I’m On Vacation

I just took a look at Mission Impossible 5.  What a joke!  It’s exactly the same as Mission Impossible 1,2,3 and 4.  I’m not going to even bother with a Spoiler Alert — you already know this crap.  Tom Cruise is a good guy that everybody thinks is a bad guy.  He chases somebody.  Somebody chases him.  There’s general destruction, mayhem; things explode and Tom Cruise does some WTF impossible stuff.  Roll credits.  I must be getting old.   I remember a time when Hollywood at least pretended they were selling you a different movie.  Check it out.  These came out in the same year and they’re exactly the same movie!

Turner & Hooch and K-9 – 1989
Antz and A Bug’s Life – 1998
Armageddon and Deep Impact – 1998
The Truman Show and EDtv – 1998/1999
Red Planet and Mission to Mars – 2000
Chasing Liberty and First Daughter – 2004
Capote and Infamous – 2006
The Prestige and The Illusionist – 2006
Happy Feet and Surf’s Up – 2006/2007
Friends With Benefits and No Strings Attached – 2011
Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down – 2013

Then there are The Hunger Games and Divergent, the franchises that dreams are made of

And the granddaddy of them all

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Writers never go on vacation.  They just turn off their computers and hide for a while.  That’s exactly what I’m doing for the next couple of weeks.  Enjoy!