all the more reason i enjoy your videos more. those little gaffes make your opinions authentic by making us feel like the ideas and concepts are more important
That was a minor error which happens to us all man lol. However @)0:25 how can you say that they are not really believable man... Cruise does his own freakin stunts! It is literally happening! lol, I mean I don't know how is to break it to you that you may have this one wrong man. Also, at the end you mention the tone of humor and banter changes... maybe I'll have to watch them all again but the only thing I've noticed is that its a bit more cheesy in the later films (probably Simon Pegg's fault). And in the new one, you really think AI isn't capable of this? What made the newest movie so good and frankly frightening for me is that this might actually happen... the new one is so frightening in it's believability that I had to see it a second time; probably going back for a 3rd. Can't wait for part 2 but by the time it comes out real AI might already have control of the world LMAO!
I think the only one that will have long term rewatchability problems for me is this new one. I’ve seen it twice and I like it, but it’s far less engaging for me than all its predecessors.
Its brilliant, probably because you can tell it's definitely a Brian De Palma film and he knows how to direct a suspenseful set piece.. he is the modern Hitchcock
Little correction: Ethan wasn't randomly guessing what Max' e-mail adress is. He searched for "Book of Job" on the "internet" and found a lot of forums. In the montage that follows he was PMing Max in every "book of Job" forum he found in hope one of them was the correct one. Hence why it says "MESSAGE" on screen and not "E-MAIL".
I love the first one. But I’m also a big Brian DePalma fan. The first Mission Impossible movie and Goldeneye were like the perfect 90s spy double feature
@@DomH75 there are DePalma movies that I’ve avoided because I don’t want to be reminded of how good he was. I’d rather watch snake eyes than passion or the black dahlia. I watched mission to mars once and it was god awful.
The first MI was the best but I too didn't like what they did with Phelps. I applaud Peter Graves for turning down the role and wish that Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill had done the same for the last SW trilogy.
I too respect Peter Graves for turning the film down on principle. It's sad about Hamill and Ford. However, they're just actors. We love the characters they portray, not the actors themselves (at least that's how I see it). Ford made 20 million I heard for being in KK's Indy dumpster fire.... Hard to argue with that money. Solo and Jones were my favorite characters, so yeah, I'm pretty furious with Disney right now lol
I didnt know about the Peter Graves turn down. And i agree with his decesion. Jim Phelps was a total squeaky clean character. He would never betray the IMF.😮😮😮
The biggest thing they did wrong was alienating the OG fans by casting Jim Phelps as the bad guy. They created the hollywood blueprint for destroying the OG characters in order to build up their own. The only difference between this and more modern bad reboots is that the primary property was old enough that not a ton of new fans remembered it well, so there was less outrage. And they actually still followed good storytelling principles in the movies (rather than taking the approach of Disney Star Wars, for example). I still haven't forgiven them for their treatment of Jim Phelps. Obviously.
I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and just being confused as hell regarding the plot. However, the infiltration scene is still one of the most memorable ones in all the films to date.
I was in high school and I was like confused like you while watching the film. As I got older and re-watched it a few more times. Being older and understanding what was happening I was like whoa!
The thing that made it click was understanding… the flashbacks were not flashbacks. They were Ethan piecing the pieces of what happened together. That scene in the train station where Phelps catches up with Ethan is where Ethan pieces it together that Phelps is the traitor… and lies to Phelps, seemingly believing Phelps story, but in reality he’s playing Phelps.
Ghost Protocol being my favorite since it was the one that felt most like a team effort and the 1-2 punch highlight of Rogue Nation and Fallout together are fantastic in my book, but I still also have quite the fondness for the first film, since I really like how De Palma did not feel stiffled in this more commercial piece and his trademarks are all over the film. Not to mention the vibes of this film is straight up "Three Days of The Condor", which I also very much appreciate.
Their changing the main character from the tv series is exactly like what's happened to all the other great IPs, from Dr Who to Star Trek and Star War. It's "we own the rights we can do whatever the heck we want with the IP. The fans be damned."
Agree. The paranoia and mystery provide the first movie a tension that has not been found in later installments. That said, the almost noir palate in Prague in the first movie seemed to inspire the Venice sequence in M:I-7. In fact, my first takeaway from watching M:I-7 was that the film was in some ways a return to the first movie. The return of Kitteridge, Ethan running around Venice in attempt to save his team members mirrored his running around Prague to warn his team, the tilted camera close ups, and a train sequence as a finale. Yes, M:I-7 is a return to the first one in tone while bringing the action sequences and some of the humor from the later installments to inject some excitement. And ironically, the subverting of the Jim Phelps character has had a similar impact to the reactions as the killing off of one of the team.
I love the song when Ethan is playing through what happened in his mind. My favorite scene in the whole movie is when the car explodes then Claire slowly turns and looks at the camera. The music right there and the revelation of her part, still gives me chills.
Basically a great series of movies, but as a kid watching MI on tv, that crime against Jim Phelps was intolerable! The fact that they offered Peter Graves a chance to take part in his signature character's destruction was on the level of the book that had Sherlock Holmes turn out to be Jack the Ripper.
I DID grow up with the classic MI. I watched the original series of the late ‘60s and early’70s, as well as the 1988 revival (which also starred Peter Graves). I went to see the first MI movie and was appalled and disgusted that it turned Phelps into a traitor. I turned my back on the film series, and I have never seen any of them except the first.
Many of the reviews at the time criticised the plot as being too complex for the audience to follow. I think that says more about the critics than the plot. And pretty sure that most of the audience understood the plot perfectly well.
I first watched this movie a couple years ago, and I admit to being quite confused at the Ethan/Max part of the plot. “So he’s pretending to have what Max wants so he can arrest/kill Max? Oh, now he’s helping her? Is he really on her side or still trying to set her up? Maybe hoping she’ll lead him to…something?” There was at least one other thing, maybe about Claire, that I didn’t get the first time. I don’t know, maybe if I watch it again after listening to Dave’s summary again it’ll make more sense. I do still remember absolutely loving the conversation between Ethan and Phelps (Jon Voigt) where Ethan figures out his lies in real time, and the whole scene at Langley might be the best scene in the franchise.
M:I is my favorite one. I used to watch it as a kid just over and over again because I didn't fully understand it and I felt it was good enough for me to keep rewatching, trying to figure out exactly what was going on. I think the helicopter in the tunnel sequence works because of how grounded everything else is. It doesn't feel too out of place to me because the bad guy DID NOT want that to happen, and Ethan DID NOT want the bad guy to actually survive that for so long. It felt less like superheroes in an action film taking crazy risks and more like, Oh shit, I can't believe this is happening, how the fuck am I gonna get out of this one, from everyone's perspective.
I hated it. They destroyed the entire concept in that movie. The literally killed off the entire "team" and then it was just a solo action film with Cruise and... it wasn't Mission Impossible and it bastardized the entire franchise in my opinion.
@@OnideusMadHatterWhile I do enjoy this film for it's atmosphere and mood. I also totally agree with you too. I'd be like killing off the whole A-TEAM and leaving Murdock to do the whole mission! It was such waste to tear down Jim also, especially as the old fans would likely hate that and the new fans might not even know who Jim was!
Remember when going to the cinema theater was awesome and exciting? I do, with this movie among the ones that get you feeling 🤘🤘🤘🤘💯⚡⚡⚡ Pd. Spoilers ahead if you still haven't seen this beauty. Then you come back to Dave!
@OnideusMadHatter As a fan of the original series (and a lukewarm watcher of the renewed late 80's show) I felt just as you when I first saw the movie in the theater, but just like Dave said...I've learned to watch it outside of the show, and other than the 2nd movie(which is just as different from the 1st one, as it is from the rest...and not in a good way), I've quite enjoyed the series of movies. Props to Tom Cruise, despite the 1st movie, he is the only professional in Hollywood.
I loved the first movie. I wasn't born when the TV show was airing and never saw it, so I had no other context. When I saw the second movie. I thought it so bad I never watched another MI film after that.
The original series had a noire aspect to it. It wasn't about beating up or even trying to catch the bad guys. They were long cons where they'd trick the bad guys into destroying themselves.
I think they should have just made Tom Cruise the Jim Phelps character. Then it shows he’s a badass and is essentially his origin. That way it doesn’t offend the original fans and it doesn’t really affect anything for the new audiences.
The first one was the closest to the spirit of the original show. Felt more like an espionage thriller. After M:I 2 it became an action franchise entirely with each installment trying to top the previous one in terms of action and stunts. Feels more like Fast & The Furious, Transformers, John Wick etc now. Not that they are bad movies, but they lost something essential along the way.
I always loved the first one. I used to watch it over and over anytime it was on. Also, in defense of the email name. If I remember, he sent the same email to hundreds of similar email addresses, so it wasn't that he just guessed the right one (or maybe you were just joking about the address itself). It shows the practical nature of it and how he couldn't just automate the process back then and literally had to type in all those different email addresses. It's also why he fell asleep at the table and Jim's wife was able to partly sneak up on him (though he broke the light bulb to give him a heads up, which was a neat thing to show back then). Funny how I haven't seen the movie in years, but it was such a good movie that I wanted to watch it a bunch of times and remember it probably over a decade (or 2) later since the last time I watched it.
I forgot how much i loved this movie until i watched it earlier this week. I think it's why I'm not a huge fan of the franchise now. I really like the tone which the more modern movies don't have.
Fun fact, Rolf Saxon (the computer guy in the high security room where tom cruise repels down) is the voice actor for George Stobbart in the Broken Sword point and click video game series.
The first one is and will always be my favorite MI film. I enjoy the whole franchise, but you pretty much explained why the first one is so great. I think it’s cool that the sequels started focusing on cool death defying stunts, but the first one is a gritty serious spy movie that requires you to play attention and to think. Plus the stealing the list while hanging from wires is my favorite scene of the franchise.
My favorite parts were the scooby doo 'esque analyzing of the intro party scene where Ethen figures out another team was there and what happened. I wish the follow up movies were this mysterious and noir'ish.
This was one of the first proper grownup films my sister and saw at the cinema. We both loved it and I do think it holds up very well. I really didn't like the second film and haven't kept up them since. I do miss 90's psychological thrillers like this.
I also watched MI last night - and agree totally with your review. Think the end scene would have been a tad more fitting if we'd seen Phelps in an action scene earlier in the film.
It’s hated? It’s in my top favorites! This is when Ethan and Luther become best bros! And moreso that scene stealing the noc list is the best. And when he fakes out the giy with the floppy disks lol xD
I've never seen any of the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE movies except the 1st one. Everybody I've spoken with about the series say that they're great movies and I do believe them. But I was also a critic of Jim Phelps being made the bad guy in MI, and is the entire reason why I never bothered to watch any of the subsequent MI films. There's only one way that I'll ever go back and watch the MI series...... and that way being, only if Ethan Hunt is also made to be the villain at the end of MI:DR Part 2 in the same way previous/former hero Jim Phelps was in the 1st MI movie.
Yeah, but if you weren't a fan of the TV show, and had no knowledge of the character's 'tv history', then I think it works fine. I think I'd seen a handful of the old black & white TV episodes before this movie came out, and I don't remember being at all concerned that made Phelps the villain. They probably thought it made things even BETTER for the film, since the audience would NEVER suspect the Peter Graves character to be a traitor!
@@RangerMcFriendly Well they really shouldn't be concerned either way. Cruise basically just took the theme music, mask gimmick, and general concept of there being an 'elite task force', and built a brand new action franchise around it. Other than a few names, do the movies have ANY connection to events from the TV show?
Mission Impossible 1996 is on its league of its own. The other movies are just different franchise and tone altogether. I remember as a child it was just cinema at it best. It was a Brian De Palma film as a director which explains the excellent suspense tone and magnificent directorial work. Made me go watch other of his movies. Go see Blow Out with John Travolta, another thriller gem that is hidden. Regardless, In MI the scenes, camera shots, the cuts, and the script, they all were just professional. Today its like a breath of fresh air, watching characters acting not as adolescence and having a story that draws you and a direction that actually make you watch in suspense in the movie theater. Proof that good writing and just professional shooting and directing you dont need over the top action scenes. The train scene in the end does feel out of context, partly because it was force on the director by the studios from what I remember. Brian de Palma in an interview said he battled with the studios much and was part of his decision to leave Hollywood. The action in the train could have be cut down with only a chaise scene inside the train and the movie would have been even better. I miss those kind of movies. Suspense professional thrillers.
Train sequence when Ethan hooks the chopper to the train, turns and Yells AHHHHHH at Krieger with the Danny Elfman music score ramping up.. Was my best moment in the picture..
The first one is my favorite as well for the reasons you explained. We don't have anymore realistic spy or dramatic thrillers. Most everything is so over the top and unrealistic.
MI has become a stunt show. It all looks great, but the stunts are apparently more important then any story and that hurts it's origins. That's why the first one remains the best.
I dare you to watch the original 1960's series @davecullen . It has very little action and is very character driven like most older stuff. Also the 90s version, a reimagination, is also actually a good reimagination even thou it lacks the stronger performance of the 60's show.
Yes, making Phelps a traitor was a big turnoff for me. You do have to forget the TV Show to enjoy the film. Kittridge is a slime who appears throughout the series.
Aa someone who grew up on the television series, I was indeed appalled by the decision to so that to the great Jim Phelps. I think the alternative you propose Dave is an excellent one. Alas, their mistake cannot be undone now. My big knock against this film is that it is basically the Ethan Hunt Show. Like many fans, I will just skip past the 2nd film. Where things get on the right track for the franchise is from the 3rd movie onwards. Each of those films, 3 through 7 Part One, get closer to what made the original television show great: it is about teamwork and that the audience benefits if it pays attention to the details being shown onscreen and, to a lesser extent, what is said in dialogue.
All three of the first films are very distinct from one another, finally settling in on the tone of the third film going forward. I’m grateful I had no memory of the TV series going in. Otherwise I may not have liked this very well-made film like existing fans didn’t.
This one was a classcial suspense spy thriller without much Hollywood action, that the sequel overdid the action sequences and forgot about the story. Who can also not forget Vanessa Redgrave's performance, so much effortless charm.
I loved the original show, whether with Graves or Nimoy, and finding out that Phelps was a traitor in the first movie kept me from ever wanting to see it. Especially because it seemed like they were doing that just to give them an excuse to insert young Tom Cruise.
@@ahabduennschitz7670 Guess I should have watched it first, huh? Normally I watch all of Cullen's videos, but I despise MI so much I thought I'd do a drive by. Now I HAVE to watch the video...
M.I. #1 was available to me to stream last year and I must have rewatched it two or three more times - amazing how it still holds up after more than a quarter-century later!
I still love the first MI movie mostly for the East-European 90s vibe that "Golden Eye" and "The Saint" had as well. And then there's the 90s Hollywood "hacking" clichés and it also has a simply hypnotizing and mesmerizing Cinematography. Brian DePalma really gave this movie series a fantastic start when the Story should have been an absolute recipe for disaster. This movie should not work so well and yet it does. The TVG scene towards the End to me is STILL the most perfect actionscene in any actionmovie ever because you REALLY had a feeling for the speed. Something that i simply do not have anymore in todays CGI-Galore that always looks uncanny and immersion-breaking. However in "Mission Impossible" this scene really is the perfect finale as it has so many different speeds and really goes highspeed in the films climax where every camera angle works.
First of all, I’m going to clarify this I am a big mission. Impossible fan not of the movies but the TV series just so you know where I’m coming from. And just so you know when a movie makes me angry or I don’t like it because it just doesn’t feel right to me. It makes me physically sick I mean literally physically sick I can count on my hand the number of times I went to a movie and it just made me violently sick like four the first mission impossible is amongst them. I didn’t have a fever. I wasn’t sick already when I went to see this film but it just upset me so much That it made me violently ill. The reason that I detest the first mission impossible movie is because of the slap in the face to die hard mission impossible TV show fans you do not take a character like Jim Phelps, and turn him into a bad guy it’s not done it’s rude it’s evil and that’s what they did and I forever will never watch the first Mission impossible. No, I have subsequently come around to the other Mission impossible‘s, they’re not bad they’re not exactly good in my opinion but not bad either. They’re somewhere in the middle so that’s my my thing is there’s nothing that you will ever get me to say I want to sit down with an object of mind to the first mission impossible movie because I don’t like getting violently ill.
Completely agree, I've not watched all the M:I films but theres something so watchable and great about the original film! I prefer the setup like the old tv shows rather than just high action big spectacle the later films did
Bravo, good Sir. I have also always greatly enjoyed the '90s nostalgia of the Cranberries pub scene. ❤️ I've greatly enjoyed the film since I saw it at 12 years old in the cinema in '96.
I didn't like it as well as I wanted to. I was a kid when I watched an awful lot of the TV reruns, so Phelps was one of the good guys who's loyalty had already been tested. He had been able to fake disloyalty and then proved it was an act. So making him actually disloyal was a bad story move for this fan. Decades later I can enjoy the other aspects, but I have to pretend Phelps is someone else.
The first MI is the best because it most closely follows the formula of the TV series (which I *_highly recommend._* ) MI was never meant to be an action-packed thrill ride. As the name suggests, the IMF was an unofficial group employed by the US government to carry out covert operations in foreign nations. Unlike conventional missions that might involve straightforward assassination, the missions assigned to the IMF were usually deemed "impossible" because key personnel such as military leaders or government officials would have to be replaced or removed without disrupting the political stability of the region or anyone being aware of their involvement. From the mark's perspective, their downfall would seem to be the result of just misfortune. The nature of the IMF literally meant that explosive action is undesirable, as it attracts a ton of attention. As many have said, the biggest gripe with the original MI film is what they did with the character of Phelps. I've seen MI2, but it had become so detached from the MI format that I haven't bothered to see any of the others. Another thing that the film got wrong though: the IMF was not a organization with "superiors" like the FBI or CIA. In the series, Jim Phelps is the only official member of the IMF --- the other members of the team in a given episode were selected from a dossier by Phelps, depending on which skills he felt would be needed for the mission. All of the other original characters were full-time regular folks (Barney owned an electronics company, Cinnamon was a model, Roland was an actor, etc) with regular jobs -- they did IMF work on the side. Mission briefings were always given to Phelps from the government, not IMF superiors.
I used to watch the old series, and I really enjoyed the first film as it was very much in a similar style to the series. I personally had no problem with them making the hero of the old series into the villain of the new film, I think it was done very well. while I have watched and enjoyed the other films, to me then tend to blur and blend together to the point I can never remember which is which, but the first is always a distinct and memorable film
I love Dreams too. I feel it was overshadowed by Linger and Zombie, but it's my favourite Cranberries song. It's a shame about Dolores. Remember folks, don't drink and bathe.
Thanks for this. I am a big fan of the original movie. I watched it recently when my teenage boys and I watched all the movies to get ready for the new one. Still a great movie
Note the first few films don't have feminist 7 stone kick ass women, then toxic woke shite took over, so you aren't allowed to have a MI movie without one
@JohnSmith-bu3fw ehm compared to all the other wokeshit Hollyweird movies, including the last James Bond I heavily disagree that MI movies have woke crap in them. 2 highly trained women can easily still kickass yet not be unstoppable like in other hollyweird movies. Heck just look at Grace, she's a thief and nothing else. Once shit hits the fan, she is completely out of her league. Now go watch for The Predator and see Olivia Muns "scientist" who becomes a female Rambo the moment the predator escapes. That's woke shit.
I loved it. Revisited the film a week or so ago and it's aged well. I remember they dumbed things down beyond recognition in 2, so I often recommend skipping that one when speaking with folks who have yet to watch the films
I've had to miss school because my cramps left me on the floor, looking for what I call "the less pain signal". It's where you move your body every kind of way til you find a pose where it hurts the least.
When Ethan has his moment putting everything together, I've always wondered if he, originally, believed that Jim was the potential traitor there, but one that was double crossed there and a loose end that was silenced rather than the mastermind of the idea there.
Before I watch this in it’s entirety I have to say credit to you for watching them all at least you are now able to give a fair overview of the movie series now
It is the only Mission Impossible film I saw and from what I saw in subsequent instalments, I knew this one was quite unique. This was well before I got acquainted with a long and rich cinema history (i.e. Brian de Palma's ongoing love and affinity for Alfred Hitchcock). Some other 1990s gems: Larry Mullen Jr and Adam Clayton - yes, you know who they are - did their own performance of the famous Lalo Schrifin theme for the end credits. The Irish must really love M:I =] I can understand why making Phelps the villain would be off-putting. However, I think it is unfair to equate what was done back then to what is happening now. There was a motivation given for the change and - to use something from future - I guess Phelps never had the chance to "die a hero". But again, this is the only M:I thing I saw at all as I certainly wasn't around when the 1960s TV programme aired and I was way too young to see the 1980s continuation. This may change my view perhaps.
the first one for me is the best of the series. you can clearly remember eveything that was going on, and the plot and villain were genius. 2 was crap already. 3 was so so, from 4th onward i forgot what they were all about, with their comic book villains, shit plot and stupid setpieces. Also agree with Dave, here Ethan hunt is an agent with great capabilities but still a human being nonetheless, with weakness and fears, while in subsequent movies he's like a superhero who fears nothign and can do anything
Couldn't agree more with your assessment and I think your explanation of why is exactly right. Mission: Impossible is still my favourite of the franchise.
If you've never seen it, the Mission Impossible levels in Lego Dimensions are absolutely perfect. Tom Cruise couldn't do his own voices for the game due to a scheduling conflict, but he did allow them to use all his dialogue from the original movie. It is hilariously goofy, such as Ethan's briefing starting with a brief scene of Ethan Hunt playing shirtless beach volleyball with... a goose. They include the ENTIRE movie in the game, fully playable, and it's completely authentic. I'm sure there's a version of it on TH-cam somewhere, and if you're a fan, it's worth your time. Ethan Hunt's character pack comes with his Lego minifig, his motorcycle, and his car, and if you play the game, Ethan is one of the best figures in the game, with a ton of abilities, like stealth and silver block destruction. Give it a look.
The first film is good… except for the thing they do to the Jim Phelps character. It’s very disappointing. There was NO NEED to do that to the Phelps character. It would have been better to created a new character. This angered the cast and Peter Graves himself. Peter Graves could have turned up as a retired Phelps much later in the film to help Hunt briefly while he’s on the run. There could have been a small scene with Phelps says that he knew Hunt was innocent because he’d helped train Hunt years earlier and knew his character. Subsequent films could have defeated small cameos with Leonard Nimoy and Martin Landau as their respective characters from the series. I was a casual fan of the series. I watched episodes here and there. I didn’t pay much attention to the Phelps turn in the film. However, over the years it has bothered me more and more as time has gone on.
I was a big fan of the original series and the first movie had so many of the elements the series had. I was very disappointed they "subverted expectations" with Jim Phelps but really enjoyed the movie. The following movies are very good blockbuster, action movies, but really have none of the character of the series, so I enjoy them for what they are.
Your smartphone could “out-tech” those 1990s laptops. 😆 I never even noticed how inaccurate those email addresses were, even with later viewings of this great movie.
This was a memorable thrill to watch in the cinema. It was so cool. Watched it on laserdisc some months ago for the first time since '96, and man was it still a thrill!
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Apologies, for the mistake at the end 11:28. I meant to say Ethan and not Jim lol 😆
all the more reason i enjoy your videos more. those little gaffes make your opinions authentic by making us feel like the ideas and concepts are more important
Hi Dave 👋
I miss Delores too. The Cranberries were my first concert.
My entire view of the film franchise would have been changed if they made this simple alteration.
That was a minor error which happens to us all man lol. However @)0:25 how can you say that they are not really believable man... Cruise does his own freakin stunts! It is literally happening! lol, I mean I don't know how is to break it to you that you may have this one wrong man. Also, at the end you mention the tone of humor and banter changes... maybe I'll have to watch them all again but the only thing I've noticed is that its a bit more cheesy in the later films (probably Simon Pegg's fault). And in the new one, you really think AI isn't capable of this? What made the newest movie so good and frankly frightening for me is that this might actually happen... the new one is so frightening in it's believability that I had to see it a second time; probably going back for a 3rd. Can't wait for part 2 but by the time it comes out real AI might already have control of the world LMAO!
Completely agree. The rewatchability of the first film is so much greater than all the other films. (Although I really liked Ghost Protocol).
I think the only one that will have long term rewatchability problems for me is this new one. I’ve seen it twice and I like it, but it’s far less engaging for me than all its predecessors.
I always liked the part where Ethan looks at Phelpes right in the eyes and asks '"Why, Jim?"
It's a brilliant gotcha moment
Its brilliant, probably because you can tell it's definitely a Brian De Palma film and he knows how to direct a suspenseful set piece.. he is the modern Hitchcock
He’s very underrated.
Little correction: Ethan wasn't randomly guessing what Max' e-mail adress is. He searched for "Book of Job" on the "internet" and found a lot of forums. In the montage that follows he was PMing Max in every "book of Job" forum he found in hope one of them was the correct one. Hence why it says "MESSAGE" on screen and not "E-MAIL".
I love the first one. But I’m also a big Brian DePalma fan. The first Mission Impossible movie and Goldeneye were like the perfect 90s spy double feature
Brian de Palma is a brilliant director
this, never liked any of the sequels to be honest. maybe the third one was sort of good but the rest i even forgot what the main plot was all about
@@DomH75 there are DePalma movies that I’ve avoided because I don’t want to be reminded of how good he was. I’d rather watch snake eyes than passion or the black dahlia. I watched mission to mars once and it was god awful.
@@DomH75 The Black Dahlia is so up his alley. WTF happened?
@@DomH75 i think carlitos way is my personal favourite but Blow out his far his cleverest
The first MI was the best but I too didn't like what they did with Phelps. I applaud Peter Graves for turning down the role and wish that Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill had done the same for the last SW trilogy.
Harrison Ford turned out as a greedy pathetic traitor to his characters.
That is a very good assessment. I loved MI but wholeheartedly agree w Phelps treatment not being good.
@@dermagnus8482 He never liked Han Solo but Indiana Jones is a different story.
I was so disgusted with how Jim Phelps was the villain that I refused to watch any subsequent movies in the franchise.
I too respect Peter Graves for turning the film down on principle. It's sad about Hamill and Ford. However, they're just actors. We love the characters they portray, not the actors themselves (at least that's how I see it). Ford made 20 million I heard for being in KK's Indy dumpster fire.... Hard to argue with that money. Solo and Jones were my favorite characters, so yeah, I'm pretty furious with Disney right now lol
The first one was a good spy thriller
Nah, it was a good Documentary. 🤦
Ofc it was a good spy thriller
Not really
@@deadschooled Yes really
@ahabduennschitz7670 there's always one prick with a smart arse response
I didnt know about the Peter Graves turn down. And i agree with his decesion. Jim Phelps was a total squeaky clean character. He would never betray the IMF.😮😮😮
The biggest thing they did wrong was alienating the OG fans by casting Jim Phelps as the bad guy. They created the hollywood blueprint for destroying the OG characters in order to build up their own.
The only difference between this and more modern bad reboots is that the primary property was old enough that not a ton of new fans remembered it well, so there was less outrage. And they actually still followed good storytelling principles in the movies (rather than taking the approach of Disney Star Wars, for example).
I still haven't forgiven them for their treatment of Jim Phelps. Obviously.
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Yes. I hated that. Jim was the most solid guy in the original.
Pulling a Jake Skywalker before Disney owned Lucasfilm.
Excellent point tbf
It was a cheap trick.
I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and just being confused as hell regarding the plot. However, the infiltration scene is still one of the most memorable ones in all the films to date.
I was in high school and I was like confused like you while watching the film. As I got older and re-watched it a few more times. Being older and understanding what was happening I was like whoa!
The thing that made it click was understanding… the flashbacks were not flashbacks.
They were Ethan piecing the pieces of what happened together.
That scene in the train station where Phelps catches up with Ethan is where Ethan pieces it together that Phelps is the traitor… and lies to Phelps, seemingly believing Phelps story, but in reality he’s playing Phelps.
The first Mission Impossible film is one of my favourite Tom Cruise films.
Ghost Protocol being my favorite since it was the one that felt most like a team effort and the 1-2 punch highlight of Rogue Nation and Fallout together are fantastic in my book, but I still also have quite the fondness for the first film, since I really like how De Palma did not feel stiffled in this more commercial piece and his trademarks are all over the film. Not to mention the vibes of this film is straight up "Three Days of The Condor", which I also very much appreciate.
Defintely had those Condor vibes, especially when the team gets eliminated in the beginning
@@nashf5925 Not to mention going into a phone booth and relaying this information to a man in a wheelchair.
The first film pissed off fans of the TV show because of how they treated Mr. Phelps.
They could totally win me back if they just introduced the plot point that it wasn't the real Jim Phelps.
Their changing the main character from the tv series is exactly like what's happened to all the other great IPs, from Dr Who to Star Trek and Star War. It's "we own the rights we can do whatever the heck we want with the IP. The fans be damned."
Agree. The paranoia and mystery provide the first movie a tension that has not been found in later installments. That said, the almost noir palate in Prague in the first movie seemed to inspire the Venice sequence in M:I-7. In fact, my first takeaway from watching M:I-7 was that the film was in some ways a return to the first movie. The return of Kitteridge, Ethan running around Venice in attempt to save his team members mirrored his running around Prague to warn his team, the tilted camera close ups, and a train sequence as a finale. Yes, M:I-7 is a return to the first one in tone while bringing the action sequences and some of the humor from the later installments to inject some excitement. And ironically, the subverting of the Jim Phelps character has had a similar impact to the reactions as the killing off of one of the team.
I love the song when Ethan is playing through what happened in his mind. My favorite scene in the whole movie is when the car explodes then Claire slowly turns and looks at the camera. The music right there and the revelation of her part, still gives me chills.
Basically a great series of movies, but as a kid watching MI on tv, that crime against Jim Phelps was intolerable! The fact that they offered Peter Graves a chance to take part in his signature character's destruction was on the level of the book that had Sherlock Holmes turn out to be Jack the Ripper.
If Tom could go back in time he would attempt to do the super train scene for real.
I DID grow up with the classic MI. I watched the original series of the late ‘60s and early’70s, as well as the 1988 revival (which also starred Peter Graves). I went to see the first MI movie and was appalled and disgusted that it turned Phelps into a traitor. I turned my back on the film series, and I have never seen any of them except the first.
Many of the reviews at the time criticised the plot as being too complex for the audience to follow.
I think that says more about the critics than the plot. And pretty sure that most of the audience understood the plot perfectly well.
I first watched this movie a couple years ago, and I admit to being quite confused at the Ethan/Max part of the plot. “So he’s pretending to have what Max wants so he can arrest/kill Max? Oh, now he’s helping her? Is he really on her side or still trying to set her up? Maybe hoping she’ll lead him to…something?” There was at least one other thing, maybe about Claire, that I didn’t get the first time. I don’t know, maybe if I watch it again after listening to Dave’s summary again it’ll make more sense.
I do still remember absolutely loving the conversation between Ethan and Phelps (Jon Voigt) where Ethan figures out his lies in real time, and the whole scene at Langley might be the best scene in the franchise.
It wasn’t the plot that was confusing so much as the way it was presented. I’ll admire to not fully grasping it upon my first viewing.
M:I is my favorite one. I used to watch it as a kid just over and over again because I didn't fully understand it and I felt it was good enough for me to keep rewatching, trying to figure out exactly what was going on. I think the helicopter in the tunnel sequence works because of how grounded everything else is. It doesn't feel too out of place to me because the bad guy DID NOT want that to happen, and Ethan DID NOT want the bad guy to actually survive that for so long. It felt less like superheroes in an action film taking crazy risks and more like, Oh shit, I can't believe this is happening, how the fuck am I gonna get out of this one, from everyone's perspective.
Bingo!
I hated it. They destroyed the entire concept in that movie. The literally killed off the entire "team" and then it was just a solo action film with Cruise and... it wasn't Mission Impossible and it bastardized the entire franchise in my opinion.
@@OnideusMadHatterWhile I do enjoy this film for it's atmosphere and mood. I also totally agree with you too. I'd be like killing off the whole A-TEAM and leaving Murdock to do the whole mission! It was such waste to tear down Jim also, especially as the old fans would likely hate that and the new fans might not even know who Jim was!
Remember when going to the cinema theater was awesome and exciting? I do, with this movie among the ones that get you feeling 🤘🤘🤘🤘💯⚡⚡⚡
Pd. Spoilers ahead if you still haven't seen this beauty. Then you come back to Dave!
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As a fan of the original series (and a lukewarm watcher of the renewed late 80's show) I felt just as you when I first saw the movie in the theater, but just like Dave said...I've learned to watch it outside of the show, and other than the 2nd movie(which is just as different from the 1st one, as it is from the rest...and not in a good way), I've quite enjoyed the series of movies.
Props to Tom Cruise, despite the 1st movie, he is the only professional in Hollywood.
The first movie also has Kristin Scott Thomas in it. That automatically makes it 4 stars minimum.
I loved the first movie. I wasn't born when the TV show was airing and never saw it, so I had no other context.
When I saw the second movie. I thought it so bad I never watched another MI film after that.
I always thought it sounded like it would be corny, but it ended up kicking ass when I finally saw it.
The original series had a noire aspect to it. It wasn't about beating up or even trying to catch the bad guys. They were long cons where they'd trick the bad guys into destroying themselves.
They did the character Jim Phelps wrong. They did actor Emilio Estevez wrong. The movie is very well done.
Loved the first MI. Hard to believe it was made in the 90's. As Dave just said, better days folks.
I think they should have just made Tom Cruise the Jim Phelps character. Then it shows he’s a badass and is essentially his origin. That way it doesn’t offend the original fans and it doesn’t really affect anything for the new audiences.
Dave thank you I love mission impossible 1 ! 3 4 5 6 7 were good! One was more of a Hitchcock thriller !
The first one was the closest to the spirit of the original show. Felt more like an espionage thriller. After M:I 2 it became an action franchise entirely with each installment trying to top the previous one in terms of action and stunts. Feels more like Fast & The Furious, Transformers, John Wick etc now. Not that they are bad movies, but they lost something essential along the way.
I always loved the first one. I used to watch it over and over anytime it was on. Also, in defense of the email name. If I remember, he sent the same email to hundreds of similar email addresses, so it wasn't that he just guessed the right one (or maybe you were just joking about the address itself). It shows the practical nature of it and how he couldn't just automate the process back then and literally had to type in all those different email addresses. It's also why he fell asleep at the table and Jim's wife was able to partly sneak up on him (though he broke the light bulb to give him a heads up, which was a neat thing to show back then). Funny how I haven't seen the movie in years, but it was such a good movie that I wanted to watch it a bunch of times and remember it probably over a decade (or 2) later since the last time I watched it.
Yeah he sends loads of emails and in tones of different languages too, not just English. I remember him typing out one in German.
I forgot how much i loved this movie until i watched it earlier this week. I think it's why I'm not a huge fan of the franchise now. I really like the tone which the more modern movies don't have.
Fun fact, Rolf Saxon (the computer guy in the high security room where tom cruise repels down) is the voice actor for George Stobbart in the Broken Sword point and click video game series.
The first one is and will always be my favorite MI film. I enjoy the whole franchise, but you pretty much explained why the first one is so great. I think it’s cool that the sequels started focusing on cool death defying stunts, but the first one is a gritty serious spy movie that requires you to play attention and to think. Plus the stealing the list while hanging from wires is my favorite scene of the franchise.
Still amazing, and also best release of tension scene ever, when, at the end, the train conductor faints.
The sheer intelligence of the Mission:Impossible TV series beats any of the movies, though the movies obviously look better because of larger budgets.
My favorite parts were the scooby doo 'esque analyzing of the intro party scene where Ethen figures out another team was there and what happened. I wish the follow up movies were this mysterious and noir'ish.
This was one of the first proper grownup films my sister and saw at the cinema. We both loved it and I do think it holds up very well. I really didn't like the second film and haven't kept up them since. I do miss 90's psychological thrillers like this.
I also watched MI last night - and agree totally with your review. Think the end scene would have been a tad more fitting if we'd seen Phelps in an action scene earlier in the film.
Thanks for a well presented trip down memory Lane. I miss the 1990s. Life made a lot more sense back then.
It’s hated? It’s in my top favorites! This is when Ethan and Luther become best bros! And moreso that scene stealing the noc list is the best. And when he fakes out the giy with the floppy disks lol xD
I've never seen any of the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE movies except the 1st one.
Everybody I've spoken with about the series say that they're great movies and I do believe them.
But I was also a critic of Jim Phelps being made the bad guy in MI,
and is the entire reason why I never bothered to watch any of the subsequent MI films.
There's only one way that I'll ever go back and watch the MI series......
and that way being, only if Ethan Hunt is also made to be the villain at the end of MI:DR Part 2
in the same way previous/former hero Jim Phelps was in the 1st MI movie.
Excellent movie. I HATED how they made Jim Phelps the villain. They did him dirty
Peter Graves and the other original actors HATE this film too.
Yeah, but if you weren't a fan of the TV show, and had no knowledge of the character's 'tv history', then I think it works fine. I think I'd seen a handful of the old black & white TV episodes before this movie came out, and I don't remember being at all concerned that made Phelps the villain. They probably thought it made things even BETTER for the film, since the audience would NEVER suspect the Peter Graves character to be a traitor!
@@RangerMcFriendly Well they really shouldn't be concerned either way. Cruise basically just took the theme music, mask gimmick, and general concept of there being an 'elite task force', and built a brand new action franchise around it.
Other than a few names, do the movies have ANY connection to events from the TV show?
I absolutely loved the first one. The second one was one of my first ever cinema going disappointments. Absolutely hated it.
I saw this movie as a kid with my dad, and now I'm 39 and a father myself. Tom Cruise looks the same. The guy's a vampire.
Mission Impossible 1996 is on its league of its own. The other movies are just different franchise and tone altogether.
I remember as a child it was just cinema at it best. It was a Brian De Palma film as a director which explains the excellent suspense tone and magnificent directorial work. Made me go watch other of his movies. Go see Blow Out with John Travolta, another thriller gem that is hidden.
Regardless, In MI the scenes, camera shots, the cuts, and the script, they all were just professional. Today its like a breath of fresh air, watching characters acting not as adolescence and having a story that draws you and a direction that actually make you watch in suspense in the movie theater. Proof that good writing and just professional shooting and directing you dont need over the top action scenes.
The train scene in the end does feel out of context, partly because it was force on the director by the studios from what I remember. Brian de Palma in an interview said he battled with the studios much and was part of his decision to leave Hollywood. The action in the train could have be cut down with only a chaise scene inside the train and the movie would have been even better.
I miss those kind of movies. Suspense professional thrillers.
Train sequence when Ethan hooks the chopper to the train, turns and Yells AHHHHHH at Krieger with the Danny Elfman music score ramping up.. Was my best moment in the picture..
The first one is my favorite as well for the reasons you explained. We don't have anymore realistic spy or dramatic thrillers. Most everything is so over the top and unrealistic.
MI has become a stunt show. It all looks great, but the stunts are apparently more important then any story and that hurts it's origins. That's why the first one remains the best.
I dare you to watch the original 1960's series @davecullen .
It has very little action and is very character driven like most older stuff.
Also the 90s version, a reimagination, is also actually a good reimagination even thou it lacks the stronger performance of the 60's show.
Yes, making Phelps a traitor was a big turnoff for me. You do have to forget the TV Show to enjoy the film. Kittridge is a slime who appears throughout the series.
Aa someone who grew up on the television series, I was indeed appalled by the decision to so that to the great Jim Phelps.
I think the alternative you propose Dave is an excellent one. Alas, their mistake cannot be undone now.
My big knock against this film is that it is basically the Ethan Hunt Show.
Like many fans, I will just skip past the 2nd film. Where things get on the right track for the franchise is from the 3rd movie onwards.
Each of those films, 3 through 7 Part One, get closer to what made the original television show great: it is about teamwork and that the audience benefits if it pays attention to the details being shown onscreen and, to a lesser extent, what is said in dialogue.
Agreed. First movie was a real film. Most of the rest are enjoyable popcorn romps.
Brian DePalma is a class director. MI 1 demonstrates his strengths (I refer you to ‘The Untouchables’)
Great movies both.
All three of the first films are very distinct from one another, finally settling in on the tone of the third film going forward.
I’m grateful I had no memory of the TV series going in. Otherwise I may not have liked this very well-made film like existing fans didn’t.
This one was a classcial suspense spy thriller without much Hollywood action, that the sequel overdid the action sequences and forgot about the story. Who can also not forget Vanessa Redgrave's performance, so much effortless charm.
I loved the original show, whether with Graves or Nimoy, and finding out that Phelps was a traitor in the first movie kept me from ever wanting to see it. Especially because it seemed like they were doing that just to give them an excuse to insert young Tom Cruise.
Your channel is great.
Will never see it because jim Phelps is not a bad guy. Found that out before it hit the screens back in the day and I still feel the same.
I hated the first MI film because Jim Phelps was the traitor. That would be like doing a Star Trek movie and having James T Kirk be the bad guy.
Love the movie as a separate series, but I think Dave hit the nail on the head as Jim Phelps being in the role of Kittridge.
You... just repeated 1:1 what was said in the Video.
Wtf
@@ahabduennschitz7670 Guess I should have watched it first, huh? Normally I watch all of Cullen's videos, but I despise MI so much I thought I'd do a drive by. Now I HAVE to watch the video...
@@captaincat4361 Honestly, I think it would have been better if Cruise played a younger Phelps.
M.I. #1 was available to me to stream last year and I must have rewatched it two or three more times - amazing how it still holds up after more than a quarter-century later!
“ red light, green light !” Love that scene
I still love the first MI movie mostly for the East-European 90s vibe that "Golden Eye" and "The Saint" had as well. And then there's the 90s Hollywood "hacking" clichés and it also has a simply hypnotizing and mesmerizing Cinematography. Brian DePalma really gave this movie series a fantastic start when the Story should have been an absolute recipe for disaster. This movie should not work so well and yet it does. The TVG scene towards the End to me is STILL the most perfect actionscene in any actionmovie ever because you REALLY had a feeling for the speed. Something that i simply do not have anymore in todays CGI-Galore that always looks uncanny and immersion-breaking. However in "Mission Impossible" this scene really is the perfect finale as it has so many different speeds and really goes highspeed in the films climax where every camera angle works.
First of all, I’m going to clarify this I am a big mission. Impossible fan not of the movies but the TV series just so you know where I’m coming from. And just so you know when a movie makes me angry or I don’t like it because it just doesn’t feel right to me. It makes me physically sick I mean literally physically sick I can count on my hand the number of times I went to a movie and it just made me violently sick like four the first mission impossible is amongst them. I didn’t have a fever. I wasn’t sick already when I went to see this film but it just upset me so much That it made me violently ill. The reason that I detest the first mission impossible movie is because of the slap in the face to die hard mission impossible TV show fans you do not take a character like Jim Phelps, and turn him into a bad guy it’s not done it’s rude it’s evil and that’s what they did and I forever will never watch the first Mission impossible. No, I have subsequently come around to the other Mission impossible‘s, they’re not bad they’re not exactly good in my opinion but not bad either. They’re somewhere in the middle so that’s my my thing is there’s nothing that you will ever get me to say I want to sit down with an object of mind to the first mission impossible movie because I don’t like getting violently ill.
I am still waiting for a Mission: Impossible movie in which the IMF team shows the competence to get in and put without being totally compromised.
Completely agree, I've not watched all the M:I films but theres something so watchable and great about the original film! I prefer the setup like the old tv shows rather than just high action big spectacle the later films did
Bravo, good Sir. I have also always greatly enjoyed the '90s nostalgia of the Cranberries pub scene. ❤️
I've greatly enjoyed the film since I saw it at 12 years old in the cinema in '96.
I didn't like it as well as I wanted to.
I was a kid when I watched an awful lot of the TV reruns, so Phelps was one of the good guys who's loyalty had already been tested. He had been able to fake disloyalty and then proved it was an act.
So making him actually disloyal was a bad story move for this fan.
Decades later I can enjoy the other aspects, but I have to pretend Phelps is someone else.
I remember reading the book when I was in the 8th grade. It’s what got me into spy novels. I still rewatch this movie, it’s a classic!
The first MI is the best because it most closely follows the formula of the TV series (which I *_highly recommend._* )
MI was never meant to be an action-packed thrill ride. As the name suggests, the IMF was an unofficial group employed by the US government to carry out covert operations in foreign nations. Unlike conventional missions that might involve straightforward assassination, the missions assigned to the IMF were usually deemed "impossible" because key personnel such as military leaders or government officials would have to be replaced or removed without disrupting the political stability of the region or anyone being aware of their involvement. From the mark's perspective, their downfall would seem to be the result of just misfortune.
The nature of the IMF literally meant that explosive action is undesirable, as it attracts a ton of attention.
As many have said, the biggest gripe with the original MI film is what they did with the character of Phelps. I've seen MI2, but it had become so detached from the MI format that I haven't bothered to see any of the others.
Another thing that the film got wrong though: the IMF was not a organization with "superiors" like the FBI or CIA. In the series, Jim Phelps is the only official member of the IMF --- the other members of the team in a given episode were selected from a dossier by Phelps, depending on which skills he felt would be needed for the mission. All of the other original characters were full-time regular folks (Barney owned an electronics company, Cinnamon was a model, Roland was an actor, etc) with regular jobs -- they did IMF work on the side.
Mission briefings were always given to Phelps from the government, not IMF superiors.
Yay! Thank you for the new vid, Dave!
I used to watch the old series, and I really enjoyed the first film as it was very much in a similar style to the series. I personally had no problem with them making the hero of the old series into the villain of the new film, I think it was done very well.
while I have watched and enjoyed the other films, to me then tend to blur and blend together to the point I can never remember which is which, but the first is always a distinct and memorable film
M:I 4, 5, and 6 blur together for me as well. Which makes sense because these were written more or less as a self-contained trilogy.
100% agree. The first one is very close to source material of the TV show.
Loved the 1st brings me back to the glory days of VHS .renting from xtra vision in 96 was such a big. Deal ..what a time
You read my mind with the comments on the final scene
I love Dreams too. I feel it was overshadowed by Linger and Zombie, but it's my favourite Cranberries song. It's a shame about Dolores. Remember folks, don't drink and bathe.
Only one I’ve ever seen, can’t believe it’s still going and it’s this popular
Great video mate! Thank you Dave. Cheers.
Thanks for this. I am a big fan of the original movie. I watched it recently when my teenage boys and I watched all the movies to get ready for the new one. Still a great movie
The first one set a strong tone for the series. Honestly enjoyed all of them.
Note the first few films don't have feminist 7 stone kick ass women, then toxic woke shite took over, so you aren't allowed to have a MI movie without one
@@JohnSmith-bu3fw yeah but you know they do make them clearly weaker enough that its still kinda believable. They aren’t mary sue unstoppable
@JohnSmith-bu3fw ehm compared to all the other wokeshit Hollyweird movies, including the last James Bond I heavily disagree that MI movies have woke crap in them. 2 highly trained women can easily still kickass yet not be unstoppable like in other hollyweird movies. Heck just look at Grace, she's a thief and nothing else. Once shit hits the fan, she is completely out of her league.
Now go watch for The Predator and see Olivia Muns "scientist" who becomes a female Rambo the moment the predator escapes. That's woke shit.
I love the whole series... well, apart from II, obviously. :p But this one is still my favourite.
It’s still the best one, imo. John Woo really did the series a disservice….
I loved it. Revisited the film a week or so ago and it's aged well. I remember they dumbed things down beyond recognition in 2, so I often recommend skipping that one when speaking with folks who have yet to watch the films
I've had to miss school because my cramps left me on the floor, looking for what I call "the less pain signal". It's where you move your body every kind of way til you find a pose where it hurts the least.
When Ethan has his moment putting everything together, I've always wondered if he, originally, believed that Jim was the potential traitor there, but one that was double crossed there and a loose end that was silenced rather than the mastermind of the idea there.
Before I watch this in it’s entirety I have to say credit to you for watching them all at least you are now able to give a fair overview of the movie series now
Its also packed with amazing actors who aren't all trying to be the star. Cruise is as always, excellent
It is the only Mission Impossible film I saw and from what I saw in subsequent instalments, I knew this one was quite unique. This was well before I got acquainted with a long and rich cinema history (i.e. Brian de Palma's ongoing love and affinity for Alfred Hitchcock).
Some other 1990s gems: Larry Mullen Jr and Adam Clayton - yes, you know who they are - did their own performance of the famous Lalo Schrifin theme for the end credits. The Irish must really love M:I =]
I can understand why making Phelps the villain would be off-putting. However, I think it is unfair to equate what was done back then to what is happening now. There was a motivation given for the change and - to use something from future - I guess Phelps never had the chance to "die a hero". But again, this is the only M:I thing I saw at all as I certainly wasn't around when the 1960s TV programme aired and I was way too young to see the 1980s continuation. This may change my view perhaps.
the first one for me is the best of the series. you can clearly remember eveything that was going on, and the plot and villain were genius. 2 was crap already. 3 was so so, from 4th onward i forgot what they were all about, with their comic book villains, shit plot and stupid setpieces.
Also agree with Dave, here Ethan hunt is an agent with great capabilities but still a human being nonetheless, with weakness and fears, while in subsequent movies he's like a superhero who fears nothign and can do anything
Remember back when Hollywood made movies? Those were the days...
Couldn't agree more with your assessment and I think your explanation of why is exactly right. Mission: Impossible is still my favourite of the franchise.
You said it Dave, better days.
If you've never seen it, the Mission Impossible levels in Lego Dimensions are absolutely perfect. Tom Cruise couldn't do his own voices for the game due to a scheduling conflict, but he did allow them to use all his dialogue from the original movie. It is hilariously goofy, such as Ethan's briefing starting with a brief scene of Ethan Hunt playing shirtless beach volleyball with... a goose. They include the ENTIRE movie in the game, fully playable, and it's completely authentic. I'm sure there's a version of it on TH-cam somewhere, and if you're a fan, it's worth your time. Ethan Hunt's character pack comes with his Lego minifig, his motorcycle, and his car, and if you play the game, Ethan is one of the best figures in the game, with a ton of abilities, like stealth and silver block destruction. Give it a look.
The first film is good… except for the thing they do to the Jim Phelps character. It’s very disappointing. There was NO NEED to do that to the Phelps character. It would have been better to created a new character. This angered the cast and Peter Graves himself. Peter Graves could have turned up as a retired Phelps much later in the film to help Hunt briefly while he’s on the run. There could have been a small scene with Phelps says that he knew Hunt was innocent because he’d helped train Hunt years earlier and knew his character. Subsequent films could have defeated small cameos with Leonard Nimoy and Martin Landau as their respective characters from the series.
I was a casual fan of the series. I watched episodes here and there. I didn’t pay much attention to the Phelps turn in the film. However, over the years it has bothered me more and more as time has gone on.
I was a big fan of the original series and the first movie had so many of the elements the series had. I was very disappointed they "subverted expectations" with Jim Phelps but really enjoyed the movie. The following movies are very good blockbuster, action movies, but really have none of the character of the series, so I enjoy them for what they are.
Loved the 80s reboot series growing up so I like most didn't like Jim being turned into the villain
Your smartphone could “out-tech” those 1990s laptops. 😆 I never even noticed how inaccurate those email addresses were, even with later viewings of this great movie.
This was a memorable thrill to watch in the cinema. It was so cool.
Watched it on laserdisc some months ago for the first time since '96, and man was it still a thrill!
Always liked the first one best. Pretty much a classic.