Posted on 05/31/2025 11:54:51 AM PDT by Jim W N
This is a thing on Free Republic. There are people who will be on a thread about a movie, such as this one, and say they never go to movies.
There were people who on a thread about football, who say the NFL is dead to them. The same is true with other professional sports.
The implication is that we are not supposed to go to movies or support professional sports, because these institutions are liberal, and we are good conservatives on this site.
The implication is that you cannot be a good conservative and go to movies and watch professional sports.
I saw it Memorial day. I concur with your review. My major criticism is that plot was full of mission impossible situations like “you have one millisecond to capture the AI” or the world will end. Of course Cruise manages to complete his mission in one piece. Also one of my favorite actors Esai Morales plays the evil genius yet he doesn’t get enough character development. And the movie ran out of ideas when Esai meets his fate exactly like the guy before him two minutes ago. Other than that, it was a typical bing, bang boom MI movie.
I watched Vertigo yesterday. Seen it before. Saw someone write that when he pulls Madeline out of the SF Bay she still had her high heels on.
and how then reading your statement so resonated with me...”Great movie, totally unrealistic but you will like it”.
Sigh. Hollywood ;)
I guess think, ‘that’s entertainment’.
In My Opinion: I watched a couple of Mission Impossible movies and they were so divergent from actual reality that they weren’t worth watching. Too much action, too many camera angles, and outlandish storylines that are so unbelievable that there was no credulity. It’s nice that they have pro America messaging but I would not watch a single one of them a second time and I would not see one that I haven’t seen before on TV.
It's a movie. By the way, Tom Cruise is still doing his own stunts!
The Mission Impossible movies have all been good. Great franchise. So I don’t have any reason to believe the new one will be any different. There are plenty of MI movies on Amazon Prime Video to watch and check out.
The title of the movie is.......Mission Impossible
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Agreed. Will have to check out the latest installment. 👍
Dittos. Simon Pegg describes what it's like to work with Tom Cruise. He says Tom visits him at his UK property in his helicopter. He also describes Tom taking them out for a helicopter joyride and then afterwards asking if everyone is up for feeding sharks in a cage. Cruise is an intense high energy dude.
The critic consensus is "it's just okay". The biggest complaint is, just as the movie is getting interesting it comes to a dead stop so the characters can explain the convoluted plot to the audience.
Delayed gratification is especially nice now that I've grown old. I waited to watch Dune One and Dune Two back to back...totally worth the wait.
I've been holding on to Mission:Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One for two years now just waiting for this wrap-up.
Someone tell me Tom Cruise isn't trying to die while being filmed. Only an egomaniacal cultist-type with more money than sense would do such a thing. Oh wait...
Good post.
I went to see it, never having seen the others in the series. I wanted diversion and to be occasionally overwhelmed. I was bored. I only stayed for the first hour.
There was a whole lot of dialogue being pushed out.
I remember thinking: “Don’t tell me, show me! I also thought this story would have made good radio
A great deal of the scenes we’re shot in the same setting:a darkened, cavernous room. There were some good fighting scenes here and there. It seemed rather disjointed and contrived, mainly for purposes of making Tom Cruise character look good. Some scenes had far too many characters who were not allowed to grow or showcase their abilities. To each his own entertainment.
Yea well he wouldn’t even sign autographs for the sailors when he was in my ship for the filming of the first Top Gun. Kelly McGillis was easy on the eyes for sure, not so much now. She did sign autographs.
That is the implication. But the reality is they would go back to watching those things if Hollywood and professional sports would somehow go back and undo the transgressions they committed just before the point that they stopped watching.
I’ve known people that won’t watch any movies because to support a family-friendly film is to put money in coffers that fund family-unfriendly films, too.
Sports were different until teams, broadcasters, and sponsors—as a body—finally picked (the wrong) sides in the political and culture wars.
Before then, there were “sports widows” who “lost” husbands/boyfriends to whatever games were in TV. Then the wives and girlfriends took an “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” attitude to sports. This gave rise to the era of human interest stories behind the sports heroes. Especially during the Olympics. Guys bemoaned all the airtime devoted to that but were tolerant so long as game play/performance was not interrupted upon.
Enter the current era where culture and politics have finally taken the field with displays during the national anthem, uniforms with stickers and patches, end zones and fencing with slogans, sponsors with their messaging, and—worst of all—men masquerading as women in women’s sports.
**Someone tell me Tom Cruise isn’t trying to die while being filmed. Only an egomaniacal cultist-type with more money than sense would do such a thing. Oh wait..**
He uses safety harnesses and cables. The film editors can hide the cables in the process. In post #29 you can see the cables: one vertical (causing his coat to bulge between his shoulders) and one horizontal. I think the horizontal one was to make sure he couldn’t quite make it and have to hang on the side of the building (more dramatic than an uneventful jump, roll, and get up and run). You can see the layer of padding that sticks out about 3” from the actual top and side of that building,and that matches the color too.
I feel the same way, however...
...as far as protecting the tyranny of the status quo, I'm not much of a conservative (the status quo needs to be blown up) but I do love America, the Constitution, and freedom from gov't coercion, so I think I'm a die-hard Christian Patriot.
I think we need more faith-filled Patriots and maybe less status-quo protecting "conservatives."
We're in the good fight of faith and freedom.
I should add that I can count those people on one hand and it applied onky to going to the theater. No FReeper I’ve encountered is even that extreme.
Overall point: I don’t take those admonishments too seriously. There is a line that was crossed and that is why a few folks are hard-core about it. But the underlying thread is they would rejoin the audiences “if only…”
I don’t watch anything that has that smarmy diminutive Scientologist whack job in it.
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