With my Friday workday done, I decided to break with routine and, instead of going home, went over to the Jamshil Lotte World Mall to see about getting a ticket for "Mission: Impossible 7." It was around 9:30 p.m. by the time I reached the multiplex. I went over to one of the touch-screen ticket dispensers and started looking at dates and showtimes and seat availability. I wanted to get a ticket for early Sunday morning... but as I read over the data for the available theaters, I began to realize that there were plenty of seats in the one small, wimpy theater, but only a handful of seats in the one big theater. I didn't really want to sit in a packed, crowded theater, and if I was going to enjoy the IMAX experience with this movie, I didn't want to end up in a wimpy, small-sized theater. Catch-22.
So I made a command decision and said Fuck it. I've pre-ordered "Mission: Impossible 7" on streaming video, so I'll watch it on my big-screen desktop computer at home in a few months. The movie's not doing that great at the box office, anyway—according to projections, it's actually going to be a flop, making less than $400 million globally (it needs to earn close to a billion dollars to clear any sort of profit). Its thunder got stolen by later arrivals "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie," not to mention a little indie film called "Sound of Freedom," which has actually had better raw earnings, week-to-week, than "Mission: Impossible." It's a strange position for un-woke movie critics to be in: they all universally love the Cruise movie, but they're also happy to see "Sound of Freedom" doing so well. I guess, in the high-pressure environment of summer blockbusters, somethings got to give, and this year, that something is "Mission: Impossible 7." Who would've thought, right?
I also pre-ordered "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse." I genuinely hope that that's the last multiverse film I see in a long while. Multiverses got stale for me years ago; I've written about my problems with them on both a narrative and a philosophical level (see here, too).
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