The Weekly Planet - Mission Impossible: Fallout - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: July 13, 2023

Ever seen a man reload his arms before? Well if you've seen Mission Impossible: Fallout from 2018 then you absolutely have. Considered by many to be the pinacle of the Mission Impossible series it see...s Solomon Lane's villainous return along newcomer Henry Cavill. This one has it all but in a way that elevants the stunts, the masks, the fistfights, the rockclimbing. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:32 that they're not alone. Help CAMH build a future where no one is left behind. So, who will you rise for? Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. Welcome back, everybody, to Caravan of Garbage where we're wrapping up this batch of Mission Impossible movies, aren't we? Absolutely. You said Mission Impossible earlier and you've cut it out in the edit.
Starting point is 00:00:59 No, I haven't. Interesting. And this is also cut out, so don't even worry about it. That's great, I love that. Fast and efficient. Exactly. Truman, terrific. I love that. Fast and efficient. Exactly. Truman, terrific. Like Tom Cruise.
Starting point is 00:01:08 Like Mitch and Impossible. Ah! Ha ha! Yes! Leave a like, because I'm human, just like Tom Cruise, sort of. He's not human. I think if we've established anything from re-watching these, he's not human, right? Well, I'll tell you what, Mason.
Starting point is 00:01:20 Ethan Hunt is having a bad time at the start of this movie. He's having the Sarah Connor Terminator 2 dream where they're obliterated by a big bomb and they're turned to skeletons. What a nice dream. I guess I'll continue having this dream. I'm getting married. And this mysterious man is marrying me and my wonderful wife who I love. I'll just keep dreaming.
Starting point is 00:01:37 I love this dream. Oh, this dream's getting weird. Yeah. Oh, no. It's the guy from the last movie and he's in his grubby era. Look how grubby he is now. I thought we didn't do recurring villains. God damn it.
Starting point is 00:01:48 That's right. I do like the idea of recurring villains, though. This, more than any other Mission Impossible movie, feels like a direct sequel. Yes, that's right. Now they're at the point where they're like, you remember? You remember, right? This, they went, we've got to learn a a lesson from casino royale to quantum of solace but 10 years later and infinitely better if we could we could do that absolutely yeah now mason
Starting point is 00:02:12 their mission this time should they choose to accept it they do spoiler alert yep is to is to not leave plutonium unattended yeah would have been pretty easy they they do such a good job initially benji grabs the case he's, got a hold of this case. And then they're like, boy, I can't hold this gun one-handed and also hold this briefcase one-handed. Better drop one of them. Yep. Oh, where's it gone?
Starting point is 00:02:36 I would have dropped the gun and be like, I've got a gun. I've got a backup spare gun. I think you could wave the plutonium. I've got a big batch of plutonium. I'll drop this on the ground. It'll kill us all. You don't know that that won't happen. You don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:49 I don't know either. I'm bad at my job. We've established he's bad at his job, right? Yeah, yeah. He kind of, I feel like, maybe not me. A more competent version of me would be a better agent than Benji. I can't hack. Look, I have some notes here about the the imf agent sort of
Starting point is 00:03:06 qualification procedure you have to be mates with tom cruise right well first that second one is i reckon i could guess most of the matching code phrases they use because it's always like the warrior looks at the out of the storm and he's somebody's like look out for the storm i could be like oh the warrior is the storm and they'd'd go, yeah, close enough. You know? It's not hard. Yeah, you're right, yeah. Just work it through in your brain. You're saying it should be something, like, entirely random.
Starting point is 00:03:30 Yes. Like, my ear's stuck in a door. Which is like a spy thing, I guess. Yeah, for sure. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And then you'd be like, sucks to be you with your ear stuck in a door.
Starting point is 00:03:42 Shouldn't have been listening. Here's the plutonium. And also, boy, those mission briefings have a lot of information in them. In this one, first you've got to stick your finger on that thumbtack and get blood into the thing, and then it reads your DNA into a book or whatever, and then it pops up the little Viewmaster reel thing, and then it projects a hologram onto the wall.
Starting point is 00:04:00 But then it's gone, look, okay, and then you're looking after a man. You're looking for John Lark, and he's built a terrorist organisation, but there's also another terrorist organisation. Oh, wait, does this pause? And then it's like, this will self-destruct in five seconds, and I'm like, oh, God, where's the back button? Where's the back button? There's no back button.
Starting point is 00:04:17 I can't hear you. We just say this at the end of them. You look like a guy who needs a back button, but to be clear, there isn't one. I'll be lost. I'd be lost. I'd be hoping everybody else on the team has gotten it and has maybe screenshotted it. Taken a photo with their phone off the wall, maybe. I think that's fine.
Starting point is 00:04:35 So do you think, though, and it's never happened in a movie. In any movie? Maybe not in any movie. Can you not accept the mission? I mean, they're paying you. So, like, do you have to i bet there's one guy in the office he did one he knocked it out of the park in like 1968 or whatever yeah and he just hasn't taken a mission since then and they can't fire him because it's in his
Starting point is 00:04:54 contract yeah yeah like boy you know good union yeah really good unions he's like well you know i could do it but if i fail yeah the world will be consumed by nuclear fire, so maybe you could get another. And they're like, goddammit, he's got us with occupation, health and safety once again. Who wants a 50% strike rate? Right? Fuck that.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Yeah. You know what I love? What's that? A fake hospital room. Yes. And that's what I love about Mission Impossible Fallout. Wait, they get the footage even. Do they have the explode of the...
Starting point is 00:05:25 Like ruined cities. Is that from the movie G.I. Joe Retaliation? It's from the video game Fallout. They just took some cut scenes from Fallout. Okay. Anyway, what I love about Mission Impossible Fallout is it does contain all the elements of the series, of like great espionage movies, generally fun ones.
Starting point is 00:05:45 Oh, this is the best one, by the way. This is the best one, yeah. If people are wondering what our opinion's on it, it's the best one. It's got all the elements we love. It's got masks. They've built a whole fake hospital room to trick a guy, and they've dressed up Benji as Wolf Blitzer and so forth. They did that sort of in the first one, but not like this.
Starting point is 00:06:03 But that's the thing, they're bringing it all back. Yeah, man. Right at the end of the movie, if we can rush to the first one. Yeah, but then- But not like this. But that's the thing, they're bringing it all back. Yeah, man. And right at the end of the, if we can rush to the end of the movie, when Henry Cavill and Tom Cruise tumble off the side of that cliff and only Tom Cruise reemerges. But how does he have the skills? When I saw that in the cinema, I stood up and I pointed at the screen. I said, he's maintained his rock climbing skills from Mission Impossible 2.
Starting point is 00:06:22 You thought we've all forgot about Mission Impossible 2, but we didn't. We didn't. I didn't say that, but I thought it. Yeah, yeah. I did stand up silently. But it has all the best stuff from the previous stuff. It's not just like, here's that thing exactly as it was done. It's like an improvement on it.
Starting point is 00:06:39 You know what's amazing? What's happening? You might not know this, but Wolf Blitzer actually played himself. That's not Simon Pegg in real life pretending to be Wolf Blitzer. They paid him money, I assume, to come in and pretend to be Simon Pegg playing Wolf Blitzer. Wow, that is a deception on par with Mission Impossible 3. When we've got, who do we have?
Starting point is 00:06:59 Philip Seymour Hoffman. When we've got Philip Seymour Hoffman playing Tom Cruise playing Philip Seymour Hoffman. Oh, my God. It's better. I told you everything's better. Yeah. Oh, my God. It's better. I told you everything's better. Yeah. Well, here's something that's better.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Henry Cavill looks better in a mustache. Absolutely. Quite frankly. I know people, like, they love his Superman or whatever. But fuck Superman. This is the look. This is the guy, right? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:07:18 I don't want to see the Witcher in his stupid wig. This is the look. Sensible, short back and sides haircut. And then you give him a mustache. You give him a bunch of stubble. He is the look. Sensible short back and sides haircut. And then you give him a mustache. You give him a bunch of stubble. He's looking great. There's the bit where his beard grows in. Yeah, that's right. Now, with that moment, I saw an interview with Tom Cruise.
Starting point is 00:07:35 They filmed it. It's just like that. It's just magic. I guess it's like a lighting and shadow and angle situation. Anyways, we've talked about it before because we have covered Justice League 2017. That's right. But can you please recap the mustache situation? Well, so back in the day...
Starting point is 00:07:51 I know people know this, but this is somebody's first video on the internet ever. Also, it gets bigger with the telling. Let's add some lies to it. Let's add some lies to it and pretend they're true. So prior to this, Henry Cavill had uh filmed for warner brothers the uh the the the initial uh all the initial shots for 2017's justice league
Starting point is 00:08:11 and then he moved on to his second his next project which was this one mission impossible fallout yeah for paramount and then warner brothers contacted paramount and said hey we're having a little bit of a problem with justice league in that we hate everything that's being filmed but we need to reshoot everything can we have henry cavill back for a little bit of a problem with Justice League in that we hate everything that's been filmed and we need to reshoot everything. Can we have Henry Cavill back for a little bit? Because he's Superman. That's right. And they were like, sure, why not?
Starting point is 00:08:30 And they said, also, since we've got you here, can we also have him shave his moustache off? And they said, absolutely not. Because he's got to come back. He's got to shoot again straight away. And they're like, how about we get our hair and makeup team to just do the hard yards and we will we will build the perfect replica of that hair and mustache or even like cgi it on we'll pay
Starting point is 00:08:52 for that for you that's right and they're like no uh because it's not going to be the same people will notice and most importantly tom cruise will notice and you and you don't want tom cruise to notice and you do not want Tom Cruise to notice and go, mm, me no like you. Look, I advise anybody, whether you're doing something that Tom Cruise approves of or not, you don't want to get noticed by that guy. He's going to be coming at you.
Starting point is 00:09:16 You're not ready. You're not ready quite frankly. That's right. It's a real Mr Burns shave those sideburns situation. So Paramount essentially said, look, you can borrow him, but you're either filming a Superman with a mustache or you were – That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's basically what you're doing.
Starting point is 00:09:38 So they did. And look, as we've said before, as I'm sure a lot of people know, visual effects artists can do amazing things flawless miracles yep if given enough time but they were not given enough time and so we end up with this yep here it is exactly and this is a real close-up a real close-up of our war top lip i don't like it it's no good well this is it's probably the better movie though right justice league no i mean this was this movie was better. This movie is better, yes. This movie is better, actually, yes. It's because they committed and they held their ground.
Starting point is 00:10:07 Absolutely. 2017's Justice League is a movie made by people who didn't hold their ground. You're 100% right. So there's a number of big stunts in this, and the one I guess which got the most kind of play before the movie came out was the Halo Jump. Now, I'll talk about the specifics. It's called the Halo Jump because if you fail, you you get a halo because you die that's right the video game
Starting point is 00:10:28 yes but the first one do you get an xbox you do not get an xbox yeah probably worth it just gonna spin the disc on your finger like an absolute chump now i feel like that jump is great but it is also obscured by like cgi lightning and fog And I'll talk about the specifics of how they did it. But I feel like there is just a lot more. There's probably not stuff more dangerous than that in this movie. But most of the other stunts and big action sequences I feel are more appealing than this. Even though this is clearly technically the most difficult thing to do. But if you think about how like Tom Cruise is flying a helicopter for real and he's climbing in and around it
Starting point is 00:11:06 and he does that big drop off it. Like the bathroom fight. The rock climbing. I feel like all of those things feel better than this, right? I don't know. Bathroom fight though. What I love about that is it's just out of nowhere. You don't know what's going to happen. And then it just
Starting point is 00:11:21 explodes. And it's not even that long. I remember it going for like 19 minutes. Yeah. But it's... You look at the guy and you're like, a guy in a fancy vest like that shouldn't be able to fight like that. But no, a guy in a vest like that
Starting point is 00:11:33 is exactly the kind of guy who can fight like that. Really incredible. And I appreciate that Cavill and Tom Cruise are like, yeah, we'll take our lumps in this. You know? Maybe some other franchises could learn from that, Mason. Yeah. The Mario Brothers franchise.
Starting point is 00:11:48 I know, right? He's eating all those mushrooms. He's got power-ups. Ridiculous. Embarrassing. Yeah. But even though it's like a shorter sequence than I remember, it's so brutal and intense and well choreographed,
Starting point is 00:11:59 and every moment and punch in it is slightly different than the last. Like it's not slap, slap, slap, slap. It's not like the same thing again and again, you uh-huh yeah yeah and you love it so much it's going to be the basis for this week's stunt i'm going to judo flip you through a mirror it won't be that it'll be a different stuff okay cool all right i don't want seven years bad luck or to be judo flipped through fx's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women
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Starting point is 00:13:31 Oh boy, here I go doing a big run again. Do you know what this big run is famous for though? The biggest, longest run? No, it's... The Guinness World Record for biggest, longest run? Not quite. He breaks his foot at the end of it in real life. Oh, I see. So when he makes that jump and you see him get up because they left it in
Starting point is 00:13:46 and you see him hobble away, that's because he broke his foot for real. Yeah. Or ankle. Sorry. Lower leg. Yeah. Yeah. His whole lower leg came off from the knee down.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Just turned to soup. I also feel like the fight at the end in that rock surface and Henry Cavill's got Huffy's face like melted off and they're screaming at each other or whatever. Maybe they're not screaming. Are they screaming? You were screaming. I was screaming.
Starting point is 00:14:09 Get him, Tom. Get him. I was. Save your estranged wife, Tom. Get him. You've got to get the fuse or whatever. Oh, my God. His estranged wife.
Starting point is 00:14:20 Let's talk about relationships in this. Rebecca Ferguson returns as the sort of love interest, which I feel like they're very slowly dropping. Yeah, right? A sort of love triangle that never was, really. Yeah, absolutely. She was actually pregnant while filming this movie and was about seven months pregnant by the time it was completed.
Starting point is 00:14:38 So Vanessa Kirby, she shows up as the white widow, who's also a double agent. What I didn't realise is that she's the daughter of Max from the first movie. What? Yeah. I have vague memories of Max. I remember the name. It's very punchy.
Starting point is 00:14:57 She died canonically in like 2017 within the universe, I believe, or something like that. So yeah, because she does a tribute speech to her late mother, Max, who she describes as a lover of paradoxes. But apparently, though, you might not have picked up on it because that's not clarified on screen. Oh, it's in the video again? Yeah, exactly. It's in the serial?
Starting point is 00:15:17 Yeah. You open up a box of Mission Impossible O's? Exactly. But I do love also how Luther's job in this particular movie, well, it's a number of things. One is to explain that Ethan cannot be in a relationship with a single human being because he's too in love with the world and everybody in it so much all of the time. In a way, he's everyone's husband.
Starting point is 00:15:36 He's got eight billion wives and it's all of us. But not Michelle Monaghan. That's right. Who's hanging out with Wes Bentley. What kind of beard has he got this time? Has he got his weird Hunger Games beard? He should have kept it. It's pretty close. That was his best look. That's right Who's hanging out With Wes Bentley What kind of beard Has he got this time Has he got his weird Hunger Games beard He should have kept it
Starting point is 00:15:47 That was his best look That's right Wes Bentley From Hometown boy From West Bentley Did you know that I didn't know that
Starting point is 00:15:55 That's incredible Speaking of hometown boys Do you know who Doesn't return in this You probably know I'll give you a clue Go on It's Jeremy
Starting point is 00:16:04 It is Jeremy Renner. Sorry, I'd forgotten. I'd forgotten about him for several weeks. But he was supposed to be. I know we talked about him last week. We did, we did. But I forgot about him for several weeks. No, you don't need to.
Starting point is 00:16:13 Okay, great. So he was supposed to be in it initially. His role was kind of interesting, but he was filming several Avengers movies at the time. And the original idea in this was to kill one of Ethan's team members. So they were thinking at that exchange at the start with the plutonium, it was going to be maybe Luther or Benji. And then Christopher McQuarrie thought, well, let's kill Jeremy Renner.
Starting point is 00:16:35 And then they were like, that sounds like a crime. He's like, okay, let's kill Jeremy Renner's character. Who is also named Jeremy Renner. Yes, that's right. By coincidence, yeah. But apparently Jeremy Renner didn't want to take a paycheck for three days and then getting blown up. So that's why he was written out.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Wow. That's not the Hollywood spirit, is it? I agree. Come on, man. James, you would love, I don't know about you, but I would love to take a three-day paycheck and get blown up in a Mission Impossible movie. Yeah, yeah, I would.
Starting point is 00:17:03 Yeah, I was going to say I don't love anything, but I would love that. And I love my family. That's true. Well, they could do it out in your front yard. James, don't let them get the plutonium.
Starting point is 00:17:12 And then it's just suburban explosion in the daytime. And I feel like also the audience are moved, you know? They see that and they go, wow, what a powerful character.
Starting point is 00:17:22 This is probably the most emotional moment in any of these movies. Yeah. Now here's the question the question go on it's a question we always come back to does he go rogue now i thought he was going rogue especially when he knocked out one alec baldwin he's like i'm going rogue i'm going rogue on you alec baldwin r.i.p by the way he's out of this franchise or he isn't no this isn't really the kind of franchise where if you die, you come back. That's correct. Unless you're like, you know.
Starting point is 00:17:48 It could be within, like, Jon Voight did it in, like, one movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you see the corpse, they're pretty definitively dead. Actually, that's not true. But if you, you know. I mean, Henry Cavill took a hook to the face and fell off a cliff into an explosion. I'm sure there's a way he could be like,
Starting point is 00:18:03 that wasn't him and it was a mask and whatever. I'm sure there is a way to do that. But I feel like maybe don't. We swapped in midair with Jeremy Renner. Jeremy Renner's dead. Not the character Jeremy Renner. The actor Jeremy Renner. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:15 Here's the thing though. He has gone rogue in all of these movies. I don't think he goes rogue in this one. I don't think he does go rogue in this one. You posed the question to me and I'm like, I don't know if he does. He's got certain factions. I suspect the CIA would say he's going rogue. Yes, but he's doing
Starting point is 00:18:32 all of this within the realm of the Mission Impossible team. Yes, that's right. He gets permission to go rogue from Alec Baldwin. That's right. But in Alec Baldwin dying, then who's he reporting to? That's true. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:18:45 Just God, I guess. Yeah. Just God. Or does God report to him? No, he reports to Xenu, and then Xenu passes a message via God to Tom Cruise. Oh, that's great. That's terrific. What about his hair?
Starting point is 00:18:57 Because I feel like this is now the look, right? Yeah. This is now the Ethan Hunt look. We're not getting wacky hairstyles anymore. Yeah, right. This is the character. This is solid hair. Yeah. This is now the Ethan Hunt look. We're not getting wacky hairstyles anymore. Yeah, right. This is the character. This is pretty, this is solid hair. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:08 You know, it's not. It's not in his face. That's true. It's not Mission Impossible 1 short. It's not Mission Impossible 2 anime hair. Yeah. It's just solid dependable. He can maybe style a little depending on his role, you know,
Starting point is 00:19:21 if he wants to, you know, go undercover as a punk or a hippie, for example. Oh, yeah. You know? Which he often does, no doubt. That's right. No, I don't disagree. A grandmother.
Starting point is 00:19:31 A grandmother, yeah. Put a little grey in there, you know? Absolutely. Permits, you know? But otherwise, it's, you know. Anyway, it's time to do some trivia, Mason, and this segment, as you know, is called Tom Cruise VR. Should you cruise to accept this?
Starting point is 00:19:45 I do cruise to accept it. It's some great trivia. Tom Cruise trained for an entire year to perform the Halo Jump. It's called Halo because it's called high altitude, low opening, just so you know. You said it was the disc thing, but it's this. Huh, interesting. Yeah, there you go.
Starting point is 00:20:00 I still think it's the disc thing. Might be the disc thing. So Alan Hewitt, who was the skydiving coordinator on this movie, says that... Jesus Christ, this is too dangerous. You can't do it, Tom Cruise. Don't do it. No, I'm going to do it. I'm already doing it.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Yeah. He said, it takes an accelerated free fall instructor over 1,000 jumps to get it right. And something like 70% of the people who try to qualify at the instructor level fail. Tom had just 100 jumps to perfect this. And some say he did. Tom Cruise broke his ankle. Apparently it was his ankle, I guess. I knew that already.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Yeah, me too. Shooting was delayed eight weeks following the injury. And the footage of the stunt, as mentioned, it's in the trailers and it's in the movie. But to this day, Tom Cruise still refers to this stunt as the easiest of all that he's had to do for this film. That's incredible, Tom Cruise. That's great.
Starting point is 00:20:48 Breaking my ankle was one of the easiest stunts I've ever done. Just put all my weight on it. Just landed weird. I didn't even have to do it 100 times. They said I might have to do it 1,000 times to break my ankle. That's what the breaking my leg instructor said, but I did it in one. You're welcome, Christopher McQuarrie.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Apparently he was also back on his feet in like record time. His foot. Yeah, foot. He's like, I'm going to do incredible physio.
Starting point is 00:21:11 I'm going to be back to my best. And he was. My doctor said you'd have to wait up to a thousand days for that bone to knit, but mine knitted in one.
Starting point is 00:21:20 The film had 3,000 setups, 13 helicopters, six pregnancies, brackets, all different women apparently. Whoa. I mean, you'd think so, right?
Starting point is 00:21:29 Yeah, yeah. Those were load-bearing pregnancies, by the way. Oh, no. If you take any one of them out, the stunt collapses. Five hiatuses, four weeks of aerial photography, over three continents, two winters, and, of course, one broken ankle. That's right. That's right. Are you ready for a big stunt, Mason?
Starting point is 00:21:45 Yeah. There we go. Wow, what a good one. That was incredible. Yeah. Best one you've ever done. Craziest one. Closest to death you've ever come, I think.
Starting point is 00:21:53 We don't know what it is yet. No, no, we'll figure it out. You're going to think about it this week. Yeah, I'll figure it out. It'll be something not very good. Mason box office, though. Oh. Now, on a budget of $178 million,
Starting point is 00:22:04 that seems very reasonable, you know? These days, sure. These on a budget of $178 million that seems very reasonable. You know? These days, sure. These movies blowing out to $300 million. What are you even making? What are we doing here? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:22:12 You know? Nonsense. I reckon bring back the mid-budget movie. Give us a mid-budget Mission Impossible. Mmm. They're just, you know.
Starting point is 00:22:20 I guess if I wanted to look like something it would be the Treadstone TV series based within the Jason Bourne universe. How about this Mission Impossible 9? It's just exclusively Tom Cruise disappearing behind buses.
Starting point is 00:22:31 Perfect. Just constantly. Two hours of that. He was just there and then the bus went by and he disappeared. I'm still here though. I'm over here now. I'm in a different spot. How does he do it?
Starting point is 00:22:40 The box office return on this though was $791.7 million. The biggest of the franchise as of yet. Very good. But maybe not forever, you know? Yeah. I feel like these are just getting more and more beloved. It did come in behind Infinity War, Black Panther, Fallen Kingdom, Incredibles 2, Aquaman, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Venom.
Starting point is 00:23:00 Bohemian Rhapsody. How embarrassing. What I love about that movie is it's fucking dreadful. What do you love about it? That it's dreadful. I mean, there's good performances. I love Dexter Fletcher who came in and tried to save it after Bryan Singer. Just a fucking horrible mess though.
Starting point is 00:23:19 Check it out. Check it out, Mason. It's got our two thumbs up. It's dreadful, guarantee. Anyways, wow. It's got our two thumbs up. It's dreadful, guarantee. Anyways, wow. We did it. Another three Mission Impossible movies in the can. That's right.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Took us a thousand hours or years or whatever, you know? Yeah, yeah. And people might love these. People might. The Mission Impossible movies or these videos? No, these videos. I mean, people might love these. I said might.
Starting point is 00:23:44 Yeah, I know. Yeah. And if they do want to see these early, they can actually head over to BigSandwich.co where they always go up early. That's right. Because Ben and Lawrence get the edit done. They get it done.
Starting point is 00:23:54 They get it done. We thought it would take them a thousand videos to get them done. Mm-hmm. But they did it in one video. They did it in one video. One video, one broken ankle. They got it done. Who's taking the broken ankle this week?
Starting point is 00:24:04 Ben, Lawrence? There's also bonus movie commentaries. There's also video game Let's Plays. Our podcast, the weekly planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows, where, of course, we're going to cover the new Mission Impossible movie, actually goes up there on Sunday as opposed to Monday. All of that is ad-free and exclusive. But, of course, you can just hang out here.
Starting point is 00:24:23 But here's a hint towards next week's video. Whoa. Is it Masters of the Universe? It's Masters of the Universe. Oh, my God. Remember that one? Yeah, I just saw it. And?
Starting point is 00:24:33 But you didn't know we were going to cover it. You just watched it, right? I just watched it. I watch it every week, yeah. It got drilled into me as a kid. I can't not watch it now. Oh, so even if you're not watching it, you're watching it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:44 Your brain is watching it. I blame Ronald Reagan, quite frankly. Fair enough. Anyways, thanks, everybody. I can't not watch it now. Oh, so even if you're not watching it, you're watching it. Yeah. Your brain is watching it. I blame Ronald Reagan, quite frankly. Fair enough. Anyways, thanks everybody. Grab that gem, you guys. We'll see you next week. Goodbye.
Starting point is 00:24:53 FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret,
Starting point is 00:25:11 the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+.

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