Dec. 30th, 2011

PROTIP:

Dec. 30th, 2011 11:16 pm
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If you hop off the bus at the bus stop next to the McLaren building on The Priory Queensway, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, for some reason (like your bus stopping for two hours while a replacement windshield wiper is bought in), there may be a Tesco up the hill. To get to it, you will pass a perfectly good Games Workshop and Forbidden Planet. Feel free to consider whether to take advantage of the opportunity.

Megabus offers low-cost coaches, and by gum you get what you pay for.
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Light the fuse.

I really, really like the idea of an action movie where the main character never fires a gun.

I was also pleasantly surprised by how good Brad Bird is as a live-action director. There are just some lovely set-pieces, and less of a focus on Hunt. The conceit here is that not only is the team working without resources, the entire agency has been disavowed, so they can't even get covert backup. All they have is an old supply cache full of things that malfunction all the time. And that's not the only place Murphy's Law applies. The team actually feels like a team of diverse individuals with their own motivations, not Hunt and Sidekicks, and even the villain feels vaguely sympathetic. And he's absolutely insane.

So, yeah, go see it, if you can suspend disbelief about little things like Hunt spending months in a Russian prison, yet still having perfect absolutely hair. I think it's even feathered.

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