Scientologist weirdo.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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He has gifted the world one masterpiece: 10 minutes of Tom Cruise being incomprehensible trying to explain scientology over looped mission impossible riff.
The Onion could have released this as is.
I couldn't make it through the whole thing, he looked so uncomfortable lying through his teeth like that
I had real trouble focusing as it is a torrent of inanity and word salad - I wouldn't be surprised if it's learned from a brainwashing technique as hours of that would then your brain to mush.
Really no better use of 400M dollars than a brain dead wank fest for this religious wakko?
I was amazed to find out that after throwing a steam train off a cliff for the previous film, almost the entire thing was replaced digitally. The live action footage was used for reference. Don't get me wrong, if I'd never seen the vfx breakdown, I'd probably never know. It's some amazing work by ILM.
Ouch - it'll need $1B to break even at this rate.
His best movies are the lawyer ones earlier in his career. I don't like most of his action movies. Too bad he basically ruined Mission Impossible's formula.
Tropic Thunder was pretty good tho.
As an old school M:I devotee I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the original series fro time to time and thoroughly enjoy it.
I also cringe at the mental gymnastics over the plot of this new 2-part movie…. You’ve got an evil AI on board a Russian sub that tricks the crew into torpedoing itself. The crew all dies but the AI survives onboard the sunken sub. And despite being stuck on a blown-up sub at the bottom of the ocean the AI is still a serious global threat. On top of that a two-part physical key that is the only thing that can disable the AI somehow made it off the sub and everybody is scrambling to find them. Once the keys are recovered somebody (clearly Tom Cruises character) will have to get onto the sunken sub and destroy the AI.
Why doesn’t the US or UK just go shoot a few more torpedoes at the sunken sub and obliterate the AI once and for all? The need to suspend so much reality for this plot drives me nuts.
The AI has made it out into the world, and the submarine has something that can stop it. The ai probably was recovered from the sub by the same people who went for the keys.
The last one was so bad it killed all enthusiasm I had in the whole series.
I kind of stopped watching Tom Cruise films after finding out he's in an anti-science cult founded by rich people and occasionally murders people. Really puts a damper on his whole vibe.
I still watch sometimes, but never in a way that gives them money.
I thought it was a satire joke from South Park?
That would be nice, but sadly no.
It was oddly bad wasn't it. I described it as a parody of a good Mission Impossible film. Something was definitely off in the directing/writing of that film.
Just saw it the other day and it was bloody awful. The actors looked like they wanted to die rather than say “entity” one more time, and it went on for nearly three hours despite having the plot of half a regular MI film. The high RT score doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
Omg they’re going to kill Tiny Tom aren’t they? Don’t go in the billionaire sub Tom!
For some reason thought 7&8 were both filmed at the same time