Happy Trailers: ‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’
It’s better than the actual movie
I went to the movies a lot in 2018. One reason is I love popcorn. Another is I joined a sort of unofficial movie club. It’s just a couple of friends of mine but we made it a point to go to the movies every week. I miss those dudes — we watch movies online together but it’s not the same.
That year was a mixed bag of movies. There were instant classics like Black Panther and the surprise horror hit Hereditary. There were subversive movies like the surreal political comedy Sorry To Bother You and tone-deaf crowd-pleasers like Green Book, a movie designed to make aging white people feel better about the civil rights movement of the ’60s. The only 100% good scene in that movie was when Viggo Mortensen folds a whole cheese pizza in half and eats it like a big taco in bed.
I’d also like to mention underrated B-movies like the very funny and romantic Rich Crazy Asians and the trashy Nazis-meets-zombies WW2 thriller Overlord. The Happyland Murders also happened in 2018. That was an R-rated movie starring Melissa McCarthy and a bunch of muppets who snort sugar and have loud muppet-y sex. It’s bad but maybe historically bad?
And then there was the sixth Mission: Impossible movie, the biggest and brightest blockbuster of the year. It was…
