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Comment on Is the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Series Due for a Reckoning?

TheShadowKnows@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I very much wish that a movie would come along in the same vein as the original MI movie. It is drastically different in tone and execution than any of the following films. I think a proper Tom Clancy Splinter Cell movie could do it. Movies now unnecessarily revolve around a world ending threat. The NOC list in Mi1 was a great motivating force for the characters to be striving to protect or steal. Now Ethan Hunt is constantly trying to save the world. Stakes which should never be left up to one person.

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usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The first movie was more of a spy thriller too. Still my favourite of the series

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- coffinwood@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I never forgave them making Jim Phelps a bad guy. Worst entry in the series for me, but I really wanted to like it. Sounds petty, I know. It just dishonoured the original series.
  
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  - athos77@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There was a book or something on the making of the TV series, and every year they'd get at least one new writer in who'd be all ooh, I have the best idea for a story, let me tell you about it, and it'd be the same idea: they were misled into the mission. And the show runners had to shut that down every single time. They said that one of the core tenets of the show was that the voice on the tape (the people sending them on missions) had to be absolutely 100% reliable.
    
    I've never forgotten that line from the book. Nor have I ever quite forgiven the movie makers for thinking up the same 'clever' idea everyone else had already had, and so drastically misunderstanding one of the core tenets of the series.
    
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  - TheShadowKnows@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I knew there was a television show, but hadn’t watched it. Its surprising that it was a continuation of the series.
    
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nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And that one person cannot be controlled by anyone. I doubt that is something the government would let happen.

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- lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Of course not. The govt hates competition.
  
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