Love how she’s totally into Ethan once she thinks he’s legit, drops the steel and turns on the flirting.
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
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)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
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....
― mh, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
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
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
i enjoy relentless spectacle if it's fun and these movies tend to be fun
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
discouraged by his repeated references to the dark knight but surely the action is shot better
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
I am powerless against well-crafted action trash, so I'll be seeing this Sunday.
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
finally watched Rogue Nation yesterday and found it mostly a chore so I guess I should sit this one out
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
this movie has so much fun with how ridiculous it is
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
^^^ what i wanna hear
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
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
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 July 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Wn41WPO.png
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 27 July 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
i want to see this v much
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 July 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
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]”
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 27 July 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link
lol
― Number None, Friday, 27 July 2018 07:22 (six years ago) link
lotta Scientology allies in this motherfucker
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 July 2018 11:42 (six years ago) link
lol chuck otm
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 27 July 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
"the pall of perceived consensus"
board description?
― evol j, Friday, 27 July 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
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.
https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/square_small/2/22757/449293-01.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 27 July 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
true kindness would have been to keep silent in the first place tbf
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 July 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
idk if henry james was referring to the kindness of not getting into a twitter war
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 27 July 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
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
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 July 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
I predict that the next M:I film will take place entirely on Twitter.
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 July 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
the writeup was ridiculous but knowing the internet he probably did take a lot of abuse so I'm tempted to call it even
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 27 July 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
i fuckin love the idea that 'discord-sowing russian bots' are getting involved
glad you took this at face value
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 July 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 July 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
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.
― Dan I., Friday, 27 July 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
sound "great" the way those Russian car-cam videos are
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 July 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
OTM
― Dan I., Friday, 27 July 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
https://shlabotnikreport.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/1992-star-pics-snl-grumpy-old-man.jpg
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 July 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
so if I was enh on the last one should I see this or nah
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 28 July 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
how do you feel about action scenes?
― mh, Saturday, 28 July 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
after revisiting it last night rogue nation is def my favorite, i can only assume the new one is rogue nationier
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 July 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
its not tbh
its more like iii
simon if u didnt like the last one i dunno what to say to you tbh
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 July 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
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
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 July 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
I may have missed it but where was the alleged rogue nation? It seemed more like maybe 20 people, a rogue agency at most.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Saturday, 28 July 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
once u have nuclear capability u r a nation de facto iirc
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 July 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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.
― antisocal (rip van wanko), Saturday, 28 July 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
its a tonally weird effort, true
― 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
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 July 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
IMF justifying its existence and securing funding is a major part of the plot of this exciting action film, it's not something I invented.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Saturday, 28 July 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
true, true
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
I think they were a rogue nation in the context of intelligence agencies. Like they were the equivalent of the CIA or MI6 with a similar level of funding, but not tied to an actual country
in the Mission: Impossible world, civilians are virtually nonexistent except as a card to play when you need to threaten another group
― mh, Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
or in the case of the new movie, the last scenes play out somewhere where there presumably are civilians, but we don’t see them! maybe the budget for extras ran out
― mh, Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
.....it was a funny place to put a hospital wasnt it?
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
I mean I think the implication was that the people near there were nomadic or spread out in nearby small villages, buuuut
― mh, Saturday, 28 July 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
https://letterboxd.com/thejoshl/film/mission-impossible-fallout/
good sorta-kinda rebuttal to/expansion on uhlich's piece
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 July 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
I think that gets at why these down't do much for me unless they're imbued with a little something extra (like the wit in the Burj Khalifa sequence) - the daredevil thrills don't do much for me on their own and I start to feel like I'm watching a very expensive Scientology ad.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 28 July 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
I hope Tom Cruise has it written in his will that if he dies doing a stunt in one of these movies that they’re obligated to release it including the shot where he bites it
― mh, Saturday, 28 July 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link