I’m just like Sam Neill, ripping Dunhills and realizing patterns, attempting to evade my own fate, tormented by the horrors. Only difference is that I’m not Australian.
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015
feels oddly fragmented but maybe that’s because my mind automatically catalogues every scene into one of two categories: those with Rebecca Ferguson and those without Rebecca Ferguson
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I Saw the Devil 2010
Impressively brutal and incredibly stylish but extremity alone isn’t enough to make up for the fact that this feels like a series of violent acts punctuated by a narrative rather than the inverse. Ultimately feel like I’ve seen more effective iterations of the “man obsessed with hunting the darkness becomes the darkness himself” (Cure, Se7en, Memories of Murder) that didn’t rely entirely on gore to communicate that point.
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Mistress America 2015
I don't know if my ailment has a name. It's just me sitting and staring at the internet or the television for long periods of time, interspersed by trying to not do that and then lying about what I've been doing. And then I'll get so excited about something that the excitement overwhelms me and I can't sleep or do anything and I just am in love with everything but can't figure out how to make myself work in the world.
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011
Kremlin sequence is one of the best in the series and yeah the Burj Khalifa scene is fucking crazy and iconic but honestly… the rest of the time I was fairly bored. this might be my least favorite of the franchise. Sorry..
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Mission: Impossible III 2006
what if I told you I actually really like this one… what then... Not sure how I’d feel about it if you stripped out PSH but that’s not the movie we’re talking about now is it
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Resurrection 2022
This is nothing without Rebecca Hall, which really makes me wonder why she hasn’t had more of a career post-The Town. also British people are fucking crazy.
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Oppenheimer 2023
Much to digest, but the takes I’m seeing that this valorizes the man behind the most atrocious event of human history feel like disingenuous reads. Nor does the word “complicated” seem sufficient. Of course the tortured genius, Promethean mythology is in the foreground and is clearly in many ways a proxy for himself, but Nolan makes no attempt to conceal the horror not just of the event (this much is evident) but of the idea that a moral objective cannot compete…
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