The 2018 Board, Mission Impossible and Wonder Woman
Since we moved in, I've had two pin boards in my study. One has postcards and prints from TV, movies and computer games. I'm in the process of changing it over for the first time. The other used to be various bits and pieces that were useful or I wanted to keep. However, early last year, I made it a board of the 2018 things I did. I'm not quite ready to change it - I currently have nothing for 2019. However, here's a picture of it at the moment.
Over Christmas and New Year we saw two films. One was a disappointment and the other was enjoyable.
Mission Impossible: Fallout was a disappointment. I like the franchise in general and knew that this one was the one that the critics liked and also had the highest audience rating. Having seen the film, I don't know why they like it. It's essentially a remake of the previous Mission Impossible film. The chief Bad is the same, the female "British Spy" having spent the end of the previous film proving her loyalty to MI6 by turning her former boss in is... again having to prove her loyalty to MI6 by turning her former boss in. They're missing Jeremy Renner (most likely to the next Avengers film) and so have given his lines and usual role to Simon Pegg. It's safe to say, that some of said lines and actions don't fit Pegg nearly as well. Also - the IMF clearly hasn't recruited anyone new for two years. The same three characters Are It (in previous MI films, they did at least pretend they had others).
Wonder Woman was, fortunately, not a disappointment. I'd heard a lot of hype about it and, to my relief, it was pretty much worth that hype. It has decent casting, it's a coherent plot and I liked the atmosphere. I don't know how historically accurate the set details were, but that didn't matter.
Over Christmas and New Year we saw two films. One was a disappointment and the other was enjoyable.
Mission Impossible: Fallout was a disappointment. I like the franchise in general and knew that this one was the one that the critics liked and also had the highest audience rating. Having seen the film, I don't know why they like it. It's essentially a remake of the previous Mission Impossible film. The chief Bad is the same, the female "British Spy" having spent the end of the previous film proving her loyalty to MI6 by turning her former boss in is... again having to prove her loyalty to MI6 by turning her former boss in. They're missing Jeremy Renner (most likely to the next Avengers film) and so have given his lines and usual role to Simon Pegg. It's safe to say, that some of said lines and actions don't fit Pegg nearly as well. Also - the IMF clearly hasn't recruited anyone new for two years. The same three characters Are It (in previous MI films, they did at least pretend they had others).
Wonder Woman was, fortunately, not a disappointment. I'd heard a lot of hype about it and, to my relief, it was pretty much worth that hype. It has decent casting, it's a coherent plot and I liked the atmosphere. I don't know how historically accurate the set details were, but that didn't matter.