Movie: Mission Impossible: Fallout (7-27-18)

[daft twat]

Getting excited! Tom Cruise.

[LoathedVermin72]

Gonna be a long wait for this 4K

[96583UP]

i've heard at one point the DP scene in this almost got them an NC-17 rating

but so they shortened the c*mshot down to a 3-roper and were able to keep their PG-13

[bune]

[daft twat]

Watched American Made today. He mugged through the whole movie, but I can’t get mad at him. He’s like Keanu. We know what he is, and since one of those things is a guy who makes entertaining movies, the rest is forgiven.

[bada]

This is one of the stand-out scenes from the trailer and I keep coming back to it for some reason.

Yeah for some reason this scene made me think he was the villain but subsequent trailers showed he was a good guy. I was a little disappointed.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[stip]

i do love that clip. ive never seen an MI movie in theaters. i may try for this one

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[evenslow]

Loved this. Entire movie is perfectly executed expository dialogue working as the setup for the action sequences that follow. Probably pound-for-pound my favorite overall collection of action/tech set pieces in the whole series, a Hollywood machine firing on all cylinders.

Liked Cavill more than I thought I would, he's still a robotic actor but he works in this. Can't overtake MI3 as my favorite because Hoffman's villain is the best non-Ethan character this series will ever see, but is up there with MI and MI3 as top-tier. Can't wait to see it again, just for the stunt work.

you lost me at MI3, but yeah, this was incredible. almost TOO incredible, if that makes any sense. I couldn't really process all of it.

seeing it again today to rectify this.

[evenslow]

and the toilet fight is so fucking great. actual stakes in a fight scene is so rare.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jorge]

Very much enjoyed this save for a few very clunky, overlong "let's sit around and explain the stakes to each other" scenes near the end. A very exciting and well executed movie otherwise

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[BurtReynolds]

eh. too many car chases.

[BurtReynolds]

This is one of the stand-out scenes from the trailer and I keep coming back to it for some reason.

Yeah for some reason this scene made me think he was the villain but subsequent trailers showed he was a good guy. I was a little disappointed.

This scene slayed, btw. One of the best fights in the entire series.

did this fight make any sense though?

Spoiler: show

Like, why was he fighting his employee? or maybe he should have hired a decoy that wasn't a martial arts expert. I don't know, I wasn't paying too much attention.

[evenslow]

This is one of the stand-out scenes from the trailer and I keep coming back to it for some reason.

Yeah for some reason this scene made me think he was the villain but subsequent trailers showed he was a good guy. I was a little disappointed.

This scene slayed, btw. One of the best fights in the entire series.

did this fight make any sense though?

Spoiler: show

Like, why was he fighting his employee? or maybe he should have hired a decoy that wasn't a martial arts expert. I don't know, I wasn't paying too much attention.

sounds like you were paying too much attention.

[evenslow]

Saw it again!!
- Henry Cavill is quite good in this. Not a huge fan of his Superman but this made me realize it’s not his fault. Perfect foil for Cruise.
- reinforced my initial feeling that the toilet fight might be the best set piece of the movie. Totally outdoes Bourne at real life hand to hand combat in tight quarters. The stakes are very real. How often do you see two big action stars sidelined by shots to the throat and solar plexus? Had just the right amount of playful as well.
- the score is my favorite yet. I noticed what, to my ears, had to be an homage to The Firm score during the Cruise running through London scene. Piano flourishes that definitely tipped the cap to Dave Grusin.
- this owes a big debt to Nolan. Was getting heavy Dark Knight and Inception vibes during the Paris sequence.
- there were absolutely Indiana Jones references sprinkled throughout too. The Everyman hero who has seen everything and just finds a way to make it work. Cruise had a few of those weary I’m too tired for this shit looks that Harrison Ford initially perfected. In that regard it’s the only current series that has that sense of practical adventure and location filming that the Indy series had.
- the emotional through line really worked for me. Since these movies are always free floating I liked how they used Monaghan for connective tissue without compromising the Hunt character in the long term. Not easy to do.
- at the end of the day, McQuarrie took it as far as it would possibly go. Now would be the perfect time to reboot with a left field filmmaker and a new point of view. Like fuck it, hire Scorsese and let him do what he wants. The initial point of this series (and Cruise’s career) was to “trust the director” so return to that.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.