Mission: Impossible 2

JamieR

June 10, 2001

Return

Yup. Saw Flash Gordon 14 times one summer. I was too young to pick up on camp- to me it was just "cool, that alien's eyes are coming out."

And speaking of camp, I saw MI2 again the other night. It was better than I remembered, although Tom Cruise was worse than I remembered (and inexplicably I unfailingly like him.) But the thing about that movie that strikes me is how utterly unironic Woo is with his sort of mystical hyper machoism- glowing white doves in slow motion and all that. There is zero humor in the movie, no self-deprecation on the part of the hero, no in jokes, no too clever patter, no mockery at all. I find it kind of refreshing, but I think Woo would be horrified that his earnestness looks so much like camp. (Or maybe he does know, but I'd like to believe that's not the case.)

 

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