I like watching tom cruise and not a cgi thing actually defy death in the name of shameless entertainment what can I say
they are less self-serious, MUCH less h*rny and generally less bloodthirsty than the bond movies. the politics are too incoherent and vague to get offended by and there's no top gun/bond style displays of patriotism or military hardware cause the heroes are essentially stateless and use goofy almost-scifi gadgets that only sometimes work correctly.
instead of "they've got lasers now??" type quips they mostly just make goofy faces while performing acts of physical daring
really the only thing you have to reckon with is that only through the power of sc*entology can these movies exist at all
lastly I love it when ving rhames says things
I agree. They're still doing a lot of the things that I love about dumb action movies. They have been consistently good for a while now without getting stale or too predictable.
It's everything that was good about 90s action movies, distilled and polished. They're dumb, fast, loud, and optimistic.
Reposting something I wrote earlier:
Don’t understand why people are so pro-Cruise this Mission Impossible release cycle. Dude’s a member of a cult and has been past his prime for awhile now. I’d be impressed with him if he made a movie where he didn’t have control of the script and couldn’t change it.
Cruise sucks but I don't feel that bad watching and enjoying him jump around while trying to entertain me. I know he's in a cult and probably contributes a lot to prop them up but the bar is so low for Hollywood that I don't even really feel that guilty about it.
Nothing will ever get me to watch top gun though. Fuck that nationalist drivel.
It is pretty interesting that he used to take chances, work with people like Kubrick, PTA etc, and at some point he clearly decided not to do anything like that anymore and devote himself to bring Action Cinema Man. He runs a lot better than I do tbf
