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I would pay to see the prequel Mission: Impossible: The Net Ranger.
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Rewatched the first movie the other day and there are a lot of callbacks in DR. Also apparently if you look up any footage of Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson at MI movie premieres the two are very handsy with each other. It makes the scene of Ethan and Ilsa canoodling in Venice make more sense since that's just how they act around each other in real life.
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Jul 20, 2023 04:55
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muscles like this! posted:Rewatched the first movie the other day and there are a lot of callbacks in DR. If my math is right, Hunt was only a part of the IMF for about 3 years when the events of MI 1 went down.
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I got out of this movie and figured I just didn’t remember the backstory with Marie and Gabriel but lol that they just tried to gaslight us into thinking either of these characters mattered or indeed had ever existed previous to this film. Overall not great. Cool stunts but some awful dialogue, a ridiculously bland villain, and some baffling plot choices. Also Ving Rhames returning to his home planet there at the end
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Jul 20, 2023 10:07
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This thread needs more posts and discussions.
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Jul 20, 2023 23:52
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Let's talk about how M:I:III sucks!
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Hoffman owns in it, so do Crudup and Russell. Plot makes no sense though and Abrams just isn't a very good director
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Jul 21, 2023 00:23
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I liked when John Woo did one and just leaned way into self-parody. Flutter those doves, Woo.
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MI3 is really good. It's a bit more low-rent than what follows, but it's a solid flick with a mediocre finale.
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I don't think there's a bad movie in the series. 3 is a perfectly fine action movie with a great villain, and 2 is so utterly ridiculous it loops back around to being kind of amazing. It starts with Tom Cruise throwing exploding Oakleys at the camera to launch into the title and ends with a motorcycle joust with the villain.
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J.J is a very sterile director, that's the best way I can put it. And with weird smattering of violence that are too much for what the series represents. Not a bad movie, but I'd put it pretty firmly in the bottom if it weren't for the fact that large sections of 2 just straight up don't work, which is slightly worse than 3's technical competence that lacks any vigor or spirit.
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Jul 21, 2023 00:58
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6 > 5 > 4/7 > 1 > 3 > 2
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Mi3 is the worst of them all and if it weren't for PSH hitting it out of the park it would be near unwatchable.
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I think that Mission Impossible 2 is not a self-parody. John Woo was hired by Tom Cruise to John Woo the gently caress out of that movie and he delivered. It is a pretty good John Woo action movie. It is not a very good Mission Impossible movie. The thing about 3 is, I like some of the stuff it does. That gnarly and vicious death for Kerri Russell, the fact that the Impossible Mission goes perfectly to plan and it's only afterwards that poo poo falls apart, PSH's performance. Pretty good. I think I'm the only weirdo here who likes 4 the best. Changing the title sequence to basically be a highlight reel of all the wild poo poo you're about to see while the theme blares, Cruise attempting to die via massive stunting, the "going rogue" (always going rogue!), poo poo never working right, that all starts here and I think they nailed it. Plus I like Bird's style more than McQuarrie. Anyway, good franchise.
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You're not alone. A lot of people like 4 a lot. I think it's just as good as anything McQuarrie directed. Brad Bird nailed it and it's a shame Tomorrowland bombed and he ended up in movie jail.
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My problem with 3 is that the MacGuffin is too MacGuffin-y.
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muscles like this! posted:My problem with 3 is that the MacGuffin is too MacGuffin-y. Yeah I get that the whole joke is that they never say what the Rabbit’s Foot is but it sucks and it takes away from the stakes. It’s just a little too cute.
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Jul 21, 2023 01:40
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III has fun action/tension scenes (saving Keri Russell, the bridge, the finale once Cruise is running) and I really enjoyed PSH, Crudup, Monaghan, and Maggie Q (other guy in the crew was okay) as the newcomers, but yeah something about III is lacking. Honestly the MacGuffin isn't just an annoying narrative device, it also distances the audience from the real threat at hand, even more so than "The Entity". Having watched them all again in the past six months or so, I think my tier system would be: Will Watch Start to Finish IV: Ghost Protocol V: Rogue Nation VI: Fallout Likely to Skip Some Scenes I: Book of Job III: Mr. & Mrs. Hunt VII: Dead Reckoning Every Watch is a Mystery II: John Woo's Bizarre Adventure
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I know the mystery of the Rabbit's Foot really bothered people but I never cared, because it's very obviously a Black Plague level bioweapon. The specifics of it don't really matter, to me. Again, I understand that it really does bother people. That's instructive.
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I think the one thing I kinda stay get a little disappointed, not angry, is when Ethan gets into super secret place in china and then it cuts to Maggie Q and John Rhys in the car,which I kinda liked but I wish Ethan getting the rabbit's foot was actually shown or atleast part of it. I always like a good heist.
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Maggie Q should have been a regular on the team. She's awesome.
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I'll put Ghost Protocol over Fallout and Rogue Nation because I feel like McQuarrie's direction is a little too sterile while Bird lets himself get a little goofy with it.
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Just saw this for a second time today and all the scenes of exposition were even more tedious this time around. There's a lot of series continuity complaints I have but the dumbest and most nitpicky is Grace's eyes remaining brown when she's got the Alana mask on. Vanessa Kirby has blue eyes so this wasn't a mistake or goof. Am I supposed to think that all the times Ethan is wearing a mask he's not using contacts? You never see him removing any. Just everybody luckily has the same color eyes that he does? Train scene still rules tho My personal series rankings: 6 5 & 4 (tied) 3 1 7 (a vast gap) 2
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Jul 21, 2023 03:27
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3 is great. I had no idea until this thread that it wasn’t well liked. 4, 5 and 6 are basically all the same movie. I’ve seen them all at least a couple times each and I couldn’t tell you which one is which. This is not a problem, they’re all super fun. Lots of Tom Cruise running and Tom Cruise riding and Tom Cruise leaping to safety. Love ‘em.
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6, 5, 7, 4, gap 2, 1, 3. JJ Abrams is poo poo and it disappointed me so so much.
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My ranking is 1/3/4/5/6/7 >>>> 2
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For me it's 1/6/7 small gap 4/5 small gap 3 big gap 2. I just love the first movie. I love all the plot twists, I love Max, I love the train sequence and still love everything going on at the CIA. It also has a ton of memorable lines. Fallout would probably be below 7 and 4 if it wasn't for the Wolf Blitzer scene but that's one of my favorite scenes in the series, maybe my favorite. Dead Reckoning was just too much fun, and 4 and 5 suffered a little probably by not seeing them in theaters. 3 I still like, there's some cool sequences and a really evil villain but it does drag. I don't understand how 2 is as boring as it is.
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2 has the best score (Hans Zimmer), and is obviously John Woos Goldeneye that he never got to make. I rewatched all of them during lockdown and was kind of soured on 2 until the climax. The motorcycle stunts in that are absolutely amazing and I didn't realize it when I first saw it because I wasn't a rider back then. Now Im im awe. 3 and 1 are the worst ones partially due to lack of the stunts and shots that make the series so worthwhile.
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I enjoyed this one a lot. I agree with GazChap that there's a very Kojima-esque feel to some of the story; maybe it doesn't go quite as far as he would, but we do get Gabriel wearing a cyborg slumber mask. That'll probably be important later. Mostly I was glad we saw Hayley Atwell in an action role again, something I've been waiting for ever since Agent Carter was axed. And Pom Klementieff was quite wonderful too.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I think I'm the only weirdo here who likes 4 the best. Changing the title sequence to basically be a highlight reel of all the wild poo poo you're about to see while the theme blares, Cruise attempting to die via massive stunting, the "going rogue" (always going rogue!), poo poo never working right, that all starts here and I think they nailed it. Plus I like Bird's style more than McQuarrie. If they'd made the Burj Khalifa the climax of the movie instead of it being the superspy beating up an elderly scholar in a parking garage then Ghost Protocol would easily be my favorite. Fallout still has a fistfight at the end, but it's against a more intimidating opponent and more directly tied into the helicopter sequence. I get it's a fancy parking garage and there's some fun slapstick, but it felt like a letdown compared to what came before both times I've seen it.
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2 is the one I like the least but also the one I've seen the most 
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2 is awful. Just the worst of that Y2K style. I tell people to skip it completely if they watch the M:I movies, though I do think it'd be funny if the Australian guy popped back up.
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I grew up watching 1 on VHS so it will forever hold a place in my heart. 2 is bad. 3 whips rear end and is severely underrated. Ghost Protocol is probably my favorite one, it's just an amazing movie (the framed, disavowed team has to use broken down, malfunctioning equipment to stop the villain). Rogue Nation and Fallout both have Ilsa and amazing set pieces. And if I was being honest, I'm glad a MI movie finally did AI, they've already stopped nuclear threats, biohazardous weapons, viruses, and rogue agents
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Apple TV had 1-6 for sale in 4K remasters so I watched the lot. I really liked all of them, but I think 4 is probably the weakest of the bunch. The Burj climb and the playboy party were pretty neat setpieces, but everything else dragged. Also I was really surprised how much I liked 2. It's been a while since I saw that.
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Sir Kodiak posted:If they'd made the Burj Khalifa the climax of the movie instead of it being the superspy beating up an elderly scholar in a parking garage then Ghost Protocol would easily be my favorite. Fallout still has a fistfight at the end, but it's against a more intimidating opponent and more directly tied into the helicopter sequence. I get it's a fancy parking garage and there's some fun slapstick, but it felt like a letdown compared to what came before both times I've seen it. Fun fact, Tom Cruise is only two years younger than Michael Nyqvist. On retrospect something that was pretty goofy about DR is how the plot is all about an evil AI that can take over anything electronic and yet Benji has no qualms about putting his marketing tie in car into auto drive.
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muscles like this! posted:Fun fact, Tom Cruise is only two years younger than Michael Nyqvist. Don't worry. It was an analog self driving car.
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fishing with the fam posted:Don't worry. It was an analog self driving car. The Hunt family tractor better play a role in Part 2.
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ozmunkeh posted:3 is great. I had no idea until this thread that it wasn’t well liked. 4, 5 and 6 are basically all the same movie. I’ve seen them all at least a couple times each and I couldn’t tell you which one is which. This is not a problem, they’re all super fun. Lots of Tom Cruise running and Tom Cruise riding and Tom Cruise leaping to safety. Love ‘em. my thoughts on the series exactly. 1: amazing and the most like the show 2: another universe 3: the best villain of them all 4-6: is this the swimming? the car chase? the building? lotsa fun but they all mix together. 7: uncharted 2
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I think comparing these movies to some nebulous show from many decades ago does them a disservice. I recently saw a picture of Tom Cruise in Cocktail. How does he look so incredibly much better nowadays? He's at an age where people consider going into early retirement. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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I do think it was interesting that they apparently had a tie in with Fiat but the Fiat in question is a goofy tiny thing that everyone has trouble steering.
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