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Episode 9 - The Full Smoke on 'Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Pt. 1'
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Get ready for a thrill ride as we dive deep into 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1' in this week's episode of 'The Study Pipe.' Our super-spy Ethan Hunt is back, played by none other than the age-defying Tom Cruise, embarking on another seemingly impossible mission. But is this mission worth embarking on for us, the viewers?
We discuss the film's high-octane stunts (yes, they're still done by Cruise himself), plot complexity, and how it compares to previous entries in the franchise.
So how many Puffs of Approval does 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1' receive? Listen to the episode to find out, and gear up for an exhilarating discussion that may just be as gripping as one of Ethan Hunt's daredevil stunts.
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Transcript
Comparing Budgets: Mission Impossible vs. Indiana Jones
00:00:25
Speaker
Welcome back, people. What are we talking about, Andrew? Oh, shit. We're talking about the new Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part 1. Mission Impossible Part 15, it feels like, but not in a bad way, right? I think it's Part 7. It is Part 7. It was invited by Fred Michael to come out to the movie.
00:00:49
Speaker
And I couldn't get the part right. I was like, we should possible part six or part eight. Lucky number seven, you know? Lucky number seven. I wonder if, you know, because it's lucky number seven, they felt like they could make one of the most expensive films in all of history and get away with it. What was the budget
Mission Impossible 7 Plot and Villains
00:01:10
Speaker
on this? Was it 295 million? Is that what I read?
00:01:13
Speaker
Oh, that sounds right to me. I mean, I have a list here of the most expensive productions, unadjusted for inflation, and this one is number 14. Yeah, $290 million.
00:01:32
Speaker
So much money. So much money. You know what has it beat, though, by just a little hair, a smidge? Is it going to be Indiana Jones? Yeah, Dial of Destiny. Is that 295? Maybe that's where I read the 295. 295. And you haven't seen it yet, right? I have not seen it. So you're holding up the episode on Dial of Destiny at this moment.
00:01:57
Speaker
So here's the backstory, guys. I was driving out to see this motherfucker and he went solid without me. You know, that beginning Nazi scene, not to spoil it. No, I don't. I couldn't wait. I couldn't wait. All right. Back on track. Not Indiana Jones, not yet. It is Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, AKA Part Seven. It is about
00:02:25
Speaker
Tom Cruise, again, doing an impossible mission. Right. But this one really is like so timely. The villain. We can't wait before you say that. No, no. Yeah, we shouldn't spoil the villain, but it's so it's because they didn't put that in the trailer. Did they? Is it in the trailers? I don't think it's in the trailer at all. And the opening of the film kind of sets the stage for what this villain
00:02:53
Speaker
is and I was kind of debating on whether we should get into it. You know, in the spoiler free. Kind of beginning here as we do. But I think we should save it, because the opening.
Tom Cruise's Career Resurgence
00:03:08
Speaker
You know they establish it pretty quick. And I enjoyed the opening. Yeah, it was very Ocean Gate.
00:03:17
Speaker
If you've been following the recent Titanic, Titanic collapse. If you have liked memes about Ocean Gate and you're a terrible person, you will love the intro to this movie. Man, this is really timely. How'd they know? Yeah, how'd they know?
00:03:38
Speaker
Yeah, $290 million insane seventh installment. Tom Cruise is producing again. He's put his heart, soul, passion, emotion into this. I love seeing in the beginning there, it says a Tom Cruise production. He's not even under a production label that he's created as just a Tom Cruise production.
00:04:06
Speaker
I mean, he's earned it, you know? Yeah, hell yeah, he's earned it. You know, he seemed like his career was winding down, not to get too off into the Tom Cruise weeds, but I remember, what was it like? It was like 10, 15 years ago when he started, he started coming back with like Oblivion and it was Edge of Tomorrow and he really started coming out with like good action movies again.
00:04:34
Speaker
It's like his career found that second wind. Yeah, definitely. I think that's right, right around that time of oblivion, which I really liked. I liked him as Jack Reacher. I thought, and that may be a terrible thing to say. Of course, he's not seven foot tall like Jack Reacher, but I actually, maybe guilty pleasure, maybe not. Jack Reacher was totally cool.
00:05:03
Speaker
But Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol was a little bit before that. And I think really the fourth one in this series, I think was like the Tom Renaissance, right?
Espionage: Mission Impossible vs. James Bond
00:05:16
Speaker
The, the Cruisesance, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. Yeah. I think, uh, a hundred percent. And then, um, it's the same director, right? Jack Reacher as a blast, like what, for Mission Impossible movies.
00:05:31
Speaker
Yeah, Christopher McQuarrie, right? Yeah, exactly. Which just turned out to be one of the great director-actor combinations of history, in my opinion. Yeah, this is like Belichick and Brady. 100%. With what they've done with this series. Oh, yeah, no doubt. Yeah, I remember when
00:05:58
Speaker
There was a moment there and I was saying Mission Impossible is doing what the James Bond film should be doing. You know, like I think it was when Spectre came out, frankly, you had Spectre
00:06:12
Speaker
Was it going up against Fallout or around that same time period or maybe it was Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol or Rogue Nation actually, right? Rogue Nation and Spectre have similar plots, this like shadow government organization. Yeah, they came out the same year, 2015. Yeah, so I remember Ghost Protocol was awesome, Rogue Nation, I saw Spectre, I saw Rogue Nation and I was like,
00:06:39
Speaker
Yeah, dude, Mission Impossible, they are doing a better job than the Bond films.
Tom Cruise's Stunt Dedication
00:06:45
Speaker
Like, you know, this is premier premium espionage spy thriller film. And they bring that into this, you know, seventh part, seventh entry. Oh, yeah. Hands down. And then Rogue Nation, I guess it was his
00:07:06
Speaker
This was referring to I forgot what it was called. We were just we just named it. Someone reclined with the building to buy. That was the. It was protocol, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that. I think it's Abu Dhabi. It wasn't that what it was. I think it was. No, because then he hits the maybe it's Abu Dhabi at one portion, but then the Burj Khalifa is in Dubai. I mean, it's for sure, right? Yeah, then.
00:07:35
Speaker
that he really went up the side of that building. Yeah. And then he what was it that a rogue nation he hung on to the side of the plane. Yeah. And that I mean, that's badass. I think that's why rogue nation is still my favorite of these new mission impossible, you know, the rebooted second half back end of this series, if you want to call it that.
00:07:59
Speaker
That's the, I think the coolest stunt that he's done. I mean, he brings it obviously to this one. There's so much, I don't know, marketing material, whatever you want to call it. They teased the motorbike jump for
00:08:15
Speaker
many months before this thing came out, right? And he brings it to this. He brings it. There's always that one crazy big stunt in each of these movies.
Praise for Cruise and McQuarrie
00:08:25
Speaker
But Rogue Nation, when he jumps on that plane and it's just holding on and you see it take off, that is just crazy, man. I know. I'm sweating bullets sitting in my seat when the flight takes off. He's out on the, you know, hanging out on the side of the plane.
00:08:44
Speaker
I remember when I was watching that movie and I got out of the theater and someone was walking behind me and they're like, yeah, but he was strapped into the plane. I was like, what? Yeah, exactly. Are you going to go out there and strap yourself on the side of a plane? If you don't take private pilot license courses and you're not willing to do that, you can't talk smack on that. This guy is strapped on the outside. I know people, I don't want to learn how to fly that's so scary and dangerous.
00:09:15
Speaker
You can't knock him. Yeah, of course he's strapped, man. Yeah. But he did it, you know, not a stunt double. He did it. Yeah, why was that? That was how to knock, you know. Yeah, we need him. You want him to do literally hang out on to the side of the plane?
00:09:35
Speaker
But speaking of, you know, hanging on literally and, you know, without any assistance in this one, I don't think it's a spoiler. They advertised it well in advance. The motorbike jump into the canyon with the parachute. He did that thing like eight times or whatever. I feel like he did way more than eight times. You know, Tom Cruise was crashing motorbikes for this shot. Yeah.
00:10:01
Speaker
And it was awesome. You know, the whole film, as it was building up as you know, watching it, I'm like, Okay, when's this gonna happen? Where's this at? Then it's 13,000. When you see like the rug, not rugged, but the green, you know, like rolling mountains, I was like, Oh, this is it somewhere. So he did. So he did 30 jumps a day, just to perfect the jump. So he did 13,000 total jumps, he said.
00:10:33
Speaker
Geez, 13,000? Yeah. That's insane. He did 500 skydives for it. Wow. Dedication. I mean, that's, he brings it to every single one of these films and it's not lost on me at least as an audience member going in. Because I know he cares. I know he's out there putting, you know, you hear these jokes, but
00:11:00
Speaker
Brad Pitt and all these other people who go, Oh, I'm
Memorable Sequences in Mission Impossible
00:11:03
Speaker
too old. I'll let the stunt devil handle that. I'm, I'm not, I don't have an ego. I'm not this or that. I look at Tom Cruise and I go, this guy's a professional. He's not doing it for the ego. He's doing it because he wants to work hard. He wants to go in and knock this out. And he said it. I don't know if you're showing.
00:11:23
Speaker
There was the intro by him and Christopher McQuarrie. There was an intro ahead of the showing I saw. I said, thank you, coming to the movies, singing in the theater. And I think he said it in there and maybe somewhere else, but he said, my job is to entertain you all. I'm here to entertain you. And he takes it seriously. I think he is what the Rock wishes he could do for Phyllis.
00:11:51
Speaker
Yeah, a hundred percent. I don't see the rocket get out on the side of the plane. No, no, I don't either. Yeah. So Tom Cruise brings it, um, you know, Christopher McQuarrie as director behind the camera, brought it again. I mean, I think it's done a fantastic job with the series. Uh, what is this? His third, third one, right? Um, rogue nation fallout. Now this one, and then part two.
00:12:20
Speaker
So he'll have four films under his belt. Supporting cast, kind of the same players. I really love Simon Pegg in these films. He always, I think, brings that humor and just, I love him. I love seeing him in these. Oh, Simon Pegg, he's my favorite part of the whole series. He's awesome, isn't he?
00:12:45
Speaker
He's so good. And I feel like when they brought him in originally, he was just going to be in for that one movie as like a bit part, you know? Yeah. And he's stuck around. And I really am happy that this is a series he is a part of and has been a part of now since I think Mission Impossible 3, if I'm not mistaken. So, you know, he's been in quite a few now. Yeah, I think he, let's see, what was his first one? Why look that up?
00:13:13
Speaker
Simon Pegg? Yeah, I'm looking up to see the first one. Was it the third one? I think it was Mission Impossible 3 with Philip Seymour Hoffman as the villain. The one where he lost his shoes. And then Hailey Atwell is new addition. It was three. As well. You know, I thought Hailey Atwell did pretty good. She's carry over into the second part here too.
00:13:41
Speaker
And you know, there's something I want to talk with you about in the spoiler side of this, uh, regarding her character. I think we kind of briefly talked about it after we got out of the movie, but, uh, I'll leave it for that part. Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. So the plot really surrounds kind of two villains without spoiling.
00:14:03
Speaker
One of them, there's a primary antagonist, this villain. And then I think the secondary, the one that's kind of in service of the other is this guy named Gabriel. And I thought he did pretty well. I thought he was an interesting villain. I liked how matter of fact he was very an absolutist, you know, very pragmatic and confident.
00:14:31
Speaker
mild-mannered, even, you know, killed kind of guys. So I liked the villain. I liked Gabriel and, you know, what he brought to it. I think the bigger villain, the main villain, is way more interesting and way more with the times. So, you know, I think his stunt work, awesome direction, great supporting cast, super cool.
00:15:00
Speaker
You know, the usual suspects are back. The villains, very interesting. And then, you know, without getting into too many spoilers, the filming locations were awesome. You know, one big,
Positive Reception and Series Success
00:15:17
Speaker
huge extended sequence is in Rome.
00:15:20
Speaker
And, you know, they shot in Italy for this. And there's a car chase. There always has to be a car chase in these cities, right? In every mission possible. But they made this car chase fresh. They made it. What I liked about this entry more than some of the others is I feel like in this one, they didn't take themselves so seriously. I felt like they injected humor into it and made it
00:15:50
Speaker
They were kind of laughing at themselves a little bit, and it was cool. They threw in some absurd things there that worked well, and it made me go, oh, god, another car chase? Oh, actually, this is a different kind of car chase. Yeah, it was almost slapsticky. I feel like one of the staples of Mission Impossible is the tech never works quite how you think it's going to work. At least like the last three or four movies, right? Stuff has just been kind of breaking down on them.
00:16:20
Speaker
Yeah. Whether it was going back to Ghost Protocol, which climbed up the building, the gloves are failing. The way that they handled continuing the failure of technology in this one was just great. It was integrated great into the storyline. Man, this was really hard to talk about without spoiling anything.
00:16:44
Speaker
I know. But it's fresh. It's a fresh take on a car chase where maybe size and scale is not more, it's less and less is more the way they handled in this one. It was almost like it was making fun of the port identity. Yeah, I can see that.
00:17:09
Speaker
I could see that for sure. Yeah. So that was a good sequence. Another one was the airport scene. There was a lot of anxiety for me in the airport. There's a huge kind of subplot going on while Ethan Hunt is tracking down a target in this airport. And I was stressed out, man. And with any kind of
00:17:37
Speaker
down to the wire kind of ticking time clock kind of plot device in a film. I think it's easy to start building anxiety, but this one was done well enough where I was like, damn, man. If this went bad, it goes really bad. Yeah, it was almost like those 1940s detective films where all the interested parties show up at one time.
00:18:03
Speaker
I really liked that. I'm glad you bring that up because, um, yeah, and this, so kind of high level in this airport sequence, Ethan hunt is tracking down a target, trying to do a deal, multiple parties with different motivations and ambitions are all kind of collapsing in on this one location, trying to get Ethan hunt.
00:18:30
Speaker
for different reasons. And it's cool. I mean, it's a nice 20-minute sequence maybe in the airport where this whole game is going on. Yeah, and they're having to improvise. They're having to, you know, there's parties that they know about. There's parties that they don't. And it kind of has that dramatic irony where you start to realize that there's stuff that Ethan doesn't even, he's not even aware of, you know? Yeah. It's like multi-layers of dramatic irony.
00:18:58
Speaker
And all throughout that, they seamlessly introduce the supporting cast and the people who are going to really stick through the rest of the film. I thought it was a good way to keep you engaged, high intensity, but also keep moving the chess pieces on the board with these characters coming in. Yeah, you know, it's without spoiling anything again, it reminded me of that quote of when Hitchcock was talking about the way to create suspense
00:19:28
Speaker
is to have two characters talking at a table and then the audience is aware of a bomb that's underneath. Yeah, exactly. And that's essentially what is happening in this whole sequence. I mean, that is exactly
00:19:47
Speaker
you know, what is going on. That is a perfect way to describe it. So yeah, you know, sequences, awesome, super cool fight in Venice and the canals and even like a club scene that is very, I saw that and I was like, damn, I want to go to this party. Yes, like, yeah. Oh, man, I, you know, we've seen a lot of these like European
00:20:13
Speaker
club seats. John Wick, man, has done it pretty well, you know, tech, no, like crazy light shows on the, you know, Coliseum or whatever, like ruins historical areas. Super cool. This might be the best I've seen done though. I don't know that I'd say the best, but it was definitely the first time I, I mean, maybe by that metric, I stopped and I was like, that'd be cool to go in there and like,
00:20:41
Speaker
hang out. Especially by boat. They enter this club by the canals in Venice. So they jump out this boat and go in to this party that is happening within like this, what'd you say? Like a courtyard of historic buildings and they got like lights projected everywhere. Yeah, there'd be, you know, silhouettes dancing. Yeah, super cool. What else? The train sequence, super cool.
00:21:11
Speaker
Very intense. Yes, wild. I mean, that's the sequence we all knew was going to happen, right? That's heavily, heavily shown in the trailers. Yeah. And, you know, there's a, I guess maybe that's a slight criticism. A lot of the third act, as far as visually, is shown in the trailer. Like, it's almost exclusively the third act of the film. Yeah, and I think, I think that's why I'm hesitant to spoil
00:21:39
Speaker
kind of the beginning here, or really get into it in too much detail. I guess, how do you market this movie without spoiling it? I guess you have to show that, right? Yeah, you have to. But I'd argue that the first half is better than the second half of the film. Not that I was bored or anything in the second half. When I look back on the film and what I enjoyed the most, I think I was the most engaged or
00:22:06
Speaker
Really just interested in kind of the exposition, you know, what they did in the beginning. I really liked, I loved the, the car chase, as I was saying. Yeah. And I think, I think it was hard having the train seekers be the last act after it's as I recently watched bullet train. There's a lot of, a lot of those beats are the same, you know, the boat train was so over the top. Yeah. It's like, how do you over the top of
Industry Strikes Impact Discussion
00:22:32
Speaker
that? Yeah.
00:22:34
Speaker
That's right. That's true. This one, I think it's 94% or something on Rotten Tomatoes. 96 right now? 96. Gosh, yeah. Right there in line with the other ones. I think every single one of these films that have been made after Mission Impossible 3 are sitting in the 90s.
00:23:02
Speaker
They're excellent. They're great. This one, I don't think is the best of the bunch. It's up, I think, in the middle of the pack for me, but $290 million.
00:23:18
Speaker
They spent the money. You can see, you can tell the scope. I mean, it's a damn near three hour film, right? Runtime is, I mean, it's long. Doesn't feel too long. I mean, I wasn't in there like, Oh, what time is it? Get me out of here or anything like that. But reviews are great.
00:23:38
Speaker
I think overwhelmingly positive from the critics and audiences. What's the audience score on this? Audience score is a 95 right now. Damn. Nice. Very nice. Yeah. So on the puffs of approval scale, because this is the full smoke on dead reckoning part one, where are you throwing this? Where are you throwing? How many puffs of smoke would you give it? Give it four out of five.
00:24:09
Speaker
We're going to retain the right to up that to 4.5 depending on how they stick to landing and the new context that the story is put into with how they finish the second part. Also, they move down to 3.5 if they don't stick it. Yeah, I think that's fair.
00:24:27
Speaker
I don't have an issue kind of evaluating it. I think for it being a part one and it's not a secret, it's part one, it's very much in your face. I think it stands up by itself. The way it ends,
00:24:43
Speaker
You know, I wasn't like, oh, my God, this cliffhanger, I need to come back. I want to come back. And I almost think the one is more powerful than the need. You know, when I want something, you know, and I'm invested and I want to come back, I think that's a movie well made. I think they did a great job from a script standpoint, storytelling standpoint, ended in a way where I'm like, you're not leaving anything unresolved. What you're doing is actually
00:25:11
Speaker
you're saying there are a whole other basket of issues that now need to be addressed. And that's why you want to come back. So as a standalone, I think I'd give it four puffs out of five. They shot this film back to back with the sequel and the sequel is coming out June of next year. So we don't have to wait too long, which is cool. But yeah, you know, four puffs out of five. I agree with you. Yeah.
00:25:41
Speaker
Yeah, I agree too. It does stand well on its own. And I guess we could talk more about how well it stands on its own when we immediately go over to the dark side, the spoiler side. Spoilers. Okay, I think we gave the puffs
00:25:58
Speaker
We're 26 minutes in now, folks. Hopefully that's tantalizing enough. That's exciting enough to get you to see it. I think you should go see it. Yeah, go see the movie. Yeah, it feels like summer blockbuster season is back, baby. I mean, we've had
00:26:14
Speaker
Terrible years now due to the COVID pandemic. The summer box office has been meh. This is the first summer in a long time, maybe even since 2019, that I've been really, really excited. We have Mission Impossible. We have Oppenheimer. We have Barbie. We have a bunch of movies that are out this season.
00:26:42
Speaker
I feel like a kid again back at the movie. So this movie for me hits that mark. It's that fun, awesome, go see it on the biggest screen you can find, eat some popcorn, avoid the tummy ache, and have a good time. So go see it. Yeah, go see it. Just remember, this might be the last blockbuster summer we have for a while. The actors just went on strike. That is true.
00:27:10
Speaker
That is true. The actors got no writers. It's very sad that they went on strike. It's going to tear for our karate actors.
00:27:23
Speaker
We're shedding a couple tears. But in all seriousness, I guess, you know, things are going to probably be delayed now because of the strike. Writers and actors, right? Oh, this is Sammy. It's just to throw everything into a mess. I mean, you have everything stopped, right?
00:27:48
Speaker
So all the schedules are going to be pushed back. That means things are going to be able to start on time, reschedule everything. Just all the small businesses that go to keeping these industries afloat, the catering, the dry cleaning, whatever it is. Some of those are going to go under. They're not going to be available anymore. They're not going to be able to keep the doors open for if this thing goes on for three or four months. And all these things that keep that movie industry going
00:28:17
Speaker
are just going to be thrown into a big mess. Regardless whether or not you agree or disagree with the demands. Yeah, I read something about the last writer's strike alone, just the writer's strike. It was like a $2 billion impact or something like that. I think it lasted three or four months. Yeah, that's insane. With the actors out as well as the writers this time,
00:28:42
Speaker
I can only imagine. I want to see the chaos, but I also want these people to get a fair deal and all that. I think it would be interesting to do an episode on the strikes, go over what people are complaining about, what they want done, and where the disagreements are at.
Spoiler-filled Plot Analysis and AI Villain
00:29:03
Speaker
I know a little bit, but I think it'd be a good opportunity to learn what
00:29:11
Speaker
What's going on? Really the specifics. I know I agree. I know that you just offer some preliminary reading. It feels like that both sides can be acting in bad faith with how they discuss the situation. But then again, I'm not in the industry, so I really don't know what I'm talking about.
00:29:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I have no idea what I'm talking about. So, of course you say. That's my normal state in life. That's not what I'm talking about. Right. People who don't know what they're talking about have podcasts, you know? Yeah, that people that do, do their motorcycle jump 13,000 times. Yeah, exactly. And they're producing films that gross a billion dollars at the box office. I haven't been alive 13,000 days.
00:30:03
Speaker
He said 13,000 jumps. Right. Okay. So enter spoilers here. This is, this is it, right? Here we go. Spoilers. Yeah. My soundboard privileges are going to be revoked if I'm not careful. Although I think it's been good use. I think it has been in good taste thus far. You're just trying to tickle my baseball fancy.
00:30:32
Speaker
I am. That is true. I'm always trying to do that. So the plot overall, boom, high level plot. Really, this movie centers around. Wait, before you say that, can I sum it up in one title? Yeah, boom. This should be called Bishop of Possible Chat GPT. Chat GPT 5.
00:30:58
Speaker
That's what it should be called. Yeah, so the villain is really this weapon that is
00:31:08
Speaker
AI, it is general artificial intelligence. So the film starts with this, like, super awesome stealth submarine that the Russians have deployed, I think, in the Arctic. And it shows these two naval officers kind of enter almost like a reactor core, but it's really like
00:31:34
Speaker
the computer core of the submarine, and it's revealed that they're using an artificial intelligence to
00:31:42
Speaker
operate the submarine, and that's what gives it the ability to avoid any and all detection from adversaries. The Russians have solved this huge national defense issue from the naval side, but the artificial intelligence on the sub
00:32:06
Speaker
basically outwits its human operators and stages its own, I guess, destruction and kills everyone on board. And the artificial intelligence is able to escape to the cloud, the internet, and is out there
00:32:25
Speaker
monitoring everything that's connected to the internet and the cloud. And it is kind of the ominous primary foe in the background of this film, right? Exactly. And I think immediately from there, you're introduced to
00:32:46
Speaker
this mission being delivered, you know, to Tom Cruise, should he accept it, right? You know, the famous line. We're going to tell you all the details and then you can choose after. Here they are. But his job is to recover basically the key that unlocks this
00:33:10
Speaker
computer core on the crashed submarine. And the key is split. It takes two operators to use this key. It's split in half.
00:33:20
Speaker
You bring it together into two pieces into one you can use To open up this, you know core that contains the source code of this artificial intelligence Yeah, they don't tell many of this though. They don't tell Ethan hunt Why you know, he needs to get this key just that he needs to recover the key Yeah, as we go on we find out that don't no one knows it what? Everyone just doesn't need the key
00:33:48
Speaker
They don't have to do with this all powerful AI, but no one knows what it belongs to. Everyone that did is dead on the submarine. And so it's just mission to solve like one half of this puzzle, which is just get the keys and then figure out what he goes to later. Although they have the major players, whether it's the CIA, the different governments of the world, they all have this
00:34:17
Speaker
idea, this maybe false idea, a definitely false idea that if they get these keys, they can use it to somehow control this AI and weaponize it, that whoever gets to it first can control it and use it to be the premier superpower of the earth and really
00:34:41
Speaker
dominate everyone else. They are the world power, if they can control this thing. Was I the only one that got the Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Rings flashback with the One Ring? Vormir talking about how they should wield it. Yeah, right. That's what all these government agents sound like. We can control it. We can use it. Yeah, it's almost like they're
00:35:10
Speaker
They're so drunk with power too. Like they don't shy away from when they're talking about it. It's almost like they're being taken over. And you know what? Maybe I'm glad you mentioned that because I didn't make the direct connection until now. I love Lord of the Rings. I'll probably rant and rave about it in an episode or 15 at some point in the future. But Ethan Hunt is Frodo Baggins.
00:35:36
Speaker
He is Frodo Baggins. That's who he is on this. He's the only one that wants to destroy it. Yeah, he's like, let's destroy this ring, man. And I'm willing to do it. Let's destroy this chat GPT-5. I can't control this. No one can control this thing. And that's the only thing that we find out that the AI is actually scared of. Yeah. It's Tom Cruise. He's the only one that doesn't want to wield it.
Action Sequence Enthusiasm
00:36:02
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So he can't be manipulated.
00:36:03
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Yeah. And the people who do try to wield it are manipulated, you know, greatly throughout the film. And you see that, yeah. That the AI is multiple steps ahead of all the human players throughout the whole film. To the point where it's promising his, uh, it's right hand man. I said, him, I guess it doesn't have a gender, just entity. Yeah. And, uh, but Gabriel works for the, uh, Gabriel's the,
00:36:30
Speaker
Character we mentioned earlier, you see the trailers, it's the one that kind of refers to having a past with Tom Cruise. Turns out that there's like a little seven second black and white clip in the beginning of the movie where you find out that Tom Cruise thought that this guy was dead and that he was betrayed by him. This is actually how Tom Cruise, it's that event that got him into IMF. He was either wrongly accused of murder or set up by Gabriel or something along those lines.
00:36:59
Speaker
And so they have a history. And this is someone that definitely Tom Cruise is scared about. He's nervous. It makes him nervous. Yeah. Yeah. And I liked Gabriel. And I thought he was an interesting character for sure. So he gets his mission. He goes to the desert first to really recover Rebecca Ferguson's character who has one half of this key, right?
00:37:28
Speaker
He gets there. Uh, the desert sequence was kind of cool. I mean, I thought it was actually just for mission and possible standards. I don't know about you. He's running around on a horse. A couple of people on horses. They're gun fighting on horses. I just saw that in John wick for maybe that's, you know, three or whatever it was. It was a, it was interesting editing style too, where you think that
00:37:56
Speaker
Tom Cruise is fighting this woman trying to protect Rebecca Ferguson, because she has half of this key. We're not sure why she has half of this key or she even knows what's up, but she has it. They're fighting through these broken buildings out in the desert in this big sandstorm. Tom Cruise and her working together, they're defeating all these people, but there's this woman on the bad guy side, these bad guy mercenaries.
00:38:22
Speaker
And she seems to be the only one that's like competent in fighting back against them. And then her and Rebecca Ferguson go against each other. And they each shoot. And you see Rebecca Ferguson down face down on the ground dead. And then, you know, Tom Cruise is relating the story over to the head of the IMF. And he's basically like, yeah, she died. They talked about it. And then right afterwards, you realize that
00:38:48
Speaker
Wasn't that that woman didn't even exist? That that was Rebecca Ferguson the whole time? Which woman? The woman with the mask. Because all of a sudden they cut to it and you realize that Rebecca Ferguson is the one wearing that mask, that yellow mask. Yeah, yeah. I think that's right.
00:39:05
Speaker
But he recovers the half of the key from her, right? And they decide, him and his team, Luther, Benji, they decide they're going to go and get the second half by advertising that they're willing to sell the first half, right? So they go to the airport in Abu Dhabi and they try to
00:39:30
Speaker
You know, execute this still this exchange for one half. And I think the idea is he's going to give the half to the buyer who has the second half. He's going to then follow that buyer to then ultimately recover the full key after he gives it up, you know, because.
00:39:49
Speaker
they believe the buyer has the other half. But this sets up the whole Abu Dhabi airport sequence that I was talking about earlier, where the main plot is Ethan is trying to execute this deal. He gets pickpocketed by Haley Atwell's character. She's very clever and funny and very smooth with the pickpocket and the sleight of hand.
00:40:17
Speaker
So she's introduced and they're kind of going tit for tat and all this, you know, while trying to execute this deal. But the subplot, as you were saying earlier, that Hitchcock can mention Hitchcock, right? Yeah. And the subplot is that, you know, Luther and Benji are trying to help
00:40:40
Speaker
Ethan, you know, they're on comms and his tech support like they normally do. You know, they're in his ears telling him, hey, go here, do this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. While they're doing that, they see a suspicious package in the airport being taken to baggage handling.
00:40:59
Speaker
And so they decide not to tell Ethan what's going on. They don't want to distract him. But what they find out is it's this nuclear weapon. And Simon Pecsker, Benji, he intercepts this.
00:41:14
Speaker
And this is all going on while the intensity of Ethan stealing back the half of the key from Haley Atwell's character and trying to get to the buyer. This is all going on at the same time. And then in addition to that,
00:41:30
Speaker
You have agents of the CIA, they're all descending upon the airport trying to get Ethan Hunt. So he's being told don't go here, don't do this. You got 10 American agents who are in these different areas of the airport.
00:41:49
Speaker
So there's just a huge level of anxiety that is present for the main objective. And the secondary objective is this atomic bomb that Benji finds. And when he finds it, it starts to, boom, five minutes. It's going to detonate. And it runs into a series of riddles. Yeah, you're kind of like the batman with the riddler.
00:42:16
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, some of the questions were funny and even, you know, what's this riddle? What's this mean? And they're talking to each other through comms. Nathan Hunt's like, what are you guys talking about? No, nothing. Everything's okay. And, you know, they don't tell him that they found this nuclear bomb.
00:42:36
Speaker
that will kill every single person in the airport and many more. So he has no idea. And all of a sudden they give him a riddle. He's like, what is this? They're like, what is always coming but never arrives? It's the riddle. And so he's, him and Haley Atwell, they're trying to avoid all these people trying to find them. And
00:43:02
Speaker
Ethan all of a sudden just has this riddle being like frantically asked to in the background. He's like, what? He's like, I don't know. And the Haley Atwell overhears it. She's like, it's tomorrow. Tomorrow. It's always coming, but never arrives. Yeah, and it's pretty funny. It is. Like the play between the bomb being so serious of a threat and just how light they're trying to keep it. Yeah, he's like, what is this for? Like, well, there should be a clear bomb, and it's going to go off in two minutes. He's like, well, why are you talking?
00:43:32
Speaker
He's like, that's something you immediately tell me.
Character Dynamics and Party Scene
00:43:35
Speaker
He's like, how much time do I have left to help you defuse this through like 20 seconds? That's good. It was very funny. So they defuse the bomb. It's not actually a bomb. But what it required was Benji to speak commands into this like cipher that's the housing of what they thought was a nuclear bomb.
00:44:01
Speaker
And the AI, they call it the entity, this AI is really the one who has put the bomb there and is collecting information about them through the questions it was asking to decipher this thing so that it could later use that information against them, right? Exactly.
00:44:26
Speaker
They diffused the bomb, so they're good there, but ultimately, Haley Atwell's character gets away with the two halves of the key, jumps on a flight to Rome, and Tom Cruise is kind of left running across the top of the Abu Dhabi airport. Yeah, it was. It was super cool.
00:44:51
Speaker
You can see the CIA looking for him in the airport, and then right above, just at the top of the frame, there's Tom Cruise running across the ceiling. Yeah, just boop, boop, boop, boop. Doing his typical sprint. This might be the most I've ever seen him run, too. He runs in all of his movies. He's probably running half the movie. He was kind of a lot in this. Yeah. He was, for sure. He even got Simon Pegg running for a second. Yeah, that's true. I wonder if he gave him any tips. Right.
00:45:20
Speaker
So they go to Rome, he intercepts, you know, Ethan Hunt intercepts Haley Atwell, her character, and they kind of team up, but it's a very, like, iffy alliance, you know, and the Italian authorities basically seized her as soon as she landed because Ethan Hunt tipped him off that
00:45:46
Speaker
You know, she's this thief. She has like five passports on her. And you're like, who the hell are you, lady? Like 40 crimes. Yeah, all those crimes. Yeah. And so he jumps in to this building or whatever he gets there, poses as her lawyer and says, you know, I'll get you out of here. And so, you know, they get out of there, but they are not. They don't get out smoothly.
00:46:13
Speaker
She, I think yells, right? She's like, don't touch me or whatever. And it kind of like, it's all the guys in the room. Just like, what the fuck are you doing? Yeah. It's not smooth and it calls attention to both of them. And what ensues is the car chase. Yeah. Yeah. She's, she's not up to task for this type of, uh, Attention. She's a, she's a small time crook.
00:46:43
Speaker
You know, just kind of does it to have nice clothes and live a nice life. And she's dragged into this, you know, international conspiracy, does not know how to handle herself. That's one of the kind of like the big recurring themes about how she acts. She's constantly feeling overwhelmed. And that really plays off in the car chase that we're about to talk about. Because, you know, her and Tom Cruise basically have to get away together.
00:47:12
Speaker
she's forced to drive through a couple of things that I think are kind of best to still be washed even though this is the spoiler part. There's a huge slapstick thing where basically they're handcuffed. Hold on, hold on. The reason she has to drive is because they get handcuffed together. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. I'm always tied between like, do we want to spoil every little detail or do we want to leave something to the imagination?
00:47:41
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I think because you made those who are listening, they go, well, why doesn't Tom Cruise is big, crazy. You're right. You're right. You're right. Driving. And it's because they're the way they're handcuffed together. It's.
00:47:55
Speaker
It would require for him to be in the driver's seat, his left arm to be across his chest to Haley Atwell's character because his left arm is handcuffed to her right. So her sitting in the driver's seat is more natural and comfortable. And so he attempts to have her drive kind of at first and she is terrible at it. And it's very funny. Yeah, just crashes into a bunch of stuff for the
00:48:23
Speaker
She just crashes into like 30 scooters and she looks out and she's like, oh, you're driving now. Yeah. And so he, you know, she jumps across his lap and he's driving and they ultimately, you know, are being chased by what? Interpol, the CIA, local. A bunch of different forces. Yeah. Local police, Interpol, and then get Gabriel's gang. Yeah, his gang. Yep. That's right. With Mantis on the scene driving an armored truck.
00:48:53
Speaker
Yeah, Mantis for those who don't know that's from Guardians of the Galaxy, the same actress that plays Mantis is the right hand woman to Gabriel in this. She's an awesome swordsman. Yeah, I think she did great in this movie. Yeah, I really think that she... Man, I would never expect her to be a villain either. She's so good. I know, she really did. I was super impressed and happy to see her in the film and
00:49:22
Speaker
Um, she's in part two. She will be in part two. Oh yeah. Cause, uh, I guess we'll have to come back later on how she interjects with the plot, but yeah, it wasn't even thinking. No, I thought that she just didn't make it at the end. Well, I mean, it's very iffy and sketchy, right?
00:49:40
Speaker
But she's chasing them in this armored car, you know, badass chase through Rome. And they eventually kind of get away a little bit. And he's like, you know, Ethan Hunt says, I'll get us a safe car. So he pulls up his phone and gets on this, like, Mission Impossible or IMF app for houses and cars or whatever he clicks a car.
00:50:07
Speaker
And it cuts to them like walking through this, what is it, like a, I don't know, side street or something. And there's all these cars. Yeah, really nice cars, like Lamborghinis. Badass. Yeah, like exotic cars. Oh, man.
00:50:26
Speaker
And then you see like the camera is showing, I think it's a Lambo or something like that. Yeah. What actually the car they get is this like little Fiat 500 yellow, tiny car. That's not very, you know, it's probably like a 1980s Fiat 500. Remind me of your little Fiat.
00:50:49
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I used to have a 500 electric, but this one was old. It was little. They jump in and you have this super serious spy espionage movie car chase where they're in this little tiny clown car. They're basically being chased by a tank, like a fast tank. Yeah, huge tank versus this little yellow Fiat, and it's hilarious with how they're driving.
00:51:19
Speaker
the car, you know, they they're running around. It's so little and, you know, there's.
00:51:25
Speaker
Hayley Atwell's character drives it at one point, and they're doing donuts. You can't control it. It looks like a little RC car that's gotten out of control. Remember, as a kid, it was powerful RC cars. Yeah. When they're rolling it, and then every time they roll it, they end up switched in seats. Yeah. It was very funny. It was very good. I think one of my favorite car chases
00:51:52
Speaker
I'd put that in my top five car chases. The number one is to live and die in LA. That was a good car chase, yeah. But this one's up there, little Fiat 500 yellow. Pretty good. It did better than the board identity with the same type of stuff. Yeah. So what happens after that? They get away in the Fiat eventually. And I think really is this
00:52:22
Speaker
You know, they want to meet up with, um, well, she gets away again. Remember? Oh yeah. That's right. She leads her for dead on the train tracks. She does. Yep. Well, she kind of leads her for dead. She gives them the, so she gets out with a, a paperclip that she stole off of one of her passports from earlier. And they drive through this like little fence to get away from everyone. And they go down this tunnel and then they end up on a train track. And when they do is did they land? You realize that she's already done her.
00:52:53
Speaker
her end of the handcuffs and she handcuffed Ethan Hawke to the stairwell. And there's a train coming. And so she gives him the paperclip and just basically gets out of there. And after the last second, he's unable to undo his handcuffs. He has to rip off the steering wheel. So the next bit is actually just him walking through the city with a handcuffs steering wheel to his hand.
00:53:18
Speaker
Yeah. And it's pretty funny. I thought like, Oh, he's bad-ass Ethan, huh? And he's going to get out of this quickly with his little paper clip. He just rips the steering column off. So they leave Rome. He meets up with his team, you know, Benji Luther and Ilse, right? She comes back and they,
00:53:41
Speaker
basically try to go to a party in Venice that Alana is conducting.
00:53:49
Speaker
And what's going to happen is Haley Atwell's character is there to do a dill sell part of the key or both parts to Alana. And they descend on this party. This is what we were talking about earlier. There are super cool canal shots with them and nice boats. And these boats roll up to the party. The party's, you know, this very like, I don't know, not a rave, but like,
00:54:19
Speaker
Electronic like EDM kind of like high class. That's what you expect like James Bond party to be in the new movies or John Wick's EDM parties. Very European, very electronic and then a lot of old architecture. Yeah. And basically this is like where Gabriel and all the other players all come together in one location. And Gabriel basically says, look, I'm not worried about getting this key.
00:54:48
Speaker
I know it's coming to me. The entity who I'm working for is able to sit here and think of every single possible outcome, Dr. Strange style. The key is going to be at my feet tomorrow on the train.
00:55:03
Speaker
Yeah, it will be at my feet. Do whatever you need to do, but you can't defeat the entity. Everything that, you know, I say is going to happen is already written. It will happen. And he's very confident, very almost stoic with it, you know? Yeah, he's a believer. He's a radical believer. He calls him a fanatic, Ethan Hott. He's like, what are you going to do? Listen to this fanatic. Yeah, he is a fanatic. He is a fanatic.
00:55:34
Speaker
But it's cool. I mean, a good bad guy should almost be fanatical, you know? Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, they're, they're motivated to a level of extremism, whether it's, you know, violence, plagues, meticulous, methodical thinking, whatever. I feel like you have to be fanatical to have the energy to perform at that level, whether it's for good or for bad. Yeah, makes sense. Well said.
00:56:03
Speaker
Yeah, and maybe that's why I respect the character of Gabriel because I may not agree with him. Actually, I agree with the idea that this thing can sit here. It is artificial general intelligence. You can't compete against it. But I don't agree with him thinking he can
00:56:24
Speaker
control it or even use it. So I appreciate kind of his motivations, but I think he's born here, God damn it. I don't even think he thinks he can use it. I think he's just completely himself be a weapon of it. Like the only time that he kind of hit that is. He's Gollum. Yeah, I think he's just Gollum here. I think he just he's given himself completely over to whatever this entity wants him to do. I thought he had a motivation, though, to get to the source code.
00:56:54
Speaker
And I thought there is, I thought he had some sort of illusion or belief that if he got to the source code. Well, that was what, um, to wield it. That's what the man in black said, uh, from, from the princess bride, uh, carry those shoes. Uh, yeah. One of the directors of, uh, I think director of the CIA in this. I think that's right. Yeah. Or, um, he's the national security director. Yeah. That's what he is. Yeah. He, he tells Gabriel.
00:57:23
Speaker
that Gabriel is trying to utilize it. Gabriel just kind of smiles on him. He never confirms it. Yeah, I think he's Gollum. Yeah, that he even does what he does after because the entity told him that that would happen, that he needs to do this. Yeah, so they get basically, they get away from this party. Gabriel leaves, but he kills Ilse. More importantly, before they leave the party, he tells Eason
00:57:54
Speaker
The entity said that all of these things will happen if either you, at any point said, um, Grace, and then, or Ilsa, she said, what if you have to die? If one of you dies, then everything that the entity says will happen will happen. And I suddenly leave the party. And it turns out that one of them does die.
00:58:19
Speaker
Yeah.
Third Act Setup and Action
00:58:20
Speaker
It's Ilse and basically, Gabriel gets away, Ilse is dead and everyone's kind of sitting there, very empire strikes back at a loss at that point, right? Yeah, exactly. It's almost like they could have made this in the three movies and had that be the end of the first.
00:58:43
Speaker
Yeah. I wonder, I mean, if part two has the same length, I could definitely see maybe like three, two hour films in there, you know? Yeah, exactly. Two, four, six hours total.
00:58:57
Speaker
So that'd be a good kind of cliffhanger with him killing them and kind of making out. But so, you know, what happens next? So what happens next is, uh, Grace finally decides to join, you know, Ethan's little gang and IMF and Ethan gives her the rundown. He says, Hey, if you want to join, then this is your chance. And I can't promise that I'll keep you alive, like the else that's dead here. But
00:59:25
Speaker
What I can do is I promise that your life will always be worth more than mine. So if you want to join up with us, then we need to go find those two halves of the key, which now the buyer from the party has. We need to get on this train where this deal is going to go down. And we need to find out who's buying these keys so that way we can track and find out what this thing opens. And he basically tells her she has to take a leap of faith.
00:59:53
Speaker
that only one of them, he's going to be able to get out from the train at the end, but she's going to be captured. And when she's captured, she's going to have to tell Kittredge, who's the head of the IMF, that she's been given the choice by Ethan, and that she's choosing to accept. And the choice is what everyone in the IMF gets, which is basically you can face all the consequences of your life, or you can choose to give yourself to a mission that's bigger than yourself.
01:00:22
Speaker
Yeah, and this sets up Act III, which, you know, I don't want to spoil all of Act III or go into, you know, the level of detail that sets up kind of the ending, but... We should make people go see the movie still, because 90% of people listen to this or still haven't seen the movie. Yeah, you know, Act III is great. So Act III is the business stills going down on the train.
01:00:49
Speaker
They're trying to get on the train to get the key, both parts of the key, and then make out, you know, as the heroes. Haley Atwell has agreed to get on the train and impersonate Alana's character, knocking her out, you know, and basically impersonating her to get the steel going on to recover the keys.
01:01:16
Speaker
and then get out. And Ethan Hunt's supposed to get on the train, grab her, get off the train with her and the keys, and ride off in the sunset. And this really sets up the big stunt of the film, which is the cliff jump motorbike, cliff jump parachute. And what's going on is the train is
01:01:45
Speaker
You know, Holland, you know, through the mountainside and all this and Gabriel gets on the train and actually increases its speed, sabotages the ability to reduce its speed, kills the conductor.
01:01:59
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And it destroys Ethan Hunt's plan to basically wait on kind of like a turn. The train would slow down and he'd have enough time to jump onto the train. And so it puts him in a position where he has to.
01:02:18
Speaker
basically take an alternate route and he gets to the top of this mountain and decides that he's going to jump the cliff and parachute onto the plane. And it's awesome. It works out exactly like the trailer. Just like the trailer and his entry into the plane or the train is hilarious, I thought. That's so good.
01:02:43
Speaker
I don't want to spoil that one. Yeah, neither do I. It's like it's sloppy and that's what makes it great. The whole last scene is sloppy. The whole thing, yeah. The whole, yeah, it's very sloppy. It's not polished, which is super cool. Yeah. I do think the helicopter sequence in Fallout was better than this though. This was cool, but I thought
01:03:07
Speaker
Yeah, I think I like if I had to rank them, I would put Rogue Nation is number one, Fallout and then Dead Reckoning part one and then Ghost Protocol. Yeah, I would put this out of Fallout.
01:03:24
Speaker
Overall, I didn't really like. It's only because you don't like JJ and I don't like JJ Abrams either. JJ Abrams is not involved with this film. Fun fact. I don't think we mentioned that earlier. This is the first film since the third that he's not involved. He's not producing. Bad Robot is not a part of this. Finally. Which is funny because this movie is about a Bad Robot.
01:03:52
Speaker
It is, right? That's true. This movie is about a bad robot. You would think they would be involved. Maybe it's a metaphor for them getting out of a bad production company. Yikes. I don't know, man. A bad robot. Fuck JJ Abrams. I said it here. Did he ruin the Star Trek movies and the Star Wars movies? I mean, my main issue with him is the Star Wars sequels.
01:04:18
Speaker
Mine is too. I was too young when the Star Trek movies came out to really appreciate how anti-Star Trek those were. Because they're just big action space movies, but Star Trek is about discovering new planets and kind of like the philosophy of space travel. Those were not that at all. Yeah, that's true.
01:04:44
Speaker
Yeah. So JJ is not involved and I didn't notice a drop in quality or anything like that. I thought his producing powers are not missed. I don't think. No. He directed the weakest of the new, cause I don't know about you, but I would consider number three, be kind of like the revival of the mission possible franchise.
01:05:07
Speaker
I agree. I mean, the first was okay. I don't think it's as great as people make it out to be. I liked it, but first was okay. The second, you know, John Woo respect, but it was like a shallow blockbuster kind of action. Yeah, the second was weak. Although I will say that that one, that's what Tom Cruise started his whole, I'm going to do the stunts for real, pick.
01:05:32
Speaker
Because that's when he did the rock climbing. And I remember there was an old promotional material. He produced the second one. He was like, I had to go to the producer, which is myself. He could climb up that mountain. But I think your point is that out of the rebooted revival of the series, his is the weakest. Oh, by far the weakest, too. Yeah, I think that's true.
01:06:01
Speaker
I mean, the bad guy died by being hit by a random car. Yeah, that's true, yeah. We never found out what the rabbit
Film Wrap-up and Audience Impact
01:06:09
Speaker
foot was about, and last thing we saw from Philip Seymour Hoffman was just a shoe flying over there. JJ Abrams. We had to do a whole episode on JJ. Yeah. So the end, I guess to wrap it up, there is closure in terms of the plot. There is closure.
01:06:31
Speaker
Ethan is left in a position where he knows what the next step of the mission needs to be. And I think there's just enough intrigue and interest there where you go, okay, I'm ready for, you know, next summer for the second half of this thing, right? Yeah, it's not a very optimistic though. It's not all is lost. He's, he's finally got the upper hand for the first time in the whole movie. Yeah, he's been like behind the whole film. This is the first time where
01:07:00
Speaker
So I feel like we're setting up to see a really big blowback from the entity on him because that was not how the thing was supposed to go. Yeah, I can only imagine what this AI that has infiltrated every military system in the world and every computer network, the internet, everything, what it's going to do now to Ethan Hunt.
01:07:27
Speaker
I think you and I already have an answer for that, for what that's going to involve in the next movie. It's going to involve biplanes because all that advertising of him flying around in those biplanes and he's filming the next mission possible. Yeah. I wonder if that's why he is in a biplane because he's so analog. Yeah. I think he has to go completely analog. He has to be in equipment and use tools and all this that the entity cannot touch or communicate with.
01:07:56
Speaker
Exactly, which I'm excited for that part. Oh, I'm super excited to be some old Indiana Jones type steps. Yeah, as long as he's not jumping out with a raft, a blow up raft into a snowy mountain and then what if you what if you write a lead fridge down the side of the mountain?
01:08:18
Speaker
See, like I said the other day when we were ranting about this, and we watch Dial Destiny, so we can put this in that episode.
01:08:29
Speaker
I will never be upset about the lead fridge, the nuke of the fridge, because all you indie fans, he jumped out of a goddamn plane with two other human beings with an inflatable life raft and skied with it and then went into waters with it and then fell over waterfalls with it. Come on. How would that raft for like whatever I go rafting?
01:08:55
Speaker
That raft is a parachute. It's a sled. It's a water vehicle. It's everything. There's a Swiss Army raft right there. Probably serve as a shelter too. How do our movie reviews always end up being like over half the length of the movie? I don't know. I mean, I think
01:09:18
Speaker
It's good detail. Hopefully it's for the people who maybe are like iffy. It's for the, I think the people who one foot in, one foot out, maybe they go, ah, it sounds interesting. The first 15, 20 maybe is not doing it for me. But if I hear the details of the plot, ah, yeah, yeah, let me go see that. Or, oh God, no, I'm glad I saved some money. We're trying to save people money.
01:09:42
Speaker
with these long form reviews. We're saving you money, we're not saving you time. But if you're still one foot in, one foot out after an hour and 11 minutes, go see the movie. Yeah, that's right. If you're listening at this point, you need to see this movie. Exactly. Out of respect. Respect. Tom Cruise, man, he brought it. He did. Four puffs out of five. He brought it, yeah. I mean, Tom Cruise. He did it. A Tom Cruise production, baby.
01:10:12
Speaker
We need to get in producing a podcast episode. I know, right? I wonder what kind of stunts you do if you'd just be jumping down a plane. Probably. All right, folks, that's it. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Thank you. And I'm out.