Mission: Impossible

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

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.

A naive question probably but how is this verbal abuse tolerated in an industry that is so heavily unionized?

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.

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.

Rob Delaney, Cary Elwes, Mark Gatiss and Indira Varma announced as being in MI7 (and seemingly also MI8 maybe?)

rob delaney??

also in Deadpool 2 and the on-current-release Tom & Jerry movie

don’t get me wrong i love him, i think it’s great

those two you just mentioned feel like much more natural delaney joints

He's also in Hobbs & Shaw (and also Mission Impossible films are frequently funny, though some of that is taken up with Simon Pegg)

MI7 and 8 were being filmed back to back - it was six years between 2&3, and then a year shorter each instance until 3 years between Rogue Nation and Fallout - Covid is the planet reacting to the possibility that by this time next year we'd be living in a permanent MI singularity.

planet offtm

I'm assuming Delaney is playing a boorish American liaison at MI5 or something.

Henry Cavill, face burned half away yet still alive, bursts into the embassy to get forcible skin grafts from Delaney

MUSTACHE / OFF

honestly just make that the whole next movie, no Cruise required

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yfn2XBGC2E

I choose to accept it

My only real takeaway is that there seems to be more Vanessa Kirby, so yeah, big thumbs up.

Other than the first film, was never really into these. And lockdown happened and as these were all on streaming services watched all in one go and grew to love. So yeah, looking forward to this.

Cruise is getting too old for these roles. I hope they shaded off the physical demands on him during the filming and let doubles do the hard stuff.

“they”

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name them

they 100% used digital de-aging on his face, in some of those shots he looks younger than he did in the last MI movie

"they" is Cruise!

in Aimless's post, I mean. not in One Eye Open's post, but who knows with Cruise

this is just for you, sic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfnnujU1DUk

i think ppl would like 2 more if they thought of it less as a mission: impossible movie and more like two hours of the most maximally cool shit happening at all times. euphoric