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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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I saw MI 7 (and the previous installments) on Paramount Plus, which is a very suitable choice for streaming because it has all the Star Trek shows and movies, and both franchises have a couple of things in common: Leonard Nimoy (who was a regular cast member of the orginal MI tv show) and competence porn... shows that always depict relentlessly competent heroes.
As always, the MI theme song is thrilling, but this particular version featured unusually violent-sounding percussion. The opening sequence is strangely lacking in familiar faces but crucial to the story. The cast is loaded with attractive people playing extremely competent characters, except that Tom Cruise's face often looked bloated. He is still a good-looking guy, even with the bloated face. Although I have become a jaded action movie fan over the years, this movie featured two amazing fight scenes and an entertaining car chase. There is one final suspenseful scene that is almost unbearably thrilling. Thankfully, the movie does not end on an intense cliffhanger, because we will probably be waiting at least several months or possibly a couple of years, depending on how they filmed everything.
For you MCU fans, this movie includes a couple of familiar faces, and they both look amazing here: Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter) and Pom Klementieff (Mantis). It's almost as if both of them are aging in reverse.
Aside from being the first part of a two-parter, the only other minor complaint I have is that there was somewhat less humor than in the last 3 MI movies. Oddly enough, some of the humor present does not involve returning supporting actor Simon Pegg.
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Also not a fan of the one key character death.
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hotseatgames wrote: I showed my girlfriend Old Boy since they just added it to Netflix. I warned her that it was traumatic, but was not prepared for how much she did NOT like that film. I hadn't seen it myself in quite a while, and had actually forgotten (repressed) the more disturbing scenes. It's a rough one. Still, an excellent film with a fucked up story that I highly doubt you'll anticipate.
Which Old Boy? The Korean or American one? I appreciated both but was NOT expecting Thanos and Wanda to be soooooooooooooo intimate I would thought there would be a bazillion memes around this when Endgame came out but I don't recall any, guess it slipped under the radar.
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Speaking of Carl Weathers, I really need to give Action Jackson another spin, about all I remember from it is a really young Sharon Stone and Craig T. Nelson as the bad guy and I'm not even 100% positive about that.
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Thanks to my ex, I have watched a fair amount of anime. Due to my own interests, I have also watched a couple dozen non-anime Japanese movies over the years. They are often marred by a particular Japanese trait, the need to slow a story down to a glacial pace in a futile effort to increase drama. Perhaps that is my silly and patronizing American attitude talking, just because I was raised to associate excitement with fast-paced action. Anyway, Cube drags in a few places and then slows to a crawl in the final ten minutes. In order to slow the pace down further, less things happen. Characters speak more slowly and repeat themselves unnecessarily. All possible excitement drains away into ennui, like watching a eurogamer take a half hour to play a turn in a game with too much open information on the table. I'm not sorry that I watched this movie, but I am certain that I will never watch it again.
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