Mission: Impossible

I'm still waiting for one of these movies to fulfill the promise of its title, with Cruise just resignedly sighing mid-mission and saying, 'sorry, guys, this one just isn't possible.'

guys never ever forget

ethan hunt is

the living manifestation

of destiny

the greatest line, delivery, theme and foreshadowing of a future end-of-days fantasy that has ever been

otm

I haven’t been more excited for an action film since Mad Max Fury Road.

same. i’ve rewatched the first four over the past few weeks

if i contributed to 2’s bad rep in the past i apologize

Mega stoked for this

loved two first time round but every subsequent watch it got more and more a parody of everything that made john woo quite awful

two is ok but it's from some alternate universe where the series was going to be about experiments in tone by different directors and not a spy caper/chase scene rollercoaster

dmac otm, hollywood never really seemed to know what to do with him (the immortal face/off excepted obv)

I was looking forward to this but some of the reviews (incl some of the positive ones) make it sound pretty tiresome tbh

2 is just bad, guys. It's just bad. The rest pretty much own.

fuckin' dougray scott ruins everything, the prick

two is a freaking gun and motorbike opera. it’s great. who gives a shit if it’s tonally dissonant with the rest of the series

mind you his appearance in mi2 saved us from the horrifying prospect of a dougray scott wolverine so it's not all bad

it’s got its problems but imo not as many as mi:iii

I'm less concerned with 2's tonal dissonance than I am with the fact that it's real bad.

never mind it's bad and i'm wrong

It's not an easy thing to admit, but I salute you.

It's kind of the Halloween 3 of the franchise. It probably should've just been its own thing, in which case I would be less likely to harshly judge it alongside an array of movies that rule.

Jeffrey Wells loves this one, so run for your lives

I thought "Rogue Nation" was a big letdown after Brad Bird's take. Just felt TV movie-like and mechanical. So I'm surprised same director, etc on this one getting raves.

rogue nation is

by some distance

the best MI

iii is what you said. but for some reason it was hugely overrated

in order of good:

v rogue nation
i just mi
vi ghost protocol
iii just iii
2 why a number

havent seen new one but bet its in top 2

also unofficial mi movies knight and day and jack reacher would slot in above iii in that ranking

bg correct about face/off which is bigger than mere ranking, it is the actual tetsuofication of an entire genre

I wasn't talking iii -- Brad Bird's was "Ghost Protocol" which is infinitely more fun and stylish than "Rogue Nation". By some distance.

Knight and Day is awful

otm, ghost protocol is rad af, brad bird should be forced into live-action directing forever imo xp

all wrong god help me all wrong and what a mess

ghost protocol is fine, but it has all kind of inverted emphasis.typically the weird stunts and physical stuff are supposed to be in service of the caper part, and the most memorable action scenes to me are the cars falling at the end, cruise doing all kinds of acrobatics to get out of jail. neither of which is directly caper-related!

the actual caper parts are like trying to distract the indian businessman and slowly rolling a decoy rig through a hallway

it also seems weird that the title is basically "this is what happens when you're disavowed" but Hunt gets disavowed or ditched in every damn movie

Knight and day really remarkably bad

I never watched that one because it looked horrible

fwiw the second Jack Reacher is incredibly boring

Is Simon peg still in these, and in them like a LOT

That was the thing that bothered me about the last one I saw, he was in basically every scene doing his hilarious jokes we all love so much and I was just this is too much screen time for this character

he's in there a bit too much, but he's the personality and tom is the face. unfortunately that's what we get

there

there was a second jack reacher?

the title specifically explains the use of the endeavor

kremlin scene in ghost protocol is probably my favorite single moment of the series. i'm feeling the deems opinion that rogue nation is better though

I mean, I enjoyed the heck out of the Kremlin scene buuuut

i mean you're right it is just them slowly rolling a decoy rig through a hallway

a thrilling slow roll regardless

anytime the setpieces in this franchise involve almost unbroken silence >>>>>>>>>

I am sold on the fact that one of the trailers for the new one has an extended reel of Tom Cruise falling off of things, running into things, failing to jump on to things, and getting hit by vehicles. This is what I want.

Would watch 2.5 hours of Tom Cruise in freefall, just occasionally ricocheting off of things.

Haha yeah my sister was saying that it just made him look shit at everything

ethan hunt is the living manifestation of falling

III was overrated because it had PSH in the (fairly atypical) villain role

Gave it a bit more cred, even though he only has two big scenes iirc

Rogue Nation by a very slight amount over Ghost Protocol, Rebecca Ferguson tips the scales.

McQuarrie is an exceptionally good director now, it’s kind of amazing how good he’s wound up being at these films and even moreso considering his career was looking finished in the post-Way of the Gun/pre-Jack Reacher era. Valkyrie and The Tourist not exactly inspiring as the only credits to hold down the dozen years between.

Oh and I guess the "personal" angle was considered novel, even though it was a totally unnecessary route for the franchise to go down