Mission: Impossible

Is PSH the only memorable villain in these movies? I feel like it's their persistent weakspot.

first twenty minutes of m:i actually kinda scared the shit out of me when i was a kid, especially emilio estevez's death

the fluctuation between czernay and voight as the antagonist in it is actually pretty solid villainy imo

Main fail for me in Ghost Protocol is the lovely yet decidedly terrible Paula Patton.
Rewatched RN two nights ago and it just looked like a monochrome sludge and pretty much all of it in medium shots.

Czerny was super good playing those icy govt bureaucrats. See also: Clear and Present Danger.

cobalt in ghost protocol is kind of a non-entity but the real villain in that film is nuclear annihilation

PSH coasts in MI3. He’s pretty memorable but also very much the type of bad guy who lasts on episode of a TV show. Which is what that movie felt like anyway.

Most memorable villains probably the three headed monster of Voight/Redgrave/Reno in the first one.

hard for me to think of max as a villain

i love the max callback in ghost protocol, where hunt requests a meeting with an arms dealer and they make him wear the same hood

oh i guess she is a villain bc she wants that list of deep-cover operatives but idk she's so much fun, redgrave rules in that movie

Love how she’s totally into Ethan once she thinks he’s legit, drops the steel and turns on the flirting.

imo they should redeem Monaghan's thankless presence in these movies by making her the baddie in the next one (esp since he more or less inducts her into the killing game in MI:III)

I'd actually be all-in for the "Ethan, we don't do things that way!" junk in the trailers be a foreshadowing of the character actually cracking and Cruise's character cracks and is straight-up shooting people in the face for half the movie. I mean, they won't, buuuut....

Is PSH the only memorable villain in these movies? I feel like it's their persistent weakspot.

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:14 (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no way sean harris pwns

minority report

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/mission-impossible-fallout

http://www.keithuhlich.com/2018/07/a-little-more-on-mission-impossible-fallout.html

i enjoy relentless spectacle if it's fun and these movies tend to be fun

discouraged by his repeated references to the dark knight but surely the action is shot better

I am powerless against well-crafted action trash, so I'll be seeing this Sunday.

finally watched Rogue Nation yesterday and found it mostly a chore so I guess I should sit this one out

this movie has so much fun with how ridiculous it is

^^^ what i wanna hear

it all but winks at you if you were on board with the last two, it whispers "oh, i *dare* you to declare it silly at this late stage" pretty much throughout. hugely irreverent imo

felt v much like a 60s/70s tv show (maybe not ~the~ tv show) at times in pacing and setup.

and not just for henry cavill's presence, but parts felt a bit like the man from uncle remake, the bits that worked like.

packed a lot of action in- a. lot. it should have suffered from fatigue but our audience at least was still jumping at the last few bashes and crashes

cross, swap, misdirection, double cross, triple cross, wait is the next twist what i thought it was, tons of that

i think it did an expert job of letting you see the next twist before the big reveal- three or four times throughout- so that even first time around you can enjoy the tells and double meanings

too long, got both too serious and too ridiculous in the final scenario, serious lack of coherent bad guys, no need at all for monaghan, id put it between iii and iv in a ranking

baldwin pwns

https://i.imgur.com/Wn41WPO.png

i want to see this v much

That Uhlich thing is ugh

The only thing worse than Rotten Tomato morons rageing at film critics is the film critics’ subsequent valedictory blog

“Why am I the only critic brave enough to speak the truth about Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time: The Movie? [quotes Henry James]”

lol

lotta Scientology allies in this motherfucker

lol chuck otm

"the pall of perceived consensus"

board description?

To the fanboys, the thin-skinned, those who would tag me with a scarlet 'C' for 'Contrarian,' and any discord-sowing Russian bots I say, come at me if you must. Just know that I follow Henry James' exhortation that "Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." So you will receive the kindness of my silence as you howl into the void.

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true kindness would have been to keep silent in the first place tbf

idk if henry james was referring to the kindness of not getting into a twitter war

i fuckin love the idea that 'discord-sowing russian bots' are getting involved in an utterly inconsequential twitter beef about whether the new m:i movie is any good

is there any low to which those meddling russians will not sink

I predict that the next M:I film will take place entirely on Twitter.

the writeup was ridiculous but knowing the internet he probably did take a lot of abuse so I'm tempted to call it even

i fuckin love the idea that 'discord-sowing russian bots' are getting involved

glad you took this at face value

Look at the comments section responding to a middle-to-bad review of any fanboy film, and read them in the voice of Comic Book Guy.

It's weird how simultaneously great and unmemorable these movies are! I remember that I loved watching 3, 4, and 5, but I literally can't remember a damn thing about them except that in one of them they jumped a sports car out of a dubai skyscraper.

sound "great" the way those Russian car-cam videos are

OTM

https://shlabotnikreport.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/1992-star-pics-snl-grumpy-old-man.jpg

so if I was enh on the last one should I see this or nah

how do you feel about action scenes?

after revisiting it last night rogue nation is def my favorite, i can only assume the new one is rogue nationier

its not tbh

its more like iii

simon if u didnt like the last one i dunno what to say to you tbh

should clarify its more like three in how nuts/silly it gets

its like rogue nation and iv in how it doesnt try to imbue a super srs tone in with this

saw an ilxor note how ronin some of the sequences are which is also true

baldwin is damn near drebin in his few minutes but perfectly so

I may have missed it but where was the alleged rogue nation? It seemed more like maybe 20 people, a rogue agency at most.

once u have nuclear capability u r a nation de facto iirc

Did the Sybdicate have nukes in RN? I'm thinking it was exaggeration to get funding out of the committee.

While I can't call this one lifeless or joyless (it is self-aware and irreverent... mostly), it seemed to lack in color and imagination and inspiration and characters and interesting set pieces and good joeks/exchnages. It's weird, even though it was long, it wasn't a slog, but still felt drab. Pretty big disappointment ime.

Also, MI usually delivers on gadgets and future-tech and cools cars and luxe life portrayals, a la Bond -- almost none of that in this one.

its a tonally weird effort, true

Did the Sybdicate have nukes in RN? I'm thinking it was exaggeration to get funding out of the committee.

― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Saturday, 28 July 2018 19:23 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now im only asking but by any chance are you a civil servant because yr thought patterns suggest its an excellent fit