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<v Speaker 1>Weird.

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<v Speaker 2>We welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Father Malone, and her mission, should she choose to

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<v Speaker 2>accept it, is co host with me, Miss Ripley. Jean, Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>you're just not gonna take the mission. That's novel. How's

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<v Speaker 2>everybody's a weekend? Good?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>We have a winner. That's right. Our musical votes are tallied.

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<v Speaker 2>HP and I will be covering the nineteen eighty seven

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<v Speaker 2>cult classic Little Shop of Horrors. Excellent choice, everyone. I

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<v Speaker 2>could do an entire show right now with a zero research.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how monomoniacally obsessed with the film I was at

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<v Speaker 2>one point in my life. Did you finish watching? And

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<v Speaker 2>or why not? You must have your reasons, like I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a dummy who doesn't enjoy thoughtful entertainment for adults and

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<v Speaker 2>still has stormtroopers and tie fighters in it. Not my

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<v Speaker 2>cup of blue milk? All right, let's just get into it. Bond,

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<v Speaker 2>James Bond, what will happen now that the evil Amazon

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<v Speaker 2>has him in their clutches? Maybe they won't be so

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<v Speaker 2>fucking ponderous like everything after Casino Royale, And maybe they

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<v Speaker 2>won't be so fucking silly like everything after License to Kill.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not a Bond hater. I love Doub seven and

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<v Speaker 2>que and Moneypenny, the whole mcgilla. I thought they were

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<v Speaker 2>a great snapshot of their time period, a perfect time capsule.

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<v Speaker 2>In some ways, Bond was never a trendsetter other than

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<v Speaker 2>his inaugural debut, but then everything is an innovation at

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<v Speaker 2>least one time. Instead, Bond has always seemed to be

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<v Speaker 2>playing cultural catch up. During the actual space race, when

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<v Speaker 2>men were landing on the Moon, they couldn't get Bond

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<v Speaker 2>into orbit. No, it would be Star Wars and the

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<v Speaker 2>mania surrounding that that would give us a Moon Raker.

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<v Speaker 2>They turned it down Steven Spielberg's offer to direct a

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<v Speaker 2>Bond film, and then they made Moonraker. Raiders of the

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<v Speaker 2>Lost Dark's creation wasn't a direct reaction to that, Lucas

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<v Speaker 2>had been cooking up the character for years, but Spielberg

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<v Speaker 2>accepting the directing gig happened right after the Broccolis rebuffed him.

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<v Speaker 2>Indiana Jones in that way, is like a multitude of

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<v Speaker 2>films out there James Bond imitated. There are obvious ones,

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<v Speaker 2>the films that claim to be parody or homage like

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<v Speaker 2>in like Flint, that man from Rio, doctor Goldfoot in

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<v Speaker 2>the Bikini Machine. Have you seen that one fantastic secret

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<v Speaker 2>Agent Super Dragons Zeta one comes spy with me. That's

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<v Speaker 2>not even mentioning the TV series inspired by Bond, Secret Squirrel,

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<v Speaker 2>Get Smart, the Man from Uncle Wild Wild West, and

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<v Speaker 2>near the end of the nineteen sixties, Mission Impossible Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Creator Bruce Geller will claim inspiration for the series was

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<v Speaker 2>the heist film took copy, but I think the spy

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<v Speaker 2>backdrop is no coincidence. In the shadow of Double O seven,

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<v Speaker 2>the IMF the Impossible Mission Force, led by Jim Phelps,

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<v Speaker 2>for the majority of the show's run, forwarded the Reds

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<v Speaker 2>and the terrorists, and the industrialists and the criminals. The

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<v Speaker 2>tape recorder mission briefing with the threat that it will

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<v Speaker 2>self destruct in five seconds, and the lit fuse credit sequence,

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<v Speaker 2>combined with that fucking score, continued in the public consciousness

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<v Speaker 2>along after the series was canceled in seventy three. There

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<v Speaker 2>was a revival in nineteen eighty eight, but the whole

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<v Speaker 2>affair was gruesome. ABC dusted off a bunch of old

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<v Speaker 2>Mission Impossible scripts and had them produced in Australia to

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<v Speaker 2>circumvent the then current writers strike. It wouldn't be until

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<v Speaker 2>the nineteen nineties that a fan would take control of

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<v Speaker 2>the series with his newly formed production company. Mister Tom Gunn,

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<v Speaker 2>Mister oldtime rock and roll in his underwear. Mister he

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<v Speaker 2>was in Legend with Tim Curry. Huh, Now that's most people,

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<v Speaker 2>not me. I love Legend and I don't think he's

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<v Speaker 2>miscast in it either. He just has a shitty part

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<v Speaker 2>to do anyway, mister cocktail. Remember the high stakes, cutthroat

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<v Speaker 2>world of bottles spinning, hippie hippy shake. Yes, Tom Cruise.

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<v Speaker 2>Scandals noted, all right, Tom Cruise. Weirdness noted, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>Tom Cruise. Bizarre religion noted. Meanwhile, Brian de Palm is

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<v Speaker 2>standing behind the screen of some film festival watching his

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<v Speaker 2>latest movie, Carlito's Way, and he's thinking, well, this is it.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't do any better as a filmmaker, and he

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<v Speaker 2>fucking panics and thinks I got to take the next

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<v Speaker 2>thing they offer me. Lucky for everyone, Tom Cruise has

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<v Speaker 2>dinner with Spielberg, who is talking up to Palmer, and

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<v Speaker 2>we have mission impossible. So they take Jim Phelps and

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<v Speaker 2>they make him the villain of the first movie. Thus,

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<v Speaker 2>Peter Graves refuses to return for the film, and young

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<v Speaker 2>Agent Ethan Hunt moves to the top. I love the

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<v Speaker 2>first Mission Impossible. It's got great echoes of the original

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<v Speaker 2>series while taking it into the realms of giant action

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<v Speaker 2>set pieces under the guidance of a cinematic master. It

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<v Speaker 2>sets so many precedents for the rest of the series,

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<v Speaker 2>the most important being Tom Cruise front and center for

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<v Speaker 2>insane stunts. Yeah, the helicopter jump at the end is great,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's in a best that ILM can deliver kind

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<v Speaker 2>of way. It's the fish tank stunt, the red light

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<v Speaker 2>green light, the you've never seen me upset, exploding fish

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<v Speaker 2>tank sequence. Tom Cruise needed to be talked into the

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<v Speaker 2>least life threatening stunt he has ever performed. I'm convinced

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<v Speaker 2>that it's this moment, to Palma's assertion that the stunt

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<v Speaker 2>is safe, and even if it isn't, film is forever

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<v Speaker 2>that turned Cruise's world upside down, and we've been watching

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<v Speaker 2>him try to commit suicide ever since. That first film

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<v Speaker 2>is a high point. If we didn't get another, I'd

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<v Speaker 2>be good with it, though I do have one grievance.

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<v Speaker 2>They kill Emelio s Devenz with the rest of the

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<v Speaker 2>team in the opening gambit. I know they did it

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<v Speaker 2>to instill a sense of vulnerability in all of our characters,

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<v Speaker 2>and it worked. But I was so stoked when he

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<v Speaker 2>showed up as their tech guy. Granted he had to

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<v Speaker 2>make room for TENK guy Luther played by series favorite

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<v Speaker 2>Ving Raims, but still to Palmer delivered the action, but

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<v Speaker 2>he also steeped the movie in late Cold War tension.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a perfect capper to the original series. Incidentally, I

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<v Speaker 2>looked for this but I could not find it. There

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<v Speaker 2>was an MTV mission Impossible premiere special where they're talking

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<v Speaker 2>to the act on the red carpet and Kennedy, you

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<v Speaker 2>remember Kennedy, glasses, curly hair, Republican, and she's interviewing Martin

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<v Speaker 2>Landau and she has no idea that Landell was on

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<v Speaker 2>the first three seasons of the show. And he gets

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<v Speaker 2>so fucking mad at her, and then he storms off,

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<v Speaker 2>and then he comes back and he yells at her

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<v Speaker 2>some more. If you have that clip, please send it

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<v Speaker 2>to Fathom Alone seven to one at a gmail dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll put it here on this episode's that's my email.

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<v Speaker 2>It's in the episode description. If you have that clip,

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<v Speaker 2>please share and I will share with everybody. It's hilarious,

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<v Speaker 2>as was Kennedy miming jerking off after Martin Landau finally

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<v Speaker 2>stomps away. Mission Impossible Part two. It sucks. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know what to tell you. It was exciting that John

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<v Speaker 2>wu was getting the big Hollywood gigs, but it also

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<v Speaker 2>became pretty evident pretty quickly in his Tinseltown tenure. Unless

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<v Speaker 2>the leads were throwing bullets at each other in close quarters,

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't going to amount to much. I'm sorry that

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<v Speaker 2>movie is garbage. Name a one memorable thing other than

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<v Speaker 2>the hokey motors dancing Best Forgotten Now three. Mission Impossible

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<v Speaker 2>three was promising. Jj Abrams hadn't yet ruined every franchise,

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<v Speaker 2>and he manages to not ruin this one. He gets

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<v Speaker 2>it back on track and even adds some intriguing notions,

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<v Speaker 2>like a private life for Ethan Hunt. That's a privilege

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<v Speaker 2>denied to Jim Phelps over six seasons of the TV show,

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<v Speaker 2>and it provided the series high villain wise in the

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<v Speaker 2>form of Philip Seymour Hoffman. He added a level of danger.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think they've replicated still I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>watch Part three again anytime soon. Those first three movies,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever their quality, whatever their ranking, can be considered prologue. However,

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<v Speaker 2>Mission Impossible begins once they leap onto the subtitle train

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<v Speaker 2>in camera no cuts. It's the intriguingly named ghost Protocol

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<v Speaker 2>that this film series takes off. Huge stinks here. It

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<v Speaker 2>feels way more grounded and way less superheroy. It's the

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<v Speaker 2>live action debut of Incredibles and Iron Giant director Brad Byrd,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's got Cruz hanging off a building praying to

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<v Speaker 2>die on camera, and while he's uncredited on the film.

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<v Speaker 2>About halfway through production, Cruz brings in his vultary screenwriter

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<v Speaker 2>Christopher macquary to punch up the story and the dialogue,

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<v Speaker 2>and McQuary takes over the franchise and much the way

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<v Speaker 2>Cruz had done nearly a decade before. In Rogue Nation,

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<v Speaker 2>he gives us an organization to battle the syndicate made

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<v Speaker 2>of rogue agents from every country, embodied by Sean Harris.

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<v Speaker 2>I said Philip Seymour Hoffman hasn't been topped, but I

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<v Speaker 2>think Sean Harris ties he's so creepily still, And yet

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<v Speaker 2>you've no doubt capable, and it gives us super undercover

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<v Speaker 2>IMF agent Ilse of Faust played by Rebecca Ferguson. Once

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<v Speaker 2>she joins the franchise, you will retroactively feel her absence

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<v Speaker 2>when you watch any of the earlier films. She's fucking fantastic,

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<v Speaker 2>probably my favorite character, which leads us to, what are

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<v Speaker 2>you crazy? We haven't even gotten to mine. This is

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<v Speaker 2>all four play so far? Fine hit at hp K

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<v Speaker 2>because it takes film. Thank you, hp You know Tom

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<v Speaker 2>Cruise wants Heimlich to Koala. I didn't know you were

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<v Speaker 2>ranking them, but I guess this is your number one. Huh,

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<v Speaker 2>good girl, I think I agree with you. Mission Impossible

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<v Speaker 2>Fallout manages what every film prior has tried clumsily to do,

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<v Speaker 2>balancing personal and professional entwining them, really giving us a

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<v Speaker 2>plot that is as much driven as Ethan hunts need

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<v Speaker 2>to protect the ones he loves with his duty to

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<v Speaker 2>the world. Overall, it's got Henry Cavill lockin and load

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<v Speaker 2>in his arms for a fistfight. That fight is the

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<v Speaker 2>best hand to hand fight in the series. By the way,

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<v Speaker 2>I rewatched it again for this episode in Heyes Zeus Magomba.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a brutal in all the best fucking ways.

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<v Speaker 2>The team dynamic is at its best here Alec Baldwin

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<v Speaker 2>as their handler, Cruz, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg Ving Raims.

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<v Speaker 2>All that's missing is Emilio Estevez. I keep waiting for

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<v Speaker 2>him to return, that it was some dummy or there

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<v Speaker 2>was that patented mission Impossible mask involved, but no, not here.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the film's only real flaw. Sean Harris returns as

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<v Speaker 2>the nominal villain at the beginning as well. This movie

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<v Speaker 2>is hard to top, and they took their fucking time

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<v Speaker 2>developing the word salad sandwich Mission Impossible. Dead Reckoning Part

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<v Speaker 2>One that would follow, which was supposed to be filmed

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<v Speaker 2>back to back with Dead Reckoning Part two. Incidentally, Dead

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<v Speaker 2>Reckoning was the original title of George Romero's Land of

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<v Speaker 2>the Dead, his preferred title, but there was no way

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<v Speaker 2>Universal was giving modern zombie movie money for anything less

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<v Speaker 2>than an of the Dead. That Lord of the Rings

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<v Speaker 2>Back to the Future film and movies back to mac

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<v Speaker 2>business didn't happen either, neither did a part two, but

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<v Speaker 2>we'll get there. Having Part one in the title is

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<v Speaker 2>a cagey move. It was a similar phenomenon with the

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<v Speaker 2>Matrix films. Knowing there's a third film on the way

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<v Speaker 2>lowers the stakes for the movie automatically. As bad as

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<v Speaker 2>the scenario becomes for our hero, even if it ends

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<v Speaker 2>on a total bummer, they're coming back and have another

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<v Speaker 2>shot next year or the year after that. Not only that,

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<v Speaker 2>Not only that, it cleverly makes the film critic proof. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>you have to see the whole thing to appreciate it

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<v Speaker 2>as is. You've only seen half the movie. Yeah, we

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<v Speaker 2>know we paid money for no resolution. We put a

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<v Speaker 2>down payment on a resolution. I can handle him a

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<v Speaker 2>ROAs ending to a film, but I got to know

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<v Speaker 2>that it's the ending, ending on a bummer where everyone

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<v Speaker 2>lives to regret. It is something I've accepted in my

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<v Speaker 2>own life, so it doesn't ruin my day if some

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<v Speaker 2>Hayley atwell, just like I'm going wherever Cap goes cinematically,

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<v Speaker 2>Ditto founder of Shield Peggy Carter, and Tom Cruise nearly

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<v Speaker 2>long fall. But I just couldn't tell you if that

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<v Speaker 2>movie was good until I saw Mission Impossible Final Reckoning.

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<v Speaker 2>So now the previous film is only called Dead Reckoning,

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<v Speaker 2>the fucking slog, that is the new Mission Impossible movie.

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<v Speaker 2>Who needs it?

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<v Speaker 1>This can't all be true? Every word.

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<v Speaker 3>Cia Black fault break in am I reading this correctly?

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<v Speaker 1>The Kremlin bombing In fairness, the bomb was actually meant

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<v Speaker 3>That was just two months ago.

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<v Speaker 1>This explains the handcuffs. It's still not clear ways here.

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<v Speaker 1>If we want to bring the world back from the break.

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<v Speaker 3>We have to deal with him should he choose to

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<v Speaker 3>accept smart People on every side are close to panicking,

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<v Speaker 3>what exactly is your plan? Your team has been betrayed ethan,

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<v Speaker 3>all your secrets compromised, everything you are, everything you've done.

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<v Speaker 1>Has come to this.

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<v Speaker 3>You gave him an aircraft carrier.

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<v Speaker 1>Our lives are the sum of our choices, and this

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<v Speaker 1>One last time.

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<v Speaker 2>Studios used to have a real difficult time trusting audiences

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<v Speaker 2>Friday the Thirteenth series. If any film franchise is responsible

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<v Speaker 2>back and watch them sometime and stare in disbelief. And

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<v Speaker 2>as each film begins with the final two or three

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<v Speaker 2>or sometimes ten minutes of the previous entry, who do

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<v Speaker 2>Who knows? Maybe it was a run time issue, point

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<v Speaker 2>being the days of previously on are long over for

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<v Speaker 2>feature films, which is why it was confounding that the

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<v Speaker 2>first twenty minutes of this film is not a recap

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<v Speaker 2>of the previous film, but of the entire franchise. Twenty

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<v Speaker 2>minutes I check my watch twenty minutes until the fucking

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<v Speaker 2>fuse is lit and Lalo Schiffrin's indelible score begins. But

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<v Speaker 2>you know what, the movie's two hours and forty five minutes.

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<v Speaker 2>They could spare it, and the credit sequence is always energizing,

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<v Speaker 2>so you can put that nonsense past you, right, No,

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<v Speaker 2>we're not done. Now is another twenty five minutes of

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<v Speaker 2>effectively recapping the last film. We've already been Ethan hunting

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<v Speaker 2>through history. Now we really need to know where everyone's

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<v Speaker 2>place is on the board in what the snakes are again,

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<v Speaker 2>because we're all dummies who've wandered in from the wilderness.

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<v Speaker 2>Who is this Ethan Hunt? What happened to Jim Phelps?

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<v Speaker 2>They connect Jim Phelps to this film by the way

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<v Speaker 2>Johnvoy's character from the first film, Peter Graves on the series,

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<v Speaker 2>they clumsily connect him to the plotline of this one

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<v Speaker 2>and the Rabbit's Foot from Part three. This movie spends

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<v Speaker 2>so much time trying to tie up loose ends that

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<v Speaker 2>nobody cares about that it forgets to devise anything incredible

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<v Speaker 2>action wise, and what action there is begins forty five

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<v Speaker 2>minutes into this film. It's not really easy to describe

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<v Speaker 2>how disappointing this movie ended up being. It's two decades

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<v Speaker 2>that could have just been standalone adventures, but McQuary decided

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<v Speaker 2>everything needs to be interconnected. So if this is the

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<v Speaker 2>end of the Ethan Hunt saga, what a fucking drag.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm not saying they need to make another. They don't.

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<v Speaker 2>Ethan Hunt has served us nobly, and I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>either him nor McQuary has one innovation for this character

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<v Speaker 2>or any action left in them. The movie isn't worthless.

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<v Speaker 2>Everyone's good. Nick Offerman as good as a Secretary of

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<v Speaker 2>Defense and former CIA director in previous films, and Queen

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<v Speaker 2>of Wakanda Angela Bassett is the president now. Simon Pegg

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<v Speaker 2>also really comes into his own film, and I like

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<v Speaker 2>the configuration of the team that they end up with,

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<v Speaker 2>but this is it. The biplane stuff is incredible, and

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<v Speaker 2>yes that's Tom Cruise flying and dangling and hanging. It's

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<v Speaker 2>an incredible sequence, but it is in no way visceral.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not moving anything forward or paying off anything. They're

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<v Speaker 2>using biplanes because anything with digital assets can be controlled

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<v Speaker 2>by the villain. The entity an AI virus from a

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<v Speaker 2>sunken Russian sub that is basically Skynet. This movie is

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<v Speaker 2>the terminator if Skynett instead of calculating that all humans

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<v Speaker 2>were the ultimate threat and then, as Kyle Ree says

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<v Speaker 2>in that film, decided our fate in a micro second.

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<v Speaker 2>Instead of doing that, Skynett kept sending regular status updates

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<v Speaker 2>to the governments of the world. Hey, I've got access

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<v Speaker 2>to India's nuclear program now, and now I'm satisfied. JK.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to get control of all of them. See

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<v Speaker 2>it's waiting till it has control of every nuclear arsenal,

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<v Speaker 2>and then it's going to launch them all conveniently, giving

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<v Speaker 2>our characters a clock to work against. If that's not enough,

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<v Speaker 2>it sends some human coffin sized case with some VR

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<v Speaker 2>interface to communicate directly with Ethan. You know, it plugs

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<v Speaker 2>him in and does all VR shit. Who built the case,

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<v Speaker 2>who machined the parts? Was it the entity or was

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<v Speaker 2>it is Sime Morales, who is the human face of

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<v Speaker 2>the entity in the last film. It's great to see

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<v Speaker 2>him again. I love is Sime Morales. He's fucking great here.

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<v Speaker 2>But here is also where they really dropped the fucking ball.

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<v Speaker 2>A tech guy with a grudge against Ethan Hunt partnered

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<v Speaker 2>with an AI tech villain, and it's not Emilio Estevez.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you fucking kidding me? Don't see this movie? You're

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<v Speaker 2>fine without it. And if you didn't see the last one,

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<v Speaker 2>bully take the win. Don't bother with these overly serious

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<v Speaker 2>slogs through one of the most previously fun, lighthearted, and

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<v Speaker 2>I take no joy in saying any of this. It's

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<v Speaker 2>all distasteful. You know why, because there is not one

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<v Speaker 2>human being out there championing film and the movie going

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<v Speaker 2>experience more than and Tom Cruise. The man is literally

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<v Speaker 2>putting his life on the line with every feature. I

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<v Speaker 2>with him, his death would end up as a fucking

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<v Speaker 2>excellent sequence in a film. Do you think it's part

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<v Speaker 2>of his contract that his death has to be used

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<v Speaker 2>in the final film? I sure hope so, because apparently

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<v Speaker 2>Macquarie and Cruz and Henry Cavill Twist are teaming up

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<v Speaker 2>I'm fallom alone. Guess we'll leave you with a bit

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<v Speaker 1>In all the years that I've known Ethan, he's only

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<v Speaker 1>been serious about two women. One was his wife. He's married,

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<v Speaker 1>No he was.

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<v Speaker 3>Was what happened to him?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, she was taken by some people. Want to get

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<v Speaker 1>to Ethan. It's okay. He got it back in one piece.

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<v Speaker 1>Then he quit the game. They were happy for a while,

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<v Speaker 1>but every time something bad happened in the world, Ethan

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<v Speaker 1>would think I should have been there, and she would wonder,

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<v Speaker 1>who's watching the world while Ethan's watching me. Deep down,

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<v Speaker 1>they both knew that some days, somehow something truly terrible

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<v Speaker 1>is going to happen. Or because they were together, So

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<v Speaker 1>where is she now? She's a ghost good at it too,

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<v Speaker 1>taught her myself. Every now and then she sends up

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<v Speaker 1>a signal to let Ethan know she's safe, and that

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<v Speaker 1>keeps them going.

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<v Speaker 3>Why are you telling me? Miss?

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<v Speaker 1>We're in this mess because Ethan wouldn't let me die.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a good man, and he cares about you more

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<v Speaker 1>than he can admit. That's one more worry than he

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<v Speaker 1>can handle right now. If you care about him, you

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<v Speaker 1>should walk away. So all right, I'm coming with you.

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