It doesn’t take long to recognize that “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” is one of the best action movies ever made.
Some will see the light during the first act HALO jump, when Tom Cruise caps off an exhilarating long-take by leaping out of a C-17 at 25,000 feet, aerial photographer Craig O’Brien capturing the stunt from the massive IMAX camera strapped to his chest (your move, Christopher Nolan). Others might cotton to the film’s brilliance during the bareknuckle fight scene…
this movie has a very large and very bizarre cast list it stars:
• jesse eisenberg, or michael cera for film nerds
• andrew garfield, the second best spiderman but the first best in my heart
• justin timberlake when he still thought he could be a serious actor
• two armie hammers/parent trap technology
• london tipton
• max minghella and his st. tropez tanning lotion
• ann perkins
• timmy from jurassic park
• the guy who screeched…
Once in a while there’s a movie that is so brazen and real and self-reflexive about the way it portrays a topic that, if it’s successful enough, any movie made thereafter about the same topic has a responsibility to meet it’s baseline. Like, The Dark Knight forced superhero movies into a more serious corner, Cabin In The Woods forced horror movies to examine their own cliches and work around them. I think Eighth Grade is that movie for teenagers.
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the perfect movie to see after vaping in the movie theater bathroom. trust me, i’m an expert — i have done this at least 40 times and have never gotten caught, but maybe that’s just because i live in portland. so i’m passing on my knowledge with this step-by-step guide so you too can have the mind-blowing theater experience i did:
1. buy a vape and a THC cartridge (HARDEST STEP FOR MANY, SORRY)
2. go to the theater and…
