Xavier

Since my first stan, MI7, is pretty much dead at this point, I just want HP8 to retain the title of biggest WB opening. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK??

Somewhere Tom Cruise is throwing a tantrum, watching all this life threatening action amount to disappointment, in the best case scenario. Seriously, who picked that opening date? MI7 should have opened in 2 weeks..

If DR1 disappoints, and people seem to think it will, what with the general air of “everything flops until Barbenheimer opens”, the lack of PLF screens to go around, the AWFUL timing to open this movie, the seeming consensus that the MI franchise peaked with Fallout etc, then the series should end with DR2. If the goodwill from Fallout and TGM, the stellar reviews and the high audience score could not help it, then nothing will. The MI series has a ceiling and it has been reached. Maybe this will remind Tom that he used to be an actor and a serious one at that. This stunt guy routine does not do him justice and there are only so many times that he can sell a movie based on the practical/look at me I’m doing it myself shtick. …or, you know, bring back Cavill in DR2 and let him reload his arms. With his shirt off.

Is it true that right wing groups buy tickets to inflate grosses, therefore the interest in this is actually artificial? Grace Randolph said so.

I’m gay and I would rather swallow a bag of knives. Sharp ones.

I think the movie will blow up with the good will from Fallout and TGM, there’s no stopping it. I really don’t understand how Barbie would undercut it. Why on God’s good Earth would someone prefer Barbie over MI7?

I’m confused when they say that GP was about replacing him with Renner. The movie ends with Hunt as the team leader and Brandt as a team member. There is no handing off of the reins and Brandt’s character did not scream “protagonist”!at this movie, either.

The best scene of Rogue Nation was the opera scene. The opening scene (dangling from the plane) was too gimmicky.

This will easily top 800+ million. The glowing reviews will take it to new heights.

I saw it twice already and sorry, but I liked it. I trust Ford with where he went with the character. Whoever thought that he would be as agile and action ready as he was during the original trilogy should have never went to see the movie in the first place. It was clear that this was his swan song as Indy, and Indy's swan song too. Harrison Ford did a great job, his acting scenes, you know which I'm talking about, were amazing. You could feel raw emotion. I was not expecting him to jump around like he did at the earlier films and it wouldn't have looked believable if he did. Again sorry, but I liked FWB in this. She was maybe a little too hard on Indy at the begining, but she had a character arc and their last exchange during that battle was moving and poignant. Plus, she is totally believable in this kind of role and that makes me happy about her writing Lara Croft. The weakest part was the pacing and the duration, but I didn't mind much as I was spending time with my most favorite movie hero ever... Lastly, the amount of hate is startling and it does not come from the film itself. It's a weird combination of anti-Disney, anti-feminism, anti- Kathleen Kennedy (some videos on YouTube almost incite violence against her) from disappointed man babies who lashed out, maybe carrying over their frustration over the Star Wars sequel situation. It's impossible for me to comprehend how they can be so hateful, so I think we should approach it from a political/sociological perspective. The movie will flop/lose a lot of money and I'm ok with it because I don't want to see anyone else as Indiana Jones.

Harrison Ford certainly didn’t think so and he might be more invested in the character than you are. What, did you also think Waller Bridge was shoved down your throat, like you seem to believe for Atwell in MI7 without probably having seen either movie?

There are precious few reviews that count Waller Bridge as a reason not to see the movie. I would say more than 80% of them praise her.

68% RT score, the highest so far. Boy, Cannes was a huge mistake...

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/review-harrison-ford-working-deep-true-sees-indy/story?id=100484137 Travers said it best: Respect

Lol, EXACTLY. We all know that rhetoric by that point..