the accountant movie

 this morning i watched a DVD movie, a redbox rental, 'the accountant'. i recognized ben affleck, anna kendrick, jk simmons, jeffrey tambor, and john lithgow in it. finding out it is a thriller, along with a good cast all-around, i said 'we have a winner' when looking for a rental this week. i saw it as echoes of two of my favorite movies, as affleck is also in 'good will hunting' and kendrick is also in 'up in the air'. of course a thriller is a serious movie, but i did laugh in one scene. when ben's character saves anna's, i kind of expect him to say 'come with me if you want to live' like arnold did in 'terminator 2'. what he does say is 'we should go', close enough. as a baseball fan i noticed some of the valuables in ben's airstream trailer were baseball cards, one of them being the coveted honus wagner card. it kept my interest throughout, and the loose ends were tied up at the end about who is who and what happened to everybody. an accountant that is also a weapons expert made it entertaining. i get regular emails from redbox and this one was listed as 'back at the box', as it was released to theaters back in 2016. i tend to be picky about seeing movies at theaters, and it was only during this pandemic that i have been renting from redbox nearly every weekend. i think these are two big reasons why i had passed on it before. 

i got started early on errand running, going to pick up 3 orders at the post office, as i wanted to be part of a zoom meeting at midday. it was through the american historical association, in four parts. two were about botany, one about radiation, and the final one about cholera in the philippines. i had a question for the one about radiation, as there was a map of manhattan project sites and one of the dots is in minnesota. the presenter said it was likely a place of manufacture. there were 17 participants including the moderator and four presenters. thankful i tuned in to it. it meant watching less college football, but i didn't mind. i did see some of the indiana at wisconsin game, indiana won. in the evening i went to aldi for my weekly grocery order, and i watched the DVD that just arrived as an amazon order, the 'pied piper' charlie brown special. later in the evening i went on a walk and found 1 dollar 4 cents.