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2025-05-15 -Great Cultural Revolution

'Andor'

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Posted by badanov 2025-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [125 views ] Top

#1 'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-15 05:24|| 2025-05-15 05:24|| Front Page Top

#2 From the BBC review of MI:
Dead Reckoning was a funny, frothy Euro-caper sprinkled with mischief, glamour and romance – or as close to romance as you're ever going to get in a Cruise production

I quit reading right there. I saw that movie, and a person could call it a lot of different things, good and bad, but that movie take and take on Cruise's library of characters is dog shit wrong.

What kind of romance do you prefer? Vanilla Sky, Top Gun, or even MI:Fallout? Turn in your creds, you are done, go shill for Lilo and Stitch on your own platform.

As for Andor, critics have been talking about it being a slog for a season and a half, so I don't know if it is legitimately good, better than expected, or just elation that all that time wasn't wasted on nothing.

What I do know, is that every episode of Acolyte and Ahsoka my feelers were fist pumping and high fiving every episode as Best Star Wars Evah! and with this, radio silent until now, those shills and bandwagon teamsters.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-15 13:59|| 2025-05-15 13:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I was shocked that Andor basically recreated Jan 6th and correctly showed the government setting it all up.

Posted by Woodrow 2025-05-15 19:04|| 2025-05-15 19:04|| Front Page Top

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