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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    Since62 wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    M:I marathon has begun. Wow, it has been a while.
    Mission: Impossible- dayyyum Tom looks like a teenager here. Great direction- Ethan working stuff out in his head was great, especially in front of Phelps. Emilio's character death always shocks me. Always. Strange watching this as our FBI & CIA are being gutted & repurposed IRL....

    Are you going to watch M:I 2 ? I watched them all in order not long ago, and had forgotten just how poorly M:I 2 came out. A waste of Thandiwe Newton and Anthony Hopkins. It barely stands. Next time I'll just skip over it.

    I just remembered that I actually skipped MI:2 when I did my Mission Impossible marathon late last year.
    The second film is a real stinker, when compared to the other entries.

    I'm in the minority here- I like M:I2 a LOT. I actually prefer it to III. But I like III also....

    While III is always my least favorite in the series by a wide margin, I'll throw in my love for II as well. It's cheesy at times but very entertaining.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    Since62 wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    M:I marathon has begun. Wow, it has been a while.
    Mission: Impossible- dayyyum Tom looks like a teenager here. Great direction- Ethan working stuff out in his head was great, especially in front of Phelps. Emilio's character death always shocks me. Always. Strange watching this as our FBI & CIA are being gutted & repurposed IRL....

    Are you going to watch M:I 2 ? I watched them all in order not long ago, and had forgotten just how poorly M:I 2 came out. A waste of Thandiwe Newton and Anthony Hopkins. It barely stands. Next time I'll just skip over it.

    I just remembered that I actually skipped MI:2 when I did my Mission Impossible marathon late last year.
    The second film is a real stinker, when compared to the other entries.

    I'm in the minority here- I like M:I2 a LOT. I actually prefer it to III. But I like III also....

    While III is always my least favorite in the series by a wide margin, I'll throw in my love for II as well. It's cheesy at times but very entertaining.

    Oh man that running back flip kick is painful for me to watch, but yeah, it's like the DAF of IMF. Mindless fun.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,055
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    Since62 wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    M:I marathon has begun. Wow, it has been a while.
    Mission: Impossible- dayyyum Tom looks like a teenager here. Great direction- Ethan working stuff out in his head was great, especially in front of Phelps. Emilio's character death always shocks me. Always. Strange watching this as our FBI & CIA are being gutted & repurposed IRL....

    Are you going to watch M:I 2 ? I watched them all in order not long ago, and had forgotten just how poorly M:I 2 came out. A waste of Thandiwe Newton and Anthony Hopkins. It barely stands. Next time I'll just skip over it.

    I just remembered that I actually skipped MI:2 when I did my Mission Impossible marathon late last year.
    The second film is a real stinker, when compared to the other entries.

    I'm in the minority here- I like M:I2 a LOT. I actually prefer it to III. But I like III also....

    While III is always my least favorite in the series by a wide margin, I'll throw in my love for II as well. It's cheesy at times but very entertaining.

    Oh man that running back flip kick is painful for me to watch, but yeah, it's like the DAF of IMF. Mindless fun.

    What always gets me are those soap opera slo-mo shots when he's pursuing Nyah in the first act. It's like a shampoo commercial, the way their hair is flowing so gorgeously.

    Bonus points go to how ridiculous their spin-out and collision is. I rewound and replayed it years ago to make sense of it but there's none to be made.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    I am an unapologetic fan of 3 ; it may not have the scope of later entries, but I think it made Ethan a more three dimensional character than some of the other super spies.

    Now, in later entries, it was wise of them not to wallow in his domestic life, but I love what it added to his character.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
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    I like MI2. Love Zimmer's score a lot. The film worked at the time, like John Woo did. It's similar to how you can't make movies like The Rock, Con Air, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Gone in 60 seconds, Days Of Thunder, etc anymore. Just enjoy them for what they were.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,250
    talos7 wrote: »
    I am an unapologetic fan of 3 ; it may not have the scope of later entries, but I think it made Ethan a more three dimensional character than some of the other super spies.

    Now, in later entries, it was wise of them not to wallow in his domestic life, but I love what it added to his character.

    Same here. Big fan.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I've tried very, very hard to get into III but Abrams' style doesn't mesh with the series well, in my opinion. Too much visual chaos and jarring editing. It's got a damn good cast though; PSH is a fantastic villain, while I really wish more of this M:I crew was used in future installments.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    I've tried very, very hard to get into III but Abrams' style doesn't mesh with the series well, in my opinion. Too much visual chaos and jarring editing. It's got a damn good cast though; PSH is a fantastic villain, while I really wish more of this M:I crew was used in future installments.

    Just finished III, and I must say I enjoyed it more this time than ever before. Possibly because I was more ready for the shakey/vomit cam. The digital colour timing choices bugged me more though. When the worst movie in a series is still very entertaining, that says a lot.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    I like MI2. Love Zimmer's score a lot. The film worked at the time, like John Woo did. It's similar to how you can't make movies like The Rock, Con Air, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Gone in 60 seconds, Days Of Thunder, etc anymore. Just enjoy them for what they were.

    Yeah exactly, they’re all very of their time. I don’t want to say dated because I don’t think there’s anything wrong with films being of the time they were made.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    Posts: 2,244
    mtm wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    I like MI2. Love Zimmer's score a lot. The film worked at the time, like John Woo did. It's similar to how you can't make movies like The Rock, Con Air, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Gone in 60 seconds, Days Of Thunder, etc anymore. Just enjoy them for what they were.

    Yeah exactly, they’re all very of their time. I don’t want to say dated because I don’t think there’s anything wrong with films being of the time they were made.

    Yeah. That era cared less about story and so did the audience, so that encouraged the filmmakers to keep making more of such films.
  • MalloryMallory
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    MI2 features the best mask reveal of the entire series.... plus Thandiwe Newton is incredibly hot in it, and the action is ridiculous... so it gets a pass from me :D
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited February 4 Posts: 16,938
    Mallory wrote: »
    MI2 features the best mask reveal of the entire series....

    Yeah it's mostly not very MI-ish, but that end bit with the mask is a proper Ethan-outsmarts-the-baddie-through-executing-a-plan stuff, which is Mission Impossible and works really well. It's actually what I thought Dead Reckoning was missing: there's no real heist bit and they don't pull off any clever plans, which is part of the satisfaction of MI.
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
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    mtm wrote: »
    Mallory wrote: »
    MI2 features the best mask reveal of the entire series....

    Yeah it's mostly not very MI-ish, but that end bit with the mask is a proper Ethan-outsmarts-the-baddie-through-executing-a-plan stuff, which is Mission Impossible and works really well. It's actually what I thought Dead Reckoning was missing: there's no real heist bit and they don't pull off any clever plans, which is part of the satisfaction of MI.

    The last two films have been missing that and replaced it with overlong car chases
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Fallout had the plan to break Lane out (which was the usual 'Ethan has to steal something dangerous and allow it into the open to draw out the bad guy' plot pretty much every film has) plus the little plan with Pegg in the mask to get Cavill to reveal himself as the baddie: there are plans in there.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Just finished M:I Ghost Protocol. Regardless of some of the nonsense, it was incredibly entertaining. The team work was very good, the characters were solid. And a very nice resolution to Hunt's 'loss' concerning his Wife. My personal love for M:I 2 aside, this was the best movie so far in my marathon. Also, feels sort of weird watching & enjoying this as a coup is being enacted here & now by a billionaire pal of the current Ruler of Russia. Whatever.
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