Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

I liked Mission:Impossible-Ghost Protocol.  The story of four agents duking it out with a Supervillian and a Russian Cop.  Along the way things blow up, people get chased, cars crash, and there are a lot of pretty cool fights.  Ghost Protocol is the kind of movie you walk out of the theater looking for someone to pick a fight with-or someplace to go shoplifting. One of Tom Cruise’s super spy talents is stealing random bits of clothing, cars, phones, and just about anything else he needs from random strangers.  But hey, he does need them.  It’s not like he steals…

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Wall-e

Standard issue Pixar tear jerker that has gotten a bit of bad press for portraying humankind as a bunch of nasty litterbugs.  I still liked it, though the story does have a few holes big enough to drive a Spacefaring Cruise ship through. The hero, such as he/it is, is a little robot bearing a striking resemblance to Number 5 from Short Circuit.  His job is to clean up the Earth, one pile of scrap metal at a time.  He is a walking garbage compactor who has been busy for the last 700 years or so turning random bits of…

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