I really like that. There’s heart, soul and an atmosphere straight out of the comics. The look of the Fortress, complete with S shield door and the robots inside. Very optimistic about this, and it makes me even more excited about The Brave and the Bold being in this same universe.
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Looks splendid, love it! Also great that Krypto doesn’t immediately understand what’s needed of him. Really rather a playful dog than an animal superhero.
I will watch this.
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Looks interesting, however, Jared Leto can be a bit of a turnoff for me. Both as an insane method actor and a general human being as well. At least Jeff Bridges is back. Hopefully, he told Leto to lighten up, pun intended. Fingers crossed that Olivia Wilde comes back as well.
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Fitting next step, a good metaphor for what’s happening in our world, an interesting cast (Greta Lee, Gillian Anderson).
That actually could be a good blockbuster movie.
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But the bread and butter business is this…
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Looks miles better than Dead Reckoning. I can’t wait.
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I hope it‘s good. I liked the last film but FALLOUT was much better.
Despite the new title, though, this is clearly DR part 2.
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I’ll be there opening weekend. Fingers crossed.
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This could indeed be one of the last big ‘event’ films other than Bond. It’s not a given this category will still be relevant ten years from now.
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Already have the 23rd booked off from work. Waiting for tickets to go on sale and I’ll be there first screening.
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That’s dedication!
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Also, matinee pricing (hopefully).
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I really hope that’s not the case. Spy action is my favourite genre hands down, and Mission Impossible has consistently been among the best. The Final Reckoning is my most anticipated film of the year and it looks great. I still trust Cruise to deliver.
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Those generations that experienced the great blockbusters as a big holiday/summer break experience in the cinema - from people like me pushing 60 to the kids who grew up with the Marvel films - will likely always have a soft spot for the popcorn fare, the buildup by trailers and the big opening weekends.
Younger folks though, growing up during and after the pandemic, seem no longer so in love with the theatre experience (and the love has been waning with older audiences, too). It really would seem to depend whether studios will find a way to attract this many people to physically show up. Maybe they will adapt, maybe there will be a new equilibrium balancing the cost of these events down the line.
Traditional studios started out as the streamers of their time, churning out product like Netflix et cie. are doing today. Perhaps there’s an effort to create a symbiosis between the small screen and the big one, between home entertainment and theatres all across the world. Whatever it will be, Bond is guaranteed to be front and centre of it.
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As long as they can make „Minecraft“ money studios will drum up their tentpoles. But I absolutely agree with you: the big blockbuster will become rare, especially those who can get young and more adult audiences into theatres.
In fact, they are already close to extinct. The Barbenheimer phenomenon was just that: a unicorn. Won‘t happen again, it was an occurrence after too many pandemic months made people eager to see one movie which was supposed to be fun and one which was supposed to be important. There was a hunger for being in on it and conversing. With more division and money getting burned, real hunger will be more important.
Apart from that, movies per se are rapidly losing their importance. Streaming has put films into a „whatever, whenever“-nexus, and teenagers do not take movies or music that seriously anymore. It is a disposable commodity.
We are the last generation with fond memories of movie seasons, bringing us a wealth of soon to be classics and original fare at our favourite theatres (not multiplexes). We are still attached to those stories, actors, directors. The next generations won‘t be. Sure, some will still be fascinated by movies and enjoy being cinephiles. But they will be only a select few.
No wonder, even the star directors of cinema history are in the retirement age, and the younger ones are not nurtured by studios and theater owners anymore. Instead they get to make a disposable Marvel film.
I hope that this last Cruise Mission will be successful, even more so than the last.
But I doubt it. When FALLOUT became a mega success it was a very different world. Now I suspect this new film will be regarded like the last Indy film. A hero of yesterday, interesting for the older audiences who rather not go to the cinema anymore.
Bond is still in a position to bring in younger audiences. But even he is not a sure thing anymore.
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If this is the last film in the series, or at least the last film with Cruise and this team, it really is the end of an era. I saw M:I-2 in cinemas upon release, and every instalment since then. That’s a lengthy period to develop an emotional connection with a franchise, in a way for me that only Bond can match.
Agreed.
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People are the worst…
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What a vile and nasty thing to do.
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We want people going to cinemas but in no way can it be for this. In an ideal world the doors would be locked, the police called and arrests made.
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What killed the cinema-going experience? Other cinema goers.
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