Woops, forgot to add this to my catch up post...
Not that anybody cares all that much... But one of the things that was awesome when I went home was going to the movies.
Mostly because it meant that dad couldn't lecture me in the middle of it. Like how he ranted at length about how awful it is that nature shows dare to air animals breeding. Clearly they're perverts, and the only people that will care are the teenagers that will point and laugh. (...Yes. Seriously.)
We went to see Sherlock Holmes 2: Game of Shadows... Which was fun (for me) but there's one part I disagree with a bit viciously, and in my opinion it was weaker than the first movie. It was a little rushed, as well. But I still had fun, mostly because RDJ and Jude Law together on adventures amuses the hell out of me generally.
But the winner was definitely Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. I wouldn't have called that. I loved the first MI movie, but the others were touch and go, especially after Tom Cruise took a long dive into the short end of the pool and it got hard to separate the characters from the actor with his movies.
But Ethan Hunt is... well, Ethan Hunt. And there was Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner, which only made it that much harder to say no. Quite pleasantly, the woman in the group (whom I assumed would be token female) was actually strong and self directed, and not simply arm candy the way women have been in previous MI films.
Did I mention I loved Jeremy Renner? Cos I did. LOTS. I mean, I adored Pegg's Benji in the last film, and he holds strong in this one as well. But Renner. (And his ass, but that's beside the point.) I won't spoil, but suffice it to say for me he was kind of the heart of it, despite the obvious focus on Cruise/Hunt. (A case can and has been made for Brandt = Hawkeye, too. I'm all over the crossover with Avengers for this.)
It was also nice to see a movie where things go wrong. I won't go into detail, but it isn't just a twist of OH NO, WILL OUR HEROES MAKE IT? or something simply played for laughs. I think it took the movie from being something quite typical and made it a little more... Hm. Real? Sort of? Inasmuch as any MI movie can be, lol. I connected with it more because of that.
So yes. Go see it. :D
Mostly because it meant that dad couldn't lecture me in the middle of it. Like how he ranted at length about how awful it is that nature shows dare to air animals breeding. Clearly they're perverts, and the only people that will care are the teenagers that will point and laugh. (...Yes. Seriously.)
We went to see Sherlock Holmes 2: Game of Shadows... Which was fun (for me) but there's one part I disagree with a bit viciously, and in my opinion it was weaker than the first movie. It was a little rushed, as well. But I still had fun, mostly because RDJ and Jude Law together on adventures amuses the hell out of me generally.
But the winner was definitely Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. I wouldn't have called that. I loved the first MI movie, but the others were touch and go, especially after Tom Cruise took a long dive into the short end of the pool and it got hard to separate the characters from the actor with his movies.
But Ethan Hunt is... well, Ethan Hunt. And there was Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner, which only made it that much harder to say no. Quite pleasantly, the woman in the group (whom I assumed would be token female) was actually strong and self directed, and not simply arm candy the way women have been in previous MI films.
Did I mention I loved Jeremy Renner? Cos I did. LOTS. I mean, I adored Pegg's Benji in the last film, and he holds strong in this one as well. But Renner. (And his ass, but that's beside the point.) I won't spoil, but suffice it to say for me he was kind of the heart of it, despite the obvious focus on Cruise/Hunt. (A case can and has been made for Brandt = Hawkeye, too. I'm all over the crossover with Avengers for this.)
It was also nice to see a movie where things go wrong. I won't go into detail, but it isn't just a twist of OH NO, WILL OUR HEROES MAKE IT? or something simply played for laughs. I think it took the movie from being something quite typical and made it a little more... Hm. Real? Sort of? Inasmuch as any MI movie can be, lol. I connected with it more because of that.
So yes. Go see it. :D