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My weekend movies...

Posted by Mel Profit (aka mel profit) Sep 4 '12, 07:19

MI:3 - B, MI: Ghost Protocol - C-

20mins of each movie is easily about Cruise running manly and fast while grimacing. Hoffman was great in the 3rd one and proves that a great bad guy can make a movie. Ghost Protocol was a let down.

Beasts of the Southern Wild - B
While ultimately positive it's an emotionally brutal slugfest. I felt really uneasy and uncomfortable throughout the entire thing.

Robot and Frank - A-
A really great movie which goes into some very interesting topics. The writing and directing is expertly done as the story could have completely gone campy. I find it a movie that I think about still days after we saw it.

Responses:

C-? -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 07:22 31
- there was nothing new to it. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:23 29
  - Sure, but it's a Mission: Impossible movie. Like with a Bond movie, you have to judge it by how it plays with the formula. - Roger More Sep 4, 07:29 21
    - there's formula and then there's The Hangover II and MI:4. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:33 11
      - I just gave two examples of where MI:4 differed from the formula established in the earlier movies. - Roger More Sep 4, 07:42 2
        
        I'll give you that the team of MI:3 would have eaten the lunch of the team in MI:4. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:46 1
        
        they wouldn't have bothered drinking their milkshake, they just would have thrown it in their faces and laughed. -- nm - Diva Sep 4, 07:48
      - Except that one was the worst movie of the year and the other was the best. - David Sep 4, 07:36 7
        
        I didn't hate MI:4 - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:38 6
        
        and not to nitpick but it's still a plot hole if you know it's a plot hole, admit it and try and talk your way out of it. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:44 4
        
        I don't know what you are referencing. -- nm - David Sep 4, 07:46 3
        
        (spoilers) - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:51 2
        
        That's a plot hole? I think it's more a turn of events you didn't find believable. -- nm - David Sep 4, 07:56 1
        
        you know I'm right. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:57
        
        and guys guys guys...Robot and Frank. See it. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:39
    - they kinda lost me with the sandstorm climb building scene. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 07:30 8
      - I literally lost interest with the rest of the movie after that. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:34 2
        
        yeah, I did not like MI 1 or MI 2, but MI 3 made me go "OOH!!!" and this one was a dud IMO. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 07:35 1
        
        I liked MI:3 a lot. -- nm - Diva Sep 4, 07:38
      - That's one of the better action sequences I've ever seen on film. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 07:32 4
        
        THIS -- nm - MDH Sep 4, 07:51
        
        that was one of the first WTF scenes in either of the good MI movies - groiny Sep 4, 07:34 2
        
        I loved it in the way that it was an impossible gadget that didn't seem impossible - Will Hunting Sep 4, 07:36 1
        
        ironically, I literally saw something on a defense blog after the movie that Darpa is working on something very similar. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:40
  - I liked the movie, but I agree that the bad guy was meh -- nm - Guigue Sep 4, 07:27 3
    - I do not even remember the bad guy. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 07:28 2
      - i just saw it last night and neither do I. -- nm - Diva Sep 4, 07:29
      - Blomkvist! -- nm - David Sep 4, 07:29
  - It was my favorite movie of 2011. -- nm - David Sep 4, 07:26 2
    - It's one of my shortlisted favorites. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 07:28
    - ugh. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 07:26
- that is about what I give it, maybe C+ nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 07:23
Robot and Frank is pretty much the only movie i really want to see right now. -- nm - Andie Sep 4, 07:21
Rewatch of M:I 4 A (Boo on you for that C-), Friends with Kids C-, Who hsot Liberty Valance B+ -- nm - MDH Sep 4, 07:20
wait a minute - prayformojo Sep 4, 07:19

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