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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Mission Impossible Retrospective w/ Matthew Goudreau and Pete MC: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 01:17:00
Publish Date: 2018-07-27 21:25:04
Description: In the mid 90s, the cinematic landscape was much different. Batman and the general comic book film was about to go on hiatus until 2005 after director Joel Schumacher drove its toyetic Batmobile up a building and over ice, and The Addams Family had their two films come and go. We needed a new action hero based off an already established commodity. Enter an at the time squeaky clean ever smiling Tom Cruise as Agent Ethan Hunt. The Mission Impossible film series, based on the 60s television show, started off as the first film franchise Cruise was associated with. But the films gradually turned into the go to when Cruise needed either a hit or image makeover. Much like 2011's Ghost Protocol, 2015's Rogue Nation was Tom Cruise trying his best to come back after a string of bombs. Or, if not bombs, then proof that a Tom Cruise 'hit' is not as easily defined as it used to be. Also, documentaries were starting to come out exposing Scientology's cult-like atmosphere, with Cruise firmly on display in all of them. So what's a man to do? Enter the series' new director, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. Cruise had built himself a good business relationship with McQuarrie. But the films he'd written for him (Edge of Tomorrow, Valkyrie, Jack Reacher). again, were not embraced on the majority by either critics or movie goers. Can he resurrect a career that seems to have more lives than a cat in a Stephen King book? Listen as me, Pete, and Matt (who is pretty damn hammered this podcast) not only answer that question, but also spend an inordinate amount of time speaking about Alec Baldwin. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)     CLICK ABOVE TO LISTEN NOW! Subscribe to Binge Cast on iTunes
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