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David McK (3610 KP) rated Mission: Impossible III (2006) in Movies

Apr 4, 2021  
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
2006 | Action, Mystery
8
7.1 (29 Ratings)
Movie Rating
"Your mission, should you choose to accept it ..."

Three films in to the Tom Cruise starring 'Mission: Impossible' series, and we're on to our third director: Here, JJ Abrams taking over from John Woo who himself took over from Brian de Palma.

And, so far, each of those directors has stamped their own identity on their respective films.

This is the one where Ethan Hunt is, as the movie starts, retired from active duty and spends his time training new recruits to the IMF while also just about to settle down with his fiancee.

When one of those recruits goes missing on an routine operation, however, Hunt soon finds himself drawn back into active service ...

This is also the one where the late Philip Seymour Hoffin is the main villain of the piece; the one that first introduces Simon Pegg's character of Benji (who, like Ving Rhames, so far appears in all the later instalments) and that has the whole 'bomb-in-your-head' shtick.
  
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Keane (2005) in Movies

Apr 10, 2021 (Updated Jul 4, 2021)  
Keane (2005)
Keane (2005)
2005 | Drama, Mystery
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
If this serves as nothing more than a vehicle for Damian Lewis' ticking-time-bomb performance, then in all honesty there are worse ways to go than this I guess. Always engrossing but very much of-its-time, when these sorts of minimalist indie character studies mistook being jittery and off-kilter for being profound (whereas nowadays they mistake being robotic and dull for being profound... I kinda want these ones back lmfao). It seems concerned with shocking in the moment but doesn't leave much left over to chew on. It's not that there's no emotion, there's some - it just feels like there should be more. Though Lewis' Earth-shattering acting brings this character to resounding life amidst the sea of beaten-path elements on display - 99% of the positives I can give to this movie are because of him. Nearly worth it if you're into showy performances like I am, you're free to ditch the rest of it.
  
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Ben Foster recommended Dr. Strangelove (1964) in Movies (curated)

 
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
1964 | Comedy
8.2 (25 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I would be embarrassed to begin to talk about Dr. Strangelove, because there has been so much written about it. It’s so bleak. And Peter Sellers is perfect. He’s just perfect. Terry Southern and Stanley Kubrick built this doomsday political satire, in the fists of the Cold War, and made the end of the world hysterical. We’re bumbling idiots, all of us. We’re all walking through dark rooms of our life, bumping into furniture, and it’s shocking. I think we all enjoy watching people who are in authority positions act like bumbling idiots; it satisfies part of our ego, I’m sure, on some level. Sellers’ commitment to those characters… the scene that stands out is when he’s trying to get change to make the phone call to stop the bomb, and that security guard won’t let him break government property to get the change. The frustration of that is as painful as it is hysterical."

Source
  
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Chris Sawin (602 KP) rated Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) in Movies

Sep 21, 2021  
Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
2021 | Action, Horror, Thriller
4
4.0 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Nicolas Cage (2 more)
Its violent and colorful imagery
Beautiful cinematography
The film mostly makes no sense. (2 more)
It's bizarre without any other defining qualities
Tons of cool concepts that lead to nothing
An Oddball Samurai Infused Jambalaya
The problem with Prisoners of the Ghostland is that Nicolas Cage himself tried to promote it as the craziest film he’s ever made, but the film never lives up to the insane concept of having a bomb strapped to your nutsack. The film forcefully shoves Mad Max influences into a Japanese theme with nuclear deformed samurai ghosts, bouncing gumballs, animal masks, pinwheels, and bubbles, and Nicolas Cage threatening to karate chop everyone into oblivion. All of this absurdity sounds like it should be way more memorable than it actually ends up being. Prisoners of the Ghostland is a massive letdown that implodes under its own lackluster outrageousness.

Full review: https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Prisoners-of-the-Ghostland-2021-Review-An-Oddball-Samurai-Infused-Jambalaya
  
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David McK (3610 KP) rated Only You Can Save Mankind (Johnny Maxwell #1) in Books

Feb 20, 2022  
Only You Can Save Mankind (Johnny Maxwell #1)
Only You Can Save Mankind (Johnny Maxwell #1)
Terry Pratchett | 1992 | Children, Fiction & Poetry
8
9.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
"After all, joysticks don't have 'Don't Fire' buttons on them ..."
Only You Can Save Mankind!
Why me?
If not you, who else?

I first read this not long after it was published, back in the early-to-mid 1990s, at which time I was exactly it's target audience being in my mid teens myself.

By that point, I had already discovered Terry Pratchett's wonderful Discworld novels, but hadn't read many - any? - of his non-Discworld books.

That changed when I read this, which would go on to become the first in his so-called Johnny Maxwell series (comprising this, Johnny and the Dead and Johnny and the Bomb).

Reading this now (in the early 2020s), it still holds up remarkably well, even if it is noticeable how much society has changed: mobile phones weren't really a thing back in the 90s, personal computers were relatively new, the Gulf War was still ongoing ...