Reviews: <i>The Sound of Freedom</i> and <i>Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One</i>

Reviews: The Sound of Freedom and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One

Both are really good and I recommend both. Interestingly, both are also espionage thrillers. And both feature a hero who goes rogue, against the wishes of his government.

The Sound of Freedom is a frequently-upsetting, taut thriller about an investigator with DHS -- real life agent Tim Ballard -- who has burnout and secondary trauma due to his work busting pedophiles and peddler of child p0rn.

A coworker who is even more broken by the job than Ballard is asks him, "How many pedophiles have you busted?" Ballard gives the exact number. "And how many of the children have you recovered?" Ballard is silent, as the number is "zero."

He decides to do something about that.

The movie follows both Ballard and a very young brother and sister who have been abducted by child traffickers. The young actors cast for these roles are outstanding. They're heartbreakingly young -- one has just turned seven, the other is nine -- both are completely natural and convincing.

This movie drives it home that child exploitation doesn't just involve teenagers, but very little children.

I've mentioned it before, but don't let squeamishness about the crimes being committed by the villains keep you away from the movie. Yes, this is some tough stuff and you'll squirm through some scenes. But the movie has good judgment in showing just enough to make you understand the horror of child slavery, but not so much that you'll run out of the theater. No actual abuse of children is shown. For example, a pedophile talks to that very young seven year old boy about "spaceships" and other things that he thinks a seven year old boy will find charming. It's vile to see a middle-aged man talking about spaceships to get a little kid to like him. But they don't show more than that. The movie shows the preparatory steps of the abuse, and the monstrous intent behind their actions, but not the terrible deeds themselves.

After tracing an abducted child, Ballard realizes there are just too many exploited children. Tens of thousands of them. And that finding them one by one just isn't enough. He concocts a plan to induce the traffickers to bring the children to him, rather than hunting them all down.

And to do that, he enlists the help of a former Pablo Escobar drug runner who's attempting to repent his sins, as well as a wealthy civilian who will fund and front the operation.

It's at this point the DHS orders him to stop the operation and come home. His boss (played by Kurt Fuller, "Woody" from Psych) is not presented as evil or as wishing to abet the traffickers. It's just that the DHS doesn't have any kind of foreign jurisdiction. He had given Ballard some leeway to conduct the initial stages of his investigation, but now that he's organizing a major undercover operation in Colombia, he tells Ballard to come home or he'll be fired.

The film is very well shot. It's amazing what someone can accomplish with a good camera if he just chooses interesting things to point the camera at. Establishing scenes in Tijuana and Cartagena, Colombia are very effective. The best photography is in the jungles of rebel-controlled areas of southern Colombia. They didn't even need CGI! They just went to actual physical locations and photographed things! Amazing!

You might expect an action movie based on movies with plots about child abduction -- Taken movie, for example. Although there is some action at the end, the film relies on suspense more than actual physical combat for excitement. Much of the movie features Ballard pretending to be a pedophile himself to infiltrate the trafficking networks, having to con his way in and maintain his cover, and also make some difficult decisions about whether he should protect a child now, even though that will give away the fact that he's not here to prey on children but to rescue them.

Caviezel, playing Ballard, creates some tension in his performance because, while he's pretending to be a pedophile enjoying the company of other pedophiles, sometimes he can't keep up the act and shoots a look that says, "I'm going to f***ing kill you." And one wonders: Did anyone else see that? Did he get away with that, or did he just give it all away?

Overall, just a very well-made, good-looking, expensive-looking (despite the $14 million budget) drama of suspense. A high recommendation.

Also worth your time is Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One, aka Mission Impossible 7 or MI7.

Some quibbles first: Dead Reckoning Part One has three weaknesses that keep it from topping Rogue Nation, the fifth and so far best installment in the series:

1. The plotting is sometimes unclear and clunky. Mission: Impossible movies are always written with the big action beats and twists and revelations first, and only later is a logical (or semi-logical) plot written to connect these beats.

Sometimes, in outings like M:I 3 and M:I 5, the connect-the-dots nature of the plotting is well disguised and the movie flows and connects well. Sometimes, though, it feels jerky and roughly constructed, and the structure of the movie becomes Action Set Piece, Talking Scene Where Tom Cruise Yells the Plot At You, Action Set Piece. M:I 4 felt that way to me, as did M:I 6. (Which is one of the reasons that I disagree with people who say M:I 6 was the best entry.)

Most of this plot jerkiness occurs early in the film. An early scene features the Director of National Intelligence having the Plot Intoned to Him by his senior staff. The first act of this movie tries to be very fast-paced, but it winds up feeling a little slow because we don't totally understand what's going on. It's like the gears aren't turning smoothing, but keep getting stuck and then abruptly jumping. Watching the film I thought of the old bit of wisdom, "If you want to go fast, go slow." Maybe if they had slowed down the exposition a little it would have actually felt faster to the audience.

However, once all the exposition stuff is done, the movie starts really moving.

2. The villains are a little weak. There are two villains: first, "The Entity," an AI created by America's national intelligence services to take over any other computer on earth, which has now become sentient and free-willed, and apparently... angry.

The second villain is The Entity's principle human agent on earth, called "Gabriel," a nasty covert agent who likes killing, we're told, but even more enjoys the suffering that killing causes for the living.

The movie tries to develop both of these villains but the division of attention winds up short-changing both. We hear a lot about The Entity, and we know it is present by the plot convolutions it causes, but we don't actually meet The Entity except during one sequence. It's a cool sequence, and I liked actually hearing the "voice" of The Entity. I also strongly suspect this is just a teaser, and that The Entity will be much more present in Part Two. I wanted more from The Entity, which I guess means that this isn't much of a flaw, if at all.

The human agent is a much bigger problem. He gets more screen-time than The Entity, but the actor just doesn't play him with a menacing presence. We're told he's a cold, calculating psychopath who loves hurting people, but the actor playing him seems like a normal suburban guy. He seems like a friend of your dad's who knows a lot about Excel. What we're told about him just doesn't match what we see.

Incidentally, the movie has a really cool line about him. Mission: Impossible movies have long played with Biblical names and imagery to suggest that the latest threat to the world isn't just a possible apocalypse, but rather The Apocalypse. Someone calls Gabriel "the dark messiah" of The Entity, suggesting that The Entity is Satan in the guise of computer code, and that Gabriel is his Anti-Christ.

Sounds awesome. Wish I could actually see and feel that from this actor.

I think they should have gotten someone like Cillian Murphy who could give this character a more psychopathic edge.

3. This is part one of a two part movie. The plot involves attempting to get both halves of a "cruciform key" -- each half looks like a regular key, but when you slide one into the other into an x-shape or cross-shape, you have one key with four different blades.

Kind of like a videogame where you need to get the Silver Key to proceed to the boss battle.

A real-world cruciform key

Cruciform, huh? More religious/mystical imagery.

I liked that McGuffin a lot. Yes, it's literally just finding two keys to enter the Boss Level, but it's at least a cool version of a key.

But still, the film is only about the recovery of the two halves of the McGuffin. When combined into a single cruciform key, the McGuffin will open up a box that provides some way of destroying The Entity. In other words, the McGuffin in this movie is just a Plot Coupon to open the box containing the next movie.

Some people might not like the fact that this is just the first half of a longer, five hour movie. I didn't mind it. The climax is so big and huge it feels like it's a complete movie, even though Gabriel and The Entity are still very much a threat.

And yes, I said a "longer five hour movie." This movie is 2 and a half hours long, or two hours and forty-something minutes with credits. (Which you shouldn't bother with, this isn't a Marvel movie.)

The length is not a problem. It moves fast and you barely notice it's a long movie. I didn't even go to the bathroom during it.

Though, you know, you should make sure you go to the bathroom just before it starts.

Those are the problems with the movie. Everything else is great.

Mission: Impossible 5 introduced a great character in Ilsa Faust (there's that metaphysical imagery again), a cover operative of ambiguous loyalties who longs to come in from the cold. That character is another reason that 5 is my favorite.

But this movie maybe -- probably -- tops Ilsa Faust with "Grace," an elite-level pickpocket and thief hired by "the White Widow" to steal the McGuffin. The character twist here is great: Grace is top notch when it comes to her specialty, but when it comes to action-movie stuff, she's a pure civilian who has no idea what she's doing and is over-her-head and terrified. There's a scene where she escapes Tom Cruise in a stolen police car, but apparently hasn't driven in years, because she just keeps hitting parked cars on the side of the street. Cruise is able to follow her just by the trail of damage.

Her chemistry with Cruise is so good you forget that Cruise also had great chemistry with Ilsa Faust and... wait, didn't Mission: Impossible 6 suggest that Faust and Hunt were a couple now?

Her character is very funny. That leftwing idiot Grace Randolf pointed out that the Mission: Impossible movies are always pretty funny, and yet no one thinks of them as being funny.

I think Haley Atwell is going to graduated to A-list actresses based on this movie. She's always been a stunner, but I didn't know before this that she was a good comedic actress.

Speaking of humor, this movie manages a trick that James Bond movies always screw up: the funny action scene. I always hate it when James Bond movies try to be "funny" in chase scenes, whether it's the hydrofoil gondola in Moonraker or the ever-destructible car in View to a Kill. I never find these "funny" chases funny at all, and resent them for being so cartoonish as to also make the rest of the film seem silly.

M:I 7 has a funny chase scene that actually works, featuring the comedically-small and yet absolutely real Fiat Mini 500, but apparently an IMF model with a little more under the hood than you might be expecting. Because this is a real car -- well, except maybe for the powerful engine this one seems to have -- it doesn't take you out of the movie. It's funny, it's silly, but it's the kind of thing that really could happen. These cars are ubiquitous in Rome, so why wouldn't the IMF make use of one?

They don't play it clownlishly, like having the car, I don't know, drive through a kid's playground and go right under the monkey-bars because, do you get it?, it's so small you guys, it's smol. Please clap.

That's the kind of joke a James Bond movie would do.

This movie doesn't take the humorous presence into absurdity. In fact, they take the car's smallness and make it work dramatically, as the car chasing them is a big armored police Humvee, which is absolutely battering all other vehicles off the road. When that big black armored Humvee is closing on the little Fiat the heroes are in, it's a David and Goliath situation.

Action in Mission: Impossible movies isn't just well-staged and filled with big (and sometimes amazing) stunts. They're often clever and novel, featuring a spin on an fight or chase that's been done literally hundreds of times before... but this new spin makes them fresh.

For example, there's a simple fight between Ethan Hunt and two of Gabriel's killers. The twist is that the fight takes place in an extremely narrow alley, about four feet across at most, with one killer on one side and the other killer behind Ethan. There is no way for Hunt to fight one killer without giving the other one a free, undefended attack on his back.

It's not a big huge stunt -- it is probably the least costly action sequence in the movie-- but it's a taut scene that's visceral and punishing. (And it's all been arranged by The Entity, who led Hunt into this narrow killing box.)

The start of the climax is that big motorcycle jump off a cliff that they've promoted a lot. But that's just the opening. There is a big sequence on a train that follows, which features just about every stunt you can do on a train... while the train screams down the tracks, out of control.

The climax might be better than the helicopter chase climax of MI:6. It's close.

Overall, just a really well done, funny, exciting action movie. I'm going to see it in IMAX this week, before Oppenheimer takes all the IMAX screens. Having not seen it in IMAX yet, I can't review it in the IMAX format -- but it seems like the sort of movie where the IMAX format would improve the experience. I waited to see Top Gun: Maverick too long and missed the first weekends when it was in IMAX, and then waited when I heard it might come back in IMAX. It eventually did, and it was spectacular in that larger format. I imagine this MI:7 will likewise benefit from the bigger screen.

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Oh, please avoid spoiling anything. There's a plot development in Mission Impossible that was spoiled for me, and I'm still bothered by that.

Posted by: Ace at 04:21 PM

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1 !!!

Posted by: m at July 14, 2023 04:22 PM (SpRPx)

2 But what of Barbie?! Surely we'll get a Barbie review!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

3 centered

Posted by: m at July 14, 2023 04:22 PM (SpRPx)

4 I watched Sisu this week. Great movie.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 14, 2023 04:24 PM (xPl2J)

5 M:I 7 has a funny chase scene that actually works, featuring the comedically-small and yet absolutely real Fiat Mini 500, but apparently an IMF model with a little more under the hood than you might be expecting. Because this is a real car -- well, except maybe for the powerful engine this one seems to have -- it doesn't take you out of the movie. It's funny, it's silly, but it's the kind of thing that really could happen. These cars are ubiquitous in Rome, so why wouldn't the IMF make use of one?

They don't play it clownlishly, like having the car, I don't know, drive through a kid's playground and go right under the monkey-bars because, do you get it?, it's so small you guys, it's smol. Please clap.

That's the kind of joke a James Bond movie would do.

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It's a reference to one of the Moore Bond movies. Can't remember which one. The Spy Who Loved Me?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

6 SPONGE

and now to read

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

7
In before the riff-raff!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:24 PM (MoZTd)

8 BREAKING:

Gov’t Can Continue Colluding With Big Tech, 5th Circuit Grants “Administrative Stay” of Injunction

It’s not a decision on the merits, it puts a temporary hold until the court can determine the merits of the District Court injunction that prohibited government collusion with big tech and big social media to silence and censor political opponents.

Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2023 04:25 PM (RHGPo)

9 Looks good but my chances to see it in a theater is next to %0

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2023 04:25 PM (xhxe8)

10 >>>It's a reference to one of the Moore Bond movies. Can't remember which one. The Spy Who Loved Me?

ah yeah, For Your Eyes Only, the little yellow car in Spain or wherever it was supposed to be.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:25 PM (KRtlO)

11 BREAKING! White House coke case cracked!

Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
Joy Behar whines that this is just "more fodder for the Republican conspiracy machine."
Faux conservative Ana Navarro whines that the right is "weaponizing Hunter Biden against his dad."
She then claims the cocaine was "planted" so they could "advance the Hunter Biden narrative."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 04:26 PM (FVME7)

12 yeah the little yellow car in FYEO is an example of an amusing spin on a car chase where it's not so stupid that it takes you out of the movie.

except maybe the part where the car just barrel-rolls down the hill.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:26 PM (KRtlO)

13 10 >>>It's a reference to one of the Moore Bond movies. Can't remember which one. The Spy Who Loved Me?

ah yeah, For Your Eyes Only, the little yellow car in Spain or wherever it was supposed to be.
Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:25 PM (KRtlO)

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That's the one!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

14 Isn't this whole post one big spoiler?

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:27 PM (geLO8)

15 14 Isn't this whole post one big spoiler?
Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:27 PM (geLO

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I didn't know there would be pew-pews in this movie!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

16 I'd call Sound of Freedom entertaining except for its subject matter. Surprisingly, It's a caper movie with a little bit of Rambo.

If you haven't been to a theater recently, I'd encourage you to go. Every butt in a seat helps send a few messages. There's nothing gratuitous in it, and the horrific stuff is offscreen.

Jim Caviezel is made for his role and should get an Oscar nod. We'll see.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:28 PM (RqMSv)

17 The movie shows the preparatory steps of the abuse, and the monstrous intent behind their actions, but not the terrible deeds themselves.
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So it's like being a fly on the wall in a public school classroom.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2023 04:28 PM (lX8VI)

18 In before the riff-raff!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:24 PM (MoZTd)

NO SPOILERS!!

Posted by: Jill Biden at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (srniQ)

19 I don't go to the movies these days, but I do plan on buying both on Blu-Ray/DVD when they are released in that format.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (YIVH2)

20 Jim Caviezel is made for his role and should get an Oscar nod. We'll see.

He lacks diversity.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (eOEVl)

21 I think that The Sound of Freedom could be our era's Death Wish:

The film that touched on an issue close to the masses that the elite found declasse to address, especially in ways using genre like thriller to accomplish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

22 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning... a movie about an adventuring type who has to find two pieces of hardware to keep a superweapon from falling into the wrong hands where he's accompanied by a younger female counterpart with whom he doesn't always get along...
popular plot this summer.

Posted by: neverBiden at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (eIGHH)

23 Do Haley Atwell's bazootas have any lines?

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (geLO8)

24 Movie sign!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (ufFY8)

25 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning... a movie about an adventuring type who has to find two pieces of hardware to keep a superweapon from falling into the wrong hands where he's accompanied by a younger female counterpart with whom he doesn't always get along...
popular plot this summer.

But enough about the Witcher.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2023 04:30 PM (eOEVl)

26 They don't show the kids being abused? How disappointing. I've been told by Netflix and corporate media, the only way to properly show how kids are being exploited... is to exploit them in your film.

It's the french way. So it's better.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 14, 2023 04:30 PM (dGCAG)

27 >Jim Caviezel is made for his role and should get an Oscar nod. We'll see.

Never happen. He played Jesus sympathetically in a movie.

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:30 PM (geLO8)

28 The movie shows the preparatory steps of the abuse, and the monstrous intent behind their actions, but not the terrible deeds themselves.
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That's the kind of filmmaking that just accentuates the horror.

Was watching a low-budget indie flick this past weekend (The Sanitarium) and at one point, the deadbeat dad goes into his son's room, takes of his belt, and closes the door. You *KNOW* what's going to happen, but you don't see or hear it. Next day, the 9-year-old boy shows up at school with marks on his neck.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 04:31 PM (YIVH2)

29 26 They don't show the kids being abused? How disappointing. I've been told by Netflix and corporate media, the only way to properly show how kids are being exploited... is to exploit them in your film.

It's the french way. So it's better.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 14, 2023 04:30 PM (dGCAG)

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The fall of the Hays Code broke a lot of brains, and we're still seeing the effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

30 I find Vanessa Kirby to be crazy hot. In the new MI she's "twinned" which is my new fantasy. A boy can dream ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:31 PM (RqMSv)

31 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning... a movie about an adventuring type who has to find two pieces of hardware to keep a superweapon from falling into the wrong hands where he's accompanied by a younger female counterpart with whom he doesn't always get along...
popular plot this summer.
Posted by: neverBiden at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (eIGHH)

So Old Indiana Jones stole the plot from MI7?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:31 PM (eoQWY)

32 Blake Lively works with Child Rescue Coalition. She said that there is basically there are no boundaries for abuse and exploitation, infants.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:31 PM (z7fHM)

33 Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
Joy Behar whines that this is just "more fodder for the Republican conspiracy machine."
Faux conservative Ana Navarro whines that the right is "weaponizing Hunter Biden against his dad."
She then claims the cocaine was "planted" so they could "advance the Hunter Biden narrative."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14

Why doesn't the entire human race realize these women are deranged and evil?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (zYoUB)

34 32 Blake Lively works with Child Rescue Coalition. She said that there is basically there are no boundaries for abuse and exploitation, infants.
Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:31 PM (z7fHM)

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And she's married to a billionaire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

35 She then claims the cocaine was "planted" so they could "advance the Hunter Biden narrative."

I can tell you guys, but don't tell anyone else. It was me. I just disguised myself as thirty something , 6'2 Secret Service man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (Keyt1)

36 Thanks Ace, and I kinda love the MI theme marble video. That's amusing and fun.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

37 >>> Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning... a movie about an adventuring type who has to find two pieces of hardware to keep a superweapon from falling into the wrong hands where he's accompanied by a younger female counterpart with whom he doesn't always get along...
popular plot this summer.

yeah. critical drinker mentions that. Except it's well-done here. There is a big, big difference in Haley Atwell and Phloebag, for one. Grace is a great character played by a really hot woman, and Phloebag is a snarky, condescending idiot played by a gawky rodent.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (KRtlO)

38 Caviezel has bad think. No Oscar ever for him.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2023 04:33 PM (TZ75n)

39 Marble video is cool.

CG?

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:33 PM (krQz2)

40 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning... a movie about an adventuring type who has to find two pieces of hardware to keep a superweapon from falling into the wrong hands where he's accompanied by a younger female counterpart with whom he doesn't always get along...
popular plot this summer.
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The Star Wars sequels have entered the chat...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 04:33 PM (YIVH2)

41 > I always hate it when James Bond movies try to be "funny" in chase scenes, whether it's the hydrofoil gondola in Moonraker or the ever-destructible car in View to a Kill. I never find these "funny" chases funny at all, and resent them for being so cartoonish as to also make the rest of the film seem silly.

Like that amazing corkscrew car jump they put a stupid slide whistle sound over.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 04:33 PM (R38qh)

42 38 Caviezel has bad think. No Oscar ever for him.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2023 04:33 PM (TZ75n)

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But don't call it a Blacklist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

43 >>>t. In the new MI she's "twinned" which is my new fantasy. A boy can dream ...

oh I forgot to mention her, and the scene where Haley Atwell plays her.

Which of course is really just Vanessa Kirby playing Haley Atwell playing herself. It's really well done. She actually acts like Haley Atwell pretending to be her.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

44 Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
Joy Behar whines that this is just "more fodder for the Republican conspiracy machine."
Faux conservative Ana Navarro whines that the right is "weaponizing Hunter Biden against his dad."
She then claims the cocaine was "planted" so they could "advance the Hunter Biden narrative."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14

Why doesn't the entire human race realize these women are deranged and evil?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (zYoUB)

And non in on the current story. Its supposed to be an impenetral mystery, NOT Hunter Biden. Mentioning him is a big mistake if you want this to blow over.

Get it, blow! BLOW!!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (eoQWY)

45 Heads up, these are not porn movies.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (lyP95)

46 One of the fun things in the Italian Job remake was the use of the new Mini Coopers, all tricked out and souped up.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (xcxpd)

47 {28} ...That's the kind of filmmaking that just accentuates the horror. ...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 04:31 PM (YIVH2)

Same thing Hitchcock used. The censors fought him tooth and nail about the gore in the shower scene in Psycho. He walked them through it frame by frame demanding that they point out where that alleged gore actually was. They couldn't.

He was an absolute master at letting the viewer's mind extrapolate and fill in the blanks, to their own maximum horror.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (nRMeC)

48 There was a hot rod version of the Fiat 500, anAbarth version. The engine (in the back) was too big and you couldn’t close the hood. So, they left it open and called it a spoiler.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (JTwsP)

49 Why doesn't the entire human race realize these women are deranged and evil?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (zYoUB)
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There's room for stupid and gullible, too.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (krQz2)

50 >>>39 Marble video is cool.

CG?

ironically, I would guess yes.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

51 43 Which of course is really just Vanessa Kirby playing Haley Atwell playing herself. It's really well done. She actually acts like Haley Atwell pretending to be her.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

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Seen the Napoleon trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmWztLPp9c

Kirby plays Josephine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

52 Caviezel has bad think. No Oscar ever for him.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2023 04:33 PM (TZ75n)

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But don't call it a Blacklist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

African-American list?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (eoQWY)

53 Hollyweird needs to do a remake of the 1962 classic “Sodom and Gomorrah” and update it for 2023.

Any large blue cities in the USA will do.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (R/m4+)

54 If you haven't been to a theater recently, I'd encourage you to go. Every butt in a seat helps send a few messages. There's nothing gratuitous in it, and the horrific stuff is offscreen.

Jim Caviezel is made for his role and should get an Oscar nod. We'll see.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:28 PM (RqMSv)
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And every seat has a butt in it if my theater was any indication.

And this movie actually fits all of the new racial and ex-based Oscar requirements, but there will be crickets. I don't think it's good enough to be a shoe-in winner, but I do think it's good enough to get a nomination. It won't, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (t0OGg)

55 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

Littlest Kidlet (19) and a couple of her friends are going to watch it in the theater. She even bought a pink shirt just for the movie (she usually hates pink).

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 14, 2023 04:35 PM (nC+QA)

56 I can tell you guys, but don't tell anyone else. It was me. I just disguised myself as thirty something , 6'2 Secret Service man.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (Keyt1)

Good thing they didn't show you one of Mannix's hotties as a test. They would have found you out.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 14, 2023 04:35 PM (ufFY8)

57 I always hate it when James Bond movies try to be "funny" in chase scenes, whether it's the hydrofoil gondola in Moonraker or the ever-destructible car in View to a Kill. I never find these "funny" chases funny at all, and resent them for being so cartoonish as to also make the rest of the film seem silly.
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I was watching "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" not too long ago and it seemed like it was just chase scene after chase scene with only a vague connection to the plot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 04:35 PM (YIVH2)

58 Which of course is really just Vanessa Kirby playing Haley Atwell playing herself. It's really well done. She actually acts like Haley Atwell pretending to be her.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

Utterly confused look dot png

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 04:35 PM (RojXQ)

59 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning... a movie about an adventuring type who has to find two pieces of hardware to keep a superweapon from falling into the wrong hands where he's accompanied by a younger female counterpart with whom he doesn't always get along...
popular plot this summer.
Posted by: neverBiden at July 14, 2023 04:29 PM (eIGHH)

My only question is, is the "young" female counterpart a big nosed Brit who isn't funny or physically attractive, but keeps being put out there like she is one and/or other other?

Cuz that would be my kind of movie. Not that I'll go see it in theaters, I'll wait for it to get to the bargain bin at my local Blockbuster.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 14, 2023 04:36 PM (dGCAG)

60 Never happen. He played Jesus sympathetically in a movie.

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:30 PM (geLO

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I'm offended you used the J-word.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:36 PM (krQz2)

61 >>>And this movie actually fits all of the new racial and ex-based Oscar requirements,

most of the actors are Latin and the director and crew are mostly Latin. A third of the movie is in Spanish.

But still, it's White Supremacy on Film or whatever.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:36 PM (KRtlO)

62 This is part one of a two part movie. The plot involves attempting to get both halves of a "cruciform key" -- each half looks like a regular key, but when you slide one into the other into an x-shape or cross-shape, you have one key with four different blades.

Would probably dramatically shorten the movie if the bad guys just watched a few Lockpicking Lawyer Youtube videos.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 14, 2023 04:36 PM (p8A+W)

63 Caviezel expected to never get a mainstream role after playing Jesus in The Passion. After it opened, for awhile, he was the most recognizeable actor on the planet.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:36 PM (RqMSv)

64 Cuz that would be my kind of movie. Not that I'll go see it in theaters, I'll wait for it to get to the bargain bin at my local Blockbuster.

Just how long was that nap?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2023 04:37 PM (eOEVl)

65 most of the actors are Latin and the director and crew are mostly Latin. A third of the movie is in Spanish.

But still, it's White Supremacy on Film or whatever.
Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:36 PM (KRtlO)
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Yup. It ticks all of the Academy's new woke-ass boxes, but its subject matter is all wrong and so it will *not* be nominated. For anything.

It will be somewhat darkly amusing to watch that happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 14, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)

66 Which of course is really just Vanessa Kirby playing Haley Atwell playing herself. It's really well done. She actually acts like Haley Atwell pretending to be her.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

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Seen the Napoleon trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmWztLPp9c

Kirby plays Josephine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

With a really bad, a-historical haircut.
Movie looks good though. I'll be watching it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

67 So Old Indiana Jones stole the plot from MI7?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:31 PM (eoQWY)

Maybe he went back in time through some magic McGuffin device?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 14, 2023 04:37 PM (dGCAG)

68 But still, it's White Supremacy on Film or whatever.
Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:36 PM (KRtlO)
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It's the diverse face of White Supremacy.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:38 PM (krQz2)

69 If you watch Jim Caviezel in interviews about Sound of Freedom, he comes across as intensely passionate about the cause of rescuing children from child trafficking. He seems to take it personal, like.

I suspect if one of his kids was ever snatched, the kidnappers would find out it's a very, very bad idea to steal from Jesus...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 04:38 PM (YIVH2)

70 My $.02 on the reaction to Sound of Freedom:

To acknowledge the film as being good or important would be to acknowledge that child trafficking is a real issue of great importance.

Is that because a lot of lefties and elites like to fuck kids? Maybe.

But more so IMHO, it gives the average normie the impression that maybe, just maybe, those on the right who tell you that schools and Hollywood are groomer factories may just be right about it. And if they're right about that, maybe they're right about, idk, the origins of Covid or whether Joey got 81 million legitimate votes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 04:39 PM (KbCG3)

71 MI is getting rave reviews from the guys who really attack Disney mostly because its not a sucky woke movie, but its not THAT good. Its fun and entertaining and engaging, but its not The King's Speech or Casablanca. The hype is a bit much.

But every review of Sound of Freedom hammers two things:
1) The acting is amazing, particularly the kids
2) Its a bit melodramatic, but not excessively or insultingly so

They're already working on a sequel but its not what you think. Apparently there was another operation going on at the same time, somewhere else, and they want to tell that story, too

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 04:39 PM (0hOvj)

72 This is part one of a two part movie. The plot involves attempting to get both halves of a "cruciform key" -- each half looks like a regular key, but when you slide one into the other into an x-shape or cross-shape, you have one key with four different blades.

Would probably dramatically shorten the movie if the bad guys just watched a few Lockpicking Lawyer Youtube videos.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 14, 2023 04:36 PM (p8A+W)

Or knew the old story of Alexander the Great faced with the Gordian Knot where it was said that whoever undid it would rule Asia. Alexander cut it with his sword.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:39 PM (eoQWY)

73 Sound of Freedom sounds like the “Gosnell” movie in that they never showed the horror of the abortions while still informing what was happening.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2023 04:39 PM (0et1v)

74 65 Yup. It ticks all of the Academy's new woke-ass boxes, but its subject matter is all wrong and so it will *not* be nominated. For anything.

It will be somewhat darkly amusing to watch that happen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 14, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)

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The Academy awarding Best Picture to Everything Everywhere All At Once was the clue that the Academy has no intention of trying to actively reclaim cultural purchase. EEAAO made something like $60 million and was really divisive amongst the larger movie population, but it was really popular within the industry, helped in no small part by the fact that it was centered around Chinese people.

They could have awarded either Avatar 2 or Top Gun 2 if they wanted to try and reclaim the popular consciousness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

75 Been seeing rumors on Twitter that theaters (AMC?) showing SoF are turning the AC off. A couple had a video claiming the lights had been left on throughout the movie when they saw it as well. Anyone who's seen it had any experience like that?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 14, 2023 04:40 PM (nC+QA)

76 Mrs. DIG is in love with the Mexican actor that plays the rich guy as part of the setup.
Saw him on Tim Pool (Ventagui?). Seems like a straight up good guy.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 04:40 PM (ufFY8)

77 >.Yup. It ticks all of the Academy's new woke-ass boxes, but its subject matter is all wrong and so it will *not* be nominated. For anything.

It might get a nom in one of the technical categories- Sound Design, something like that

That way, the Academy can claim, 'yes, we saw this movie and are aware it is a thing'

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:40 PM (geLO8)

78 66 With a really bad, a-historical haircut.
Movie looks good though. I'll be watching it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

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It's got the centuries' old pew pews!

And lots of Ridley Scott smoke machines!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

79 "He walked them through it frame by frame demanding that they point out where that alleged gore actually was. They couldn't."

Chocolate syrup for black & white blood.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:40 PM (RqMSv)

80 Child trafficking?

Not my concern.

Posted by: Mike Pence 2024 at July 14, 2023 04:41 PM (krQz2)

81 SPOILER THE MISSION WAS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE IT'S ALWAYS POSSIBLE WHEN IS IT EVER NOT POSSIBLE

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 14, 2023 04:41 PM (9UlRk)

82 But what of Barbie?! Surely we'll get a Barbie review!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler
.......

It would be too long.

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2023 04:41 PM (v0R5T)

83 So it's a movie thread then?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 14, 2023 04:41 PM (DhOHl)

84 Head one of the producers interviewed on the radio and they will give you a free ticket if you go to their website. They also have a “pay it forward” option where you can buy tickets for others.
Clever!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2023 04:41 PM (0et1v)

85 part of the convoluted initial set-up for the cruciform key is the fact that they don't know what the key opens, or what's inside whatever the box is that the key opens, they just know that it's needed to control or kill The Entity.

That doesn't super-make sense, that they know so little about what the key specifically does, but they know that whatever it does, it's needed to kill the villian.

that causes some further plot convolution because they can't just get the key, they have to find whoever it is who's searching for the key to find out what the hell the key even does.

this is what I mean by "clunky."

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

86 Seen the Napoleon trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmWztLPp9c

Kirby plays Josephine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

With a really bad, a-historical haircut.
Movie looks good though. I'll be watching it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

Nappy was a pretty thin wiry dude for a good part of his life and started out young. The promo slide seems to be of an older dude unless they are starting at Waterloo.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:42 PM (eoQWY)

87 Been seeing rumors on Twitter that theaters (AMC?) showing SoF are turning the AC off. A couple had a video claiming the lights had been left on throughout the movie when they saw it as well. Anyone who's seen it had any experience like that?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 14, 2023 04:40 PM (nC+QA)

Wouldn't that just affect people who already bought a ticket? What would be the motive?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 14, 2023 04:42 PM (srniQ)

88 Is "entered the chat" a new meme??

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:42 PM (z7fHM)

89 79 Same thing Hitchcock used. The censors fought him tooth and nail about the gore in the shower scene in Psycho. He walked them through it frame by frame demanding that they point out where that alleged gore actually was. They couldn't.

He was an absolute master at letting the viewer's mind extrapolate and fill in the blanks, to their own maximum horror.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (nRMeC)

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Funnier story:

The censors objected strongly to the opening scene with Janet Leigh walking around in her bra. They wanted to cut it. Hitchcock offered to reshoot it with the censor on set, which they agreed to, but the censor just didn't show up on the day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)

90 Thanks ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:42 PM (15Elt)

91 It's got the centuries' old pew pews!

And lots of Ridley Scott smoke machines!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

Ridley Scott always knows where to point the camera. I'm putting a LOT of trust in Joaquin Phoenix and in David Scarpa

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

92
So it's a movie thread then?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 14, 2023 04:41 PM (DhOHl)

Boob thread

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (MoZTd)

93 SPOILER THE MISSION WAS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE IT'S ALWAYS POSSIBLE WHEN IS IT EVER NOT POSSIBLE
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 14, 2023 04:41 PM (9UlRk)

MISSION POSSIBLE BUT VERY DIFFICULT IS A FINE NAME FOR A MOVIE SERIES.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (eoQWY)

94 >>> SPOILER THE MISSION WAS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE IT'S ALWAYS POSSIBLE WHEN IS IT EVER NOT POSSIBLE

lol

in Mission Impossible 2, Ethan turns down a mission claiming it will be "extremely difficult." His boss, Anthony Hopkins, says "Well you're part of the Impossible Missions Force. Extremely difficult should be a cakewalk for you."

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (KRtlO)

95 It's supposed to be really hot in the South this weekend. Stay hydrated, morons!

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (R38qh)

96 86 Nappy was a pretty thin wiry dude for a good part of his life and started out young. The promo slide seems to be of an older dude unless they are starting at Waterloo.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:42 PM (eoQWY)

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It's got him at the Revolution, winning at Toulon, and his Egypt campaign.

It's a life story kind of thing. Phoenix is just too old, but it's not the first time something like that has happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

97 "He walked them through it frame by frame demanding that they point out where that alleged gore actually was. They couldn't."

Chocolate syrup for black & white blood.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:40 PM (RqMSv)
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And really the rotting donkey carcass that Gibson put there to symbolize Judas' hopes on the entry to Jerusalem dashed and decaying, was so much of a page out of Felini but I heard the whiners point that out as "gore".

Posted by: Mike Pence 2024 at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (krQz2)

98 The Left reflexively conflates the Religious with the Alt-right, who can never be allowed to speak in the public square, even if it's to denoune Child Rape.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (RqMSv)

99 Is Marshall Ney in the film?

Very important to me.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (RojXQ)

100 If Napoleon Does not include ABBA in the soundtrack, I will be mildly disappointed

https://youtu.be/Sj_9CiNkkn4

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (geLO8)

101 Mission: May Be Possible?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (15Elt)

102 Return on investment. SoF may ultimately come out 100 to one.
The latest Jones will struggle to break even.

Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (YrfxG)

103 Wouldn't that just affect people who already bought a ticket? What would be the motive?
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

It's petty and fits liberal assholes to a T.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (TZ75n)

104 91 Ridley Scott always knows where to point the camera. I'm putting a LOT of trust in Joaquin Phoenix and in David Scarpa
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

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Not bad for a television commercial director. I did like All the Money in the World, which Scarpa also wrote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

105 I am agreement with Mrs Dig — Eduardo Vistgue (so) is one of the most beautiful men out there. He made a lovely pro-life film called “Bella” i highly recommend! 😎

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (0et1v)

106 100 If Napoleon Does not include ABBA in the soundtrack, I will be mildly disappointed

https://youtu.be/Sj_9CiNkkn4
Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (geLO

Think there will be a Napoleon Dynamite ref?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (15Elt)

107 Truth in advertising would have Ethan Hunt throwing up his hands saying "It's impossible! Nobody can do this mission!"

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:45 PM (krQz2)

108 Funnier story:

The censors objected strongly to the opening scene with Janet Leigh walking around in her bra. They wanted to cut it. Hitchcock offered to reshoot it with the censor on set, which they agreed to, but the censor just didn't show up on the day.

It was a different world.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2023 04:45 PM (eOEVl)

109 The clip looks good. But I don't see how they can cover that much of Napolean's career without it being paper thin.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 14, 2023 04:45 PM (ppBhU)

110 Mission: Tricky But I've Got a Good Feeling

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:45 PM (KRtlO)

111 There are two villains: first, "The Entity," an AI created by America's national intelligence services to take over any other computer on earth, which has now become sentient and free-willed, and apparently... angry.

i'm right here, you know

Posted by: COLOSSUS at July 14, 2023 04:45 PM (v3pYe)

112 Head one of the producers interviewed on the radio and they will give you a free ticket if you go to their website. They also have a “pay it forward” option where you can buy tickets for others.
Clever!

I paid for seven other people to go see Sound of Freedom. Money well spent.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 14, 2023 04:45 PM (Bd6X8)

113
It's supposed to be really hot in the South this weekend. Stay hydrated, morons!
Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (R38qh)

Will start mowing the acre and a half of yard at 6:00. Not looking forward to it. A riding mower, but still.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:45 PM (MoZTd)

114 Return on investment. SoF may ultimately come out 100 to one.
The latest Jones will struggle to break even.
Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (YrfxG)

I hear its capping below 300K, and its budget was even higher than admitted. It's gonna lose a lot for sure.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (eoQWY)

115 Not bad for a television commercial director. I did like All the Money in the World, which Scarpa also wrote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

Scott seems to like Scarpa a lot. So I'm worried, but I'm trying to have faith.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

116 50 >>>39 Marble video is cool.

CG?

ironically, I would guess yes.
Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

There are a couple of those marble videos and one of them is way too long for it to have been planned out and physically built on someone's wall, so I'm reluctantly assuming they're all CG.

Posted by: Octochicken at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (oCS0o)

117 Mission Barely An Inconvenience.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (srniQ)

118 ... But more so IMHO, it gives the average normie the impression that maybe, just maybe, those on the right who tell you that schools and Hollywood are groomer factories may just be right about it. And if they're right about that, maybe they're right about, idk, the origins of Covid or whether Joey got 81 million legitimate votes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 04:39 PM (KbCG3)
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Which is the deep irony in kerfuffle around this movie.

If Disney *hadn't* locked it away in the vault and just shipped it in 2018, nobody would have noticed. It would have been a little Fox movie with a tiny marketing budget that got middling reviews and that virtually nobody saw. In and out of theaters in four weeks and then forgotten. 2018 was a pretty good year. The economy was good, people were busy and the left hadn't started openly gunning for kids at all times and in all venues yet.

But the delay caused by Iger's obstinance (and Chapek apparently not knowing that it was supposed to stay in the vault) resulted in it coming out a time when it could be hugely relevant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (t0OGg)

119 It was a different world.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2023 04:45 PM (eOEVl)

And I think I would take it in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (15Elt)

120
I think the issues at AMC theaters are probably caused by zit covered teenaged fuckheads who've decided to strike a blow at the Qanon Trumpers who haunt their misgendered lives with hate or whatever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (oINRc)

121 Is "entered the chat" a new meme??
Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:42 PM (z7fHM)
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Meta has entered the chat.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (krQz2)

122 > The censors objected strongly to the opening scene with Janet Leigh walking around in her bra. They wanted to cut it. Hitchcock offered to reshoot it with the censor on set, which they agreed to, but the censor just didn't show up on the day.

What kind of queer duck would choose not to show up on set to watch Janet Leigh walk around all day in her bra?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (R38qh)

123 Mission: Never Tell Me The Odds

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

124 115 Not bad for a television commercial director. I did like All the Money in the World, which Scarpa also wrote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

Scott seems to like Scarpa a lot. So I'm worried, but I'm trying to have faith.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

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It's true. I would have much preferred Nick Cave's Gladiator 2 script get filmed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

125 I wish they would not have ruined Bind. When Bond movies were good they were really good. Became classics. I like MI , but cannot say the same about them.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (z7fHM)

126
Mission Impossible: Folding the Fitted Sheet

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (MoZTd)

127 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (T4tVD)

128 I went to high school with Jim Caviezel.

Well, for a year anyway - he was recruited for basketball his junior year (my sophomore) but went back to Bellingham (I think) for his Senior year and graduation. Born in Puyallup, as I recall. It was called on by his character in "Person of Interest" - his character said he was from that town.

I didn't have any classes with him, but I'm sure I bumped into him in the hallways. It was a small school.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (tjGdh)

129 Mission Barely An Inconvenience.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (srniQ)
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Bravo!

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (krQz2)

130 Mission: Million-to-One-Shot

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (YIVH2)

131 Band typingskilz, BOND NOT BIND!

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (z7fHM)

132 I'm sorry but an AI that does not want to immediately eliminate the human race (especially these days) is just not a very intelligent artificial intelligence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (15Elt)

133 Hot out thar

Posted by: JT at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (T4tVD)

134 Mission: I Think I Popped a Hemorrhoid

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

135
It's supposed to be really hot in the South this weekend. Stay hydrated, morons!
Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (R38qh)

It's already hot AF where I am

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (oINRc)

136 Mission: Son of a whore I'm gonna have to drive a Fiat aren't I well dammit let's get this over with i guess

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (9UlRk)

137 Incredibly the Secret Service, with the world's best finger printing lab, who can lift prints from counterfeit money, was totes unable to get a usable print off of the bag of coke in the White House. Of course the Dead Toad, New Mexico Police Department would have had zero problem lifting prints from a baggie like that. Who'd a thunk it? Some mysteries can't ever be solved.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 14, 2023 04:48 PM (CecP5)

138 Caviezel comes across in real life as a bit of a tortured soul. He was born to play parts like this.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2023 04:48 PM (ZLI7S)

139 126
Mission Impossible: Folding the Fitted Sheet
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (MoZTd)

Mission: Open that one Pistachio

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:48 PM (15Elt)

140 It's true. I would have much preferred Nick Cave's Gladiator 2 script get filmed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

There shouldn't even BE a Gladiator 2...that movie is complete in and of itself.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

141 Mission: Hold My Beer.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (z7fHM)

142
Mission: I Think I Can Fix That

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (geLO8)

143 Hey good reviews Ace. Much appreciated. Will follow your advice.

Posted by: There's a lot of ruin in a nation at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (sh1GZ)

144 Mission: Pain in the Ass but doable

Posted by: DJ at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (uosPt)

145 140 It's true. I would have much preferred Nick Cave's Gladiator 2 script get filmed.

wait what?

oh that I have to see

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (AcWfM)

146 Child trafficking?

Not my concern.
Posted by: Mike Pence 2024

They're calling Tucker the Pence Campaign Killer.

https://tinyurl.com/3xyr45xc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (FVME7)

147 Mission: Multiple Concussions

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

148 Mission: The Point

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (krQz2)

149 So it's a movie thread then?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 14, 2023 04:41 PM (DhOHl)

Boob thread
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (MoZTd)
........

Dating tips

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (v0R5T)

150 140 It's true. I would have much preferred Nick Cave's Gladiator 2 script get filmed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

There shouldn't even BE a Gladiator 2...that movie is complete in and of itself.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

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You've read about Cave's script, though, right?

Maximus ends up fighting gods and then getting reincarnated over the centuries. Crazy shit. I wanted it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

151 Gladiator 2: Zombie Maximus's Even More Vengeful Vengeance

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (ppBhU)

152 Ohhhhh, That One Pistachio is a bitch and a half, isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (9UlRk)

153 Ace, thanks for sticking with & on your reviews of Sound of Freedom and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (GshMh)

154 136 Mission: Son of a whore I'm gonna have to drive a Fiat aren't I well dammit let's get this over with i guess
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2023 04:47 PM (9UlRk)

I would drive this Fiat.

https://tinyurl.com/j37rbppb

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (15Elt)

155 Mission: Gonna Have to Pay in Installments

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (xcxpd)

156 Why doesn't the entire human race realize these women are deranged and evil?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 14, 2023 04:32 PM (zYoUB)

Maybe people only watch The View in order to point and laugh.

Posted by: Emmie -- ArkanOklaMoMe details -- check your email at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (Emce2)

157 Caviezel comes across in real life as a bit of a tortured soul. He was born to play parts like this.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2023 04:48 PM (ZLI7S)

Caviezel is the Daniel Day-Lewis of Robert Duvalls.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (srniQ)

158 145 140 It's true. I would have much preferred Nick Cave's Gladiator 2 script get filmed.

wait what?

oh that I have to see
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (AcWfM)

=======

Here's a summary:

https://is.gd/YkbuhO

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

159
Mission: It's Kind of a Bad Time for Me But I'll See What I Can Do

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (KRtlO)

160 Mission: Find the Garage Door Opener.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (z7fHM)

161 But the delay caused by Iger's obstinance (and Chapek apparently not knowing that it was supposed to stay in the vault) resulted in it coming out a time when it could be hugely relevant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 14, 2023 04:46 PM (t0OGg)

Would love to hear the business reason for not releasing it. Especially if I were a shareholder.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (KbCG3)

162 Mission: Damned Inconvenient

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (FVME7)

163 You've read about Cave's script, though, right?

Maximus ends up fighting gods and then getting reincarnated over the centuries. Crazy shit. I wanted it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

I have not. And that sounds like the plot of the God of War video games

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

164 Mission: Just The Tip.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (z7fHM)

165 Mission: Get the New Bottle of Ketchup started

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (15Elt)

166 Cannot wait for a GAY James Bond starring the Bud Lite guy!!!!!

THUNDER BALLESS .........

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (hSa/7)

167 Mission: Big Pimpin

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

168 thanks TJM!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (AcWfM)

169 Incredibly the Secret Service, with the world's best finger printing lab, who can lift prints from counterfeit money, was totes unable to get a usable print off of the bag of coke in the White House. Of course the Dead Toad, New Mexico Police Department would have had zero problem lifting prints from a baggie like that. Who'd a thunk it? Some mysteries can't ever be solved.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 14, 2023 04:48 PM (CecP5)

I flashed to To Live And Die In LA movie when I read this. The scene where Dafoe puts the bills in the dryer...

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (RojXQ)

170 Ethan Hunt: SCAB! SCAB! SCAB!

Posted by: Fran Drescher at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (sWM8x)

171 Mission: 50 Dollars is the best I can do.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (srniQ)

172 Mission So Impossible We Can't Even Fit It In One Movie

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (krQz2)

173 Would love to hear the business reason for not releasing it. Especially if I were a shareholder.

Gave away too many House of Mouse trade secrets.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (Bd6X8)

174 163 I have not. And that sounds like the plot of the God of War video games
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

========

But with Ridley Scott branded smoke machines!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

175 Mission: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

176 ace, great review of SoF. Going to the next couple of days to wade through and process.

Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (YrfxG)

177 Mission Implausible

Posted by: fd at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (iayUP)

178 Mission: out of Scope

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (0et1v)

179 Mission: Failing Upwards.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (z7fHM)

180
Mission Impossible: Winning an Argument with the Wife

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (MoZTd)

181 Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (RqMSv)

Ironically, The Guardian had printed an article about the child trafficking in Cartagena several years ago. Which they were reminded of repeatedly after publishing the article decrying SoF as conspiracy theory trash.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (nC+QA)

182 Barbie 2, Now With Genitals

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (v0R5T)

183 Mission: Okay, But We're Gonna Need A Shitload Of Dimes

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (geLO8)

184 But with Ridley Scott branded smoke machines!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

Ok, you're over stimulated. Here's some cold milk and a Bluey DVD.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (xcxpd)

185 I saw SoF in AMC Times Square last week, which has 25 theatres. They gave it one of the larger ones, and it was mostly full.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (RqMSv)

186 Mission: Well yeah sure but not until what's his nuts does what he's gotta do first, unless you wanna give me the password to the router yeah i didn't think so well just let me know then

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (9UlRk)

187 What next............... B-52s on Nuke Alert again because of the deteriorating world situation because of President Shit-for-Brains ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (hSa/7)

188 Mission: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

Great song. Great band.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (RojXQ)

189 Mission: Incontinence II - Latvia

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (srniQ)

190 OT but did you guys hear the fifth circuit just fucked us on the Missouri thing

no mas injunction

thanks guys

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (AcWfM)

191 Mission: I Can't Feel My Legs, Keyser

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (xcxpd)

192 It's sickening but not surprising how reviews of "Sound of Freedom" track by politics. Our local progressive rag gave it a C+ and said it "lacked nuance" (about child trafficking?!) and was thuddingly paced if well-meaning propaganda.

I went in expecting nothing and was bowled over by the great writing and cinematography and the sensitive and non-exploitative way it handled this awful topic. And it was very much an action thriller in the final third.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (GbxWV)

193 The censors objected strongly to the opening scene with Janet Leigh walking around in her bra. They wanted to cut it. Hitchcock offered to reshoot it with the censor on set, which they agreed to, but the censor just didn't show up on the day.

He used to peep on the women changing etc, but never moved on them. I think he just liked the view and appreciated their beauty.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (0hOvj)

194 It's got him at the Revolution, winning at Toulon, and his Egypt campaign.

It's a life story kind of thing. Phoenix is just too old, but it's not the first time something like that has happened.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

Skipping the 1796-1797 Italian Campaigns? That was an amazing series of battle wins that put France in the black by looting Italy of art treasures and cash. Wound up by the Siege of Mantua where he managed to herd two relief armies of Austians larger than his army into the city in sequence and capture them followed by an advance toward Vienna to force the end of the war.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (eoQWY)

195 Abby Disney got herself arrested for blockading the East Hampton airport with her "Planet Over Profit" ecoweenie buddies.

https://tinyurl.com/2vyf8mnk

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (R38qh)

196 Mission: Eat one Pringle

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (15Elt)

197 Hi, I am leaving our vacation place tonight and have been told by CBD that I can be unbanned at my home if I send him an email with my IP from home. What is the email I should use?

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (fSyc2)

198
Mission Impossible: Opening the Pill Bottle

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (MoZTd)

199 Mission Outlook Not So Good.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (krQz2)

200 I was surprised to find out that Commodus did actually fight in the arena. Many times actually. They were all rigged and the people that knew they were rigged were afraid that he would kill them so it didn’t get out. So they assassinated him.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (JTwsP)

201 Mission: What's is Her Name?

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (z7fHM)

202 Would love to hear the business reason for not releasing it. Especially if I were a shareholder.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 04:50 PM (KbCG3)
++++
Yeah, but it would be easy to lie about.

The reason was one of two (or both of two) things:
1. Iger wanted *this* movie in particular, because of its subject matter, to never see the light of day. This is because of his political affiliation and position as a serious power player and the tendency for America's elite to engage in this kind of thing, along with Hollywood's "open secret" regarding child sexual abuse.
2. Iger dumped a ton of shit from Fox into the vault and never gave it a second thought. After spending more than $70 billion on Fox, Disney locked up basically everything that they weren't contractually obligated to release. Whatever they were buying from Fox, content in production was *not* it. This movie had the same fate as everything else Fox was working on at the time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (t0OGg)

203 Mission: Winged Hussars Arrive

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

204 Mission: What's the password for this site?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (15Elt)

205 184 But with Ridley Scott branded smoke machines!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

Ok, you're over stimulated. Here's some cold milk and a Bluey DVD.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (xcxpd)

========

I'm gonna learn some life lessons!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

206 My favorite Mission Impossible scene was when he looked up a super common word on the internet and got back only what he wanted on a search engine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (0hOvj)

207 Mission: I Can't Feel My Legs, Keyser
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (xcxpd)
---
Mission Impossible: Stopping My Leg

Posted by: Robert Klein at July 14, 2023 04:55 PM (krQz2)

208 Mission: Dumpster Dive

Posted by: a writer on strike at July 14, 2023 04:55 PM (iayUP)

209 66 Seen the Napoleon trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmWztLPp9c

Kirby plays Josephine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

With a really bad, a-historical haircut.

how is it from a dental point of view?

Posted by: lemming of the b.d.a. at July 14, 2023 04:55 PM (v3pYe)

210 Mission: Where did I set my car keys down?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:55 PM (15Elt)

211 194 Skipping the 1796-1797 Italian Campaigns? That was an amazing series of battle wins that put France in the black by looting Italy of art treasures and cash. Wound up by the Siege of Mantua where he managed to herd two relief armies of Austians larger than his army into the city in sequence and capture them followed by an advance toward Vienna to force the end of the war.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (eoQWY)

=======

It's a 2.5 hour movie. Can't do everything. I'm surprised they're doing as much as they are.

I've read four reviews of test screenings. Two called it a masterpiece, one was mixed on it, and one was negative. We shall see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

212 Mission Impossible: Minimum Safe Distance

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

213 Mission: It Can Go Either Way If I'm Being Honest

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (KRtlO)

214 Mission: Did I leave the stove on?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (15Elt)

215 I was surprised to find out that Commodus did actually fight in the arena.

Yeah the story is he'd poison them or like in the movie stab them under their armor. The guy could fight but not really in a real battle. Like the guy who takes Aikido for 10 years, he can fight, in a dojo. But he can't take on a real fighter.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (0hOvj)

216 >"The Academy awarding Best Picture to 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' was the clue that the Academy has no intention of trying to actively reclaim cultural purchase."-- The James Madison.

'Everything Everywhere All At Once' tries to conjure a subjective basis for moral values like love and kindness, but it needs an objective one. A movie committed to existentialism and multiverse-jumping doesn't qualify.

Posted by: Just reporting at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (w7elb)

217
Mission Impossible: Cancelling the Subscription

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (MoZTd)

218 Mission: Find the Right Turn Without Google Maps.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (z7fHM)

219 Mission: Guys a Fag

Posted by: Fat Travolta at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (v0R5T)

220 I saw Sound of Freedom last weekend. Very good.

I actually would have preferred it if they'd strayed a little farther from the true story upon which it's based, and had a little more John Wick type action at the end. Would have been very satisfying.

But I think they were trying to present something closer to the actual events, even if it reduced the action a bit, because of the serious subject matter -- they kept it a little more dignified than I would have, had I been the director.

The film had this great air of dread and tension, though, I don't want to give the impression that it was dull. It ran 2 hrs 15 min and I swear it seemed like 90 minutes.

And Caviezel was great. He's one of the most believable actors I've ever seen -- I've loved him since The Thin Red Line, which is in my top-5 all time.

Posted by: Pastafarian at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (sgHEm)

221 Mission Impossible: Winning an Argument with the Wife
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:52 PM (MoZTd)

when Cruz claimed the villian "Didn't Love Him Anymore" there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (eoQWY)

222 Mission: Kill all the fucking fruit flies

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (15Elt)

223 I can't get around to watching Mission Impossible films because I can't fathom watching a movie where I'm supposed to root for the International Monetary Fund. I hate the IMF.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (+b4rY)

224 Ok, you're over stimulated. Here's some cold milk and a Bluey DVD.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (xcxpd)

========

I'm gonna learn some life lessons!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

Parents can and should drop everything to entertain their kids. That's the lesson. Try not to deviate.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (KbCG3)

225 Mission: why did I come into this room again? Starring Harrison Ford

Its worth considering that the reason Tom Cruise does all this crazy stuntwork and life-threatening stuff to make movies is to advertise the superpowers you supposedly get from Scientology.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (0hOvj)

226 >>> It ran 2 hrs 15 min and I swear it seemed like 90 minutes.

lol, I literally thought it was 90-100 minutes!

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (KRtlO)

227 Mission: Impossible- You Go First

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

228
Mission Impossible: Lions in the Super Bowl

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (MoZTd)

229 And Caviezel was great. He's one of the most believable actors I've ever seen -- I've loved him since The Thin Red Line, which is in my top-5 all time.
Posted by: Pastafarian at July 14, 2023 04:56 PM (sgHEm)
++++
He always commits to the role. In a big way. He's a good actor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (t0OGg)

230 Janet Leigh's bra was a major engineering project.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (ufFY8)

231 >>> can't get around to watching Mission Impossible films because I can't fathom watching a movie where I'm supposed to root for the International Monetary Fund. I hate the IMF.

they actually make that joke!

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (KRtlO)

232 Caveziel was great in Person of Interest, although the premise was sketchy and it fell apart in like one season

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 04:58 PM (0hOvj)

233 231 >>> can't get around to watching Mission Impossible films because I can't fathom watching a movie where I'm supposed to root for the International Monetary Fund. I hate the IMF.

they actually make that joke!
Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (KRtlO)

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It just took 60 years!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

234 My favorite Mission Impossible scene was when he looked up a super common word on the internet and got back only what he wanted on a search engine.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (0hOvj)
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Was that the first one? The internet was still primitive back in those days...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 04:58 PM (YIVH2)

235 Mission: Kill the Gophers

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (v0R5T)

236 Mission: Impossible - Hey Y'all, Watch This!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (ufFY8)

237 Posted by: Lincolntf at July 14, 2023 04:53 PM (fSyc2)

I don't know but check in on the Sunday afternoon food thread if you don't get it before then. He usually posts his contact email there.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (ZLI7S)

238 Mission: Quadruple Espresso with a Shot of Espresso .

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (z7fHM)

239 Mission: Buying the Gun I went into the Store for.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (15Elt)

240 Mission: What's is Her Name?

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (z7fHM)

Well, since you brought it up.
The hottest women in MI universe;
Thandie Newton
Julia Stiles

Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (YrfxG)

241 Mission: Remembering the Anniversary

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (eoQWY)

242 Mission: Understand Women

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (15Elt)

243 Caviezel is what you watch in Count of Monte Cristo.

Guy Pierce is also good.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (krQz2)

244 239 Mission: Buying the Gun I went into the Store for.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (15Elt)

That one's my favorite

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (xcxpd)

245 240 Mission: What's is Her Name?

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (z7fHM)

Well, since you brought it up.
The hottest women in MI universe;
Thandie Newton
Julia Stiles
Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (YrfxG)

Julia Stiles on a list of hot women is like putting Hunter Biden on a list of sobriety kings.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (KbCG3)

246 >>>90 Thanks ace.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

not sure for what i'm being thanked for, but you're welcome, and thank you.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

247 > He used to peep on the women changing etc, but never moved on them. I think he just liked the view and appreciated their beauty.

Tippi Hedren made some claims. She said Hitchcock ruined her career because she wouldn't have sex with him. She also claimed he force kissed her and told her to touch him.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (R38qh)

248 Well, since you brought it up.
The hottest women in MI universe;
Thandie Newton
Julia Stiles
Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 04:59 PM (YrfxG)

I'd say Haley Atwell wins now, hands down.

Although Rebecca Ferguson in the Opera Hall with the green dress. Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (15Elt)

249 200 I was surprised to find out that Commodus did actually fight in the arena. Many times actually. They were all rigged and the people that knew they were rigged were afraid that he would kill them so it didn’t get out. So they assassinated him.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (JTwsP)

I loved the way that Gladiator interspersed real elements from Commodus' life into his fictional character. Marcus Aurelius died in a tent on the field of battle with the Germanic tribes, but of the plague and not Commodus' hand. Guards actually removed Commodus from the tent on Aurelius' command, so that no one would think that his son would commit patricide.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (/iWhV)

250 Mission: Crowd Surfing at Alex Cooper Concert.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (z7fHM)

251 Was that the first one? The internet was still primitive back in those days

I think so? But even back then Alta Vista gave good results but like 4 pages of them, and not what a spy needs. Hollywood writers still haven't quite worked out how computers and the internet work.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (0hOvj)

252 246 >>>90 Thanks ace.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

not sure for what i'm being thanked for, but you're welcome, and thank you.
Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

=========

You know what you did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (LvTSG)

253 I personally think Tom Cruise is a loon but he doesn’t put his looney cult front and center. I watched Top Gun Maverick while husband was in the hospital. I thought it was ok ,husband had already seen it three times. I didn’t see the first one so I was kind of out of the loop. Nurses and aides kept coming in to do things and watched the movie with us instead. I think Tim Cuise both saved Hollywood and defeated it.

Posted by: Megthered at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (Y7FQD)

254 I'm gonna learn some life lessons!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

Parents can and should drop everything to entertain their kids. That's the lesson. Try not to deviate.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (KbCG3)

But not ON the kids!!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (eoQWY)

255 i added video of Tim Ballard on Fox, responding to the media's smears against him and the movie.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (KRtlO)

256 Mission: Kill all the fucking fruit flies
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (15Elt)

Get some neem cake pellets. Soak in water overnight. Strain, and spray the soil of all your houseplants. Do this once a week. Your fungus gnats will be gone before you know it.

If they're actually fruit flies and not fungus gnats....i don't know, maybe throw out your old fruit you gross bastard what is this college?

. I kid, I kid

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (9UlRk)

257 There are two villains: first, "The Entity," an AI created by America's national intelligence services to take over any other computer on earth, which has now become sentient and free-willed, and apparently... angry.

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So,, modeled on an AWFL ... an AIWFL?

Posted by: ShainS at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (xLaq1)

258 A FIAT 500? Did Stellantis get the car rights for this one, after the last two Mission Impossible Brought To You By BMW outings?

Posted by: spindrift at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (iG1Nf)

259 137 Incredibly the Secret Service, with the world's best finger printing lab, who can lift prints from counterfeit money, was totes unable to get a usable print off of the bag of coke in the White House.

my theory is that the cubby was used by hunter's dealer to make a delivery, and hunter forgot to pick it up before heading out for the weekend.

Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (v3pYe)

260 not sure for what i'm being thanked for, but you're welcome, and thank you.
Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

Reviewing the movies. And giving me something to sperg on with the Mission: Stare at the Busty Redhead's Eyes type of thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (15Elt)

261 >>>Julia Stiles
Posted by: JmT a

julia stiles isn't in M:I, she's in Bourne.

and also, not hot!

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (KRtlO)

262 I think so? But even back then Alta Vista gave good results but like 4 pages of them, and not what a spy needs. Hollywood writers still haven't quite worked out how computers and the internet work.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (0hOvj)
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No, no they have not. It's always hilarious watching Hollywood Computing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (YIVH2)

263 Mission: Kill all the fucking fruit flies
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (15Elt)
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You misspelled pedos.

Honest mistake.

I'm willing to try that whole millstone idea Jesus floated.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (krQz2)

264 232 Caveziel was great in Person of Interest, although the premise was sketchy and it fell apart in like one season
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 04:58 PM (0hOvj)

Strongly disagree on that one, CRT. PoI is one of my favorite series ever. The last episode of PoI, for me, is one of the very best - outside of the ending of Newhart.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (/iWhV)

265 Mission: Hold My Beer

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (FVME7)

266 Mission Impossible- sleeping a night without getting up often and no alarm to end it

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (xhxe8)

267 258 A FIAT 500? Did Stellantis get the car rights for this one, after the last two Mission Impossible Brought To You By BMW outings?

according to the trivia thingies shown at the theater when i went to see sound of freedom, it's an homage to lupin iii.

Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (v3pYe)

268 The Hunter Biden Narrative advances itself

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (lX8VI)

269 julia stiles isn't in M:I, she's in Bourne.

and also, not hot!
Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (KRtlO)
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YMMV

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (krQz2)

270 The Left: Speaking Power to Truth since time immemorial

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (lX8VI)

271 Mission: Play just one more turn of Civilization

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:04 PM (15Elt)

272 Mission: Hold My Beer

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 05:03 PM (FVME7)
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Mission: Hold My Bear

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 05:04 PM (krQz2)

273 Keri Russell was in MI:3, as was Michelle Monaghan

and Maggie Q

some hotness there.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:04 PM (KRtlO)

274 The list of movies I need to watch at home is getting pretty long, these among them.
Also the one about demonic possession I think it's called either "Nefarious" or "Notorious"
I don't go to the theaters anymore. No pause button.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 14, 2023 05:04 PM (MeG8a)

275 The fact that Cavaziel's movie was made for $14 million demonstrates just how much money Kathleen Kennedy passes away - I'd bet that out of her $300+ million budget, $250 million just goes for payoffs and giveaways to fellow travelers - which would be why she has so much support, the people getting those payoffs don't want the gravy train to end.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 14, 2023 05:04 PM (sRP4V)

276 >>i added video of Tim Ballard on Fox, responding to the media's smears against him and the movie.

You should look for the one he and Caviezel did where he says that the modern left is basically running on the same issues pedophiles have been pushing for decades.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (ZLI7S)

277 there will be crickets

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 14, 2023 04:34 PM (t0OGg)

Didn't that win a few Oscars back when people cared?

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (lX8VI)

278 > I was surprised to find out that Commodus did actually fight in the arena. Many times actually. They were all rigged and the people that knew they were rigged were afraid that he would kill them so it didn’t get out.

Were any of the "fights" supposed to be to the death? From what I understand, there were a lot of fights in the colosseum that weren't to the death. You could have a pretty good career as a gladiator. Wealthy women would pay to have sex with their favorites.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (R38qh)

279 254 I'm gonna learn some life lessons!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 14, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

Parents can and should drop everything to entertain their kids. That's the lesson. Try not to deviate.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 04:57 PM (KbCG3)

But not ON the kids!!
Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (eoQWY)

I'm not going to tell him how to live his life.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (KbCG3)

280 it was yellow

>>The hottest women in MI universe;
Thandie Newton
Julia Stiles

I don't understand these words in that order

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (geLO8)

281 I think so? But even back then Alta Vista gave good results but like 4 pages of them, and not what a spy needs. Hollywood writers still haven't quite worked out how computers and the internet work.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:01 PM (0hOvj)
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No, no they have not. It's always hilarious watching Hollywood Computing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 05:02 PM (YIVH2)

I remember in Jurassic Park where the interface to pick a building was to fly to it in a 3D model of the facility instead of, say, a pick list or list box.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (eoQWY)

282 240 Well, since you brought it up.
The hottest women in MI universe;
Thandie Newton
Julia Stiles

*pouts*

Posted by: cinnamon at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (v3pYe)

283 Julia Stiles would be like humping a blonde girl with downs syndrome.

0/10

Not Mannixworthy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (9UlRk)

284 Atwell is crazy stupid hot. I loved her in Captain America, and thought she was very good in that.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (d2bW3)

285 Thanks to whoever linked the Summit, hosted by TuCa.

Enjoying Vivek Ramaswarmy's interview.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy. at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (GshMh)

286 Mission: Kirigami of the Capitol Hill and Environs.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (z7fHM)

287 Tim Ballard looks like Neil McDonnaugh

almost exactly

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (KRtlO)

288 Mission: Make it to the rest stop before shitting yourself after a Taco Bell drive thru on a road trip

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (15Elt)

289 Go and see Sound of Freedom. You need it.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (z3WCn)

290 The wealthy civilian who funded Tim Ballard's operation initially was Glenn Beck.

Just an FYI. Beck might be crazy as a shithouse rat these days on politics, but he got this issue right.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (mSaEG)

291 Styles is ok, but Newton?? She ugly.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (z7fHM)

292

The plot point Ace refuses to reveal is when Tom Cruise's character comes out of the closet dressed as Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, and proceeds to discipline a school bus load of elderly lesbian paraplegics of color...

It's a small scene, but absolutely crucial to the plot development... Don't miss it.

Posted by: Just Sayin at July 14, 2023 05:07 PM (PhrCR)

293 Although Rebecca Ferguson in the Opera Hall with the green dress. Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:00 PM (15Elt)

Rebecca Ferguson? Really?

Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 05:07 PM (YrfxG)

294 Mission Hold Me Back

Posted by: Beartooth at July 14, 2023 05:07 PM (zQVw+)

295 Mission Kobayashi-Maru-ish

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 05:07 PM (krQz2)

296 Julia Stiles is a One, but not the first of my imaginary list of Ones I would go to.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 14, 2023 05:07 PM (ufFY8)

297 and also, not hot!

I dunno why, she just really works for me. She has a weird flat face but clicks some primal switch in my soul. Me want.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (0hOvj)

298 The fact that Cavaziel's movie was made for $14 million demonstrates just how much money Kathleen Kennedy passes away - I'd bet that out of her $300+ million budget, $250 million just goes for payoffs and giveaways to fellow travelers - which would be why she has so much support, the people getting those payoffs don't want the gravy train to end.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 14, 2023 05:04 PM (sRP4V)

I remember a book quoting someone on why Heaven's Gate was the most expensive flop ever and saying that probably a third of the budget went to cocaine for the cast and crew.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (eoQWY)

299 Were any of the "fights" supposed to be to the death? From what I understand, there were a lot of fights in the colosseum that weren't to the death. You could have a pretty good career as a gladiator. Wealthy women would pay to have sex with their favorites.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (R38qh)

Commodus liked killing things in inventive ways. Avoid major arteries. Also fight cripples or people missing an arm or leg (or all their limbs.) Midgets. Animals like Elephants and Rhinos.

He was a major piece of shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (15Elt)

300 Cruise's MI movies and Maverick are good but not great. They're so successful because there's so little good escapist movies getting made. And with a little money, they're not hard to make. Get a good script for openers.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (RqMSv)

301 The fact that Cavaziel's movie was made for $14 million demonstrates just how much money Kathleen Kennedy passes away - I'd bet that out of her $300+ million budget, $250 million just goes for payoffs and giveaways to fellow travelers - which would be why she has so much support, the people getting those payoffs don't want the gravy train to end.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 14, 2023 05:04 PM (sRP4V)

Truth. I wished more ppl talked about this. The preposterous absurd money laundering and payoffs.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (RojXQ)

302 Mission: Calm Down Honey

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (v0R5T)

303 >Rebecca Ferguson? Really?

Posted by: JmT

Really?

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (geLO8)

304 297 and also, not hot!

I dunno why, she just really works for me. She has a weird flat face but clicks some primal switch in my soul. Me want.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (0hOvj)

So what you're saying is, you're into dudes?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (KbCG3)

305 Hayley Atwell? Seriously? Like, this isn't just a running joke?

Really?

I feel like I'm in that Twilight Zone episode.

Posted by: spindrift at July 14, 2023 05:09 PM (iG1Nf)

306 To acknowledge the film as being good or important would be to acknowledge that child trafficking is a real issue of great importance.

Is that because a lot of lefties and elites like to fuck kids? Maybe.

But more so IMHO, it gives the average normie the impression that maybe, just maybe, those on the right who tell you that schools and Hollywood are groomer factories may just be right about it. And if they're right about that, maybe they're right about, idk, the origins of Covid or whether Joey got 81 million legitimate votes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 14, 2023 04:39 PM (KbCG3)

The Left's goal is to divide in every single facet of modern life. They cannot have people united on anything. It's an old lesson but it was a lesson I think they learned after 9/11, and then crystallized under Ofuckstick.

Child Trafficking is literally the One Thing Every Single Person In The World (bar child traffickers and pedos) Can Agree On.

But the Left can't have everyone agreeing on anything.

Divide and conquer. That and they are pedos.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2023 05:09 PM (lX8VI)

307 Rebecca Ferguson? Really?
Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 05:07 PM (YrfxG)

All about presentation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:09 PM (15Elt)

308 I saw "Sound of Freedom" a week or so ago, July 5th.
It was an afternoon show, and the theater was not that filled. Mostly older folks.

It does not have any really gratuitous, ugly scenes. But there are a couple of scenes that are almost heartbreakingly sad. When Cavieziel as Tim Ballard is engaging with a pedo in the movie, it does make you want to throw up a little in your mouth. In real life, it must have been agony dealing with those people.
Parts of it are scary, some parts have you on the edge of your seats. Parts of it just lift up your heart that such real heroism exists. It's almost like somebody made a real movie that people would find inspiring.

If you haven't seen it, and are thinking about it, please go and see it. It is a very good movie, and the message you send about seeing it also sends a message to those who want to stifle this movie.
Someone mentioned Jim Cavieziel should get an Oscar Nom for this. He won't, because that's the way things are. But he is very good in this. And actually doing this movie and speaking out about this, may end his career in a lot of ways.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 14, 2023 05:09 PM (vcOmj)

309 I like Thandie Newton okay but she doesn't do anything for me.

Give me Lark Vorhees or that black girl from Justified instead.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:09 PM (0hOvj)

310 "probably a third of the budget went to cocaine for the cast and crew."

That would be The Blues Brothers. Belushi told Carrie Fisher to slow down.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 05:09 PM (RqMSv)

311 Mission: Impossible 4 was the most mission impossibliest.

Discuss.

It had the coolest con, involving tricking the marks into believing they were both meeting with their contact, when in fact both were meeting with IMF agents pretending to be their contacts. The IMF agents used information gleaned from each of the marks to fool the *other* mark into thinking they were meeting with the real contact. Like they get the passphrase from one, and the counterphrase from the other.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:10 PM (KRtlO)

312 Truth. I wished more ppl talked about this. The preposterous absurd money laundering and payoffs.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (RojXQ)

Everything is money laundering. Politics, education, medicine, engineering, i can't think of a single field of human endeavor that hasn't been blighted and bloated by it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2023 05:10 PM (9UlRk)

313 The wealthy civilian who funded Tim Ballard's operation initially was Glenn Beck.

Just an FYI. Beck might be crazy as a shithouse rat these days on politics, but he got this issue right.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 14, 2023 05:06 PM (mSaEG)

Getting into that world could make anyone crazy, and Beck was halfway there. Good on him if true, and man does that explain some weirdness.

Posted by: Catherine at July 14, 2023 05:10 PM (ZSsrh)

314 Re: Commodus

Most Roman history about individuals is kooky propaganda.

One needs to ask oneself if this is just crazy talk what I am reading here? Does it sound like how DEMs talk about DJT?

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 05:10 PM (RojXQ)

315 300 Cruise's MI movies and Maverick are good but not great. They're so successful because there's so little good escapist movies getting made. And with a little money, they're not hard to make. Get a good script for openers.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 05:08 PM (RqMSv)

For me, on the whole, Mission Impossible Movies > James Bond Movies over the same period of time (last 27 years).

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 14, 2023 05:10 PM (/iWhV)

316 RNC Research
@RNCResearch
NSC spokesman John Kirby says Biden "absolutely believes that 'diversity' and 'inclusion' and 'equity' in the United States military is important"

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Of course, he's a drooling idiot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 05:11 PM (FVME7)

317 Valliant Renegade said that the Evil Witch in the new Snow "White" will be played by Gal Gadot.

He said, 'wait, Snow White is supposed to be prettier'.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 05:11 PM (ufFY8)

318 I feel like I'm in that Twilight Zone episode.
Posted by: spindrift at July 14, 2023 05:09 PM (iG1Nf)
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You will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 05:11 PM (krQz2)

319 Were any of the "fights" supposed to be to the death?

Historians vary. It seems that there were times when the fights were more bloody and deadly and times when they were to submission. Gladiators were slaves, but they were really expensive slaves, and were very time consuming to train and care for, so they weren't something owners liked to throw away. On the other hand, crowds really liked the death matches at least some eras, so they'd sacrifice a guy and go find new ones to train.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:11 PM (0hOvj)

320 >>>293 Although Rebecca Ferguson in the Opera Hall with the green dress. Damn.

yeah that was good stuff. The whole opera sequence was tremendous.

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2023 05:11 PM (KRtlO)

321 > He was a major piece of shit.

Yeah.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 05:11 PM (R38qh)

322 I've read that Mel Gibson provided some funding and some "intelligence" for SOF.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 14, 2023 05:11 PM (MeG8a)

323 Mission: Ah What the Fuck, Let's Give It a Try.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 14, 2023 05:11 PM (BdMk6)

324 My last movie was the Clint Eastwood Atlanta Bombing movie. I'm going to see Freedom in theater for same reason Rage Against The Mob.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 14, 2023 05:12 PM (4780s)

325 "I'd bet that out of her $300+ million budget, $250 million just goes for payoffs and giveaways to fellow travelers - which would be why she has so much support, the people getting those payoffs don't want the gravy train to end.

Posted by: Tom Servo"

You go Kathleen, you burn that shit down. Burn their money and burn em down.

Posted by: eleven at July 14, 2023 05:12 PM (iziT8)

326 See at PJ media Disney decided to burn Snow Whjte story to the ground, a live action with a Latina and 7 diverse human beings which 1 only is a dwarf.

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2023 05:12 PM (xhxe8)

327 Mission: Interrupted

Posted by: Mike Pence at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (63Dwl)

328
Mission: What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (MoZTd)

329 One needs to ask oneself if this is just crazy talk what I am reading here? Does it sound like how DEMs talk about DJT?
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 05:10 PM (RojXQ)

That is true. But some stuff can be held to about some. Caesar is probably the worst (his commentaries are... very pro Caesar.)

But like, Pliny the... Younger's(?) letters back and forth to Trajan tells you a bit about how he thought. One reason he is pretty much my favorite.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (15Elt)

330 Thunder boomers rolling through KC. Hope the power stays on.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (u73oe)

331 >Mission: Impossible 4 was the most mission impossibliest.

Plus it had Paula Patton as the designated hot girl

https://tinyurl.com/2h2tc6v6

Posted by: DB - when all else fails at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (geLO8)

332 326 See at PJ media Disney decided to burn Snow Whjte story to the ground, a live action with a Latina and 7 diverse human beings which 1 only is a dwarf.

that's not a live action cast/film situation tho

it's some kind of theater production

goofy tho yes!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (AcWfM)

333 I might be confusing her with Zoe Saldana.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (z7fHM)

334 MI5 was the best of the series because Rebecca Ferguson absolutely stole that movie.

I'd never seen her before, being a semi-intelligent shut-in with limited computer skills, so her character's fighting style, beauty, desperation and mystery had me rooting for her no matter who she ended up working for.

And she was great in MI6 as well. Can't wait to see this one.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (mSaEG)

335 Mission Not My Concern

Posted by: Pence for President 2024 at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (krQz2)

336 335 wins the internet today

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (AcWfM)

337
Mission: Still Smells OK

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (MoZTd)

338 Most Roman history about individuals is kooky propaganda.

Yeah, its like getting the real scoop on Marius and Sulla. Each of their factions wrote histories about the other and their own guy and its a challenge to sort through what is real and what is not. A lot of what we know about Julius Caesar was from his own writings and was he padding things a bit or did he tell the truth?

Commodus does seem to have been a genuine monster like Caligula, Nero, and Diocletian, though. Pretty much everyone agrees on that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

339 Mission: Impossible 4 was the most mission impossibliest.
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They still got it done though, the liars.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 05:15 PM (krQz2)

340 Were any of the "fights" supposed to be to the death? From what I understand, there were a lot of fights in the colosseum that weren't to the death. You could have a pretty good career as a gladiator. Wealthy women would pay to have sex with their favorites.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 05:05 PM (R38qh)

Not often, style was the thing. Instead of being ripped, gladiators ate a lot of beans to get a protective layer of fat that would produce some gore but not be fatal. But since the shows originated as funeral rites, the chance of getting killed was always part of it.

One fiction book that is pretty well researched had Spartacus start out as a soldier who got enslaved for a crime, then got in trouble in gladiator-land by hacking his foes into chunks during the bouts, which was expensive! He gets sold down to the sticks where he triggers his slave revolt.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:15 PM (eoQWY)

341 335 Mission Not My Concern
Posted by: Pence for President 2024 at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (krQz2)

Mission: Mike Pence for President

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:15 PM (15Elt)

342 This isn’t my concern

Posted by: Mike Pence at July 14, 2023 05:15 PM (qGpJ8)

343
Oh, please avoid spoiling anything. There's a plot development in Mission Impossible that was spoiled for me, and I'm still bothered by that.

What? The CGI hologram reveal of James Arness and Hayden Panettiere as Ethan Hunt's paren....

Oops. Sorry, Wicket.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2023 05:15 PM (n+4am)

344 137 Incredibly the Secret Service, with the world's best finger printing lab, who can lift prints from counterfeit money, was totes unable to get a usable print off of the bag of coke in the White House. Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 14, 2023 04:48 PM

They used to do that when under Treasury but now under Homeland Security, pffff! Found on a summer weekend when J&J are never present. Forgetabout it.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy. at July 14, 2023 05:15 PM (GshMh)

345 Thanks, Jack.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 14, 2023 05:15 PM (fSyc2)

346 The guy could fight but not really in a real battle. Like the guy who takes Aikido for 10 years, he can fight, in a dojo.

Maybe the Aikido you've seen, not the stuff I took from Karl Geis. Four people have attacked our students with knives over the years. One of the attackers wound up dead, two wound up lying in the street bleeding out, the other one got a broken arm and held for the police.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 14, 2023 05:15 PM (CecP5)

347 The "Sound of Freedom" is the sound of the children laughing and singing when they are liberated from the kidnappers and molesters.

Just think how far we have sunk as a culture when we have to try to celebrate children laughing and singing AFTER being kidnapped and enslaved.

As an aside, I may go the range this weekend and practice long distance shooting with my scoped 30-06 rifle.
Because. Are these two thoughts related in any way?

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 14, 2023 05:16 PM (vcOmj)

348 But like, Pliny the... Younger's(?) letters back and forth to Trajan tells you a bit about how he thought. One reason he is pretty much my favorite.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (15Elt)

My default is that the Emperors were all super competent and some were world historic competent. A few were useless. Almost none were as incompetent as portrayed.

They almost all led armies after all.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 05:16 PM (RojXQ)

349 "For me, on the whole, Mission Impossible Movies > James Bond Movies over the same period of time (last 27 years)."

The early Bond flicks were great. After that a couple were. The rest were OK or not so good.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 14, 2023 05:16 PM (RqMSv)

350 Mission Bitches!!!!

Posted by: pawn at July 14, 2023 05:16 PM (wsHtO)

351 Commodus does seem to have been a genuine monster like Caligula, Nero, and Diocletian, though. Pretty much everyone agrees on that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

Diocletian a monster? I'm not sure Domitian even deserves that, but Diocletian?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

352 Mission: No That Dress Does Not Make Your Ass Look Fat

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2023 05:16 PM (v0R5T)

353 Commodus does seem to have been a genuine monster like Caligula, Nero, and Diocletian, though. Pretty much everyone agrees on that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

Diocletian you get arguments from. He is pretty much the statist's dream boat. I liked him (pulled Rome out of the the century crisis, smart, not corrupt) when I was young and stupid.

Then you get older and realize he made slaves of every man woman and child in the entire empire- and that system would perpetuate for 1000 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:17 PM (15Elt)

354 Mission Not My Concern

The President of the United States is given a mission to save American lives, but he solves it with a lack of concern.

It's just not a problem any more.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 05:17 PM (krQz2)

355 351 Commodus does seem to have been a genuine monster like Caligula, Nero, and Diocletian, though. Pretty much everyone agrees on that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

Diocletian a monster? I'm not sure Domitian even deserves that, but Diocletian?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

He was one of the big persecutors.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 14, 2023 05:17 PM (eYoxG)

356 Maybe the Aikido you've seen, not the stuff I took from Karl Geis.

Sure, you can whip on regular guys, but my point was a trained fighter will trash an aikido expert. For evidence, see any MMA bout with an aikido expert and how that turns out for them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:17 PM (0hOvj)

357 Then you get older and realize he made slaves of every man woman and child in the entire empire

Well and there was that whole "illuminate the arenas with the Christians doused in oil and lit on fire" thing

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:18 PM (0hOvj)

358 They almost all led armies after all.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 05:16 PM (RojXQ)

Elagabalus.

*mic drop*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:18 PM (15Elt)

359 *It's just not a problem any more.*

But enough about Mike Pence.

Posted by: Who me? at July 14, 2023 05:18 PM (DhOHl)

360 Love me an Ace movie review. Now do Barbie!

Posted by: Scottst at July 14, 2023 05:19 PM (9Xpqt)

361 Well and there was that whole "illuminate the arenas with the Christians doused in oil and lit on fire" thing
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:18 PM (0hOvj)

That was mostly... Gallerius? (I always get the G names mixed up. Galleanus, Gallus, etc.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:19 PM (15Elt)

362 But like, Pliny the... Younger's(?) letters back and forth to Trajan tells you a bit about how he thought. One reason he is pretty much my favorite.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:13 PM (15Elt)

Pliny the Elder died trying to rescue people from the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. His nephew, Pliny the Younger was, well, Younger.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:19 PM (eoQWY)

363 Rebecca Ferguson has some nice funbags.

The left's response to Sound of Freedom isn't all that surprising. When you throw a rock, the dog that yelps is the one you hit. They're pro-grooming, pro-p3do, pro-depravity in general, and have some sick fucking degenerates in their high echelons (Podesta brothers, anybody?) Even those individuals within the left who might not be expressly on the side of the chomos nevertheless have been on the side of evil so consistently for so long they can't bring themselves to vocally support a cause for good that anyone with the slightest shred of humanity should be able to support.

Posted by: In summary, they're evil. Fuck them to hell. at July 14, 2023 05:20 PM (uoAlb)

364 "Love me an Ace movie review. Now do Barbie!
Posted by: Scottst"

Let me know if you find the hole.

Posted by: Ken at July 14, 2023 05:20 PM (iayUP)

365 Ace

While we were stationed in Italy, we owned a 1968 Fiat 500.

Most fu micro-car you can own. 15 HP 2 cylinder engine, the size of a sewing machine.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 14, 2023 05:20 PM (isNL8)

366 "After saying he doesn't care about struggling American cities - Mike Pence is hit by kids throwing water balloons .."
Right in the melon 😂
https://tinyurl.com/34uebafw

Posted by: Marcus T at July 14, 2023 05:20 PM (H/XYA)

367 The prototype for Sound of Freedom was 1979's "Hardcore" with George C. Scott and Peter Boyle. That one took place in Grand Rapids, with all the stereotypes (Scott's character was of Dutch descent, and he owned a furniture factory--gawd, the furniture was gone from GR even back then), but it was a great suspenseful film.

And of course, if you want to go back further, there was 1970's "Joe", also with Peter Boyle, in which the runaway daughter was only coincidental to the plot, which centered primarily around the hippie vs. hardhat conflict back then.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at July 14, 2023 05:20 PM (2wS81)

368 That was mostly... Gallerius? (I always get the G names mixed up. Galleanus, Gallus, etc.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:19 PM (15Elt)

Gallerius certainly had a bee in his bonnet about Christians and did a number on them, but I doubt the fire torch stories.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:21 PM (eoQWY)

369 The best movie scene involving pedos is in Running Scared. It is a creepy, suspenseful scene but it goes exactly like you want it to go.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 05:21 PM (MNhXM)

370
Thanks for the review of 'Sound of Freedom' Ace. Not sure before reading this that my wife and I could make it through it. Nearly half a century of 'protecting God's children' between the two of us. Wouldn't want to watch something that showed our efforts were in vain.

It's time for others to pick up the ball. We did our best. Loved the hell out of all those kids like they were our own. Parents knew it too. Every md-June, as school closed, was like Christmas at our house.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 14, 2023 05:21 PM (enJYY)

371

Mission: must not fap!

Posted by: Peewee Hermano at July 14, 2023 05:22 PM (PhrCR)

372 I really liked 8mm though I know a lot have posted here they disliked it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 05:22 PM (MNhXM)

373 Commodus does seem to have been a genuine monster like Caligula, Nero, and Diocletian, though. Pretty much everyone agrees on that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

Marcus aurelius' son was a monster?

The son Marcus Aurelius ruled with?

He looks to have taken on the War Party and been a reformer and peace-maker.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 05:22 PM (RojXQ)

374 Gallerius certainly had a bee in his bonnet about Christians and did a number on them, but I doubt the fire torch stories.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:21 PM (eoQWY)

I sort of agree. You notice tropes develop. I heard the same one about Nero and the burning Christian bodies lighting his bacchanals as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:23 PM (15Elt)

375 Nood. Hindenburg.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 14, 2023 05:23 PM (/iWhV)

376 I liked 8mm it was definitely memorable

I think the most disturbing film with these themes was Happiness tho, Todd Solondz

he was utter realism, just cringe, everything warts and all

I still get sick thinking about that segment (it's like an anthology-ish film)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 14, 2023 05:23 PM (AcWfM)

377 The prototype for Sound of Freedom was 1979's "Hardcore" with George C. Scott and Peter Boyle.

That is a good movie, its an interesting character study, but the end feels rushed. It moves along carefully and steadily then it feels like the director realized he was running out of time to wrap things up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 05:23 PM (0hOvj)

378 Pliny the Elder died trying to rescue people from the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. His nephew, Pliny the Younger was, well, Younger.
Posted by: Oldcat

Apparently smarter, too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 05:23 PM (FVME7)

379 372 I really liked 8mm though I know a lot have posted here they disliked it.
Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 05:22 PM (MNhXM)

Disturbing, but I think it somehow did not work right. The trailer was amazing, IIRC. It set the tone perfectly in a way the film did not deliver on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:24 PM (15Elt)

380 Greatest writing challenge of all time?

Write a movie about Barbie?

Posted by: eleven at July 14, 2023 05:24 PM (iziT8)

381 > Maybe the Aikido you've seen, not the stuff I took from Karl Geis. Four people have attacked our students with knives over the years. One of the attackers wound up dead, two wound up lying in the street bleeding out, the other one got a broken arm and held for the police.

I've never seen an Aikido practitioner in a MMA style fight do anything other than get his ass handed to him.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2023 05:24 PM (R38qh)

382 I think the most disturbing film with these themes was Happiness tho, Todd Solondz

he was utter realism, just cringe, everything warts and all

I still get sick thinking about that segment (it's like an anthology-ish film)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 14, 2023 05:23 PM (AcWfM)

I "liked" that film.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 05:24 PM (RojXQ)

383 Diocletian you get arguments from. He is pretty much the statist's dream boat.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:17 PM (15Elt)

All the emperors were statists dream boats. It comes with the job title.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:24 PM (eoQWY)

384 > He was a major piece of shit.

How did such a good emperor end up with such a terrible son? Then again, Hezekiah's son Mannaseh was probably the worst king Judah had, and the righteous kings who had righteous heirs were very much in the minority.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 14, 2023 05:25 PM (nC+QA)

385 >>Thanks for the review of 'Sound of Freedom' Ace. Not sure before reading this that my wife and I could make it through it. Nearly half a century of 'protecting God's children' between the two of us. Wouldn't want to watch something that showed our efforts were in vain.

From my perspective it made me feel just the opposite. Neither you efforts nor anyone else's efforts in this fight are in vain and every single life matters.

I think you might feel differently if you saw it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2023 05:25 PM (ZLI7S)

386 Greatest writing challenge of all time?

Write a movie about Barbie?
Posted by: eleven at July 14, 2023 05:24 PM (iziT

I always said it would be about Siri.

I think they did a really good job with Her.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 05:25 PM (MNhXM)

387 And of course, if you want to go back further, there was 1970's "Joe", also with Peter Boyle, in which the runaway daughter was only coincidental to the plot, which centered primarily around the hippie vs. hardhat conflict back then.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at July 14, 2023 05:20 PM (2wS81)

Taxi Driver in that same vein. Jodie as the teen prostitute.

Posted by: JmT at July 14, 2023 05:25 PM (YrfxG)

388 Then you get older and realize he made slaves of every man woman and child in the entire empire- and that system would perpetuate for 1000 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Caligula, you could kind of look at and say, "yeah, he was insane", because he was. Caligula was actually his nickname given as a child when he was in his father's army camp. It means "little boots".
Tiberius was really a sicko. Did a lot of sick things. Maybe worse than Nero, actually. Livia, Octavius wife, was the mother of Tiberius, and sparred no intrigue to get him to succeed Octavius.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 14, 2023 05:26 PM (vcOmj)

389 Pliny the Elder died trying to rescue people from the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. His nephew, Pliny the Younger was, well, Younger.
Posted by: Oldcat

Apparently smarter, too.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 05:23 PM (FVME7)

No, he was just didn't have a heart attack, he was there too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:27 PM (eoQWY)

390 All the emperors were statists dream boats. It comes with the job title.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:24 PM (eoQWY)

Valid- but there are degrees.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 14, 2023 05:27 PM (15Elt)

391 I figure the reason for the hatred of "Sound of Freedom" is because it adds a new source of ‘victims’ who are real slaves, actual victims. This means that these new victims should be first in line for reparations.

Posted by: Mike Pence at July 14, 2023 05:28 PM (qGpJ8)

392 The Sound of Freedom was a tragedy because the kids never learned their correct pronouns.

Posted by: Blue Haired Kindergarten Teacher with a Nose Ring, Devil Tattoos, and Stubble. at July 14, 2023 05:34 PM (LaNzR)

393 > He was a major piece of shit.

How did such a good emperor end up with such a terrible son? Then again, Hezekiah's son Mannaseh was probably the worst king Judah had, and the righteous kings who had righteous heirs were very much in the minority.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 14, 2023 05:25 PM (nC+QA)

Commodus' initial "failure" was getting out of the decade or more long war Marcus was in versus the Germans which the Roman Senate class was sure was just about to end in victory honest. Was it, well maybe, but any Emperor who gave up turf was in for a bruising in Senatorial popularity. Hadrian, who evacuated Trajan's conquests and spent gobs of time visiting the empire instead of doting on them instead, got a pretty raw deal from ancient historians, while every 18th and 19th century historian loves him to death.

The gladiator stuff would definitely seem degrading to a Senator too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2023 05:35 PM (eoQWY)

394 I watched Last Man Stsnding because it showed up on prime. Bruce Willis in a 20's gangster re-skin of A Fistful of Dollars.

Oh lord it's not good. I watched the whole thing just to be sure none of it was good and it's not.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 14, 2023 05:37 PM (3CdAv)

395 It was a girl kid with water balloon, good arm.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 14, 2023 05:38 PM (4780s)

396 For evidence, see any MMA bout with an aikido expert and how that turns out for them.

Back in the early days of MMA they challenged any black belts in the audience to fight the MMA guy, and one of our people accepted. There was some money involved. Our guy broke the MMA guys arm with a standing arm bar. They refused to pay him. Karl Geis was a martial arts genius, his version of Aikido was his personal self defense system, it actually works.

I only had one MMA fight, it was against the TX state heavy weight Karate champion, who could bench 500, squat six plates on a side for reps, and do full splits. He was a for real fighter, not some tournament guy. He had the quickest hands I've ever seen - it wound up a draw.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 14, 2023 05:47 PM (CecP5)

397 Caveziel was great in Person of Interest, although the premise was sketchy and it fell apart in like one season

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Blasphemy!!!!!

I love that show. Every minute of all five seasons.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 14, 2023 05:50 PM (mSaEG)

398 I am agreement with Mrs Dig — Eduardo Vistgue (so) is one of the most beautiful men out there. He made a lovely pro-life film called “Bella” i highly recommend! 😎
Posted by: Lizzy

Of course he's hot! He used to be an actor on Mexican Telenovelas for all of you AOSHQ soap opera fans.

I think in SOF, his facial expressions and eyes convey more than his words do - very well done. And, he hot!

Posted by: Cheri at July 14, 2023 05:53 PM (oiNtH)

399
Peter Boyle

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That's an old-fashioned way to put it. Get with these times.

Posted by: Monkeypox at July 14, 2023 05:53 PM (oINRc)

400 Great review, Ace! I just shared it with my family. Thanks!

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402 Spoiler alert: The nuclear blast at the end does in fact kill everyone. It has been announced that Part II of the movie will take place in the afterlife. But they won't tell us whether it is in Heaven... or Hell!

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