We Hate Movies - S15 Ep802: Mission: Impossible III (with Ben Worcester)

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

“He’s at the height of his Lost powers here” - Ben on J.J. Abrams On this week’s episode, we welcome Ben Worcester onto the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza to chat about the super-fun action sequel, Mission: Impossible III! How great is this engagement party scene with Ethan working the room? Has there been a better M:I villain than the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman’s portrayal of Owen Davian? Is this the M:I flick with the most Ving? And how lucky is Ethan to have Aaron Paul for a brother-in-law? PLUS: Does Ethan Hunt have the same bartending skills as Brian Flanagan? Mission: Impossible III stars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg, Eddie Marsan, Laurence Fishburne, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Owen Davian; directed by J.J. Abrams. This episode is brought to you in part by Rocket Money! Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Download the Rocket Money app and enter our show name—We Hate Movies—in the survey so they know we sent you! Don’t wait! Download the Rocket Money app today and tell them you heard about them from our show! Don’t miss our next Worldwide Digital Event, happening Friday, June 20th at 9pm/eastern where we’ll be LIVE talking about a total superhero all-timer, Superman II! Join us that night to revel in all the fun with Zod & Friends, everyone at the Daily Planet, and the two legendary performances from Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman! Replay available for 14 days after broadcast!  Tickets are going fast for our three-night residency during the Oxford Comedy Festival! We’ll be doing six shows over three nights from July 18 through 20. Tickets are going fast—our shows on Quantum of Solace and Hellraiser are already SOLD OUT—so don’t wait, snag your tix today!  Throughout 2025, we’ll be donating 100% of our earnings from our merch shop to the Center for Reproductive Rights. So head over and check out all these masterful designs and see what tickles your fancy! Shirts? Phone cases? Canvas prints? We got all that and more! Check it out and kick in for a good cause! Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

this week on the program well at least he didn't kill this franchise like he did with star wars it's j j j abram's mission impossible three i'm andrew jupin eric siska well they uh they get everything done so i do think it's mission possible actually oh holy shit with the heaters in the beginning oh chris cabin wow from the grave i didn't know we had a guest star that's right my goodness ben was And we hate movies. Hello everyone. Welcome to We Hate Movies. Thank you for tuning in as always. That's right. The summer blockbuster extravaganza continues this week with a convo on Mission Impossible 3 from 2006 directed by yes, JJ Abrams, Mr. I'll fix Star Wars myself. Sure. Sure. He tried to fuck it and do it live and look

what happened. And this is the last one. We cited no more numbers after this, right? No, no. No. No. This is the last number. Yeah, second titles now. And that's why we had to bring in someone who despises numbers after sequels. Mr. Ben Wister returned to the program. I hate numbers after sequels. But you know what I love? What? Being in the company of some respectable gentleman.

Let me know when you meet him. And Eric. I don't see no one respect. Preemptively, you saw what was coming. You're like, I'm going to quash this right away. Speed in front of him. I'll teach that guy to give me a compliment. Yeah, no, Steve continuing to be Mr. Mexico this week.

So we thought, let's bring in Ben Wester to talk about this. Because Ben, a thousand years ago, people might not know this. We joined our forces together to do like a Mission Impossible pseudo, like mini-episode marathon. Of which I remember Nonna. I remember you were there. And you were there. I think that's in the Patreon archive now. The Mission Impossible athon.

Athon. It was on the eve of either Rogue Nation or fallout i forget which one i think it was rogue nation though yeah four episodes i think that might be one for one two three four i think i think it was i mean with the summer bringing us the eighth installment uh i think it was right in the middle it was just before yeah that sounds right i think you're right the start of the mccory block oh my god which is what we find ourselves in now but back in 2006 we were still going through directors with different styles and stuff we started with dipalma and then we had John Wu.

So now we go here to J.J. Abrams. And I realize what's going on here with this. Because, like, JJ Abrams, much more of like a working man kind of director. Oh, yeah. Not a super style. But what this movie has that the others don't, one, it's the obnoxious screenplay trope that, like, Abrams and his ilk sort of championed, which, you know, blew up for a while. And now it's kind of gone away.

But that whole, let's start at the end of the movie somewhere. Right. And, like, show you what the stakes are going to be and then zoom back to the beginning. I always show you how fucking influential this is All trailers do this now All the trailers are now doing what Abrams did back of 2006 I like this movie a lot But the whole like

I bet you're wondering how I got into this Yes, exactly That's also that The other thing that's very Abrams feeling And I think it comes from Abrams doing TV Things like What was the Jennifer Garner spy show there Was Alias, yes

Which was like sort of what got him this job pop music is all over this in a way that it's not in the rest of the franchise you've got like the the engagement party where there's just music all over the place and then when he's got the he's got the walkie talking and he's trying to shake laurence fishburne and he puts the walkie talk out of the boombox so there's more pop music there are family we are family yeah yeah and like pop music doesn't really exist in the world of these movies at least in that way to be featured as much these guys are too busy to listen they got an impossible mission to do he's more of a human in the world of these movies he's more of a human in the world of these movies he's more of a human in the movie these movies. And the second one, he was like, it was funny how much of an action star he was. Right. Right. And then this one, he's like, well, let's take that all the way down and like make him kind of a normal guy who is just,

he has, this motherfucker has a brother-in-law. Oh, dude. My God in heaven. Aaron Paul, the brother-in-law to be. That is not what Ethan Hunt would have had in two or one. You just don't have that. I realize what you're saying you're making more human. This is kind of like this franchise's version of

Honor Majesty's Secret Service. The movie where he falls in love, gets married. Underrated, by the way. Underrated movie that lays in B1, it's excellent. I mean, the woman gets murdered at the end and the marriage falls apart and, you know, whatever. But, you know, Julia and Ethan are divorced by the time four rolls around.

The marriage falls apart by the bride falling apart. That's more like Magneto's storyline and apocalypse. But it is, you know, this is the most human Ethan Hunt gets because he has a actual real deal, personal relationship with a woman that has nothing to do with his job. Michelle Monnetta for crying out well. Hell yeah, dude.

The family plan's own Michelle Monter. Oh, yes, of course. And, of course, just off of White Lotus, yes. Much more recent. Some of this is like, because Abrams was, I mean, he's Mr. Reboot, right? Isn't this? He's kind of had to reboot a little bit.

There was a bit of time between two and three because I guess of the way two was sort of it made waves. Like dismissed. It was. The word I always used to. This kind of sets the tone for the next, all the other ones. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this sort of settles things into, like, what the groove is going to be.

It was also a directorial thing. I forget now who was supposed to direct it, but, like, Kenneth Branagh was supposed to be the bad guy. Scarlett Johansson was supposed to be in it. Like, there was all this shit. No, thank you. And then whoever it was quit, and then they had Carnahan. Joe Carnahan was supposed to do this for a little bit. And then, it would probably be the only time there's a Mission Impossible movie with slurs.

in it is. Ethan, we're going to have to take a bong hit off this shotgun. Davian's making me do it. Also, I'm going to be fucking while I do it. Just hold on, I got my dick a little wet while we do it. Is the hitting the shotgun? Is that NARC? I believe so, yeah. Ray Liotta, NARC?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one I like. If I'm going to like one of his, that one's pretty good. But, like, Joe Carnahan doing Mission Impossible, I just can't. It just doesn't seem to fit. They're supposed to be a little bit of class to Mission Impossible. Right, right. Carnahan is literally the opposite.

If you want your mission impossible movie to smell like stale cigarettes, Joe Carnahan is your guy. Precisely. It's more like that. But then as, so the story goes, I guess, Tom Cruise literally binge-watched the first two seasons of Aalius and was like, this guy does spy shit really well.

Let's see if he'll do it. And so then they had to wait even longer because Tom wanted JJ to do it and what was going on at the time to try to make the movie. He's still involved in making Lost. Lost is still on the air and everything. and I think actually alias might have still been

maybe not I can't remember but so he was busy the height of his lost powers too like 2006 Lost is like the chugging it's really chucking along because that was like

the third season I think around there maybe the second so it was like still captured the public's imagination before everyone turned on it yeah before we explained away

the smoke monster and it was pretty disappointing that was the real turn against Lost didn't really happen until like you were still, like, it was right on the eve of the last season. It was like the second half of

the season before it, I feel is when people were like, well, I don't know about this. It was when you realize the flash forwards and the flashbacks, now we're also going to include what they called side flashes. So did you go, you lost me? Excuse me, you lost me. I'm sure someone in

Entertainment Weekly said that. Bruce for Lange. I think in Lost and as much as his other movies like, he is the number one like, he is from the Amblin school. he is a Spielberg guy if you watch his movie I almost said 8mm super 8 is literally

yeah like JJ Abrams 8mm's 8mm This little kids have a snuff film It's on a Super 8 camera Little kids where that stuff film you made The aliens eating it It needs it to live I need two kids to lead me to machine

I mean Super 8 is a Stephen Spielberg movie That was made in the odds And a lot of like Storytelling being like a little bit more forward I think that leads into to this movie where it is like it's about

making it personal that was the whole thing with the last two is like the last one they're both like accidentally personal this one it's like well he's got a wife

it's intentionally yeah like it's happening all already highlighting why dudes that have jobs like this can't have relationships what are you talking about

he works for the the traffic department oh yeah the state of Virginia DOT you know that he got like there was a debt There was probably a weekend where you couldn't talk to Tom Cruise about him bringing up, like, what the department of traffic does every day because he got into, because he got into it. He got into it. He got into it. He will be, he will get into it. Oh, I know everything about him. I know what they have to deal with every day. Way into it. And your assistant is going to like, wants to kill themselves because they're just like, no, please. Did you know traffic's like a living organism? Yes, Tom. We know. I'd marry him.

Oh, man. Yeah. No, that's that party with Greg Grunberg. Oh, yeah, Greg Brunberg's at your fucking engagement party, God damn it. Doing the fake snoring after he explains the Department of Transportation stuff is very good. He got Grunberged. You got Grunberg. That's a JJ staple. Oh, yeah, dude, you're getting Grunberged all the way into fucking Rise of Skywalker. Yeah, he is in Skywalker, isn't he?

Oh, boy. And Greg Brunberg is Jeff Skywalker, yeah. But yeah, so we start in the third act. It's very annoying. But here's Philip Seymohoff, and you hear him before. you see him and it's you know we put an explosive charge in your head which is a pretty good opening line i'm like okay i'm in it's true i mean j jay loves his flashing we've established but like also when you do have he shows his dick oh really no i'm kidding go ahead

when you have your when you have a philip seymour hoffman yeah you kind of you got to start with him he's got to be your lead off hitter yeah exactly exactly i would i also like to put this out there. 2006, right? When this comes out, he was already quite the talent. He already won for Capote at this point. He just won. He just won. Because Capote was like 0.5.

I think it's 0.5. Yeah. So he's like, so he's just starting to like really just be more than that guy that was in Boogie Nights. Right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. In retrospect, looking back, it's only like heavier. Like it's just, it gets bigger

and better this performance. I remember the time seeing it being like, that was good, but like, it just like, it's like a fine wine. This thing just keeps getting better. Owen Davian is one of the best most menacing Mission Impossible villains. Yeah, he's fucking awesome. And so here he is, you know, he's this weapons dealer guy. He's asking Tom Cruise for the location of the rabbit's foot. We don't know what the rabbit's foot is.

The fucking movie just started, but we're starting an hour and 15 minutes into it. Never know what the rabbit's foot is. I think that's also like a JJ thing, right? He's always like the mystery box. I like not knowing the McGuffin. I know he didn't invent this, but he uses it a lot. Yeah. I love, I just love not knowing it.

It's great because we can focus on like everything else. And you just know like, oh, it's a world ending, whatever. It doesn't matter. That's the whole thing. But I also like that he does it. He's not so lazy that he just doesn't say McGuffin. Right. He actually has something.

Where's the Mcuffin? Yeah. I need you to give me the location of the fucking McGuffin. All right. You know the thing that we're all after. You can't. I mean, you fucking get it, right? And we see what's going on here, Michelle Monaghan, who we don't know,

who she is yet in the movie, but clearly she's important to Ethan in some way. She's tied to a chair. You got 10 seconds. I'm going to shoot her in the fucking head. It's in Paris. It's not Paris. It's not Paris. This villain could be the Alex Jones voice. Oh, yeah, I should just do that voice for him.

You just, you just got to be... Yeah, the rabbit's foot is not Paris. Yeah, it's the anti-God device. Yeah, we all know this is coming. You want to let me go, and you want to Let me get to... Uh, no, I don't.

No, actually, it's you who's making the freaking frogs gay. The government put a... No, not the government, me, put an explosive charge in your head. You're going to need to wear this tinfoil hat. It's the only way you're going to survive the blast. Take these supplements. It's the only way to come in the charge. Brain flexed pills to flex out that explosive.

You know what will cure all that is chicken bone. You just got to chew on some chicken bones. But, you know, so this ends with a... 10 gunshot goes off Ethan screams and then We got back Fridge Yeah

Yeah And these this font is nice too It's pretty sweet Red and it's in your face Because it's nice We're coming off the end of 3D And I think you were kind of usually Coming off the end bro

This is 2006 I guess we're right in the middle of it Yeah right in the middle of it Yeah I mean because we're dealing with like Clash of the Titans in like 2010 So I think like all this stuff was thinking like that

So all the credits look nice and poppy. Just in case they want to in post to make this in 3D. There's stuff coming at you. Can I put something out there? More menacing, count down from 10 or count up to 10? Because he was doing a count up to 10. Which is unexpected.

Yeah. Already getting you off balance. Well, like, Ben, you're apparent. Do you do like on the count of three or like three, two, one, and then no dessert? It is something that is surprisingly effective with, with toddlers. Really?

Counting up, though. Counting up. Yeah. Two, three, no dessert. And you tell them you put an explosive charge. Listen to your junior. The oxo charge, oxo-tot charge. From Beanie Baby.

Yeah. If you want your child to really have a good Christmas and a well-behaved Christmas, you just put this in his head and he will, they will, sorry, we will, uh, we will teach you how to behave because otherwise you're going to die. Do you like your eye moving like that? Oh, Jesus. I love that eye move.

So we get this engagement party and this is the only real time you get to see Ethan Hunt act like a human being in public here. You know, we got people over to celebrate. Gorgeous house. Yes. The spreads here, you know,

looking awesome. Like, these guys can throw a party, man. I have to say. We've got the fucking radio disco song playlist going on from Spotify absolutely it is bopping if you are fucking 35 or older you are happy it's how you keep the fun moving yes it's party time and party tom tom is oh man the hosting mode that he's in right yeah dude everyone is feeling taking care of at this party yep you're absolutely right he's very smart because he he takes on that role immediately and then when he

does need the out of course he can be like fuck get the ice ice out of here. Oh, we need ice. He can extricate himself from any situation. It's very smart. What a super spy. It's awesome watching him use super spy thinking to figure out how to get out of a party. Engagement party. Throw the ice off the back

porch. No problem. To ensure domestic bliss, you know, if you got used the spy craft. Yeah, we see, so this is Michelle Monaghan as Julia. Julia's brother, played by a not yet famous Aaron Hall. Rick. Rick is it? Ricky. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is great. He looks like he does, he

looks closer like he does in that Honey Nut Cheerios commercial he did as a child than he does on Breaking Bad. I think it was Honey Nutrius. He did some... It's the hair. Whatever, like, the hair is like, it throws me off because I'm used to Jesse and I'm like, well, that's not really. Yeah, he doesn't have the close

cropped, like, Jesse Pinkman hair. It's very wild and all over the place. And he's, like, drunk, giving Tom Cruise a big I'm so excited to be your brother in Laura! You can do worse than this guy's before. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Oh, are you kidding me? Totally.

totally and I love all the stuff about like all her friends are like well we finally meet the mysterious Ethan and this that and the other thing we do this is a nice little script thing here we see him utilizing his lip reading power for domestic things first right because he's like watching

across the room as Michelle Monaghan's talking to her friends and you get the close up on the lips and you realize what's going on and it's like I sure hope he utilizes this skill later while in the field otherwise this is just creepy look you got to use what you got I mean, like the lip play in this, though.

I like seeing them lips. Yeah, totally. When you're a super spy, you can't turn it off. Yeah, you know? That's true. He's always working, man. He's always working. And he was working that cocktail shaker a little bit. I thought we were going to get, I was like, ooh, Tom Cruise making cocktails.

Totally, dude. I got the hippie, hippie shakes. Oh, yeah. Making drinks flipping stuff all over the party's going to get. I haven't seen that since cocktail. Turned up. There's, now, correct me if I weren't speaking to, like, referencing other movies, it honestly wouldn't be that out of

left field here because I feel like as we get to them we'll kind of bring them up there's moments in the movie where there's these little subtle homages to what feels like things JJ's seen and liked you know like oh interesting this in there you know there's

this brought up Spielberg the ambulance school like there's a Spielberg moment later on where you're kind of like is that what he's doing oh I'm interested when you point this out I didn't have that time to turn your point I really do think if you're going to do all this, the hippie, hippie shake and you're doing the thing. You should have

maybe as his future father-in-law, you've got Brian Brown, you get him in there, back from the dead. That would be awesome. My Australian father-in-law to be. Sure, hey, you know what. I'd love to see him making cocktails for like a group of people and he needs to like poison

three of them or something like that. And just like shimmy-shimmy and in the little drops, you know. Yeah, totally. They make her, the thing that he's lip reading if she's talking about like oh we you know met on this lake well you know what was the lake or whatever

and he's like wakata or whatever um i wondered because our we love movies episode this month is fallout yeah that starts with Ethan's nightmare about doing the the wedding vows yes yes and uh the the villain there

is um doing the proceedings but that's on the side of a lake by the mountains like to talk about and i was like that's a really nice callback to this movie in Fallout. They remembered that's where they met and whatever. So naturally he would dream about that's where they have their wedding. You'll die on the bank of

Lick when I'm not. There is a lot of connection. Yeah, there's this a great connection between three and Fallout which I didn't even think about when we scheduled this, but it really worked that nice. No, that's, I didn't either. And then I was watching this yesterday and I was like, hey, we accidentally did something cool. But while this great party's going on, he gets

a phone call from the travel agency. Oh, and he fucking knows what's up. He does the, he does the ice dump. Oh, I got to go get ice. And she's like, can't we send someone else? Like, no, no, no. I'm the ice expert here, honey. I'm going to go get the ice. Go to the grocery store, not

the 7-Eleven. He's going to the 7-Eleven. Dude, Ethan Hunt at a 7-Eleven, man. Again, this is just a weird juxtaposition of images. Yeah, it's a weird, to see him near an Oreo. It just doesn't make sense. I'm sorry. He doesn't. He doesn't eat

that stuff. His body would reject that. You can actually get calories from looking at an Oreo. You can't look at it. They don't tell you this stuff, but they have that technology now. It's true. Not even the double stuff. It can be the normal Oreos, the mini Oreos can get you. That's true. You know what's more dangerous

than Oreos these days? What's that? They got these, what is the Nutella spread, right? Oh, the biscuit. Dude, the Nutella biscuits. You must never. You must never. Dude, don't even start. It's like getting it's done crack.

It's, it's tough. And every time I'm at the grocery store, I'm just like, they got another bag of them biscuits or what? So it's the fan, yeah. Fucked. It's just, you bite into a little, a little cookie, and it's just filled with it. It's just delicious, dude. Nasty.

Yeah, dude, I'm getting nasty with these biscuits, man. Hell you. Nutella biscuits, look out for them. I don't see, I don't think they're on the thing. I think you get a Reese's cup, maybe. I think you get, maybe see some airheads in this shot. But Oreos was definitely the one that, that, that, that, pointed out to me. Oh, sure. But it's

Billy Crudup, and Billy Crudup is like, hey, sorry to interrupt your little engagement party. But your protege, Carrie Russell, is missing. And she is, we don't know what's happened to her.

We have a go team that's going to leave in the morning. I don't know if you want to go or not. I know you're going to go. Um, you know, just to let's see what's going on. He says he's not going. Yeah, he's not going to go. It's pretty clear.

He's like, you know, listen, wheels up at dawn. If you're cool, yeah, we got a movie to do. So if you're cool doing the movie, wheels up at dawn. And he goes, hey, have fun of the engagement party. Take some pictures for me. And he flicks a disposable camera on a rat. I like, pretty cool. Kodak being the thing that you watch to go, that's pretty cool.

I like that. That's a nice. I think Kirtup. Billy, Kirtip? Crudup. Crud up. Crud up. What a nasty name.

You can't have. that name. Mr. Naomi Watts. I think Mr. Naomi Watts. That's a name I can say. I think he's pretty good in this. I really like him. I love. He's awesome. Yeah, this is John Musgrave is the character and he's like the IMF

operations guy. So Ethan goes home. Watches the, it's awesome, like the little disposable camera's got the eye scanner and everything and shows him the mission here. And yes, it's Carrie Russell as agent Lindsay Ferris. And we should say, you know, what's going

on here. I don't think we know it just, or maybe Crud Up says something about it, but basically Ethan is out of the field at this point after the events of the second movie, and he is instead training people. Yeah. So he's kind of doing what Maverick finds himself doing, funny enough. Oh, wow, look at this.

But yeah, so it's like, hey, the first woman that you trained and said she was okay to go out in the field has gone missing in Berlin. So the mission is go to Berlin, get her back, and, you know, all will be gravy. Yes. So here we go. And

speaking of, speaking of fucking Maverick, dude, this is awesome. You got Tom just driving onto a airport tarmac on a motorcycle. Pretty awesome. Young screenwriters out there, you want Tom Cruise to do your movie. Have him ride a motorcycle near an airbase. That'll really do it. That would be a mission impossible for me.

Riding a motorcycle. That's a, whoa, whoa. And then I'm dead. Well, he chose to accept it, but he crashed, so we're just going to disavow. Take my breath away. fire crash in the middle of it Eric's hand bloody coming out of the correctage

sounds like a good McGruber joke honestly but yeah so we go off and we meet the team here and oh boy match point himself match point isn't this Jonathan Reyes Myers? Oh Jonathan Bruce Meyer. I think Woody Allen was showing yeah I'm good joining

the IMF I hope that's a mask that better not be the real criminal I'm a Managing things. Yeah, I'm the guy who sits in the van. Many files. We got Luther, Vingrams himself. Yes, walking in this movie.

He's walking, he's running, and he's not at any point. This was surprising, wearing a cool hat. No. Shocking. He is hatless in this. I repeat, hatless. There should be like a Mr. Skin for that for like if he's got a hat on her. Yeah, he didn't.

Pardon me? Not a Jimmy hat, Ben. A hat on your noggin. Oh, so what it is, what you're proposing here is a VingRame's hat database. Yes, sure. Every Ving Rames movie. Explain which hat is, like the gun database and the car database. Exactly.

But just for Ving Rames, not for anybody else. You got to start somewhere, Chris. Okay. The V-R-H-D-B, the VingRame's hat database. Okay, but it's separate from the hat database. So there will be a hat database, of course. This is the trial run. Okay.

I don't give a shit about other hats and sit-all right. I just, whether Ving Rames is in a movie. I think that game with him becoming an old man yet. It's the episode, it's number four when he becomes an old man. He is kind of a, yeah, he's a younger, hip, badass dude in this movie. And it's not like the elder statesman Luther. It's the next one. It's the next one he's in. I forget if he's in the next one. But whatever the next one, that's when he becomes an old man. Dude, Ving Rames calling Ethan Hunt here, Mr. Those Who Can't Do Teach. Well, look who it is. I was like, man, that's ball busting to the best degree.

I'm going to say, you're lucky that Tom Cruise doesn't fucking throw that heat back, because right now he'd be like, oh, Mr. New Hat, huh? Oh, Mr. Sit around and do stuff. Mr. bald guy with earrings, huh? Mr. Can't use the knees, huh? There is no, nothing that's going to take the knees out from under you other than a Mr. New Hat. Yes. That would break your heart.

That would break your heart in two Ethan, I need to go into my van for a while Sit this one now You really broke my heart, Ethan Who talks about hats like that? But yeah, so we're in Berlin here Also, we got Maggie Q as Jen Yes

My biggest complaint about this movie Not Enough Maggie Q I think Maggie Q's fucking awesome in everything and she's only here a little bit what she does is cool but give me a little more Maggie Cue for you know the franchise which like a Luther

or you know Benji you know people in the franchise that end up sticking around this one had a lot of just one and done yes well because they have a lot of people doing the stuff that Ethan would do like Maggie Q and

Jonathan Norris Myers are both doing things that I think Ethan would also do Whereas, like, Benji and Luther both have things that are specifically there. Like, I'm computer guy. Right. Well, I don't think. And then they build Benji up to be an agent afterwards because they decided he's a guy. But to what goes on in this movie, I don't think Ethan Hunt could dress up like a sexy lady and go.

I would underselling Ethan Hunt, I think, a little bit. He's got a slim build, put on that mask, you know? Can I undersell a man. This is, we're talking about. a man that in all likelihood has caches of like mustaches around the world. Sure. He can turn around a corner

and just emerge. It's like he emerges as like a chucked beatnik that. That's right. We're coming right up to that. It's like, where'd that mustache come from? Where'd that slinky dress come from? Where'd that rack come from? See, that's the question. The rack is the question.

But so this is the team and we're doing various things that we're going to cut the power to the place. So Maggie Q's like her code name is groundhog and she's like underground getting electrical stuff ready or whatever we infiltrate this place Ethan goes in finds her this place is a terminator factory by the way yeah it really is just some Berlin foundry with some dudes here and there that get dispatched of like pretty quickly marson it's fucking running around any scenes deleted marsan i believe because like that guy's like a decent sized enough like english character actor that like if he i feel like he was supposed to

supposed to be Fothman's number two. Yeah. But then it was like, we don't have that much to do with you. So maybe, you know. I think it ended up being like, yeah, yeah, you don't need a number. You'll Phil Seymour Hoffman. Why do you need a number two? His name is Brownway in the movie. Yeah. Mr. Brownway. Wow. Yeah, Mr. Shidhead.

You get to be a mission possible. You get the check. You're in three scenes. It's not so bad. I will say, you know, I'm not big on Reese Myers that much. Uh-huh. It's just kind of annoying. And then it's also like, how man i like we already you're already doing benjy dude you already got benjy and you explain him away like oh he mentions a line about his citizenship being on the line so that's like that that clad that's like that's like that arnold line of like yeah we moved yeah when i was a kid from austria well i think he's saying like he's benjy has since like come to the united

states has become a citizen yeah he full he took the test what do we rubber stamping these guys for you know what i mean he's good with computers the british i mean well well well well computer guys. Not all the British, but at least Benji, he helped Ethan Hunt. Of course he gets fucking. Yeah, I guess I would let him in. Come on. He's a nice guy. Let it go. I have these Reese Myers, though. I don't want to watch this guy.

That again is, it's only around once. Well, thank God. And he's doing exactly what Ethan Hunt does. He's being handsome and doing the action guys. That's the problem is he's way too close to Tom Cruise. I will say, it is a gift that they're like, you know what, Jonathan Rees Myers? You can just use your natural Irish accent and it'll be totally fine. We don't have him trying to

flatten any. Hello, Ethan. It is me. And you know what? He's not, we're not talking, we're not teasing that Tom Cruise is done with the series. So it's not a Jeremy Renner situation where we're building him up. Yes. To be. So he just does little bit, so I don't mind it. No chance of a takeover. I'll say, I had a false memory of him

being part of the team in two. Really? That's true. Maybe we're just thinking about the villain who's just another guy. Yes, the dude who was supposed to be Wolverine. What was that guy's name? Do Gray Scott. Yeah, Du Grey Scott. And then Brendan Gleason, kind of. But Duke Grey Scott and Jonathan Reesmeier's kind of, you know, too handsome. Oh, they're

some of dark hair. Yeah, exactly. Same person in my mind. I do like, we get a little kind of pulp fiction moment here because Ethan, like, grabs Carrie Russell and he's just like, there's one right there. Did you count this? Did you count? Oh, yeah, this is part of it.

Because this is the, I'm going to stick you in the heart with some adrenaline here. It's going to hurt. Boom, pop. I need, I need, like, Ethan to be like, Luther, where's my black fucking medical book? Yeah, my little black medical book, yeah. Is his girlfriend with him? There's an arcant running around on drugs, screaming about something. I mean, if we cut to a scene of Luther with a gag ball in his mouth, then you really know.

Then it's right there, yeah. Good point. 12 years on from Pulp Fiction, and I have to think, Ving looking much thinner in this movie. Oh, yeah, he looks great in this. Yeah. So, yeah, we get this whole escape here. I like to jump out the window. Luther's got the van right there.

they land on the top of it and it's got a lot of hanging from the van roof as we drive away. There's a nice of a lot of JJ Abrams was actually really good at slow-mo for a while in Super 8 as well but like the toss of the gun actually is really good when he plus it to carry Russell like that. Oh yes, that's not bad.

It's a nice little stylistic cue. I like the how many rounds do you have left enough and then he shoots the one guy and he's like that's all I needed for that ass moves. We've got like this is also I think setting a template of like like a paramilitary template right now with this whole thing because there's a lot of like taking cover and reloading and everything rames has those insane like mobilized guns outside remote control anti-aircraft guns that look like almost as they're like simulating this

I guess the idea was to make it seem like they're getting attacked by more people than they actually are right yes yes pulling it off but I like when they were escaping and doing the gunloading thing. We start to, all right, it's like, Abrams, what do you got for gadgets, you know? What do you got? Give me some gadgets. Yeah. And he's got like the little like, uh, magnetized grenade. That's awesome. Throws it and it like whips around. Yeah. And it's like, okay, here we go. It's like a curveball. He like throws. Yeah, yeah. Attaching itself conveniently to a gas tank. I mean, when you're

IMF, you don't miss. No, that's true. Well, I mean, you know what? You got the accuracy of Randy Johnson. It would be nice. onto a refrigerator with your kid's art on it. Oh, whoops, I should have brought this on. Hey man, like most child's art should be fucking set on fire.

It's a disaster. Too much green. But Ben, I think you bring up a good point because this was also when I think we were really pushing now Mission Impossible is going to be American Bond. Does Bond have a bunch of goddamn gadgets?

Yes, gadgets as far as the fucking I can see. Eat shit, Jason Bourne. I'm just going to say no Yeah because that's more of like That's like it just feels different It doesn't feel like Yeah As showy the way that Bond movies do

Totally So we're breaking out of there We get everybody to the chopper Uh oh Carrie Russell starts having like headache issues What's going on here They get in the helicopter

They drive off And this is an awesome This is a great helicopter chase Speaking of fucking Fallout The end of fallout's got a great Helicopter chase at the end We got a great helicopter helicopter chase here at the beginning through all these

windmills. I'm surprised no one got cancer through all these windmills. You know what? Look, I'm glad people survive, but again, you're never getting me on a helicopter. You might as well, you might as well try to get me to balance on like a megaladon's teeth

and just like, oh, this is just as safe to me as a fucking being on a goddamn helicopter. What is so thrilling here is this is a helicopter going through all these ground helicopters, right? Yeah. It's air helicopters versus ground helicopters. Yes, and these propellers, it's very cool.

It's very moving pieces. It feels like going in Star Wars through the asteroid field or something. Chopper versus chopper. In the windmills. It's almost like, why are they doing this? Oh, I guess because they're being chased. They're trying to throw them off. Because I think the initial thing is like a bunch of missiles fly out at them.

So Jonathan Rees-Meyers is the pilot and he's got to like dodge them all and whatever. I have to say the thing with Abrams too, you know, the guy's a big thing. and the big ideas come not with the same amount of practical effects like there's a lot of CGI shit in this movie and so like right here when like a lot of these windmill blades are supposed to be like falling net it's just like CGI blade after CGI blade

yeah but isn't it cute when they hit near the sheep that's a thing is he also brings in more cutaway gags like the sheep thing yes that is also now more of the deal of Mr. Paul and that I think has stayed with it even into these recent ones. So they discover that Lindsay Ferris has a nitroglycerin tab

injected into her brain here and it's on a timer that has been set off. Somewhere elsewhere, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Owen Davian is kicking his feet having like the night of his life being like oh, should I press it now? I'm going to blow her fucking brain.

Should I press the button now and activate the brain capsule? Yeah, one of my patented brain tabs Going off in her head there Oh, and davion.com Davianwors.Info So, you know, they realize, oh, okay, well, we can short the fuse of this thing

If we rock you with these fucking paddles, you know, used for restarting hearts. Sure. You do a little electrical zap in the body, that'll fry it, and then all you got to do just revive her. He's just live with that little thing

in your eye for the rest of your life. Exactly. Like a fucking RFK Junior brainworm like just leaving that shit in there. Also we're not sure

about the talking. We don't know if you'll be able to do it anymore. That might be a problem. Well now I'm just picturing Carrie Russell like Bha! That guy's got more than a worm and a hut

save me. That guy's got more than a worm and a capsule up there. He's got like the shit you see on the side of the road in Staten Island up there like garbage. I've grilled you a moose head here and if you would like to gnaw on the snout for a while.

Did you guys see the video of him? Like, this was leading up to the election, but I guess it was a campaign video. Oh, boy. He, like, catches the bug, like, in his porch or something like that. Did you see this? No. And then just eats it?

Well, that's, so that's exactly it. No, no. He's like, he's on his porch, and there's, like, I don't know, some kind of, like, cricket or whatever. Sure. And like a panther, he just like goes and gets it.

And he has it in his hand and he brings it like into the frame of this live stream or whatever he's doing. And like he's kind of staring at it. And of course you think immediately like he's going to eat it. Yeah. That's my first thought. He's going to eat this thing.

Like how could you not think that? But did he? See it? He did? He did. He did. He fucking did it. Did me? Ah, the guy's insane. Oh, my God. I did not see that.

This is the northern reticulated cricket. You can tell by the... Oh, that's so good. I'm going to eat it while I explain it to you. If actually, if you dip this in mayonnaise, your child would actually... It's quite a high protein source. Well, he sounds qualified to me. That's my two sense.

But so the whole thing is, oh, wouldn't you know it? this defibrillator takes 30 seconds to warm up with two seconds left in the warm up Kerry Russell Ethan thank you dude let me tell his fucked up eye has wanted me since theaters well they make sure you see it

it's like four separate scenes where you see they keep cutting back to it I'm like yes she's still dead movie it's great to see Ethan fail you know yes oh big time and death and like death isn't really real in these movies but that is certainly real that is hard to ignore the way that they do it too it's like the sound isn't even like it's just like a little like tick sound right you know you can actually imagine what it would be like for this

tiny little thing to just burst enough to fucking kill you inside your head yeah it's it's very well done on the other side of the phone it's fucking owen davian and like the earth wind and fire version of got to get you into my life and he's dancing in a robe with fucking like strawberry juice coming down his chest and like champagne on his fucking

oh would you fuck me I'd fuck me oh yeah maybe saying that I'd fuck me so hard yep yep definitely my my ex wife will not but I will fuck myself so hard that seemed like a Ted Levine complete us I need that rabbit's foot

so I can shove it up my ass It feels good. Yeah, it's the only way I could shoot. I have to have a MacGuffin shoved up my ass. We are selling rabbit foot juice, ladies and gentlemen. It'll make your penis and your feet stronger. Until we get that rabbit's foot, I'm going to be sitting. My took is down on the Maltese falcon.

Any McGuffin, you guys. And down we go. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, that's sharp, but it's a good thing. It was kind of like a straight and arrow. Yep, just absorbing Hollywood history into my ass. I embrace the challenge of every day.

Here we go. You're scared of birds, I'm not. No, I tell them, you're looking for that McGuffin. I might have an idea where he is if you want to go to before. I dare you. Be mindful of the giant erection when you. Swinging, swinging like the propeller blades of the windmillers. You got to make your way around it, really.

Oh, what way? Took out of sheep. Oh, man. Yeah, so he goes home briefly, and, you know, Julia can sort of tell something's wrong, and he just does it quick, like, I'm just tired, I'm just tired. Yeah. We get to CIA headquarters the next day.

Dead eye. Yeah. Just once again, just really quickly to remind you the horror really quick. But we get into Larry Fishburn as Mr. boss man here, Mr. Brassel, you know, really, really giving him the business about this mission. My man. He is in full

Morpheus mode right now, and it rules. It is unacceptable that chocolate makes you fat, but here I am. This is fucking awesome. Yeah, because Ethan complains about something being unfair or whatever, reminding me of Revenge of the Sith real quick a little bit, because we just did that last week.

Yeah, yeah. Unfair. But yeah, so he's just pissed off that the whole, he considers the operation to be poorly conceived. He's pissed off that Lindsay's obviously dead, what this could bring up. He just thinks the whole thing is sort of half-ass and he's yelling. It's between yelling at Ethan Hunt

and yelling at Billy Crutt up, which is awesome. Right, he tells Billy Crut up there, like, I don't care if your daddy plays golf with the president. This is intelligence. You have none. Oh, man. He's got so many birds. He's like, Don Rickles in this fucking movie. He's got another one right here. He's like, they can't find him. He's an invisible man.

And he goes, Wells, not Ellison, in case you were looking to get smart about that too just with these fucking fastballs Larry Pishburn in this scene God damn it's good You would be pissed off too I mean it's the end of Bush too

You're really you're furious Oh yeah That's the guy he's reporting to You'd be pretty all I would be pissed Ethan briefly attends Her funeral And at the funeral

He's having like flashbacks To like you know Training and recommending her For like active field duty or whatever I really cannot suggest enough Lindsay's mother, but it's closed casket. I don't think you want

people seeing that. I've really generally. Can you staple those eyes shut please? Larry Fishburne ends that the previous scene by saying like now I have to go tell, you know, her parents that their daughter was just killed in a head-on collision on 9-0-9-5.

That's the cover there. It's always a car crash. If someone says they died in a car crash, that's not. That's not They didn't die in a car car. It sounds like a false flag operation there. Cars do not actually crash. This is what the government has been hiding from you. Maybe it was a car, but it was a government car.

That's right. I was a registered suburban to the Department of Defense. Yeah. U.S. diplomat plates were all over that car. You can't tell me otherwise. Department of traffic. A likely story. You will not find me riding a car ever.

Only motorcycles and helicopters. for me. So he gets a call here from a post office and it's like, oh, hey, Ms. Lindsay Ferris sent you a postcard with instructions to call you when it arrives. He goes to the post office gets the postcard and it's just a postcard from Berlin.

He has the sense to sort of peel back the stamp a little bit and all there's a little micro dot underneath it and we take it back to Luther who's analyzing it and he's like, oh, you know, there's nothing on it. Like I'm looking at it Ethan, there's no information on this. And he's like, oh,

Ethan Ethan has to suggest to Luther who's supposed to be the expert on this stuff right? Like, well,

what if it was like a magnetic one? He's like, oh, that would be old school but great idea, Ethan. I'll look and do

your idea, Ethan. This will come up later. Yes, it will. Absolutely. A lot of dot technology in this.

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so we do finally meet Benji here it's very funny because now in these movies Simon Pegg is contemporary Simon Pegg and he's very sveled and you know better dressed and everything but when we meet Benji you know he's now just the schlub tech guy

very much just looks like Simon from Sean of the Dead. Sean Dead is right there pretty much the exact same thing. It's a puffier face and everything so this was a nice playing video games this guy throwback yeah exactly So he, you know, run some information and he is able to tell them that, oh, Owen Davian is set to get the rabbit's foot sale done at the Vatican. It's an $850 million thing.

And Peg has this great monologue about, oh, this professor I had at Oxford would always talk about like the anti-god device and thing that someone would want to get to destroy the world and this is that the other thing. And it's a mystery piece of tech and blah, blah, blah. And he basically says, every time he observes someone. trying to do a massive cash transaction for an item that they don't technically know what it does, he thinks back to this professor saying that someone

looking for this anti-god device. Also, anti-god is an awfully spooky word. So we're going to say that as many times. It kind of rules. Yeah, I like it. I feel like they also, speaking of like rebooting and setting

the template a little bit for future installments, I feel like that's where it's kind of at now. with like these back-to-back ones. Yes. Like that's kind of like the anti-god thing. There is an atheist device out there that is going to wreck the world. The AI, yeah, the AI thing is essentially like an anti-God thing.

Right. Like the entity. The entity, yes. And whatever they're doing in-Ghost protocol is, it feels similar to that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, yeah, that is for sure. It's like it's a device of unknown power. Yes. Basically. I like, Ethan mentioned something about the mission

and Luther goes Or the operation he goes What operation That look in your eyes A pain in my ass You know that Hell yeah Luther You know the same old bullshit's about to start up

And we're back on our bullshit now Because you mentioned anti-God Well let's go to the seat of God We're headed to the Vatican baby Hell yeah Also timing good Speaking of timing planning things out Who could have guessed it

Look, I still think we should have done the emergency episode on a conclave. Oh, I'm a little papal intrigue here breaking into the Vatican. Well, first you've got to pretend to be Italians arguing about your car problems. It turns out anyone could convince

them, right? You just say shit like that. It's on the gestur. It's on the gesturing. Right, yeah. You've got to learn the gesture. We should say, before he takes off to the Vatican he does go to the hospital basically does a hey julia i have to go away i can't tell you my job but you have to trust me let's get married in the chapel at the hospital this is yeah and then we fuck in the supply but it's also like done without this yeah they're like so cutcy about it they

like put up put up that uh those like fake little rings and they're giggling like school children also like they're no this is too child well it's weird to go directly from that to the fucking yeah that's what's weird and like to consummate the marriage, man. That's true. Otherwise, it doesn't stick. I am more against... The sheets don't stick together. I am more against the giggling than I am

the fucking. I was really criticizing the giggling personally. I think that's the issue. Here's while I'll allow the giggling, because I think this night is the last legitimate day of happiness in either of these two people alive. Probably. I don't know. Two days from now, she's getting kidnapped and brought to Shanghai, dude.

Maybe Wes Bentley makes her fucking grab the sheets. I don't know. It's a poor replacement. I don't know that. I don't think you know that. I do. I think you are lying. I definitely do.

It's shanghai. It's shanghai. There used to be a verb. It's not a good one. Okay. What's her logic here, though? Because it's like, yeah, we get it. You know, can I trust my husband?

What's going on? There's some heartfelt like, Ethan, what's happening? You know? Yeah. You're so distant. I got to go to 7-Eleven for five months. We need more ice. Right.

But his story is like, I just, I have another. business trip to go on. Right. For the Department of Traffic. And for her, it's like, wouldn't she just be like, okay, I'll see you when you get back and then we'll have like a proper marriage?

No, no, no, no. Not like, let's do this right now and have sex in the hospital. You're being shipped overseas to war and you're going to die. Exactly. Yes. You've never seen a traffic jam like this back. This is a traffic jam in Cleveland. That's killed 17 people.

You may never return. I'm going to even get there because of this traffic jam. I just imagine her, like, watching singles and realizing that his job is essentially the same as Campbell Scott's in that and being like, well, he just has a normal, he doesn't have to go anywhere. He's not being whisked off to conferences at the last second. What are you talking about? Why do you have to have a conference every week? Is he pushing 10 or is that only for planes? That's planes.

Okay. Well, what's he pushing then? He would be, well, I don't know. I don't, I'll be honest. I don't know what that means in the movie. I forget that movie completely, but, like, I know it's just, he's just doing it with, uh, planes. Okay. That's the, like, air traffic control.

Yeah, yeah, it's the Billy Bob. Billy Bob versus John Cusack. They're rival, uh, air traffic controllers. Sometimes I get that confused with tin cup in my mind. I was thinking of tin car. That's a golf movie. Yes, okay. Uh, yeah, I don't know, but pushing pavement, I guess.

In, um, that would make sense. Actually, I mean, in singles, he's pushing for Seattle to have. have like a new public transit system or something. He wants a train. Yeah, it's like a monorail or something. He wants a monorail. He wants to build. But because he's looking at traffic penalty, he's like, it's too much. We got this got to say. And it worked for

Ogdenville, North Haven, bro. God damn it would put them on the map. Yeah, so we're breaking into the Vatican here. We got a nice reference to the first movie. He leaps over the Vatican wall and he comes down horizontally and hangs. Lots of gadgets here. Pretty cool.

J.J., you know, I mean, this is self-referential, but there's another one. You know, he's referencing a previous mission impossible. He does it again when he's on the rope with the break-in in Shanghai. He's falling. Oh, and he just barely. He just almost hits the street. Isn't that this one? When he's going back over?

So they do the rope thing twice in this movie. They do it with the Vatican when he's like, he measures it out with his little gadget, which was awesome, like shooting it. down. It gives him the number. Yeah. Dials it in. Yes. Pretty sweet. But when, you know, later in the movie, when he's falling with the parachute. Oh, the parachute. And he lands

just like six inches above the street. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. It was right. Yes, yes, yes. Um, but yeah. So there's another, another reference. Love Tom Cruise pretending to be a priest right here and he walks by like another priest. It's like, good morning, Padre. Oh, good morning, Tom Cruise. Wait a minute. No, no, no. Something's off.

There is definitely, there is never going to be a priest that handsome. I'm fucking off here Oh, he can dittle whoever he wants He looks like that I'm gonna say It usually has to be an uphill climb Yeah, for him a confessionals of glorial

Hello Hello Havius papam I'm not gonna be Pope with that mouth No, no, sir Your chances are destroyed You know, this guy's 69 I got a few years

Maybe I'd get my act together Maybe I'd go I don't think even... It's a pope school. Lithgow isn't even casting a vote. It's not happening. Whatever it is. I mean...

Whatever you want to call it. John Paul is a Polish pope. Yes. John Paul Deuce. Yeah, of course. That's right. So, oh, the thing that's weird, speaking of Tom Cruise being too sexy to be a priest.

Yeah. This, like, sexy-ass event that we're having in the Vatican... Weird. Very strange. I don't know what this cocktail reception is, but... At first, because, like, Maggie Q comes in and just gorgeous and this dress and everything and I was like well you're clearly over dressed

for whatever oh no actually you're not everyone is just sexily dressed for this event and Philip Seymour Hoffman the way he grabs this drink off this platter with such a master stroke of it is so it informs you everything you need to know about this guy it's so good such disdain just like grabbing it like clawing it out oh it's so good

so the whole scam here is we got it we got to we're going to make a mask of Mr. Davian so we see first Maggie Q walking around pretending to look at a makeup compact but there's a camera on it so she gets like the full angle of Davian's face and then we go back to the

truck and Luther's making the mask there and everything which is pretty sweet we see it's kind of awesome because like watching the tech evolution of the mask machines as the sequels go on is pretty cool

the mask dawning scene in this movie is pretty sweet. When Vang is like fitting it to his face. Now, Ethan, we're going to have to put a pillow down to your shirt. Yeah, exactly. Where's the 3D printer for the belly? I need you eaten burgers for

at least three days before we do this. So they get the picture. It's like, all right, the mask is being made or whatever. Next part of the plan is Maggie Q has to ensure that when Davian will go into the bathroom, so we're drunkenly spilling wine and she's apologizing. He goes, no, no, it's

Totally fine. I always spilled red wine all over my custom-made shirts. I'm like, oh, man. What an asshole? So good. Do you ever spill red wine on your custom-made shirt? Well, we have red wine away here. Just made from some rhinoceros dick. Put that out.

Forget Todd Penn's rhinoceros dick powder. You don't even have to rub it in, folks. You don't even. You spray it go away. Set it and forget it. It'll cure a stain. It'll cure a bad memory. you just put it on your head.

That's exactly how my ex-wife accuses me of parenting, setting it and forgetting it. Well, I thought the thing would have a timer when it was 18. It usually goes all. So, you know, this is the, I think, I don't know if, I can't remember now of one or two have any.

This might be the first awesome Mission Impossible bathroom sequence. Oh. Of course, again, Fallout has the famous one with Superman going to town and that one, but here you know it's so maybe maybe it might be the first one so we follow davian into the bathroom and like this is a funny thing to me because he's like just got a paper towel and like water and he's just trying to rub fucking red one i'm like dude that shirt's destroyed like

i gotta work i hope you got something else on the car man because you're not just gently wiping this all this does not strike me as someone who has had a custom shirt before and no it's like you know that shit's ruined exactly that's against character it could have just been like a shot of him like kind of examining it with disgust, you know, like. Well, it's also like, I don't want to walk around wet maybe, let me get that, let me get it soaked up a little bit. But I love the shot

of, you see, it's Foffman, like, looking in the mirror, and then the real Davian stands up from the sink, and it's this awesome, like, I'm looking at myself, uh, what the fuck, what the fuck? Like he, and it's not, it's not a like, who are you or what, the, anything like that. It's just Philip Seymour Hoffman conveying

all that by looking in a mirror. Like, that's how amazing Fuffman was as an actor. And this just gets into it. We're knocking him down on the ground here. I need to say this line because they're trying to get the vocal pattern so they can make his little voice box thing work. Read it.

I was lying on the grass of Sunday morning. When he interrupts, all the pleasure of Busby's companies. What is the thing I enjoy the Bose? Keeps going. I don't have it all. Him interrupting it with that I was just like, what is this?

Yeah. Yeah. So good. Read it. finish it, read it. Oh, and when they put him in the closet there, and then the guard comes. And I just love the gesture of, because the voice masking is not ready yet from Luther in the van to put into this chip in his throat or whatever.

And just doing the finger, like, it's the Fawfman point, dude. He had this thing of like angrily pointing in people. He's done it. He's done. That's like a thing of his, right? It's in a ton of his performance. And I noted the fact that,

um, not a good movie, IMO, the Saturday night, the Jason Reitman movie, Little Foffman is playing Dick Ebersall in that, and there's a scene where he's got to yell. It's Dick Ebersol yelling at Lauren Michaels in a stairwell, and

Cooper Hoffman is doing the pointing and yelling. Really? And I was like, you got your old man's point and yell. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, you can do it. Good for you. But so, like, Fofman, he was doing it silently, because he can't talk, and it's like, this just huge professional wrestler security guard, like, you all right in here, sir?

Mm-hmm. a fine wait outside yeah it finally comes through you know whatever the voice uploads yeah yeah uh so then they carry real Davian down into the sewers or whatever and this is a weird like it's like they're

getting him down from like a mountain climbing accident like he's tied to this thing and they're lowering him by like a rope into the sewer Philip Seymour Hoffman as Tom Cruise is fucking awesome like we only get it for just a little bit here but it's like and it gives you

like a sense of like, this is what it would be like if Foffman was part of the MIT. Totally. Yes. Because he's able to do the little rabbit's hat. Yeah. With Maggie Q and he's, they come out and Megacue is like, oh, I'm so sorry that I did this.

I put red wine all over your shirt. Could I fuck you to make it up for it? Oh yeah. Yeah. I got laundry services at my hotel. What are we going to do at your hotel room with my shirt off? Yep. I'll figure something. Oh, can can i can i interject quickly because this is just a tiny detail but i don't want to go buy it do it up dude uh when he's in the bathroom and it's like that he realizes that this voice thing isn't

going to like work in time so he's got to go to a plan b yeah the plan b is he has a little planning ahead for everything it's so good he has a little spritz bottle of wine oh yes you know to like put on his shirt so that visually he still looks like yeah that's it's like it's like pretty goddamn smart. Bravo. Bravo. Golf clap. Speaking of the casual nature of what it would be like if Fofman was part of the IMF gang

they pull the sports, Maggie Q has come to the Vatican in the sick fucking orange sports car thing. She pulls up over a manhole cover the middle of the car opens up so they can all escape and it's this awesome like hey.

It's like Fofman as Tom Cruz saying hi. It's What's up? Nothing. What's up with you? Nothing. That was good. I fucking love it. I imagine. I have it in my head, Lawrence Fishburn. Like, and you also had to purchase an orange Lambo. Really? Is that really what you need to spend our nation's hard earned money on? Yes. A Lambo. Orange. You think that goes fast. See how fast I fire you? He's always got a cutting remark. He does. He's a cutter. We do cut back to Musgrave at the CIA, and he gets the word that, you know, Davian has been nabbed, and Laurence Fishman's like, and you were actually aware of this mission? And you can tell Crud up's like, what does he want to hear here? And he's like, yes. And then Larry Fishman's like, well, then very good work. Thank you. I look forward to reading the report. Phew, he's not going to yell at me anymore. Nice. But then this is the great scene of Davian in custody on the plane. And Ethan, you. threatening to throw him out of it

which is fucking awesome I'm gonna say you know what I'm usually I think Luther has the right idea most of the time wrong idea this time I do think you should have just killed this fucker well I really do think you should have just let this fuck fly do you have a wife girlfriend

because I'm gonna let you know what I'm gonna do next I'm gonna find her I'm gonna hurt her this was all in the trailer this was like it might have even been like a teaser for this movie but just the Fofman monologue and I'm gonna kill her with bloodlet brand knives bloodlet brand knives

really they do the best wife killing to me I don't think anybody's been better at it oh you saw what I did to your little blonde friend at the factory oh that was nothing that that was fun that's a great that really pisses him off that was fun which says speaking of fun

I like watching Cruz and Hoffman kind of go because you get like he's truly menacing here and it's like well what's the best way for Tom Cruise with what he does best to counter this go fucking bat shit crazy lots of swift action

punching things unfastening things cutting over here and he puts him out the angrily bashes the door to open up yeah he even pushes the door angrily the door button yeah totally I didn't do anything I'm the plane leave me alone

Ethan Hunt goes nuts here and he's got him oh man he's got him dangling out of the plane I don't know how they did this But, like, you'd have to think at some point, Hoffman, knowing that, like, kind of want to cruise his things is, you know, cruise for his part, in this movie and others, strains with the camera on him. He's, he's a top-notch strainer. Yeah. You know, Philip Seymour Hoffman, being a great A actor, competitive guy, he's like, oh, you want to see some straining?

I'll show you some straining. His face being dangled out of the plane here where he's just like, oh. Yeah. I think it's helping that, like, he literally. is bent over like that and there's got to be like blood rushing to his head and doing these takes and whatever. Absolutely. And he's doing a great job of looking

shit scared. Like there's Owen Davian is like a tough guy and he knows that he can like he's got connections to figure out who cruises and whatever. But in this moment this dude is still shitting his pants because he's dangling out the bottom of a plane. Yeah. He just knows not to scream because that's giving him something. Exactly. It's like he's both

conveying like a genuine like I don't want to die but also like I'm not, I know what he's doing and I'm not going to succumb to it. Yes, exactly. It's Luther who, number one, lets the name out, Lewis. Multiple times.

Ethan, don't do it. But at the same time, I don't know, if I'm dangling outside of a plane, I don't think I'm hearing what they're saying inside. This Davian's good? He's trained, Eric. Yeah, it was because I took those brain flux pills and made my ears strong. I took them at supervillain school.

But it's great. He's, he pulls him up and Fopping goes, What I'm selling and who I'm selling it to is the last thing you should be concerned about. Great villain line. Ethan. Yes, that's right. Ethan. The key part.

Yeah, right. Oh, man. Oh, shit. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck you. You know what? Now I got a plan to secretly kill him because Luther, I was going to do it publicly.

I was going to do it. But now I got to do it secretly. But, yeah, so, you know, Luther cracks this micro dot. They've got him in custody. They're able to trace the call. This is the thing. It's Lindsay leaving this message that's like, Ethan, I traced the call to this Berlin place and it comes from Brassel's office. So she's not directly saying Brassel's crooked, but like the call came from Brassel's office.

So I don't know who to trust, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. Lindsay, come on. This is always good. As soon as we're on the other side of this bridge, this is all going to be over. I don't know why you're worried about any of this. It's not like a true lies level, oh, shit. And then it's, the video gets cut off because she says,

I think I'm being set up, kaboom. So, Ben, this is what you're saying, because we're on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge right here. It's a very long stretch, much like Miami. Here's another one. Wow, good call, my friend. You are pointing these out. This sequence is great.

I remember another part of this being in the trailer, of course, when he gets knocked into the car. It's so good. It's really this assault on this bridge is fucking awesome. You know, drones were kind of new at the time. Yeah. This was so scary. giant thing.

Oh, hell, you're around bomb and shit. Like an alien. The acid foam to open up the... Oh, the armored car. Pretty cool. Pretty sweet. This whole thing is great. Just this whole operation to break Davian out of the custody right here.

And, you know, you got the awesome shit of, like, Tom trying to get the huge gun out of the van. And, like, Luther being like, Ethan, you got to get out of it. Because, like, the drone launches the fucking rocket at it. Turn it around. There's an IMF agent in the truck. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's this case.

You know, he has to build the gun as well. I was expecting it to have a little more firepower, like maybe a rocket launcher or something. But it's not. It's just bullets. And eventually he does run out of them. Although he downs the drone, which is a beautiful scene. Ethan, you got to get the G36. It's in the truck.

That's the weapon. Yeah. He does shoot the shit out of the drone, which is awesome. He has the, he has to throw the gun over the hole in the bridge and then jump over it himself, which is pretty. sweet. But then this is again this is like Ethan losing in this moment like Chopper comes down, Davian gets

on it, just like one gesture away from giving this dude the finger as they like fly off. Like Foffman gives this look, the look back was in the trailer too that's like, I fucking got you fucker you know, and he's flying away. He even is getting off the last few rounds that he has

but it's he's badass because it's he's not even trying to duck it. He's just sitting there like you're not going to hit. Yeah, no, I'm not going to flinch at all. I'm going to look right at you as you fire that gun at my helicopter. He is all business. By the time Ethan has gotten off of this fucking bridge, he has already got gooed on

the way to fucking Michelle Bonaghan's location. Thanks to Eric Paul. Yeah, well, thanks to that's right. Fucking Ricky. Come on, Jesse. Dropping the ball. Seriously. He calls home. Hopped up on meth. Your British friend. I told

your British friend. Yeah. The British friend was looking for you. I didn't know where, so I told him to check with Julia at the hospital. It's kind of awesome the start of that conversation where he's like, oh, Ethan, I'm sorry. I'm here. Are you mad? Are you mad that? He's like, Ricky, I'm not mad that you're at my house. My ears are kind of ringing right now, Ricky. I don't know where I am. Yeah. But then she's in the shower. She can't reach the phone.

Hospital shower, yeah. Is that a good thing? I don't know, man. You just went into another place. I don't know. I just, yeah, sorry, guys. Sexy nurses. here we go. Oh, pardon me. I'm playing a different movie in my head.

Hello, nurse. Yeah, what a little animaniacs there first. That was the best of us. Oh, yeah, that show is overtly sexual, wasn't it? It was a horny little cartoon for kids. But, yeah, so she's coming off her shift at the hospital, showers up just coming out, and this dude is like, you know, oh, excuse me, I'm looking for a patient or whatever,

and she's very kind, and it's like, well, I don't know where they'll help you out, though. and he just puts this little, like, dot on her forearm. There we go. Yeah. Yacko, wacko, and dot. Yacko, waco, and poison yellow dot. See, if it was an actual Bond movie, that we would have had a yako and a wacko. We'd have a buildup. Yep. And our cue, I don't know who it would be. Hmm. Oh, who, uh, hmm. Interesting. Yeah, because we, he's never presented with these gadgets in these movies. They just exist. Benji has a slice of Q in him

Yeah, that's probably the closest You need a brainiac, like maybe Jeremy Strong could maybe do a good Like a... Jeremy Strong registered at MI6 to get a real feel for what it would be like To be a cue in a movie God damn it

I mean that guy's good But give me a break Come on. I mean, I like the guy, yeah So do I, but come on. Come on. Think about the judge. Think about his preparation for the judge.

Well, yeah, I don't want him to play that character I never saw the Trump movie The Apprentice Is he good as He is good He's good He's very good

In a bad movie Yeah Not crazy about the movie Okay Yeah I'm probably never gonna watch that You don't At least not for like 10, 15 years

You're fine It's really It shouldn't even be called the apprentice And Trump should be just like a footnote It's really the Ray Cohn show Yeah But like That's what it should be

And that it's not And that's part of the problem Got it So Fawfman calls up here and he's like, oh, hey, you know, that briefcase that you took from me in Rome that had the fucking rabbit's foot in it, motherfucker. So I got your lady friend here. You got 48 hours to get me the rabbit's foot or she's got a thing in her head and I'm going to fucking kill her to. How do you like that shit? Do you remember the dead body?

Yeah, everybody remembers the dead body. Everybody remembers that face. Come on. Yeah, it's going to happen to your girlfriend. And these government stooges try to bring him in. Oh, dude. Yeah. like the CIA rolls up and he's like

all right I gotta go works here and there's the one guy who's like this buddy yeah it's a weird like he's given a first name but he's just rando CIA guys see this guy earlier in the movie like I was he in the I don't know was he in like the office

not that I can remember this is an actor who's been in things like he's a bunch of law and or I remember a lot he's a character actor who works a lot but he's just like agent Jeff or like whatever it is well it's just weird because he's a big law and order guy and also the lady who plays

Michelle Monahan's sister in the baby also a big law and order Oh is that right? Yeah, I was just like, what the fuck? Are you just getting New York City theater people? Sure, why not? I mean, it is a nice pool. Yeah, I get you.

I was trying to do mission impossible. Hell yeah. What a theme song mashup. You should work on that. It's a workshop it. So they, he gets pretty far getting away from them, but he gets captured. Yeah, they zap them. Something, like, they shoot something out

him, he gets, or it's not an electric thing, it's a dart. Like, they knock him out with a prank. He's been, he's been running, not, he was racing to this hospital. And now he's racing away from these, where does this guy get this energy for? I don't know, maybe he's got some of that adrenaline into the heart for himself.

Oh, it's an adrenicro. Yeah, just a little, you know. He's drinking adrenica crow. Maybe a little bit, but eventually the knees are going to say no. Like they, it's only so long. Well, then he gets tied up like Hannibal Lecter, but with a sex, that's mask on this mask. I want to take a dump on this mask.

That's what it looks like, right? That's a sex mask. Is he known for biting? Is that the thing with, I, I don't know. He does bite later on. He does, I guess. He's a biter. That's why they had that mask on.

You know what? There's the point. That's good one, Pat. Lawrence Fishman has some great lines here about like how it's like a irresponsible rogue agent working in my office and I assure you like I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red when he when he tells him that

he's like and I I'm not going to lose any sleep over this and I love my sleep oh that line was like man you are just this is one line drive after another it's awesome and I'm pretty sure this is the only one of these that he's in right I think so yeah because he's not he's not yeah he isn't

they change it every Because I think I think the I think Wilkinson is Cross Protocol Oh yes He eats shit At the end of that one

With Renner The beginning of five Yeah He because Renner survives Him and Renner Render survives it Wilkinson gets taken out And then Alec Baldwin

W comes in Yeah I mean Fucking bring Larry Fishburn Back what the hell Happen to that character Well can I just say Also

We're kind of going All over with the movies The thing seven Can we just get a hand For bringing back Kittridge Oh Yes

Can we just get a hand for Kittridge I love Kittridge. Kittridge is also back in this new one. With Knife Guy. With Knife Guy. Knife Guy from number one. That was a big one.

Bring him back. The fact that that guy has his own character poster tells me that this like Paramount and like the marketing team here, they've got people working on these movies that care about these movies. Knife guy gets a fucking character poster. Awesome. Do you think they go to Alaska at some point maybe? Oh, right.

Because that's where the guy got shot. shipped, right? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, dude, and he's just, he's pissed off and Ethan Honey wants revenge because he's hated working in Alaska. That's the real villain. He created the entities.

Oh, dude. Also, though, how humiliating will it be if that guy just gets horrible diarrhea again in this movie? That was not nice. Oh, yeah, because it was like a diarrhea drop he puts in his drink or something. Oh, it was vomit.

It was vomit because he kept done doing it into his waistbasket. Oh, damn it. Yeah, I thought it was diarrhea. Maybe then this one will be diarrhea. That's the escalation. You might trade up, yeah. What do you think is better?

What would you rather have right now? Diary. Every time. Every time. I hate vomiting. You hate vomiting? I love it. Really?

Oh, I do it all with, no. What? No, I hate both. I live for it. I hate both. No, I mean, because vomiting. Usually one accompanies the other. Sometimes.

If you're real lucky, yeah. I've had those moments. Yeah, no, I've been there, too. But just give me the thing where I can just be sitting. It's just so funny, right? Your whole body's just like. open the airlocks get everything everything out everywhere your mission should you choose to accept it your whole body

your whole body's doing the phil hoffman pointing thing get everything out of there get it up you fuck you fuck you fuck fuck it's just like red meat and a couple kinds of junk food holding on to stuff just clinging on to like tom cruise on the Side of a plane. Oh, don't worry. It's staying in there. It's going to hang. No way to going.

Oh, God. No way to go. So Larry Fishburn leaves the interrogation, and it's just him and Ethan and Crudup left. Ethan still has the Tannibal Lecter bondage mask on so he can't speak. And Crudup starts doing a, Ethan, look at me. Ethan, look at me. Look at me when I talk to you, Ethan. And he looks up and Crudup has his back to the two-way mirror.

He starts mouthing, hey, Shanghai, this address, this apartment number, this is what, you know, we've traced it, you know, go there or whatever, really cool. And then he hands him a little blade so he can cut himself free and everything. We're definitely going to, we're going to end the movie. Don't worry. It's a happening. By the way, here's where to go and something to get out to defeat me later in the movie. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. And then he gets out and we head to, is it Shanghai where you get the, when you get the rabbit's foot?

yeah so this is he dresses as this uh this check tourist here mr pavl sabatka yeah for it the mustache cash totally mustache he's got like the long hair he's wearing like a little winter beanie and he's got glasses on a little john lennon vibe here with a little bit of a lenin vibe looks like he's been on a fishing boat i want to say val kilmer has a similar disguise in the saint am i crazy that sounds right i think he's got a similar i'm i'm disguising myself as a little nerd It's been too long since I haven't seen the same forever.

Yeah, it's been a minute but like something like a vows got a disguise in one of those movies maybe. So he goes to the address that Credit gave him. It's this apartment building

everything's empty and then he hears someone coming to the door. This is awesome like he pulls a gun on the person and it's Luther and he's just like, please don't kill me

and the team has shown up to help him do the investigation and this is the we have to figure out the big problem here of getting the briefcase out of this office in Shanghai. I love this just using the marker to draw the skyline. Yes, it's awesome.

And he starts doing like, Ethan's doing like fucking physics calculations. No way. This guy's got a beautiful mind. Writing on windows like a joke. Oh, it turns out Luther was an imaginary. Oh, our new member of our team, Paul Bettney. Oh, what, what are you doing? Why are you talking like that?

Or he's like, it's the accountant. He's right on the window there. I mean, he's also got a beautiful body. Oh, yeah. Beautiful face. Yeah, that's just a beautiful mind. It's a total package. Beautiful.

Everything. He's figuring out a fulcrum of how he's going to jump. Swing in. And then get in. I do like that he figures this out and he does it and we don't actually see any of the interior. Nothing on him getting it. It's really cool. There's a nice Luther line of like there's a point where bold,

comes stupid and then he's he launches in this whole thing like well they have two hours until they kill my wife are you in or are you out Luther of course we're in of course we're in I mean that's no question about that Luther great line here too he's like the whole like having to break

into this building to get the the rabbit's foot is going to make Langley look like a cake walk breaking into the CIA and the first movie that time we gave knife guy diarrhea of the mouth is going to look like a cake walk and now since we've said that let's make sure we don't actually have to show what would

be better than that because that would be problem yeah that'd be that'd be a real problem it's you know it's fair because like i'm fine with it because the exterior stuff is so thrilling and crazy you got i like the baseball distraction yes dude that's awesome they have like a baseball pitching machine and maggie cues like launching balls across which to distract the security guards on the roof i love they have two hours before the wife dies yeah and they're they're able to like get to the top of this roof with a baseball machine like it takes me two hours to like

sort my recycling like how the fuck are they finding this specific machine the huge team to do it you know if the impossible mission force did your recycling oh did you done in a second we've done in five seconds that's a very good point

it would happen very fast Ethan thank God we brought the travel baseball pitching machine in the van with us it is kind of like a nice nod to you know there's some silly every mission impossible movie needs a little bit of silliness given in this one the quote unquote most the darkest one I guess of all of them

and yeah the baseball machine was great and we get um I mean this is is this sort of like the start of this rooftop scene because like Cruz really hasn't done up to this point I guess maybe the rock climbing that you could call that too but like climbing in two two he goes in from the top

for one of to get the disease when he has to go get the disease. I've got the disease from going in on the top. Oh really? Oh boy. Are you asking if this roof swinging is real? Are you asking if this roof swinging is real? Because I don't

think it is. Okay. Yes. Like the the start of these sort of like performative this death defying stunts. Yeah, yeah. I think that's more four. Four is when that really starts pumping up. That was the Burge Khalifa. Right. And they put a lot of focus on that.

This didn't have, because oddly two sort of had that with the motorcycle dual stunt. Yes. Because that's like a big physical, practical thing that they did in that movie where they race at each other and they hit and swing around. That and the rock climb were the two they really focused on. The rock climb were both very publicized. I don't remember the stunts in this being publicized because I think so much of it like I was saying is computer. The running. I think it was the run.

He runs on the Shanghai. When he does the run through Shanghai, I think was the big one day. And I'm like, that's just what he does. That's just a special treat. We always get that. I mean, but that's, I would consider that death defying. Exactly. I was going to say, like me jogging anywhere, that's a stunt.

Holy shit, that guy's trying to kill himself. I do all my own stunts. Having to say, excuse me to every person that you say that. That is very funny. I guess. Yeah. So, you know, yeah, he jumps back out. He's got the thing, jumps out the window.

And they'd been making a case the whole time of like, hey, you're not going to be high up for the base jump and the parachute to work right which it kind of doesn't and he slams into a window can i throw this out there do it no i've been talking this whole time about like uh j j abrams with omages to things yeah little references is there a reverse thing going on here with these shanghai rooftops and old chris nolan with with batman oh i got it it's from dark night is it Where he goes, he's the shooting there, right? The break-in and dark night

felt a lot like this, this mission possible Shanghai breaking. He's a, I mean, Nolan's a huge, uh, action movie guys.

Yeah. I'd imagine he's seen this for sure. Which one? Is that in begins or is that dark night? Dark night is when he does that, uh, when he goes to China. Yeah,

way he goes to the way he goes to, because that one guy's like, oh, I'm going to go to China and he's like, uh, and the joke is like, oh, the TV has a good point.

Oh, right. Because Batman goes and like kidnaps that dude and brings him back to, to, in Gotham. That's right. Yeah, yeah. Just like the look and the feel of it too and like just the way they do this stuff. I don't know. It's like yeah. A little little huntman

going on here. Well, speed of more homages is when Ethan breaks into this office and then the janitor is like, what the fuck? Yeah. Reminded me of true lies. Yes. And there's the janitor jokes and that.

Oh, sure. With the high rise. Right. Yeah, right. Yeah. I love this poor bastard. Like he's just trying to like empty a garbage can and Ethan Hunt swings through this window. This container that says biohazard is just there. Getting dragged out with the wind. picks up and he gets dragged back out.

It's very funny, very good. That and the Bridges thing. I think he's a big true lies fan. So, we got five minutes until Julia gets killed. We're racing around here trying to call Foffman. You can't get a good signal. But I'm like, you're just in the middle of like downtown

shangling. You're telling me there's no cell phone service? I mean, maybe you're using an American phone, I don't know. Is this like a 2006 thing? Oh, I guess that could be also, yes. Probably it was much more of a deal. More of a thing. They're like, I'm not getting reception. That makes sense. But he does.

It seems silly. I mean, I think I bought it more. I bought it more at the time, for sure. But he does. He finally gets through and he's like, okay, well. In 30 seconds, she was dead. You know that, right? Meet me.

You had five seconds to live. Okay, movie. Yeah, thanks a lot, Foffman. Meet me at the beginning of the movie tomorrow and that's what we're going to do we're going to and then at the same time isn't

there a peg is trying to figure oh no that's afterwards never mind no it's this train yard meetup Ethan's got to be alone and Ethan he calls Billy Crudup and he's like hey I got the rabbit's foot and he's like hey if you don't hear from me Billy Crut up in like eight hours

send the army after this fucking thing and he hangs up the phone and Crud up's kind of got like a smile on his face you don't know how to read it, and then Larry Fishman comes in, and he's like, oh, I see you actually sanctioned a mission to Shanghai? Like, what's going on? And he lies, and he's like, oh, yeah,

Haddam Salim Bahar was spotted around there. So I sent in a team Haddam Spilis Salar. This time of year, located in this part of the world. Entirely in Shanghai. While his brothers are in this part of the... He doesn't buy it.

He's like, oh, uh, okay. Oh, yep. Well, then good luck with your mission. And this is Larry Fishburn. Like, is that guy full of shit. I think that guy's full of shit. I think that guy's full of shit. I think that guy was lying to me. But then the morning comes up and fucking Ethan's got to get into a car. creepy dot guys. I do like the dot guy. Dot guy is like drink this shit. What else are you going to say? And he's right. Yeah. Okay. I will drink this shit. And he drinks it. And then he ends up in the chair across from Michelle Monaghan or so. you think or so you think and the knockout right here is interesting because what he flashes back to in this because he's like passing out or whatever what you see him thinking about as he passes out is just some sexy time with julia it's it's like a it's like a deleted part of the the hospital fucking yeah right like he that's like his last thought before he passes out oh now you find yourself back at the start of the movie don't worry your your party's coming up it'll be fun in a minute imagine just repeat uh yeah it's like it's a it's a class

classic J.J. Abrams, time loop, so just hold here for a second. You'll be back to your engagement party in no time. What we got here is sex dream pills. If you want to have sex dreams of your intended, we've got the stuff for you, folks. Yeah, that's right. Wet dreams guaranteed, okay, are 100% back. DWW. We're both going to the URL, Joe. What was yours going to be? Why was it going to be? Oh, fuck. It was www. to be a sexjuice fart or something, I don't know.

Davian bonapills.com Yeah, there you go. Yours was better. So, yeah, Eddie Marsan puts, he has put a thing in Ethan's, up, Ethan's nose, so he's got the thing in his brain now. Where is this nose gun coming from? Like, is this guy like an ENT or something like that?

Yeah, it's a crooked ENT, dude. An E&T that was pushed too far, and now he starts injecting bombs into people's nose. You know, I don't usually like knowing the origin story, but that is one I would like to see. Ears, nose, throat. Just every day the same thing until I decided to sell missiles

to Somalians, I guess. Yeah, it was just one day I fucking snap to and it was no longer about the allergies. That I had to be into the arms tray. Once you taste your first rabbit's foot, you can't go back. That's it. That's really good. We get a quick shot of the rest of the team

landing back in the U.S. and there's Larry Fishburn and like all of the Metro D.C. police like with guns drawn which is kind of great but yes we get back to where the cold open ends and it's Fofman saying

10 shooting Julia in the head freaking out and then you hear Fofman like going to another room and he's like I pushed him as far as you go and he didn't bend or anything like that and then who comes around the other side but here's Billy Cretta crooked as the day is long

I knew it I knew it and he's doing the normal like look God, I am evil but that's the right thing to be in this climate you know, it's best to be evil let's be honest here with one another

He was good in this scene He's really good I love Billy Credo He's good rules Yeah, fantastic This is the he tears off the mask here And it's actually Davian's translator From earlier in the film

It's the person who doesn't matter But you get Don't calm down It's a person that doesn't matter I forgot about this twist Like I forgot too you got me movie i forgot yeah yeah of course he's such a value calls brassel an affirmative action poster boy this is listen to your whole uh die i woke it's always been here there's always

been shitheads like you bitching and moaning about things absolutely um what's crazy though is this movie right here so again like coming out in 2006 we're writing various drafts over the previous maybe like three years or something this part of it really sets this movie in the uh It has been three years since the start of America's Forever Wars because the whole idea here is Billy Kredip says, like, they wanted to get the rabbit's foot in the hands of some dude in the Middle East so they could justify the U.S. government going to. Yep. I mean, and it was crazy because, like, I didn't really recall Kredaup saying that the last time I watched this, which was indeed several years ago, but like coming back to, or I guess it was just two years ago because I did all of them before the last one here. uh seven but i just i didn't this didn't register to me but now i was like oh this is totally a product of the georgia w bush era oh yeah filmmaking like we're just trying to justify a bullshit we are

pissed all i mean 2006 2007 we as a nation were fucking pissed oh yeah dude we were not happy folks listening to this who were you know maybe much littler at the time uh that was a weird time to be in america for sure a different kind of weird and shitty than it is now It was a different weird and shitty flavor. But yeah, it was just weird looking back and being like, wow, like here's a major, major Hollywood studio film putting a stamp like that right on it. Pretty, pretty wild. So Ethan knocks out Billy Crutt up right here, which is, he gets it with like a headbutter or something. Like he's something really, he knocks him right the fuck out.

He bites him too. Oh, he bites him. They didn't have the mask on. That's, you know, shame, shame. We tried to warn you. We tried. Yeah. There was a reason we did that.

He gets his hand and then he like, I mean, you give Ethan Hunt just a little tiny window and the man will escape. Absolutely. And he will run. If he's going to run for like three minutes. Oh, yeah. He'll steal your cell phone and run away with him. He's running. I think that guy took his cell phone.

He calls Benji, trace the call, like the number. This is the first instance of now a franchise proud tradition of Benji. Tell me where to go over the phone. What am I doing? And then he gets them to a spot. It looks like it's the back of like a gambling parlor. Just some old guys drinking and smoking. Hell yeah.

So awesome. These old Chinese fellas here. Kind of like right here, right now. Yes, that's what we do. But these guys are on like cigarette number 37 of the morning. And I just love the passive like, oh, yeah, let me point this way because you're clearly like an American op with a gun or whatever. and there's a bunch of you guys down there. Exactly. Nothing I haven't seen before.

He's down there. You never know. Could be an IMF agent. Oh, yeah. Take the mask up. So I try to pull this old Chinese guy's face off. I know someone's dead there. Owen Davian? O'Avian. Initiate Austin Powers Protocol.

Exactly. That's all it would be. Who does number two? That's not your mother. It's Owen Davian, baby. Oh, my God. Oh, the amount of times I had to hear a boy in my high school hallway scream, that's not your mother, it's a man, baby. God damn. I didn't even remember that joke.

It's been forever. That's not your mother, it's a man, baby, and he's fucking pulling on his face. I haven't seen those movies in forever, but they were cultural phenomena. Oh, dude. First one's funny. People were quoting it constantly. That was the bore out of the day. Yes, it was, which, you know, right before that, of course, it was the, it was the mask.

Well, yes, it was what. Jim Carrey kids could retire on and move their career over to Austin Howard's jokes. Yeah, it wasn't just the mask it got it was a Jim Carrey as because you were screaming do not go in there, you know Oh right, yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of all righty

then. Even some fucking liar, liar bits got into that thing. I'm kicking my ass, etc. Speaking of masks, the mask, even did wear the Phillips Seymour Hoffman in this, but did he, I kept struggling to remember, did he do the pull

off at all in this movie? Or no, like the signature, like, ripped it on. I don't think there is a signature reveal. I'm not sure if he does. You know what? It's because you don't need it because you know it's him going into it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The signature reveals are always when you don't know it's Ethan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it's like, it's been

Tom Cruise the whole time. Because it was funnier to have him, uh, as Philip Seymour Hoffman saying, what's up? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that explosion happened so you don't have to see him take it off. Yeah. Uh, so, uh, so basically, basically we're at the big final showdown here he gets to the place

where Julia is being held of course the real Julia and here is Davian sneaks up behind him Philip Seymour Hoffman versus Tom Cruise not exactly shouldn't be this fair of a fight. The face off I would be thinking of the century. Let's go. I love this

dude he can hold his own against Hoffman you want to do it. He's kicking his ass dude for the moment but no I mean it's ultimately it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, a little bit of a, but he's like pulling Tom Cruise by his wrist at one point, a drag in him across the room. Yeah. Yeah. So amazing. It's pretty great. Does this mean I could maybe fight Tom Cruise? Well, you got to remember movie magic, Eric,

movie. The way this fight goes down, like he, he's, you know, he gets the brain pill that starts like, kind of fucking him up. I activated the brain pill. Yes, four, four minutes. Four minutes ago, you know, he starts, you know, he starts, he starts, beating him up and then something happens where like he's down you know sort of for the count but he like hulks up with the power of love or something

is that what well he's down for the count because the brain thing is fucking within right give him a spike head yeah I think it is literally just like I have to suck it up because this dude is going to kill my wife and while he's what is the accounts for the moment where like he's able

to you know harness that power inside is he Philip Seymour Hoffman, is he like getting a gun ready or something like that? Because there's a gun that's been kicked across the floor. So Davian thinks that Hunt is down for the county. He's going to pick up the gun and he's going to shoot Julia with it. Right. So he stands up with the gun and then Ethan tackles him from behind.

Yes. And they've got the fight going on it. And what I like about this is it's not this long, drawn out thing. It's that moment. And then when Ethan goes and grabs him again, they kind of fight for a little bit. And they just fall out into the street. And it's just a quick roll him over. lift him up

truck drives up but Ben does highlight an issue in that if you are going to do this routinely and tradition is that you would start Huey Lewis's power of love would at least get a measure

of it when you see that when you see all he's going to because of the wife he's going to power of love he's going to do it and it would pair well I think with the I just the the

comeback fight he's got like he's still got this headache right so he's like he's kind of doing the temple rub but like he's employed like IMF agents they a solution for everything

when you've got the temple rub he was like fighting with his elbows while at the same time going like I've got such a headache it's so awesome dude it was great you got to train him you got to train him in every way when Davian gets hit by that truck

and then we just cut away and see the shoe drop that's almost like another homage in Mad Max 1 when the family gets annihilated You can see the kid's shoe fall. There you go. Another cutaway gag, like the, you know, with the sheep and the blade. You know, I've been, I went through, I've been to China.

I've been to Shanghai. Look at this guy. Oh, a world traveler. Fancy boy. I actually really had a great time in China. Rich boy. It's a wonderful country. So in Beijing, though, like I got out on the street for the first time.

And there was a bus coming at me like 70 miles an hour. Really? And I was like, holy shit. I was like, well, I have a second to get back to the sidewalk because they're going to slow down. No, they are not. No, they got a fucking schedule. They got a schedule to keep. I did like a fucking IMF jump.

First time I had legs down in China. That guy's got a fucking schedule to keep. And then I was like, this ending makes absolute sense. You got a billion people to move around. There's no time to. It's kind of amazing because the movie does foreshadow it a little bit

because when he leaves the first building, when Benji is directing him, where to go. He goes through one of the doorways and Benji's like, oh, leave this door and turn right. And he goes to do so and a truck whizzes right by, Ethan, and he's got to like stop for a Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is pretty cool. A little foreshadow.

Yeah, just a little bit, a little bit. So Davian's fucking road dog food here is just done. You don't even see like the corpse. Nothing never again. It would be a mess, I do believe. It would be a mess, yes. Just a big old pile of. Seymour.

Sloppy Owen all over. He sees Owen's corpse and he goes over. He pulls off the mask and it's Julia and then Julia was Dave. She comes fun and after. Yes.

She rips off her mask and she gains like 150 pounds. Easier for him to fake the rockin tits this time. What about the rack? Then they're back. Got to stop the charge. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got to. And he's like, okay, I'm going to make this like makeshift defibrillator. I'm going to electrocute myself. Here's how you use this gun in case anyone comes in. And you're a nurse. You just have to bring me back to life. Okay. Yeah, that's really easy for you to do, right, nurse?

But he's dead for like two or three minutes. He should, when he's brought back, he should be brain dead. He at least have to learn out a walk again. Yes, yeah. No, no, he's got to get a mission. He's got a mission to do. The shock scene in this rules where he's got the tongue depressors in and then kind of like the way.

the eyeball, like, brain bomb went off. It's just very fast, just boom! You know, he bites through the... This is louder though, obviously, but very good. And this scene also, when she has the gun, offer up another

one, tell me what you think of this. She's got the gun, she's down, she hears people in the next room, and she looks... Oh, I see what you're doing here. And there's the little, like, metal cabinet, and she's kind of looking in the reflection. J.P. little JP Kitchen movie

Could be, could be It would be awesome if then That dude with the gun saw her reflection And like charged at it and started firing And then that guy learns how to open doors Don't worry Jules These people are too stupid They can't open a door

Oh shit Uh-oh It's an inspirational movie about door openers She fucking ices one dude And then turns around Ice is another dude oops dude number two Is Billy Crutup He's just dead

And it's an awesome, he's trying to escape with the rabbit's foot. And it's like a, I got killed by who? Oh, and he just drops dead. I got a lady, no. It just rolls over. The way this, it just rolls up. The canister goes. Yeah.

So, cool. So she does some last minute CPR here. Ethan does wake up finally. After really punching his chest. Really, yeah, really beating the shit out of this dude going to work on him here. I was like watching a scene from the pit or something. Yeah. Trying to bring this dude back.

And, you know, I love this. And then they're just walking out and we're on, like, you know, walking on the river here in Shanghai. And it's like, so you're going to tell me how we wound up in China? Like, what's going on here? Why are we in China? Let's go home. Okay. Well, the traffic problems in Beijing.

I just can't. And you know what? Well, this, he also admits that he works for an agency called the IMF. Well, what does that stand for? Impossible mission. That sounds fake. I'm going to be honest. Yeah, it's good lines here.

she does she's kind of like what like in a way that just really works they get back to Washington or wherever the IMF is like the White House is a job they're interested in you for what is that torturing people in Gitmo well dude I'll tell you what do you remember this when we saw this together in theaters I remember

the day I remembered seeing it I don't remember whatever reaction this was I because I the first time we saw this movie I don't know I just I wasn't in the mood for it it didn't play that well for me and I thought end of the movie I'll be a fucking jerk do a little theater comedian thing here. So Larry Fishfriend comes up and he's like, oh, Ethan just got

off the phone, the White House has a job for you, if you're up for it. And I just go, President of the United States. You know what? Warm reception from the theater audience, I know what that's not bad. But he also hands him like an envelope that I think is like just a check for like

job well done. Like just a little bonus or something. I saw this a friend of the show Sean Viner and he hated. He was like, I recall the tirades I like that movie I like it I do now yeah

but I will always think of me being a jerk in the theater yelling about that line and so it's basically like okay we got a new mission for you Ethan blah blah blah and you know do you want to know about it and he's like I'm gonna go on my honey honey moon you know maybe I'll come back to work maybe I won't

hey one more thing what was the rabbit's foot anyway if you promised to stay I'll tell you That's right. That's right. He says, I'll send you a postcard and he walks away. And he winks at him and there's a little twinkle sound effect. And we just get this nice moment of like the IMF team, all like welcoming Julia and being nice to her and happy for them and whatever. And then they walk off, fades to black and they will never know happiness again. Probably. Yeah, that's not happening.

Oh, man, but that is the end of Mission Impossible 3. We'll go around the horn here for some final thoughts. And our guest today, Ben, we'll start with you. Does Ethan still have that little piece of shit up his nose? Like, it's just there, right? It's staying there. Yeah, no, I think it just fritzed out. So yeah, it's probably still there. That sucks. Yeah. It's probably going to come in to play later in life

and some fucking horrible diagnosis to this guy. They cut him up and maybe they get something out. Maybe that's his final reckoning. Oh, dude. Yeah. It was reactivated. He had finally pops. It only took 20 years when my head finally exploded.

This is, I mean, mission impossible is my favorite franchise um this one i was pleased that like like i said like some of the surprises still got me it i think the last time i saw it was when we did the impossible athon years ago so it's been a long time since it's been a while yeah yeah and i wouldn't put it i still think uh i think we're all in agreement that the first one is still like at the top of the list it got it started the party it started the party the diploma is just oh chef's kiss but you know very much enjoyed seeing this uh it's kind of in the middle of the pack for me i still not exactly sure if i were to rank everything maybe we got to wait until the eighth one

comes out to put it in its proper order but um definitely a recommend uh yeah mission impossible baby thanks for having me guys well thanks for coming on buddy uh mr cisco what do you think uh yeah big recommend i really like this i really just love watching hoffman cook oh you know and he's cook and such a nice little dinner for you in this movie. I had a lot of fun with it. I see, you know, whatever criticisms you could have against J.J. Abrams, I think all this shit works here.

I don't know. It just really hits for me. I enjoyed it a lot. So I recommend big time. There you go. Christopher Cabin. Yeah, the guy works as long as you keep him away from Star Wars. And as long as you don't make him do a fucking hit job on Ryan Jans, on Ryan Johnson. Just make sure he's not listening to the internet.

Yes, that's good. Did he do into darkness as well, Star Trek? Yes. That's the thing. The problem is you let them do one of these. You don't let them do more than more. You're totally right. You're totally right. But even in that, no, no, please. And even that, Into Darkness, still a much better moving

in Rise of Skywalker, my sweet Jesus. I agree with that. Co-sign. For this movie, really well done. Everything like I want from an action movie. You got it. Everything I want from Mission Pops movie. You got it. So I can't complain at all. All the interpersonal stuff works. All the lines work.

nothing but positive notes really yeah yeah I'm not going to really say anything differently I've come around to this one much more uh you know it's it's a lot of fun it's the it's kind of funny because you can sort of see now why story wise once you get into four and on the death defying stunts come in big time because now Ethan hunts just a divorced guy yeah yeah and he doesn't give shit about nothing yeah you want to die he's just miserable and fucking divorced and that's the way it's got to be uh but no this is

great. You know, some real huge firsts here, the introduction of Benji and everything. It's just, it's great. And, you know, Abrams, yeah, for all of his faults when he listens to message boards and the message words tell him how to make a movie, then you got some problems, but this this is, this is before he was

in movie jail. He was in directorial jail. This is 2006. Like, free as a bird. Speaking of the TV powers. Youngbloods. 2006, two things really crazy and then we'll wrap up here. But one, this movie, and ending with a pre that dude's

an open Nazi Kanye West song that they made for this movie. Yes, dude, because he's fucking singing about Impossible Missions and whatever the fuck. It's not good. It's not good. It's a bad song. It's really bad. But it's just amazing. It's like so of course that time. And also, how about this shit? You think about like

these global tours that they go on now for the premiere of the movies and everything. The premiere of this movie, the global premiere of this movie, was at the 2007. Tribeca Film Festival. Wow. Very nice.

And it just makes you think back to like what that fucking thing used to be compared to what Tribeca is now. That's crazy. I can just now picture Robert De Niro begging on the phone. Oh, please, please, please. Well, they were, I mean, this was a franchise in a bad place after two. So like I got to get it. But also it was like only like the fifth anniversary of Tribeca. Yeah.

It was only like the fifth or so Tribeca. So, you know, it's just a really, really different time. to put out a Mission Impossible movie all the way to 20 years now we got this last one and the world's a completely different place but that is gonna do it for this episode on Mission Impossible 3 as always

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was all about Mission Impossible Fallout 6th one. Hell yeah great great better movie than this but a real good time there. Who are we talking about on the Gleap Glossary this month? The Gleap Gloucery this month we are talking about

Queller, who is a genocidal maniac. So that's a lot, that's a fun conversation. It was a real light one there with that guy. Oh, wow, all right. The animation damnation this month, we were talking about the first episode of the new Disney Plus Marvel series, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.

Yes, indeed. Hell yeah, a lot of great animation on that one. I thought the story was really fun. A little cameo by... Strange. So that's a fun one to talk about over there. Melro 210 of course. Yes, we're going through. It's the aftermath of Daddy Wars. I like one commenter said Daddy War's colon Requiem. I like that. Yeah, that would probably be what I was going. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, and you know, the Nexus, we are, I think this is the month where we're talking about

that Reg Barclays a genius episode. It's flowers for Algernon in space. Yeah. So you got that going on. And the Star Trek, the animated series, of course, it is the sequel episode to Shoreleave, where they go back to the vacation planet and a bunch of dumb shit happens. Of course. It's a shitty episode that made for a very funny discussion. You're going to

want to check that out as well. And as always here every Tuesday, the show rolls on. The summer blockbuster extravaganza continues with what film? Eric Sisko. Well, we're kind of sort of a theme month, except for the W.L. Next month, we're going totally awesome 80s. Oh, totally awesome 80s. Yes.

next week's movie is Rambo colon first blood part two yeah yeah he is willingly going back to vietnam for some reason Martin cove John crease himself is in the film he's opening a sweatshop you got to rewrite the last movie yeah you don't do all that man got to read you all of it baby got to do a JJ Abram on it so until next week with Rambo first blood part two I've been Andrew Jipin Eric Siska

gabin. Ben, wasn't it? Take it easy.