Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning (2025)

[Set Harth]

It's only 2 and 5 I ignore, as 2 was too hairy for my liking

Literally too hairy? As in the characters had too much hair?

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Literally too hairy? As in the characters had too much hair?

One character. Climbing cliffs with obstructing hair is a great way to actual stuntmen to die. Though it's really only the first film's stunts which actually impress me.

 

[TedShatner10]

Incidentally,

Spoiler

I'm a little disappointed at the spoiler I read revealing that the Entity is explained as a descendant of the Rabbit's Foot in MI3. The lack of any explanation for the Rabbit's Foot was the whole point of the metatextual joke in that movie, taking the concept of a MacGuffin to its logical extreme by not even bothering to explain what it is. Retconning in an explanation spoils the joke. It's like showing what was inside the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.

I dunno, it has been decades already and kept vague enough to make you wonder how one McGuffin evolved into another across many, many years.

Spoiler

I think the Rabbit's Foot was a biohazard because it was a cybernetic biological synthetic brain.

 

[Aragorn]

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Mission: Impossible end credits cast Avengers: Endgame style.

 

[Captaindemotion]

RIP Lalo Schifrin

Lalo Schifrin, Prolific Film Composer Who Wrote ‘Mission: Impossible’ Theme, Dies at 93

Lalo Schifrin, the prolific film composer known for penning the 'Mission: Impossible' theme, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 93.

variety.com

 

[Happy Hopping]

SPOILER

I finished off watching it. The movie seems to lean toward science fiction, specifically borrowing idea from Star Trek: the Next Generation: Ship in a bottle. An AI entity taking control of the world? who build this? who spend all these money and who invent such a technology? Who is controlling this AI platform? or is the AI computer running by itself?

and then comes the character Hayley Atwell plays to "trap" the AI computer in that gold color cylinder block, isn't that an idea from ST: TNG Ship In a Bottle?

 

[Christopher]

There are no unique ideas in fiction. I'm certain that "Ship in a Bottle" was far from the first story to show an antagonist being defeated in that way, and far from the last.

The overall premise of these two movies is very similar to the TV series Person of Interest, but different creators independently use similar ideas all the time, not as imitation but simply by convergent evolution since they exist in the same cultural context.

 

[Happy Hopping]

I never seen Person of Interest, so I won't know.

by the way, as we all well know, computer functions in nano sec., so there is no way Hayley ATwell's hand is fast enough

 

[Christopher]

I never seen Person of Interest, so I won't know.

Exactly. Nobody knows every work of fiction, so it's never wise to assume that the source for a familiar idea is a story that one is personally aware of.

 

[Happy Hopping]

alright, fair enough. But what about the questions I raise: this AI seems to pop from a rock.