Just watched both these movies back to back. How the frick did Mission Impossible flop over Oppenheimer? Was it the subject matter? Was the marketing involved? This Mission Impossible was everything you'd expect from an over the top crazy Tom Cruise action film. It had all the stunts and fight scenes. It had humor, it was funny at times and really delivered enjoyable entertainment. Oppenheimer was the opposite in every way.
The detonation of the bomb in Oppenheimer at the end was disappointing. The score was over the top loud af when it didn't even need it half the time. The ending was depressing when all his colleagues and partners turn on him. Clearly had zero balls to stand up fro himself. Oppenheimer has no rewatch value, no one to root for, nothing to take away from the end. Nothing.
Oppenheimer was a pretty film with a nice selection of actors accompanied by nice camera work. Somehow that justifies a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and nearly 9 stars on IMDB. Frick movie critics.
>part 1
This + MI is an unremarkable franchise. Nothing about it is interesting. Oppenheimer is attractive to normies because they can feel smart and cultured watching it.
This is it, imo. Just call it Dead Reckoning and it would've done a shitload better. It can be part of an overarching story but part 1, for a franchise like MI, makes me think I'll just wait until they're both available to watch. Terrible move. Including "Part 1" in the title legitimately cost them millions of dollars.
This. "Part 2" should have been called Hunt (Ethan + the submarine).
Nolan doing a 0% CGI atomic blast > Cruise doing a bunch of stunts
Lmao no
Yes, that's why Oppenheimer has all the IMAX screens and Mission Impossible doesn't.
>This Mission Impossible was everything you'd expect
Therein lies the problem.
hmmmm
The budgets. If MI had Oppys budget it would be a big success
>Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
>$291 million budget
Lmao. What did they think?
It was inflated due to shooting during covid. They had to pay to quarantine staff all around the world and probably a bunch of other expenses. I feel like surely insurance has to come into play to cover some of those costs though. Remember when Tom had that meltdown at some dude on the production crew about his mask. I'm sure they probably had a bunch of strict requirements they had to which they had to adhere to ensure they were compensated by their production insurance.
>This Mission Impossible was everything you'd expect from an over the top crazy Tom Cruise action film
That's the problem. It's what we expect. There are no surprises. No originality. It's the same movie we've seen a dozen times.
I haven't seen the film. I'm sure it's fun. I like Tom Cruise a lot. But if you asked me to recap the last couple of MI films, I wouldn't be able to recall a single plot point. They all blur together. Sadly, I don't have any desire to see this new MI. Been there, done that.
Oppenheimer is something different. Original. That makes it more appealing.
nolan is more culturally relevant to contemporary audiences then tom cruise who is mainly known for being a freak/nutjob
No one cares about that washed up old cult leader Cruz, besides boomers. Isn't this like the 7th mission impossible? He should stick to drinking kid's blood and abandoning his own children and wife for the sake of Zenu.
I certainly think Oppenheimer is over rated, but it brings me joy to see that closet homosexual Tom loose. And that it upsets fanboy homosexuals like yourself.
>but it brings me joy to see that closet homosexual Tom loose
The Tom is loose! I repeat, the Tom is loose! Someone catch him and bring him back home, please.
Fricking ESLs should just shut up and open an English book for a change.
>Was the marketing involved?
Yeah. The whole "Barbenheimer" thing was kind of a stroke of genius because they managed to ride the wave created by the memes (astroturfed of course, WB had people posting all over about these movies).
Mission Impossible really didn't have that, but if it had come out like a month before when it did it would've been much more succesful because it wouldn't have had to compete with these movies. Some anon said it best, it overestimated Indiana Jones and it underestimated Barbenheimer.
you are a fricking idiot if you really think that helped in any way. btw, Barbie is a garbage flick that miraculously appeals to zombie crowds which the world is full of now.
It was genius marketing. He's right.
moron
Barbie is the FIRST movie off a massive IP. Guarantee you if they made 7 Barbie movies it wouldn’t be making a billion. Just enough MI and Fast movies.
Use spoiler tags newhomosexual
>Just watched both these movies back to back. How the frick did Mission Impossible flop over Oppenheimer? Was it the subject matter?
It was a bit flat for MI movie (I liked it, but it was a bit flat) and all of these MI movies depend on China; and China was flat.
Oppenheimer and Barbie got Barbenheimer craze marketing which propelled both movies.
Remove "part 1" from the title and release it this weekend coming instead of the weekend before Barbie and Oppenheimer and it would've been a hit.
No way to predict that moron flick Barbie would be so popular, so don't be a c**t.
>This Mission Impossible was everything you'd expect from an over the top crazy Tom Cruise action film
But people are tired of those
I'm not but I wasn't willing to spend $20+ for half a story.
Poor release schedule, with Sound of Freedom and Oppenheimer splitting the older male audience. Paramount also allegedly didn't spend much promoting this, instead prioritizing the black people Transformers movie.
based. I like both, but I enjoyed Mission Impossible a lot more. It's the kind of movie you go to the cinema for
>How the frick did Mission Impossible flop over Oppenheimer?
One word. Nolan. He's one of the few directors you can sell a film off of by their name alone, no matter how much this board thinks he is a hack.
MI7 was great. Barbenheimer hype screwed it at the box office. I think part 2 will do better.
Americans think they'll graduate high school if they watch Oppenheimer. For the boomers that didn't graduate high school, it's a second chance.
A. Oppenheimer rode the Barbie marketing campaign
B. Nolan is the most overrated filmmaker in hollywood
The M:I series is marketed to teenage girls.
people only watched oppenheimer because of the joke of watching a boring grey slog and then/after barbie. 90% of oppen's tickets are ironic
I love how this board acts all high and mighty about being above the typical capeshit/general audience in movie tastes, yet it gets pissy when an R-rated historical film does better at the box office than your run-of-the-mill franchise film.
I truly this this board is filled with morons.
Maybe because the promo campaign of the movie was annoying asf
>The detonation of the bomb in Oppenheimer at the end was disappointing.
From the beginning to the test was pretty unremarkable.
The ending with the hearings was fantastic, and a great payoff for the whole movie.