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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Mission Impossible Retrospective w/ Matthew Goudreau and Pete MC: Mission Impossible III (2006)
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 01:07:55
Publish Date: 2018-07-17 01:00:14
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 for when Cruise needed either a hit or image makeover. When he made the first two Mission Impossible films, star Tom Cruise was on top of the world. Box office clout like the first two films of this franchise was combining with art house experiments like Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia. While Shut wasn't exactly a hit, the film proved that Cruise was willing to try anything, even if it meant that smile of his left his face for the majority of time he was onscreen. However, all of his propensity for box office success was put into question when, in a seemingly desperate attempt to prove to the world he was in love, Cruise jumped on a couch on Oprah Winfrey's show, yelling that he was indeed in love with a then 27 year old Katie Holmes. On top of that, he fired his publicist and hired his sister in place, who proceeded to let Cruise's once pristine public image gradually get out of control. Rumors of a force into Scientology for his new love and public squabbles with Brooke Shields over the proper treatment for postpartum depression surfaced. And while 2005's War of the Worlds made close to $592 million worldwide, director Steven Spielberg wanted nothing to do with him anymore. So who did? Enter JJ Abrams. After a tumultuous set of circumstances kept Mission Impossible 3 from getting off the ground -all of which are discussed in this here podcast- Cruise settled on the then TV producer whose most notable screen credit up to this point was one of many writers on 1998's Armageddon. So how did JJ do in his brand new $185 million budgeted sandbox? Listen below as me, Matt, and Pete answer that very question. And be sure to check back as we build up to a review of Mission Impossible Fallout, to be released July 27th. Mission Impossible 3  (2006) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)     CLICK ABOVE TO LISTEN NOW! Subscribe to Binge Cast on iTunes
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