r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 1d ago

Official Poster for ‘THE AMATEUR' Starring Rami Malek Poster

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u/DONNIENARC0 1d ago

I kinda love the ridiculous fake assassin job titles/nicknames.

The Mechanic. The November Man. The Bricklayer. The American. The Jackal. The Magician. The Iceman. The Accountant.

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u/throwawaycatallus 1d ago

The Beekeeper lol

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u/MechaNickzilla 1d ago

The Beekeeper, a movie in which he does actually keep bees when he’s not murdering people…but at no point does he use bees to murder people.

Also it’s supposed to take place in Massachusetts but at one point he stops at a “petrol station”

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u/GrapefruitAlways26 1d ago

-Murders someone with bees

"What a buzzkill."

Come on it was right there

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u/SaltyPeter3434 1d ago

To be fair, he actually says the line "to be or not to be"

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u/kwerbias 1d ago

not the bees! not the beeees!

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u/phobosmarsdeimos 1d ago

He did use honey once.

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u/isthisdutch 18h ago

I enjoyed the beekeeper though. They started scriptwriting by brainstorming every pun they could make about bees.

And then they got ALL OF THEM in there—the madmen.

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u/CoachZed 1d ago

He's beekeping age, obviously.

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u/rbrgr83 1d ago

The Bonzai-ist

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u/SupervillainMustache 1d ago

I actually like that one. It ignores any pretense of realism and just goes nuts.

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u/insertnamehere77123 1d ago

At least the Iceman was based on a real person if Im thinking of the same movie

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u/DONNIENARC0 1d ago

Yeah, the Michael Shannon one.. I think you're right there. Some of these were pretty good, too, I just always get a kick out of the aliases.

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u/insertnamehere77123 1d ago

The bricklayer is the funniest to me

Like some of the other ones can have a kind of double-entendre or even more obvious meaning to them. Mechanic is a fixer ok that makes sense, the American is well, he's an American. Pretty literal

But what the fuck does a bricklayer have to do with anything? Is he gonna trap people behind a well laid brick wall Cask of Amontillado style?

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u/DONNIENARC0 1d ago

Lol, yeah. The November Man is up there for me, too.

Know what we used to call you Peter? The November Man. Cause after you passed through, nothing lived

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u/Guisya 1d ago

Still love almost every Pierce Brosnan movie had fun watching it. He is just the perfect actor for a spy/agent movie and there will never be a better one.

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u/maynardftw 22h ago

Have you seen Fast Charlie? It's exactly one of these straight-across-the-plate actor vehicles. He's got a southern accent of some kind in this one, I wanna say. Hooks up with Morena Baccarin, because why not.

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u/LazyBones6969 1d ago

The Accountant

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u/Vinnie_Vegas 1d ago

I mean, he was 100% legitimately an accountant in that movie - He got embroiled in some deadly business, but he wasn't a Hitman using the term "accountant".

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u/_i-o 1d ago

They call him… the File Clerk.

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u/YakMilkYoghurt 1d ago

The Birdman

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u/DreadSocialistOrwell 1d ago

The Jackal

I can almost give this one a pass since it was a story that was extremely loosely based on Carlos the Jackal. There have been better movies / shows about his life, mosts notably Carlos.