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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 | Official Trailer

jason10mm

Gold Member
So Born on the Fourth of July was his worst film?

Edit: It occurs to me that some folks may not know this stellar film and miss the joke:
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jason10mm

Gold Member
I haven't done IMAX in years. I think the last time was ... Over 20 years ago
They are pretty nice. The "theatrical" imax screens around me are really just jumbo screens with better sound, really, not that giant curved screen with the seats almost vertically stacked inside. Those are great for slow moving high res stuff like documentaries or laser light shows, trying to watch an actual movie on one would probably have me vomiting in less than 10 minutes. But the "regular" ones are really nice, good seats, and great sound so that's my preference for spectacle films.
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
Am I wrong or is that a very BRITISH cast for an American movie? I love Hayley and Pom ... *Fans self*
I think britts must NEED to work to maintain their us visa so they work for less. They do seem to be very prominent over here. Are there lots of yanks on the BBC? Or it's just the ease of faking the accent :p
 

DeafTourette

Perpetually Offended
I think britts must NEED to work to maintain their us visa so they work for less. They do seem to be very prominent over here. Are there lots of yanks on the BBC? Or it's just the ease of faking the accent :p

Man... I don't know. But Brits are EXCELLENT with accents! I can do every UK accent but Brits do EVERY accent... It's uncanny!
 

AmuroChan

Member
Am I wrong or is that a very BRITISH cast for an American movie? I love Hayley and Pom ... *Fans self*

The MI films historically have utilized a pretty international cast, which isn't surprising given the globetrotting adventures that they are.


USA:
Tom Cruise
Esai Morales
Ving Rhames
Shea Whigham
Greg Tarzan Davis

UK:
Rebecca Ferguson
Simon Pegg
Hayley Atwell
Vanessa Kirby
Cary Elwes

Canada:
Henry Czerny

France:
Pom Klementieff
 

Apocryphon

Member
Yeah I don’t understand why this is reviewing so well. I just got out from watching it and I thought it was a convoluted and contrived mess. The previous film was way better and I’m no longer excited for part two.

The trailers for The Creator, Oppenheimer, and Killers of the Flower Moon were better than Misson Impossible 😂

But I also thought Top Gun Maverick was a soulless dogshit movie and everybody loves that so who knows.
 

Billbofet

Member
Just got back from seeing it and I loved it. For me, the first half was non-stop awesome.
The back half was still really good, but I think there must be a rule in Hollywood now that all movies have to be 2.5 hours long.
Can't wait to see it again. I think I like 4 and 6 better and it's tied with 5 for me.

Hayley Atwell was the standout for me as well!
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
Old. It's at 99% now.
Damn, then thie film must be full of social pandering, left wing political grandstanding, and overwrought speeches about the evils of colonialism and the patriarchy, right?

We do tend to believe when we want to believe, don't we? :p

More importantly, how critical is it to re-watch any previous M:I films for this? I know Dougray Scott is the surprise villain revelation, but other than that....
 

Mr Blobby

Member
Damn, then thie film must be full of social pandering, left wing political grandstanding, and overwrought speeches about the evils of colonialism and the patriarchy, right?

We do tend to believe when we want to believe, don't we? :p

More importantly, how critical is it to re-watch any previous M:I films for this? I know Dougray Scott is the surprise villain revelation, but other than that....
might wanna watch the first one, but not essential as there's flashbacks
 

Billbofet

Member
Damn, then thie film must be full of social pandering, left wing political grandstanding, and overwrought speeches about the evils of colonialism and the patriarchy, right?

We do tend to believe when we want to believe, don't we? :p

More importantly, how critical is it to re-watch any previous M:I films for this? I know Dougray Scott is the surprise villain revelation, but other than that....
I would say MI:1 would give you a bit of background on one of the main characters and maybe 5-7 to get a sense of his team and what they mean to each other and have been through, but nothing would really prevent you from enjoying this one.
 

Apocryphon

Member
Old. It's at 99% now.
96%

I don’t like RT as a metric though. The Last Jedi, and The Witcher Season 3 are also scored extremely highly 😂

Pulp Fiction has a critic score of 96% too and Dead Reckoning Part One and it’s horrendous narrative exposition, shitty dialogue, convoluted plot, weak antagonist, difficulty juggling character groups, and reliance of a chain of action sequences that have all be done before, just comes off weakly to me. There are much better Mission Impossible movies than this. People must REALLY love Tom Cruise 😂
 
Saw it yesterday too. Not as good as Fallout but still amazing and super entertaining. Hayley was my favorite in it. Really pulled her role well here.
 

Toons

Member
Just got out. Might go down as one of the best action films ever made. Exquisite in every way

Every member of the cast feels like you could make a whole movie about them.. so seeing them face off and team up is like watching a game of 7d chess.

Im not sure if I put this above rogue nation, I think that ones action scenes may be better. But this... this is darn good. Made 3 hours feel like 30 minutes and I would've gladly, gladly watched another 3.

The new additions were all so badass. There were some callbacks all the way to the beginning if this saga which is darn near 30 years old at this point.
 
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kunonabi

Member
Great movie, super entertaining. Haley Atwell is awesome.
My biggest takeaway from the film is that the suits missed the boat on Atwell badly. She absolutely should have had a live action stint as Lara Croft or some other vehicle for herself by this point. All the women killed it in DR.
 

Chiggs

Gold Member
Yeah I don’t understand why this is reviewing so well. I just got out from watching it and I thought it was a convoluted and contrived mess. The previous film was way better and I’m no longer excited for part two.

My friend got to go to this:


--and despite seeing Cruise and McQuarrie live in-person, he felt the same way you do. Stupid villain, too much exposition, too many stunts ruined by the trailers, and 30 minutes too long.

I'm still seeing it but I've lowered my expectations.
 
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Ownage

Member
The MI films historically have utilized a pretty international cast, which isn't surprising given the globetrotting adventures that they are.


USA:
Tom Cruise
Esai Morales
Ving Rhames
Shea Whigham
Greg Tarzan Davis

UK:
Rebecca Ferguson
Simon Pegg
Hayley Atwell
Vanessa Kirby
Cary Elwes

Canada:
Henry Czerny

France:
Pom Klementieff
I thought Pom is a Quebecer?
 

AmuroChan

Member
I thought Pom is a Quebecer?

She was born in Quebec when her father was there as a diplomat of the French government. She only lived there for a year before her family moved. She grew up in France and is a French citizen.
 
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Seen this a couple of days ago and really liked it. Finally a movie this summer, that feels like a summer blockbuster (it felt like watching t2 for the first time on the big screen. for thrills, crazy moments and a plot that just gets bigger and more intense as the movie barrels along

Yes it’s long, but boy do they fill that time. It’s not perfect, but the movie really did deliver for me and I can’t wait to get the second one and close out this story.

So many cool, thrilling or funny parts to really talk about, but can’t without spoiling.

But as seen in the trailer. The motorbike stunt was something else (you could feel the silence in the theatre, which was packed !!!) And how Ethan eventually got on the train, brought the biggest laugh of the movie

It was one of those movies, where it felt like only 20 minutes or so had passed; by the time they get to Venice

Yes the villain was a little weak (and they had to keep talking and explaining how things were working, in regards to how the main enemy was operating or knew things.) but really he is just the henchman in a bigger picture and I wonder if the main motivation for the main villain is really just ‘not wanting to die’ ?

I actually thought it would have been good to somehow bring back the main bad guy from an earlier movie in that role (say like from mi2)

Can’t wait to find out out they top this movie and bring a satisfying end to the story, hopefully next year. and i do plan on watching this again on a big screen

And we got Haley atwell showing how awesome an actor she can be, with the right role and material (Pom was great in her role and the mi team had great chemistry as usual and were really fun to watch them doing their thing)
 

Chiggs

Gold Member
So is this underperforming currently?


FRIDAY AM: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One saw $8.3M on Thursday, repping a 47% decline from Wednesday opening plus previews of $15.5M. Two day total is $23.8M. Hopefully this film spikes today.


^^^^^Note the bolded comments.
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
So is this underperforming currently?




^^^^^Note the bolded comments.
Oh good grief, tracking a premier opening day versus the VERY NEXT DAY before the opening weekend seems a bit of a limited data set to be drawing conclusions.
 

Chiggs

Gold Member
Oh good grief, tracking a premier opening day versus the VERY NEXT DAY before the opening weekend seems a bit of a limited data set to be drawing conclusions.

It's that or maybe their expectations are totally out of whack because of the number of bellyflops at the box office this summer.

I was surprised to see Deadline take that tone, as they're generally cheerleaders.
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
It's that or maybe their expectations are totally out of whack because of the number of bellyflops at the box office this summer.

I was surprised to see Deadline take that tone, as they're generally cheerleaders.
Seemed like clickbait article to fill the day between friday grosses. Given the runtime, MI isn't likely to break records, but I'm not sure it really needs to, just be a solid performer. I wonder how much of "part 2" was paid from that 300 mill in part 1. I'm sure expectations are for a TG:Maverick performance but thats a tall order for a cruise film I think, he is solid but rarely spectacular in BO.
 

Chiggs

Gold Member
Seemed like clickbait article to fill the day between friday grosses. Given the runtime, MI isn't likely to break records, but I'm not sure it really needs to, just be a solid performer. I wonder how much of "part 2" was paid from that 300 mill in part 1. I'm sure expectations are for a TG:Maverick performance but thats a tall order for a cruise film I think, he is solid but rarely spectacular in BO.

Ha! They updated it. Check it out:

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A case of truly shitty writing that the author's sneaky stealth edit tried to resolve. Fuck you, Deadline! :messenger_grinning_sweat:
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
Ha! They updated it. Check it out:

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A case of truly shitty writing that the author's sneaky stealth edit tried to resolve. Fuck you, Deadline! :messenger_grinning_sweat:
In the old days an editor would savagely beat that reporter about the head and shoulders with a typewriter and kick them out of the building.

Alas, journalism as a profession is dead, dead, dead. They are marketers at BEST.
 

Ownage

Member
In the old days an editor would savagely beat that reporter about the head and shoulders with a typewriter and kick them out of the building.

Alas, journalism as a profession is dead, dead, dead. They are marketers at BEST.
Not quite dead. The writers go where the audiences go. It's a symbiotic relationship. If the audience becomes smarter, so does the content. If the audiences dumb down, the content is put into something basic for the mouth breathers to grunt to.
 
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