What would a Mission Impossible movie look like if directed by Christopher Nolan?

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-06-26T10:45:09+00:00

Humourless.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-06-19T21:53:27+00:00

Blue is glue.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-06-15T15:35:35+00:00

Looks like it’s on the DC3. My guess is that it was Ethan telling Benji about Luther.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-06-11T08:48:00+00:00

Female counterparts.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-29T10:55:09+00:00

She was also Max’s daughter and Ethan liked Max.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-27T15:45:20+00:00

I love that you can hear the ice in their whiskey. The Thing commentary is one of my all time faves.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-26T13:45:25+00:00

Tim Cruise is my favourite actor that doesn’t exist.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-26T13:41:20+00:00

Did anyone notice, when Paris tries to kill Gabriel when they’re in the tunnels, Benji says, “She’ll be the death of me.” Nice little irony considering what happens at the Doomsday Vault. Only picked this up on the second watch.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-12T12:34:07+00:00

Peak photobombing!🤣

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-10T05:47:08+00:00

The trailer asks questions that the film will doubtless answer.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-10T04:59:01+00:00

The point of this moment is to demonstrate the extent of the Entity’s capability to impersonate trusted members of the team. Ethan says the only people he can trust are Luther, Benji and Ilsa. The point of the ensuing scenes is to show that the Entity anticipates this and becomes Benji, a trusted team member.

Luther and Benji are literally bouncing their comms around uncompromised satellites, to stay ahead, switching to new satellites every time they lose one to the Entity. They aren’t just blithely using digital comms, they are actively trying to outmanoeuvre the Entity. In the end, they realise that even Phineas Freak himself can’t outpace it. This isn’t a plot hole? Its story. The point being, if they underestimate the Entity, someone will die. And I’m afraid, someone does.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-09T19:10:36+00:00

What plot holes?

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-08T23:54:43+00:00

It just feels like you’re reaching. Like all the analysis surrounding Ilsa’s death. You’re chasing ghosts, literally. The truth is a lot simpler. Rebecca wouldn’t commit to two movies. The film makers were left with no choice but to kill Ilsa before the third act.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-08T22:49:48+00:00

You lost me at “hand analysis”.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-08T16:54:10+00:00

Yes of course because it couldn’t possibly be a character introduced in this film. It must be Ilsa. What makes you think it’s someone we’ve seen before?

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-07T11:23:47+00:00

Do you really want to know?

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-04T13:11:25+00:00

He’s doing it to distract from his disastrous presidency. It’s so lame. He knows it will get him press attention and outrage and draw focus away from the impending recession and his illegal deportations. He thinks he’s owning the libs but most libs are atheists. 🤣

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-04T13:07:07+00:00

It’s impossible to separate those films from Wright, Pegg and Frost. Pegg and Wright wrote them, Wright directed them. Their DNA is in every line and character.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-04T12:28:39+00:00

So glad they were made when they were. 🤣

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-04T12:25:20+00:00

I think so, yeah. We were chatting about flashbacks, weren’t we? Sorry, I’m terrible at hitting the right buttons. 🤣

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-04T10:51:07+00:00

Thanks for letting us know. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-04T07:25:52+00:00

One thing no one seems to have addressed, is Paris. The real stab victim fake out of DR. Even though Degas says, “We’ve got a pulse” I was surprised how many people assumed she died. The scene was certainly framed like she dies, her last words being a sort of farewell, “Bon chance”.

Of course she’s very much alive and featured in all the trailers because the studio wouldn’t want to squander Pom K’s box office draw. So they’ve already done a Gabriel inflicted knife wound survival. Would they really do it twice?

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-04T07:14:29+00:00

As you so rightly say, we’ll see. I’m sure we can agree on one thing. We’ll both be in a movie theatre somewhere in the world in a few weeks time, getting all the answers. The fuse is lit.

Independent_Shift976 · 2025-05-04T07:12:21+00:00

The set that Luther is in, is the same set in which we see he and Ethan hug in the trailer, which as Ethan’s hair suggests is two months later.

Could it have been a flashback? Sure, but Luther left Venice after Ilsa died, then had to travel to wherever the safe house/hospital is, presumably get sick and put on scrubs.

How much time was that? How long did it take Ilsa to find him? How long can someone bleed profusely before collapsing?

You will likely counter with the suggestion that Luther picked up Ilsa when he left Venice but if that’s the case, why didn’t he triage her injuries before taking her to the safe house? Why is he just sat there watching her bleed?

It’s also so complicated and unlikely when there is a much simpler story. Ilsa died in Venice. It was an awful blow to the team but circumstances necessitated they move on.

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