Wasn't I supposed to stop at 95?
ran out of vellum
WELL HAPPY SOLSTICE EVERYONE
10 a.m. eastern standard time. how do i put this? dissolution and discipline ne’er the twain shall meet? we’re still dealing in dualities, though aren’t we? I’m not a substack millionaire because I’m not giving advice. Are there any substack millionaires by the way? Rowling, she’s a billionaire. or was. heard she gave a lot away. of course. but you know even people who have billions can’t take it with them. Carnegie. Gates. bad example, I guess. what if there were a planet where…oh he’s going to start telling God what to do again, I just know it.
well maybe not but I will tell Tom Cruise what to do- stop making Mission Impossible movies- they have become essentially carbon copies. ok- ww1 biplanes instead of helicopter but still- all that running- enough already! great bringing back mi:1 CIA analyst but whats the deal with the Inuit wife? Great character- give her more to do! And the blonde assassin? Where did she come from? Do I have to watch mi7 again to catch up- because Gabriel/the entity…?? super villain Gabriel uses an antique plane to get away? Why did Luther have to die? Only to provide philosophical deep bass voice over? All of that seems to be lost on Ethan Hunt judging by his expressions. Maybe it’s the hypothermia. Swimming trunks in the Arctic sea? I fear the whole Marvel thing has infected the Mi writers and director. How outlandish can we go and still claim to be human? Still comes down to cutting the red wire to prevent nuclear war- same exact scenario with Henry Caville - a far better villain that whoever played Gabriel by the way- talk about phoning in the villainy! Caville has the device that will set off the bomb and Tom has to climb on the helicopter and get it from him while his teammates (the lovely Rebecca Ferguson by the way was sorely needed here) defuse the bomb. And they just barely do it - what McGyver and numerous others have done- beat the countdown. Sorry, I guess I’ve seen too many such plots now.
So, Tom, give me a call. I’ve got something more along the lines of Minority report- sci-metaphysical-fi- you’re a billionaire you’ve got the face and body and connections to make something extraordinary just because you say so - you took a chance with Vanilla Sky, right? And that Live Die Repeat? Honestly, Ethan Hunt ought to have been killed off or put into stasis or something other than just walking away through the crowd to get fish and chips maybe after saving the world and leaving an unsettling impression that he might get another mission. OK one more thing what the hell was Nick Offenbach doing as a general? The President’s team needed to be non-recognizable faces, just blending in - or - give them, some anyway, bigger roles- speaking of time- 2 hrs and 50 minutes?? Rolling around in the submarine could have been cut to five minutes - get in, get out, we know you will. Where was the segue to breaking through the ice to cuddling in the decompression chamber? In 6 I think it was the lovely Rebecca Ferguson appeared like wonder woman to save him from drowning- here, he floats to the surface (almost) - an unconscious body initially sinks, not floats.
Oh I’m just being a nitpicker I guess it’s just that Tom has so much potential it was frustrating to see it essentially wasted on a re-run. OK, so he gets in the AI mummy chamber- no discussion no preparation no explanation really - just “the entity.” Something that shows a lot of not too interesting video in Tom’s oculus. Just spitballing- Ethan Hunt has to go to the Amazon and have an Ayahuasca experience?
Maybe McQuarrie and Tom just had too many good ideas and made the mistake of trying to stuff them all into an insufficiently sized format? I can see why someone might do that out of high-budgeted enthusiasm combined with a sense of we have to be sure we make money on this, remember Heaven’s Gate?
And, is May 22, 1996 going to mean much to anybody born after that date? When did the US President start using Queen Elizabeth royal red wax seal?
I better stop I guess I’m having too much fun. Why couldn’t they sit around at the end and have a drinking toasting Luther? What’s the story with the new black guy? Seems like a trainee promoted too quickly.
But do go see it. It’s fun.