Mission: Impossible - Fallout (this weekend)
The moustache is legend.
The story of Mission: Impossible - Fallout really can't be told without going back to Justice League. It's a great story. Somewhere along the way we started hearing whispers of a moustache on the set of Justice League reshoots. On the face of Superman, in fact. People started asking questions. It came to light that Henry Cavill grew a moustache for his role in Mission Impossible, and the Justice League reshoots were in the middle of Mission Impossible production. Warner Bros asked Paramount if Henry Cavill could shave the moustache. Paramount said no. So Warner Bros had to digitally remove Superman's facial hair.
Rumors of the cost of this digital shave vary widely, but no one knows the actual figures. The true cost may never be known, as moviegoers bemoaned the digital Super-face their eyes had to bear and told their friends how bad the CGI was in Justice League.
Today Paramount redeems itself. I got to see Mission: Impossible - Fallout at a test screening a few months ago and it was really, really good. Two action scenes in particular were the best I've seen in years. The bathroom fight scene will go down as one of the all-time greats. And in the midst of all this one has to wonder: would adding a CGI moustache have been fine? Or perhaps a false moustache? Wouldn't that be cheaper? No doubt it would be cheaper, but if Justice League had to be tarnished for this film to come out clean, then let it be known that the right price was paid.
Anyway, a little about the film now. Ethan Hunt faces the emotional climax of all his past outings. This is, as the villain says, the fallout of all his good intentions. He is really put through the wringer in this one.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is rated PG-13 for violence and intense sequences of action, and for brief strong language.
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (this weekend)
Spoof posters give any movie extra points from me. Especially when they're spoofing a poster from their own franchise.
So I don't quite get it, but I know Teen Titans Go! is a popular cartoon these days. And now they get a movie! But they're making it like a joke thing. One of those things where in the movie they're trying to get a movie. It looks pretty funny actually.
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies is rated PG for action and rude humor.
Also, Superman is voiced by Nicolas Cage in this movie.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (July 13)
I've heard the second Hotel Transylvania movie was genuinely funny for all ages.
In this third one the gang all goes on a cruise to get some time off, but it turns out the captain on this cruise is Van Helsing's granddaughter, so obviously she wants to kill all the monsters and the whole thing is some kind of trap.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is rated PG for some action and rude humor.
Skyscraper (July 13)
With Rampage and Skyscraper, I think Dwayne Johnson is going to cheapen his own name if he's not careful.
In Skyscraper, Dwayne Johnson plays a security expert who is called in to assess the security of a brand new, state-of-the-art skyscraper in China called The Pearl. It's really tall and really fancy, and some bad guys get into it and want information or something from the hero guy. They kidnap his family and whatnot (his family is there with him), and threaten stuff and generally just be evil. At some point the building catches fire for some reason.
Anyway, Skyscraper is rated PG-13 for sequences of gun violence and action, and for brief strong language.
The Equalizer 2 (July 20)
A lot like the first equalizer except with new bad guys!
I'm not sure what else to say about it. He's still an ex-CIA dude who kicks a lot of butt, and there are still bad people doing bad things who he stops. My friend saw it and said it wasn't very good.
The Equalizer 2 is rated R for brutal violence throughout, language, and some drug content.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (July 20)
So this is a sequel. Or maybe a prequel. I don't know exactly. I can tell you that all the people in the poster do not exist in the movie at the same time. Like, some of them play younger versions of some of the others. But it's some kind of framing device. It starts out ahead of the first movie, then goes way back before the first movie, then back ahead? Not sure.
Ten years is too late for a sequel anyway. Nobody saw the original because it came out the same day as The Dark Knight. I remember the ads for the first one saying it's "the most fun you'll have at the movies this summer" (targeting Dark Knight audiences, because say what you want but that movie cannot be described as "fun").
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is rated PG-13 for some suggestive material.
Unfriended: Dark Web (July 20)
I still think it's totally hilarious that there is a horror movie for young audiences and the title is "unfriended". Because what could be scarier for a teenager?
Just watched the trailer.
Uggggggghhhhhhhhhh.
Sigh.
Horror movies are so stupid.
This movie is all based around a video chat between friends. One finds an abandoned laptop (he works at an internet cafe and says it's been in the lost and found for a month), and he finds weird stuff on it that he shows to his friends. It turns out it's all super creepy weird criminal stuff. Then unknown people start to join their video chat and kill them, because they are the owners of the laptop? Apparently these bad people have a lot of resources, because they track down everyone in the video chat, even one girl's mom - all in the duration of one video chat.
Yet they misplaced their laptop at an internet cafe for a month.
Unfriended: Dark Web is rated R for some disturbing violence, language and sexual references.
Big Shot Critic
And now I'm caught up again! Let's see how long that lasts.
