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  1. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Fallout: Henry Cavill and Cruise punch each other in the bathroom and later on a cliff after a helicopter chase; the Henry Cavill speech about being disavowed is remembered.
    “how many times can a man be disavowed, discarded and ignored by his government?”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:01:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (ranking): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Chris ranks the post-3 MI films: Ghost Protocol good, Rogue Nation great, Fallout exceptional.
    “Ghost Protocol is good. Rogue Nation is great and fallout is exceptional.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:22:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (ranking): Mission: Impossible → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Debate over which MI film to keep; one says Fallout is the better performance than the first, another prefers Fallout for stakes.
    “I think he's better as an actor and his better performance than the 1st one.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:34:09 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (enabling success): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Top Gun: Maverick. Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick.
    “he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (ranking): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Edge of Tomorrow. Fallout is argued in over Edge of Tomorrow because it cemented Cruise's reinvention and made Top Gun: Maverick possible.
    “without fallout being what it is and being as successful.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. verdict (ranking): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Rain Man. Chris likes Fallout a lot more than Rain Man.
    “I like Mission Impossible Fallout a lot more than Rain Man.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. verdict (ranking): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Magnolia. Asked directly whether he likes Fallout more than Magnolia, Chris says no.
    “Do you like Mission Impossible Fallout more than Magnolia?”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Vanessa Kirby → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Kirby's MI and Hobbs & Shaw work should have made her the next action star.
    “her work in Mission Impossible 6 and in Hobbs and Shaw should have cemented her as the next great action star”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:37:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (ideal): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Fallout is held up as the movie that would have swept this ceremony's categories, had it come out in 2019.
    “It is a very special movie and also would have fit so many of these categories.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:34:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Fallout: Real news anchors in fictional movies should stop; Wolf Blitzer's Fallout cameo is the sole exception because it's Ethan Hunt in disguise, and Pat Kiernan has the best agent in New York.
    “Why is his agent the best one at New York?”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:35:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. people (cameo): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer's cameo works because the movie turns it into Ethan Hunt rather than the real anchor.
    “In fallout, it's so effective because it's not actually Wolf Blitzer. It's Ethan Hunt.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:35:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. verdict (verdict): Edge of Tomorrow → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. By the time Fallout came out people were saying Edge also ruled; these are modern Cruise's high points.
    “these are now kind of his high points for modern Tom.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:16:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Fallout has the same ending as Edge: cut on Cruise's smile with a weird pop-song needle drop.
    “Fallout kind of have the same ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. career (career): Lorne Balfe → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. The composer of Lego Batman also scored Mission: Impossible Fallout.
    “who did the score for this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:40:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. 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)
  16. craft (craft): Christopher McQuarrie → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. McQuarrie brings in new tech people and a new cinematographer each time so each film feels like a different director's.
    “Like, he always, right, he's, like, brings in a new, uh, new, like, tech people, new, new, new cinematographer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. 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)
  18. career (career): Sean Harris → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Lane is the first M:I antagonist to feel like part of a bigger ongoing tapestry.
    “he's the 1st antagonist in these movies who feels like he belongs as part of the bigger ongoing tapestry.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:00:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  19. 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)
  20. craft (craft): Thor: The Dark World → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here.
    “I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  21. craft (craft): Iron Man 3 → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Speaker's anecdote of staying for the curtain call credits applies to Iron Man 3 end credits.
    “we can't leave before they give Tom his curtain call.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:18:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  22. lineage (callback): Mission: Impossible → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark.
    “I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. industry (franchise template): Mission: Impossible → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Every MI film reuses the same three-set-piece structure plus a McGuffin, which is why the franchise is elastic.
    “they used the same exact structure in every single movie that came forward.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:11:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)