Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

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Wikidata Q17548046, film, IMDb tt2381249, TMDB 177677: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 2 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Mission: Impossible – Fallout: 3 lines verdict ×2 contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Fallout swings the other way, up into theatricality, after Rogue Nation's street level.
    “Fallout. is like, let's amp up the theatricality. like that goes that goes in the other direction again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol: 3 lines theme ×1 contrast ×1 verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. One host finds Ghost Protocol has highest highs but valleys, unlike Rogue Nation.
    “that's how I feel about Ghost Pro is like highest highs, it's got valleys.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Fast and the Furious (franchise): 2 lines theme ×2

  1. theme (theme): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → The Fast and the Furious (franchise). Rogue Nation weaponizes 'friend' the way Fast and Furious weaponizes 'family'.
    “I feel like this movie weaponizes the word friend in the way the Fast and Furious franchise weaponizes the word family.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:34:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

10 Cloverfield Lane: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → 10 Cloverfield Lane. The 10 Cloverfield Lane car crash is called extremely realistic in comparison to the flip here.
    “that one in particular feels like extremely realistic”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Alfred Hitchcock. The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space.
    “Yes, it's very Hitchcocky.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Avatar and its sequels: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Avatar and its sequels. Cruise's six-minute breath hold is compared to Cameron training Avatar cast to do five minutes underwater.
    “James Cameron made all of the actors in the 17 Avatar sequels that are never coming out, trained to be able to do like 5 minutes underwater”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:11:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Christopher McQuarrie: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Christopher McQuarrie → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. This movie is followed by Cruise handing McQuarrie the directing job on Mission Impossible.
    “there's a reason why this movie is followed up by him saying you're the director of Mission Impossible now”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:22:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fast Five: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (franchise peak at five): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Fast Five. Both are fifth entries considered the best of their franchise.
    “I mean, Fast and Furious.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:35:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

GoldenEye: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → GoldenEye. Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack.
    “what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Inception: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Inception. The flipping car shots are guessed to use a rotating mounted camera like Inception's hallway.
    “I think it's probably similar to how they did the hallway in Inception”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Iron Man 2: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Iron Man 2. The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker.
    “I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jack Reacher: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Jack Reacher → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. McQuarrie's Jack Reacher is called very underrated for its car chases, a skill carried over.
    “Jack Reacher, very underrated in terms of how good it's car chases are”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:27:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jackie Chan: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Jackie Chan. The speaker links Cruise's panicked, motivation-clear stunt work to Jackie Chan action, which stunt performers on Corridor Crew's reaction videos praise as perfectly constructed.
    “And the stunt people always say like, see, these are perfectly constructed action sequences because his motivation is always so clear.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (host, unclear which) (0.40 sure it was them)

James Bond films: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → James Bond films. The speaker calls the film more Bond-like than other M:I entries, with Ghost Protocol being more magician.
    “This is such a James Bondi movie versus other...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:53:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

John Wick (most recent): 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → John Wick (most recent). The tall-assassin gag is repeated in the most recent John Wick.
    “They also do this in the last John Wick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:47:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic World: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Jurassic World. Ferguson's shoe-removal beat landed a month after Jurassic World and drew a meme comparison.
    “this comes out a month after Jurassic World”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:52:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mad Max: Fury Road: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Mad Max: Fury Road. Cruise and Ferguson using each other as a shooting stabilizer echoes Max and Furiosa in Fury Road.
    “But it's like the Fury Road moment where Max lets.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:06:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Rebecca Ferguson: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (star-making role): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Rebecca Ferguson. Rogue Nation, the fifth entry and a favorite, introduced Ferguson as a star.
    “This film introduced an actress, I would say, is a star.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Sean Harris: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Sean Harris → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. McQuarrie had a hard time selling Harris on a big film, since he mostly does British indie work.
    “Macquara talks about how hard he was to sell him on doing this movie because he didn't want to do a big film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Spectre: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Spectre. Spectre opened the same year, and this movie's date was moved partly to avoid it.
    “it's also kind of close to Specter”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Star Wars (the new film): 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Star Wars (the new film). Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars.
    “Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Television cold open: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Television cold open. The plane sequence, meant for mid-film, functions as a TV-style cold open and burns the money shot.
    “This was supposed to be a mid-movie sequence, and it just works perfectly as like a TV show cold open.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:12:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Man Who Knew Too Much: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → The Man Who Knew Too Much. The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece.
    “It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Christopher McQuarrie → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. This movie is followed by Cruise handing McQuarrie the directing job on Mission Impossible.
    “there's a reason why this movie is followed up by him saying you're the director of Mission Impossible now”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:22:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Sean Harris → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. McQuarrie had a hard time selling Harris on a big film, since he mostly does British indie work.
    “Macquara talks about how hard he was to sell him on doing this movie because he didn't want to do a big film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Ghost Protocol is described as ballet-like while Rogue Nation is more street-level.
    “That one is like a ballet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Fallout swings the other way, up into theatricality, after Rogue Nation's street level.
    “Fallout. is like, let's amp up the theatricality. like that goes that goes in the other direction again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → James Bond films. The speaker calls the film more Bond-like than other M:I entries, with Ghost Protocol being more magician.
    “This is such a James Bondi movie versus other...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:53:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (7)

  1. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Television cold open. The plane sequence, meant for mid-film, functions as a TV-style cold open and burns the money shot.
    “This was supposed to be a mid-movie sequence, and it just works perfectly as like a TV show cold open.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:12:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Jackie Chan. The speaker links Cruise's panicked, motivation-clear stunt work to Jackie Chan action, which stunt performers on Corridor Crew's reaction videos praise as perfectly constructed.
    “And the stunt people always say like, see, these are perfectly constructed action sequences because his motivation is always so clear.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (host, unclear which) (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → John Wick (most recent). The tall-assassin gag is repeated in the most recent John Wick.
    “They also do this in the last John Wick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:47:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Jack Reacher → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. McQuarrie's Jack Reacher is called very underrated for its car chases, a skill carried over.
    “Jack Reacher, very underrated in terms of how good it's car chases are”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:27:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Inception. The flipping car shots are guessed to use a rotating mounted camera like Inception's hallway.
    “I think it's probably similar to how they did the hallway in Inception”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → 10 Cloverfield Lane. The 10 Cloverfield Lane car crash is called extremely realistic in comparison to the flip here.
    “that one in particular feels like extremely realistic”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Mad Max: Fury Road. Cruise and Ferguson using each other as a shooting stabilizer echoes Max and Furiosa in Fury Road.
    “But it's like the Fury Road moment where Max lets.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:06:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (4)

  1. industry (franchise peak at five): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Fast Five. Both are fifth entries considered the best of their franchise.
    “I mean, Fast and Furious.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:35:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Jurassic World. Ferguson's shoe-removal beat landed a month after Jurassic World and drew a meme comparison.
    “this comes out a month after Jurassic World”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:52:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Spectre. Spectre opened the same year, and this movie's date was moved partly to avoid it.
    “it's also kind of close to Specter”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Avatar and its sequels. Cruise's six-minute breath hold is compared to Cameron training Avatar cast to do five minutes underwater.
    “James Cameron made all of the actors in the 17 Avatar sequels that are never coming out, trained to be able to do like 5 minutes underwater”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:11:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (4)

  1. lineage (lineage): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Alfred Hitchcock. The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space.
    “Yes, it's very Hitchcocky.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → The Man Who Knew Too Much. The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece.
    “It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Iron Man 2. The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker.
    “I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → GoldenEye. Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack.
    “what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Star Wars (the new film). Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars.
    “Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (theme): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. After four disavowed-Hunt films, Rogue Nation opens in the same state but with a specific story.
    “And after like 4 movies in a row where he's disavowed,”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → The Fast and the Furious (franchise). Rogue Nation weaponizes 'friend' the way Fast and Furious weaponizes 'family'.
    “I feel like this movie weaponizes the word friend in the way the Fast and Furious franchise weaponizes the word family.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:34:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → The Fast and the Furious (franchise). Male sincerity and intimacy in Fast and Furious is raised alongside Benji and Ethan.
    “Male sincerity.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (star-making role): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Rebecca Ferguson. Rogue Nation, the fifth entry and a favorite, introduced Ferguson as a star.
    “This film introduced an actress, I would say, is a star.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. One host calls Rogue Nation objectively a little better than Fallout while acknowledging bias.
    “I think Rogue Nation is objectively a little better than fallout”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:57:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Later one host switches: Fallout is better because McQuarrie learned how to manage energy.
    “Because fallout is just, it's just Macquarie has learned everything he needs to learn.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. One host finds Ghost Protocol has highest highs but valleys, unlike Rogue Nation.
    “that's how I feel about Ghost Pro is like highest highs, it's got valleys.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation: Hosts rank Rogue Nation the best in the franchise for Rebecca Ferguson and the opera sequence; the one they dislike is MI:2.
    “The only movie I don't like in that series is two.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:38:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation: Release date moved from Christmas to July 31, enabled by minimal digital effects.
    “it went from Christmas to July”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:52 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation: The lie-detector administrator was cast as a huge Chinese star because of a financing deal.
    “Yeah, and it's because she was like some sort of financing deal. you have to put her in the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:37:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation: Opera scene: Paramount marketing demanded the slit-dress shot.
    “The paramount marketing was that explicit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:42:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation: In the water vault scene the joke is that data cards must be kept cold like coaxium.
    “And you do have to keep coaxium cold.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:19:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation: Box office: strong multiplier of about 3.5, held the top five for weeks.
    “It had a nice multiplier, 3.5 , which is good for a blockbuster.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:18:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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