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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

This movie was loooooong.  Too many characters; some only appeared for no more than five minutes.  However, every character that had spoken dialogues got a back story.  That was completely unnecessary.  Cutting all of these out would save the movie at least one hour.

The story was so convoluted that I gave up trying to understand.  The only thing made sense was when the President ordered to unplug the internet to stop the AI.  That was what I said in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023).  That was the only way that I knew how to fix any technology.

They brought back the poor CIA guy from Mission:  Impossible (1996) that got transferred to Alaska.  The actions were still remarkable, but basically this movie was to say goodbye to Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.  He was getting old.  Benji was getting old.  I didn't even remember Luther being sick from the previous movie.  Sigh.

⭐⭐⭐

Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Samuel Effing Jackson was so fun and crazy!  He was such a pleasure to watch on a big screen.

The movie knew what the audience wanted.  The actions kept happening; the story kept moving.  The pace was great.  We got to see Kong right away.  Did not disappoint.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thunderbolts* (2025)

The movie was not bad, but it felt bland.  The actions were cool to look at; the plot moved along; the whole thing happened in only a few days.  Somehow, however, the movie just lacked connection to me.  Or was it because I did not watch any of the Marvel TV shows?  Or maybe every character was simply a copy of another more famous superhero?

The Red Guard was the funniest one.  Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the best.

Trader Joe’s Jambalaya

This was a good one.  Big chunks of sausages.  I think I bit down a piece of actual bell pepper.  A little spicy. The portion size was right. The only complaint was the rice wasn't the best.

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Back

Microwaved 3 minutes

Microwaved 8 minutes

Project Hail Mary (2026)

Math Teacher read me the book years ago.  The book was dense with math and science stuff.  I couldn't get past it.  I gave up after a few chapters.  Math Teacher read the whole book by himself in two days.  It was THAT good!

Fast forward to 2025.  When Math Teacher heard Ryan Gosling was making Project Hail Mary into a movie, he was ecstatic!  That was all he could talk about.

Fast forward to 2026.  The movie did not disappoint.  Math Teacher loved it!  He said they cut some heavy math and science for the sake of the run time (2.5 hours already), but that was ok.  I agreed.  A normal person like me could not take all that science-y things.  I needed to see colors and moving pictures.

Rocky was adorable.  The friendship was so touching I almost cried.

🌟🌟🌟🌟 (not five stars because I felt horrible for Rocky.  His people did not understand Newtonian physics but they still sent him out to save their planet.  A suicide mission!  *sniff*)

ps.  Do I know Rocky is a fictional fake alien????!!!  I was so invested in his life.  Maybe this should be a five-star movie.

Trader Joe's Butter Chicken with Basmati Rice

This was average.  It was a little bit spicy, but not spice-y.  English really needs two different words to describe "spicy hot" and "spice-y full of fragrant spices".

The portion size was manageable for a lunch when I wasn't too hungry.  If I were starving, this would not be enough.

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Frozen

Microwaved

A Call to Spy (2019)

This was a difficult movie to watch.  This was not a James Bond movie. This did not have a happily-ever-after.  The entire time I was worried for the spies; their next steps could be their deaths.  And yeah, they did not come back home.

This was a heavy watch on a weekend night.  Be prepared to feel sad and hopeless and helpless.

HAPPY Chinese New Year 2026 / 新年快樂

Happy Year of the Fire Horse!  How awesome is that!  Wishing everyone the best this year!

柿柿如意大吉大利

🔥🐎年快樂

除夕年夜飯

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Shin Godzilla was a quintessential Japanese movie.

95% of the movie was people in meetings, in various settings such as different desks, tables, chairs, sofas, arranged in different ways, in different offices, conference rooms, etc.  At first one shot would include multiple people talking.  By the end of the movie each shot was one talking head closeup, then quickly moved to the next head.  I got dizzy after the movie.  There would also be one person telling another person some possibly important information, then the second person relaying the same information to the third person, IN THE SAME ROOM AT THE SAME TABLE, three heads away!  The third person could hear the first person clearly, but in Japan, lower rank was not allowed to talk to high rank directly.  So they set up another office called "the rebels" so no ranks in this office.  I didn't understand this "the rebels" office because all they did was folding origami.  And also this "rebels office" still had to report to someone higher rank than them  🤦

5% was about Godzilla.  In the beginning the baby Godzilla was someone's sock puppet with googly eyes glued on.  Finally the baby Godzilla grew up to adult Godzilla and destroyed Tokyo.  That was really cool scene.  Then Godzilla just stood there.  Even when the talking heads attacked Godzilla, it barely moved and just let humans attacked it.  Did the production company run out of budget?

For a movie set in 2016, the technology was bad, the dialogues were bad, the plot was bad.  They even tried to explain "God" in Godzilla in English because foreigners thought it was God.  But in Japanese, it was simply GOjira 🤦

For a better Godzilla movie, watch Godzilla Minus One.

It took me awhile to recognize Yutaka Takenouchi; he was my no. 2 Japanese actor.  In this movie his lips were kind of droopy, and his hair didn't look as nice as before.  Getting old...