Caught an early screening, had some a AMC gift card than i needed to burn down.
I couldn't stop noticing how every leader, wise character or in a position of power was female or a POC.
President Kamala Harris.
Two Star Rear Admiral.
The V-22 Osprey Pilots.
The Temu version of Vazquez from Aliens.
Hillary Clinton as the Kamalas BFF and voice of reason.
The 5ft 80lb female asian secret agent that saves the day.
The 5ft military police chick is supposed to be guarding the most dangerous man alive, Ethan.
The Mantis from GotG chick taking down men twice her size.
Other than Ethan and Benji, White dudes were either bad or goofy. So the movie itself was okay, it kinda dragged at the beginning and the early attempt at Marvel - esque humor during a torture / escape scene.
The good: Hayley Atwell cleavage with a tank top in full IMAX glory. The stunt scenes, specially the underwater one.
7/10.
It was definitely held above water by Tom Cruise. I could overlook all the plot contrivances, questionable editing, length, convoluted plot and girl bossing because I got the impression that the director didn't hate me. No doubt because Tom Cruise was a producer and used his star power. If he wasn't in it, it would be awful.
For all the weird shit with him (being part of a cult, for example), I have the impression that he's one of the few people who can direct movies, gives a fuck about the normal audience enjoying them (as opposed to the "but muh undiscovered new audience of fags and women"), and has the horsepower to mostly avoid the stupid bullshit movies tend to get forced into these days.
Top Gun Mav was an excellent sequel to Top Gun, for example. Had it's issues, but still a great sequel and very much the same style of movie as the first.
Watching TG: Maverick in the theater, right before the movie started there was a video message from Tom Cruise both apologizing to the audience for the movie taking so long to release and thanking them for seeing the movie in the theater. For all his faults he seems to be a guy who legitimately cares about the 'magic' of the movies. He has always impressed me with his insistence on having real stunts in his movies and not going the lazy route by doing it all in CG.
Yeah its like the South Park episode where the normal Mel Gibson South Park parody comes in full Braveheart makeup going crazy, then picks up a script, gives thoughtful critiques and how to fix its many flaws, then leaves and the people say something along the lines of "Say what you will about Mr. Gibson, but he knows plot elements".
Cackles as president? Is this what they're reduced to cope?
Its at least something new. They've been cope adding Hillary as president since 2008 to various media.
inb4 Cackles gets Epstein'd because killary wants more attention.
Surprised they didn't go with Supreme Leader Stacey Abrams.
That's two movies this year with Angela Bassett as president.
Still better than the one with big Mike Obama on Amazon Prime.
We've got at least two more years of movies and TV shows with President Kamala characters ahead of us.
lol, they really thought 2024/25 was going to turn out different, didn't they?
I guess she hasn't crashed a ship and been fired, yet.
I guess they haven't been told to not fly into other aircraft yet and then done the opposite.
Willing to bet she wasn't as smart or self-sacrificing as Vasquez was, though.
Probably just as tall, however.
As if we needed more proof this was as far from reality as possible.
Did they need someone to cause a traffic jam and prevent something from driving along a normally safe road?
Maybe the plan was for any would-be assassins to die from laughter at seeing the guard.
Fun fact, she blew up on social media a while back for being accused of sleeping with a male pornstar [Manuel Ferrara] while the guy's wife [Kayden Kross] was pregnant with his kid.
Benji is still played by Simon Pegg, though. And while he's great at making action movies both the Scientology thing and full on authoritarian covid mask insanity mean Tom Cruise has his own issues.
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The way the scene is framed, they are the first things to enter the shot.
Its a close shot.
Apt username.
The first part was similar. Underwhelming compared to previous movies in the franchise is an understatement.
I thought the first part did an AI villain way better, with stuff like the airport scenes and just utilizing a computer enemy that can alter your perception or reality very well. I think the Sevastopol scenes were the best part of the second film. Overall, a decent movie, but it definitely wasn’t as tight as the older films.
7/10? Idiots like you slurping up goyslop in 2025 are why Americans are considered fat, lazy do nothings.
I rate you 1/10.
Wut.
Some people here get really mad if you watch any modern movie for any reason.
That's dumb lol
You paid money and sat down to feed yourself a portion of humiliation and then said its 7/10. Like at least in a clockwork orange they had to force people to brainwash them.
You're happily doing it yourself. Sad.
Oh be quiet! People can enjoy movies if they want to. I went to watch the movie too and I liked it. Nobody here is being forced to watch anything. We're not Democrats.
I didn't recognize that Hayley Atwell played Agent Peggy Carter in Captain America.
I can believe that she could still look good, but she's now 43 and I don't even recognize her as the woman who looks like Agent Carter in most of her search engine hits because she aged out.
I wasn't sure who the actress was by name, so my mind started thinking of Hailee Steinfield from True Grit with Jeff Bridges. And more recently Sinners. She's apparently a generation behind at 28.
Nu Hawkeye? She is just another mid Gen-Z woketard with TDS.
I had the TV on in the background the other night and ended up watching Late Night (2019) without realizing at the beginning that it was a Mindy Kaling vehicle.
It's about Emma Thompson playing an ageing out, frigid 50s female British American late night talk show icon who the network is trying to replace.
Kaling plays a perky wagie who girlbosses her way into the writer's staff as a temp by winning an essay contest at her chemical plant job.
The most notable thing is that Thompson's entire writing staff for the course of the movie are all liberal White soyboy male characters, but at least are all White men. There's also a subplot where Thompson's character slept with one of the younger, attractive ones, breaking up her marriage to John Lithgow suffering from Parkinson's.
The epilogue of the movie shows that Thompson saves her show from cancelation by becoming more likable & human by infecting her showrunning staff with diversity.
The final montage shows her office filled with blacks, POC women, Indian women with only the most dysmorphic men from her writing staff left over in a sea of DEI as the "happily ever after".
Edit: Found this 4 min anti-woke review that sums it up pretty well.
I timestamped the end of the video showing the epilogue new & improved DEI office staff, but the earlier review shows some clips of the evil, all White male soyboy writers room from when the show was failing
Late to the party. But i saw it recently. Went in for a laugh. And a laugh I did have (or rather many)
To respond to OP, all valid points and definitely girlbossing all-round.
Critical Drinker pointed out how a big theme of the story was the appeal to emotion over reason. Mainly how Ethan successfully emotionally manipulates people into going along with his ideas. But executed poorly. Even moreso when his team tries to do the same but executed poorly also, while failing to manipulate people at the same time.
Works for Ethan because the series has built him up as a master agent, and his achievements also speak for him -- i.e when he convinces the president after his turning himself in. So his record adds to his credibility when he proposes seemingly impossible ideas.
As for me, on top of all that - I couldn't help but laugh a lot at the meta narrative: AI and mutually assured destruction. The producers (or whoever made the final OK on certain story elements) really wanted to present AI as a existential threat to humanity. That whoever controls it (not Russia, not China) would rule the world. And that it was elevated to such a god-like status that it played into Ethan's emotional manipulation tactics quite well. His common approach was to unite "enemies" by claiming that this AI was so indiscriminate that it was best for the Global interests people work together to defeat something that goes beyond conventional borders.
Really trying to sell AI as this highly powerful, highly competent, invincible force that will radically change the world. Also really trying to sell that all these problems are best handled by our trustworthy governments and militaries, and that everyone else is helpless when left to their own devices.
So the AI boogeyman along with the "Kamala" prediction were two glaring overt messages that I couldn't take seriously and laughed out loud every time those scenes played in the cinema.
Only standout part of the movie was the submarine dive. Could've been better with fewer of the frequent CG cuts to the submarine. One or two shots to simply introduce the danger would've been enough.
The president was my favorite, I liked how she wanted to nuke the US so the rest of the world won't get mad at having been nuked. It's very believable woman logic.
I believe it was the other jogger in the room that suggested that, but she still said sure why not?
I haven't actually seen the movie, just going based off what I've heard and the whole movie sounds like a clownshow.
I thought it was entertaining, saw it opening night Thursday. I enjoyed my time, (Act 2 was easily the best) but it was not as strong as Part 1. I liked the AI as the villain and was disappointed it didn’t show up more, it did a great job in part 1 of feeling like an AI and not just a normal hacking group.
Hayley Atwell is nice but she has an ass like a man.
I had to google image who that is. She has a face like a man too. Though it's probably because she hit the wall. Her younger pictures are alright.
I think she had some work done, maybe did the middle aged woman thing and lost weight to try and look young (but never works and makes them look worse). Her face looks very different from what it did on the previous MI film, just a few years ago.
She had a naked photo of herself coming out of the shower and I thought I was in the locker room at the gym.