Brian's Thoughts on Movies

 As regular readers of this site know I grew up in the 1980s. Seth McFarlane is about a year younger than me so on the rare occasion that I turn on Family Guy I catch all the 1980s references which are as much about fandom as the shows and movies themselves.  However I only watch it on occasion as I feel its characters are a little too immoral.  This is not a complaint I can lodge against He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. When the Filmation cartoon He-Man first began airing I was about ten which is a little older than the show was targeting, but I found plenty to like in it.  The setting, a planet called Eternia which had both magical creatures and scientific advancements far beyond what is on Earth (e.g. flying sleds). The title character is a Superman/Clark Kent like character except when he is not He-Man he really is just an ordinary man.  Prince Adan is deliberately, especially in the early episodes, a little lazy and more interested in having fun than...

Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise close out the Mission Impossible series with this epic film in which Ethan Hunt and his team look to stop the AI villain of the last film from starting a global catastrophe, Spoilers below: I do not think this film is the best of the series, due to a murky antagonist, but it is definitely a worthy entry with the sum of the parts exceeding the whole.  I have decided to describe the pros and cons of the film and then will give a quick overall review at the end. Things I liked: McQuarrie gives Luther gets a heroic send off.  First he creates the poison pill to disable The Entity and then disarms a bomb in his final moments.  The dialogue between Ethan and Luther is touching, and while the situation is overly contrived (and I doubt Gabriel would say really use a bomb that would destroy London when he needs Ethan-who is in London-alive).  It is evident from Luther’s IV that he is possibly dying already (did creating the poison pill som...