Not exact matches
Though the
movie takes
place in the homes of two seventeen - year - old women, intricate camerawork and editing using shot - reverse - shot techniques to close
in on
first one speaker and then the next help to open the
play for the big screen.
This is more of an actual Impossible Missions Force team mission,
in so doing making this the
first of the
movies to truly feel like the real Mission: Impossible of television that became such an enduring pop culture phenom
in the
first place, with an extended opening credits sequence to the full - length version of Lalo Schifrin's indelible M: I theme music
plays as a back - to - basics mission statement (pun intended) of sorts.
Katherine Waterston is
playing a strong character who should be the lead of the
movie, but very often she must give ground to Billy Crudup, a conflicted soul who is thrust into the captaincy and proves why he wasn't selected as leader
in the
first place.
Firth
played agent Harry Hart
in the
first movie, but the character was killed off before the end, leaving his protege Eggsy (
played by Taron Egerton) to take his
place as the newest Kingsman.
Derek Cianfrance is actually a three - time feature director, but his
first movie Brother Tied is so unobtainable (it
played at festivals
in 1998 but hasn't seen the light of day since, the print now collecting dust
in Cianfrance's father's basement) that we only have his second and third films, Blue Valentine and The
Place Beyond the Pines, to judge him by.
First up is Light Source & Imagery's 22 - minute «The Making of Norbit»,
in which Eddie Murphy walks the knife's edge of self - awareness («When I put on these makeups, I get to go to some whole other
place... that I couldn't go with [my real face] on»), Thandie Newton hails the
movie as a palate cleanser to a string of demanding roles / films (to think Jonathan Demme remade Charade for her when all he had to do was put Eddie Murphy
in a fat - suit), and we see nifty demonstrations of how the split - screens were accomplished; turns out that much of the time Murphy is only
playing Rasputia from the neck up, a good - natured obese woman filling
in for the body.
The music itself is not terribly inspired, but Jonathan Demme obviously has a great knowledge about how to stage and shoot musical numbers, which makes those scenes utterly entrancing, even if they leave one wishing that the entire
movie took
place in the bar where Ricki and The Flash
first play.
Just know it is readily apparent who the killer is not fifteen minutes into the
movie, an entire subplot involving J.K. Simmons as an extremely wealthy womanizing and sex - obsessed philanthropist is unintentionally hysterical and poor Val Kilmer, not seen
in a big budget major Hollywood studio release since 2006's Déjà vu, is dealt such a poor hand it's a question why he was asked to
play this game
in the
first place.