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May 14, 2025 11 mins
3 things that go together...Tom Cruise...the theatre...and Big Ben Rogers.  Having the privilege of seeing the movie before the rest of the world, Ben Rogers gives his spoiler free review of the 8th and final installment of the Mission Impossible series. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now, I want to remind you that this segment right here,
we do it every day sponsored by our friends Rollertown
Beer Works. Me and Ben are our friends. We're partners
in that brewery and we have something really cool going
on tomorrow night. It is yacht Rock Trivia and I
will be your host. Ben's going to be hanging there
as well, and we think a special guest is coming through.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I don't want He said he's coming, but he has
not signed a contract. But let's just say one of
our one of our former radio co workers might be
in the building and he's a guy that people want
to hang out with. And the other reason that you're
going to want to go to this is that we
are taking this from seven right up to eight thirty.
It's an hour and a half and then that's right

(00:43):
when Stars playoff. Hockey happens and it's a clinch game,
which means but could clinch, and we are going to
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Not only that, me and Ben love talking to the
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(01:05):
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(01:28):
be up North tomorrow night. Do not miss it.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
But right now it's time for this. This thing's big.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
This thing is big, and what I'd like to talk
about here is the movie Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning.
I got to go to a sneak preview the other night.
What was that Monday night? Yep, And that was I
went with my son. It was at North Park Mall.
I'd mentioned on the show that I had received an
email invited me to go see it, and I thought

(02:00):
it was fake. And so I don't click on anything
from anyone I don't know, especially when there's links. It
was like, hey, if you want to go, just click
this link. I'm like, this is fake, And then I
started thinking, man, what if? What if this is real?
So I reached back out touch base with this lady
and sure enough it was real. And uh, I got
to go at North Park Mall to their big what

(02:21):
is what are the what are the movie screens called
that have the best sound in Imax Imax four K. Yeah, dude,
it was so I got to go to their big
Imax theater and watch this and dude, it was insane.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
It was so good. I can't wait to see the
new Paddington movie. And I'm at Yes in Peru.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yes, And I will say, I don't think skinner kt
would like this at all, but I think Christina might
the movie, and I think most people will. But I
don't think you guys are not really your speed?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Is this?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Uh? I'm being honest. I don't know. Is this mission impossible? Eight? Yes? Okay,
don't even know the final reckoning is the eighth one.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I think it's smart of them not to do that,
also right, because then it cheapens it, because I think,
like the Fast and Furious ones, you're like, what really
as a as a connoisseur of the Mission Impossible movies.
You can and I'm being sincere, you can just watch
any of them. You don't have to watch them in order, right,
Like they don't tie to one another, do tight to one? Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
And this one in particular wrapped up the whole thing.
And I even saw that and this is not my
this is not my thing to where I'm like totally
into these movies or the Mission Impossible movies. I'm like,
I'm not following them on the edge of my seat,
dying to see them, following the plot lines like I
would with Star Wars or something yeah or Fast. There's

(03:39):
not that either. There's so much Star Wars. I don't
even know what's happening with the right But I do
love Tom Cruise movies. And the Top Gun Maverick movie
was so freaking good. I'm like, dude, this guy just
knows how to make action movies and and he makes
it fun to go to the theater. And I think

(04:00):
that's a big thing that he's focusing on purposely trying
to get people back in movie theaters. And I saw
that the budget for this was it made this the
most expensive or one of the most expensive films ever
made four millions Wikipedia. Yeah, I heard four hundred four
hundred million dollars. And is that before you even advertise

(04:21):
without that's the production budget? I mean, good lord, And honestly,
I mean I don't It's been a long time since
thom has shared his books with me.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
But I don't think that he gets a salary. He
might get like a producer salary. I think he takes
like a cot because he's going to print so much money.
So I don't even know that that's like a big
price tag to have Tom Cruise in it, right, could
be wrong.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Mister possible seven. The budget was two hundred and.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Ninety million, and it printed money brought in five hundred
and seventy million.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, doubled it.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
I enjoyed that one a lot, actually, And Ben, I
don't know about this new one obviously, I didn't go
see it, but that one I just saw, or the
one right before that, they did a really good job
of kind of looping you in if you hadn't seen
any of the other ones, like me, So they did
a good job of kind of doing a quick backstory.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
So Jess, that was good too.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
That one was good with the train that was falling
off the bridge and stuff like.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's it's uh.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I would just say that this style of movie,
especially if you go see it in an Imax theater,
it's like being on a roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Man, It's like an adventure.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
One of my favorite movie experiences ever was and this
was a thousand years ago, but the technology was different.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Be when the Return of the Jedi first.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Came out and they were on those speed things going
through the forest. That was like a visceral experience, right,
Like you're talking about being on a roller coaster. Obviously,
the technology is a jillion times better. Are you saying
that if I watched the seventh movie that could kind
of catch me up to where I didn't have to
go watch the first six to enjoy this.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
It did for me, Yeah, okay, because I highly enjoyed it.
And again, I'd never seen any Mission Impossible movies, but
I could follow along with the story that's there.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
There is a tie act to the first one, ever,
this this one is definitely wrapping it up. It's summing
it all up, and to that end, it was. It
was kind of cool in that regard. It's kind of special.
I cried doing this. I laughed during this. Yeah, I
laughed because stuff was funny. I laughed at it being
stupid at another time. Double hell yeah. Like I'll give

(06:21):
you an example. So the scenes in this, the things
that happen are just the special effects, so real looking.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
But it's a hard stretch of the truth.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
A few times, right like you're like, oh my god,
this is come on, this is this is too much.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Part of the deal. It's part of the deal.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I'm watching your friends and neighbors right now and it's
so far fetched, but it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm enjoying it. Yeah, okay, So I'll tell you there's
just multiple locations and scenes and things that happen that
There's one that takes place underwater, and it is man.
I was, I was like sweating. I was so nervous.
It was really well done. I'm like, god, this is nuts.

(07:08):
How come no one's ever done this in a movie.
Let's see trying to hold his breath?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Is he? I can't. I'm I'm sorry about Kevin's question.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't want to ruin it for anybody who I
still want them to go have that experience, but I
will share this. Okay, So because it's obvious. This is
something that's I'm not spoiling. Have you guys seen the
movie poster for the movie.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
That's out there. I have not. Okay, it is a
yellow like I don't even know how it would be.
What type of plane is like a World War two
red barren plane or something. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
If it's a crop doesn't Oh, yeah, it looks like
a small plane. Yeah, it's a small plane. It's the
kind that has double stacked wings, kind of like a
club sandwich and the other things in between holding the
both wings.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
They call those club sandwich planes.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
And he knows stuntman will ride up there in between
the wings air track, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
And it's like you'd see Indiana Jones in one of
these or something.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
And there's two seats, yeah, pilots in one and someone
in front of him, and it's like a snoopy and woodstock. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay,
So that's on the cover of the movie poster. There's
and clearly Tom Cruise is out on the wings.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I sort of got it. I'm not joking.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
I was gonna ask you, is there a scene in
the movie where he's running on a plane wing while
it's flying. Yes, because you know, you see that sort
of story's surfing on a train or whatever.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
You know, was the last one.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
He was on a bike and he landed right on top.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Of the Hell yeah, and he did a stunt himself.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yes, he did it.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Awesome And so this is the part that I laughed about, yea,
and it ties into the poster.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
So there's this, it's it's a great movie.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
There's there's you know, there's some sentimental moments, there's you
reflect back on your own mortality moments. There's like really
special things that happen and you're like, godly, man, I
did not expect it, like get in my feels at
this dumbass action movie, but it just happens. And it's
just such a long amount of time that's encapsulated in
this one grand finale. It's overwhelming emotionally in that regard

(08:58):
because your own life is taken so many years to
get you to that point, and they tie back in
some old storylines in a really well done way. But
there's all these action sequences and action scenes and there's
this actual plot that's happening along the way, and to me,
that's like the least important part, Like it's just a
fun like a roller coaster ride. And they get to

(09:20):
this point where two bad guys are running and they're
getting away, and he's got to hurry up and go
catch them. Why are they escaping in those stunt planes?
You know, it's a badass. They each have their own
one has a yellow one, one has a red one,
and they leave in those planes. Let's go mad, And
it's like, okay, but uh, you know why we're that?

(09:43):
Why is that their means of getaway? Like, hey, look
we're gonna and then we're gonna do this. We're gonna
do this and then we're gonna get away. I've got
to see our own stunt plane to drive. You know,
I don't even know how to describe what type of
a plane that is, but it's not. It's an antique plane.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's an antique stunt.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Plane that's been renovated and perfectly ready to go, and
all know how to fly him, like experts from the
Kavanaugh flight music. Yeah, and it's like and so I
think when that happened, I think in the movie, I
went like out loud.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I was like, oh no, I hope, but I'll get
like that was Tom didn't hear me. It is silly.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
There's men. Yeah, and uh there were there were moments
in the movie where people applauded hell yeah, and I'm like,
hell yeah. So I clapped loudly. I clapped right my
son's face because I know it embarrassed him.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I was trying to start it. How did your twenty
year old son like it?

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I think he liked it.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
But we just the whole time, we were like we
every once in a while, we'd nudge each other and
go Cooper flag right, Cooper fla, Like we were all
drunk off the energy of that whole thing. So, yeah,
it was incredible. Highly highly highly recommend.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
We'll send this review to Tom and see if that
nable has been to meet him here in a couple
of weeks.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's going to do it for us.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
I'll never forget the time Kat learned how to fly
that stunt plane. He looked Tom Cruise dead in his
and he said, DM me for socks and panty purchases.
And Tom was all over it. Christina is going to
stick around and play music right here on the eagle.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Here you going, well, I'm gonna get my sock back, dude,
all right

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Enough fun in games,
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