Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

[00:00:01] Blank Check with Griffin and David, Blank Check with Griffin and David Don't know what to say or to express All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check The secretary is dead. The president has evoked Ghost Podcast! Thank you, Tom.

[00:00:28] I need to try it again because I said evoked instead of invoked. He's evoked it though, you know? But I want to... I'm all that accuracy, okay? The secretary is dead. The president has invoked Ghost Podcast! You're still really... My Wilkinson isn't strong?

[00:00:47] Actually, your Wilkinson is pretty good. That's not terrible, right? What were you going to say? No, it's just... the podcast is just not... it doesn't hit like protocol. No, it's fine, it's fine. Padocast? Mmm. It's not a very quotey movie, it's a visual film.

[00:01:04] I was thinking like what quote is he even going to use? This movie less of a talky-more-of-a-runny. I jump and I podcast you. Sure. Maybe the... did you... did you podcast? Yeah, I podcast! Was I not supposed to podcast? That's good, that's good. Punch kick, fight, podcast.

[00:01:24] Jump! Yeah, probably that. Hello everybody, my name is Griffin Newman. I'm David Sims. Sitting across from me very... pointedly. Yeah, I sit across from you every week. Well, but today? Today I made a little stink about it. You made a little stink.

[00:01:40] Today I made a little stink around this podcast. Today you made a little stink. It was asked very politely to sit next to you and I said, I don't want to. Sitting next to me in the chair that is usually reserved for the guest.

[00:01:51] This is the thing, he... he... turn your phone off. I'm doing a great job. We can't do this podcast for one minute without us talking about where we're all sitting. I got to talk about this because this is in the news.

[00:02:02] This is a big deal, it's in the news, okay? Sitting next to me where a guest usually sits, Ben Hosley. He's kind of a guest. I'm not the guest, I mean I'm just... We have a new producer here at Audio Boom. A producer. Yes. A Rachducer.

[00:02:22] Yeah, well her name's a Laureate. You know, Ty Breaks. Finest Film Critic. Do you like movies? Criticism? Meat lover? Do you eat meat? No, you don't. You're a veggie lover. Plant lover? Protein? Soy? She's not in her head, yep, she loves it.

[00:02:42] Lover? Have you ever detected a fart? I'm sorry, I shouldn't ask you this. This is kind of due diligence. I know this is tense right now. New producer. Yes. In training, first time on the board, Rachel is sitting in Ben's usual seat.

[00:02:59] So Ben asked David to sit in the guest seat and David made a stinky poop. He wagged his finger? No. I said, no, no, no, no. Can I not? So you said it like that. You did say it like that. Actually, can I rather not.

[00:03:19] Could I tell you something really quick? It's like I'm Mariah Carey and you like gave me a bowl of Skittles and I was like, there are green Skittles in this. And I specifically said no green Skittles.

[00:03:28] Now this is your diva moment because of course today we're talking about your favorite action movie the last 10 years. Yeah, that's correct. We're talking about Ghost Proat. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a podcast about filmographies. I forgot to say it's called Blink Check.

[00:03:43] Sure, you had to introduce the podcast. It's called Blink Check or Contrast to Contacts, hashtag the two friends, you know it. Filmographies, directors with massive assessor earlier on their career. We're giving a series of blank checks, make whatever crazy passion projects they want.

[00:03:57] Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they bounce baby. Now today is kind of an interesting episode. What you mean in Brad Bird's career? He kind of had a blank check and then made such a dramatic lateral move. Yeah. I feel like no, this is the thing.

[00:04:16] I feel like he had, they gave him the blank check and he was like, I'm going to put this over here for now. Like I still got it, but like not this time. I remarked you, this was a guarantor.

[00:04:26] I think there is judgment against animation directors moving into live action. That's what it was. He went to the bank and he was like, I want to make, you know, a big live action original epic. I don't know if he actually did that.

[00:04:39] And they were like, we're looking over, you're good and your credit's fine. We've got this one movie star who has such a preternatural sense of filmmaking that he keeps any director on rails. Okay. But I mean, don't this movie is them being like, if you could just like,

[00:04:55] like do a year of car payments. This movie's like a small business life. Yeah, exactly. Director talking about as Brad Bird. That's right. The main series is called the podcastables. And the film today that we are discussing is called Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol.

[00:05:11] Mission colon impossible hyphen ghost protocol. Yes. That's my favorite thing about these movies is they can't have a colon after the title. Right. Like any other movie. Dash. No, no, no, you're right. It's an M dash. You're right. You're right.

[00:05:34] Putting the hyphen there makes it sound like it's a last name. Because my name is Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. My name is Jeremy ghost protocol. Hershkoowitz. I just remember when the title was announced, people were like, Mission Impossible 4 was right there. Yeah. I remember that.

[00:05:50] Up until that point, a franchise without subtitles. But still MI2 remember was M colon I M dash 2. Yes. It was a bit, you know, yeah. It was cool though. Yeah. I was all about MI2 as a title. But then Mission Impossible 3 they were just like, forget that.

[00:06:07] It's just Mission Impossible 3. No M dash. Right. And then this one that was the twist. They were cagey about the title. And then they said it's called ghost protocol. People were like, maybe like any other title. Ghost, what the hell is ghost protocol?

[00:06:23] Now everyone knows what ghost protocol is. Yeah. To the extent that Rogue Nation, which is a very ghost protocol title. Right. I mean, these are Bondi titles. It's at a standard where it's like, okay, every movie they're going to initiate some new thing with a weird name,

[00:06:37] a weird code name. And then when the new one, which will be coming out shortly after this episode releases. Yeah. I should find out, is it out yet? But close. That's my guess. That's your Griff guess?

[00:06:52] Yeah, but it's just called fallout and I'm like, don't describe the emotional state of the character described his status as a citizen. It's out basically a month from now. This is coming out in June. It's out in July. I was so pumped for it.

[00:07:04] This is a good franchise. Franchise we like a lot. We love this franchise. We've talked about it a lot on this podcast over the years. One of those franchises where we have occasionally discussed maybe just do a mini series on that. Yes.

[00:07:16] And I think it'd be fun to do. But now we just have to cover each of the directors individually. Well, we've already done one of the directors, done another of his films. Yeah. Christopher McCoy. We did Jack Reacher. And we did one of JJ Abrams pictures. That's right.

[00:07:33] We did Star Wars. So we just got to do a Palma mini series, a John Woo mini series, which would be interesting in its own way. Yes. I mean he kind of went off the rails there. Yes. Yes, he did.

[00:07:46] And of course, as we all know, the second best mission impossible. The best mission impossible. The second best mission impossible. One of the best films of its year. One of the best action films of my life. 2012. 2011. It's in my top five.

[00:08:04] Now you very erroneously called it your favorite summer blockbuster of a modern era. Shut up. I will never let you live this. I was on Todd Vanderwerks podcast. And he asked us to pick like five summer movies of like the last 10 years.

[00:08:19] You did a lot of wind up going wait till you hear what I did. That's why it sucked because I just mentioned it and Todd had been like that movie came out not in the and I was like, oh okay. Yeah.

[00:08:29] Sorry, because other people kept on but I see other movies and you were like close for me. That's my three like and then you saved it. And guess what? That movie is a Christmas present. It's a Christmas movie.

[00:08:41] It's still so weird, you know, because every single mission impossible movie has come out in the summer. Franchise except for this one. But this one came out December 16th.

[00:08:49] It came out Christmas and that's because even though it's set in like hot places, franchise had a little dirt on it by you know, like it's got a lot of like desert. The franchise had a little dirt on it at this point. Tom Cruise.

[00:09:03] The star was a little rusty little grimy. And this is kind of the thing that gave him his groove back. He's not been able to reclaim top unassailable across the board Tom Cruise status. Right. But this franchise and how successfully this movie revived the franchise.

[00:09:21] It kept him afloat. Because he's got After War of the Worlds, a film we've discussed Mission Impossible 3 which is seen as a flop. Make money but very disappointing certainly relative to two.

[00:09:34] And this was the first time that people went like, oh I think that Tom Cruise personal life is fully overshadowed. This is the movie where all the War of the Worlds stuff actually crested onto Mission Impossible 3.

[00:09:43] Because War of the Worlds everyone was freaking out about Tom Cruise but it made a ton of money. That was the one and it was obviously very sold on. Cruise, War of the Worlds is sold on. Aliens. Then you got Lions for Lambs.

[00:09:53] Interesting fact I covered the red carpet for that movie. Really? Did you get to meet TC? Yes. Do you know what he told me? Great to be in London. That is so sweet. But why were you in London? Well I lived in London. You grew up there?

[00:10:10] You grew up there? It was actually my last... Really? You done? Is it over? So Rachel at this point dropped in Big Ben Chimes for approximately four and a half minutes. Is that what you usually do? I don't listen to the final episodes.

[00:10:26] I actually played the whole God Save the Queen. Okay, cool. You get public domain. You certainly can. You should pick a patriotic, new patriotic British song every time. Like you could probably like Jerusalem or rural Britannia. Like all those songs they always play.

[00:10:42] But how do you know all these songs? Listen to these songs. It's so weird. Like it's part of your background? Yeah. Two big things happened. I just want to tell you about the red carpet for Lions for Lambs. I thought you did.

[00:10:59] It was raining very hard as it often does in London. Why were you... It was raining very hard. I had been assigned to go because Cruz was walking the carpet. And people's like, you know, and especially the two songs 2007. You know, Katie Holmes is way up there.

[00:11:16] Like, you know, this is people wants a quote. Was he walking and not running? Well, that's what I was about to tell you. So because it's like, I don't... I think Meryl and Robert Redford were there actually. And like, you know, Michael Pena or whoever, whoever else.

[00:11:30] Andrew Garfield, an early Garfield picture. He brought those there. I'm on the red carpet. It's a Tom Cruise red carpet. So there are a ton of fans. And he... It was 90 minutes I watched him. I clocked it. 90 minutes of going up to every single fan

[00:11:47] and he does whatever they want him to do. So a lot of its autographs, but a lot of them had phones with their parents or sisters or whatever on the phone. He gets the phone. He talks to the person on the phone.

[00:11:59] He like takes a picture with you. It was like watching a politician, you know, but not just any old politician, like Bill Clinton circa 92 or whatever. Like some kind of retail politician who's like a genius. And then he comes up to us and says,

[00:12:13] it's great to be in London. I don't understand how anyone has that much energy. He's... It was something to behold for sure. Not like Jamie Foxx, who I covered earlier. I don't understand how anyone has that much energy. He's... It was something to behold for sure.

[00:12:28] Not like Jamie Foxx, who I covered as well. And if I told you that story where he drove his SUV down the red carpet into the lobby of the theater inside comes out strikes five like robot poses like for the paparazzi and then goes,

[00:12:44] the kingdom see it and then gets back in the car which reverses up the red car. Good bit. Five comedy points. I have two follow up questions. He wasn't even like pretending to go see the movie. Was it the premiere of the kingdom?

[00:12:58] It was the premiere of the kingdom. I got great quotes from Jennifer Garner though, so my boss was really happy. So you should have responded when he said the kingdom go see it and then got in his car and backed up.

[00:13:08] He said, no, you go see the kingdom. We're walking into the theater. We're the ones who are about to see the kingdom. You fucker and get out of here. Wait, but why would it be in the United States? No, that was in London too.

[00:13:20] I was a little red carpet boy. Clearly. I had no idea. I had no idea. I was a little red carpet story from that year of films. Jerry Seinfeld, B-movie, Colin Firth for something and I fell in love with him just talking to him.

[00:13:39] He's one of those guys who's like, no, it's 0708. 0708? A fur fee from L.A. We had Stardust. I did that one. Golden Compass, that was a lot of stars. Nicole was there and Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards, I think is her name. So, Lawrence Phelan.

[00:13:59] John Travolta's daughter who's an old dog. I just want to do, right, this is the cruise context I want to give. He had always been a paramount guy with very few exceptions. Kind of had first look at Paramount. Right, Cruise Wagner was kind of set up with them.

[00:14:11] Because the movie where he transitions to being a producer as well, packaging his movies is Mission Impossible One. That's his first credit as a producer. He picks a big director he wants to work with, because before he would sort of look for

[00:14:27] directors, projects and place themselves in their hands. He says now I'm going to hire a tour and also people have been trying to lock him down for a franchise for years. He goes finally, I've picked my franchise. Here's the Tom Cruise franchise.

[00:14:40] Dustin off an old 60s TV show. Martin Landau get the fuck out of here. It's Tom Cruise time, right? Iconic theme song, but probably pretty malleable franchise, right? Impossible Mission Force. Right, the Impossible's are missing. What the fuck am I talking about?

[00:14:56] Let me eat a piece of bagel twist. Clearly I need to rebound here. Sound the alarm. Oh, God. Rachel if you can turn that up. I'm just giving you all the things you don't know. So Ben always turns that up way way up.

[00:15:10] Like cranks it all the way up. Ben? No I don't. Alright. So he's a Paramount guy. Mission Impossible's his franchise. And after the kind of blow-up of Mission Impossible 3 he goes to dinner or something or Redstone. He also splits with Wagner, right? Splits with Wagner?

[00:15:30] Because this is a Tom Cruise production, not a Cruise Wagner production. Yeah. Splits with Wagner. I think she might have followed him to United Artists. Yeah maybe, I don't know. I'm looking around. But like fires his manager, fires his publicist, all that sort of stuff. Paramount.

[00:15:48] Yeah, that was when he replaced his manager with like his sister. Yes, correct. So like sort of took to the bunkers for a while. Right. Paramount, Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom, super scary man. Yeah, crazy old man.

[00:16:02] Who has been weekend at Bernie's by his family for the last five years. Very much so. Let's not get sued but allegedly he is non-composmentist in some way maybe. I don't know. He goes, Tom, personal life's overshadowed the movies. You don't have a home at Paramount anymore.

[00:16:17] United Artists, MGM, struggling to stay afloat, new cash infusion, wants to make a big splash. They go, United Artists, a studio started by Charlie Chaplin, Lillian Gish. Yeah. What was supposed to be a haven for stars? What was at times and then it would get sold off.

[00:16:34] Right, then it was a shingle, it was an indie kind of division, whatever. They said Tom Cruise, how do you like to have your own mini studio? Right. Tom Cruise, here's United Artists, you make whatever you want. Yeah. And so he announces bold new era of Tom Cruise.

[00:16:47] United Artists, passion projects, life's overshadowed the movies. The Bions for Lambs. Which? Is the lowest grossing Tom Cruise movie in 30 years. Yeah, and no one remembers that it existed. He made a movie with Robert Revford and Meryl Streep, like a big rock war drama.

[00:17:01] Like a talky chamber drama. Yeah, like he plays like a senator and he's just like, the reason we go to war is this, I've got my glasses in my hand. That is the fundamental yes or no question of our time. That's his big line in the trailer.

[00:17:13] How exciting. That is the fundamental yes or no question of our time. Then he made Valkyrie the next year. He does okay. Small for a Tom Cruise movie. Does better than people remember is directed by a monster. Also, he's in Tropic Thunder that year. Right.

[00:17:31] Which was sort of him being like, see I'm a funny guy. That's a fun cameo. I like that cameo. I do too. I do think it's a little bit of Tom Cruise really trying to be like, I am funny. Don't worry about me. I'm not creepy.

[00:17:47] It feels a little desperate. I also wish he had done it without all the makeup. Yeah, it's a little borderline anti-Semitic. Yeah. And I think that character type works just as well as if he looks like Tom Cruise as opposed to they had this whole big surprise. Right?

[00:18:06] I get it. But like also you could give him a mustache. Like there are other ways to surprise. He has the glasses in the mustache and at the end of the movie he's like, by the way, Tom Cruise all. Yeah, exactly.

[00:18:17] You don't have to go like, here's the surprise we're going to make it look like. Benz, Benz. I'm okay with all of this except I like the hairy arms. Yeah, the hairy arms are good. And he's got the weird hands that are a little too big.

[00:18:30] What if that had been the disguise? It looked like Tom Cruise but the arms were really hairy. I was like, well, but that can't be Tom Cruise. It's like a Superman thing where we're like, no Clark Kent has glasses.

[00:18:38] Like, you know, like Tom Cruise's arms are normal hairy. It's a smooth form. So then night and day another sort of. So now he goes to Fox Universal. The United Artists thing is like dead. The experiment's dead in the water. Goes to Fox. It was a big deal.

[00:18:56] He's drugging a couple possibilities of what he could do. I think he almost did salt. Yeah. Salt he was very close to doing. I believe it's Angel Angel. But that was like a big deal at the time where it's like, guess who they're placed Tom Cruise with?

[00:19:10] Angelina Jolie and they're not even rewriting the movie. Yeah. Salt's okay. I'm sure it is. I've never seen it. I'm more of a pepper guy myself. So Rachel, right here if you want to drop an audio of just gales of laughter. Like a wild like. Yeah, yeah.

[00:19:30] You're really going to have to sweeten that up. Just make it sound like all of audio boom is giving me a standing out. Oh God, just ignore him. All right. So night and day doesn't really do well. His movie still do well overseas. Yeah.

[00:19:44] That's the thing on the pitch on him now, the like official word on Tom Cruise is the stars faded. He's now more like he's drifting into Stallone territory where he's a big enough name to carry a budget. You always get pressed, but you got to cap those budgets.

[00:19:57] He's not a blockbuster guy. So then he announces I'm making Mission Impossible 4. Right. And there was a moment in between these two points, Mission Impossible 3 and where we are right now, the stuff we've gone over where Paramount was like, maybe we keep doing impossible without him.

[00:20:10] And there was this five year gap, fairly large gap. Brad Gray is running Paramount. Late great Brad Gray. He had been Brad Pitt's manager and producing partner for years. And he apparently was very bullish on the idea of it's Brad Pitt.

[00:20:25] He's the head of the IMF and it's a bunch of young recruits. The movie is Brad Pitt with a team of young ins. Okay, sure. That kind of came close to happening. They finally go, okay, Cruise, we're going to keep you on a tighter leash.

[00:20:38] We'll do Mission Impossible 4, but their original stake was, we'll do Mission Impossible 4 to let you pass the baton. Yes. The original pitch was we're going to do Mission Impossible 4. They hire Brad Bird, which is a nice hire.

[00:20:51] Right. I remember the short list being like Brad Bird, Edgar Wright. There was someone else cool who was on it. Sure. Like cool directors. They were all cool directors, but they also hired Jeremy Renner who's coming off of the Hurt Locker

[00:21:03] and the town and like, you know, he's an Oscar nominee and everyone thinks he's going to be a new star. They had written that role for a guy in his 20s and there was the short list. They were doing crazy screen tests on like every young actor.

[00:21:15] Anthony Mackie got really close to getting it. I guess he plays younger. Kevin Zigers from Trans America weirdly got very close to getting it. Thank God that didn't happen. Isn't it Zigers? There's an I am there? Maybe. I think it's Zigers.

[00:21:29] There's one other guy in the short list who I'm forgetting, but everyone was like, which actor who looks around 29 is going to be the next star of the Mission Possible franchise. So it was kind of a curve ball when it was Renner,

[00:21:38] who was only like four or five years younger than Tom Cruise. He's now 47. Yeah. So when he made this, he's early 40s. And also that he was more established at that point. They thought they were going to go with someone who was like real.

[00:21:49] He was like an Oscar nominee. He was Oscar-rated actor. And at this point he's signing up to franchises left and right. Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters. Which they thought they were going to make 12 of those. 12? 7 at least. He's a hot guy.

[00:22:03] Of course we all remember him up the crow's nest and Thor. Not taking a shot. A scene that cuts together very well. Uh-huh. And I guess Born happens a little after this. Yeah, Born is 2012 though. So you know not long after.

[00:22:19] But everyone is kind of going like he's the new workhorse guy. He's the new workhorse guy. That's interesting. I guess Mission Possible is going to be handed over to Jeremy Renner. Less baggage. Sure. He'll do it. He'll do it.

[00:22:33] But late in the game, Chris McCorrigan gets brought on who had written Valkyrie for Tom Cruise. And Cruise is now big on him asking him to come in to punch up Stew Rewrite. And he is trying to do a Hail Mary pass on the script which is...

[00:22:47] Which is in the middle of filming that he came on board. Oh wow, it's that late. And he was like first of all you can't fucking get rid of Tom Cruise. And he goes to the studio and makes the whole pitch on like this is Tom Cruise's franchise.

[00:22:59] You can't do it. And that's why Jeremy Renner's character arc is weird in this movie. Because they kind of like mid production reconceptualized what the movie was. That...the way...here's the way he puts it. Yeah. It was the middle of the shoot.

[00:23:17] I had to communicate with everyone to determine what I could or couldn't change, what sets have been built, what scenes had already been shot, what scenes could be reshot. I learned a lot about production being right there yada yada yada.

[00:23:27] This script has all had all these great sequences but the mystery was very complicated and I just pulled things out of it to make it simpler. That's how he describes his role. He basically like said like the plot of this doesn't matter,

[00:23:39] like what you wanted those big set pieces so let's just make this mystery very very very simple. Like maybe that includes more Renner stuff that he's like no, like that's not important.

[00:23:49] I get that feeling and I get the feeling that it was supposed to end with Renner fully taking the lead and he probably said like no it's gotta be cruise we have to find something else to keep Renner here which is where the wife stuff comes in.

[00:24:03] You know? Now this is where I think we get to the fundamental disconnect. Griffin, Griffin shut up for a second. Ben did you know that 66% of men lose their hair by age 35? Don't get me started.

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[00:24:31] How are you going to feel in a year instead business as usual up on the top of your head? I would love it rather than heroin receding. How about it comes back? Yes, please. All right. Well for him's calm.

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[00:25:51] You could just look at forehems.com for full details. This is cost $100 if you went to the doctor or a pharmacy. You go to forehems.com slash check. Okay, sure. Great. So I just I just checked that I've typed that in right? I was griffin.

[00:26:07] I'm talking to Griffin Newman right now. Come on. No, I mean I was on time and I'm not eating anything currently on the microphone. No, you go to F. Oh, that griff dunked on your ass. Sorry.

[00:26:19] You go to f or h i m s.com slash check forehems.com slash check. There you go. All right. So back to the nonsense. Mission possible. It is interesting to me that this movie. I does sound like it was a complicated production.

[00:26:40] Yeah, they did change it around. They did have this weird concept of making crews leave and then sort of double back on it. Yeah, all interesting considering that it's a perfect movie that makes me so happy and I've watched it a million times and I don't care.

[00:26:54] Okay, so here's our divide on the movie. Yeah, yeah. But I mean the divide is like I love it. You like it a lot. I think it's an extreme divide. I can sense the lack of a script on this movie.

[00:27:06] I think set piece for set piece is perfect, but these movies don't need scripts. But I think rogue nation has a great script, which is why rogue nation is the best one. Yeah, I think I love the story. I love the story.

[00:27:19] It spins a yarn for us Benjamin. I agree. I really love rogue nation. So it's like I have no beef with loving rogue nation, but this movie was directed by Bradford. Let me settle this. Yeah, kind of like rogue nation better. Thank you. Sorry.

[00:27:39] I like Bradford more than I like Christopher McQuarrie, but I think the gap between scripts in these two films is wider than the gap between direction. Okay, but you know what? I knew we were going to do this and I don't want to do it.

[00:27:50] Because we're not talking about my conversation. We'll talk about that in our next mini series, The Pot of the Cast or Christopher McQuarrie. I guess that would be the pot of the move, right? Because when this movie came out, rogue nation didn't exist.

[00:28:06] And instead we were watching a movie that was like Tom Cruise's whole reputation was on the line and we were watching him literally like claw it back in front of us. And he successfully is thrilling. It's as thrilling as someone climbing the birch to buy.

[00:28:21] He successfully finds his angle for a new decade, which is Tom Cruise is the only movie star willing to almost die. Tom Cruise is a maniac. He's a maniac.

[00:28:32] I think it's deliberate where even if he doesn't know it's deliberate where it's like right, the public now perceives him as a maniac. He should just be a maniac. And then everyone's going to be like, what a maniac?

[00:28:45] That's the other thing I like about rogue nation is a movie that everyone realizing he's a maniac. But this movie is like that too. Yeah. But in this movie he's like a conductor of a great symphony. That is what this movie is. People screaming. You're a maniac.

[00:29:02] Whereas this movie is him working with an orchestra and rogue nation is a movie where it's like we only have a dump truck and he's like doesn't matter.

[00:29:08] It's going to make great music right now, you know, because like in rogue nation the things get so ridiculous where they're like we've lost the codes. He's like I know all the codes. How do you know all the codes? I memorized them.

[00:29:20] How would you possibly be able to do that? I just did like it's always like he just does the thing that no one could ever do right. Regulations just like more like higher. Ethan has never really been a character. He's interesting when he overlaps with Tom Cruise.

[00:29:32] Ethan Hunt. It's like literally someone in the 90s was like who's cool and they were like Ethan and they were like, alright, Ethan Hawke. Can we just like follow that a little bit? What's the thing that America loves? Hunting. Ethan Hunt. We don't know anything about him.

[00:29:52] We know everything about him. Exactly. We know everything else. Well, we don't know that. We know everything else about him. What is the impossible mission for us? I don't know. I love that they didn't say that out loud until like the third one.

[00:30:09] Like they kept on doing IMF because they were like this is too corny and I'm not an age. The third one is very like, no, let's figure out like how the IMF works. You know, the first two are more just sort of like he gets a tape.

[00:30:19] And let's say that's what do they have for lunch? Seriously. What's like the org tree? The other thing. Is Lauren Fishburne above Billy Grunner? The other thing that actually helps this movie get made is the rise of J.J. Abrams.

[00:30:33] Because he directs three, it's his first film, but now Bad Robots become a powerhouse. Right, he's made Star Trek. He's a big dude at Paramount. Super 8 was a big hit. And so he really pushes I'm now the production company behind this franchise.

[00:30:47] And he and Cruz love each other. They're like great, we're going to make a movie. And he's developing it. The way Jeremy Renner got cast in this was he was meeting to play the dad in Super 8. And J.J. decided he was wrong for that.

[00:31:01] But then said like, wait, do you like Mission Impossible? And he's like, yeah, those movies are fun. And he's like, stop the presses, get Kevin Zeiger's out of here. It's Zeeger. He's not a real person. He doesn't exist. He's a fictional character. He's never been a person.

[00:31:20] It's my challenge. If any listener can call in and tell us that they met Kevin Zeiger, either one, it doesn't matter. It's an imaginary friend. I also like how this movie puts Tom Cruise against the Nordic Tom Cruise

[00:31:36] and the Indian Tom Cruise like Michael McFist and Anil Kapoor are both older. Like when they're in this movie and like their stardom is firmly set. But those are both guys who in their respective countries,

[00:31:47] kind of were like a Tom Cruise type in there at the height of their fame. And I think that's great. It's one of the many things I think is great about this movie. And Tom Wilkinson is of course the English Tom Cruise.

[00:32:00] One of those was like, oh, he was the English Tom Cruise. Like did you see like the movie where, you know, he like baked a pie? Like whatever like the English version of that is. Every Mission Impossible movies had a different head of the IMF, right?

[00:32:13] So in one voice, it's Voight and two, it's Hopkins. Right. Who got paid like $8 million for one scene. Was it that much? He got paid. It was a big deal how egregious the seller was because then he gave it all a charity or something. Sure. Like a loser.

[00:32:27] Is three fishburn is the head? Yes. In four, it's Wilkinson sort of. Uncredited. Yes. And then in five, it's Alec Baldwin. Right. But he's kind of adopted it. Yeah. But then in six, it's Baldwin too. So six is the first one that's going to like...

[00:32:47] Direct sequel, one director doing more than one. Yeah. It was like people expected Vingraimes, right? It was like Tom Cruise is in them and Vingraimes will show up at some point. Right. Cause the first one he's got a team. Yeah. They all die. Yeah. You got Estavez, Emilio.

[00:33:03] Yeah. Who else is on the team? The French lady. Oh, Emmanuel Baer. Emmanuel Baer. Voight. John Voight. I was a tribute question once that we were really proud of getting caught. Which was how many County Ward nominees have appeared across the five Mission Impossible.

[00:33:18] But when we got them all, that is hard. Yeah. Cause there are a bunch of them. Voight looks sickly now. Just yeah. Yeah. He makes a lot of like MAGA movies now, right? Like he's sort of leaning into like the Trump thing.

[00:33:32] Well, he's also playing Trump at the Hall of Presidents. Funny. Have you seen that robot? Looks like John Voight. Ben, have you seen the robot? Yeah. It looks like John Voight. Ben, have you seen the robot? Ben, the Wi-Fi's bad. Ben, the Wi-Fi's mean.

[00:33:51] I saw that and I had the same thought. Yeah. I went like this. The robot bears resemblance to John Voight. Hold on. Oh my God. For one second, that robot that's gone viral. Kind of looks like John Voight. You know what's funny?

[00:34:10] I was watching John Voight movie the other day. And I went, do you know actually what he looks like? No. We haven't even started the movie in 36 minutes. Come on. All right. Wi-Fi's bad, Ben. Oh my God. This guy won't stop going on about the same subjects.

[00:34:30] Oh jeez. Sorry. What do you want me to do? Nothing. Do you want me to yell at the router? They kind of do that in this movie. David, stop yelling at Rachel. Unbelievable. It's her first day. She's doing a great job. This guy. You know, it's a lot.

[00:34:53] Some of us are trying to keep the train moving. Hey, you know what? We should sit next to each other more often. We definitely should not. You want to kiss my bagel tie? I should be sitting next to Griffin. Make sure to eat it on, Mike.

[00:35:07] Griffin, I ate my whole bagel twist like half an hour ago. The other day, you got fried chicken. You essentially got Japanese chicken tenders. You ate like two and took three home. I got another thing. Yeah, you did get a little rice bowl thingy as well.

[00:35:21] And to be fair, I was drinking beer. Oh, so sorry. Yes, you're right. These are good. So is beer. I like beer. Mission impossible ghost protocol. Ghost protocol. I also think, well, for one, this movie had a lot of IMAX ship.

[00:35:41] It had that IMAX package, you know, where it like gets rolled out in IMAX. You want to see it in IMAX. Big sequence of shot name IMAX IMAX. But the other thing was that the opening of Dark Knight Rises. We're going to play before the movie.

[00:35:56] So they were that was coupled in. I believe the movie much like the Dark Knight Rises was had no 3D option. Yep. Which is again, bird, you know, like Nolan kind of being like, fuck that shit. I think Cruise is also only done one 3D movie.

[00:36:12] Which one? Oblivion? I believe so. Oblivion. Tom Cruise is a two dimensional man. Sure. He needs a two dimensional medium. So, but there was like a weird thing. I mean, they thought this would be a summer release. They pushed it to Christmas.

[00:36:30] People wondered if it was damaged goods. Yeah, no, definitely. Like the hype was low and my hype was low. I had so much faith in bird. I was excited, but I was excited. I mean, like I was there. So the brother, but I definitely was not like,

[00:36:44] I feel about going to see Mission Impossible 6 this summer where I'm like, I love Mission Impossible. You know, like I had liked three a lot but thought it was a little odd. Yeah, it's an odd movie. It's not movie. I like it.

[00:36:57] I do too. I think it's great. I do. I really do. Not quite as good as these ones, but it's not movie. But it also was kind of a franchise reset. I fell in some level of Abrams was like, I want to make them team movies again.

[00:37:08] He's sort of breathless. So the fun team you get heavy, cute. And Jonathan RealMars and Simon Peggs, who he carries over because he is a lot of fun. But in that movie and that role was intended for, ay don't know who Griffin причin bit If only Ricky nerve

[00:37:22] Ace which like we'll talk about it but we did, wow. About Ricky DeGervais, there we go to be so nice. This is the thing about Rickie du mouse know this yeah no I read that somewhere doesn't believe in God not yeah not a

[00:37:36] religious guy yeah but also yeah he's an atheist he yeah yeah yeah no totally totally David have you heard about this yeah I don't believe your brother do now no that's done I think well I know he's he's not going to church you know why

[00:37:57] doesn't believe in God that one you did this bit like two years ago yep it was funny then yeah it's funny now it's fine yeah yeah I think I your tours he still does stand up definitely doesn't stand I think you might have like some Netflix

[00:38:12] thing you keep on doing dumb Netflix things I mean they didn't office follow-up that none of us watch because we were like hey remember when the office ended perfectly right yeah hey we don't need that let's ignore it yeah he literally

[00:38:22] did a follow-up that we all chose to ignore just don't talk about it the office ended perfectly but that this was the year where Jervais was still like this hot new like English comedian to a Hollywood so they were like yeah he'll

[00:38:34] be funny I mean I'm talking about 06 put him in a tailioni rom-com right but then in so in three pegs just the guy at the computer but in this one he's a he's out in the field it keeps the team yeah concept but just as peg new

[00:38:49] team you add in Paula Patton who's coming off a precious I love who I love and who who else loves her well he's got to get her back Robin thick wrote a whole album about it back it was creepy he didn't have you I mean you watch that

[00:39:05] music video right oh sure that's about him trying to get her back where he cast another actress to play her yeah and the whole video is them naked making out together and so she's gonna love this then didn't he like getting he didn't

[00:39:16] get some bullshit later like he's a creep right yeah he sucks well that's why they split up right he was like cheating on her all the time is a creep right that was the thing and there was also right there was that lawsuit where Pharrell

[00:39:27] was like yeah I kind of just wrote that song he was like in the corner yeah asleep right the marvin gay completely out of his mind the Marvin Gaye estate sued Robin thick saying that he had stolen I think the main baseline yeah

[00:39:42] from gotta give it up for blurred lines and the way that he avoided having to pay out was he had to testify in front of court like I didn't really write that song at all right right so he had to admit like yeah I didn't really do that

[00:39:56] shouldn't I literally Skype that shit and yeah alright everyone felt so bad for me that Fro wrote a song because I think she's great she's great you got to get her back what happened to her I don't know she was in more craft I

[00:40:09] was supposed to be another big thing for me tough go on this good yeah it was good I is this like a bit I'm not a bit I'm a video game movie guy officially have

[00:40:23] you seen that movie yeah you liked I did you see it in theaters no okay alright but what else did I want what's the the assassin's creed is good this is what this I saw that movie here's what I want to say about assassin's creed I don't

[00:40:40] think it's good little interesting I mean little interesting yeah do you like video game movies now because you view them all pretending they're part of the Wreck-it Ralph of us oh somewhat I don't know if I've ever that's interesting

[00:40:56] you like Assassin's Creed but you're like I can't wait to show so I'm killing this but one last question have you seen the resident evil movies no I think you'd really get a kick I think you'd like you'd really like you really

[00:41:08] really good the second one is rough so you kind of got to like make it through that one right but then like after three on fucking great so good you know I'm writing down resident evil movies Ricky Gervais and Ben has taken out a pen is

[00:41:21] writing down like she has a robot looks like John here's her post here's her post protocol okay one comedy point jumping the broom yeah fine like comedy trying to make yourself a man a comedy lead two guns in which they're

[00:41:40] two of them hashtag the two guns something called baggage claim that's another round come that she produced between star about last night no she's it apparently she's in it but she's not the stars and Paula Patton about last

[00:41:51] night she's kind of key supporting part in that not one of the leads the perfect match to another rom-com she really went in on the rom-com maybe that's the one that she produced yeah that's the one she produced the do over

[00:42:01] start in right she's the female lead and a do over and then Warcraft and then like that's the last we heard of her yeah come on she's got a TV show which I already done she an ABC show that ran yeah right cancelled the other thing about

[00:42:17] Paula Patton is she worked in documentary films for like 10 plus years she's great she like but she like got a film degree was like and I'll never make it as an actress and like just worked for PBS and did like it was like a

[00:42:33] segment producer for like medical shows and shit before she was like fuck it I want to be an actress so she didn't start acting until like 2005 and then very quickly started like booking big parts but movies that didn't really work

[00:42:45] deja vu especially big movie didn't really work I eat a while she's very good and doesn't work and then this was kind of the moment where everyone was like okay she'd been in precious precious she killed it she's great

[00:42:55] very underrated and precious didn't get enough credit for that performance and that's like now she's in a big franchise she is all a patent about to happen she's the sort of smaller performance you know next to two very big perform you

[00:43:06] know gabrie cinnabay and money I think she's kind of you know she did that movie working theatrical and good they're great performers hard of the picture you did and yeah she's the heart of the movie mission possible ghost protocol begins with everyone's favorite movie star Josh Holloway

[00:43:22] that's right for the second time abrams kills off a lost or an abrams cast member sure in the like first scene of the movie the tom sellers in a three and mission three and now Sawyer from lost the josh hallway thing is fascinating I

[00:43:37] love it I remember when they announced him in the cast the assumption was that he was part of the team sure he'd be like a resmyer trailer from that one action sequence across it making it look like he was on the battlefield

[00:43:50] with them because there's so he gets you so much action within this first two minute stretch he's also great I think he's great he's really fun and God what a fucking good-looking guy handsome can't get over it does the thing with the

[00:44:02] lenses yeah does the a little you know the tap move which I like you know where he's sort of like the guy's like and he's like hey buddy yeah that's like real movie star move to like sell that kind of like don't miss a good actor he's a

[00:44:15] good fucking actor and I don't get why it didn't happen for him yeah he it's really tough when you're like I do like like you need a specific kind of role yeah you know and like you get locked into a TV show like he's done a couple

[00:44:31] now I'm John locked into a TV show you know what I mean like because I he got cast in like some alien show yeah yeah yeah CBS show that like premiered huge and then the next episode got four and it's like you're just stuck you know and

[00:44:45] then it's like that was two years now you're 39 you know they like it's like you just kind of like he's a movie star but I think he falls into that weird Tom Selleck territory and then it's like well then he should have had a good

[00:44:55] follow-up show and it still hasn't happened right he just hasn't found that but he's great I love it when he falls off the roof and has a little like inflating thing great that's awesome you know what I love now did

[00:45:06] you watch the movie you watch it yeah yeah falls off turns into like an airbag oh yeah cool the other thing I like this movie does very well I remember in the lead-up people were like well what's a fucking mission possible we

[00:45:19] gonna be now you got a smartphone why they need all these gadgets right I like that all of their gadgets are run off of smart right but it's like no the cool thing is their smartphones do better things than yours yeah they have

[00:45:31] plugins though I do feel like Mission Impossible 3 is really gadgety and has so many masks yeah and so there is a bit of it like what we're gonna like let's just slightly like they have to be a little more on like on

[00:45:42] their toes this one that's the notion this movie put them on ghost protocol have their backs up against the wall and everyone knows what protocol is everyone knows what ghost protocol when the president of Alza's protocol yes

[00:45:55] I didn't vote the ghost protocol you know so he is killed by Lea Sudu yeah Lea Sudu it's pretty good she's pretty cold-blooded she's very good in this and it makes it even more steely yeah she's very steely it makes it even more

[00:46:14] insane that they cast her for that role inspector yeah they cast her as the romantic lead right that's very vulnerable now but she's good at no she's she's terrified she's ill-served by like her lies an actor but emotional

[00:46:27] distance is kind of her stock in trade love her in the lobster yes she's great scary in there yeah so she moi does him moving on just like that we've lost a big star like Josh Holloway's dead what that means anyone could die how could

[00:46:45] this film continue who's it gonna be about now we cut to a prison a gulag yeah Russian prison yes Paula Patton in the tunnels she's in the tunnels Benji rocker peg is yeah I guess he's just in a van I'm

[00:47:01] talking Casio here more computer man you know that's the whole team I guess just the two of them yes at this point because Holloway's dead right he was the other one right they are here to free Tom Cruise to extract him and

[00:47:16] he's doing the fucking Steve McQueen against the wall yeah with like a little piece of chalk right a little bit of like plaster yeah plaster you it doesn't usually bounce cruise cruise is the long hair again yeah emission impossible three

[00:47:29] short yeah this one long yeah in rogue nation kind of in between length fallout short again okay so here's my hot take that I was kind of teasing before we start recording yeah I think this is peak Tom Cruise handsome wow so Ben was

[00:47:43] saying that he looked like garbage he said his name what he said more like Tom Garbagio I did not see that I know he said he looked like a shoe that I threw up on you did say that you said that verbatim no you were very anti

[00:47:58] cruising this looks bad I was peak hotness to you because I don't agree with Griffin although I think it looks good in the movie I mean I'd buy a slice I would say I mean he's so cute as a young man very cute you know

[00:48:12] like you're risky business my family my mom kept it on God he was so cute he was cute she hates him now I guess like I'm gonna have to say like 80s 90s maybe

[00:48:24] alright 90s cruise see I like you're saying like a few good men or like the firm those kinds of yeah strong hairline good job but it's starting to look stringy and he's like I don't know here's my thing mm-hmm I like Tom

[00:48:42] cruise with some city miles on him sure I like him with a little wear and tear and I think he's got just the my right amount of damage in this picture you know

[00:48:50] yeah I mean yeah I say show me the car Fox car fax you're asking the car Fox to show you the car fax yeah Jesus I don't know I think show me the car

[00:49:07] fax I think McGuire is like Pete cruise for me I'm just saying I've seen McGuire recently I watched this last night and hot diggity dog was I buying what he was selling sure so he takes a shirt off at which point it becomes a thing yeah

[00:49:23] and now the and these movies are not trying to make him a romantic lead no it's something that they're sort of like quietly because we're all about him trying to settle down have a show like monohand yes this one he's asexual yeah

[00:49:39] well he kisses Paul Patton but he announces that it's a bit before he does it yeah and it feels like the thing where he's like I don't know I feel like we got some chemistry they were like alright I guess there's a bit you know like you

[00:49:51] know like the screeners like I don't think you but maybe it is also like realizing that a Neil Kapoor is like a sub right yeah that he's gonna be like into her demeaning him right kissing someone else he likes having his

[00:50:06] fingers broken he's a weird character you know that fetish Tom Cruise specific cuckolding so he's in prison just people who just exclusively like being cuckolded by Tom Cruise here's where exclusively yes okay thank you are

[00:50:29] you done maybe let's go on let's see maybe we'll come up yeah he's in prison do you agree yeah 100% they're rushing to get him out do you agree yes what's the move how do they do it well how do they announce themselves play kick in the

[00:50:41] head by Dean Martin over the speakers yeah and what's Brad Bird announcing right now this is a Brad Bird picture is a Brad Bird picture it's a fucking symphony my friends this is the overture and we're conducting I'm conducting this shit for

[00:50:54] you like Tom Cruise is conducting this shit for you yeah like really what's happening there I how do you feel about this I love love love this awesome it's sequence like all this stuff with the doors like opening and closing it

[00:51:06] literally is like you're watching like I feel like a dance production which is what this movie is like this movie works best as a silent film well that's silent wanna hear the sound effect sure but I'm saying this movie it's

[00:51:19] strength and why Brad Bird knocks out of the park despite the script being kind of neither here nor there yeah is because the set pieces are so well designed and he is such a good visual storyteller when it comes to gesture right movement

[00:51:36] I agree moving about the camera and the character getting how satisfying it is when everything is like it's like an animation project yes like where everything ends up exactly where he wants it to end up right he is also an

[00:51:49] incredible setup payoff filmmaker oh my god wait a second I just found better percent better nice job look at that thank you very much Rachel um he's an incredible setup punchline filmmaker so much and this movie is all about

[00:52:04] setting stuff up paying it off and often very little kind of visual gags not plot points and like in this opening I just like you know all the stuff where he's communicating with Benji silently through the CCTV where

[00:52:18] he's like open that up yeah and Benji's like are you sure that seems like a pain yes open it up Tom Cruise is one of the best physical movie stars alive that's what you make cruise gesture that's when we're in the fucking

[00:52:31] pocket when he like leans you know he's like yeah well just wait and then you cut to the guards like looking at this guy being like what the fuck's he doing and he goes like I know right like I want to beat you up but like

[00:52:42] not opening the door for me Tom Cruise and Bradford are such a fucking smart pairing they are I wish they'd make another movie yeah that was my thought is like he should have followed this up I'm cruise should have been like Brad bird you

[00:52:54] fucking whatever you want to do on the wheels like you know but maybe bird I mean look we've talked about it in every episode yeah birds a demanding guy so it's a cruise that's what I'm saying but maybe they clashed in the wrong way

[00:53:04] like maybe they didn't gel I mean obviously they made a great movie I think cruise likes this movie but you know he wants McCarty to make the next one like obviously he installs McCarty for the next one I think that was

[00:53:15] also that he had sort of taken on McCarty as a reclamation McCarty said that he was in director's jail for a long time he gave him Jack Reacher which we both agree is the best American film period best American achievements yeah

[00:53:29] right right in any category right the defining movement of the 21st century like is below it yeah right it's like the new deal right exactly like new deal number two yeah right Jack Reacher I think it was more about making sure

[00:53:46] that like McCarty got his like shot the big that's fine that's fine that's why I just maybe me I have no idea yeah it's not like this this is not like the animated movies where there's documentaries on the DVD where all the

[00:53:56] animators like Brad Bird you know like it's not like Tom Cruise is like Brad's interesting you know I could see them hitting it off being like oh you're another little guy who's super aggro and intense about doing

[00:54:08] everything right and accepting no apologies or excuses I think I do think they enjoyed making this because Tom Cruise was like I'll tell you what I want to do climb the tallest building in the world and Brad Bird was like yeah let's

[00:54:20] do that I'll tell you what I want to hang Robert Ellswood out of that building yeah I'll tell you I want to throw you through a fucking window yeah yeah it also feels like he gets Ethan Hunt as a character more because he's kind of

[00:54:31] Ethan Hunt like like he's the Ethan Hunt of animation Brad Bird just like fucking do it correctly throw me out of this building you know you know he has show crash explosion fire appears to be a little bit of fuss over there let's look

[00:54:48] outside the studio what is oh my god someone's just broken through the wall haha it is me your arch nemesis the wet transfer I didn't know I had an arch nemesis the wet Ransford what's a Ransford he is wet Ben so you're

[00:55:09] probably yeah exactly you look great about seven foot two sure and I like to Ransford things what I don't know that verb well I take a thing from one place and I move it over to another place safely and securely buddy my parents

[00:55:26] named me and I thought that's I had to live up to the name and I read it and I said okay wet Ransford I guess I must be soaking wet I see what happened here I think I think honestly maybe something happened with his birth certificate and

[00:55:39] then yeah he just got the space in the wrong place your we transfer yeah Ransford's not a word well did that make sense because over 40 million people have been enjoying me for years do you just like send and receive files every

[00:55:52] month yeah very easily with no sign-in no offer codes no password that anyone has to never I would never even dare do that to I mean I would say no mess but you've destroyed our studio well that's the sort of Ransford part

[00:56:04] that I think he's been doing wrong I try to identify what Ransford is I got to be honest it's sort of a jazz set for me where every time I'm taking a different approach but I think at your court you're just like the kind of company

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[00:56:36] I gotta be honest I've been so caught up in my own you know just who am I what am I doing you know let me stop you right there Ransford we're gonna skip the rest of the 60 second ad and get right back into the podcast that's we transfer

[00:56:45] dot com you make we transfer guess I'll just soliloquy somewhere else outside this gaping hole I've left in the studio he was wet it was soaking wet that was was sorry for that Rachel we gotta work on security here yeah we

[00:57:03] have interruptions like really straight episode very very frequent this guy's been sleeping on the floor hey let me okay let him sleep let him sleep Tom Cruz breaks out of prison he's yeah but not before going and getting his bug

[00:57:18] then soulmate buddy bugged everyone's favorite character he's good care is like the yondu of this film yeah he's a little yondu us little what's what's not a yeah just a pops up you know it's like I always feel like a test

[00:57:35] of good kind of large-scale filmmaker is understanding the iconography of the movie star they're working with and how to introduce them properly and Brad Bird's introduction shot where he reveals Tom Cruz like from behind in

[00:57:51] profile in the shadow yeah and it's like yeah but he's Tom Cruz is all you need to see we get it we know it's time for orchestrate this whole like what I love is he's being rescued and Tom Cruz takes over the rescue and makes it like

[00:58:03] he pluses it everyone else gets stressed out because they're like just do the A to B we're just gonna get a drill a hole and come down the hole no no no I gotta do all this fun stuff kick in the head so good closing doors and then

[00:58:15] he says light the fuse yeah he lights the fuse credit sequence begins shows you the whole movie yeah and that's just Brad Bird bragging where he's like you won't believe how fucking good this movie is like look at this look at

[00:58:27] this thing that's gonna happen which also he took from the TV show he said he liked that the opening of the TV show always showed you what was about to happen and what else does this movie have that fucking rogue nation doesn't

[00:58:38] have going for it what Mikey G on the ones and zeros Gekino big strings scored five as well didn't I mean five is it's five is got mostly classical music five is by the guy who did Jack Reacher and I think the five

[00:58:53] scores fine but this is Gekino Gekino is amazing in this big strings it's a very old-timey score yeah like whereas like you know remember Mission of Hosslep to limp biscuit did the theme like they remix the theme so every time

[00:59:08] my clothes my I think that that wasn't that's the Metallica song that's I disappear but do you remember that like that was like of course I do a selling point yes Ben do you like limp biscuit yeah of course did you go see him hot dog

[00:59:21] water baby that's just pee right chocolate starfish is a butthole they're dons don they were like such a big deal Tom Cruise is like yet they do the theme song for my movie I remember reading I think it was a New York

[00:59:37] Times profile Mission Impossible 3 where they were like Tom Cruise is he on the edge is he about to lose his movie star cool because it was like you know the year after War of the Worlds right and so he was really trying to sell like no

[00:59:47] just a guy just love making movies and he like the New York Times report goes like Tom Cruise stared at me intensely and said wait do you know that Kanye did the new Mission Impossible theme song can I play it for you and then like

[00:59:59] Tom Cruise ran out of the room came back in with a boombox press play and then wouldn't stop dancing and the notion that like Tom Cruise had just in front of a boombox to the Kanye West version of Mission Impossible

[01:00:10] theme which no one remembers yeah how fucking good is this you barely kept saying stuff like that what he's like at all times yeah like really constantly at a 10 he's so yeah yeah hyped up right so he gets high fee and he escapes in

[01:00:27] this room I really do it like those interviews with him where people don't ask you the real questions they're just like you know I really love top gun he's just like what a picture but that's bird bird gets it cuz he's a similar

[01:00:44] kind of weirdo I think bird has a little more humanity like guess the weird intensity of Tom Cruise there's the eyes wide shut DVD features with it like you someone's like and how did you feel when you heard the Kubrick died

[01:00:57] he's just like horror and you're like everything is too big but anyway yeah they rescue him and they tell him FYI some dude stole some nuclear codes right Josh Holloway is dead and he's like Sawyer from yeah but also kill them that fast

[01:01:15] anyone could die also he's like why did you guys pull me out of there and they're like we thought we were saving you and he's like no it's some bullshit he's like that's a red tape yeah this is bogged down by the way I love that

[01:01:26] shoots him with the dart and he's like bogged down my friend you're gonna be great a door opens he's like it's all like you know we're watching like a ballet performance yes but this is bird hits on this thing that becomes the cornerstone

[01:01:40] of these Macquarie pictures which is Ethan hump becomes a character through how other people react to him sure yeah he is a little reflective the people around him have to be normal so they can go who the fuck is this guy

[01:01:54] and they're like well let's take you to a phone booth he goes to the phone booth he learns his mission right spy oh who is it Teddy Newton who's one of the best Pixar animators also a giant he's like one of the best character animators

[01:02:06] alive right but he also plays the voice of like the briefing in the Incredibles yeah cool he's got a good voice he is also the chatter telephone toy story 3 I'm saying Pixar he always plays a phone or a

[01:02:19] mission giver that's cool and Brad Bird gives a little tip of the cap he's got a great old time but I also like it's at this little junkie like Serbian phone booth or wherever and then he doesn't and Tom Cruise is like come on so

[01:02:32] it blows up and it's a bird being like this shit's a little dicey for them this time like not everything is like working yeah I mean this isn't your you know human protocol this is a ghost protocol so should we get more

[01:02:46] yeah yeah like right yeah now he goes it I once clapped into the microphone you got so mad at me I can't remember why you're like David don't clap in the microphone yeah that's just common sense don't make a loud clapping noise

[01:03:01] directly in a microphone Rachel can you play some booze there of course it booze like when Dylan went electric fucking loud remember he says that on that yeah we're at the end when they're doing like a rolling stone and everyone's booing and you hear him say

[01:03:16] to the van like by a fucking I love that Dylan Dylan is the best weirdo he's like Tom Cruise yeah right he's even better sure yes no they get their message and he knows the mission if he chooses to accept it back in the van and he's

[01:03:37] like yeah we got it got a break into the Kremlin yeah they're like what we just orchestrated a whole action about you're saying that 15 minutes in no downtime we just break into the Kremlin he's like yeah can I get brunch or

[01:03:49] something no he's like no get your iPad screen projector and you know your inside out coat that's Russian general on one side an American 80s tourist on the other can't tell you my number one takeaway from this film yeah Tom clue

[01:04:01] she's wow Tom clues Mr. Tom I gave you all the clues and the thing is my point was going to be so good now what now I can never make it now what's my come on now please Tom cruise is so fucking good at taking off and putting

[01:04:21] on clothes there are so many sequences in this movie where he has to dramatically throw on a jacket or the one where he turns the belt into like a zipline and he's able to like in one gesture just going he always makes it

[01:04:36] seem like it's a Herculean task to put on a coat I just what do you think of the Kremlin scene it's so good great he it fucking rules this is gonna be my take on it this is like the Rubik's Cup episode but I'm

[01:04:49] general yeah I like I like they set up this thing that it's like their technology is only like a step ahead of them and if the Wi-Fi signals bad they might be in lockstep with the technology and they have to like kill time

[01:05:02] while the loading finishes yeah that thing it's such a good bird moment but when they're at the security check-in and Benji's trying to get Tom cruise his profile loaded into their system his eyes rather so that he'll register as

[01:05:17] the general that he's pretending to be right yeah and Tom cruise like is waiting you're not in the system Tom cruise looks down sees the phone it says like 87 percent yeah and then the camera just tilts up to Tom cruise's face yeah like

[01:05:31] he's so good at linking those moments where it's like about like what's the information which characters know it where are they it's just basic fucking filmmaking that he makes look so effortless I just it's so funny good visual

[01:05:44] storytelling Paul patents outside but then they get inside this is my favorite device it may be in the whole mission possible franchise agreed it's so crazy it's so cool it's so fucking funny and yeah also it's so convoluted and bird

[01:06:00] communicates everything about it without any words being spoken no one explains what this thing is right they just set it up it's a weird projection screen this is the best part of the sequence they can't talk because the guy is right

[01:06:10] there right there's an a camera in the back that takes a picture of what's behind it there's a camera in the front that locks to your eyes and like yeah then it scans everything and just like it's so clever this is like his buster

[01:06:21] key it's good it is yeah that's what it's like right or ballet dances I already stressed it so they pull off this fucking incredible thing where they pretend that they are not in the hallway but they are in the hallway

[01:06:34] I also like the sound throwing flashlight where he makes the drip love that thing yeah very low-fi I like it though no no that's why I like it where they're like let's set up the crazy iPad machine how are we gonna extract them

[01:06:45] oh we'll make it sound like there's a leak that's the other like the other big flag that I think mission possible plants on this film is we're gonna be the analog franchise like despite being the franchise it's all based in like

[01:06:57] tech and gadgetry we're gonna start showing how the gadgetry works in a way that's like process based and also this could be the franchise about like we shoot shit for real well that's right that's more of it right yeah right yeah

[01:07:10] those action scenes can't be like pre-vis nonsense right they may need to be like real stunts that are very elaborate and the three films before this were like more hip I would say and Brad Bird is not concerned with hip no very into

[01:07:24] cool right now they're my adjustment oh my god I keep on knocking it down I think I have a limp mic I think I have a sad your mic Ben is now adjusting the adjustment again oh yeah he's giving you a little tilt clever clever girl

[01:07:44] to Ben not to Rachel sorry that would have sounded diminutive he is all into coolness okay and this movie is just like very crisp very clean yes it's the opposite of sweaty it's very like it's made not a look effortless agreed but

[01:08:02] then not afraid to be slap sticky because like this thing with the iPad there's all these funny like where they're like just ducking out of the camera just in time and oh it's so much fun but they set the rules of the sequence up very

[01:08:15] clearly yep entirely visually entirely visually they do the sequence they do successfully break into the data vault that they're looking for this cobalt info mm-hmm but no one nothing there Tom Cruise walks out who does he walk by

[01:08:30] Michael knife is like Nike Nike Nike fist their girl with a dragon tattoo himself who is now passed I know that actually very sad yeah you want to hear your story I heard about him that's good to eulogize sure so he of course is in

[01:08:45] John Wick as the big bad the first John Wick he's the one who says oh yes it's a good line there is a scene where some as it really is a good line there's a scene where someone pushes him up against a wall and in the process on

[01:08:57] the day they cracked his head open oh they thought it was a guy I was like in that movie wow it's literally someone like holding up against a wall and going like where's John Wick or whatever it is right and he was like a Swedish leading

[01:09:09] man in his day but you know isn't his 50s at this point he's in his 50s now and he hits the wrong side you know like the angle sure cracks his head open gushing blood and and visible on the front so they were like what can we do

[01:09:23] can we go to the makeup department can they fix something and Michael like this was like no I'm just gonna wear a hat for the rest of the movie and that's why for half of John Wick he has a hat on and not a continuous half right just

[01:09:36] 50% of his shots sometimes his hat appears or disappears within a sequence I feel like that movie was like everyone was like yeah fine yeah this thing's not gonna be like a franchise I just love that he was like here's my

[01:09:49] solution and he went to a Spencer's gifts he just wears a fedora where's your nearest lids yeah Siri where is lids rip he plays the villain a non-indie cobalt Kurt Hendricks Hendricks Hendricks sure rather than so mission muscle one the villain turns out to be like John

[01:10:15] Voight and it's like spoiler you know inside the mission yeah right mission possible to the villain is do gray Scott's a real way right the real villain was Tom Cruise John Woo I don't know no running time production manager on

[01:10:29] Mission Possible to who stopped a gray Scott from being able to be an X man that guy's a hero yeah yeah yeah mission also three the villain is Philip Seymour Hoffman big villain like first time they really just were like so

[01:10:40] this guy's gonna play the bad guy no fooling great for much for one of our finest ever act. Fantastic villain stuff in this one they were like we have too much shit going on we don't need a villain the villain is literally just

[01:10:51] a guy who wants to blow up the world for no reason what that's it there's yeah there's no time no my guess is there might have been more of this I imagine they're having and I think McQuarrie was just like the villain doesn't

[01:11:01] matter like this is all about crews in the team like just just forget the villain the villain is like them not pulling off all these wonderfully choreograph stunts that's what you don't want to happen I mean Leia

[01:11:12] I say he do is like a good B villain because she is kind of scary and tough and like you know like you know Steely Mission Possible 3 is like a movie that very consciously in it's like self-knowing when going to Abrams way

[01:11:24] is all about the McGuffin because everyone's trying to figure out what the white rabbit is and the end it's like it doesn't matter what it was mystery we whatever and this movie is like we're not even gonna pretend

[01:11:33] that you're supposed to care right yeah I mean I wrote down why bad guys do this stuff because I'm like question great question I love how he's a YouTube clip where he's just like a lot of people think the world

[01:11:45] should continue to exist as it is what I'm proposing is what if we killed everyone that might be fun what do you think that's an idea right just blow everyone up yeah new right that's his justification his justification

[01:11:59] is he wants everyone to die which is it's great you don't need more because my father hit me exactly and I hate bombs because he made him what I love and it's right at the end the only really crazy thing he does

[01:12:11] where cruises like I've got you now you can't I've got you've got a gun with you and he's like you forgot I'm want to die and I don't care about anything I'm throwing myself off this fucking parking lot right

[01:12:24] and I just think Sean Harris has a little more flavor I am nation I'm quite mixed on Sean Harris I really enjoy him yeah I don't know that that movie no really knows what it's doing with him because they are

[01:12:35] just trying to be like let's have a Ethan Hunt villain scary man the scary man who also seems to just be able to do anything yeah then they cast Sean Harris who I enjoy yes contender for Ben the Ben Hosley story you could be a

[01:12:49] Ben a contender he could be a Ben yeah I don't I'm fine with that I guess Ben's got more of a chin than he does that's true yeah I remember seeing rogue nation with a friend a friend of the show or lend Oli a and he

[01:13:03] went oh so that's why Sean Harris always has a beard funny but anyway alright so the villain yeah villain is not really a villain forget right they they fail in their mission not only do they fail in their mission the Kremlin

[01:13:17] blows up but he succeeds in one mission turning his jacket inside out very quickly looking really cool while yes it takes all those makeup off and like one gesture it's a really cool transformation it's so much fun that's

[01:13:28] also when I think he looks sexist the entire movie is where you're wearing the glasses with the springsteen shirt flicking on that jacket put it away I but put it away what you're talking about here I agree with which is like there

[01:13:39] is so much delight in these movies like Bogdan being taken out of the van in just like like a fluid transition like executed seamlessly you know like yeah bird like knows how to make that seem like an action sequence all by itself

[01:13:52] he's very good at his own musicality he's looking at Sean Harris in kind of like a grandpa way where he's like sort of holding the phone up to his face what do you think you could do it right I mean anytime there's a sort of skinny

[01:14:05] guy with red hair I'm like could you play Ben Hosley you know what I mean yeah like it's a little I'm painting with a broad brush yeah run Howard yes sure yeah run Howard Ronnie how I could play old Ben if there's like

[01:14:20] a time traveling Ben oh Ben from the future you know future Ben and we're like Ben what happened you really call the bits a lot of bits they finally got to me they caught up with me the bits the great bit war of 2049

[01:14:39] so Kremlin blows up yeah this is when Ghost Protocol gets activated gets an issue the most famous moment of the movie Cruises not to call wakes up in a hospital handcuffed Wilkinson gets shot in the head well first week oh

[01:14:52] you're right first right because there's the explosion oh who I love who's like hey it's me I'm finally here the star of this movie this is a movie about detective who catches a terrorist Vladimir Moshkov right he's like the

[01:15:03] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern where he's like he's got a whole story that's happening I'm Tom Cruise I'm the star picture someone blew up the Kremlin this is a very big deal to Russia right this is bad here's a guy who was

[01:15:16] impersonating a general one to one done the case there was some broadcast where it's like this is the work of the Tom Cruise goodbye right like you know like and earlier today Tom Cruise the movie star was spotted filming

[01:15:31] near the Kremlin I love this guy and I wouldn't love him if he didn't have the arc where at the end he was like I figured it out yeah Tom Cruise is like good that's great I wanted you to figure it out but for most of it he

[01:15:43] feels kind of like the teacher in Incredibles he keeps on trying to catch Dash leaving the thumbtacks on his seat right sure spoiler no we already did that one remember man yeah now I love you run Howard Ben remembers because he's

[01:16:02] further in the future that's right so Tom Cruise very quickly another beautiful just like very quietly established nurse leaves her folder on the gurney he immediately picks up a paper clip yeah yeah he escapes all the

[01:16:19] papers fly away which they don't pick up on right I just love that detail of like if they were paying attention they would have noticed he had the paper clip right because suddenly the papers are floating all over the place and then he

[01:16:29] escapes right he walks out onto the roof the Russian guy catches him and he's like what are you doing it looks like an overstuffed hot dog yeah right he does he looks he looks like too much meat stuffed into a

[01:16:41] case sure right yeah he looks like a cheese steak this is when his body starts looking wait and his face is looking great he bought needs to take it down okay fair enough but he whips off that belt

[01:16:51] mm-hmm classic Tom Cruise fashion zip lines out of there damn right so insane that's part of ghost protocol what a crazy man zip line protocol so then he calls gets picked up yeah by Wilkinson and Jeremy Ranner hey here's my

[01:17:05] secretary here's a pencil pusher play me a word nominee Jerry Mariner he's only gonna be here for a minute there's also the scene where Tom Cruise in that scene draws Michael Michael's face on his hand right and Jeremy

[01:17:17] Ranner's like oh yeah no of course that's you know what's the Kurt Hendricks no no he fucking he throws him some shade he goes well the drawings a little crew based off your description like renner Tom Cruise puts a fucking oil

[01:17:32] painting on his hand and writers like yeah I mean I guess that's him right Ranner is the dude who's just doing his job and he's like we don't need these fucking crazy movie star IMF agents there's gonna go shows up by the done right

[01:17:45] by the book so he's already analysts he's an analyst that's his position right but Wilkinson initiates ghost protocol right no more IMF yeah everyone's disavowed if you get caught you're in the wind you can almost describe it as

[01:17:59] a rogue nation I just like nation is to the syndicate right like that's what I just love that the two films have titles that could kind of be interchangeable right you could call either thing the opposite thing yeah so

[01:18:12] yeah this is the first of three movies where the IMF is disbanded and Tom Cruise has to kind of go rogue before Wilkinson can even finish offering him his condolences shot man boom gone car plunges to the bottom yeah now cruise

[01:18:29] and brand have to hang out right cruise and renner right and renner is just like how do you fucking know that flare thing was gonna work I know they keep doing cruise keeps doing like let's try this yeah and renner is like that doesn't

[01:18:39] make any sense when it's on ask like how did you know that he's like I know a hunch is like what do you mean hunch he's like I'm number one in the call

[01:18:45] sheet I did this is how these movies work right and then they get on a magic train and love the train it trains trains probably my favorite thing in the movie and also again like that's bird having fun like where it's like put

[01:18:58] the code in okay here's the code oh yeah oh once an eye scan like get your eyes scanned Brad birds also talked about that like for him the moment that kind of sums up his filmmaking philosophy is that hun solo cast to kind of hit the

[01:19:13] Millennium Falcon before he gets it started right yeah he's like if you're doing high genre stuff you need those moments that are recognizably small and human right kind of funny or else it's just watching like machines on rails

[01:19:23] like right yeah but also it places you in the shoes of those characters you go okay now I get it because they're dealing with the same basic struggles that I am even if the larger struggles are uncommon so the struggle of Tom Cruise

[01:19:34] to get enough momentum to be able to eye scan onto the train for long enough right with all the like poles and stuff moving it's just it's just really fun and they get on the train and so cool little high-tech lab here old

[01:19:47] friends Paula Patton and Benji yeah and he just let them know this is all that's left right this is us it's us this is us NBC Thursdays and this is all the equipment we have left take what you can here's the mission if you want to come

[01:20:04] cool if not I get it right right and everyone like Brantz nursing some kind of weird and you know anxiety like he seems weird yeah he's like a kid on a family vacation yeah at the age where it stopped being cool to hang out with

[01:20:18] your family Benji's all in pegs just fun but he's a huge Tom Cruise fan he wants to be a mission possible he's been pushing so proud that he's in the field yeah he's in the field and he says that the cremation made feel so

[01:20:30] exciting to be on a mission like this with you you know oh yeah in the crematory is awesome sorry your wife left yeah I didn't know when to mention this yeah like just so we have that and cruise just doesn't respond yeah cruise just

[01:20:41] little looks at him yeah and then Paula Patton is she's nursing she's sad because Sawyer died and that means anyone could die dead hubby and also right they were married right and this mission is not also just really worried

[01:20:53] about how the stakes were raised by the death of Josh Hall and she's explained to Tom Cruise how she feels like she fucked that one up right it's her fault like yeah yeah right she mishandled the mission led to his death and now she's

[01:21:04] got some skin in the game emotionally speaking so now they go to the tallest building in the world the Burj Khalifa which had like just been built yes and still is the tallest building in the world correct it is they are building

[01:21:20] a building in Saudi Arabia that the Burj Khalifa is two thousand seven hundred and twenty two feet long yet too big tall very absurdly tall like when it was built it was far taller than any other building what do you think about it

[01:21:33] Ben it's fucking the best have you been to Dubai three times really wait really of course okay yeah cool because it's a beautiful city of very futuristic and I have not had an opportunity to get into that big old

[01:21:52] building but it's on my bucket Ben does weekend there though he weakens there is a time sure yeah yeah so the Burj Khalifa you guys don't you guys don't have a time sure haven't been to Dubai Dubai so the Burj Khalifa twenty

[01:22:05] seven hundred better get on it twenty seven hundred feet high right eight hundred and twenty eight meters the Jeddah tower which is under construction should be built in the next few years okay is going to be one

[01:22:15] kilometer high dumb too much which is three thousand two hundred and eighty feet so like a lot bigger yeah and they're only building it to be that tall so it will be a kilometer high it will be the first kilometer high

[01:22:26] building you know the worst thing is what it's a walk up walk up there good so it's gonna be in Jeddah Saudi Arabia yeah it's gonna be tall a good setting for this kind of movie because they're in a weird state of like

[01:22:44] developing very aggressively but it still is largely a desert so you have them like on the road trying to steer around camels sure and as the camera pulls up it's like oh here's the biggest fucking building in the

[01:22:54] world here is like a rocket ship in the middle of sand and also it's just it's very James Bondi which I appreciate you know that James Bond thing of like what's like a cool new place we can send them that we haven't

[01:23:06] been before but the real gag was what's the thing that Tom Cruise can do that will show everyone right what no other movie stars willing to do let's hang him off the tall three it was well he'll run down the this long fucking

[01:23:17] bridge and we'll shoot a missile and he'll like bounce around right yeah it's a fun stunt but also has like a lot of effects in it I like that something I do too but then this I mean this is right I saw this in

[01:23:28] theater yeah with Joseph Sims yeah who's just on the pod long time brother years and I said it I think I've said it on this but this is the last time I like gasped watching a film like theatrically like sure from shock at

[01:23:42] him jumping in through the window the one that gets me is the first shot the first so the first shot just where they're like this is real like he's off the fucking building right I mean they get there their weird skeleton

[01:23:54] crew doesn't really know each other they don't have a lot of equipment they're like here's the plan right there's a meeting happening right they say do is going to sell the nuclear codes to cobalt so let's make

[01:24:04] a couple masks right and be those guys have a medium of have two meetings right will be on one side of each meeting doesn't that come later as a solution no okay no the solution or the thing that they have to improvise

[01:24:17] is rather than scramble the codes which I think they're gonna be able to do is they're gonna actually have to do the deal they'll give him the real right and this is another cool piece technology they got the contact

[01:24:26] lenses double print it's so good and the briefcase is a printer I just love love it and I like how you know shit doesn't work right like the mask machine breaks right but they do still have like enough gadgets to have like Simon pegs

[01:24:42] like third arm contraption right but they're kind of they're sort of having to Jerry Reagan you know they're like improvising but they realize that the thing they need to do is right they're making it look like there are two of the

[01:24:55] same hotel room so they have to rig the elevator to make it elevator right they have to change the door signs and they have to like break into the server room so they can control the element well that's what they realize at first

[01:25:07] banji things you can hack it can't hack it well how do I get inside only from the outside right so it's like what so what are we gonna do and he's like what do you mean we your time cruise right go I believe is exactly I'm on

[01:25:21] the computer yeah I'm the computer guy yeah and I love bunch of things I love about the sequence one is that Tom Cruise rather than being like that's not possible he's just like alright you know like he's being annoying at work

[01:25:40] and also Brad Bird sets up the language so clearly of like here's the glove blue is glue red is dead you got to peel it off it's a slow remember just thinking about blue is glue what's red dead anyway you know like that's I love

[01:25:53] that delivery slow peeling motion slow peel a roll the shot that just destroys me and still works on a home screen but on I'm especially it's insane this is I'm extra talk if you're so suddenly the screen is bigger the shot

[01:26:08] right the ratio changes right it's boxy tall yeah the shot where it starts on cruise is back now that he's all suited up and then goes like over his shoulder over to the edge of the building right and you see from over his shoulder all

[01:26:23] the way down to the ground everything's in focus right like infinite depth of field yes is insane yes I don't love heights I wouldn't consider myself to be someone who has like a tremendous fear of heights I have a tremendous fear

[01:26:36] of heights the fuck out at that shot also and I don't think I've rewatched this movie in a hole maybe since it came out but I watched that sequence at least once a year I'm watch you wait you had not rewatched this movie I maybe it's

[01:26:49] you know one time to be like a dozen times I've seen rogue nation like five I mean I've seen rogue nation I probably seen this two times maybe one and a half times before last night and then rewatch it blah but I watched

[01:27:01] this sequence all the fucking time okay because it's so goddamn good and Brad bird is so good at we've talked about he's good with scale right showing things are big good showing things are little yeah but also a lot of dumb filmmakers

[01:27:16] would have hung Tom Cruise for real out of the tallest building in the world and shot it and cut it in a way where you didn't believe it was real that's true you can actually mess it up you can fucking mess it up Len Wiseman would

[01:27:28] have fucked it up all right God poor Len Wiseman getting thrown under the bus he's like what did I do with those guys where it's like it's gonna look like you shot in a studio he is always so aware of framing it so much yeah and leaving a

[01:27:40] lot of negative space in the frame so you can see around Tom Cruise how far away everything else is now in the distance behind him below him all of that it is horrifying and then one of the gloves house working so it's a throw

[01:27:55] immediately right yes throw it off somewhere I like how it sticks somewhere else yeah the gloves Ben Ben you like it but what I like and you can talk Ben you're a guest he now he's just not talking to me what I like is Tom Cruise

[01:28:11] never says fucking gloves aren't working right or like shit I have to do something now he's just like he's self-sufficient all right I'll just do something else I guess I'll just sort of hop up on one glove and renters

[01:28:23] giving him a countdown clock and that's the one moment he kind of breaks where he's like don't hey don't need that countdown not helping yeah I wonder watching this though like I would have been so terrified as the camera operator

[01:28:38] on this sequence like sure I mean I wouldn't do it right they'd be like do you want to do this and I'd be like no I resign yeah from the film well but Tom agreed to do it it's like that's not cruise he's fucking insane I don't know

[01:28:50] he is immortal or something I really care about right I would just got a really long stick and I just want to adjust it everything with a stick I get like a six

[01:29:00] foot like back scratcher I mean and just try to pull focus like that I refuse to go in a helicopter yeah like in our helicopters you hate any reason right do that all the time I do refuse to do that all the time every yeah I hate

[01:29:14] planes but I'll go in them but I mean a helicopter shot is a relatively common film like big budget film shot right well I would refuse to get in a helicopter for context audio booms on the sixth floor of this building yeah but

[01:29:30] they don't have an elevator no it's a copter up so you have to copter up straight to the side and then you got to jump like cruise going like right yeah you do it yeah I don't know David I mean I think they're gonna

[01:29:44] eventually maybe install an elevator everyone else seems to like the copter yeah I was having a grand all seems like a little bit of a waste of fuel have you we'll talk about it one day in full but in the Armageddon commentary

[01:29:58] there's a helicopter in the background of one scene and Affleck's like see that fucking helicopter two hundred thousand dollars that cost helicopter doesn't do anything no one gets in it no one gets out of it it's just there and I

[01:30:09] asked Michael why do we have the helicopter and he was like shot up cool cool it's so expensive very cool very cool very chill very cool he finally gets up with the one the one

[01:30:23] glove has to break through the glass oh cuz he drops the thing he kicks through like by himself glass cutter kicks through yeah gets in works everything out but now doesn't know how to get back down yeah they're like you got to come

[01:30:35] back down he's like and they're like what it's like it's his fault right so he like tethers himself yeah and he runs down right which is such a cool shot yeah but then oh I can't believe it Tom Cruise didn't measure correctly the

[01:30:52] amount of tether he needed right on a snap judgment last second decision and so now he has to do this like crazy jump in that moment when when he's free what they catch him and it's renner hanging out grabbing him by the foot all

[01:31:09] patents grabbing ran or they all flip back up in yeah and they all just kind of like right there on the ground catching their breath for a little bit it's like they just fucked and they play the like kind of understate like

[01:31:19] don't do don't do don't do don't do and it's such a nice moment of like oh you're actually living with how fucking insane that would be the second was done and then time peg walks in and he's like I did not change all the

[01:31:30] hotel not easy yeah right and then mass machine is broken but they still go ahead with it anyway can I say how nice their suits are in the sequence yeah they look good they look so fucking good fashion expert nice nice

[01:31:49] present right where's the suit very well actually he's very he's small too right like he sort of yeah maybe not cruise size but yeah kind of small yeah yeah he's got a little more to him yeah he's a little he's that scene in Mumbai

[01:32:01] where he takes his jacket off and he starts like getting ready yeah and he looks great yeah their suits are really well cut in this it got great but yeah and also cruise his suit has a little shine to it yeah it's a little

[01:32:15] shiny that's the kind of thing where you're like is that gonna age poorly is that like so the moment here we are like fucking years out from it to mission impossible films ago so it still looks immaculate yeah looks perfect timeless

[01:32:28] cool no he looks good and I like this this scene's very bondy where it's like yes they have a little game little gadgets but right they also just have to perform right and when they walk in like someone on the mic is like wait

[01:32:41] what if they've net before and they're like I don't know we'll figure it out yeah and then there's that moment where they're like which one of you is blah and he she echoes the line downstairs yeah like one of them so you know which

[01:32:51] one of you is right like which one of you is Hendricks yeah love it who are your guys who are your guys yeah exactly and they should have locked the window on this one Jesus Christ David we don't have time for jokes like this okay we have

[01:33:06] to talk about the movie at hand they seem to be pulling it off without a hitch seven peg does this cool dude and Monty oh yeah and then boom laced to do notices rendering renors that also he's the sweatiest yes she he you see him

[01:33:25] fucking up mm-hmm he's a little too nervous with a little too nervous he's quite an A-lister yet and she notices the contact lens I love it love to tap that foot I like that Rachel isn't taking any she is keeping us in our bullshit

[01:33:42] yeah I've been doing this with them like this is I don't even know three years now three years but like episode a hundred six years we should actually figure out what number it is kids that he's given up trying to rear yeah

[01:33:56] no but I love it and honestly it's making the record better I'm very fidgety as a person pointing out those things I've done it I've done it so much we don't listen though we all respect no and then he eats a bagel and it gets crumbs

[01:34:09] everywhere and I'm just like that's what it's gonna be to be fair I don't do as much of that shit you asked for a bagel twist today I did I was hungry and it was good right yeah twisty you can taste the cheddar yeah definitely the

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[01:37:08] b-r-o-o-k-l-i-n-e-n dot com promo code check that she's ever so now the fucking gloves are off Laysidoo is kicking ass and there's a great shot of Paula Patton just taking off her heels and running up to take care of business it's good

[01:37:22] right yeah two mission impossible movies in a row where before the female member has to do something crazy she removes her high heels yes good point the anti Colin Trevor we call that move Patton so fun yeah there's a move

[01:37:39] there are a lot of gestures in this movie I think about a lot like I don't quote like lines from the film but I quote like poses there's some fun dancing going on it's at the autoboom window Paula Paton when she's fighting

[01:37:52] Laysidoo does this pose where one fist is like all the way here do you know what I'm talking about yeah when she's like trying to fend off Laysidoo and one fist is like yeah but Rachel wants to lean into the mic I'm leaning in but

[01:38:03] I was trying to do the impression of the fist okay mom yes she's yes I know the pose you're referencing right good pose yes they end up kicking her out a window yeah they do Tom Cruise not happy about it rip you let your emotions

[01:38:20] get the better of you yes he thinks that she kicked her out the window because she's mad about her husband which is true but I also think it's like that but Lee's scared he also wasn't there in that moment he's gonna kill

[01:38:33] them she had a wine opener right she had like a wine bottle opener and she was flipping out yeah and guess what not our fault we had to open a whole window so you could run the fucking side of the building to get the marketing hook you

[01:38:43] need for your poster point good point just so like like because now at this point the movie does slow down slightly I mean now there's one more great there's the car chase right after the sandstorm yeah the sandstorm which they

[01:38:55] set up when he's on the building I just like that's like we know we're on this this set piece right here but it's well let you know what the next step is on the horizon it's a sandstorm but that's a while away won't be an issue

[01:39:05] it's at least 10 12 minutes away right and then you got the car chase where he's following the paper the radioactive paper yeah and I mean the best part of this is just the stunt of the car like flipping over him right yeah like that's

[01:39:17] I just love that I just love the audacity of being like we're gonna do a big like car slash foot chase where the gimmick is that you can't see what's happening right where he can't see and you can't see you know agreed

[01:39:30] it's got a scarf shine suits get a little dusty pulls off the mask realizes it's it's like this right yes was pretending to be his henchman now this is where I think the movie peaks well at this is I was gonna say

[01:39:44] literally we had the prison we had you know the train sequence the prison the Kremlin this right it's all just like absolutely no pausing finally the movie has to pause we're like an hour and 40 and now it sets up the character

[01:39:58] dynamics right and then it's like Tom Cruise is like well what do we do now also Jeremy Renner like I hear you're an analyst right come on like they finally have to like bug each other and or does some cool gun posing he's

[01:40:13] like how do an analyst know that yeah and then cards are flipped over right on the gun cruise pulls the gun render pulls it back right like all in one little like Renner was a field agent he was supposed to look after an agent

[01:40:27] and his wife he lost the wife it was Tom Cruise what a twist right what a bagel twist cheddar clearly a fix to justify why Renner was I think silly things to him trying to lure Ben back to the microphone he's just

[01:40:41] leaning back just taking it easy but it is brought in so late as a character wrinkle I know but I love it I think it's good I think it's good but that's where the sort of last minute scrambling nature of the script

[01:40:52] construction shows for me because to me it's just like that's the mystery of the movie you drop them and you solve the mystery the start of a third act is like what's the deal with Renner and then they're finally

[01:41:04] like this is the deal with Renner also this is kind of the deal with Tom Cruise because people are sort of like I got married in Mission Impossible why was he willingly in a jail is the explanation literally just he his wife

[01:41:16] left him like that's all we're going to do after all that shoe leather and three with the no you know the explanation what there can only be one female character per movie it made it ridiculous when it does bum me out so

[01:41:27] hard the patent isn't in rogue nation I don't know why I think she should just be on the fucking team bums me how you know sippa yeah hate it I hate it three has Kerry Russell Maggie Q and Michelle Monhan but none of them

[01:41:38] really dominate sort of like Kerry Russell dies very early on she's really good agreed Maggie Q's on the team the whole time doesn't have a lot to do Michelle Monhan is is the wife is the wife yeah yeah I mean it does yes it

[01:41:50] sucks that that's the most that one just spreads yeah right and one has Kristen Scott times and Emmanuel bear yeah manual bear a manual bear two has Tandy Newton but the two has less team stuff yeah to his team a solo

[01:42:05] mission he has no team also the only bad movie in this franchise yeah but it's kind of the best sort of bad movie it's okay it just has a lot less action yeah and the non-action stuff sucks I loved at the time because it was like the first

[01:42:19] quote-unquote grown-up action movie I was allowed to see you sound like a fucking idiot okay play my mom play my fucking mom David for taking you to see it no for not taking me to see earlier films that I would have enjoyed

[01:42:34] more and provided me a greater context for what the bar was so final mission we're gonna go to Mumbai yeah we're going to intercept him because he needs a satellite yeah to launch his nuke we're gonna get that satellite I kind of get

[01:42:49] checked out of the movie at this point well I kind of check you out whatever what do you think like what you say yeah I love it like what you say I

[01:42:56] check you out and I see a dunce a dunce well this this did not go how I planned it I thought he was gonna compliment me now you're checking me out I thought well thank you how's riot going well please I can't talk about this first rule of

[01:43:12] riot you can't talk about really doesn't say that when you load the app no you're just you're not allowed to screen grab it oh yeah I may or may not have finally been accepted on to an exclusive dating app here's my question

[01:43:23] here's my question yeah if you have a second phone take a picture of your screen with the with the second great question so I asked my manager about this reason I did really and she said she thinks they might be utilizing a

[01:43:36] technology that she knows has been used for like top-secret scripts uh-huh where they're like hey here's an audition for this thing it's fucking Deadpool 7 sure secret sides don't photograph this one he doesn't know he's in a movie right she had a client he forgot that's a twist you're

[01:43:54] ruining this fucking everybody secret sides that's five deadpoles from now secret sides and like your name is watermarked into the client who has sent secret sides and it was like you can't download them you can't print

[01:44:07] them you can view them on one device and he wanted to save them in some kind of way so he tried to use a different phone to take a picture of that phone

[01:44:16] and the app recognized that's crazy and like blacked out what I was like no no no no no excuse me she was like I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it is because I've gotten so many fucking riot profiles that I want to send you specifically

[01:44:31] I have no kidding I've been telling you lovingly describe them to me in text form but the thing with Raya and I say this while making it very unclear whether or not I am a member who knows it's a great mystery like whether or not

[01:44:46] Deadpool knows he's in a movie yeah but if I were on this platform I would maybe perceive that the profiles are like slide shows where you pick a song and then animate a bunch of photos to it so it's really funny to see how some of these

[01:44:58] famous things they can define themselves yeah through musical montage let me guess mostly Coldplay a lot of talking heads because if you remember it's famous it's kind of artsy oh really yeah interesting okay yeah anyway I'm never

[01:45:15] gonna date anyone for the rest of time so they go to Dubai yeah and they meet Anil Kapoor who is a gigantic Bollywood star he offers them 10,000 rupees uh-huh he had just been in slumdog that was right that that's partly why he's

[01:45:33] being cast I'm guessing and also just for like international appeal when Hollywood is starting to go like oh we need to load our supporting cast with as many international box office stars as possible some movies play while on all

[01:45:43] territories yeah and so the hot guy at that moment a little bit I mean he's very very famous and that was the post slumdog around when a movie with no name actors becomes that big everyone's like okay wait which one's the movie star

[01:45:57] yeah were they like Frida Pinto six movies yeah you don't like it yeah took a weird time for them to realize no it's obviously dev Patel the lead of your movie charismatic lead of the movie right took him about 12 years to

[01:46:07] figure that one out so this is we've already had death defying stunts yes we've had prison break right we've we've had spy mission and this is like another classic bondy thing like briefcase well no but also like the

[01:46:22] party it's a party the production right and Paula Patton is not able to keep her cool which then ends up being an asset because she realizes that but I enjoy that you know what I mean like it's a better version of the Kingsman thing

[01:46:37] like in Kingsman where he's yes oh no I have to seduce someone let me go call my girlfriend right where she's just like he's so repulsive that she cannot keep character entirely but somehow that works right he's kind of like wow right

[01:46:50] he wants to he wants to get dumped down to right oh he wants to get down next right I yeah I think all this stuff is kind of fun but I also just feel like the ears out of balloon I mean it's like the building is so fucking

[01:47:04] good yeah you know and because this movie doesn't have like a real tangible threat a villain that's kind of hit neither here nor there a plot you don't really care about once we've gotten the biggest set piece out of the way I

[01:47:16] just feel a little bit like okay now it's like the sense of inevitability I think the parking structure thing is fun hey it's great I just don't care about like this that much at this point but then there's a nuke yeah literally

[01:47:32] fires I said it great briefcase set up before I'll say it again I just like that the final stunt is not trying to top they've already had their best yes but is just cruise driving a car vertically down but I also love the renter thing

[01:47:47] yes I love how this movie be it intentional or not like intentional or last-minute fix realizes what runner is which is the guy who's like this is crazy I don't want to do this and he also has to do essentially the classic Tom

[01:48:02] cruise stun he says to replicate the mission possible right the sort of your hands are you spreading goal right being lowered into the room thing but he does it without cool well that's the thing he's like to some days like where if

[01:48:14] Simon peg pitched this to cruise because be like great where's my metal shirt right whereas like Ben she's like yeah I'm gonna pilot you through magnet magnetically where this is like huh that's what insane talking about yeah

[01:48:26] there is no way that we're gonna do that that's where no it's a no yeah and Ben she's like no no it's a yes also it's gonna be really really hot did I

[01:48:34] mention that I and I catch you I catch you and I love the you know the final thing where that the thing explode their little rover explodes goes yeah they got a nice little he dodges all the metal rover at robot

[01:48:49] they also there's the whole with runner doesn't have kind of the instinct so they're all telling him to jump he has no end of jump yeah he jumps and they freak out that he jumped okay I don't know funny business yeah but but I mean

[01:49:02] pretty quickly cruise chases down like fist sure I mean he is just a guy right and like this just wants to launch the nuke and he does goes to a parking structure yeah that's like this throws himself off of it really cool

[01:49:16] cruise drives down we're not gonna talk about it's cool it's all these different levels rising and it's also like kind of a cool building like they just keep picking cool structures to fuck around in and that is like some sort

[01:49:28] of famous piece of architecture that parking it is like something like the Incredibles where he designs that whole world so well where all of the architecture across the entire universe of that film has such a unifying aesthetic he somehow finds real structures that feel Brad Birdie yes

[01:49:46] and somewhat science fiction yeah which is really cool and then what's the last thing that happens in the parking structure our old friend the detective comes back he's like Tom Cruise I've got you and I'm here to tell you and then

[01:49:58] look you're great he's the Tom Cruise fingers on the button that just stopped the warhead mission accomplished yeah I like the also that like the warhead like clips the building yes I like the clips the trans America building yeah Kevin Zegers

[01:50:13] trans America that's why he got so close can you go to Wikipedia and look up who the third guy was it was do you think it'll be on it I think it's development Anthony Mackie Kevin Zegers and one other guy where the three

[01:50:28] content anyway mission accomplished and then it cuts to our old buddy you thought he was gonna be missing for one of them nope no no no no no bing bong no Ben you're wrong bing bong you're wagging your finger

[01:50:42] but he actually pulls the old pull your hand out of your pocket and give the other finger bing bong his body who's at the door bing bong bing rams yeah he comes here he gives Jack lemon is golden globe that's the scene have I told

[01:51:00] you your mission should you choose to accept it is to give this golden globe to Jack lemon have I told you I saw that at such a formative age that anytime I was unhappy with someone winning an award about it I wanted

[01:51:10] like to do it with Haley Jollies yeah that's the thing Anthony Mackie Kevin Zegers yeah Tom Hardy oh right Christopher Pine weird and Christopher Egan who's that what is that I don't he played Charlie and

[01:51:30] letters to Juliet what he was in Kings I kind of vaguely remember this guy oh yeah he's a real way dude yeah yeah he's a guy with a face sure he's a guy

[01:51:40] with a face he's got with a face I mean this guy's got bodies got faces got shoulders you can talk and see how bad the Wi-Fi is that shoulders he can walk you can talk he's barely got a face Rachel weigh in now Rachel hates not

[01:51:54] into it Christ dominion I mean I don't know maybe he's let himself go okay so thing rains and Tom Cruise just drinking some Bruce keys and then the rest of the crew shows up they're like hey we just finished a Dave and Buster's

[01:52:09] we ran out the rest of our game card like it's like we're all like together is like a group right they show up together and Tom Cruise is like God gotta say you know this is a good team we got here surprised wasn't my usual

[01:52:21] guys yeah but fun time right let's do this again some hands a bunch of cell phones here's the mission if you choose to accept it no he says here your missions choose to accept oh yeah which is great right but he's kind

[01:52:33] of warm here he's actually he's very nice I'll say the way they blow his hair out in this final sequence he looks a lot like Tig Nathara Tignitaro jokes about looking like Tom Cruise this is the moment in Tom Cruise's

[01:52:45] filmography where he looks the most like Tig Nathara they give it the exact same kind of flip in the back and everyone else leaves except for Renner thing rains six and with the bill but flashes in my bird

[01:53:00] and then Renner's like look I got a level with you and cruise is like yeah yeah that was all made up don't worry about it yeah my wife's right over there yeah right I timed all of this oh yeah cuz finger aims upset cuz he's

[01:53:12] now gonna have to spend like what is a five days the bottom of the river he's gonna have to go get a nuclear bomb right from the bottom the bay yeah but but oh what perfect coin cadink here is Michelle Monahan getting off

[01:53:25] a ferry she's still alive Tom Cruise had to fake his own death fake her death in order to keep her safe yeah and then he disappears like a ghost in the night a good girl go real ghost no ghost no that's true what until the end

[01:53:44] that's the twist fog disappear what if that was the twist where they're like someone finally kills him and he's like you can't kill me I'm already dead what been a ghost the whole time what if the end of the movie was Tom Cruise

[01:53:57] on the pier flips up his hoodie which is a very cool hoodie good hoodie flip right it's so good at the flipping disappears into the fog and then the camera slowly pans over to a graveyard where it says 1951 to 2009 that would be great yeah

[01:54:21] we did it we did it that's in the moment I'm just looking at the trivia Oh Ruben Fleischer and Edgar Wright with the other directors so that's a real so I have something maybe like I don't know if we want to do box

[01:54:34] office game I just I worked out a little thing leaving a lot of notes you want to do the box office great go ahead griff I so could you read these pitches for me yeah I'm just gonna read these pitch read what it is okay

[01:54:44] so I'm gonna pitch these for Ben because Ben you know is a little shy of course this is SNL Mission Impossible pitches ready so these are pitches for SNL this would be to do a sketch yeah okay I'm

[01:54:57] just gonna read it as is with no commentary okay mission more reasonable sure just like a pretty normal kind of like chill like what would that be like getting groceries yes yeah yeah but it's like crowded getting groceries but like yeah like on a Sunday afternoon totally exactly

[01:55:20] super busy yeah whole foods gonna be packed yeah exactly yeah right that anyway you're gonna nice for you're like I need the groceries you do yeah I forgot to mention everyone is pitches has an exclamation point at the end of it so

[01:55:35] does the header of SNL Mission Impossible pitches okay mission more reasonable second one mission enough already oh wow realizing mission geez Louise mission you can't believe this stuff mission no no no no no that's insane what that's that's pretty close to impossible but it's

[01:55:59] just like a little less here's the last pitch mission are you but that's not wait what you can't do that read right maybe you can and if I can read the rest of these notes no he wrote no ghost question mark question mark question mark

[01:56:17] he also wrote zygur report I guess we'll do a new segment where we report on whether or not Kevin Zyger's is in the film you're asking for the report in so I was gonna say tied into the fact that burger burger yeah yeah okay and then he

[01:56:34] also circled resident evil five times yes you got it you got one free change in the franchise that's great any time that's mission possible ghost protocol in a great movie so much now here's what's tricky yeah came out in

[01:56:49] limited release its first weekend they released only an iMac screens the first that is true which kind of helped it because it like sold out its first weekend it's true mouth was bigger it was a weird gambit that work so the question

[01:57:02] is which weekend do we cover I have well it's up to you it's relatively similar it's just that ghost protocol is not number one let's do the wide weekend okay the wide weekend which is Christmas weekend cool two thousand and eleven

[01:57:20] your lord right exactly so mission impossible ghost protocol goes wide and I know that Rickie Gevry's doesn't believe him go on it has now grossed seventy six million dollars you know not bad ends up being second highest grossing in the French 209 domestic 700 worldwide good number for Tommy real

[01:57:42] bounce back for him yeah bounce baby number number two is a sequel to a movie that was a big hit at Christmas like a couple years ago right this is too there are two see it's Christmas past

[01:57:57] previously opened on the same Christmas right two years prior okay so I think number two is Sherlock Holmes game of shadows that's right and number three is out in the chipmunks the squeak well no it's the third one it is

[01:58:08] chipper that's right well done thank you okay so that's the top three mm-hmm I have not seen chipwrecked that's the one on a boat correct yeah I haven't seen that one either great I only see the becker chipmunks I will say game

[01:58:23] of shadows I watched the last like 20 minutes on TV and enjoyed it more than any of the first Sherlock Holmes just because Jared Harris fucking I'm realizing we did this weekend before but anyway I was trying to remember if we had done

[01:58:35] this weekend or the previous weekend where it was in limited it might have been okay no we did this weekend this is the weekend they're debuting debuting so then should we do the limited week I don't know what to

[01:58:49] tell you well but you don't remember what number four is you don't give it's an adaptation of a novel and it's absolutely crazy that this was released Christmas oh girl the dragon tattoo yeah mm-hmm so then why why did we

[01:59:03] cover this before something else is number five is a film we've talked about before from the year 2011 yes is it we bought a zoom no that's number six really yes number seven is also a movie we've just talked about before

[01:59:15] or seven or seven that's right and they're all new this week big weekend big weekend okay wait so what's the one I still need to get number five yep animated film animated picture fully animated fully animated but motion

[01:59:31] capture oh is this a Christmas story huh so mech is a Christmas story Christmas Carol I'm assuming you're saying but I'm sorry was it to mech as a Christmas story though no okay it's neither of those right it's not

[01:59:49] the movie you mentioned or the fake movie you just made up happy to know there's some controversy with those happy food movies no how much they're more yeah but it's not I'm just defending my guess where people tell me

[02:00:00] I'm dumb which I am you love this movie I love this movie oh oh oh it is my dear friend the reason we discuss this weekend before the box office his name is 10 10 10 10 adventures and so what's it number seven so number seven

[02:00:19] is warhorse feel break had two movies in the fucking weekend so then wait let's quickly because we knocked yeah that's fine so that weekend before where Mission Possible yeah let's do more yeah let's do more let's do more stuff yeah let's do

[02:00:30] more stuff the weekend before is Sherlock Holmes now Vin our numbers one and two okay Mission Possible is number three how much limited limited it made 13 million dollars on 400 screens that's really cool I realized I just

[02:00:40] had him read SNL pitches yes exactly no it's fine we're the Lord is a big fan of the show that's right yeah what if he was what if we had him on what do you think

[02:00:50] we'd talk about not bad what do you who do you think his guys are his guys Chevy Billy Gilda absolutely outrageous we're gonna sit next to each other every time yeah yeah that's good idea this is great number four is an

[02:01:13] anthology film sort of you know what I mean like I mean it's one film it's not like a parish a tame you know it's like a movie with lots of different and not big ensemble sort of Altman esque except without the quality it was number

[02:01:30] one the previous week it dropped like a rock to number four drop like a rock or is it called New Year's Eve that's right saw it with Marshall past guest and future guests Bobby finger and you have a good time I saw it midnight I was drunk

[02:01:44] okay raise your glass was Bobby drunk yes okay on excitement number five is a comedy that exists interesting okay so it does so the clue there is that it doesn't exist no it does not and also I think it was like it was coming out

[02:02:02] like significantly after it been filmed interesting like years it's starred like a comedy name the premise was what if he had this specific job she's this which he seems ill suited for someone is ill suited to a job those are my

[02:02:20] favorite kind of comments this might be the next Ben's choice it's isn't is it a big comedy movie star I'd say medium medium comedy movie star where are we are we in his arc and but now he's back he bounces back shortly after but with

[02:02:38] like a whole new look baby correct bounces back with a whole new yeah he kind of like rebrands a little bit got it gets a new look does like a little more like an action comedy for his next movie weird out with the glasses

[02:02:49] yeah that's what it is right it's weird out without the glasses you're right you nailed it he bounces back with an action comedy yeah he's ill suited for this job yeah it had been shot a while earlier been shot ages earlier in fact

[02:03:06] like it been shot so long ago I think his action comedy had already like come out and recovered his reputation weird yeah he's a straight comedian no I'm wrong it comes out the next year he's a straight comedian straight comedian straight comedian I'm saying is

[02:03:20] he come from a purely comedic background he makes comedy movies not a stand-up not stand up no sketch comedian was there an asshole I don't think so he's from the Apatow stable fuck it's an apatow guy who's bad at

[02:03:33] his job well in this movie I mean I actually haven't seen the movie maybe he's good at his job but the pitch of the movies poster is like that guy in that job I don't know it sounds so funny I don't think it is

[02:03:48] no it's really funny it was like a flop it sounds really funny dude I'm laughing okay it's an apatow guy this is taking four how is this taking so long it's not a Rogan no but you know you're in the right wheelhouse right oh oh oh oh

[02:04:05] oh disappointed now if any of your members what it is this movie fucking sucks have you seen it I've seen it I own it on DVD it was a trivia prize it's the sitter it's the sitter with Jonah Hill you want to find trivia fact he's

[02:04:19] a babysitter that guy Jonah Hill but he's like a big galoot I think he might be bad you want to you want to find trivia fact sure one of the final three candidates to play the daughter in that film

[02:04:32] Kevin Newman Romley never really yeah so all of you guys had your shot that's one way of putting it I'm just saying yeah all like we're out no Romney doesn't really act but you know she's a very good she's very good at being on

[02:04:46] camera and talking about food sure what that character is no but my agents you know sometimes would like throw stuff if they're they needed a precocious child they're throwing it at you they literally threw it at her head but I remember

[02:05:01] taking Romney to her call back to meet with David Gordon Green pick up from school she was still young she must have been like 12 or 13 right like I mean this yeah yeah yeah picture from except leaving earlier because that

[02:05:13] movie was yeah yeah she must have been like 10 years old so that's a great way to end our ghost protocol episode yeah you know I ended up getting it if I'm not mistaken Jennifer Lawrence no maybe it was the other girl who didn't get it

[02:05:25] Teresa Gidees is that her name the real housewife who went to jail right her daughter huh those were the three people in the room where that woman's daughter Romley and I think the girl who ultimately got well apparently Jonah

[02:05:38] Hill yeah Ari Grainers in this movie yeah Rockwell isn't it yeah no idea is he good yeah they yeah Max records isn't it the we're really wild actually he's very good at JB smooth isn't it apparently Method Man is in it yes he

[02:05:52] is this movie it's bad okay and I remember reading the script we wouldn't let Romley read the script because it was someone appropriate and I was like this script's fucking amazing like on paper it was so funny and then you

[02:06:01] watch it and you're like oh no you don't want to see people do these things uh-huh it's like a perfect like spec script to put someone on the map to be like oh what a good like sample of their writing and then the second it's

[02:06:13] on screen they're real kids in those situations you're like I hate this this makes me uncomfortable sure Romley and I saw we had a miserable time but she had to admit that the girl was very good interesting Romley's very competitive

[02:06:24] with anyone who is within five years of her age in any field she gets like she can't watch the Olympics because she's jealous of like kicking ass yeah I'm all about Chloe I'm all in on her top about breakfast sandwiches you know

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[02:06:49] and last day at audio boom and there she goes she is running where do you think we lost her trying to catch that last helicopter down I think it was probably I don't know maybe all of it yeah in yeah the fourth time she had

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[02:07:35] Rick? John Voigt looks like the Hall of Presidents robot. Oh shit yo and hey what on the low yeah please you know who's an atheist oh Ricky Gervais oh my god wait a second yeah seriously Rachel cut the mics what's up Tom Cruise is really

[02:07:53] good at taking off clothes dude he's really good and put him back on too I love that you want some more bagel twist yeah these are good it's really good right yeah even good cold do we have an out I don't know maybe just chew out I think

[02:08:10] chew our way out all right fine that's just like what's the slowest fade out we can have on this this right now right now right now it's fading but still going on I mean you can hear it's faint but it's still definitely what about

[02:08:32] a light bright what if I may have a light bright movie what is light bright again is that like the etch a sketch but it's lights it's like a it's almost like a battleship board where it's with pegs but the pegs are translucent and the board

[02:08:42] lights up so you can draw with lights you know what I'm saying yeah I remember those commercials there's a three-act structure to that right what should the headline on my early man review be have you seen it mm-hmm how is it cute

[02:08:54] gentlemen six a gentleman sex should you be recording all this good perfect put it all at the end all right all right cool griffin what's your what's your line well I got look at how I was looking at pans where property these guys

[02:09:10] are the definition of me and yeah we're a pain in the ass where a definition of episode of all time we're definition of this is a tight movie I guess so yeah so going for a loose episode