Rambles about the wonderful world of wrestling.
There are a lot of parallels between the Mission Impossible and Fast and Furious franchises. Both started quite small-scale, based around a specific idea, and as they’ve gone on they have got bigger and sillier and seemed to settle into what they want to be. They’ve also at this point, both peaked with their fifth film.
When it comes to cinema there are a million reasons a film can fail and another million reasons a film can succeed. One of the reasons that is often overlooked, is the title. This week I went along to see The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, a charming film from the director of Amelie, Pierre Jeunet. It was by no means my film of the year, but it was a sweet touching film about a genius child attempting to deal with the death of his brother and the rather eccentric family he has been born into. Now despite this film coming out in a week that was, to put it nicely, slightly lacking in strong cinema releases, it completely failed to scrape the top ten. So why was this? Well the only thing I can think of is that people are being turned away by the title.
Tom Cruise summer blockbusters are always a bit hit and miss. For every Mission Impossible there’s a Knight and Day. With recent years seeing a bit of a backlash against Cruise, he’ll be hoping that new release Edge of Tomorrow is one of the good ones. Based on the Japanese novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, this is essentially Groundhog Day with robots and aliens.
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