Boy Movies #41

The Jason Statham issue

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I drove a car off a freeway… on top of a train… while I was on fire

There is exactly one great line reading in The Meg, a movie from 2018 that dares to ask, “What if Jaws but bigger?” The single great line is delivered by Jason Statham — the actor tasked with the enormous responsibility of starring opposite the very Meg, and also the actor who everyone involved with this production looked at and unanimously agreed should play a character named “Jonas Taylor” — and is spoken to his love interest, moments after she lost her father in a tragic Meg accident.

“Sometimes,” he growls Britishly, “things happen that change your life forever.”

Literally sometimes things happen that change your life forever. Period.

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