Steve Albini wrote: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.
Mission Impossible-The Final Reckoning (May 23, 2025)
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Marvel should’ve gotten Cavill for Hercules.
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Another goddamn motorcycle chase?
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Alec Baldwin is so fucking good.
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
This trope of the good guy secretly being the bad guy is really old by this point.
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Fallout is the best. All of them are enjoyable but I really liked it the best. 2 and 4 are probably my picks for lowest two.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Wait. Am I really the only one that thinks the first one is the best and the rest pale in comparison?
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
each is better than the last
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One is definitely the best
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
How many of these things are there? I'm sure I missed at least one.
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Every film after that just felt like a summer blockbuster trying to outdo the lastE.H. Ruddock wrote:One is definitely the best
First one felt like chess
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
I watch these movies for the over the top action stunts. Plot etc is secondary.Strat wrote:Every film after that just felt like a summer blockbuster trying to outdo the lastE.H. Ruddock wrote:One is definitely the best
First one felt like chess
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Was harder to rank these than I thought...I still don't know if I agree that the first one was the best...
Mission Impossible
Fallout
Rogue Nation
MI3
Ghost Protocol
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
I used to think Ghost Protocol was one of the best, but it’s really just that skyscraper scene that I’m thinking of, which is still one of my favourite big set-pieces in the franchise.
It’s got everything. The big crazy stunt on the outside of the tower. The playful spycraft and scheming inside. The mask machine malfunctioning! It’s the best.
Overall, though, it's somewhere in the bottom half of the rankings.
It’s got everything. The big crazy stunt on the outside of the tower. The playful spycraft and scheming inside. The mask machine malfunctioning! It’s the best.
Overall, though, it's somewhere in the bottom half of the rankings.
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Lea SeydouxFarmer John wrote:It’s got everything. The big crazy stunt on the outside of the tower. The playful spycraft and scheming inside. The mask machine malfunctioning!
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Lea Seydoux!
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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Just realized my in laws will be in town when this comes out. I’ll definitely be sneaking away for a rare theater experience.