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Here’s my contribution for the Cornetto Secret Santa! This one’s for @halbow, who just wanted some Hot Fuzz material– hope I delivered it! Thank you @cornettoss-2017 for this amazing activity 💛
my favourite film!!
SIMON PEGG as MEREDITH HOUSEMAN in SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ
Some of my favourite movies in gifs 'cause hey i love cinema more than my own life
In Bruges (2008)
Heat (1995)
Boy (2010)
Blindspotting (2018)
A Ghost Story (2017)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
La Cité De La Peur (1994)
Watched Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Heavy, heavy spoilers below.
Pros:
The whole underwater sequence (minus the one stupid line that ruins the momentum) is extraordinarily beautiful, Cruise drowning is one of the better physical performances he's given. Really cool to see him swim like he runs, just sort of throwing his body forwards to try to get to his goal.
The cut from the lights going out across the world to Atwell holding the glowing drive, illuminating the scene, the only light left after they've essentially turned everything off and on again, is quite beautiful.
Couple of really fun weird performances, in no particular order: Tramell Tillman, Katy O'Brian, Holt McCallany.
Esai Morales losing his mind when his arm breaks and just screaming with such a primal rage was by far the highlight of whatever weird stuff his character had going on.
Plane stuff was cool.
Cons:
A lot of it was boring. Far too much exposition, very little happens in the first hour besides Luther dying (whatever). Too many threads, the whole thing is a mess. Lots of weird stops at inconsequential destinations.
The very end was especially egregious and really went on.
Almost all of the war room drama is dumb and boring (especially at Offerman's confusing, eye-rolling death at the end).
Did lapse back a little into the Fallout style Ethan Hunt superfan show at moments.
Basically gives up any potentially interesting epistemological threads.
Klementieff does like two things.
Whatever was going on with Shea Whigham was basically nonsense after he was almost promising in the last movie.
Far too much retrospective, both on the actual movies and, weirdly, on a bunch of fake flashbacks to things that we'd never seen. Almost a pastiche of nostalgia.
Overall it's mostly dumb, but there are a couple of transcendentally beautiful moments that make it probably worth it even though it's far too long (and I like long movies).
Watched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1
MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW!!!! Significant improvement from the last two entries in at least a few ways. It actually feels like McQuarrie is directing with a much stronger aesthetic vision, the set pieces are neither too sparse (as in Rogue Nation) nor too dense (as in Fallout). That train action sequence is easily the best in the three movies. It's almost even about something. I am willing to believe that there is some intentionality behind the relationship between artifice and doing things to some standard of 'real' and the production structure of the Mission: Impossible movies within the context of contemporary filmmaking (although I think McQuarrie and Jendresen a little out of their epistemological depth as screenwriters). I'm even willing to believe that the Entity is a potentially potent way of constructing this analogy. It certainly does not succeed in all respects, but this movie is actually trying to say something, which is more impressive than the previous installations I have seen over the past few weeks.
I'm not willing to extend enough good will to believe that Ilsa's fridging is some meta-commentary on bad scriptwriting because it was orchestrated by an artificial intelligence. I think that it is an interesting angle, but it's also a very convenient excuse to eliminate the character who was so mistreated in the last installment. On the bright side, Atwell's Grace is a significantly more realized character and a real step in the right direction. It's just too bad that McQuarrie is only willing to have one female team member at a time.
There are a couple of other minor ups and downs, like the wonderful typewriter shot (love love love), the brief grasp at a real sense of a new digital epistomology, the disappointing lack of emphasis on the non-use of technology in the final act, and the juvenile, absurd nightclub scene where rave lights and circular screen graphics are meant to instill some deep sense of fear. Broadly, this movie does function. Unlike Rogue Nation, I don't feel a frustration with the ridiculous political positioning (although perhaps I've just gotten used to ignoring it), and unlike Fallout I don't have quite the pit forming in my stomach about how much I enjoyed the 'Tom Cruise is the best' show. We'll see how the final chapter stacks up.
Watched Mission Impossible - Fallout
Extremely fun while watching it and then falls off a cliff as soon as the credits roll. Certainly a step up from Rogue Nation in the cinematography, editing, and density of action pieces that distract from the nonsense plot, characters, and morality. Has at least shown me what it takes to distract me from what is so clearly a narcissistic indulgence in the physicality of a single, awful man. It is delightful in the literal sense, and so I'm willing to give it a 'like' but its failures are so much more interesting than anything else. The misogyny is, I think, less frequent but more cutting than in the last entry (Stickell's awful speech to Ilsa a particularly egregious example) and there is an increasing sense that the characters have fallen into the same rapture as the audience; Cruise's 'impossibility' overriding their sense of individuality and personhood, sending an icepick into their brain of just the right endorphins to distract from the insipid nonsense of the whole endeavor. This is much better elaborated here, here, and here. A movie like this can never be a truly great action movie, in that all of the various arts of the form are totally subordinated to the creation of a stunt show with barely even a frame narrative.