[arcstrike]

I didn't know Monica Belucci was in the new Beetlejuice. I never saw her do any press junkets for it.

[AWOL]

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Originally Posted by arcstrike

I didn't know Monica Belucci was in the new Beetlejuice. I never saw her do any press junkets for it.

Now you know. ;-)

[LIVEVIL]

"Oo-oo-oo-oo aaaah, illusion..."
"Could it be that...it's just an illusion"

I love that song...

[SnowCat]

The Killers (1946)

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Originally Posted by flashtronaut8

Rio Bravo (1959)
Still prefer El Dorado, but Dean Martin's singing is great.

I started rewatching Rio Bravo the other day, but I got interrupted and haven't gotten back to it. Great movie. I need to rewatch El Dorado too, I'm not sure I've ever seen the whole thing.

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Originally Posted by CapBritain

My issue with it though, is the idea that IMF agents are all criminals or something. Flies in the face of MI3 when Hunt was training new agents and Simon Pegg was a techy guy at HQ and stuff shown in MI1 when they were heavily implied to be a ultra-black arm of the CIA and the novelisation said Hunt was a former Ranger and Green Beret.

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This is pretty much where I lost all interest too. That means they shouldn't have made issues when Phelps turned or when it came to recruiting a thief like Nyah Hall.

Jumping in on this conversation a bit late, but:
All of the movie versions of the exact nature of the IMF contradict the original TV Series which it's technically supposed to be in continuity with. In the original show, Jim Phelps (and before him Dan Briggs) was pretty clearly running the IMF as a private contractor handling things for which the US government needed plausible deniability. That's why the team members had civilian backgrounds (Barney was a genius tech engineer, Rollin and Paris were both stage actors and magicians specializing in impersonation, Cinnamon was an actress and Willy was a weightlifter), that's why they can operate in the US without any restriction and that's why their actions can be "disavowed." If they're caught or killed as private contractors, the government can claim they're acting on their own. That's what disavowed means, which the movies never seemed to figure out.

Of course, being a private contractor, Phelps is probably making a lot more money than the DePalma MI (which depicted him as an underpaid government agent) would have us believe. The IMF also routinely had access to non-traceable fortunes far in excess of what DePalma Phelps turned traitor for. Phelps could've siphoned off ten times the amount that he wants in the film, and no one would've been the wiser. These two facts mean that his entire character motivation in the 1996 film is complete nonsense, but he does it anyway so that the plot can happen. It would be far more logical had the villain been someone other than Phelps, but they desperately wanted to turn the classic hero into the villain.

As far as MI: DR goes, Hayley Atwell and the almost-Roger-Moore-Bond-Movie car chase were the best parts.

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Originally Posted by SnowCat

the almost-Roger-Moore-Bond-Movie car chase were the best parts.

The one with the little yellow car? That one reminded me of Lupin:

[SnowCat]

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Originally Posted by AWOL

The one with the little yellow car? That one reminded me of Lupin:

I've never seen Lupin, so the Citroen car chase from For Your Eyes Only is what came to my mind.

[AWOL]

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Originally Posted by SnowCat

I've never seen Lupin, so the Citroen car chase from For Your Eyes Only is what came to my mind.

I highly recommend this particular one. It was Miyazaki's first movie:

[DarkLordMordred]

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It would be far more logical had the villain been someone other than Phelps, but they desperately wanted to turn the classic hero into the villain.

Peter Graves was pissed that they did that.