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

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• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The M I movies are amazingly well-made action packed star vehicles...that bore me to tears.

  I am not shitting on them, just they are not for me. They are successful and have a huge following.

  What does the author expect?

  "Could you please make your big budget movie franchise more like the low budget, formulaic TV show even though the majority of the M I films fan base have no idea it exists."

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  • fleabomber@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like they come up with the action sequences first and then task the poor writers to make sense of it.

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    • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well… actually…

      Pretty sure in a recent making of on YouTube, they mentioned doing that.

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  • nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I had no idea the series existed until this past week

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• kingmongoose7877@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

  FTFY

  !moviesnob@lemmy.film

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• 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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  • 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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• jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “If you made a great one of those, then instead of okay-to-disappointing box-office returns…”

  🤔

  Looks like it’s doing OK to me, but what do I know, I only watched the first one…

  www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt9603212/?ref_=bo_se…

  DOMESTIC (30.6%) - $151,002,770 INTERNATIONAL (69.4%) - $342,800,000 WORLDWIDE - $493,802,770

  1/2 a billion dollars isn’t awful… OK, granted it’s less than the Mega Millions cash option on Tuesday, but it’s not awful.

  Point of comparison:

  www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt5433140/?ref_=bo_se…

  DOMESTIC (20.7%) - $145,960,660
  INTERNATIONAL (79.3%) - $558,749,000
  WORLDWIDE - $704,709,660

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• mancy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meh. I, for one, love the MI series. They’re expertly-crafted, across the board well-acted, and just plain fun. I can’t say the same for the F&F movies. I can’t say the same for many action franchises actually. Tom Cruise is batshit crazy but you can’t deny that he’s a singular talent.

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  • theinspectorst@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Since MI:3 (the point when they finally introduced some more settled and recurring characters - Benji and Julia in that one, followed by Brand in the next, followed by Ilsa) they've been consistently the best action movie franchise going. I far prefer MI to Bond or F&F.

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