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Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 11:40 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 11:46 pm
by wease
Marvel should’ve gotten Cavill for Hercules.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 11:48 pm
by wease
Another goddamn motorcycle chase?
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 11:52 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 12:17 am
by wease
Alec Baldwin is so fucking good.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 12:23 am
by wease
This trope of the good guy secretly being the bad guy is really old by this point.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 1:14 am
by wease
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.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 1:58 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 2:10 am
by Strat
Wait. Am I really the only one that thinks the first one is the best and the rest pale in comparison?
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 2:20 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 2:26 am
by The Argonaut
each is better than the last
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 2:48 am
by E.H. Ruddock
One is definitely the best
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 3:02 am
by BurtReynolds
How many of these things are there? I'm sure I missed at least one.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 4:08 am
by Strat
E.H. Ruddock wrote:One is definitely the best
Every film after that just felt like a summer blockbuster trying to outdo the last
First one felt like chess
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 9:02 pm
by spike
Strat wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:One is definitely the best
Every film after that just felt like a summer blockbuster trying to outdo the last
First one felt like chess
I watch these movies for the over the top action stunts. Plot etc is secondary.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 12:18 am
by Revelator
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
MI2
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 10:56 pm
by Farmer John
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.
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 11:32 pm
by Jorge
Farmer 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!
Lea Seydoux
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 11:46 pm
by Farmer John
Lea Seydoux!
Re: Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning (7-14-2023)
Posted: Mon June 05, 2023 2:57 pm
by spike
Just realized my in laws will be in town when this comes out. I’ll definitely be sneaking away for a rare theater experience.