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in fact, I enjoyed the first two X-flicks b/c they had such strong actors in the 3 leads(2 were shakespearean britishes and one did show tunes)

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

What actress could pull off a bond/supervillian?

we can pretty much rule out sharon stone.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

gloria stuart?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

what's her face from that movie where she was naked a bunch. The Last Seduction. I had big crush on her, but she was pretty evil in that movie.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Sigourney could do it (I'm surprised she hasn't already)

X-Men movies are great, kingfish otm for why too. (next one's gonna BLOOOOOOWWWWWW)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Why didn't Dr. Evil kill off the very concept of the post-1967 supervillain?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Alice Krige?

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Angelica Huston

― remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

were there really that many supervillains pre-1967?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

uhh hitler?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

were there really that many supervillains pre-1967?

Ming the Merciless
all the bond books were written in the 50s, etc

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Timothy Dalton & Robert Davi in License to Kill

??? That's the best Bond movie by fucking miles. The "realistic"-not-really acting served the "realistic"-not-really plot perfectly. Wayne Newton as televangelist providing cover for Davi drug op? GREAT.

― adam (adam), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I was using the last non-anachronistic Bond movie (ie You Only Live Twice) for my supervillain cutoff date (plus Donald Pleasence was the best Blofeld).

A character basically hissing "I'm evil" can usu be taken about as seriously as that Colbert critic announcing "I'm a funny guy..."

Next MI: Cruise vs Montalban as Khan. "You will be ber-ried a-li-ive..."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Khan of course being the greatest ST villain(even better than Q, who quickly shed that identity).

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Is ST Q related to JB Q? PRED SHIPS FOR EVERYONE!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

saw this today at a matinee.

some good, some bad, some retarded plot twists, and some simon pegg(who's good in his two scenes as fumbly britishes computer guy)

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 7 May 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

i liked this one better than the other two movies, but of coursethat's not saying much. the vatican city part is really emtertaining, though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 May 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

eNtertaining, even.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 May 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

what really bugs me is that these movies are pretty much ethan hunt 007 movies... mission impossible is supposed to be about a cool TEAM!!

otm! the only scene in this movie that actually felt like "mission impossible" was the aforementioned vatican city sequence, which happened to be the most entertaining part of the movie.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 May 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

m:i 2 sucked so much ass.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Sunday, 7 May 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

As bad as MI2 might have been, it was still loads better than every Bond movie post-Goldeneye.

many xposts - Irons is great in Die Hard With A Vengeance!

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 7 May 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Someone really needs to make a real Mission: Impossible movie, with a non-descript team of agents doing ruthless shit under the radar, etc.

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

MI2 made me think everyone had false faces

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

a non-descript team of agents doing ruthless shit under the radar, etc.

well, the thing is, i don't think you need them to be all that non-descript e.g. Ving Rhames is great in his role, which is admittedly just being a Ving Rhames-type incarnated as an operative. There's plenty of value in a well-contructed team of folks doing something; like a semi-crazy helicopter pilot, a tough mechanic/driver/demolitions expert, a smooth-talkin' chameleon/covert ops type, and a cigar-chomping leader who loves it when a plan comes together.

For instance.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

Crazeh suckuh, talks to plants!

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 8 May 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

i liked this film a lot

― gear (gear), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

As did I. Well maybe not a lot. But some. Ving Rhames rulez. The wife pissed me off.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

this was a lot more entertaining than i expected. philip seymore hoffman was scary! and they gave ving rhames actual dialogue! that really bugged me about the first two movies, why even get the dude if he's just gonna stand around in shades the whole time. tom cruise was minimally annoying too. laurence fishburn was dope~!~~~

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:09 (twenty years ago)

coolness, i'm sold.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:25 (twenty years ago)

I never knew this til recently but apparently Robert Towne was the screenwriter for the first one...which explains why the dialogue is actually pretty slick. Not that MI was Chinatown obv but I think its a pretty great movie on the whole.

Actually looking at IMDB now it appears he was involved in all three. Still the second one was pretty awful.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:52 (twenty years ago)

This page is the top Google result for "a wee bit of tit".

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

kudos to rjg.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:57 (twenty years ago)

haha

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:06 (twenty years ago)

no GIS :(

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:08 (twenty years ago)

my praise is i thought it was as good as it could be

this is of course baring in mind

A) it stared and was produced tom cruise

B) it was the third part in a franchise where ultimately very little can change between films (bar the love interests of course)

C)i haven't seen 24 which from my limited knowledge of this seemed to bare a passing resemblence too

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Much better than expected. Should have finished ten minutes earlier though. As a slam bang action film it did nearly everything well without anything being TOO stand-out (Vatican sequence clearly excellent though). Could of been fantastic if Cruise was not the lead.

Of course much redundancy if you have seen the first two series of both 24 and Alias, and was kind of like True Lies without the misjudged gags (so in that way a lot better). Also, it might be a lot like TV series, BUT IS A FILM with plus and minuses of that.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:22 (twenty years ago)

re. vatican -- i haven't seen this yet but is this some kind of da vinci thing?

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

nah no psuedo religious undertones just a party there but with catholic security to make things more "serious"

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:34 (twenty years ago)

The idea of casting Angelica Huston and Sigourney Weaver as villainesses has got me too excited for words.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

It grossed about $10 M less than the last MI on opening weekend, which has resulted in columns like this one proclaiming THE KING IS DEAD!

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2006/05/upside_of_taps.php

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

how long is it going to take them to pull this from the Uptown?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

TEH INTERNEST IS KILLING HOLLYWOOD!1!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Gabbneb, you're probably going to have to wait 'til X-men.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

no Poseidon, then? I'd rather see MI3. :(

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/060515crci_cinema

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

"he may sell dirty bombs to Middle Eastern regimes and torture an American female agent, but at least he doesn’t drag William Shawn along to watch."

how do i get literary referece?

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

i don't quite get why people like anthony lane

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

because he's not david denby?

― p@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Whether Cruise is equally dependable is a matter of controversy, and “M:i:III,” alert to the debate, sneaks in a knowing exchange. Ethan is discussing traffic flow, and the guy beside him waits until he drifts away, then gives a hammy snore. Not so a couple of women, listening in. “I’d marry him,” one says. The other adds, “Me, too.”

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

i don't understand why this movie is getting bad reviews (tom cruise?). its actually quite good. its not perfect, but its entertaining, and most of the action scenes are handled fairly well, script is pretty good, acting is good all around. Its like 100 times better than MI:2(worst movie ever?), and if there are any better action movies this summer, we will all be a lucky movie-going public. Although I expect the Pirates of the Caribbean sequal to be better.

If you want to see a really good Spy Film, watch Munich. Its gotta be the best one ever. Action packed, edge of your seat kinda stuff.

― brontosaur (brontosaur), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

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but hey look at our shiny SET PIECES you guys (just dont look at literally anything else like plot, story, dialog (definitely noy dialog) or character)

i didn’t find it exceptionally bad itr relative to the other recent movies in the series tbh

some parts of the plot/story that were enjoyable:

- set up to the behring strait sequence had some good iterations of the classic MI scene where ethan explains his plan to an incredulous audience. “so how are they supposed to know which random 4 square foot circle of ice to cut and collect your near-death hypothermic body from, out of the entire sea?” “by making an educated guess”
- ethan’s in the decompression chamber responding in the most asexual way possible to hayley atwell’s embraces
- showing up at rolf saxon’s house but the russians beat them to it was tense and suspenseful
- the subplot with angela basset and nick offerman actually successfully threw me on some red herrings (i thought offerman was compromised) and succeeded in having some decent jarring plot twists. i love basset so much in this role

― flopson, Friday, 22 August 2025 13:29 (nine months ago)

one thing i could see being annoying about final reckoning is it relies extremely strongly on the assumption that the audience an emotional connection to the series and characters. but i do (lol) so a lot of that worked

― flopson, Friday, 22 August 2025 13:35 (nine months ago)

Just struck me how funny it would have been if Tom Cruise's character had died heroically in each installment, but then showed up again in the next with no explanation.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 August 2025 13:54 (nine months ago)

It IS Paramount, go full Kenny-in-South-Park.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 August 2025 14:10 (nine months ago)

Mission Impossibly Long and Poor.

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 22 August 2025 19:07 (nine months ago)

Shea Wigham lookin' like a velociraptor.

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 22 August 2025 19:09 (nine months ago)

This shit is stupid. They are all sitting around talking bout The Thing and what is going to Happen with The Thing and what they will do or need to do because what if AI but oh no. And the first half an hour was basically a Clip Show!

How did they get so many good actors to sign up for this shit. Travis Trammell, Nick Offerman, Mark Gatiss, Hannah Waddingham, I am disappoint. Stop associating with this scientologist POS.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 23 August 2025 02:37 (nine months ago)

(I am not actively watching it. My bf has a terrible habit of finding THE WORST movies and watching them on weekends, like sub-5 star shit).

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 23 August 2025 02:38 (nine months ago)

I still love 4-6 but I really don't think I'm gonna watch this one.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 23 August 2025 03:05 (nine months ago)

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