Not quite, it's actually performed higher than MI:Fallout at the US box office as a comparison .
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (Part One)
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I meant underperformed against expectations which were for $90 million.
It looks like people just aren't going to the cinema regularly enough like they were, despite how well Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar 2 did.
It looks like people just aren't going to the cinema regularly enough like they were, despite how well Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar 2 did.
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Just watched this last night, and there was one bit that either I didn't understand properly, or they messed up the logic on.
After the airport, they revealed that Gabriel had been there all along, but the entity had been erasing him on the fly from all electronic devices - so he was never seen on security camera feeds, etc. But then they had a flashback to what we had already seen towards the end - Ethan thinking that he saw him, doing a double take, then him not being there.
OK, but the problem is - he saw Gabriel with the AI enhanced glasses on, then removed them and couldn't see Gabriel with his own eyes. Surely that was the wrong way around? The glasses should have allowed the entity to hide Gabriel?
OK, but the problem is - he saw Gabriel with the AI enhanced glasses on, then removed them and couldn't see Gabriel with his own eyes. Surely that was the wrong way around? The glasses should have allowed the entity to hide Gabriel?
Was it not that Gabriel had moved / hidden when he realised that Ethan might have seen him due to his reaction? Agree though that it was a bit of a weird sequence because surely everyone would have seen Gabriel IRL (including the US Marines), just not the IMF team.
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The problem is the cost of tickets nowadays. Cinema chains really need to consider dropping prices,especially during the daytime weekday viewings,and towards the end of a run.
As a result,people are being more choosy about what they watch especially if a whole family is going.
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My local Odeon charges £22 per adult ticket if you book online and even more if you pay at the box office. It's not even free to park.
Wow that’s insane. I think it’s maybe £8.50 per adult for my local Vue cinema.
I like Vue, particularly their excellent pre-film messaging re: shut up and be quiet. Which is basically just a guy saying “phones - they gotta go away… it’s ok, you’ve got this! Nobody wants to see your screen, they want to see the big one. Also, nobody here wants to here you talking. So just chill out, relax” etc.
Actually seems to work!
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It's cheaper for me to drive a round trip of over 50 miles to go to a Vue cinema and buy two tickets. Than to walk to my local Odeon and buy two tickets.
And while I was in Mission Impossible 7 last Saturday I had to tell two people to put their phones away. One of them had the nerve to tell me I was being rude.
This puts me off the cinema more than the price. But some films just have to be seen as intended.
Well you did the right thing by telling them, good for you. I’m sure many other people were annoyed but wouldn’t have had the courage to say anything.
I actually told some people to stop talking recently, with a message along the lines of: “excuse me, can you guys please stop chatting - it’s really distracting for everyone in the cinema, thanks” before giving them a wave of thanks and heading back to my seat. Seemed to work… maybe it was just me that was annoyed but I think it was ok to be liberal with it for the sake of the message
What’s really hard to do though is deliver this sort of message when the offenders are behind you. There is a certain natural feeling of vulnerability when things are behind you. I’m moved seats to the front before to get away from it. Much better.
The back of the front rows of the cinema are a little underrated - everything seems like an IMAX and little chance of distraction there! I tend to go for the front of the tiered sections though
Watched it yesterday, and I found it utterly average. Like, almost boringly so. There were few gadgets, which in turn meant the fun espionage parts of the past films was less present, and the big action piece in the middle with the cars just felt very generic. The face mask is also feeling a little God-mode-ey at this point.
Agreed. I am not understanding the hype behind this movie at all. Shame.
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No, other than it features the same IMF team.
Nearly made the effort to try and travel the significant distance to see this on the nearest IMAX screen to me, however I was surprised to find out that unlike the previous MI film there are no sequences that use the full IMAX aspect ratio and it remains locked at the widescreen 2.39 ratio throughout.
Apparently Tom Cruise was upset that he was losing all IMAX screens to Oppenheimer when it gets released shortly but surely the IMAX attraction is seeing the full IMAX aspect ratio being used, such as the helicopter chase sequence in Fallout. When I went to see Avatar 2, there was a preview of the motorbike stunt sequence from Dead Reckoning and that filled the full IMAX screen. As this film is losing out to Oppenheimer it looks like they have taken the decision to crop the whole film which is a disappointment and I'm glad I've found this out before I went. I'll just go and see it in my local cinema instead.
Apparently Tom Cruise was upset that he was losing all IMAX screens to Oppenheimer when it gets released shortly but surely the IMAX attraction is seeing the full IMAX aspect ratio being used, such as the helicopter chase sequence in Fallout. When I went to see Avatar 2, there was a preview of the motorbike stunt sequence from Dead Reckoning and that filled the full IMAX screen. As this film is losing out to Oppenheimer it looks like they have taken the decision to crop the whole film which is a disappointment and I'm glad I've found this out before I went. I'll just go and see it in my local cinema instead.
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It seems so common these days. I've seen a guy offer someone outside for a fight after a viewing because he politely asked his mother to put her phone away twice. She was sitting in one of the lower rows with her iPhone screen on what appeared to be max brightness. She'd also given him a pretty snappy retort the first time, clearly just a terribly entitled family all round.
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6/10 for me, was quite disappointed as for the most part the MI films tend to get better (imo) certainly from 4 onwards, with each release but this was a bit of a downer. I also think it's very evident it was a ''covid movie'' as it just seems empty in a lot of scenes.
I mentally checked out when they are in the club and the AI is on the screen in the background growling away as they discuss it. Clearly, the writing team where on the money as they must have wrote this at least 3/4 years ago, and certainly since November last year AI is the buzzword everyone talks about, I suppose it's hard to not just go down a Terminator esq storyline.
Someone posted above re the car chase, agree for the most part, it became a bit too cute and went on too long.
I enjoyed the opening on the sub, the stunts in general were of course excellent quality, the cinematography particularly at the end with the train is superb, bike jump and the uncharted 2 train scene were great to watch but nah wasn't sold on it, will still for sure see part 2 though.
Someone posted above re the car chase, agree for the most part, it became a bit too cute and went on too long.
I enjoyed the opening on the sub, the stunts in general were of course excellent quality, the cinematography particularly at the end with the train is superb, bike jump and the uncharted 2 train scene were great to watch but nah wasn't sold on it, will still for sure see part 2 though.
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Predictable but I was hooked every second of the way. I didn't check my watch a single time. Started at 7:20 and next thing I knew it was 10pm. That was an enjoyable time.