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I'm a big fan of the Guy Ritchie/Henry Cavill Man from UNCLE reboot, so I will definitely be seeing this.

The guy from Reacher's in it, too.

There's a character who uses a bow and arrow in firefights which might be "Mad Jack" Churchill. Apparently he was in fact a Commando. I don't know if he was part of any of the missions shown here but to be honest I think they're making 99.9% of it up so it doesn't really matter anyway.

LOL, I just checked IMDB -- Ian Fleming is a character too. He did in fact contribute various (unused, I think) mission plans for Naval Intelligence. I got the feeling that as an intelligence officer, Ian Fleming made for a great thriller novelist.

I think this movie is probably taking the Inglorius Basterds path of historical adjacency. Which is fine by me. I hate having to argue and debate whether a movie is accurate. Sometimes I just want them to announce "We're going to really explore the studio space here" so I can just enjoy it without worrying about accuracy.

BTW, the Henry Cavill-Matthew Vaughn movie Argylle comes out this weekend. One big gripe reviewers are making is that Henry Cavill isn't the actual lead of this movie. But, I mean, you get that from the trailer: Henry Cavill is the fictional spy that the heroine writes about. Obviously, then, he's not the main actor. The main male actor is Sam Rockwell.

I've heard other people offering mixed reviews. Apparently the movie has a lot of twists, and some of the twists that come near the end are too preposterous for some people -- as Chris Gore says, when you pile four twists on top of each other, it "just gets dumb" -- or maybe the twists undermine the rest of the movie (by like revealing that some stuff you thought was real wasn't real, or something -- I don't know, I'm trying to stay spoiler-free myself).

It's divisive, it seems. I like Matthew Vaughn and I like Henry Cavill and I have no problem with Sam Rockwell being the real male lead. So I'm going to give it a shot. I don't expect it to be great, but when audiences get annoyed at a movie being "too over-the-top," I kind of get curious.

Chris Gore says it's a "chick flick," as the actual main character is the spy writer played by Bryce Dallas Howard, which just has the trappings of an action movie. I got that from the trailer too, though.

He gives it a 4 out of ten. I still might give it a shot -- I mean, how dumb and over-the-top is it, exactly? I kinda want to know.

This might be okay. I like Paul Rudd's fourth-wall-damaging line at 1:50.

Jordan Peele is a drip but I kind of dig this:

I think I like this trailer for Shogun more. Starts February 27th. I don't have cable but if I hear something is good I'll buy it on Amazon.

Eh:

If that girl sounds familiar, she's Ratcatcher 2 from The Suicide Squad.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:12 PM

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