Entertaining enough, and it’s fun to see Tom Cruise do something that asks him to be a bit more of a person than an action star, but every shot had me going “why it look like that”
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018
Big laugh at Luther’s reaction to Benji asking why he has to be the one to play Lane. Big big laugh at the idea of Ethan Hunt’s bathroom plan going off without a hitch and him walking around with an Asian man’s face over his. Trying to look intimidating but having to keep his hands in his pockets the whole time.
4 > 6 > 5 = 1 > 2 = 3 thank you!
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Friday 1995
If there was any justice in this world, John Witherspoon would’ve received a lifetime achievement Oscar before he died. I’m so glad I didn’t see this as a kid. I would’ve repeated Chris Tucker’s delivery of “you got knocked the fuck out, nigga” every damn day at school. I went to school with too many white kids, it would’ve been a problem.
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 2015
Never gonna forget the raucous cheer in the theater when Alec Baldwin says “Ethan Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny.” Absolutely love them letting Cruise play it a little dazed after the underwater mission, and absolutely absolutely love that the big sequence they marketed the movie with, is the very first thing we see. The final resolution to this movie isn’t even a set piece or anything, it’s just talking and then running, and it still works. Ballsy!
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Mission: Impossible III 2006
Easily the most forgettable M:I movie. In part because JJ directs this like he was given the keys to the franchise five hours before production began, but in part because the script doesn’t care about you understanding… anything! Kind of a mess. Saved entirely by PSH– the flashback opening is extremely memorable for good reason and I LOVE the scene where Hoffman has to play Ethan Hunt in a PSH mask.
Would’ve loved if they went all in on Ethan Hunt’s fake backstory of working for the Department of Transportation. “Babe I gotta go to… away. For a week. They’re… inventing a new… bus.”
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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RRR 2022
Spent like two weeks telling Cheyenne she HAD to go see RRR with me in theaters because the crowd energy was so electric, then we went to the Drafthouse and left at intermission because the crowd was dead silent. Only a light chuckling at Naatu Naatu!! Humiliating. At least by finishing it on Netflix I was allowed to recite all the misremembered facts I learned after the first screening. Did you know this movie took five years to shoot
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