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The pandemic taught us that you can stay home and watch movies, and that was a terrible lesson to learn because... You know, what's better than watching a movie with a whole group? In this time at the moment when we're all at each other's throats, a movie theater is a place where you can all go and you can have a huge kind of political kind of gulf between everyone in there.
The pandemic taught us that you can stay home and watch movies, and that was a terrible lesson to learn because... You know, what's better than watching a movie with a whole group? In this time at the moment when we're all at each other's throats, a movie theater is a place where you can all go and you can have a huge kind of political kind of gulf between everyone in there.
And yet you will all experience the same emotions and you will share them. And it brings people together. You know, it's important. It does. And I will say no one here applauded.
And yet you will all experience the same emotions and you will share them. And it brings people together. You know, it's important. It does. And I will say no one here applauded.
They did not applaud.
They did not applaud.
Although I would advise you being on a toilet watching this particular Mission Impossible...
Although I would advise you being on a toilet watching this particular Mission Impossible...
Yeah, Chris McQuarrie, who's the director, did a really good job of sort of like gathering all eight movies and kind of like making this one the culmination of all of them, you know? So every choice Ethan Hunt has made through all the years leads to this. My first scene in Mission Impossible 3, which I filmed 20 years ago this year, I extol the myth of this thing called the rabbit's foot.
Yeah, Chris McQuarrie, who's the director, did a really good job of sort of like gathering all eight movies and kind of like making this one the culmination of all of them, you know? So every choice Ethan Hunt has made through all the years leads to this. My first scene in Mission Impossible 3, which I filmed 20 years ago this year, I extol the myth of this thing called the rabbit's foot.
And McHugh, you know, very artfully managed to pull all that into it, you know. And it makes the whole thing feel very contained and, you know, it feels like an end. I mean, it calls back to even the first Mission Impossible, which is pretty interesting. Yeah, that knife.
And McHugh, you know, very artfully managed to pull all that into it, you know. And it makes the whole thing feel very contained and, you know, it feels like an end. I mean, it calls back to even the first Mission Impossible, which is pretty interesting. Yeah, that knife.
Yeah, we can say that because it's in the trailer. Anything in the trailer.
Yeah, we can say that because it's in the trailer. Anything in the trailer.
These two movies, we were supposed to finish sooner, but then of course we had the pandemic and then we had the writer's strike and we were sort of, you know, we were, it was a mission impossible, if you will, to get these films made. But yeah, the eye of the storm is always the same. It's you, it's the actors, it's the camera crew, it's the sort of camera adjacent departments.
These two movies, we were supposed to finish sooner, but then of course we had the pandemic and then we had the writer's strike and we were sort of, you know, we were, it was a mission impossible, if you will, to get these films made. But yeah, the eye of the storm is always the same. It's you, it's the actors, it's the camera crew, it's the sort of camera adjacent departments.
Yeah, he's like zero gravity in between two. But he's, you know, that's him. He'll risk his life for the cinema. I won't risk my life for anything other than my daughter.
Yeah, he's like zero gravity in between two. But he's, you know, that's him. He'll risk his life for the cinema. I won't risk my life for anything other than my daughter.
I think it's because we've entered a fantastic age with digital, you know, CGI, that kind of thing. Yeah. And we can create any environment, any planet. And we see that in all sorts of movies. And it's wonderful. And it's a great tool. But there is no substitute for seeing the actor playing the part, doing the crazy stuff, because that way the character never disappears.
I think it's because we've entered a fantastic age with digital, you know, CGI, that kind of thing. Yeah. And we can create any environment, any planet. And we see that in all sorts of movies. And it's wonderful. And it's a great tool. But there is no substitute for seeing the actor playing the part, doing the crazy stuff, because that way the character never disappears.