Yeah I enjoyed The Gilded Age on HBO and that got me into Downton Abbey where I’m about halfway through the series now. There’s just a lot of likable characters and friendly scheming, and it’s nice to have a suspenseful show where people aren’t being ripped to pieces (much).
As someone that plays a LOT of pool, not a month goes by without me hearing, “Are you a hustler, Amos?” at least once.
Pool needs a new movie, preferably with Forest Whittaker… as Amos of course.
Looks like this could be fun. Almost seems like a family version of Breaking Bad. No coincidence that Walt and Chuck are in it:
Also, while I’m not really loving that there are so many streaming services now (I still haven’t watched a single thing on Apple or Disney), kudos to Paramount+ for building their catalogue. Seems like the service has been growing lately.
Yeah, great great cast and a based on real life story that is actually an amazing IRL story. Obv the “MIT blackjack team threatening their livelihood” plotline is going to be blown way out of proportion to the real life story, but you gotta have a villain somewhere.
The M:I series has just been getting better and better, so I have high hopes for this one
Cruise still has the best running form
Yea I can’t say it’s found the holy grail of marrying the intellectual side that it claims to have (example: “this is our chance to control the truth. The concepts of right and wrong”) with action, but no matter what I know I’m going to be entertained so it’s a free roll for me.
Two things:
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Ethan can do magic tricks now? What was that bullshit with the key?
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We can essentially surmise that the entirety of the MI franchise is a continuing story, at the very least 4-6 run a continuous story that builds from one to the next. With the cast in 7 being primarily the same as in 4-6, why is this movie getting a “Part one” tag? Why not just call it whatever the title is and come up with a new title for part 8, since its going to be a continuing story anyway?
Ethan has always been able to do magic tricks, like palming the NOC list in the first movie.
I like Mission: Impossible as a back-from-the-dead career arc for writer/director Christopher McQuarrie. He wrote The Usual Suspects, followed that with The Way of the Gun which was underappreciated and ignored, and then he completely disappeared for a decade. Dunno if it took some secret Scientology rituals to bind him to Cruise, but it seems to have worked out very well for both of them. If you like anything Cruise has done lately, you can probably thank McQuarrie for it.
Just the other day, my son came up to me and did an impromptu Mission Impossible/Breaking Bad mashup by showing me a stick of gum, folding it in half, and saying, “This…is not gum,” before throwing it on the floor.
They filmed two movies at once.
The scene at the end is the big stunt cruise did for real, going off a cliff with a motorcycle.
Yeah the trailer looks great, but the “part one” thing has me a little worried. I hope this doesn’t mean the film is just a 2h+ long trailer for the next movie where they make sure that the climax is not too crazy to keep you hyped for the sequel. I think this is rather unlikely but if it happens I’ll be pissed.
If this is just that the plot is sequential then it doesn’t really matter (5 and 6 already had the same villain and yet you could safely enjoy each of them separately).
I’m a bit late to the party, but Everything Everywhere All At Once is pretty much a lock to dominate the Oscars. I mean at minimum Michelle Yeoh has to win Best Actress, right?
This doesn’t seem like the kind of movie that the Academy likes
WAY too soon to be saying anything like this. Not even 20% of the movies that will be Oscar contenders have been released yet.
That being said I can see a nod for both Yeoh and Quan in their categories, and maybe even Curtis
Two things re: MI:Dead Reckoning
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When we did the movie studio draft in SE I took Cruise with my first pick. I stand by it.
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Early in my agenting career somebody asked me to meet with a young actress who had been on the shortlist for the Selena role in the first biopic (the role that went to J Lo). She was not from LA, and was staying with and brought to the meeting by Esai Morales. In retrospect, the age difference between them should have been disturbing. Anyway, Esai waited in the waiting room while I met with the actress, and asked my assistant if he could read my trades (Hollywood Reporter and Variety) while he waited. After the meeting I asked my assistant for my trades back and Esai Morales had stolen them. End of tale.
Seems the complete opposite to me. Some formulaic bullshit wouldn’t fit well. But a genre-bending film with an avant garde feel to it and reputable actors/actresses should lock up a nomination.