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Comment on Tom Cruise's "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8" production has been delayed, again, due to submarine malfunction— budget said to be nearing $400M.

Audacious@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

His best movies are the lawyer ones earlier in his career. I don’t like most of his action movies. Too bad he basically ruined Mission Impossible’s formula.

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jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tropic Thunder was pretty good tho.

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IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As an old school M:I devotee I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the original series fro time to time and thoroughly enjoy it.

I also cringe at the mental gymnastics over the plot of this new 2-part movie…. You’ve got an evil AI on board a Russian sub that tricks the crew into torpedoing itself. The crew all dies but the AI survives onboard the sunken sub. And despite being stuck on a blown-up sub at the bottom of the ocean the AI is still a serious global threat. On top of that a two-part physical key that is the only thing that can disable the AI somehow made it off the sub and everybody is scrambling to find them. Once the keys are recovered somebody (clearly Tom Cruises character) will have to get onto the sunken sub and destroy the AI.

Why doesn’t the US or UK just go shoot a few more torpedoes at the sunken sub and obliterate the AI once and for all? The need to suspend so much reality for this plot drives me nuts.

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- Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The AI has made it out into the world, and the submarine has something that can stop it. The ai probably was recovered from the sub by the same people who went for the keys.
  
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