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My family still doesn’t get the end shot. That’s fine. They’ll get it eventually.
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Got the whole family referring to Bruce the Shark from Jaws by she/her pronouns
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Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.
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“You didn’t know what you were stealing!”
"But I knew why I did it.”
A few thoughts on the whole "reckoning" part of The Final Reckoning.
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While driving to the theater this morning, we saw a very large turtle in the middle of a fairly busy back road and I made the split second decision to pull over, get out of my car, pick it up, and move it to the grass so it wouldn’t be run over.
It scratched my pinky finger when I picked it up, because it did not like being saved, but it had to be done.
My sister got out of the car too to take a picture of it and, honestly, that didn’t even occur to me. I just knew I had to move it out of the danger it didn’t even know it was in.
What I’m trying to say, is that I understand Ethan Hunt.
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Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.
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I am trying to when the last time a Hollywood blockbuster was as openly horny for its star as The Final Reckoning is for Tom Cruise and I’m coming up blank on anything released in the last decade
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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.
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Had two of the strongest drinks of my life last night before my dad and I strong-armed my brother into watching this with us
I miss you Mr Hackman
I had the pleasure of being part of the test screening audience and focus group after for this back in early March.
It was the most fantastical thing I’ve ever seen on the big screen.
Maybe not the best movie I’ve ever seen or even the best Mission: Impossible but probably the most That’s The Movies movie. We saw unfinished footage of the main two sequences here and, when your mind catches up with what you’re seeing and you realize you can still see a greened out pilot and un CG’ed bits of the submarine, the sense of scale and realism hit like a freight train. I’ve never been in more awe in my life.
Unbelievable.
There’s no one on earth like Tom Cruise.
“Because of your unique talents you have been forgiven.”
Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Top Gun: Maverick are lean, mean, and clean. They were Cruise’s response to the takeover of pure IP, the rise of streaming, the *looming* death of the movie star in Hollywood.
There’s a lot of emotion in them but it’s less urgent. Time is his greatest adversary, but he hasn’t run out yet.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning is messier. Its emotions verge on unwieldy. It’s paranoid in ways Cruise’s movies haven’t been in years, decades. It’s like he’s screaming and raging at the *imminent* death, the murder, of the art form he has devoted his entire life to, at the expense of everything else.
It’s uncomfortable. Maverick is uncertain of his future in Top Gun: Maverick but he is certain of his own skills. Ethan in Dead Reckoning knows nothing. And what he does know is changing faster than he can keep up. His reality shifted. And he’s scared.
It’s part of why I believe Dead Reckoning is Cruise’s most personal work since Vanilla Sky. Even more than Maverick, which is an undeniably rich Cruisetext. McQuarrie doesn’t write 1:1 of Cruise’s life, but he cannot help but Notice Things and, if Rebecca Ferguson saw how much Cruise struggled during Covid, then what did McQuarrie see? What did Cruise do to get himself and his industry through it?
“We live and die in the shadows, for those we hold close, and for those we’ll never meet.”
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Tom Cruise makes the case for the importance of the big screen experience outside of CBMs.
Lean, mean, and clean.
Very interested in learning what Tom Cruise’s cute little jacket and soft hold matte pomade budgets were for this.
Tom Cruise makes his case for movie stars in the post-movie star era.
The Vienna opera set piece is the best since the vault sequence in the first. The audience cheered at Baldwin’s Living Manifestation of Destiny speech and the “…Hunt!” after.
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A blockbuster for the emergence of Comic Book Movies and IP as the preference mode of marketing in Hollywood over movie stars. Renner is an MCU era hero stuck in the world of the most earnest man to ever live who decided he would give up everything else in his life to keep being The Movie Star. That Burj sequence still takes my breath away.
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Post 9/11 and its fallout enough that people start to wonder if we’re the bad guys.
Tom and JJ were sick of post-9/11, post-invasion of Iraq, Patriot Act, Bush era wrapped in the flag nationalism
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The thing is, there IS an interesting documentary to be made about the first class of post-studio system late teens/early 20s movie stars where, for the first time, the movies they were making were about people their age, what that instant fame without the protections of the studio system did to them, and whether that article did actual damage or just accelerated the inevitable.
Alas, Andrew McCarthy is only interested in having people tell him that the reason why he wasn’t Tom Cruise is because of a mean spirited article, in which he is only mentioned in ing, on background, by one of the named brats as someone who is not going to make it.
The most at peace McCarthy looks in this whole thing is when Brat Pack article writer David Blum implies that he should have been Tom Cruise because he had the correct pedigree and training while Cruise was a nobody from nowhere with nothing to such a degree that he couldn’t even afford the “proper” training.
Hopefully someone makes that actually interesting documentary someday.
The end of history.
A lot to be said for how much of the first 30 minutes and last 30 minutes I spent leaned forward saying SICK under my breath but let’s not forget the rainbow of colors highlighting Tom Cruise’s face for the hour in between like he really might be the most beautiful person ever on film in this
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Post-Cold War, post-the Troubles, the end of history is fast approaching.
Ethan “I’m a little guy I’m just a little guy I’m the birthday boy you wouldn’t beat up the birthday boy would you?” Hunt
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Hitchcock looked at the Pacific Coast Highway and said “this is JUST like Long Island (famously very flat)” and then went back to stretching the Hays Code to breaking point
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During a production meeting for M:I2 Tommy Cruise found out the screenwriters he was working with had never seen Notorious so he stopped the meeting and screened it for them right then and there at his house
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“There’s a higher power that will judge you for your indecency.”
“Tom Cruise?”
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If Tom Cruise’s absent father didn’t die suddenly when he was 21 and he didn’t get sucked into Scientology at 25 he would’ve made Better Man instead of Vanilla Sky
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Still fun. Wish Daniel Craig doing Foghorn Leghorn wasn’t relegated to Netflix.
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Went into this expecting to hate it to the point of comedy based on its cultural reputation and instead I cried watching it. Probably going to lead a We Bought A Zoo reclamation campaign soon. Whatever will get Crowe to pick up the phone and call Cruise again. I know he’s got one more good one in him.
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The difference between me and Tom Cruise is that if Jack Nicholson charged at me yelling, “I’m going to rip the eyes out of your head and piss in your dead skull! You fucked with the wrong Marine!” I would flinch. Not Tom though. That’s why he’s paid the big bucks.
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For what ails you
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More movies should re-release in theaters for my enjoyment
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Really glad I went into this completely blind
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I would die for my Country of Tom Cruise
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No one has ever looked cooler than Linda Hamilton in those funky shades
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Okay so major flaw in this for me is that while I like him as an actor Culkin never shows me that he is this human tractor beam of charisma that Eisenberg keeps telling me he is.
But I liked this and I’m excited to see what else Eisenberg does.
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When this movie is on my TV it feels like the saddest movie ever made
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Watching Barbra sing compels me to stand in front of the TV like the World Series is on
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Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.
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Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.
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Screaming out loud every time the Daft Punk helmet they give Jorma Taccone does the War of the Worlds tripod horn
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Watching Tom Cruise in beautiful pathetic wet kitten loser mode is the most fun a girl can have without taking off her clothes
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The Nice Guys rewatches will continue until morale improves
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An anomaly in Ridley’s late period as a shockingly hopeful and generous work that looks towards humanity and the inherent good around us. Makes me cry.
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On cable
It’s so obvious that Spielberg was trying to make LaBeouf into the next Cruise
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My family was grilling me on the historical accuracy of this as if that matters at all in the face of legendary toxic yaoi
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Most romantic movie ever made? Perhaps.
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Gasping out sobs on my couch when “I’ve had a rough year, dad” hit
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This is a religious experience in that I feel moved and compelled but I cannot begin to explain why
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Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.
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Well idk it’s still fun
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My sister picked it what was I supposed to do
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I curse Paramount for not making more Star Trek movies with this cast in the vein of this movie
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Finally finished this. For some reason.
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Bad romcoms are the backbone of Hollywood
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yes, even mi2.
listed alphabetically based on my more than a quarter century of experience with the man. will update accordingly.
- Aladdin
- All the President's Men
- Argo
- Arrival
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Avatar
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beverly Hills Cop
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Casablanca
...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Top Gun
- Mission: Impossible
- Taps
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Fatal Attraction
- Tootsie
- The Firm
- Three Days of the Condor
- The Bonfire of the Vanities
...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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