Is it me, or is the first hour and fifteen minutes of the new Mission Impossible the talkiest movie since Twelve Angry Men? #MissionExposition
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it is.
may 24, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The wife and I saw it yesterday. We agreed the entire thing could have been shaved down.
may 25, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
OMG. Spoiler alert please. I haven’t seen Twelve Angry Men.
may 25, 2025, 12:50 am • 1 0 • view
Won't see it because cruise is in it. Don't like him
may 25, 2025, 12:34 am • 1 0 • view
may 24, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree
may 24, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Great movie and a reason to watch it again. 👍
may 24, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
So i can skip the first hour?
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The last hour and a half makes up for it.
may 24, 2025, 11:08 pm • 6 0 • view
They were thinking of people my dad’s age (late 70’s) that didn’t marathon and had forgotten what happened in the earlier ones. I also enjoyed it, but my buddy who actually did marathon this week, complained it was a little slow on the front end. Your point is spot on.
may 25, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
Impossible? They need to find a new title.
may 25, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
Well, there's always MY DINNER WITH ANDRE....
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 4 0 • view
There needs to be a cooking show called twelve hangry gentlemen
may 24, 2025, 11:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Some of us blissfully have no idea. :-)
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Tarantino must love it.
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Haven’t seen it yet
may 25, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
It was silly, entertaining and had a lot of stuff going on but Tom did look good:)
may 25, 2025, 12:00 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe the impossible mission is to talk the entire movie. No running allowed.
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 4 0 • view
His running scenes were so unrealistic. Instead of just grabbing a taxi, he runs across the bridge and to the Tube areas when he has to be there really quickly. And then he has to run through half of South Africa to catch the plane.
may 25, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
You are also correct
may 25, 2025, 3:33 am • 2 0 • view
Him running is poetry in motion. Don’t squash the dream 🙃
may 25, 2025, 3:32 am • 1 0 • view
Agreed
may 24, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed. But it gets going eventually.
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet to see it, but that's given me an interesting preview of the mission, should I choose to accept it.
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 4 0 • view
You were known to talk a lot in movies, Sir!
may 24, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s talking and then there is what happened in Mission impossible. They were trying to tie the gazillion other MI films together to connect to this final one.
may 25, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
I’m currently reading Sidney Lumet’s book “Making Movies.” He said it’s supposed to be claustrophobic and explains how he used lenses to effectuate that feeling because otherwise, it’s just 12 guys talking. So Tom Cruise is 5 million feet up on a bungee same?
may 24, 2025, 11:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Not only that but the camera angles get progressively lower and tighter to increase the tension [in Twelve Angry Men, haven't seen MI yet].
may 25, 2025, 12:11 am • 4 0 • view
That too.
may 25, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
That is such a great movie.
may 25, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
Woof - I misread and thought you just said FIFTEEN minutes, not 1:15. Yeah, that sounds darned chatty!
may 24, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
That's what the reviewers at LAIST said!
may 25, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
I didn't know I cared about how every MI movie connected to every other one... until I realized immediately, that I didn't. AT ALL! #WheresMyActionMovie #MissionExposition
may 24, 2025, 11:43 pm • 2 0 • view
The first hour was like a dozen short stories by a dozen different authors. Incredibly fragmented.
may 25, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
yep
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
This is cinema:
may 25, 2025, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
Reminds me of when I took my 8 yr old boy to see the Top Gun sequel and he asked me why all that talking was interrupting the flying
may 24, 2025, 11:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Haven't seen it yet. Isn't this like the tenth one? It's not mission impossible, its mission mostly possible?
may 24, 2025, 11:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Juror number two is a new twelve angry men.
may 25, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
Btw I paid to see it in the theater and I have no regrets. Just sayin’.
may 24, 2025, 11:08 pm • 135 3 • view
same.
may 24, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Tom Cruise never disappoints.
may 24, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey, who doesn't love the idea of a guy who can still Secret Agent when he's 90.
may 24, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Glad I saw in theater but won't be revisiting at home. I did like it.
may 24, 2025, 11:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Ahh, movies. The things that I used to do before Covid, inflation and now destruction of my healthcare. Thanks MAGA. Thanks non-voters.
may 24, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
And, I might add, I loved Twelve Angry Men.
may 24, 2025, 11:12 pm • 167 2 • view
agreed.
may 24, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Lee Jay Cobb and Henry Fonda
may 24, 2025, 11:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Truly one of my favorites EVER.
may 24, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I loved that too, I’m gonna have to watch it again this weekend.
may 24, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw “The Mortal Storm” (1940) last night on TCM, starring Fonda’s best friend, Jimmy Stewart (who served in WWII). It was film that convinced Hitler to ban MGM films in NAZI GE as it dared depict treatment of Jews under NAZI regime (Hitler called it “Jewish propaganda”). 🙄 Seems timely again.
may 25, 2025, 2:43 am • 1 0 • view
I think this Cruise guy has some potential, honestly.
may 25, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view
On NPR someone said that if you need to use the bathroom this is a good time to go and you won't miss much.
may 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
I even liked the remake with Tony Danza.
may 24, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Me too. Didn’t get the criticism🙄🤔
may 24, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Did Lee J. Cobb or Ed Begley Sr. jump out of a plane?
may 24, 2025, 11:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Have not seen the new Mission Impossible, but as to Twelve Angry Men, hard not to love.
may 24, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Twelve angry white men or as I call the tRumps cabinet
may 24, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Which one would you most like to play?
may 24, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm seeing it tomorrow and am concerned because one thing you couldn't say about the previous installments is that they were boring
may 24, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
You should watch Pretty in Pink instead. Classic. Ever heard of it?
may 24, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
This might be the talkiest movie review I’ve ever read.
may 25, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
may 24, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
"As you know, Bob..."
may 24, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Oration Possible?
may 25, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Can not do it. Not a Cruise fan.
may 24, 2025, 11:24 pm • 2 0 • view
I like Simon Pegg & Pom Klementieff. I also found out Lucy Tulugarjuk is in it. She was in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, which was such a good film. That raises a problem with language. Lucy is from Nunavut and speaks eastern Arctic Inuktitut. In the movie, they are in Alaska. Different dialect.
may 25, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view
Still bitter at not getting a call back to play Ethan Hunt, huh?
may 24, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Closure can get chatty.
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Yah it was surprisingly bad.
may 24, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view
It can't be talkier than the first two-thirds of Rogue One
may 25, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
And yet I'm still excited to see it!
may 25, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
This is a fascinating history of linking Topkapi (the old movie) to MI www.instagram.com/reel/DJ2B0Tv...
may 25, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I found the first 1/3 to be boring and stilted. People were leaving for snacks, which they wouldn’t do if interesting. However, once they introduced Lucy Tulugarjuk’s character, I perked up. She is an Inuk from Igloolik, Nunavut. She and Pom Klementieff were the highlights of the film.
may 25, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
Lucy Tulugarjuk looked familiar and after googling, I found out she was one of the leads of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, and is still as serenely beautiful as she was in 2002.
may 25, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
Not you. It's like shut uuuup already.
may 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Talkier than My Dinner With Andre? Now that’s talkie
may 25, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait, it's more than an hour & a half long? Do we get a bathroom break around that point, or is a marathon?
may 25, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view