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Ouch, touché. I'd turn to Emily and Rebecca and say, "Ladies, it's been fun, but I've got a movie scene to recreate. Cheers."
And well, you know the rest...
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And that soundtrack..
Sorry forgot he was a Hunt..!
I thought BBC's The Game from last year was very similar as well, and that also had a great soundtrack.
Look forward to it!
She is a ringer for Ingrid Bergman!
As a big Ingrid fan, there is definitely a lot of similarities with her and Rebecca mannerism-wise, and even how I feel they tackle scenes. Both have a certain silent strength to them that is most endearing. That and you instantly fall in love with whatever women they're playing, on principle alone. Not to mention that both are Swedish actresses, born in Stockholm!
Now I want to see a 40s action film with Bogart in an Ethan Hunt spy role, and Ingrid armed with a massive sniper rifle and a legless dress. How robbed we were of such a spectacle post-Casablanca!
Amazing likeness. You'd had thought Ingrid had been re-born!
I think both actresses are fascinating to watch. I think Rebecca went a long way in making Rogue Nation as memorable as it was.
She'd be a fantastic foil for Daniel Craig's Bond!
Eva Green was fantastic in CR. There's no comparison there.
Olga Kurylenko's part was pretty under written but she was good otherwise
Lea Seydoux I thought was excellent in Spectre. Would like to see her again.
Rebecca Ferguson would make a brilliant foil for Daniel Craig's Bond, but I wouldn't take anything away from Craig's other female co-stars.
I wouldn't say Green was better though, because she was operating with an absolutely sublime cast at the top of their game in CR, including the lead actor. That surely helped her performance. However, like Ferguson, she owned every scene she was in.
I've always believed Kurylenko was overrated. Very nice to look at, especially in that black dress, but boy is she difficult to understand sometimes (even in November Man, which I watched recently) and she garbles her words constantly. Marlohe had an excellent scene in the casino but didn't really carry the film due to her short stay in SF. Same goes for Seydoux, who actually underwhelmed me relative to expectations in SP.
Yes she gave a very good performance and she has carisma but I don't find her that gorgeous or attractive to be a Bond girl she more of a MoneyPenny.
Actually all the Craig Bond girls have been much more attractive than her even Olga with ger looks downplayed.
Really enjoyed MI-RN. Can't say I thought Rebecca Ferguson was that great. Looks not a lot like Bergman to my eyes.
As for the original question - No. MI is a good substitute for Bond when you can't have Bond, but not a match. Plus I dislike that it is often nothing like the TV series.
I don't get the Ferguson thing either.
But when can one not have Bond? I enjoy MI in its own way
But I will concede that EoN could learn a thing or two from MI. Stuff though they actually used to know before BB's prominence and Mendes's muddling of the character.
Hunt isn't as interesting as Bond.
While I loved Ghost Protocol, I've never cared for Rogue Nation. I think it has to do with Rebecca Furgeson's character triple-crossing everyone and it suffers like SP in the fact that both films open with their best moment.
GP > III > MI > RN > II
Also, the first three seasons of the television show with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain really haven't been surpased by any of the Tom Cruise films.
I liked the first one, thought the second one was terrible, the third one was good, the fourth one was great, but the fifth was really disappointing. I was bored watching it. I think RN was to GP what MR is to TSWLM: a big bloated followup that doesn't understand what made the last one so good was how freshit all felt.
But even forgetting that for a minute, at the end of the day, MI is at best a good Bond ripoff (it doesn't even have the excuse of being a homage like Kingsman, it is just shamelessly sub Bond stuff). But it can't compete with the real thing. They'll never have the soul Bond has, the style and the legacy and the magic that's impossible to recreate. And that's something that stuck out to me watching RN. It was clearly the most Bond influenced out of all of them, but it just felt soulless in the same way that watching a Marvel film does. Well made but ultimately a very bland safe film that tries to recapture the magic of Bond but can't because Bond is genuinely special and unique, you can't just throw loads of money at a film and hope to recreate that magic.
Kind of reminds me of Dalton's Bond movies.
The World Is Not Enough
Mission Impossible 2
Tomorrow Never Dies
Mission Impossible
Quantum Of Solace
Mission Impossible 4
Die Another Day
Mission Impossible 3
Casino Royale
Skyfall
Deside not to at Spectre in the list, because i haven't seen Mi5 yet and not deside yet where i at Spectre in my rank. I overall think first Mission Impossible movie is atleast so good as Tomorrow Never Dies, whyle Mi2 is so good as Twine.