The Mummy Returns did a lot of shooting in the UK. While it also did some location stuff in northern Africa, it was probably for a much shorter duration than if he'd remained on Oz, which filmed in Jersey. That holds fairly consistent with the idea that the guy just likes remaining close to home.

I just wish he wasn't typecast as African warlords. Just once I'd like to see him play someone's kindly father or uncle or something.

Yep, Lawless sounds like an all-around class act! It probably helps that she's from New Zealand (a.k.a., the Canada of the South Pacific).

So can we expect this western to follow his usual pattern of long, slow stretches of time where not much of anything happens, leading up to a bunch of underdeveloped "payoff" at the end? Hmmm… Come to think of it, that makes it sound like it will be an homage to Sergio Leone made by someone who doesn't actually…

Do you mean Jason Isaacs?

Yep. IMF's track record with traitors seems to be about as bad as CTU's.

MI3: I wasn't in love with the wife angle, but that's alright

"Looks like this mission just got a little more… impossible!"

The Vatican sequence was one of the first times that I felt a scene in an Mission: Impossible movie felt like something from the Mission: Impossible TV series.

I remember when I went to see M:I 2 in the theater, some junior high kid went to the front of the auditorium and started moshing by himself to the Limp Bizkit song during the end credits. His mom stood to the side, most likely embarrassed as hell.

Thanks, orama!

Oh, I guess that makes a little sense, then. Still, Call of Duty: Ghosts would probably have been a better fit, but I suppose Sony gets what it wants.

Spock's death scene is still one of the most moving things I've ever seen, and the line, "I have been and always will be your friend," always gets me.

I managed to hold strong until "Bring Him Home."

I think you'd better come with me.

Oh, my god! I just watched Home Alone again this past December, and I actually had to look away from the screen during the scenes with the old man because I started tearing up like nobody's business! Perhaps it's a product of now being over thirty, but it never used to affect me like that.

If I remember correctly, Simon Pegg himself said he appreciates Bad Boys II in much the same way.

I'd wondered about that. Does God of War: Ascension even have a multiplayer component? If not, why would he need a network connection to play?

Doesn't over half the population play video games?

Absolutely. In the first episode of season two, when Claire says to the former employee who is suing her, “I’m willing to let your [unborn] child wither and die inside you if that’s what’s required," that really drove home the fact that Claire is a sociopath, and anything she does that resembles a feminist action is…