Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 (July 14th, 2023)

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Loved TGM but I never got behind the MI movies just not my thing. I don’t hate them nothing like that.

I’ll take old Indy over MI any day of the week!

Sorry-Gar lol
Yeah, if they were lean two hour action flicks then I could get behind them and actually start going to the theater to see them again. But 2 hrs 43 min just to watch "Part One?" Hell no, lol.
 
I'll definitely be curious to read your review Wor-Gar. But for all the press that Cruise's motorcycle stunt is getting to me it's still nothing more than a less cool version of the stuntman jumping a motorcycle off a cliff after a real descending airplane at the beginning of Goldeneye.
 
I'll definitely be curious to read your review Wor-Gar. But for all the press that Cruise's motorcycle stunt is getting to me it's still nothing more than a less cool version of the stuntman jumping a motorcycle off a cliff after a real descending airplane at the beginning of Goldeneye.

The Spy Who Loved Me jump in 1977 cannot be beat.

I doubt that's the only big stunt in this MI movie though. Like his plane gag in MI5, it's probably the opening bit.
 
I'll definitely be curious to read your review Wor-Gar. But for all the press that Cruise's motorcycle stunt is getting to me it's still nothing more than a less cool version of the stuntman jumping a motorcycle off a cliff after a real descending airplane at the beginning of Goldeneye.
:lecture :exactly::lecture

There are a billion cliff jumps and a trillion parachute jumps uploaded on social media every second.

This time I was not impressed.
 
And I haven't changed my mind. MI:2 is just finishing on telly, yeah, easily the weakest of the films. It departed far too much in style from the first movie. A lot of really cringe stuff in fact. Painfully self-conscious in its attempt to be hip and cool, even down to Cruise's hair and costuming throughout. Totally comes off as a parody of sorts with the slow-mo and silly zooming shots.

I absolutely love the second one, if anything it’s underrated to me. I do appreciate John Woos ridiculously over the top “stylized” action though, it’s always entertaining. I remember the soundtrack being fantastic too. I honestly don’t think it was trying to be hip, a lot of what you’re describing just sounds like Woo’s directing style. Oh and Cruise had his hair like that a lot throughout his career, I don’t think that was specifically for the movie lol.
 
I absolutely love the second one, if anything it’s underrated to me. I do appreciate John Woos ridiculously over the top “stylized” action though, it’s always entertaining. I remember the soundtrack being fantastic too. I honestly don’t think it was trying to be hip, a lot of what you’re describing just sounds like Woo’s directing style. Oh and Cruise had his hair like that a lot throughout his career, I don’t think that was specifically for the movie lol.
Yep M:I-2 was just token early 2000's John Woo and Tom Cruise. He had similar hair in Magnolia and Vanilla Sky. The thing that bugged me the most out of M:I-2 was the practically G-rated bloodless violence which was just all wrong for a John Woo movie. You *need* that hyper-violence and blood shooting everywhere as a gruesome juxtaposition with the slow-mo and doves, otherwise yeah it all just comes across as silly.
 
I hated John Woo's American films.
So did he up until Face/Off. Here's me and Johnny at the US theatrical premiere of Bullet in the Head. Wow, almost 27 years to the day.

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