“Mission: Impossible III”
Everyone’s favorite secret adoptee father-to-be still hasn’t made a good “M:I” movie yet — five words: John Woo, slo-mo doves — but this one, at least on paper, looks mighty fine. The casting of Philip Seymour Hoffman couldn’t be more timely, and the supporting cast is loaded with talent, from Ving Rhames and Laurence Fishburne to Keri Russell and Sasha Alexander (notice there are different types of “talent” we’re talking about here). Even Greg “Weiss” Grunberg, longtime standby of writer/director J.J. Abrams, is involved. And the bits where Hoffman is telling Cruise what he will do to his loved ones, is more sinister than the last two “M:I” movies combined.
But, if we’ve learned anything, it is to not go into any “M:I” movie with any expectations whatsoever, so take this trailer with a mound of salt.
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“Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector”
If these three scenes don’t tell you why this movie isn’t being screened for critics, nothing else does. Only the first scene is remotely redeemable, and that’s because it features the divine Lisa Lampa-freaking-hoo-ha as the MOTHER of Larry’s love interest (a relationship which, for the record, ranks as the impossible 16/1 upset on Eli Cash’s scale). The very fact that one of them is called Later Bathroom Moment, implying that there’s an Earlier Bathroom Moment, tells me all I need to know.
Trailer #1: Meeting Mom
Trailer #2: LaterBathroom Moment
Trailer #3: Backup Plan
