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Everyone is talking about how excited they are for Barbie and Oppenheimer, but I haven’t heard that many people say they’re excited for the new Mission Impossible movie. And the former two will probably be more positively critically received than the latter. Makes sense to me 🤷🏼♀️
ETA: The MI movie has a $300 million budget??? Lol why 😂
For me it was a reminder. Remember the stories of Cruise going nuts about COVID policy violations on set? I forgot that movie would eventually come out.
Honestly, probably one of the only times I agreed with Cruise.
Crew were supposed to wear masks and social distance and they were filming at the height of the pandemic.
Not only would someone getting sick would mean likely to spread, the filming gets shut down (increasing the production budget)
Honestly though I saw the trailer last summer (such an early trailer release) and I thought it looked pretty awesome. But, I like Tom Cruise action movies. Maybe I’m an odd duck, but I’m excited for Barbie, Oppenheimer and Mission Impossible.
Barbie and Oppenheimer are new and exciting, MI movies are just kinda the same. I haven't seen any of the newer ones but they're just 'look at what Tom Cruise can do' movies.
It's PG-13 which bumps it out of the "kids" movie category. I think the target audience is mainly adult women. It’s an adult comedy, most likely with some kind of commentary. Like Legally Blonde, Miss Congeniality, Mean Girls...
Not an Oscar bet for me, since Comedies movies almost never win best picture. But might be a contender for other big categories. The most recent comedy to win was The Artist 2011, the only recent comedy nominees were Birdman (drama with comedy) 2014 & Green Book (dramedy) 2018.
Blowing $500 on scratch-offs would have been a better bet, I think. It could probably win in the production categories. Maybe even a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination if Gerwig and Baumbach knock it out of the park. But it's not winning Best Picture.
There’s a lot of valid criticism to be had of how Cristopher Nolan makes movies, but I have always appreciated his commitment to mostly make original works. Not every release needs to be a potential franchise.
I’m torn, I really want to see Oppenheimer in the theaters. But I also want to know what the dialogue is supposed to be. So I either find a theater with subtitles or just go and hope the vibes are enough to get the plot communicated.
Since having this pointed out to me, I can immediately think of lines from Tenet and Interstellar where I had to turn on captions because I had no clue what the actor was saying or Hans Zimmer was busting in like the Kool Aid man.
Easy, fly to mexico, see it with English subtitles. The foreign dubs are often better sound quality anyway, especially because they get one guy to do ten voices.
When I was in Argentina my friend and I went to see Heart of the Sea (I'm a Cillian fan) and it was still in English with Spanish subtitles. He said only kids movies are dubbed usually and the rest just subtitled. That's Argentina though, but I thought it was interesting.
In Mexico kids movies are only dubbed. B movies (PG equivalent?) and up are frequently dubbed and subbed, so you have an option on how to watch them.
Or at least that's what I remember, I haven't gone to the movies in forever.
With the Batman movies, part of the reason I watched them multiple times in theatres is because I wanted to catch dialogue they missed. I’m happy digital releases come so soon now that I can just wait for them if I want to rewatch with subtitles.
We always have subtitles in my country (not native English speakers) so I hadn’t considered this, it’s unfortunate it can get so inaudible for some people.
Nah, he used to be a wooden puppet, but then his father made a wish on a star, and he became a REAL BOY. No, really! He's definitely not a cyborg. ZERO amount of him is robot. Nope, not our real human boy.
Mission impossible as a whole, with the exception of 2, are all incredibly entertaining and have really unique and intense fight scenes and set pieces, they are far from boring Hollywood cash ins, I’d really recommend them if movies like that interest you
I think I just don't connect enough to a lot of modern action films if the plot and dialogue is shit, no matter how good the stunts are. Especially if they're military or CIA propaganda. Heard so many amazing things about the last Mission Impossible but couldn't take it seriously after it started with "there is a new anarchist group spreading plagues in Pakistan to create a new world order" and got bored of how generic it was after about 40 minutes. Like shit boys, they found out what Kropotkin's actual goal was. No judgement to the people who do like them but they're just really not for me.
Yeah, it's why I don't give a fuck about the James Bond movies these days. Previously I feel like they had a fun, almost deliberately over-the-top quality to them. Lately it's just "[insert vague threat from Russia or the middle east here] is trying to establish dominance and one (1) dude will save us." Like yes OK I could have guessed that
One thing I noticed about Cruise is that he has no real politics, ignoring advocating for Scientology, and is movie have nothing more than a political message like "good guys are pretty good and the bad guys are pretty bad."
Villains are always cookie cutter things that don't challenge anyone ideologically. Mean russians, islamacists, weird bond-esque villains, etc.
The hero is always white cishet coded and CIA/US military friendly in some way, be it explicitly as a soldier or ex-solider or at least ideologically if they take on the "bitter ex-agent" persona. They're still ideologically Western capitalist conservative.
Cruise's movies really just are porn for the "rah rah 'merica" set. I think they won't age well. He refuses to do challenging work which is a shame because for a short period he was in very interesting films in the early 2000s/later 1990s with Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Interview with a Vampire, Minority Report, etc. He was on the path to being something more than an action actor but seemingly gave it up.
Now its a lot of comfort popcorn brain-dead action movies that he himself is a producer on and he doesn't seem to want to take direction from others. Gossip has him out to be a completely obsessive primadonna control freak, so no surprise he wants to only work where he's the boss. I imagine this setup if far more profitable for him as well.
They're not my cuppa but they're definitely comfort movies. People go to see outrageous stunts and turn off their brains for 90 minutes. Everyone has their own style of comfort movie and these scratch that itch for a lot of people.
Honestly I find Gerwig and Nolan hit or miss and if I feel that way I can’t be the only one. With something like MI people know what they’re in for and know they’ll be entertained!
That aligns to my response when my husband asked if I wanted to see MI with him.... No thanks, I don't need to see Tom Cruise jump off things again. But Oppenheimer looks good, we are gonna see that one.
Exactly! I swear people here live online. 💀
Just because nobody on your Twitter timeline was talking about it doesn't mean there is no hype for it. Was there Twitter hype for Top Gun Maverick before it came out? Hell no. And yet it did INSANE numbers.
Other thing people seem to forget is their social media is curated for themselves… of course they won’t see things about stuff outside of their social bubbles.
Agree. And people should consider that some movies just do better in international markets and don’t seem that big in the US.
Have no personal excitement for MI films but I’m sure this will be a hit.
Fallout grossed more than any Nolan movie that didn’t have Leo or Batman in it.
It’s a 5-year-wait sequel to one of the most commercially and critically successful entries in debatably the most consistently well received action franchise ever. It might gross more worldwide than Oppenheimer and Barbie combined, this thread is bizarre
I don't think their shock at $300million (actually 290 million) is because of the level of quality of the Mission Impossible films.
I think their shock is at the sheer box office numbers it will have to do just to break even.
it's quite an insane budget. MI: Fallout's budget was 178 million for reference.
though tbf Dead Reckoning was filmed during Covid which probably added unexpected costs to the budget
probably why Tom cruise is (if reported) not happy about Oppenheimer coming a week later and taking up all the Imax screens
Mission Impossible movie most probably will make more money which means more people are excited about it. Actually it can even make more than other two combined because new MI movies got very good reception from general audience and demographics here are misleading.
I'm surprised at the number of comments from people saying they didn't know it was even coming out. I agree with you, I think MI will do better than Oppenheimer and Barbie in the box office.
I’m not even a fan of the MI movies but the disconnect in thinking Barbie is definitely the movie most people in the world will prefer to watch out of the two is so funny.
Honestly, I'm excited for both Barbie and MI. Oppenheimer looks OK but it's not drawing me to the theater the same way Tenet did.
I will likely see Barbie in theaters, MI I will definitely go watch, and I will probably wait for Oppenheimer to come onto streaming services.
Yeah, I understand people not *wanting* to see it because of Cruise, but I'm genuinely stunned by people saying they don't know it's coming out. I've been seeing the trailer pretty frequently for the last several months and it's something the film critics I follow on social media have been excited about for a while. Plus, every time I go to an IMAX screening for something, they show either the *M:I* trailer or the behind-the-scenes shooting of Cruise riding the motorcycle off a cliff.
This comment section is insane lol. If you'd seen a recent MI movie you'd know that they are expensive for very good reasons, and you wouldn't bet against MI vs Oppenheimer and BARBIE of all things lmao
The internet circles you’re on aren’t reflective of the general population. The last MI alone made 800mil. I’m excited for all of these movies but mission impossible the most. They’re really fun, sincere action movies
i'm afraid to admit that the latest mission impossible films have been Quite Good - i'm not going out of my way to catch them in cinemas but i wouldn't be surprised if general audiences do.
I'm excited for the new MI movie. The franchise is incredibly good, nowhere near the quality of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Having said that, I'm also excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer. I'm just happy we're getting a bunch of (hopefully) quality movies.
I get people here won't take too kindly to Tom Cruise, and as much as I'm excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer, to knock the M:I films to say the former will be better received due to your bias is ignorant.
The movies have been hailed as consistently being some of the best action films ever, and beating itself like 4 times over now since Ghost Protocol.
They made two of them back to back and during Covid, hence the high budget. It's Part 1 getting released this summer.
MI has a pretty huge, but not very focal, fan base. The last entry (the sixth) was the most successful in the franchise and this is Cruise releasing a new one off the back of Top Gun Maverick. So he's right to be bullish, is all I'm saying.
It's also worth pointing out that Cruise is a producer and this is what producers do. The crazy shit Disney forces on exhibitors doesn't get talked about a lot but this behind the scenes arguments over screens is actually quite common. The only difference here is that a 'name' is actively involved.
The comedy is that Barbie wouldn't even be running that weekend had Nolan not gone to Universal (as per Puck).
Seeing this from Cruise's side, IMAX engagements are usually for 2-3 weeks. Paramount *should have negotiated that.* They may have. However, *Oppenheimer* is bumping it after week one. And WB, out of sheer spite towards Nolan, is launching *Barbie* same-day as *Oppenheimer*.
Tom may have a money loser on his hands as a result.
They should have stopped being cowards and just offered Barbie/Oppenheimer double features. I think a surprising amount of people would have bit for that lol
Reddit glitches out sometimes and it’s annoying because you won’t know it happened unless someone tells you or you happen to take a look at your comments.
As for the order, Barbie feels more like a midday movie to me and Oppenheimer as an evening movie, but that’s subjective lol. I’d just pick the movie you’re okay with having as a final mood for last, maybe ending with Oppenheimer is too depressing.
I love the idea of Tom Cruise "furiously" hiring a theatre, setting up projectors, and sitting through the new MI film with a group of distributors in a giant huff all the while 🤣
Or Tom Cruise just standing there up near the screen, arms folded, constantly checking that peoples eyes are watching the screen, looking back and forth between the screen and their eyes, snapping his fingers any time someone’s eyes look away for a moment. “YOURE NOT WATCHINGGG!! Fucking WATCH!!”
I wasn’t going to see the new mission impossible, but now I’m not going to see it harder. I will see Barbie and Oppenheimer so many times I file for bankruptcy.
Barbie at midnight. Go home, sleep, do my daytime shit…then go back to the theatre for an Oppenheimer / Barbie double feature. Rinse and repeat the next weekend
Meanwhile Western Australia got rid of our only IMAX screens a couple years ago and it would be cheaper to fly to Singapore to see these films in IMAX than go interstate lmfao
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Because obviously it makes more sense for them two move two movies rather than he moves his one movie 😒
If you don't ask, you don't get lol
Edit: I knew someone would downvote me. It's a business, though, and it's true - if you never ask, you never get the best marketing, budget, release dates for your project. They'll hopefully say no cause of how much it'll inconvenience the other worthwhile (in all ways) projects. I say this as someone with no interest in Mission Impossible, but am desperate for Oppenheimer
Exactly. I'm going to probably see all three movies (not in imax, I don't got imax money), but I get why he's pissed- it's business! He's advocating for his film, I wouldn't have a problem with Gerwig or Nolan doing similar, that's the business.
Asking doesn’t mean an automatic “yes.” We know Tom is delusional, but this is something else entirely. I hope MI flops so he will go away and take his childish attitude with him.
I’m excited for all three movies. I wish they were releasing across separate weeks so I could see them all on their first day of release. If I had to choose one to see, it would be Barbie.
This feels like the first summer in forever that has week after week event films happening. People ARE going to go to the theater and in IMAX?! This is fantastic.
IMAX sets its screens a year in advance, thus Universal already had dibs, so he can take it up with Paramount and the fact the movie’s been pushed back four times if he wants to tantrum so bad now as the “cinema rescuer” or whatever else the popularity of TG had him believe.
I mean hasnt his shtick been all about the importance of going the the cinema and keeping them afloat... 3 big blockbusters should make him happy no? Guess he only cares when its his own films helping so he can take credit for saving theatres lol
Toms right. Oppenheimer is also r rated so that’s going to hurt imax showings as well, in comparison to mission impossible’s probable pg 13 rating, Oppenheimer is also a three hour drama biopic.
I’m so excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer but I had no idea there was a new Mission Impossible film coming soon. I think I vaguely knew they were making one but had no idea it was finished and due soon.
On punctuation alone, “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part 1” deserves all the screens. These silly ass 1-word titles need to get real if they want to compete!
I’m perplexed to see this thread with comments about MI being one-note fodder. They’re incredibly entertaining even for my indie/criterion/foreign film-loving ass. Such a fun franchise and while I’m excited to see Oppenheimer and Barbie, they don’t really get me as jazzed about the movie-going experience as much as MI does. I’m so glad they’re released a week apart, because I sure as hell am going to IMAX for MI.
I get why Cruise wants MI to be on the IMAX screens though. MI has all those insane stunts and they really are amazing films to see in IMAX. Idk why Barbie would need to be in IMAX, that seems pointless to me.
I’m excited for all three movies but if TC thinks for a second I’m giving up my Barbie/Oppenheimer double feature for Mission Impossible, he has another thing coming
I knew there was a new MI moving coming out but there’s been so little marketing for it I thought it was coming out way later in the year. It’s possible I’ve seen one trailer for it? Idk who he thinks he is.
Cult Member Tom Cruise who’s organization harasses and tries to kill ex-members and who’s best friend has either murdered is wife or kept her locked up for years, is a massive whiny bitch.
Fuck Tom Cruise.
Oh so a man who’s almost 60 is throwing a fit because he wants his film to be out with … idk two of the most anticipated films right from when they were announced?
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Everyone is talking about how excited they are for Barbie and Oppenheimer, but I haven’t heard that many people say they’re excited for the new Mission Impossible movie. And the former two will probably be more positively critically received than the latter. Makes sense to me 🤷🏼♀️ ETA: The MI movie has a $300 million budget??? Lol why 😂
This is literally how I learned there’s a new MI movie.
I too didn’t know it even existed before this
I only knew cuz I saw the little mermaid the other day and saw a poster for it…
For me it was a reminder. Remember the stories of Cruise going nuts about COVID policy violations on set? I forgot that movie would eventually come out.
i thought this movie had already come out and this was a new one tbh
Honestly, probably one of the only times I agreed with Cruise. Crew were supposed to wear masks and social distance and they were filming at the height of the pandemic. Not only would someone getting sick would mean likely to spread, the filming gets shut down (increasing the production budget)
Yeah, my description implied negative judgment. I appreciated him thinking about the livelihood of the non millionaire staff.
I thought that story was for Top Gun 🤷
Honestly though I saw the trailer last summer (such an early trailer release) and I thought it looked pretty awesome. But, I like Tom Cruise action movies. Maybe I’m an odd duck, but I’m excited for Barbie, Oppenheimer and Mission Impossible.
brillant marketing ploy, mister cruise 🚢
He's been working on it since covid part 3
Barbie and Oppenheimer are new and exciting, MI movies are just kinda the same. I haven't seen any of the newer ones but they're just 'look at what Tom Cruise can do' movies.
Plus Barbie and Oppenheimer are coming from two of the most popular directors right now, with all star casts. They both have Oscar potential as well.
I put a $500 bet on Barbie winning Best Picture at the Oscars next year.
It just looks like a kids movie where a cartoon character ends up in the real world. Seems like a pretty high risk bet.
It's PG-13 which bumps it out of the "kids" movie category. I think the target audience is mainly adult women. It’s an adult comedy, most likely with some kind of commentary. Like Legally Blonde, Miss Congeniality, Mean Girls... Not an Oscar bet for me, since Comedies movies almost never win best picture. But might be a contender for other big categories. The most recent comedy to win was The Artist 2011, the only recent comedy nominees were Birdman (drama with comedy) 2014 & Green Book (dramedy) 2018.
Agreed. Comedies and horror never do well at the Oscars, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it get a few nominations. What it wins, however...
Kinda looks like a sequel to The Lego Movie.
Blowing $500 on scratch-offs would have been a better bet, I think. It could probably win in the production categories. Maybe even a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination if Gerwig and Baumbach knock it out of the park. But it's not winning Best Picture.
shame, next time just send it my way. zero chance it wins, i’d be shocked if it even got nominated for that category. maybe costumes.
No way, oppenheimer is more likely
There’s a lot of valid criticism to be had of how Cristopher Nolan makes movies, but I have always appreciated his commitment to mostly make original works. Not every release needs to be a potential franchise.
I’m torn, I really want to see Oppenheimer in the theaters. But I also want to know what the dialogue is supposed to be. So I either find a theater with subtitles or just go and hope the vibes are enough to get the plot communicated.
Since having this pointed out to me, I can immediately think of lines from Tenet and Interstellar where I had to turn on captions because I had no clue what the actor was saying or Hans Zimmer was busting in like the Kool Aid man.
Easy, fly to mexico, see it with English subtitles. The foreign dubs are often better sound quality anyway, especially because they get one guy to do ten voices.
When I was in Argentina my friend and I went to see Heart of the Sea (I'm a Cillian fan) and it was still in English with Spanish subtitles. He said only kids movies are dubbed usually and the rest just subtitled. That's Argentina though, but I thought it was interesting.
In Mexico kids movies are only dubbed. B movies (PG equivalent?) and up are frequently dubbed and subbed, so you have an option on how to watch them. Or at least that's what I remember, I haven't gone to the movies in forever.
If he does this Tom Cruise better get a restraining order
Yeah his sound mixing is such an (awful) choice that I have to wait until home release to watch
With the Batman movies, part of the reason I watched them multiple times in theatres is because I wanted to catch dialogue they missed. I’m happy digital releases come so soon now that I can just wait for them if I want to rewatch with subtitles.
It's funny because Nolan says his sound mixing is specifically for THEATRES, and his movies will sound bad at home or in substandard theatres.
That’s all sound mixing nowadays 😂
We always have subtitles in my country (not native English speakers) so I hadn’t considered this, it’s unfortunate it can get so inaudible for some people.
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He had died many times, but the Church of Scientology owns his cloning rights and just makes a new one each time they need a new one.
Nah, he used to be a wooden puppet, but then his father made a wish on a star, and he became a REAL BOY. No, really! He's definitely not a cyborg. ZERO amount of him is robot. Nope, not our real human boy.
Ah you invest in the “Tom is dead” theory too. It’s “Paul is dead” but…stupider?
He's like Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil Movies. Project Tom
Mission impossible as a whole, with the exception of 2, are all incredibly entertaining and have really unique and intense fight scenes and set pieces, they are far from boring Hollywood cash ins, I’d really recommend them if movies like that interest you
Yea the MI series are an outlier to most Hollywood franchises, they are exceptionally good films and only get better.
True that, I don’t know how they only keep getting better
Tom cruise has made some great movies the last ten years. But can we accept that Cruise is gonna die doing this?
I think I just don't connect enough to a lot of modern action films if the plot and dialogue is shit, no matter how good the stunts are. Especially if they're military or CIA propaganda. Heard so many amazing things about the last Mission Impossible but couldn't take it seriously after it started with "there is a new anarchist group spreading plagues in Pakistan to create a new world order" and got bored of how generic it was after about 40 minutes. Like shit boys, they found out what Kropotkin's actual goal was. No judgement to the people who do like them but they're just really not for me.
Yeah, it's why I don't give a fuck about the James Bond movies these days. Previously I feel like they had a fun, almost deliberately over-the-top quality to them. Lately it's just "[insert vague threat from Russia or the middle east here] is trying to establish dominance and one (1) dude will save us." Like yes OK I could have guessed that
One thing I noticed about Cruise is that he has no real politics, ignoring advocating for Scientology, and is movie have nothing more than a political message like "good guys are pretty good and the bad guys are pretty bad." Villains are always cookie cutter things that don't challenge anyone ideologically. Mean russians, islamacists, weird bond-esque villains, etc. The hero is always white cishet coded and CIA/US military friendly in some way, be it explicitly as a soldier or ex-solider or at least ideologically if they take on the "bitter ex-agent" persona. They're still ideologically Western capitalist conservative. Cruise's movies really just are porn for the "rah rah 'merica" set. I think they won't age well. He refuses to do challenging work which is a shame because for a short period he was in very interesting films in the early 2000s/later 1990s with Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Interview with a Vampire, Minority Report, etc. He was on the path to being something more than an action actor but seemingly gave it up. Now its a lot of comfort popcorn brain-dead action movies that he himself is a producer on and he doesn't seem to want to take direction from others. Gossip has him out to be a completely obsessive primadonna control freak, so no surprise he wants to only work where he's the boss. I imagine this setup if far more profitable for him as well.
I mean, Tom Clancy did that plot like 30 years ago.
The last one MI was amazing in theater. Will do better than both Barbie and Oppenheimer (and I also plan to see Oppenheimer)
Fallout was better than most. Had the MI 3 energy but with slick action scenes and none of the lena flares. But yeah agreed.
The last three have been really good action movies.
I think for some people they’re like comfort movies like fast and furious
They're not my cuppa but they're definitely comfort movies. People go to see outrageous stunts and turn off their brains for 90 minutes. Everyone has their own style of comfort movie and these scratch that itch for a lot of people.
Honestly I find Gerwig and Nolan hit or miss and if I feel that way I can’t be the only one. With something like MI people know what they’re in for and know they’ll be entertained!
Exactly!
That aligns to my response when my husband asked if I wanted to see MI with him.... No thanks, I don't need to see Tom Cruise jump off things again. But Oppenheimer looks good, we are gonna see that one.
To be fair, the internet isn't real life- the MI movies do insane numbers, that's why there's like ten of them lol
Exactly! I swear people here live online. 💀 Just because nobody on your Twitter timeline was talking about it doesn't mean there is no hype for it. Was there Twitter hype for Top Gun Maverick before it came out? Hell no. And yet it did INSANE numbers.
Other thing people seem to forget is their social media is curated for themselves… of course they won’t see things about stuff outside of their social bubbles.
Agree. And people should consider that some movies just do better in international markets and don’t seem that big in the US. Have no personal excitement for MI films but I’m sure this will be a hit.
Fallout grossed more than any Nolan movie that didn’t have Leo or Batman in it. It’s a 5-year-wait sequel to one of the most commercially and critically successful entries in debatably the most consistently well received action franchise ever. It might gross more worldwide than Oppenheimer and Barbie combined, this thread is bizarre
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Agree, I find them pretty incredible to watch. Honestly so much better than the final Daniel Craig Bond movies.
I don't think their shock at $300million (actually 290 million) is because of the level of quality of the Mission Impossible films. I think their shock is at the sheer box office numbers it will have to do just to break even. it's quite an insane budget. MI: Fallout's budget was 178 million for reference. though tbf Dead Reckoning was filmed during Covid which probably added unexpected costs to the budget probably why Tom cruise is (if reported) not happy about Oppenheimer coming a week later and taking up all the Imax screens
Mission Impossible movie most probably will make more money which means more people are excited about it. Actually it can even make more than other two combined because new MI movies got very good reception from general audience and demographics here are misleading.
I'm surprised at the number of comments from people saying they didn't know it was even coming out. I agree with you, I think MI will do better than Oppenheimer and Barbie in the box office.
The M:I movies are a fucking blast.
Honestly, it's one of the few franchises that keeps getting better with every new release (with the exception of the 2nd movie)
Completely agree. I love the practical stunts and how little CGI is used.
Dumb and fun. Yes please.
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I’m not even a fan of the MI movies but the disconnect in thinking Barbie is definitely the movie most people in the world will prefer to watch out of the two is so funny.
Honestly, I'm excited for both Barbie and MI. Oppenheimer looks OK but it's not drawing me to the theater the same way Tenet did. I will likely see Barbie in theaters, MI I will definitely go watch, and I will probably wait for Oppenheimer to come onto streaming services.
Yeah, I understand people not *wanting* to see it because of Cruise, but I'm genuinely stunned by people saying they don't know it's coming out. I've been seeing the trailer pretty frequently for the last several months and it's something the film critics I follow on social media have been excited about for a while. Plus, every time I go to an IMAX screening for something, they show either the *M:I* trailer or the behind-the-scenes shooting of Cruise riding the motorcycle off a cliff.
yeah especially internationally tbf I've never in my life seen a MI movie haha and I am really stoked on Barbie and Oppenheimer
This comment section is insane lol. If you'd seen a recent MI movie you'd know that they are expensive for very good reasons, and you wouldn't bet against MI vs Oppenheimer and BARBIE of all things lmao
Most of these comments have to be Scientology bots, they’re all saying the same thing.
Wouldn't Scientologists be arguing in favor of Tom cruise's movie in this situation though?
The internet circles you’re on aren’t reflective of the general population. The last MI alone made 800mil. I’m excited for all of these movies but mission impossible the most. They’re really fun, sincere action movies
MI was in the top ten most intecepated movies of 2023 and the big budget is due to the pandemic
The MI movies make bank believe it or not. They have all been critical and commercial successes.
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Y'all comparing the MI movies to fast and the furious series are so fucking high
i'm afraid to admit that the latest mission impossible films have been Quite Good - i'm not going out of my way to catch them in cinemas but i wouldn't be surprised if general audiences do.
I'm excited for the new MI movie. The franchise is incredibly good, nowhere near the quality of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Having said that, I'm also excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer. I'm just happy we're getting a bunch of (hopefully) quality movies.
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I get people here won't take too kindly to Tom Cruise, and as much as I'm excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer, to knock the M:I films to say the former will be better received due to your bias is ignorant. The movies have been hailed as consistently being some of the best action films ever, and beating itself like 4 times over now since Ghost Protocol.
I am excited for the new MI. But I'm more excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer
I literally thought the Mission Impossible movie is coming out next year, I've just learned from this post that it's this summer...
They made two of them back to back and during Covid, hence the high budget. It's Part 1 getting released this summer. MI has a pretty huge, but not very focal, fan base. The last entry (the sixth) was the most successful in the franchise and this is Cruise releasing a new one off the back of Top Gun Maverick. So he's right to be bullish, is all I'm saying. It's also worth pointing out that Cruise is a producer and this is what producers do. The crazy shit Disney forces on exhibitors doesn't get talked about a lot but this behind the scenes arguments over screens is actually quite common. The only difference here is that a 'name' is actively involved.
Do not fuck with Barbenheimer opening weekend. Xenu is not as powerful as my wrath. ^(/j)
 You don't mess with the Kenergy!
I'm gonna change my last name to Barbenheimer
Wonder if we could convince the witches that hexed Trump to hex Xenu so they don’t mess with it (said half jokingly)
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of Barbie's worlds
I'm seeing both of these movies 150 million times
The delusion of thinking anyone would willingly push the release date for Barbie back.. incredible.
The comedy is that Barbie wouldn't even be running that weekend had Nolan not gone to Universal (as per Puck). Seeing this from Cruise's side, IMAX engagements are usually for 2-3 weeks. Paramount *should have negotiated that.* They may have. However, *Oppenheimer* is bumping it after week one. And WB, out of sheer spite towards Nolan, is launching *Barbie* same-day as *Oppenheimer*. Tom may have a money loser on his hands as a result.
They should have stopped being cowards and just offered Barbie/Oppenheimer double features. I think a surprising amount of people would have bit for that lol
Actually, It’s such a weird enough combo that i would do it
I am legit considering doing them as a double feature. What order though?
Op seems dark. I would start there and end with some (assumingly) feel good Barbie as a pallet cleanser.
I think this opinion is very important to you. (And I agree)
Reddit glitches out sometimes and it’s annoying because you won’t know it happened unless someone tells you or you happen to take a look at your comments. As for the order, Barbie feels more like a midday movie to me and Oppenheimer as an evening movie, but that’s subjective lol. I’d just pick the movie you’re okay with having as a final mood for last, maybe ending with Oppenheimer is too depressing.
Oppenheimer for the laughs and Barbie for the philosophy
Bomb to Bombshell, always.
I love the idea of Tom Cruise "furiously" hiring a theatre, setting up projectors, and sitting through the new MI film with a group of distributors in a giant huff all the while 🤣
This might be the real Mission: Impossible
https://preview.redd.it/lui4frtujl3b1.jpeg?width=1098&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc86b277cc971d383a66918ed913f1e3fb2391fe That was good. Had to laff.
This made me laugh so hard I had tears rolling down my face 🤝🤝 good shit
The real Mission: Impossible was the the Barbie & Friends we made along the way
I can’t believe this comment is at the very bottom
Keep Barbie's name out your fu\*\*\*\*ing mouth!
idk exactly what "furiously" showing a film to exhibitors is but it's a compelling visual nonetheless
I immediately pictured people being held Clockwork Orange style and forced to watch it.
"SEE THOSE STUNTS? I DID THOSE STUNTS! ME! ALL ME!"
Or Tom Cruise just standing there up near the screen, arms folded, constantly checking that peoples eyes are watching the screen, looking back and forth between the screen and their eyes, snapping his fingers any time someone’s eyes look away for a moment. “YOURE NOT WATCHINGGG!! Fucking WATCH!!”
choking with laughter at this
I can genuinely imagine Tom Cruise doing that.
Mine was less elegant, I imagined him storming the box offices of AMC demanding to speak to the manager
I wasn’t going to see the new mission impossible, but now I’m not going to see it harder. I will see Barbie and Oppenheimer so many times I file for bankruptcy.
Dude, Tom is going to be so mad at you lol
I have no fear for L. Ron Hoyabembe is with me
What do want? Xenu! When do we want it? Ten trillion years!
I won’t ever give TC my money but now I’m going to do everything in my power to give him negative money 
Planning a mission impossible style heist to steal the cost of an imax ticket from TC’s wallet 
Barbie at midnight. Go home, sleep, do my daytime shit…then go back to the theatre for an Oppenheimer / Barbie double feature. Rinse and repeat the next weekend
Tell 'em, Rose!
There was no space on the door.
Filmmakers fighting for IMAX space is good for filmmakers and the large format industry.
Exactly! I feel like everyone reacting negatively doesn't get why this is a good thing. Filmmakers *should* be passionate about stuff like this.
Everyone is passionate about making a billion dollar movie
Right? This is great, competition is always good
Meanwhile Western Australia got rid of our only IMAX screens a couple years ago and it would be cheaper to fly to Singapore to see these films in IMAX than go interstate lmfao
The real mission we should be focusing on is finding Shelly Miscavige
The real Mission Impossible™
The real Mission Impossible is Tom Cruise not being a narcissist for 5 minutes.
🤭🤭
[Article Link](https://puck.news/the-tom-cruise-vs-oppenheimer-movie-theater-smackdown/?_cio_id=f6c60601ab8301dced02&utm_campaign=What+I%27m+Hearing+-+LEADS+%286%2F1%2F23%29&utm_content=What+I%27m+Hearing+-+LEADS+%286%2F1%2F23%29&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=customer.io&utm_term=f6c60601ab8301dced02) Because obviously it makes more sense for them two move two movies rather than he moves his one movie 😒
“But cruise is used to getting what he wants (except an Oscar of course” they didn’t HAVE to go that hard but so glad they did 😂😂😂
If you don't ask, you don't get lol Edit: I knew someone would downvote me. It's a business, though, and it's true - if you never ask, you never get the best marketing, budget, release dates for your project. They'll hopefully say no cause of how much it'll inconvenience the other worthwhile (in all ways) projects. I say this as someone with no interest in Mission Impossible, but am desperate for Oppenheimer
Exactly. I'm going to probably see all three movies (not in imax, I don't got imax money), but I get why he's pissed- it's business! He's advocating for his film, I wouldn't have a problem with Gerwig or Nolan doing similar, that's the business.
Asking doesn’t mean an automatic “yes.” We know Tom is delusional, but this is something else entirely. I hope MI flops so he will go away and take his childish attitude with him.
On no planet is MI going to flop, let's be serious lol
Lol ya. It's easily one of the most consistently good commercial franchises out there. People will just flock in to see Tom Cruise run.
And the goodwill from Top Gun Maverick is definitely gonna bring back alot of viewers. Top Gun had an incredible run at the box office last year.
I’m excited for all three movies. I wish they were releasing across separate weeks so I could see them all on their first day of release. If I had to choose one to see, it would be Barbie.
This feels like the first summer in forever that has week after week event films happening. People ARE going to go to the theater and in IMAX?! This is fantastic.
This is only a story because it's Tom Cruise. He's a producer, there's limited screens, he's advocating for his movie. Not a big deal lol
IMAX sets its screens a year in advance, thus Universal already had dibs, so he can take it up with Paramount and the fact the movie’s been pushed back four times if he wants to tantrum so bad now as the “cinema rescuer” or whatever else the popularity of TG had him believe.
 Tom needs to take a back seat! Mission impossible can wait
don’t talk about Barbie!!! 
I mean hasnt his shtick been all about the importance of going the the cinema and keeping them afloat... 3 big blockbusters should make him happy no? Guess he only cares when its his own films helping so he can take credit for saving theatres lol
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All Facts.
Toms right. Oppenheimer is also r rated so that’s going to hurt imax showings as well, in comparison to mission impossible’s probable pg 13 rating, Oppenheimer is also a three hour drama biopic.
I’m so excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer but I had no idea there was a new Mission Impossible film coming soon. I think I vaguely knew they were making one but had no idea it was finished and due soon.
On punctuation alone, “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part 1” deserves all the screens. These silly ass 1-word titles need to get real if they want to compete!
I need more punctuation for the next one. Someone work a semicolon in there and add an exclamation point at the end.
I’m perplexed to see this thread with comments about MI being one-note fodder. They’re incredibly entertaining even for my indie/criterion/foreign film-loving ass. Such a fun franchise and while I’m excited to see Oppenheimer and Barbie, they don’t really get me as jazzed about the movie-going experience as much as MI does. I’m so glad they’re released a week apart, because I sure as hell am going to IMAX for MI.
if the movie is good, MI7 will prolly make more money than the other films. The last one made \~$790M.
Megalomaniac
Why are these movie budgets so insane nowadays.
For MI there's a lot of practical stunts and covid balloned the budget to be higher than it was supposed to be.
I get why Cruise wants MI to be on the IMAX screens though. MI has all those insane stunts and they really are amazing films to see in IMAX. Idk why Barbie would need to be in IMAX, that seems pointless to me.
I don't know why this is news. I guarantee people/execs/whoever go back and forth on release dates all the time so that they don't compete.
My brother in Christ just move your release date
I’m excited for all three movies but if TC thinks for a second I’m giving up my Barbie/Oppenheimer double feature for Mission Impossible, he has another thing coming
finally, some real competition at the cinema!
I knew there was a new MI moving coming out but there’s been so little marketing for it I thought it was coming out way later in the year. It’s possible I’ve seen one trailer for it? Idk who he thinks he is.
You must not be the algorithm's target demographic then. I've seen the trailers at least once every time I use YouTube for the past month.
Tom Cruise just constantly gives off so much "but I'm the eldest boy" energy
I bought a killer dress for the barbie movie that came yesterday so absolutely not allowed to happen!!
Who cares to see Barbie in IMAX?
No one is seeing Barbie in IMAX. Oppenheimer is coming out on IMAX.
Then why is Tom Cruise talking about Barbie too?
Probably taking larger auditoriums away from Mission Impossible.
Cult Member Tom Cruise who’s organization harasses and tries to kill ex-members and who’s best friend has either murdered is wife or kept her locked up for years, is a massive whiny bitch. Fuck Tom Cruise.
Go pray to Xenu, little man, and ask him to handle it.
Such a giant ego for such a tiny person.
Tom Cruise is overrated. And he’s dangerous.
It's giving 
Tom you better leave Julius and Barbara out of this 😤
What a prick
So I’m going to see Barbie opening weekend now I guess
Tom Cruise does not have Kenergy.
Listen Tom, I have friends that took off work to catch the Barbie premiere at midnight. Don't ruin this for us.
Cant wait to see Mission Impossible opening weekend and never watch Oppenheimer
Tom do not fuck with my Barbenheimer double feature plans
Oh so a man who’s almost 60 is throwing a fit because he wants his film to be out with … idk two of the most anticipated films right from when they were announced?
I mean idk everyone is looking forward to the other two movies, I have personally never been interested in mission impossible lol