[arcstrike]

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

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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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Originally Posted by flashtronaut8

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.

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: