like in an existential crisis kind of way?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
seemed so - it was very odd
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 31 August 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
I assume this is legit? It's apparently a hilarious CGI facial hair gaffe.
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/zwlym2htxixrmickyy1d.Gif
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
Or maybe just a work in progress? It's hypnotic to watch his beard pop in and out.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
He’s just puffing his neck flaps out as a threat display
― Perverse Mortgage (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
Stunts and set pieces were great and Cavill’s hot but otherwise this flick didn’t do much for me. I prefer the last one.
― Perverse Mortgage (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
Might have come off a reel for the responsible fx studio
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n16/michael-wood/at-the-movies
― conrad, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
I watched Ghost Protocol on Sunday and watched Rogue Nation last night. Yeah, theyre a lot better than the original 2 movies (De Palma one is good but fuck John Woo and his dancing motorbikes). Ghost Protocol just shading Rogue Nation which was a bit too CGI-heavy but RN was definitely funnier
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 11:43 (six years ago) link
Took me a second to remember neither of those was the new one. I wonder what titles have been left on the table?
Mission Impossible: End GameMission Impossible: Dead DropMission Impossible: Think Globally, Act Locally
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
Mission Impossible: The Hunt for Hunt
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
All of the actors seemed like they were tired and done with the franchise. Who do you think would be a good replacement team?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
counterpoint: they didnt
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
yeah no- I am more than happy to see cruise keep at this until he physically can't any longer. this was a blast and I have no doubt that even if the next one is only half as good, the quality of the series is so ridiculously high that it'll outclass most anything else.
if I had any complaint I'd like to see more punchy dialogue on the next go
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
Angela Bassett was so so awful in her brief time onscreen. I don't know what happened, I can't recall ever seeing her in anything else where she was distractingly bad so I'm assuming she's a perfectly competent actress, but she was just brutal here. Baldwin wasn't much better.
― evol j, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
her character was a shocker, should have been in prison at end but typical punlic sector got a promotion
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
i'm all for watching cruise metabolize himself down to a withered sack of mania and teeth but maybe john cena should take over some of the running and leaping onto helicopter duties?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
basically all the one on one dialogue scenes were horrific, particularly if they involved Cavill
― Number None, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
yes that is fair band true
and the emosh parts are embarrassing, stop those
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
one bit that stood out to me
1. Ilsa Faust being suprised that Ethan Hunt knew how to fly a helicopter2. Ethan Hunt apparently not knowing how to fly a helicopter
― Number None, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
The campiness and hammy acting seemed a lot more prominent in this one than in previous MIs. A lot of the dialogue seemed on par with video game voice acting (and maybe worse than the voice acting in recent video games--more like 1998 Metal Gear Solid level)--but it was hard to say whether this was intentional self-parody or just phenomenally bad acting!
― Dan I., Monday, 24 September 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
Or bad scripting I suppose. I agree that Alec Baldwin and Angela Bassett gave the worst performances
― Dan I., Monday, 24 September 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
Rewatching some Ghost Protes in lieu of election returns (and suddenly realizing that 'we gotta stop them nukes!' was basically the plot of the new one also but oh well). Ethan Hunt can save us tonight if no one else can.
― Extreme - 'Bron-Yr-Aur' (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
These things are basically like Home Alone inasmuch as the majority of the trauma inflicted would kill or at least permanently disable those afflicted but forget it, Jake, it's Looney Tunes.
― Extreme - 'Bron-Yr-Aur' (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
I’m taking a quick break from filming to tell you the best way to watch Mission: Impossible Fallout (or any movie you love) at home. pic.twitter.com/oW2eTm1IUA— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) December 4, 2018
― Number None, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
buy me an HD TV and I'll figure it out, thanks Mr Cruise
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
Thought for sure it'd be something about boosting one's thetan levels.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
tom cruise <3
― niels, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
god the entire dubai sequence is ghost protocol is so fucking good, brad bird i love u
― a surprise challenge that ended with a gunging (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 February 2019 11:31 (five years ago) link
Hunt throwing away the gloves confirms his basic deathwish and reveals his true personal mission to be sweet release from this life. Which, as we see, is impossible because he's just so damn talented.
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Saturday, 16 February 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
I just this minute invented that subtext in the name of japery but now I'm wondering if there isn't something to it, hmm.
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Saturday, 16 February 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
he’s so damn good that this was supposed to be his last movie, after which he’d hand the franchise over to Jeremy renner, but his performance necessitated a mid-movie rewrite to bring him back in! THAT’S how powerful he is!
― a surprise challenge that ended with a gunging (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
someone needs to make a movie where he gets literally cucked because Hollywood has done it metaphorically in at least three different major franchises
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
and yet he persists
― Number None, Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
nevertheyes
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
love renner fwiw but can he carry a big franchise im saying no
but if he keeps making movies about his guy from wind river raining sweet justice on ne'er-do-wells i guess thatd be good
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
Cruise broke his foot filming Fallout and went on to fly a helicopter backwards & jump out of an aeroplane with no parachuteRenner broke his arm filming Tag and went on to stand still while they put whooshy moving sound effects over him
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 16 February 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
Fallout was no Rogue Nation or Ghost Protocol but the peaks were on par. I enjoyed the absurd helicopter pursuit at the end but not as much as the two-part chase through the streets of Paris. Rebecca Ferguson remains the current co-MVP of the series, pretty obviously. They should always put her on a motorcycle in these flicks and keep her motives murky.
the twist w/r/t John Lark was fairly obvious, but it still worked. I enjoyed the method in which it was revealed, since i still like a good mask trick in this series.
oh yeah and i also really liked Vanessa Kirby as the White Widow, and her role as the daughter of Max from the first one (I'm just assuming, with her calling her mom by the name "Max" in her speech).
― omar little, Sunday, 3 March 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mission-impossible-vii-halts-filming-due-coronavirus-outbreak-1280821
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
Tom Cruise went ballistic on the Mission: Impossible 7 crew for breaking COVID protocols...pic.twitter.com/WbIpVlja7w— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) December 16, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 04:05 (three years ago) link
Pretty OK imo
― circa1916, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
well i'd rather he wasn't aggressively threatening a group of his employees with the threat they won't be able to work on his aging dumb power fantasy and i'd be curious if exactly what he was losing his shit over actually mattered. but sure, we all wish we could scream at people making this worse.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 04:26 (three years ago) link
man.....dude is really like that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah. In the history of “caught on set” movie star meltdowns, this at least has the veneer of being relatively righteous.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 04:41 (three years ago) link
there's a reason Frank "TJ" Mackey and Lev Grossman are his only tolerable roles (that involve acting) for a solid three decades after Risky Business
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
even in the most throwaway roles he has that weird, tightly coiled energy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 05:11 (three years ago) link
Undeniably a freakishly intense weirdo. Heard at least two 1st hand accounts about him from people I know pretty well who painted him as an unusually decent Hollywood Dude to behind the scene folks, so slightly tainted by anecdotes.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 05:40 (three years ago) link
A naive question probably but how is this verbal abuse tolerated in an industry that is so heavily unionized?
― badg, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
Yeah, how dare they tolerate a tirade literally intended to ensure they keep working despite apparently (and one presumes repeatedly) flouting safety rules that could shut the whole production down. Strike, strike, strike!
(More) seriously though, I assume he is a producer on the film, and I also assume this is what producers do all the time and have forever, to the extent that it's an archetype. Except I assume producers (and stars) have historically yelled at people for lesser things then breaking protocol during a deadly pandemic. "What happened to all the fucking jelly donuts!!!!!!"
And yeah, I've read lots of accounts of him being really good to crew and cast alike.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
the tape is him bellowing repeatedly at a group of people that he'll fire them and it appears to have only captured part of the rant. there is literally no universe in which that particular screamfest is reasonable. if the crew did something that's worth being fired over because it put them or others at risk, fire them in a non-public environment. you don't line up a group of employees and yell "i'll fucking fire you! i'll fucking fire you as well! and you over there!" it's psychotic. yes, people should be protected and smart during covid. no, this is not the way to do it.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link