Besides popcorn, because Tom Cruise loves himself a big old bucket of popcorn.
What are your favorite movie theater treats? So, dude, it's a great
question, And honestly, these days I used to diversify the profile much more
way back when. Part of the reason I don't anymore is because when we
go to these screenings, you know, a little bit early, I feel
like a real moron if I get like two snacks and we're sitting there amongst
the high folks in the high castle there. So it's mainly just popcorn these
days, if I do anything I go on my own, I might get
like a slurpy, icy type of thing too, so that I think for
sure, like in a mount rushmore of theater going treats. And then I
also like, I'm not really a chocolate guy. I don't like melting chocolate
in my hand, especially not during a movie, so I don't really go
any chocolate treats. I love Swedish fish, so something like Swedish fish,
maybe a sour patch kid as well, sort of in the same vein,
something squishy to chew on through the movie. Skills are also I'm favorite candy,
and they kind of fit here too. But they can be noisy,
you know, like a Mike and Ike. They can be during a quiet
place. Yeah, that that kills it. Any any kind of thriller horror
movie where there's a lot of silence, you can't really do that. But
I think a little off the chart here for the fourth one, so icy
Swedish fish skittles. I like a nice pretzel. Not every theater has a
soft pretzel, a nice, soft, warm pretzel. And if you can
get a nacho cheese to dip it in on top of it, that's a
delight, absolute delight. So this has nothing to do with that. But
when I used to work at the snack shop at the skate rink, one
of my favorite treats was a hot dog with nacho cheese. Get me all
the sodium. Just honestly, nacho cheese can go with so many things and
it improves so many things. So first off, can I get a clarification
on the rules that I have created? Does a burrito count? No,
you're gonna buy it at the theater? Okay, So no burrito, no
double burrito, No, no homemade snacks, no, no outside paraphernalia here.
So I like popables. I like things like can pop into my mouth.
I love eminem peanuts. Goobers are essentially the exact same thing, except
without the hard shell. I would take both of those. No, I
love goobers, don't you dare be? I would take peanut Eminem's over them,
but not by a ton. Don't say that they're worse. I think
they're a tier below. I like twizzlers. If I'm gonna have a snack,
that is, you know, me holding onto it. This is not
gonna melt in my hands, and it's still breakable, it's still pieces.
I do like a twizzler, but sometimes you're fighting with it like it's a
piece of beef jerky, you know, trying to rip that thing off.
I guess you make a great point with the chocolate, And what I would
say with the chocolate is you don't want something that you have to hold and
that could melt in either your hand or your pocket. Indeed, yeah,
true. And then icy is just an easy one. That's a classic one.
I don't often get it anymore, but when I was younger, always
always well, you run into the possibility of a brain freeze too, which
which would really, you know, hurt the movie the theater going experience,
So you don't want that. And of course number one where you said you
can't pick but movie theater popcorn is just yeah, it's I mean by that's
that's another thing that is just other than movies. That's the only thing in
the movie theater that might get you go to the theater is but I guess
maybe an icy two. But the movie theater popcorn. Three? Yeah,
just three. King of Queen and Mill Street entertain Yeah, I'm Goo and
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Yeah, today we're bringing you a very action packed friendship because today we
are disgusting the latest some may say the greatest according to Ronny T's it's the
greatest YEP and actually not Metacritic. Uh. Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part one.
This is the seventh installment in the Mission Impossible franchise, and this is
part one of two. There will be a Dead Reckoning Part two that'll be
the eighth and I'm assuming that'll be sort of the end of this Ethan Hunt
was going to be the end to cruise being in the Mission Impossible movies.
And of course, you know the thing of the past was he'll pass it
off to Jeremy Runner because that's what we do with action movies. That does
not seem to be the case anymore. But also while speaking about Indiana Jones,
while speaking about Harrison Ford recently, Cruz said that I want to do
these and tell him eighty or until it kills me. Yeah. That's gonna
be an interesting thing, though, because clearly this movie builds towards a conclusion
where maybe Ethan Hunt dies, maybe maybe he doesn't, but they're building towards
something like that, some sort of sacrificial type situation. So I don't know
what they're gonna do after Dead Reckoning Part two that's gonna get people to go
back, But I digresso the mission impossible. Dead Reckoning Part one came out
July twelfth, a day ago, two days ago. This was a Wednesday
release. We missed the boat here. We should have released this episode on
Goose Day. We weren't paying attention. Yeah, we didn't know this was
a Wednesday release. We assumed it was a Friday. So I thought.
The reason why I didn't do any research for this, my assumption is is
because Nolan's Oppenheimer has the IMAX theaters for three weeks exclusively. Cruise put this
out two days early to get the Imax theaters for a couple more days.
Yeah, and we've also we also watched this movie like two weeks ago,
so time wasn't of the essence for us, so that we kind of that
kind of slipped through the cracks there. This is a PG thirteen action adventure
and thriller with a runtime of one hundred and sixty three minutes. That's two
hours and forty three minutes. This movie is long now, anything over two
and a half, anything that approaches two and a half is long. When
you get closer to three, it's very long. And I actually feel like
this movie is too long. So I will say this is that it was
very very fun. Don't get me wrong, a super fun movie. But
there were parts where I was saying to myself, let's get this going again,
let's please move on. This is really starting to drag. But whenever
I would say that, they would give me an amazing action scene right after.
Agree with you. This is just that classic movie that if they chopped
fifteen to twenty minutes off of I think it would have been because really substantially
better. But definitively. It's anytime they let the story breathe, that's when
it got boring because the story not great. Yeah, I agree there,
but I also felt like there was a couple of action sequences that went on
too long as well, or like, yes, but they were great though,
and they were shot perfectly, and Cruz was in there for as long
as he possibly could. Yeah, that's true. Although I will say this
is that and this is not really spoilery or whatever, but the um,
the big motorcycle jump that's the one that's been teased for this movie might be
the worst of the movie. It's no, that doesn't stay out. No,
it's it's like third or fourth in the pecking order. I think to
me, there's like five standouts that might be third or fourth. Go on
Rotten Tomatoes currently ninety six percent from the critics that's actually second highest, and
ninety four percent from the audience. That is the highest of the mission.
Because it's hard to dislike this movie. That is very true as well.
Yep on Metacritic in eighty one, which is fantastic, that is also second
highest. And to give you some context here, I actually have misspoke over
the last couple of weeks. I thought Christopher mcquarie was the writer on Mission
Impossible Ghost Protocol. He was not this that's the Brad Bird directed one.
I thought he was also associated with that movie, maybe as a producer or
something. I misspoke. So mcquarie has only been involved in the last three.
But we'll still talk about these last four. Ghost Protocol twenty eleven,
Rogue Nation twenty fifteen, Fallout twenty eighteen. These four movies all have they're
obviously direct sequels, but they have more in common with each other, similar
stories, similar characters, than they do with the first three. This is
when they decided to make it a franchise, a continuous story. Yes.
Yeah, And so of those four movies, I think this one might be
my least favorite. Now I could see that it's still in the same realm,
right, It's not like a substantial drop off from those other three movies.
I just feel like this movie just as a little worse than those three.
Now. I feel like there might be people coming away based on the
audience reaction to this movie thinking it's the best Mission Impossible movie. And I
would like to hear their easy does fun factor play into it? Because fun
factor in this movie might be what does it? Yep, although some of
it at least you and I laughed at the movie with the movie Tom Cruise
running on top of the airport is just funny. Come on. But for
some context, these last four Mission Impossible movies Ghost Protocol A seventy three on
Metacritic, Rogue Nation of seventy five, Medical call Out in eighty six.
So all four of these movies are beloved by critics and audiences. So it's
really, you know, a half six and one hand half dozen in the
other. If any of these four are your favorite, I think that's you
could argue that Mission Impossible right now might be the best franchise going. The
argument might be against it if you add those first three movies in. If
you're looking at just these four, you might take it over at John Wick.
If it's just if it's four v four, this might be over Wick.
If it's seven v four, I go Wick over this. Yeah.
And to remind you guys of the all seven, the first one, I
believe came out in ninety six, and it was a pretty groundbreaking action movie,
pretty unique action movie, further spy espionage action that had that dropping scene.
Of course, which is iconic. And then two came out in two
thousand, which starred Tandy Newton as sort of the love interest. And what
happened between ninety six and two thousand was the popular larity. I mean it
was going anyways, but the Pierce Brosnen Bond movies I feel like had a
huge effect on Mission Impossible too, so that like they almost basically tried to
make him James Bond and it just really did. Yeah, that movie's not
bad, it's just not the same or up to snuff with the rest of
and the other Billy d give me a Tony Hopps photoshop. So Anthony Hopkins
riding a skateboard, Yes, there you go. We'll post that if you
do make that. And then three was with Philip Steymour Hoffman, which I
think was two thousand and five two thousand and six, which is pretty good.
As always, he was a great villain, and that really, you
know, it gave you a ton of you know, twists and turns,
so that really got us back into it. I really liked that movie just
a little less than these four. And then of course Ghost Protocol and Rogue
Nation was the Jeremy Renner error where they tried to basically move Tom Cruise out,
but they're like, wait, people love him and this and you get
fall out with Henry Cavill and now this. So I would say all seven
movies are good. Even Mission Impossible too, I think is a good movie.
It's just not it's more Bond than anything. He starts talking British.
This movie is written by chrispher mcquarie who's also the director. Other credits here
Eric Jendersen, whose only other real notable thing you would know his Band of
Brothers to television show. And then Bruce Geller, who gets a credit for
all of these movies because he's the one he created the TV series. So
it's the movie brother of Ross and Monica created by and good. Christopher mcquarie
has had a very interesting writing career here. He wrote The Usual Suspects,
fucking great movie. And there's a common thing amongst these movies, as you'll
see, it's like sort of espionage thriller international type stuff. The Way of
the Gun Valkyrie was was his first team up with Tom Cruise. He wrote
The Tourist, which was an Angelina Jolie sort of thriller type of thing.
Jack Reacher he did that Tom Cruise movie, Edge of Tomorrow. He did
that Tom Cruise. He also did goo another Tom Cruise movie, The Mummy.
Let's say this that was a swing in him swinging a miss that was
supposed to start the Dark Universe in it unfortunately ended before it started. And
then of course he did last year's Top Gun Maverick. So him and tommy
Ce have been working together for fifteen years now, clearly fans of each other,
friends with each other. And then of course this is directed by mcquarie
who his other four directing credits are The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher,
Rogue Nation and Fallout, and the only thing he's got upcoming on the
slate is Dead Reckoning Part two. Life his success has mostly been Tom Cruise,
but also I would say that Tom Cruise his recent success, his resurgence,
the Tom Cruisanassans has a lot to do with macquarie. You're absolutely right
about that. It's it's a it's a they have found a formula. It's
a mutually beneficial relationship, that's for sure. Gow synopsis of this movie.
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls
into the wrong hands. Yeah. I would say my favorite part of the
story is when they introduced his brother Mike and they just kept saying his full
name. It was really weird. You can just say my first name.
Mister Hunt is also fine, Yode. This movie stars Tom Cruise as Ethan
Hunt for the seventh time, Hayley atwell as a newcomer named Grace, who
is fucking fantastic. Yeah. So we talked earlier about like, hey,
can you move Cruise out of there and replace him with someone? I think
that she would be great. This character would be great. I don't know
how well it does at the box office though, Oh if it's if it's
led by her, yes, yeah, I see, I see that because
I really did like her in this She was so good. Yeah. Returners
Van Raimes as Luther Stickle, who's been in all seven the first one or
not. Simon Peg is Benji Dunn, who I think came in in three.
I want to say he has this character on Locke yep. Rebecca Ferguson
as Elsa Faust, her third uh at least her third Mister Possible movie.
But Essa Kirby as the White Widow who was introduced in Fallout, who is
going to be our new suit storm, so I'm looking forward to that.
And then Assai Morales is Gabriel, who they sort of backdoor into the whole
Tom Cruise ethan Hunt's story here. And then Palm Clementeeth as Paris, who's
a villain, yes, but she's also like badassah because I would say that
her character is the biggest mixed bag in the movie, where like, yeah,
there's points where you like her, then you think that she's cartoonish,
but then she wins you over by the end. Yeah, I'd agree.
I think that's an accurate assessment. We've also got Henry Zernie as Rich Kittridge.
He's the head of the IMF. You have Shay Wigham as Briggs and
Greg Tarzan Davis, which is an all time great name is dagas they're the
two IMF agents chasing Hunt the whole time. You have Frederick Schmidt as Zola
that's Kirby's right hand man there, and then Carrie Elwez plays the President den
Linger. Uh, he's fine, He's always okay, do to me.
This movie is oddly like the most serious mission impossible movie we've gotten, but
also kind of the funniest as well. It's it's a weird it's weird fact
though that it's kind of corny, right, it's corny, but they also
went out of their way for a couple of jokes, which they do in
the past, but I don't it's a weird mix. The script is weird,
yeah, because written weird. So I describe a lot of movies as
cheesy. I wouldn't even call this one cheesy. I look at it as
being more corny. It's a little and that's what I'm saying, like we're
laughing with it at times, but we also laughed at but also they know
what they're doing though. They know when to be corny, yes, and
but sometimes they take it too far as well. Once again, Tom Cruise
running on top of an airport, a couple of eye rolls and hair a
few I rolls in this movie. And then the plot of this movie Goo
is also sort of an I roll. It's it. It would be the
plot of a movie that came out when the first one really generic, right,
and they almost take it back to the original mission impossible here, like
this is a very very genetic you're dealing with an AI first off, one
that you can see. I hate the fact that you can see the AI,
like, just have it be in the fucking internet, like, we
don't know where it is. And then also they're dealing with a key.
We have to find this key. The key is the mcguffin. This is
Transformers once again. Well the immediate comparison or love Child though made when this
movie finished. As I said, this is essentially a Lord of the Rings
movie meets Skynet. That's what it feels like. Elements of both, but
it's worse than both of those things. What if we found it at the
end that Tom Cruise, you know, gets the key or gets whatever it
is, and he goes to put it with another key and it turns out
that Optimus Prime has it. And by the way, we're spoiler free here,
but there's really not much to spoil in this movie. Oh and by
the way, by the way, the key is called the Entity, which
that pissed me off the entire movie. That sounded like something first stuff,
that's jargon that's been used for so long, and it's something that I feel
like they wrote in the script and said that's a placeholder, we'll fix that
up later, and they just never did again, that's sort of to my
point, it would have made more sense of this movie with that type of
plot and plot device came out in ninety six. Because the plot of this
movie, to what we're speaking about, is that there's a global AI system
that has become self aware. So we've seen this in numerous movies, and
it has begun systematically picking apart the world's like strongest countries and whatnot. It's
hacking satellites all this ship submarines, yeah, getting into the nation's highest of
security type things. And the only way that they can shut this down,
they assume, is to find it's like original hardware where it was originally put
online, and that happens to be in a sunken Russian submarine. And in
order to access that hardware you need a key. But the key has two
parts to it. Yes, you're like that whole thing. The whole plot
is sort of an eye roll. Really it's not great, but you say
that the weak plot, and they pull it off. They do because of
the fun and the action. Yeah, they pull it off to a good
enough degree. They don't crush it. It's not a forty dog movie.
No, no, no, they make it work. Oh, by the
way, so you're speaking about AI. This has nothing to do with the
movie. But did you see that zookeepers are telling people that are attending the
zoo not to show the monkeys YouTube videos because the monkeys are becoming self aware
that there's things outside of the zoo. Oh, we don't need listen.
Primates are very smart animals. The last thing we need is monkeys becoming self
aware, because I feel like monkeys really could escape if they wanted. Yea
right. I feel like if they if they put their minds to it,
they could. The last thing we need them to do is to team up
with like Orcas and do a land and sea assault and we figured out how
we die. That's I think that's the ticket. If those two team up,
we are fucked, absolutely fucked. The Orcas have already become aware of
what SeaWorld is and what we've done to them. Yeah, we don't need
that. The last thing. Yeah, we don't need monkeys breaking in the
SeaWorld and breaking out the Orcas. That that'll be the end of us.
We'll be absolutely fuck then, ud you want to get into the Gauntlet.
Yes, the Gauntlet, the big old fun stuff that we do for movies.
Hey, Mac, how about the fun factor? And like I already
said earlier, this movie is maybe the funnest of the franchise. Yeah,
I think it of the seven movies, this is probably the most fun had.
But with a caveat that, yeah, some of it is corny as
fuck. Satisfactor, How satisfying is this movie? And of course you know,
with it being part one, it does a good enough job of getting
us to that second movie. But like we've said, with the plot,
you know, you need to have this much fun in the second movie to
pull off the sequel because the plot is not great. Yeah, and to
my points at the top here, obviously there are some satisfying things in this
movie. There's always satisfying things in every action movie, but the bar set
by the three prior movies, I don't know if this movie quite hit there.
So in that respect, a little dissatisfying, but overall not a dissatisfying
experience. Borometer, How boring was this movie? And like I said earlier,
you know, as they deal with stuff that has to do with looking
for the key or getting the key or not. Even when they plan stuff
focus I like them planning out their missions that's fun. But as you look
at the storyline and you know, just the beats between the action kind of
boring. I got bored. There are times where there was just a little
bit too much in both respects, a little too much or too far in
the action sequences or a little bit too much of the well in between,
and in both instances I felt bored. Equator Is this better than twenty seventeen's
Aquaman? So clearly above, But now I have an interesting equator for the
Mission Impossible franchise. I think this might be smack dab in the middle.
I think this might be the fourth best movie, and therefore ipso facto do
it becomes the equator of the Mission Impossible franchise, the imposse equator. Even
the Mission Impossible three is good, So maybe that's the equator Halloween. Will
this movie wane over a time? Yeah? Sure will. Yeah, it's
almost destined to wayne right. It's a part one of a part two series.
Yea. And like the fact that it's two hundred or what two hours
and forty three minutes, Like that's just too long. Any movie that long
is gonna wan because like, what if you want to compare it to you
know his recent success of Top Gun two. That movie has not waned at
all. If not, I have more respect for it. So like,
I don't think it's going to have that effect on me. That movie is
much more crisp than this one. Yeah, for sure, Pants, Tan
City, Excite, Mike Mania. What got you going? And I'll tell
you this right now. The third act action scene was dope. There again,
we'll get to this, I guess in spoilers, but there are four
or five action sequences in here that are fucking awesome. But the true pant
step for me, I think is the sequence with Cruise and Atwell in the
train cars and that whole thing. I thought that was fucking incredible. Yeah,
I thought it was really really cool because leading up to it, it's
something we've seen a million times before. But I thought the way that they
got out of that was something incredibly new and incredibly awesome. Yeah, because
leading up to that, I was saying to myself, this is really where
I want to get off. I've had enough, you know, let's go
ahead and just bookmark this and we'll just jump into it for part two.
But then they said let's get off the top of the train, which I
just don't like. I think that's stupid. Now, yeah, I agree,
And it said let's run through these train cars and that's awesome, that's
great. It was really cool. Yeah, it's great. It was fun.
Max credit Union, Who are you giving credit to? So I said
it. When we're introducing the cast here, Haley Atwell legit goes toe to
toe with Tom Cruise in this movie. She's every bit as good as he
is, if not better, and um like as good as Rebecca Ferguson has
been in these movies. I don't know if I truly believe her as sort
of a lead in one of these missions, but Haley Atwell pulls that off,
pulls it off better than Becky fergus has. At least I thought I
would also go with her. She was great. And then you know Cruz
is just like he's the he's the continent. He's constantly yes, always hot
dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs hot What was remember? Was it like
the the music a rama? Remember when they would have all the like the
high school, middle school and elementary school bands go to the high school and
play music forever everybody? What was that the bandarrama? I think it was
the bandarrama and I didn't. Yes, so every year one class would always
play Mission Impossible. It's an incredibly satisfied Yeah, it's all right for those
of you tardy to the Mac and Goop party. We rade everything on a
forty hot dog rating system. Mac and I believe that this is a pretty
great movie. Am I saying a film? No, but we don't really
care about that. Yeah. Awesome action scenes, especially how they sprinkle them.
They spaced them out pretty well, like you start out pretty good,
then at the end of the first act, second act, then they topped
them each act, so credit there as well. Tom Cruise always good,
but might be one of the weaker characters in this movie, because Carter and
Furgy are great. Kirby's Dreamland also very good, one step below the other
two. And then I would say that Palm won me over by the end.
But you know, kind of cartoonish as we went a long, very
good bad guy. A little bit of his face is George Clooney, like
not like, is he more handsome than George Clooney. No, he's not
more handsome, but he isn't a handsome fella for sure. He's a different
kind of handsome he's not as classically handsome. No, he's a he's a
he's a darker and more menacing bad guy look. But also I'm not a
fan of the visible AI. There's no need to see like the lights and
stuff moving around, like, oh, it's watching you. We can just
assume that it's watching us, much like in real life the AI is watching
us right now. I think that was a little bit of a much as
we saw a spider Man far from home to like a billion drones or like,
all right, we get it. We don't need all these. Look,
the story is very simple and also kind of dumb, even possibly.
I'm not saying that it's stupid, but some parts do feel kind of lazy
right now. What is the difference between stupid and dumb? I don't know,
Man, Am I stupid? Am I dumb? I think stupid is
more constant. Dumb is more of an instant one type thing, Like I
hate the entity thing. Just call it something else. Also, maybe find
a different mcguffin. I don't know, it's up to you, but there
are just whenever I started to get bored, they pulled me right back in.
So credit there and although corny on occasion, I really did think it
was fun and they leaned into it, and I'm going thirty five hot dogs.
Oh all right, yeah, strong score, and I totally understand that
good. Like I said, there are multiple times in this movie where I
was laughing at it and not with it, so that obviously has to take
away from it. I just don't feel like that's true. But the prior
three, which is also why I have this maybe a notchdown from those three.
They certainly go out of their way for some action here, and I
also feel like sometimes that was a detriment to the movie. And in most
cases in these movies, the action sequences are fucking ridiculous and insane. I
just feel like this one went a little too far at times. The real
core of this franchise has been that action espionage balance, and although there's a
ton of twists and turns and a ton of action, I did feel like
they did a little too much in both right, A little bit was like
beyond what they needed to do. I want as many twists as possible.
I just feel like this movie almost indulged too much, right, And maybe
for some people that that'll never be the case. It's not possible, but
for me, that's how I come away feeling. But what I did like
those that they didn't yell a ton about people going rogue, like it's just
assumed. Now, Yeah, the score in this movie, Goya is so
intense and so constant that I also think that took away from the movie a
little bit again, a little too much. That's what that's my common takeaway
from the movie here. And because it's also very long, that's another doc
here. So it's just there's and these are little things. And again I'm
weighing these up against three other fantastic movies, three of the best movies of
the last fifteen years, I would say, anyway, So I gotta be
a little critical here. That said, the chick characters were great, as
you as you mentioned, great job, Hailey att Well, Clein Palm and
teeth. All right, pomp Clem, palm and teeth is a great name.
We did a Hailey Hatwell, Kanessa Verby, Vanessa Kirby was very good.
Zacky Bergason, but all right, let's let's move past. Yeah,
and then uh mole man here the guy that plays Gabriel the villain, I
already forget his name. I couldn't help but think of the whole time.
But he was good, quiet, menacing villain. I enjoyed him and give
again. As I mentioned in the tease a few days ago, this movie
has probably my two, maybe even three favorite action sequences on the year,
so that's a big plus as well. It's a very well made movie on
every single level, even though the story is lacking quite a bit compared to
the last three. I just feel like it's it's a notch below. So
for that reason, I've got this at thirty four. Hot dougs. I
like that I think a little less than you, but I think I probably
had an higher expectation than you as well, So maybe that's why it's either
the fourth or fifth best movie for me on the year. So again,
still rating very well year, just ahead of it or no, definitively ahead
of it. The three or four maybe above it here are across the Spider
Verse, Air and Guardians Volume three. I also might have go this is
a new addition. I just watched US the other day, Missing, which
came out earlier this year. It's on Netflix right now. Great thriller,
Great thriller. I'm having a hard time valuing that movie up against this and
then this movie is just ahead of the Flash and Quantum Media for me.
So so it's obviously a very good movie. I would have the same three
ahead between Guardians Air and Spider Verse, and I would also have Wick four
ahead of this. Okay, yeah, so you have it as the fifth
or sixth best movie, right, Yeah. But I would also say that
it's closer to being a soft thirty five than a rock hard thirty five.
Okay, yeah, I was. I was writing that range too, and
have been going back and forth between those two number scores. And really it
was the train scene at the end that won me over. And shall we
start spoiling spoilers? Um, there is a part where he jumps out of
the train at the end and he's on like a parasailing squirrel thing or something.
No, it's it's one of those like fast flying parashutes and you like
zoomed down mountains basically, um. And all I could think of was him
kicking his feet and going, this is why I am make movie. I
do remember you laughing at that for like more than you should have. You
just were laughing like at that little Tom cruise kicking his feet. So goose,
speaking of those five standout action scenes. My favorite went on the air,
as I mentioned, was this train scene. So at one point in
this movie, close to the very end of it, there's a dumb fight
on top of the train, which then ends up being inside of the train,
and then they have this old timey train bridge explosion where the train's gonna
fall off, and they do that and you're like, all right, whatever,
but the execution yea and cruising atwell gets stuck at the bottom train and
they have to parkour their way up through these train cars. It's fucking awesome.
It's exhilarating, it's so fun to watch. So that was I think
the a one standout scene of the movie. And then you also had an
awesome scene here where every character was in play, and this is when they
flee that outdoor party in the middle of the city. All the characters get
separated, you get a few fights, and it culminates in Ilsa fighting Gabriel
on the bridge there, which was a great scene and ultimately culminates in Becky
Fergus dying. So I like that there were some stakes here. A character
that Ethan Hunt knew in love died, a character that's been here for a
few movies that I thought that was pretty cool. And then Goo You also
had the great reintroduction to ilsa um, like fifteen minutes into the movie with
that desert scene with the battle. That was pretty fucking cool. Obviously,
the one that has been teased the whole time here is that motorbike mountain jump.
It's cool, that's fine. For eight months, it was good.
The Fiat with the cross handed drive through that was amazing. So that one
also that second or third best you Tom Cruise took six months to learn how
to drift to shoot that scene. That's pretty cool that that card shapes and
the visuals of the Fiat and the Hummer going through the city was fucking awesome.
That was great too. Um let me um so for how good Tom
Cruise is at running on film, like he's the best Everett running on film.
Yeah, I think he is that bad at throwing a punch on film.
He's a little man, that's why. So he's a little man.
I'm not a brawler. I'm not really a fighter myself. But he gets
down low and he like it looks like he cocks his hand back right like,
well you got you gotta get the power from the hip scoo from the
lower half. The issue is because he's probably shorter than most, he's got
to coil himself up right a viper. The issue is just it's always coming
up. Yeah. So, speaking of the running, there is one scene
in this pretty good airport scene where they're on the run from being you know,
they're being chased and they're trying to get Haley at well, they're trying
to get the entity and um. At the end, she gets on a
flight to Rome and we have like an over the shoulder shot of the guys
looking for Ethan Hunt and we see Ethan Hunt running on the top of the
airport, and then the exact next scene he is in Rome. My question
does he run to Rome? So in my mind I like to believe that
he ran to Rome. Yeah, that's like no wasted effort either, the
running scenes because they do it so much. Now that's a little bit of
the other the scene that you were talking about where everyone's in play. There
is a bit too much of cruise running in that scene too. There's a
lot of running in that. But I did like the little alley fight scene
between him and Clem, Him Clem and the other person. So that was
that. I listen, there's so many good action scenes in here that I
don't I feel like this movie automatically everyone's gonna like but if it should have
been better? Yeah, but the but the plot and the plot device of
the entity is dumb. Yeah, it's just dumb. And this movie's really
long. Like Tom Cruise ran so much in this movie that at one point
Simon Peg said, Hey, are you at Haunted Mansion right now? Your
heart's going crazy? He's sixty one guys. Also, so I really did
like Hayley atwell, there is one point so she is like she's a career
con artist, she's a thief. And then when she joins up with the
boys and the Bucket and they're doing kind of a heist a little bit,
they're trying to get the entity. Um, she is very timid, she's
afraid. I don't know, that seemed kind of out of character, but
maybe it's just something that she's never done before. Yeah, it's like higher
stakes for her that she's never really but she's also dealt with things like that
though life in death situation. I don't know if she has really until that
instance. What do you think she's been working street corners flipping cards. Yeah,
that's it. Yeah, but yeah, this is a great movie.
That's I see. I hesitate calling it great. I think that's a different
This is okay, here we go. This is a great theater movie.
I actually that's actually I think thirty five thirty six is right where you can
call it great and I'm just a tick below it. That's all I'm gonna
say. Great theater movie, though, I'm not even gonna say so.
This is not something that I want to watch at home. But this is
something that is absolutely worth your time in the theaters and it's a great,
great time. Yeah. I mean again, it's got ninety four from the
audience, so obviously most people were liking this. I'd like to see what
the bottom end of that is. I think the bottom ends only like thirty
thirty two, So it's it's got to meet a lot of what people are
looking for in a Mission Impossible movie. I just feel like I expected a
little bit more, especially from the story. I would also love it if
in the next one they start calling the entity something else and they're like,
oh, we've always called it this. I hated it. I hated that
so much. Yeah, and they said the lot. They said it the
lot is a dumb versus stupid. I don't know, it's definitely dumb.
Yeah, MAXA could be anything. It could be a boat. And right
now, let's tease what's coming up for Mac and Gue because it's the summertime
and we've got some scheduling issues. Must I would share McK and I having
this discussion from before the podcast, but I feel like we were both yelling
at each other saying the same thing. Yeah, we agreed on ninety eight
percent of the same schedule, so essentially Good and I both have a vacation
coming up that's unavoidable. It happens to be on the fucking weekend that's Barbie
versus Oppenheimer, the weekend that we've been talking maybe the biggest movie weekend in
twenty years. It's just really bad timing, and we've been absolutely fucked by
the screeners here. You're we're seeing different movies on the same night. Yeah,
fucking so I am going to an influencer screening of Barbie. We're all
wearing pink and white, but all going to drink Cosmos. I just don't
understand because these movies have been hyped for so long, we should have screeners
for these weeks in advance. Really, I honestly thought that we were going
to watch the Barbie movie on the Barbie Cruise, and then my wife's like,
that doesn't make any sense, and I said, oh, wait a
second, it doesn't so good. And I will be seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer
separately Barbenheimer, which means we'll both have to see the other movie in what
we talk of about it. However, we have vacations that upcoming weekend,
so we don't have an exact date for when we'll be talking about those two
depth. Yes, in depth, we'll seeze them next week, maybe five
minutes on each movie next week. And in lieu of the those those full
review releases, well for sure have a dump at the beginning next week.
We've already got a chock full dump ready to rock. That'll be it's filled
with corn peanuts. And then probably a week after that, the next Monday
or Tuesday, I'll either have a secret invasion prep for episode six. If
there's a good cliffhanger on five, I'll talk with someone about that, or
I'll have another dump ready to rock. So that's the play and then after
that we will have the next three episodes no specific order. It'll be Barbie
Oppenheimer Secret Invasion yep. So they'll some heavy hitters to go. And for
those of you that haven't been watching Secret Invasion, episode four just came out
that I actually have to get to. This show has been good. I
don't know if it's been very good, but it's been good enough where I've
enjoyed each episode. The acting has been great. I don't know if the
payoffs gonna be worth it all. That's that remains to be seen, but
it's at least after either it's doing this, it's it's making me google stuff,
watch new rock star videos. So it's been interesting enough for me to
at least do that. But it's gonna have to pay this off. I
not in spectacular fashion, but I want there to be meaning going forward from
the show, and I worry it'll be more of a one and done such.
The show right now is the front runner for the Sleepy Joe Award for
me. I have fallen asleep twice while watching it. Wow, but also
I haven't. I'm a sleepy boy. You are sleepy peep. Yeah,
but also I have over the last couple of weeks not to get too much
into my life. I have I have said goodbye to the gudio. I
have given the bigger room to my son, and I have made the move
into the smaller clawset like room that was his. So a lot of my
free time has been that. You're gonna need to put on a TikTok montage
to Vitamin C's graduation of all the old pictures from Gudio past. Oh,
can everyone please send me what we should call the new Gudio. I was
thinking either Nudio Tudio or Gudio part Tudio is pretty good. I like Gudio
two point zero. That's pretty good. When you moved there, it was
established as the gudio before that was Studio one four one two. Studio one
forty two was our first one, and then I'm sorry, Nicky Diamond's basement
was our first one. That's true. Where you were in a closet,
so now you're just in a bigger closet. I'm in a bigger closet now.
I was sitting on a footson that was not particularly clean. You were
in a closet that was not particularly clean. And then our guests I don't
even remember where the guests sat. They sat on the other part of the
futon. And what's fun about it actually is and this is we're not painting
a very good picture. This is a very very messy basis. Early days,
Mac was on a futon that was facing a all over here who was
in a closet that had no eye contact with Mac none. I was just
staring at another wall. And then Diamonds was so high that like four times
you forgot to press record on our episodes. But having said that, in
the eight hundred ish episodes that we've done since, I have forgot to hit
record twice. So I'm not gonna percentage though, is the percentage is not
as bad. But it has happened. It has happened also because you were
so high. I'm always high though, That's why I'm always falling asleep.
You're you're like that girl Tall Bachman was saying about I always say to my
wife, and you know, she's always like, stop saying this, But
mom, like, hey, it's four to twenty somewhere. You're always saying
that. Yeah, as we close this out, happy birthday to your son
this week. Oh that's right, my son is turning three, three magical
years, big big, big party and will share up. Mac got him
quite the gift. I hope it's probably gonna be too big. Friend,
he might be listening right now, so don't say it out loud. I
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Don't ask for too many, or I'm not going to send you any.
I have already sent out the first order of pens. For those of
you who have told me where you are. The person at the front desk
when I was sending them out, I was like, I was slatting the
pens in the bags, and then one person said, can I get a
pen and a half? So while I was slatting the pens, I took
a pen and I broke it in half and I put in the bag and
they're like, what are you doing? Don't tell me the INC went in
there broken though, No, So what I did. I snapped the plastic
on the outside. I gave them half the plastic and then I did give
him the ink, the full inc. Okay, but they didn't get the
top half, the clickie part. No, No, they got the clickie
part. But the clickie part is pointless without the top half, because then
you're just pushing it into nothing. We have different top halfs of a pen.
Then the top half to me is the point. But yeah, the
top half is the point. I gave him the bottom half with the logo
half click part. No, the bottom half is the clickie but it also
has the logo. I think you misspoke, then that's I think you misheard.
Yeah, that's definitely what it was, all right, Also tepublic dot
com, so we explained our huge, very confusing schedule that's coming up for
the next couple of weeks. Now everyone's writing it down. Just guys,
check Apple podcast and all the other things it's gonna pop up. Yeah,
fine, so Tuesdays or Goose Days, I abuse kangaroos. Now it's time
for girls jumping on trampolines. Please flip the cassette over to side B to
continue the adventure before we stop. I do want to take credit. You
know that yet dunkin Donuts commercial right now where they're swirling the ice coffee around
and they're making the ice coffee noise. I have not seen it. Okay,
so that is a commercial right now, and they're like, this is
the sound of summer right. No, No, I was just gonna say
you coined it. It is actually in that little Goodbye there. It is
you swirling your coffee around just now. Yeah, you have terrible ears.
Oh you put it in the in the sounder. I didn't do it on
purpose. I did it by accident. Uh yeah, usually the morning records.
I have a coffee, but it's so warm these days that there's no
ice left. Usually Macnus also says, no ice. I want my ice
coffee warm. Sometimes I get it with half ice because they put too much.
Well, all right, so I just wanted to, you know,
before you guys left, tell you that fine