Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 1:08 pm
Hey remember that movie Broken Arrow? That was kinda like an Woo MI movie.
There was nothing like Independence Day when it came out. The White House blowing up was a game-changerlennytheweedwhacker wrote:Well considering I did not see MI I in the theater, no, I was not blown away by the ID trailer. Though I do vividly remember my aunt taking me and my cousin to see it. It was one of the first times, maybe the first, that I had seen a summer blockbuster in the theater. I do not remember my impression of the movie though, oddly enough. God bless.BurtReynolds wrote:I only remember that the Independence Day trailer played before this one, and I was blown away by it (don't lie to yourself, you were too). I saw MI 3 times just to see the ID trailer.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I still very much enjoy the first.
Don't remember the movie except that Emilio Estevez died.
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.
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.
On the contrary. Renner is absolutely essential to the plot. The film doesn’t work without him.tragabigzanda wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:I rewatched Ghost Protocol over the last couple nights. There are some really unintentionally goofy parts.
My favorite is when Ethan is telling the team that the director is dead and the president has invoked ghost protocol, and they’re all that remains of IMF. As he’s giving his spiel, he has this tv remote sort of thing he’s using to activate different graphics on like eight different screens. “The president is dead,” clicks a button, and everyone’s heads pivot to one TV. “This bad guy has some nuclear launch codes,” clicks a button, and their heads swivel to another tv. He presents the whole mission this way, and they all end up with whiplash.
Also Jeremy Renner does not work in this movie.
All of them do except 2Strat wrote:Nothing beats film 1.
This only really happens in 1, 4 and 5. But it is funny that it happens so oftenwease wrote:On the contrary. Renner is absolutely essential to the plot. The film doesn’t work without him.tragabigzanda wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:I rewatched Ghost Protocol over the last couple nights. There are some really unintentionally goofy parts.
My favorite is when Ethan is telling the team that the director is dead and the president has invoked ghost protocol, and they’re all that remains of IMF. As he’s giving his spiel, he has this tv remote sort of thing he’s using to activate different graphics on like eight different screens. “The president is dead,” clicks a button, and everyone’s heads pivot to one TV. “This bad guy has some nuclear launch codes,” clicks a button, and their heads swivel to another tv. He presents the whole mission this way, and they all end up with whiplash.
Also Jeremy Renner does not work in this movie.
I’m ready for a MI movie in which Ethan isn’t disavowed, wanted by world authorities and on the run. Surety there’s some mission that doesn’t involve him being a framed rogue agent.