The Best Things About the 1st Mission: Impossible Movie
- The way they do the opening credits in the style of the show’s using clips from the movies that we haven’t even seen yet
- The fact that out of all of the films, it is the most like a traditional cloak-and-dagger spy thriller rather than an action movie
- The general artsiness of the whole thing
- The way the first few scenes really do feel like they could be the beginning of a standard episode of an ongoing TV series until shit goes Horribly Wrong™
- The weird-ass angles in the scene at the restaurant
- Everything about the cable drop scene. Everything. It is one of the most iconic scenes in all of modern cinema for a goddamn reason.
- The scenery (both the beautiful European locations and the sleek set design)
- The way it only gets better with every repeated viewing as you’re able to understand all of the complexities of the story and characters more and more
- That lovely periwinkle sweater Ethan wears when he figures out that Jim is the bad guy. (My friend insists that it was grey but it was PERIWINKLE.)
- “Hasta lasagna, don’t get any on ya.”
- The adorably dated technology
- Max is fucking awesome and I kind of wish they made her a reoccurring character in the series
- The fact that the train scene, while suffering from comedically fake-looking special effects and general ridiculousness, still manages to be a brilliantly choreographed and emotionally engaging action sequence
- No romance. I do think that Ethan cared very deeply for Claire but TBH there’s nothing that really indicated to me that he was truly attracted to her, and the scenes where she’s trying to seduce him I guess a) Go nowhere and b) Have him looking extremely confused and vaguely uncomfortable throughout
- ETHAN HUNT GREW UP ON A FUCKING FARM WHY DO WE NOT TALK ABOUT THIS
