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Cliffhanger, definitely; the fact that Cavill's character was also called Walker was an added detail that connected that thought in my mind.
"the greater the suffering, the greater the peace" is very simple and something that the audience can take away with them but it is a reminder that not only is he deluded but that he actually see's suffering as a positive thing and wants more of it. Truely chilling, wonderfully delivered and another small thing that adds to the quality of the movie. Great writing.
Agreed about the line. I loved the manifesto. Shame they didn't have a more head-to-head Hunt vs Villain with a manifesto or reasons to do stuff.
I wouldn't be too opposed if they cast a A star villain for the next one to go head-to-head with Hunt while the rest of the cast is not as prominent.
I think that can add a new layer of these movies, otherwise they'll become TOO formulatic maybe..
I was thinking “For England, James?” the whole time.
Yes, it's not much of an endorsement. I have my reservations about him. He has a certain suaveness and grace about himself, and was put to good use in MI6, but I'm not totally convinced about his looks and presence (I suppose the latter has to do with his acting chops to some degree). I worry he might be a bit too lightweight for Bond (which is not the same as lighthearted, something I'll happily welcome). Yeah, we don't need Olivier to play a role like Bond, but one must be careful not to go too far in the opposite direction either. But I'll give a chance to whoever takes the role next, whether him or someone else.
Casting is really the most delicate of processes in a film. Particularly in Bond. One can understand the great care they take in that process, with the elaborate screen tests.
I don't know why Sp didn't run with a theme like this, giving Blofeld some kind of motivation and showing him as a straight up psychopath. As it stands right now, it's a cool line that floats in the space of meaningless.
So far, it only made $450 million.
Absolutely. Here in the States, after 20 days of release, it's made $168 million compared to Rogue Nation's $144 million.
I think it will also become the top grossing MI film stateside (again, not accounting for inflation), and should get to between $215M and $220M when it's all said and done.
Globally it's tracking ahead of RN so far (and is making franchise highs in a few markets, including India and South Korea) but China (which opens at the end of the month) will be the wildcard. RN did very well there, scoring $135M, and I'm not sure if Fallout will top it.
Not a bad movie at all, but it annoys me that this movie was this underwhelming, and yet everyone seems to love it.
I really hope McQuarrie is not back for another one.
Things I liked:
The run chase in London.
Things I didn't like:
The return of Ilsa. I think I did myself a ...whatever the opposite of favour is by rewatching the 5th movie. I remember liking Ilsa.....and then I saw the movie again.....and I realized that the character is really dumb. Like it's such a BS tihng happening "oh...Solomon knows I work with MI6 but I'll pretend I'm not and he'll pretend he's not and I'll return to him multiple times even though he knows I helped Hunt and...." bla bla bla. Seriously bad character.
And the romanse between Hunt and Ilsa seems low key forced to me.
The "reveal" of the villain comes too quickly in the movie, so we're left with like 45 minutes of chase between Hunt and the villain. Hmm....I wonder how this one will end up. Maybe like all previous 5 movies with Hunt winning? Hmmm....
The movie starts with the plutonium just disappearing....why? Benji ran to it......and grabbed a gun instead of the plutonium. This is an MI6 agent. Why didn't he grab the plutonium? Seriously, WTF??
The plot was too convoluted for it's own good. It needed to be more of a stand alone mission with references and stuff like that here and there.
I liked the score of the movie as well. The motorbike and car chases were meh to me. Same goes for the motorbike chase in Rogue Nation as well.
I liked the look of Solomon Lane. He looked like a real villain.
This didn't really feel like an IMPOSSIBLE mission. It felt like a mission that just so happens to be related with Hunt as well.
The cop scene in Paris was good and tense as well. This movie lacked tense scenes where you're not sure what would happen in my honest opinion of course.
The light at the end that implies that the bomb went off was nice.
Overall a 7/10 I guess.
I really need to rewatch the original one but from what I remember it's incredibly slow. I don't think it was an action or thriller, it was more of a spy drama.
The second one was great, I really miss action movies like that one. Overall incredibly fun and high octane movie that introduces the blueprint for the M:I movies. Love it.
Love the third one as well. It's not as great as the 2nd one for multiple viewings tho. But it introduces a new side to Ethan and the story and I love that. It's completely different in style from the 2nd one while style maintaining the spirit of the franchise. Love it as well.
Fourth one is one of the greatest action movies of all time in my opinion. #1 M:I movie. Nothing comes close to it.
Fifth one is a step back in the franchise. But let's be honest, how high you can go after Ghost Protocol??? The opera scene is bloody amazing. The movie is amazing up until then. It lacks another huge scene till the end so it can rival GP. Shame it didn't have another scene in the vein of the opera scene so it an be amazing. After that the movie is just average. But up until the opera it's pretty great.
And this one...well..I wrote my feelings above. Not a bad movie, but not a great one either. It lacks anything memorable. I guess the thing I'll remember most is the run chase in London. That was the best scene in the movie.
I hope they don't go full "SPECTRE" in the next one trying to connect everything. I wouldn't be too sad if Solomon doesn't return. I'd like a self contained story most of the time. If you want the movie to be related to the others....have the main villain attempt to break out Solomon from a high security prison. So the villain would have a mission:impossible on it's own and Hunt would have an even more impossible mission in chasing the villain.
Also...now both Hunt and Bond have their villains behind bars (or in solitary confinement or in asylum or....wherever) so....do you think we'll see some similar plots in the next Bond/Hunt movies?
The stunts in MI franchise are cool and feel like a tribute to past Bond. I think my fave stunt/action scene is the sandstorm chase in Ghost Protocol - great scene, really well done. However, if I had to choose the most iconic scene in the entire franchise - it's the one where this line of dialogue is spoken:
:)
We have much to thank MI1 for.
It's moody, intense and has some great moments including that whole computer disc scene. The MI series hasn't lost that touch imho and that's why I love it. They always stop during something intense and zany to inject an audience surprise here and there.
But no matter how much anyone raves about MCquarrie's films they can't beat Brad Birds awesome film, an extremely rare adventure film where Tom Cruise only fires a gun once, and it's a tranquilizer.
1. Fallout's UK box office seems to be falling behind RN's. The UK £ is 18% below its value in August 2015 (when RN was out), in comparison to the greenback measuring standard. This is something which can impact Bond far more negatively, given the higher proportion of overall gross that comes from there.
2. Fallout's Argentinian and Venezuelan performance is below RN's as well. Both countries are in the deep s#!^^er economically.
Goes to show that economics can impact box office.
That would be great.
I certainly hope so but it could be difficult. The Chinese yuan has only dropped by 7% since August 2015, but still that's a deficit that must be overcome. I have faith in Jack Ma, but co-financier Ali Baba Pictures (which is responsible for marketing in the Middle Kingdom) is going to have to pull out all the stops to get this to $150M imho.
Overall papers/reviews are positieve and inspecialy about the music (shame there is no soundtrack release), les exites about the villian and next time there should be les focus on the bigger action if directers returns.
But now after two weaks movie doing almoost 4,3 million (209 screens in second weak) . Rogue Nation did after two weaks almoost 1,9 million (120 screens).
For the record: Spectre did almoost 8,3 million in two weaks with 136 screens. Stay 007 weaks on number 1. Skyfall who stay 6 weaks on number 1 did 9,3 million in two weaks with 211 screens. At the end both movies get around 2 million views, what whas double kind of number and the ticket price be 50% more expensive then QOS.
The numbers of weak 3 in The Netherlands are not confirmd yet, but i think the 4,3 million is very nice. World Wide movie already deliever more then 500 million in 3 weaks.