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Yeah. I think he wants to. But the thing is, how does he direct Bond to be different from the Mission films? Because as brilliant as the Mission films are, the Bond feel isn't entirely there and McQuarrie only knows how to direct the Mission way.
The question would be, do EON want him to direct a Bond film?
I think he would do that, it wouldn't be beyond him. But I don't see him doing it: I think it be breaking a loyalty thing a bit too much. Plus it's good to have Bond and MI separate, as much as I'd love him to do a Bond.
My sentiments exactly.
He needs to come in to save bond him or Nolan bond is in a tough place now.
I'm sure we hear some tracks of Lorne Balfes Score here
It's the premiere in London tonight.
Mission: Impossible 2023 Ranking:
1. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
3. Mission: Impossible I
4. Mission: Impossible II
5. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
6. Mission: Impossible III
Not many surprises there, but I did elevate Rogue Nation to #2 and loved it more than I ever have in the past, it seems. M:I III will likely always be at the bottom, whereas Fallout is probably the best action movie of the last five or so years in my opinion. It'll be near impossible for Dead Reckoning - Part One to top it but I hope it manages to.
For all of the reasons that you gave, I’m a huge fan of MI:3; I also think that it gives Hunt a quality, having a personal life and a try love, that separates him frown other globe hopping spies.
PSH is absolutely incredible as the villain though and I really wish this IMF team got another shot in a sequel. The scene between Hunt and Jonathan Rhys Meyers' Declan outside the Vatican is gold and always good for a laugh.
I do like the emotional heart at the core of the story but it veers into melodrama at times too. It has its strengths but I don't like it overall and only ever revisit it during these M:I marathons.
Yes I'm the same: it's my least favourite. It kind of has the least personality of any of them, I tend to think. I love MI because it's a melding of spies and heist movies, and MI3 has almost no heist in it- there's the Vatican bit but there's nothing particularly witty or inventive about that sequence. I'm not even a massive fan of the action scenes in it either. It has some good bits here and there; I like the big swing, Seymour-Hoffman is obviously great, Tom's all time best running sequence... but generally I don't return to it much.
Do you think? I'm not sure I see him as a director with a huge style, as such. If anything he seems to ape the 80s blockbuster style of Spielberg etc., which served Star Wars well I thought. And his first Star Trek was one of the best blockbusters in years at the time, I thought. Maybe it took MI3 for him to warm up to those.
I've always enjoyed it but it really, really floored me during this recent marathon I had. It's my second favorite.
Interesting; I've often thought, with a few tweaks, that Rogue Nation would have made an excellent Bond film.
I agree that some of the action stuff could carry over, but what I do like which is different about Bond vs Hunt is that Hunt is a planner and sets in motion clever plans and solutions in order to bring down baddies, whereas Bond is more of a reactor, who reacts to the plans of others and counters with brute force, generally. That doesn’t mean the roles of both of them don’t cross over from time to time, but I like that there is that difference to how they go about things. And in RN we see quite a bit of Ethan coming up with clever plans and out-thinking the baddies, although when things go wrong a bit of brute force at times as well. But I love that the whole climax of the film turns out to be a plan, that’s lovely. And it’s how a Mission film should be: that’s the essence of MI.
That's my issue with MI3 I think: Abrams does a little section of Mi stuff in Vatican to get it out of the way, and then in the rest of film Ethan is just being Bond, really; reacting to stuff, or shooting people as a special forces guy. Whereas McQ always keeps the essence of MI there and at the forefront: his version of Ethan is always making plans and trying to out-think his opponents, one step ahead.
I thought that RN is seen as the better film generally. GP is great fun but arguably doesn’t quite maintain it through the final act, where RN does I’d say.
Has he not just given away his location? So Tom Cruise is at the Cineworld Leicester Square at 7pm tonight?
EDIT: Ah no, he's not that daft. They've both got the same ticket! :)