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And Nyah in MI2.
But I do agree about the whole backstory element trying to create a more emotional and historical link between Hunt and Gabriel. It risks falling into the SP/NTTD trap of all the heroes and villains knowing each other prior to the event of the film, and usually that doesnt really work.
The genius of Bond is he is highly sexual, a misogynist, playful yet cold. Charming but deadly.
Tragically, I feel the next incarnation of Bond will be wokeified to such extent he'll be similar to Ethan Hunt.
The essence of Bond is the antithesis of woke. Given the popularity of MI and John Wick how can there be a very sexist, promiscuous spy like Bond? I can't see it happening. Never going to return. Bond 26 will be chasing the shadow of Dead Reckoning Parts 1 and 2.
Well yes any comparison is kinda pointless to a regular 3 day opening.
Domestic numbers looking fine but not great. Next weekend Barbie and Nolan will storm the boxoffice.
China is a big let down and Korea as well. It really needs incredible late legs. The billion is obviously impossible.
The dialogue was awful in that film.
Hopefully M:I DR reach $800m (i'm sure it will be great legs), this movie deserve that, one of the last action films where the stunts are real. China is over for Hollywood-Movies...
It was a big mistake to put a guy who had basically only ever DPed one movie before this in charge of the cinematography (especially given the switch to digital and the fact that it's deliberately visually echoing the 1996 film).
I didn't like the look of the third one but that was at least because it was just a style I didn't enjoy, I could still see that it was well done for what it was.
Looking at this and the DePalma/Burum work on the first one back to back just made me sad about how blocking and shooting massive blockbusters in an interesting way outside of their action scenes has really stopped being a concern for most non-Bond franchises.
Hell, even if you look at Elswit's work on Rogue Nation, it just blows this film out of the water.
The sad thing is, this is still one of the better recent blockbusters because it's at least competent and visually coherent, but I wish it was more.
The action stuff is probably the best shot but nowhere in the film is there any bit of blocking/camerawork as marvellously elegant as this one single introduction shot in the first one.
This scene has the thankless task of being both a character introduction and an exposition dump, yet you can learn so much about the characters just from watching its first 10 seconds on mute.
It's a feast of clever oneliners and phrases like "please don't interrupt me when I'm asking rhetorical questions", "I will bleed on the American flag to make sure those stripes stay red", " You hung me out of a plane. You can tell a lot about a person's character by how they treat people they don't have to treat well."
Yeah definitely mate, they found their "formula" and took the series to the next level
Exactly.
Ghost Protocol is my fav so far. Seeing MI7 tomorrow.
I absolutely love MI:3; it may not be as polished as came afterward but it's where the series established it's own identity. By giving him a life outside of the spy world, Hunt is made a much more three dimensional character; wisely though the series didn't wallow in the personal side and focused on action, adventure and intrigue.
Yeah, Ghost Protocol is a good one.
Ghost Protocol is so good. Not my favorite, but I think that (along with the first one) it's the most important film in the series. I don't think it's hyperbole to say it saved the franchise.
Yeah. Ghost Protocol was where the formula as we know it today, was finally discovered and massively built upon. It indeed saved the franchise. Ghost Protocol is the franchise's GoldenEye & Casino Royale. Only difference is, James Bond found his formula much earlier, right from Dr. No and was cemented in Goldfinger.
When I was in the editing rooms I did work on MI 1 at Pinewood Studios. First off, Cruise is a gentleman and treats everyone on the crew with respect and, how the hell he does it, he remembers everyone's names and positions on the film. We screened the first cut at BAFTA for the editing team and the producers, director etc. and the initial reaction wasn't too favourable. The film needed, from what I recall, a lot of tightening up and other work, but it came together in the end.
Cool! Happy to hear Cruise is a decent guy one-on-one.
A friend led me to the latest “Scriptshadow” article re: Mission: Impossible, and action set pieces in general.
I admittedly have lost the plot with M:I films. The last three all blended together, and I genuinely forget which is which.
I also have my own personal prejudice against Cruise that started during the first Top Gun, when I was a kid. Everyone loved the film, and I loathed it. And I didn’t like the leading man. This was, and still is, my cross to bear, 😂.
However, this article may’ve struck-on why I forget these films so easily, but, because I’m obviously not the intended audience (I won’t be seeing this film, or any Cruise film in the future), and my perspective is tainted with bias, I throw this article to all the M:I fans (those who have seen the new one, but also those who’ve yet to see it). I’m very curious to see what your take is. Thanks for taking the time to read and share your thoughts (where the writer is wrong, where he’s right, what he’s missing…):
http://scriptshadow.net/
But the last three?.... I can't remember what happened in which film. And forget about what the stories are about, and other than remembeing Paula Patton (she made my heart beat fast...), beating up a young Maddy Swan, and Simon Pegg bumbling about, I can't rember very many characters (unless my head is given a shake)...
Thanks for commenting, and I'm curious about this from a writing perspective (cuz it all starts on the page...)
I have a friend who's excited to see the latest installment this weekend and I told him he had to at least see the first film, which he managed to ignore all these years cause he doesn't like "older films" (AKA stuff from the '90s and earlier, despite being born in the late '80s himself - his loss). He knew nothing of the film and yet even that sequence had stood out to him as something he remembered seeing a few times in the past. It's really iconic.
How many times have you seen the previous three installments? I have no such confusion, but then again I saw all of them in cinemas and have seen them lots of times since. I know if I only saw them one time over several years, I'd probably get them mixed up too.
And of course, thank you for sharing that link. I did browse it, make my comment, and then return to read it in full, but it was entertaining nevertheless.
The next three I took my son to, and then watched with the family again, but, almost complete amnesia after the viewings, 😂….
And, although I couldn’t stand number two, I (painfully) remember more about this entry, than the last three combined.