Metal Bheem Solid: RRRevengance
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Lightyear 2022
Pixar desperately needs to restructure their writing team. This was unbearably condescending with it's theme, as if you are watching a play by play of those "10 things that should be in your screenplay" articles. The pen bit was never funny and likewise every set up - payoff is brain numbing. Weird that they compromised on a Buzz Lightyear origin story and just decided to make it with a 'gritty' mechanical design, the toy he is based on has the…
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Under the Banner of Heaven 2022
From all the LDS themed projects I've seen - the ones that haven't been backed by the church itself - this is the most accurate and throughout in its examination. It's still prestige television so most of its shortcomings come from the heightening drama and brood editing.
Got pretty tiring at times from all the doctrine/lore dumping, but I guess that was necessary to paint the landscape of why the characters were taking on such stances. LDS people will say… -
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 2015
Seen with the audio commentary, really crazy how much of the script was not done as they were in the middle of production.
The MI franchise is Tom's baby and the level of involvement he has in them is really commendable, can't think of another currently working action star as him. -
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011
Insane marginal improvement on franchise direction over whatever JJ was cooking up. Bird's background on animation is very apparent, particularly on how the edit flows and the inventiveness of the set-pieces.
Bird strikes me as someone who is more comprehensive of the medium than Abrams, it shows on how he uses camera movements and audio ques.
This still kinda boggles around with some character set ups (later on underused in the future instalments) but its still a great time. -