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What a great spy thriller. It's been ages since I've seen it but there are so many iconic scenes in this film, even though it's a bit dated now. This is now my third favourite behind MI-RN & MI-GP. I've always loved the train sequence at the end as well (which is what I'm watching right now) and I still think the CGI here is better (apart from the helicopter) than what we've seen in certain recent notable blockbusters.
Elfman's score is better than I remember it. One of the scenes that impresses me the most always is the one in the tube station when Hunt meets up with Phelps and then imagines how Phelps did the killings. The music that plays during that recap sequence is excellent.
(I just ordered a copy)
However, it's got some superb tense scenes, including that opening betrayal in Prague which is as good as it gets in this genre.
Great to see it again. The last one I have to watch again now is MI2, which I'll try to take in during the next few days.
Eugene Kittridge: I understand you're very upset.
Ethan Hunt: Kittridge, you've never seen me very upset.
Eugene Kittridge: All right, Hunt. Enough is enough. You have bribed, cajoled, and killed, and you have done it using loyalties on the inside. You want to shake hands with the devil, that's fine with me. I just want to make sure that you do it in hell!
Yes, a great supporting actor
Also, when watching MI-1, I wondered about Ferguson. I know she's back for MI6, but I wonder if she will become a regular on the team going forward (I hope so given she is disavowed British Intelligence and so has no home). With Cruise getting on, if he wants to stay with the franchise, he could ostensibly gravitate up to the Phelps role, and be more of a director of the team, with limited and occasional field duties. Let Becky kick the 'a' (we know she can do it).
I think in RN Hunt for the first time gives instructions via headphones. When he instructs Benji in Vienna I was almost waiting for Hunt to say, "your mission, should you choose to accept it". Cruise is certainly keeping some doors open, with Luther being a constant (though his character is more big bad uncle than team leader figure), Brand since the last one, and now Ilsa.
Same for me. I wouldn't not watch the next Bond film, but at the same time I don't have too terribly much confidence in where EON is going to take the franchise. SPECTRE somehow managed to be decent in spite of its many problems, but the course they followed to make that film will most likely result in more creative failures than successes.
SPECTRE does set up the possibility of a YOLT adaptation for the next one, and that's something that I've always wanted to see, but at the same time I'm quite fearful that they'll mess it up, especially if they bring back P&W. From what I could gather reading the thread a week or so back about what did and didn't make it to the film from Logan's original script, I think that most of the problems that SPECTRE has, or at least a good number of them, lie at the feet of P&W, who were brought in to "save" the script from Logan's original version.
As for Mission: Impossible 6, I'm very much looking forward to that one. I always look forward to Cruise's films anyway, but Rogue Nation was the first film since the original Mission: Impossible where I finished the film with a solid anticipation for the next one.
Quoted for truth. It was quite the revelation watching Rogue Nation and realising how good it was. I do agree that it was probably a better movie than the uneven Spectre (although I did like Spectre).
Do they, though? Or are the naysayers just more vociferous?
There are no naysayers, just dissapointed Bond fans that had more expectations than Mendes & EON coulc deliver. And then they see a movie that actually did do a better job at most of the stuff. Which annoys me most is that Craig gets served so poorly ever since CR.
If RN is what we expect from Bond you can count me out. It's a really well executed film and I applaud Cruise's insistence on stunt work, plus his abilities as a producer, but Bond it is not. SP is rich with class and style in a way a MI never will be.
If you can just point out the class to me exactly you see, I find Craigs Bond far more workingclass than classy. The Bond movies used to have credible actionscenes, this movies lacks them, in the last two movies the baddies were brilliant in their first scenes and then turned into right tits after than One of the paranormal variety and another with daddy issues because 007 took his dads attention away. Really classy.
The recent 007 movies were written by committee and it shows, EON lack Cubby and his vision in making things work. A movie can look great and still not deliver. One more 007 outing like SF & SP and they will actually run the franchise into the ground. With Bourne 5 & MI-6 coming up EON better get their vision straight and stop the this time it is personal, we had that shyte 3 movies in a row. And the end of SP looks like there is a fourth one coming up.
Cruise has really upped his game compared to earlier installments in this and MI-GP when it comes to playing effortlessly 'cool'.
It has grown on me every time I've watched it (thrice now). The first experience in the theatre was above average but I wasn't fully sold. The 2nd experience in the theatre was when I realized just how good it was. The 3rd experience on blu ray cemented for me what an exceptional product they have delivered.
I agree that there are no naysayers here. People on this forum are Bond fans first and foremost, otherwise we won't be here. However, some of us (and I don't know the %'s) expected far more than what EON delivered this year, and look forward to a better product next time. I'm quite certain we'll get it too.
Better get yourself to some other forums then.
Just sayin.
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Oh, I do.
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