mission: impossible rambles

i'm trying to embrace the concept that i could be as annoying as i'd like on here, i'm just generally not used to blogging or like.. journalling, always been bad at it but i'll TRY!!!! even if i have to do it badly whatevar. im so brave about it.

anyway i've been watching the mission: impossible movies at an absolutely deranged pace (at least for me, i don't usually watch movies this consecutively) since last week and i've gotten through 6 of them so far, the 7th is the latest one, dead reckoning, and i'm weirdly stalling to watch it because it's part one of two and i don't know how long it'll be until part two comes out.. i'll cave eventually i need to see ethan hunt saying devastating things to his team and then risking his life in variously stupid ways.

actually i should show my favourite review i've read so far it was on M:I2 and i keep thinking about it and laughing.

this is all simon pegg's fault btw my main motivation for even getting through the second movie was to see him in the third and onwards. i'm perfectly regular about benji dunn (lying) . the cornetto trilogy to mission: impossible pipeline is very real i'm afraid. i could gush about hot fuzz and the world's end too but that's a whole other post on it's own.

anyway i didn't expect these films to get this GOOD they weren't meant to have me in a chokehold like this, though i'm not surprised i enjoyed them way more after M:I3 since they give benji a more prominant role in the cast and it's great, they made him a silly tech guy for me actually /j. but seriously rogue nation is incredible i don't need to tell you that rebecca ferguson kicks ass both literally and metaphorically (also simon pegg DOES look hot in a tux ethan hunt wasn't lying. that whole opera scene goes absolutely crazy), and obviously there's the whole burj khalifa setpiece spectacle in ghost protocol which is insane. they created tom cruise in a lab to scale buildings. it also helps that during/after M:I3 they seem to get a much better grasp on ethan's character, i can empathise with him way more as the films go on i think they make him far more human in the later entries and his protectiveness and dynamics with the team are deeelicious.

this isn't to say the first one isn't good though, i actually think that one kinda tops M:I3 at least in terms of memorability even though 3 has such a good villain, i just love the whole explosive gum bit and the aquarium/restaurant setpiece they have at the start, and obviously the TENSION in the vault scene. i can't imagine how it would be like watching one of these films in the cinema because it took me probably an extra half hour to get through them purely because of how stressed some of the scenes can make me. for some reason it was the worst in the first hour of fallout where they're rumblin and tumblin in that bathroom, i think it just feels like a hitman mission gone sooooo so terribly wrong lmao with the people coming in and them having to cover up what's going on with the massive puddle of blood on the floor. also i'm so sorry to any of his fans but i can't Stand henry cavill i think he's so punchable /lh. the third act in fallout is so good though i can maybe forgive having to put up with his shit for the first bit . and at least ethan calls him a prick that was pretty amazing.
ALSO i understand film scores now. i get it. the main motif is so fuckin joyous to me i honestly get a kick out of it every time.

plus, on a more fandom-y note, it is bizarre and overwhelming to be in a fandom that's actually sort of active and yknow has a sizable amount of fan content lmao. the last few fandoms i've been in have consisted of me and maybe 5 other people at most it has been brutal (one of them drove me to making my own fanfiction even though i'm NOT a writer at all. there are 6 total works on ao3 and 2 of them are by me. save me) . seeing this much stuff to read and see is overwhelming it's like i've been trudging through a desert with no water and M:I has just dropped a cartoonishly large vat onto my head promptly drowning me. but like it's good. i'll die happily /j

aaand that's all i got for now yayy i wrote words ^__^ bye bye thanks for witnessing my most recent descent into madness