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I've never understood the hate MI:2 gets
Best Mission: Impossible movie and your ranking of the series?
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err the tv show started the mask fukery and as for the movie are you forgetting the scene at the end where he is disguised as voight?For all its bad rep MI2 defined much of what the series would eventually become. It pushed the series forward into the action genre, it gave us the mask fukkery that is now a series staple plus we might not even have had the motorcycle chase in Fallout if MI2 didn't do it first.
i dont know of any bond flick that is like an americanized woo movie
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1>3> the rest in any order (haven't seen 6 yet).
1 will always reign supreme - it was the truest spy/thriller film and all others have gone away from it. It had some great 1-on-1 dialogue scenes as well as just the right amount of action for a spy film.
I actually enjoyed the plot and villain of 3 - it actually felt like they had attempted to go back to the feel of the original and maintain the new higher level of action.
For those saying "why 2 getting so much hate?!":
Exactly what @MartyMcFly said:
Despite a cool bike chase I despise 2 as it was the sequel and completely deviated from the feel and concept of the first! I remember watching one of those "behind the scenes" shows they used to have on TV (before the abundance of online/YouTube stuff they got now
) and they even said the brought John Woo on board to increase the action and dumb down on the plot as they said people couldn't follow it!? WTF!? I feel that those who say they can't understand the plot (and its a lot more than you'd think) probably get lost in the scene where Ethan and Jim are talking and Ethan is saying what he thinks happened and Jim is just picturing what really happened - thats all it is!?
ALSO...the original is the only one with the genuine suspended from the ceiling scene which is infamous; since then they just recreate it as some signature with him basically doing some kinda bungee jump every film.
Ok I'm done!
1 will always reign supreme - it was the truest spy/thriller film and all others have gone away from it. It had some great 1-on-1 dialogue scenes as well as just the right amount of action for a spy film.
I actually enjoyed the plot and villain of 3 - it actually felt like they had attempted to go back to the feel of the original and maintain the new higher level of action.
For those saying "why 2 getting so much hate?!":
HOW CAN ANY OF Y'ALL shyt ON M:I 2?!?.
Exactly what @MartyMcFly said:
Despite a cool bike chase I despise 2 as it was the sequel and completely deviated from the feel and concept of the first! I remember watching one of those "behind the scenes" shows they used to have on TV (before the abundance of online/YouTube stuff they got now
) and they even said the brought John Woo on board to increase the action and dumb down on the plot as they said people couldn't follow it!? WTF!? I feel that those who say they can't understand the plot (and its a lot more than you'd think) probably get lost in the scene where Ethan and Jim are talking and Ethan is saying what he thinks happened and Jim is just picturing what really happened - thats all it is!?ALSO...the original is the only one with the genuine suspended from the ceiling scene which is infamous; since then they just recreate it as some signature with him basically doing some kinda bungee jump every film.
Ok I'm done!
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I know @MartyMcFly is a Bond stan but so am I and for me, the term Bond clone is meaningless because Bond movies have gone from serious drama to comedy, from heist to spy, political to non-political, fantastical to grounded and so on. They've done it all.
Well for me it means turning Ethan into a one man show and that’s not what MI is. It’s a team. Bond has always been one man on a mission. The mission impossible movies work best when it’s Ethan and crew
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I'd argue MI:2 had the best crew.
And they barely factor into anything which is where my point comes from. They're just there as window dressing
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The entire third act revolves around the actions taken by one of the crew in act 2.
Touche but even then its still the Ethan Hunt show. 3,4,5 and 6, especially 4,5,6 don't feel just like the Ethan Hunt show. Yes he's the main character but those movies feel like they're about more than just him. 2 is all about him and him trying to look cool and be cool when he really isn't.
Dude every movie since 2 they've tried to make him be cool especially the last three movies. The crew usually feels insignificant in most of these movies except for Ghost Protocol, but I'd argue they spent to much time trying to delve deep into Jeremy Renner and that chick's back story when there was barely anytime to really make you care about them to begin with.
I think he’s become less cool since part 3 actually
1>3> the rest in any order (haven't seen 6 yet).
1 will always reign supreme - it was the truest spy/thriller film and all others have gone away from it. It had some great 1-on-1 dialogue scenes as well as just the right amount of action for a spy film.
I actually enjoyed the plot and villain of 3 - it actually felt like they had attempted to go back to the feel of the original and maintain the new higher level of action.
For those saying "why 2 getting so much hate?!":
Exactly what @MartyMcFly said:
Despite a cool bike chase I despise 2 as it was the sequel and completely deviated from the feel and concept of the first! I remember watching one of those "behind the scenes" shows they used to have on TV (before the abundance of online/YouTube stuff they got now
ALSO...the original is the only one with the genuine suspended from the ceiling scene which is infamous; since then they just recreate it as some signature with him basically doing some kinda bungee jump every film.
Ok I'm done!
If you hate 2 from deviating from the original than you must hate all the sequels afterwards cuz the other sequels are much more in line with the more fast paced action of 2 than they are to 1.
Na the scene where he kisses the chick on his team at the reception in Ghost Protocol, the sexual chemistry he has with the shorty from, same as in part 6 the same shorty and they arms dealer. The cocky way that he reacts when he's asked to do some crazy ass mission. I honestly think 2 gets hate because John Woo's slow motion camera movements started become to frequent in his movies and by the time M.I 2 came out it became kind of a running joke. I'll say this though, they definitely bit off of Goldeney that highway scene in the beginning when he's flirting with Thandie Newton.
