Mission: Impossible

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Cruise is 100% on at all times. When he sleeps, he probably drops to the ground for six hours, immediately jumping out of his hibernation cube upon waking.

but not a lot of stories (lately) of his personal life

Miscavige not well known for his Instagram presence.

finally saw this - first MI flick I've seen in the theater. I thought it was a blast, as nearly good as the last one. There seemed like a lot of moments where Cruise looked genuinely freaked out by what he was doing.

like in an existential crisis kind of way?

seemed so - it was very odd

I assume this is legit? It's apparently a hilarious CGI facial hair gaffe.

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Or maybe just a work in progress? It's hypnotic to watch his beard pop in and out.

He’s just puffing his neck flaps out as a threat display

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.

Might have come off a reel for the responsible fx studio

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n16/michael-wood/at-the-movies

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

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 Game
Mission Impossible: Dead Drop
Mission Impossible: Think Globally, Act Locally

Mission Impossible: The Hunt for Hunt

All of the actors seemed like they were tired and done with the franchise. Who do you think would be a good replacement team?

counterpoint: they didnt

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

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.

her character was a shocker, should have been in prison at end but typical punlic sector got a promotion

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?

basically all the one on one dialogue scenes were horrific, particularly if they involved Cavill

yes that is fair band true

and the emosh parts are embarrassing, stop those

one bit that stood out to me

1. Ilsa Faust being suprised that Ethan Hunt knew how to fly a helicopter
2. Ethan Hunt apparently not knowing how to fly a helicopter

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!

Or bad scripting I suppose. I agree that Alec Baldwin and Angela Bassett gave the worst performances

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.

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.

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

buy me an HD TV and I'll figure it out, thanks Mr Cruise

Thought for sure it'd be something about boosting one's thetan levels.

tom cruise <3

god the entire dubai sequence is ghost protocol is so fucking good, brad bird i love u

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.

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.

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!

someone needs to make a movie where he gets literally cucked because Hollywood has done it metaphorically in at least three different major franchises

and yet he persists

nevertheyes

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

Cruise broke his foot filming Fallout and went on to fly a helicopter backwards & jump out of an aeroplane with no parachute

Renner broke his arm filming Tag and went on to stand still while they put whooshy moving sound effects over him

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).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mission-impossible-vii-halts-filming-due-coronavirus-outbreak-1280821

Tom Cruise went ballistic on the Mission: Impossible 7 crew for breaking COVID protocols...pic.twitter.com/WbIpVlja7w

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) December 16, 2020

Pretty OK imo

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.

man.....dude is really like that

Yeah. In the history of “caught on set” movie star meltdowns, this at least has the veneer of being relatively righteous.

man.....dude is really like that

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

even in the most throwaway roles he has that weird, tightly coiled energy