Things which irk me.

[hannah]

I would very much like - even just once - for there to be a big-budget high-profile spy/secret service/government intelligence movie involving not gunflights, shiny airplanes, gadgets from Star Trek, or apartments taken right from catalogs that typical government salaries couldn't pay for, and instead features an intelligence analysist who doesn't get caught up in car chases or falls through skylights and instead works with the reams and reams of information that the agency deals with daily. The CIA hires more PhD holders than just about any other government agency; there's a lot that someone could draw from with that.

Heck, a movie where adults actually behave like mature, rational humans would be nice.

In the meantime, this movie looks like it'll be hugely popular with fandom, and I know not to judge by trailers and that it's supposed to be a live-action cartoon, but I'm still sitting here grumpy.

Comments

[salpal.livejournal.com]

Did you watch Rubicon? It was about an intelligence analysist working for a think tank for certain government organizations. FBI, CIA, probably others. The lead and the group he was on mainly worked with/for the CIA. There's some action woven in, but it's all pretty realistic.

I loved it so much. One of my favorite shows ever. It had such a fantastic cast. It wasn't renewed, but the season finale gave a satisfactory end to the season-long arc. I highly recommend it.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've heard of that one. Something else to keep an eye out for.

[ayalesca.livejournal.com]

Not being a Tom Hardy fan, I had forgotten XD but yes, I imagine there will be a ream or two of RPS coming out of that one.

And I agree, but I think that even Hollywood can't glam up reading 1000 spreadsheets per day and sending off endless memos and powerpoints. Unfortunately. I'd watch it, though.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Sure they could! Just do a montage to "Eye of the Tiger."

[ayalesca.livejournal.com]

I take that back. If they can create a live-action Hermes Conrad, then it could be done with a balance of badass bookkeeping and flair (but not so much that he'd get fired).

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Donald Glover could pull it off.

[ayalesca.livejournal.com]

OMFG. Imagining Troy and Abed tearing up the CIA now. I'd watch it ...

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Abed would do the 'suave spy' character and Troy would be his equally-competent-but-less-suave sidekick and they'd solve the crime of the week, and then quietly rejoin everyone else in the cafeteria.

"What'd you two do today?"

"Not much."

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

That should be an epic-length fic because I would print it out and take it everywhere with me.

[cathouse-mary.livejournal.com]

Sorry, didn't get past the first seven words of the plot synopsis before my brain turned off.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It's entirely possible that's the state in which the movie should best be watched.

[swankyfunk.livejournal.com]

Simon Pegg badassed his way through several badass paperwork scenes in "Hot Fuzz."

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

True! But the focus of that movie wasn't on the information so much as it was on police tropes.

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

Just like noone is ever going to do Hellspark right. :(

*and yes, I just took it off the shelf and put it on the beside*

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

That may be the case, but I've since added it to my to-be-read list, so that's a minor victory there.

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but Breach is a very good movie about unveiling a spy that has virtually no action scenes. Most of it takes place within the walls of the FBI itself, and it's more think-y than action-y.

Also radically bucking the Hollywood trend is The American. The protagonist is an assassin who goes into hiding after a job gone bad, but he is still being tracked. Despite that premise, though, maybe ten bullets are fired in the entire movie, and there is only one real action scene. It too is much more internal.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I've just added both to my Netflix queue. Thanks.