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Well, I just got back from Stop Loss, Kimberly Peirce's long(LONG!)-awaited followup to her astonishing debut Boys Don't Cry. And you know what the first clear thought that I had after leaving the theatre was? Where the hell was this scene!? ---> (pictured to the right.) The whole time I was itchin' to get a few quality minutes of pure shirtless Phillippe with a cowboy hat and twirling a gun in hand. But lo and behold, no such scene materialized. The commercials led me to believe that, even if Stop Loss didn't deliver on the promise of its director or the supporting cast it had assembled (Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, etc.), at least I'd get to enjoy an entire scene revolving around Phillippe just being really friggin' sexy. But in this area at least, Kimberly Peirce (and her editor, most certainly, who left these beautiful shots on the cutting room floor) certainly did not deliver the goods. (Actual meaningful comments on Stop Loss a little later on...hopefully.)