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Welsh. Former central banker. Mostly skeeting about my cooking and LFC. Mostly. He/him. Almost died once and I wrote about my accident and the role Zwift had in my rehabilitation:
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Right wing provocateur, who trades off her family name. Definitely best avoided.
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Haha, yeah, he’s got decent comedy chops. He’s very good in Ghost Protocol, especially in the scene with Cruise where he’s explaining how he was on detail to follow him. But he’s just not A list.
I increasingly think Florence Pugh is the answer. Or I just want Florence Pugh in every movie ever.
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Hahaha, I said that to my mate as we left. They’ve tried to hand him two franchises and he seems to have flubbed it each time.
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I’m really interested to see what they do next. It sets up the franchise to go on. I’d keep the majority of the cast and bring Florence Pugh in to lead. She’s shown she can open a movie. She can do the physicality. She’s fearless. New director/writer. Pare it back to the original’s sensibility.
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Yeah, it doesn’t become a movie until he shows up. Completely agree on the financial underperformance. Cruise must also have had a change of mind. There are so many clips of prior movies it just becomes fan service. It’s like watching the movie franchise version of the Seinfeld finale.
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Yeah, that actually sounds pretty fun. I’d also like to see a making of that final sequence shown on IMAX. I know there’s something attaching him to the plane, but he still pulls off some very impressive moves.
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Yeah, there are definitely mitigating circumstances. I think there are a lot of parallels to No Time to Die. I really didn’t like that movie, and I think it has very few excuses. They just wrote themselves into a mess, and then agreed to the whims of the star to kill the lead character.
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Yeah, something definitely happened between it being Dead Reckoning Part 2 and the Final Reckoning. But how it became so bad for that first two hours to exist is beyond me. Probably beyond the filmmakers.
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Yeah, really wasted. And the will they/won’t they with Hayley Atwell is horribly misjudged. Also, conveniently absent defibrillator–which they knew they would need!–just to get a kiss into the movie. Just so bad.
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I mean, yes? I am very glad I saw the last hour on the big screen. But you could easily turn up an hour late and it’s fine because someone on screen will explain what’s happened
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Oh boy, yes. I really hate everything about it, and yet I do want to see one of those spins back into the cockpit again!
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But boy, the sequence before the credits at the start of the movie should be skippable when it gets to streaming. Just awful film making. 🍿🎬📽️🎥
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It’s not really a movie. Yet, that final hour is worth it. I saw it on IMAX and it is astonishing. I was hating everything about it, considering it the worst of the franchise, and yet. Wow. Just everything you want to in MI movie. Cruise pulled out all the stops and it sort of saves it. Sort of.
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These were meant to be filmed back to back. And this was meant to be a part two. Then Covid. But something else change. I assume between the two Cruise decided it would be his last and rewrites were required. You can see/hear it in all the close-up cutaways with new dialogue.
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Chris McQuarrie is so much better than this. He knows how to write a reveal. And this explains everything as it goes along. It has no faith in the viewer’s ability to retain information. From earlier movies, or even what happened 10 minutes ago. It has contempt for those watching.
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It fell into so many traps. One that the Bond franchise has fallen into. It’s tried to tie all nine movies together when it had no need to. Created spurious new relationships. Linked together different bad guys in the franchise. It was all about The Entity all along!
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THIS!!!
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The plot of 9: Exposition. Exposition. Archive Footage. Exposition. Decent Fight Scene. Exposition. Preachy Bit. Archive Footage. Explain the plot again. Great Fight Scene. Cool underwater sequence. Last bit of exposition. Amazing final sequence. Fin
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I come from a position of loving the franchise. I’ve seen each movie at least three times. Yes, even number II. What Cruise has achieved is staggering, and the supporting cast have been superb throughout. It’s also taken risks with directors, and that’s largely paid off. 4-7 are terrific.
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Yeah, it’s a really great group. Stevie Martin has been a highlight, and the sweetness and all round competence of Mathew Baynton.
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Yeah, I’ve listened to a few. The League with Paul Scheer was probably where I first saw him, but it’s a good reminder that I should listen to more. Thank you!
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Yeah, agreed. I’d say what’s more important is there is rotation so the players get new voices. If you stick with any combination too long it will get stale.
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I love it so much.
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Yeah, always loved his Brooklyn Nine-Nine episodes. The man has one character, but what a character.
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Hahah, yes!
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😂😂 my other thought was Quiche Gillespie
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Niçoise Williams (does this work)
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Haha, yes, I’ve been trying all evening to use a Salade Niçoise.
I really wanted to get Quiche Lorraine in, but I refuse to go down the Richard Keys route
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😂
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Me too. It would be great to see him get a run of games.
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Sure, but it’s not like Chiesa came on when Salah was subbed. Or played in the false 9 role when we were struggling up top. A few Dutch journalists have said that with Slot, you know quickly when you’re not his type of player. Chiesa clearly isn’t Slot’s kind of player.
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I felt like his name during the medals got the biggest cheer (the big 3 aside)
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Yeah, it’s a mark of writers that know the story they want to tell. Each season is the length it needs to be. Even if this is the end, I can’t wait to see what Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs create next.
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Completely agree on this. Like a weird bum note at the end to create tension when the Deborah reveal should have been left to stand in all its glory.
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It’s an astounding record in its depth and beauty. One of my favourites.
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I’m envious!