a Lebanese terrorist. I said, "Sorry honey", and Mark said, "It's okay - where are all the positive Arab characters?" "There's Monk." "But he's the only one!" "Yeah."

I thought of another one later - Sayid on Lost, but I don't know if he counts since his character was in the Iraq army. ?