June 16, 2025 • 15 mins
FULL FREE EPISODE ON PATREON – In this special sample episode, we dive into Mission: Impossible (1996), the film that launched Tom Cruise’s iconic run as Ethan Hunt. We break down Brian De Palma’s stylish direction, that legendary langley heist, and the beginning of one of cinema’s greatest action franchises. This is a full deep dive into the spy thriller that changed the genre forever. Listen to the full episode now (free for all members) only on Patreon!
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(00:17):
Hello, welcome to the EXTRA Credits plus of Ryan De Palmas
and Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible.
I'm Trey. And I'm Kelsey.
Tonight's mission, should we choose to accept, is a live
commentary on the film that has launched one of the longest
running franchises in our lifetime.
Yeah, I think since almost the beginning of our birth, like
(00:38):
it's been Tom Cruise has been jumping off shit.
Staple, yeah. Since we've been alive, this
franchise is modern Action Cinema.
It is like some of the most spectacle driven movie making
you can find. Yeah, this is what started it
all. I'm really excited for today.
I'm so excited. I think also, I mean, I've
(00:59):
watched pieces of Mission Impossible growing up, but I
never like, watched a full Mission Impossible movie.
Maybe until like college, maybe until we started dating.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like it wasn't as big for me. I think, you know, Jason Bourne
and James Bond, like those were more so movies and characters
(01:22):
that I I mean, I saw those movies more so like I also going
into this, you know, this movie and we'll also, you know, cover
the new Mission Impossible on the main feed and hopefully do a
ranking or some sort of like Mission Impossible episode,
maybe on that that same like episode.
But I have like a a totally different outlook, I think on
(01:44):
this franchise than a lot of people.
Like I have no feelings, if thatmakes sense, towards Ethan Hunt
at a certain stage or towards a certain movie.
Like I don't know how anyone feels about these movies.
Does that make sense? Like, I know people know Tom
Cruise is Ethan Hunt and I know people love these movies, but I
I have no concepts of kind of the the cultural connection to
(02:05):
any of the specific movies in the franchise.
I think people treat Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible and Tom
Cruise as American spectacle. I think it's like as big as.
Huge popcorn bucket. Eventising someone trying to
self sacrifice themselves for people's enjoyment, like that's
(02:26):
kind of what magic Mission Impossible is about.
It is one of the most American things we have.
Yeah, it's like very on the noseand straightforward about the
kind of like, I mean, we may notthe first one which we'll talk
about today, but as it goes on especially it's it, it embraces
the cheese. Right.
Yeah. And it is funny.
And, you know, it's Tom Cruise. And we just did a Tom Cruise
(02:46):
episode for Jerry Maguire. My team is dead.
I was going to do that. The list is in the open.
It's in the open. Who's dead?
My team. My team is dead.
Your sick voice is not letting you do the Tom Cruise.
Wake up, Claire. Jim's dead.
(03:07):
They're all dead. Oh man.
Oh God, I love Tom in this movie.
He's so electric. He's so good.
He's so, so good. He's he's cruising.
He is full on cruising in this movie.
Yeah. I mean the the kind of like, you
know, like Kathy that comes through from like a Few Good Men
(03:30):
or like a Jerry Maguire kind of yell.
I mean obviously like Cruise does that in other movies as
well. But that kind of like
electricity in him just really delivering lines that he that he
has no business like delivering in that way is just amazing.
Yeah, no, it's so good. All right, let's get into this
movie. We're going to be talking about
the Palma, the camera tricks, Tom Cruise, the ensemble, the
(03:53):
dead ensemble. We'll we'll get into all of
that. It's really exciting.
This episode will self destruct in 54321 play.
You know, something that I didn't realize, like as you're
doing this countdown is when they, you know, get one of these
(04:14):
mission video slash whatever, you know, whatever they get the
briefing. Yeah, the briefing of like this
is your mission, should you choose to accept it.
Actually, maybe you brought thisup and like if anyone who's
married, like sometimes your ideas merge.
So like, I thought it was my idea, but it's Trey's idea.
(04:36):
I was about to take credit for it, but Trey was like, who's the
graphic designer on these? Because like, you have to think
about someone like basically theIMF is contracting out like a
graphic designer who's just likea remote worker working from
home in a probably beautiful location.
But it's like, Oh my God, like this Ethan guy's getting a
really serious, you know, like. End of the world.
(04:58):
Yeah, I got to tell somebody. Yeah, I got to make sure I add
an explosion into this thing or like, but just the way that.
The rabbit's foot is going to destroy the human population.
And then their work is destroyed.
You know, it's it's for the eyesof one person.
They got to make it snappy. They got to make it clear with a
couple flares. OK.
Do you think they not in this movie?
(05:18):
Obviously, like this movie is not.
Oh, they killed the graphic designer.
Every new thing they'd run out pretty quickly.
They're like training people with the IMF how to use Canva.
Or they just need a, you know, aMen in Black kind of like
device, you know, to make them lose their memory.
(05:39):
But yeah, the graphic designer, you know, in the future movies
goes wild because in this movie it's a very like, you know,
early Internet graphics. Yeah, well, they support human
art because I don't know if you saw Mission Impossible Dead
Reckoning, but it's Ethan Hunt versus AI, so that's good.
(05:59):
Actually, I'm. I'm actually being dead ass.
It's just a funny concept, but I'm being dead ass.
It is kind of cool that that oneof the villains of these movies
is literally just AII. Mean Tom Cruise is like AI can't
do these. AI, it's so funny.
Oh, we're going to get into it. I'll get Ethan pulling off the
mask. Yeah, so we open with the like
(06:19):
fake set. Yes, the fake set piece.
Very fun. Yeah, it's really fun.
It's this movie sets the template for the Mission
Impossible franchise, a franchise of seven movies coming
on eight in two weeks with Dead Reckoning 2, which is called The
Final Reckoning. And there's a few trademarks in
these in these movies. Ethan is having a crisis of
(06:42):
sorts. The world is going to collapse.
A woman under the age of 40 willdie or be replaced or recast.
Different character, but sort ofthe same character because it's
like a femme fatale thing. Or maybe like an agent who helps
Ethan remember his first team from this movie.
And just usually as collection of set pieces, but three to four
(07:06):
major ones. I would say the the movies, the
stories that are being built around those set pieces and they
get crazier and crazier and Ethan Hunt gets further and
further into our atmosphere. I'm surprised he has not been to
space yet. I'm sure it will happen
eventually. Oh my God, yeah.
And the masks and all that stuff.
So like there's a there's a couple different trademarks that
(07:27):
this movie, it kind of foundations that are set.
It kind of sets a blueprint for a lot of different things that
later movies will do. But I just want to start today's
episode by saying this is my favorite Mission Impossible
movie. And I think it's also it's also
the best one. I I agree with that.
OK, interesting. Yeah.
(07:48):
I mean, we're going to do a ranking because I think that we
have, I mean, I don't know, I actually really don't know your
takes, but you really don't knowmine.
I don't know yours because I we haven't watched these together
fully until just recently. And I've purposely like given
nothing away besides just that right there is that this one I
think is the best 1 and I have some hot takes maybe I guess I
(08:12):
mean not hot takes for like listeners, but for like the
Hollywood system that like kind of took some of the mission
impossibles in the wrong direction.
They like, it's like they almostlike took things from this movie
that they thought the audiences were were like sticking to in
terms of a commercial sense. But I actually think like there
(08:33):
are some successes of certain movies in the franchise that
stem from the right pieces of this movie that they actually
like don't lean on enough. Yes.
Does that make sense? No, no, I think, I think we
don't have to be coiled about itanymore.
Although I'll be specific about it once we get into like, yeah,
the plot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(08:54):
We have Jon Voight right now as Jim Phelps, the character.
Who? Well, no, we should go back to
the the sequence where they have.
The. Sure, right.
Don't you want to like go through this in order or no?
Yeah. In the first opening sequence of
the movie. Yeah, yeah, 'cause that's where
I mean, I OK, also for context, right?
Like I fully I haven't seen thismovie fully until just watching
(09:16):
it for this episode. Like I've seen pieces of it.
I've seen later mission impossibles, but this was the
first time I had watched it all the way through.
And so it was like a brand new movie for me.
So I would I had a lot of fun watching, you know, the the kind
of set up Gordon Bombay in our hearts.
OK, Mighty ducks watch Tom Cruise.
(09:38):
Try trying to like get him to belike, you know, say the name,
say the name. We don't know.
It's Tom Cruise, right? And yeah, and maybe one day
we'll. That's a big reveal that we're
Mighty Ducks fans. I was waiting for that.
What are you talking about? We're we're kids of the. 90s,
yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Fans out there, yeah, D2. But whatever whichever one there
(10:02):
was like the prank one, that's the one that like OK.
I think so. Yeah, but also, like Charlie
getting the team together was also really, you know, iconic.
Yeah, the twin brothers. Or are they twins?
The brothers who, like, beat guys up.
They're not twins, I don't think, but they're just like,
they're two tough guys who foundeach other.
OK. So Gordon Bombay being like,
give us the name. Give us the name.
(10:22):
Emilio Estevez is his name. Yes, yeah.
And and then obviously it's likerevealed to be Tom Cruise,
right, with the mask. And I was like, oh, this is fun.
That's it. And they they returned to this
kind of like like you're saying it lays the groundwork for other
movies. They returned to this later on
to where they like do a gotcha in the CNN thing where they
(10:43):
tricked that guy. That.
Yeah, that his manifesto was being read live on CNN.
And then they like they're like,cut it, take down the walls.
And you hear almost like the thebell of like a set, you know,
where it's like a rap on the scene, the walls like fall down.
You know that that is really fun.
(11:03):
Just like in terms of like the movie making joke to of the the
artificiality of things like this to to put them like in the
forefront of the movie. Yeah, I like how deception in
the spycraft of it all, like kind of becomes the signature of
the entire series. And they tell you right here at
the top of the first movie, likewe're going to constantly be
(11:27):
just tricking you throughout allof these films.
There's a lot of trickery going on and you're going to be in on
some of it and you're going to be really in on some of it.
Like to the point where you're in like Ethan Hunt's imagination
when he meets his his mentor later in the movie, who he
thought was dead. And you see him playing out the
truth that we know that Ethan knows that he is not revealed in
his reality to his mentor, that he knows that he's the bad guy.
(11:51):
So the movie like lets you in onsome things and doesn't let you
in on other things. And it, it's really fun in terms
of, like the mysterious elementsof these movies.
Yeah. And you like being tricked, so
you're not really trying to figure it out.
I don't watch Mission Impossiblemovies going.
Oh, is this the. You know what I mean?
It's not like an Agatha Christiething.
Yeah. It's more just a ride.
It's a, it's really is a roller coaster.
And they become more and more like carnivals in a sense.
(12:13):
They become more and more like evil Knievel studs.
Yeah. From 4:00 to 6:00, four to seven
now especially. Yeah, which I I prefer this
right, like I prefer the the kind of like there's more of an
emotional base for the stunts. And that's why I also like
that's kind of like what I rely on in the other movies that I
(12:36):
like as well in the franchise islike what's going on for Ethan
to have to do this versus this kind of like fake thing where I
don't even remember the villain.I don't even really understand
what's happening. And then the the focus is, oh,
whoa, Tom Cruise like is hangingonto a plane, even though it's
cool to see him hanging onto a plane.
But OK, so we are with the the guy.
(13:00):
What's his name? Emilio Estevez and Jon Voight in
the whole team. No.
Well, he the Jon Voight gets thethe message.
Yes, he's head of the team. He's like Tom Cruise.
Yeah, Yeah, for the other movies, right.
This is like the only one where we see Tom Cruise not being the
boss. Right, exactly.
And we have the the scene where they're all like setting up and
(13:21):
getting their orders from Jon Voight about like what they need
to do on this mission. And by the way, Jon Voight is
playing Jim Phelps, who was the main character in the Mission
Impossible TV series from the 60s.
I watched my dad growing up. Oh wow, yeah.
Had the theme song and everything.
Great, great music, teamwork, deception, like intelligent
(13:45):
violence. So like, it was like a really
clever show. A lot of misdirection, a lot of
disguises, a lot of gadgets, therubber masks.
All that stuff's good. They bring it all back here.
And it's really cool that Tom Cruise saw all this out, Got a
production company together, hisfirst produced movie.
Got the director, Brian De Palmaon instead of Tony Scott, which
I think was the second option, which would have been a lot of
fun too. And he was like, yeah, I want my
(14:06):
own franchise. So he basically did what Robert
Downey Junior did with Iron Man.You know, he kind of restarted
his career in a different way. But we'll we'll get to that a
little bit later because I have AI have a take there.
But yeah, I just want to know that Jim Phelps, John Boyce
character, he was the main character of the TV series.
So when this movie came out, theMission Impossible Die Hard fans
were pissed, apparently, becauselike, that's their boy.
(14:28):
That's. Their because he wasn't.
He's the bad guy, he wasn't the main guy.
It's basically. What if Ethan Hunt got old and
he was like, my retirement package isn't big enough and
like, and now I'm going to sell the rabbit's foot, You know, the
knock list. Yeah, that's kind of the the
they. Didn't like that they made in
the villain. That would be kind of that would
suck if like Mission Impossible was rebooted.
If Mission Impossible was rebooted and Tom Cruise is a
(14:50):
villain, that would be amazing. No, but if some other guy was
playing Ethan Hunt, he was played by Tom Cruise.
Hello, welcome to the EXTRA Credits plus of Ryan De Palmas
and Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible.
I'm Trey. And I'm Kelsey.
Tonight's mission, should we choose to accept, is a live
commentary on the film that has launched one of the longest
running franchises in our lifetime.
Yeah, I think since almost the beginning of our birth, like
(00:38):
it's been Tom Cruise has been jumping off shit.
Staple, yeah. Since we've been alive, this
franchise is modern Action Cinema.
It is like some of the most spectacle driven movie making
you can find. Yeah, this is what started it
all. I'm really excited for today.
I'm so excited. I think also, I mean, I've
(00:59):
watched pieces of Mission Impossible growing up, but I
never like, watched a full Mission Impossible movie.
Maybe until like college, maybe until we started dating.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like it wasn't as big for me. I think, you know, Jason Bourne
and James Bond, like those were more so movies and characters
(01:22):
that I I mean, I saw those movies more so like I also going
into this, you know, this movie and we'll also, you know, cover
the new Mission Impossible on the main feed and hopefully do a
ranking or some sort of like Mission Impossible episode,
maybe on that that same like episode.
But I have like a a totally different outlook, I think on
(01:44):
this franchise than a lot of people.
Like I have no feelings, if thatmakes sense, towards Ethan Hunt
at a certain stage or towards a certain movie.
Like I don't know how anyone feels about these movies.
Does that make sense? Like, I know people know Tom
Cruise is Ethan Hunt and I know people love these movies, but I
I have no concepts of kind of the the cultural connection to
(02:05):
any of the specific movies in the franchise.
I think people treat Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible and Tom
Cruise as American spectacle. I think it's like as big as.
Huge popcorn bucket. Eventising someone trying to
self sacrifice themselves for people's enjoyment, like that's
(02:26):
kind of what magic Mission Impossible is about.
It is one of the most American things we have.
Yeah, it's like very on the noseand straightforward about the
kind of like, I mean, we may notthe first one which we'll talk
about today, but as it goes on especially it's it, it embraces
the cheese. Right.
Yeah. And it is funny.
And, you know, it's Tom Cruise. And we just did a Tom Cruise
(02:46):
episode for Jerry Maguire. My team is dead.
I was going to do that. The list is in the open.
It's in the open. Who's dead?
My team. My team is dead.
Your sick voice is not letting you do the Tom Cruise.
Wake up, Claire. Jim's dead.
(03:07):
They're all dead. Oh man.
Oh God, I love Tom in this movie.
He's so electric. He's so good.
He's so, so good. He's he's cruising.
He is full on cruising in this movie.
Yeah. I mean the the kind of like, you
know, like Kathy that comes through from like a Few Good Men
(03:30):
or like a Jerry Maguire kind of yell.
I mean obviously like Cruise does that in other movies as
well. But that kind of like
electricity in him just really delivering lines that he that he
has no business like delivering in that way is just amazing.
Yeah, no, it's so good. All right, let's get into this
movie. We're going to be talking about
the Palma, the camera tricks, Tom Cruise, the ensemble, the
(03:53):
dead ensemble. We'll we'll get into all of
that. It's really exciting.
This episode will self destruct in 54321 play.
You know, something that I didn't realize, like as you're
doing this countdown is when they, you know, get one of these
(04:14):
mission video slash whatever, you know, whatever they get the
briefing. Yeah, the briefing of like this
is your mission, should you choose to accept it.
Actually, maybe you brought thisup and like if anyone who's
married, like sometimes your ideas merge.
So like, I thought it was my idea, but it's Trey's idea.
(04:36):
I was about to take credit for it, but Trey was like, who's the
graphic designer on these? Because like, you have to think
about someone like basically theIMF is contracting out like a
graphic designer who's just likea remote worker working from
home in a probably beautiful location.
But it's like, Oh my God, like this Ethan guy's getting a
really serious, you know, like. End of the world.
(04:58):
Yeah, I got to tell somebody. Yeah, I got to make sure I add
an explosion into this thing or like, but just the way that.
The rabbit's foot is going to destroy the human population.
And then their work is destroyed.
You know, it's it's for the eyesof one person.
They got to make it snappy. They got to make it clear with a
couple flares. OK.
Do you think they not in this movie?
(05:18):
Obviously, like this movie is not.
Oh, they killed the graphic designer.
Every new thing they'd run out pretty quickly.
They're like training people with the IMF how to use Canva.
Or they just need a, you know, aMen in Black kind of like
device, you know, to make them lose their memory.
(05:39):
But yeah, the graphic designer, you know, in the future movies
goes wild because in this movie it's a very like, you know,
early Internet graphics. Yeah, well, they support human
art because I don't know if you saw Mission Impossible Dead
Reckoning, but it's Ethan Hunt versus AI, so that's good.
(05:59):
Actually, I'm. I'm actually being dead ass.
It's just a funny concept, but I'm being dead ass.
It is kind of cool that that oneof the villains of these movies
is literally just AII. Mean Tom Cruise is like AI can't
do these. AI, it's so funny.
Oh, we're going to get into it. I'll get Ethan pulling off the
mask. Yeah, so we open with the like
(06:19):
fake set. Yes, the fake set piece.
Very fun. Yeah, it's really fun.
It's this movie sets the template for the Mission
Impossible franchise, a franchise of seven movies coming
on eight in two weeks with Dead Reckoning 2, which is called The
Final Reckoning. And there's a few trademarks in
these in these movies. Ethan is having a crisis of
(06:42):
sorts. The world is going to collapse.
A woman under the age of 40 willdie or be replaced or recast.
Different character, but sort ofthe same character because it's
like a femme fatale thing. Or maybe like an agent who helps
Ethan remember his first team from this movie.
And just usually as collection of set pieces, but three to four
(07:06):
major ones. I would say the the movies, the
stories that are being built around those set pieces and they
get crazier and crazier and Ethan Hunt gets further and
further into our atmosphere. I'm surprised he has not been to
space yet. I'm sure it will happen
eventually. Oh my God, yeah.
And the masks and all that stuff.
So like there's a there's a couple different trademarks that
(07:27):
this movie, it kind of foundations that are set.
It kind of sets a blueprint for a lot of different things that
later movies will do. But I just want to start today's
episode by saying this is my favorite Mission Impossible
movie. And I think it's also it's also
the best one. I I agree with that.
OK, interesting. Yeah.
(07:48):
I mean, we're going to do a ranking because I think that we
have, I mean, I don't know, I actually really don't know your
takes, but you really don't knowmine.
I don't know yours because I we haven't watched these together
fully until just recently. And I've purposely like given
nothing away besides just that right there is that this one I
think is the best 1 and I have some hot takes maybe I guess I
(08:12):
mean not hot takes for like listeners, but for like the
Hollywood system that like kind of took some of the mission
impossibles in the wrong direction.
They like, it's like they almostlike took things from this movie
that they thought the audiences were were like sticking to in
terms of a commercial sense. But I actually think like there
(08:33):
are some successes of certain movies in the franchise that
stem from the right pieces of this movie that they actually
like don't lean on enough. Yes.
Does that make sense? No, no, I think, I think we
don't have to be coiled about itanymore.
Although I'll be specific about it once we get into like, yeah,
the plot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(08:54):
We have Jon Voight right now as Jim Phelps, the character.
Who? Well, no, we should go back to
the the sequence where they have.
The. Sure, right.
Don't you want to like go through this in order or no?
Yeah. In the first opening sequence of
the movie. Yeah, yeah, 'cause that's where
I mean, I OK, also for context, right?
Like I fully I haven't seen thismovie fully until just watching
(09:16):
it for this episode. Like I've seen pieces of it.
I've seen later mission impossibles, but this was the
first time I had watched it all the way through.
And so it was like a brand new movie for me.
So I would I had a lot of fun watching, you know, the the kind
of set up Gordon Bombay in our hearts.
OK, Mighty ducks watch Tom Cruise.
(09:38):
Try trying to like get him to belike, you know, say the name,
say the name. We don't know.
It's Tom Cruise, right? And yeah, and maybe one day
we'll. That's a big reveal that we're
Mighty Ducks fans. I was waiting for that.
What are you talking about? We're we're kids of the. 90s,
yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Fans out there, yeah, D2. But whatever whichever one there
(10:02):
was like the prank one, that's the one that like OK.
I think so. Yeah, but also, like Charlie
getting the team together was also really, you know, iconic.
Yeah, the twin brothers. Or are they twins?
The brothers who, like, beat guys up.
They're not twins, I don't think, but they're just like,
they're two tough guys who foundeach other.
OK. So Gordon Bombay being like,
give us the name. Give us the name.
(10:22):
Emilio Estevez is his name. Yes, yeah.
And and then obviously it's likerevealed to be Tom Cruise,
right, with the mask. And I was like, oh, this is fun.
That's it. And they they returned to this
kind of like like you're saying it lays the groundwork for other
movies. They returned to this later on
to where they like do a gotcha in the CNN thing where they
(10:43):
tricked that guy. That.
Yeah, that his manifesto was being read live on CNN.
And then they like they're like,cut it, take down the walls.
And you hear almost like the thebell of like a set, you know,
where it's like a rap on the scene, the walls like fall down.
You know that that is really fun.
(11:03):
Just like in terms of like the movie making joke to of the the
artificiality of things like this to to put them like in the
forefront of the movie. Yeah, I like how deception in
the spycraft of it all, like kind of becomes the signature of
the entire series. And they tell you right here at
the top of the first movie, likewe're going to constantly be
(11:27):
just tricking you throughout allof these films.
There's a lot of trickery going on and you're going to be in on
some of it and you're going to be really in on some of it.
Like to the point where you're in like Ethan Hunt's imagination
when he meets his his mentor later in the movie, who he
thought was dead. And you see him playing out the
truth that we know that Ethan knows that he is not revealed in
his reality to his mentor, that he knows that he's the bad guy.
(11:51):
So the movie like lets you in onsome things and doesn't let you
in on other things. And it, it's really fun in terms
of, like the mysterious elementsof these movies.
Yeah. And you like being tricked, so
you're not really trying to figure it out.
I don't watch Mission Impossiblemovies going.
Oh, is this the. You know what I mean?
It's not like an Agatha Christiething.
Yeah. It's more just a ride.
It's a, it's really is a roller coaster.
And they become more and more like carnivals in a sense.
(12:13):
They become more and more like evil Knievel studs.
Yeah. From 4:00 to 6:00, four to seven
now especially. Yeah, which I I prefer this
right, like I prefer the the kind of like there's more of an
emotional base for the stunts. And that's why I also like
that's kind of like what I rely on in the other movies that I
(12:36):
like as well in the franchise islike what's going on for Ethan
to have to do this versus this kind of like fake thing where I
don't even remember the villain.I don't even really understand
what's happening. And then the the focus is, oh,
whoa, Tom Cruise like is hangingonto a plane, even though it's
cool to see him hanging onto a plane.
But OK, so we are with the the guy.
(13:00):
What's his name? Emilio Estevez and Jon Voight in
the whole team. No.
Well, he the Jon Voight gets thethe message.
Yes, he's head of the team. He's like Tom Cruise.
Yeah, Yeah, for the other movies, right.
This is like the only one where we see Tom Cruise not being the
boss. Right, exactly.
And we have the the scene where they're all like setting up and
(13:21):
getting their orders from Jon Voight about like what they need
to do on this mission. And by the way, Jon Voight is
playing Jim Phelps, who was the main character in the Mission
Impossible TV series from the 60s.
I watched my dad growing up. Oh wow, yeah.
Had the theme song and everything.
Great, great music, teamwork, deception, like intelligent
(13:45):
violence. So like, it was like a really
clever show. A lot of misdirection, a lot of
disguises, a lot of gadgets, therubber masks.
All that stuff's good. They bring it all back here.
And it's really cool that Tom Cruise saw all this out, Got a
production company together, hisfirst produced movie.
Got the director, Brian De Palmaon instead of Tony Scott, which
I think was the second option, which would have been a lot of
fun too. And he was like, yeah, I want my
(14:06):
own franchise. So he basically did what Robert
Downey Junior did with Iron Man.You know, he kind of restarted
his career in a different way. But we'll we'll get to that a
little bit later because I have AI have a take there.
But yeah, I just want to know that Jim Phelps, John Boyce
character, he was the main character of the TV series.
So when this movie came out, theMission Impossible Die Hard fans
were pissed, apparently, becauselike, that's their boy.
(14:28):
That's. Their because he wasn't.
He's the bad guy, he wasn't the main guy.
It's basically. What if Ethan Hunt got old and
he was like, my retirement package isn't big enough and
like, and now I'm going to sell the rabbit's foot, You know, the
knock list. Yeah, that's kind of the the
they. Didn't like that they made in
the villain. That would be kind of that would
suck if like Mission Impossible was rebooted.
If Mission Impossible was rebooted and Tom Cruise is a
(14:50):
villain, that would be amazing. No, but if some other guy was
playing Ethan Hunt, he was played by Tom Cruise.
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