Open Bar #57 - Mission Impossible Dominates, Indy 5 Fallout, Witcher Season 3 Disaster 

Lucasfilm making a good film seems to be the real mission impossible.

I definitely agree with Critical Doggo's take on Kathleen Kennedy needing to go and she should take Kevin Feige with her. Very insightful.

We live in a world where a Drinker video gets more views than The Witcher season 3.. And I couldn’t be happier about it

If only Hollywood could look at these Tom Cruise movies and actually learn something?

The Critical Doggo in here with all the hot takes we've come to expect during an open bar.

Truly amazing that a sleeping dog has better takes than John Campea.

Disney: buys Lucas Films to finally have a brand for boys. Also Disney: eliminates/destroys all the male leads and replaces them with women. Men and boys: turn away from Star Wars. Disney: Pikachu face 😮😮😮

Hope The Little Platoon is a permanent resident of The Open Bar at this point.

Happy to see The Woke Critic join The Critical Drinker, Mauler and The Little Platoon ❤❤❤

I can’t wait for in 5 years when they make this Rey reboot and they portray Rey as an old washed up cat lady in her 40s and a new class of young Jedi males absolutely master class her in every field 😂

Hayley atwell should be a bigger star. Agent carter was a really good show. She's believable as a kick ass heroine.

Writers: How have people successfully adapted novels to film in the past? Everyone: Well, Peter Jackson stayed faithful to the source material. Writers: Hmm... what else you got?

Greyhounds = 100MPH couch potato. Good dog Smokey, very photogenic.

whoever replaces K.K. should have their first movie do what the Ghostbusters movie did, first 5 seconds of the trailer tells the audience "that other shit never happened and we'll never speak of it again."

How do Disney executives not see how terrible their plan is when you are releasing 5+ movies a year that require you to break 500M box office on each just to stay afloat, and they would likely have to break a billion to actually be considered a successful production. When your whole business model requires you to get close to record breaking box offices multiple times per year, there’s a major flaw, especially now with how the economy is, it’s not realistic to bank on billion dollar box office numbers for every movie you make

How are writers supposed to write dialogue if they’re not talking to every day people? A lot of these guys are sheltered, college educated, elitist individuals that curate their experiences through social media and avoid actual in person interactions that may expose them to new experiences. They prefer to live in the void of their own heads without having world experience to fill said void.

Dead Reckoning was just what the summer needed. Fun, exciting and totally free of modern messaging. Just a great experience to sit and watch. Plus, Hayley Atwell has never looked better than in this film. God damn...

While I agree the motorcycle jump may have been over-saturated in previews, you could feel the excitement build in the theater as everyone knew it was finally time. When he jumped, the theater, the 100% full theater, was PIN DROP silent. It was an awesome moment.

Indy 5 be like: Me fail mission? That's unpossible.

I really liked Pom in MI7, because she spoke her native French in the movie and this gave more authenticity to her character.

MI7 was my first trip to a movie theater since the pandemic. Holy crap, movie theaters have gotten expensive, even more so than I remember. That said, that movie was awesome, so it's all good. Tom Cruise is a crazy mother****er but God bless him for making movies like this.

Time travel at the end of Superman only works because Chris Reeves totally sells it through his performance and reaction when Lois dies.

I really love the film Collateral, Tom Cruise as a dead eye assassin he's fantastic.

Critical doggo always provides us with the most informed, insightful, cohesive points about present day movies and TV 🤔

It's 8:00 in the morning, and I'm at work but I guess I could stop at the bar. Surely there will be nothing but good news to be heard

1:02:16 Meanwhile, Rhea Seehorn (Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul) started to get recognition when she’s 50 so I think Atwell at 41 still had it easier than her.

Han's original line gets misquoted as being "I love you too" but the script was actually "Just remember that, ’cause I’ll be back." They wanted a way to say that without directly saying it and Ford came up with "I know" while they were spitballing ideas. Sometimes it is reported that he just blurted it out randomly during the take, but the conversation on set was recorded.

One thing that could have made a slight difference for the better - that opening sequence on board the submarine, shouldn't have shown that the entity is situated on board the sub. Should have been shown the commanders using keys but not clearly showing they are the two parts that everyone is looking for in the movie - The ship is blown up, sinks to the bottom, crew floats to the top, don't show the crew's keys in close up. Make it appear that the entity blew up the sub to stir potential war between different nations, then at the end, when Pom reveals to him that the entity is on board the sub, Ethan puts 2 and 2 together and realises that is why it happened - we have that end sequence where the camera goes to the sub and shows it on the bopttom, and we see the entity, and we see the lock that fits the key. Would have made for a much better reveal and cliffhanger to setup the point of part 2.

1:18:09 - I felt the same about the motorcycle jump. I saw it too many times on twitter beforehand that when it happened in the movie, it was just "Yeah, that's neat". I can understand wanting to build hype for the movie, but it really did dull the impact of the scene in the actual movie.

I've been working in Disney shite for 3 years. Now I'm out of work haha. I decided to buy my own equipment and do my own projects. This is the turning point. Things are a changing.

There needs to be a sequel to Spaceballs based on the Disney sequels

I like to think of the Critical Doggo as the Farther Jack of Open Bar

I'm still waiting for Robot Head to be invited. I would especially love him on when the Assoka show drops.

Drinker saw you on Russell Brand podcast great stuff my dude keep up on keeping up!!

That drinker joke about the benchmark for his girlfriend taking a punch had me rolling 😂

"I like a woman that can take a punch" - Sean Connery, probably. Based Chris Gore 😂

Mission Possible: Good Movie Makes Money

Peter Jacksons King Kong film was pretty faithful to the original, honestly. The casting choices are head scratchers, but it still felt like he was being respectful to the source

Critical Doggo has broken all journalistic possibilities with their groundbreaking film analysis.

I wonder how actresses feel working on these films where the script just won't let them actually act, because their character never gets scared, never feels any sort of relief at overcoming terrible odds, never goes through any journey at all emotionally and just instantly wins at everything because it's so easy for her. Did they become actresses because they wanted a paycheck and fame, or did they become actresses because they actually want to act? Somebody should start asking them that in interviews, and on the red carpet. If they ever stop striking, that is.

Regarding the wayward (not so favorable) MI 7 reviews: one thing you guys (who are all fantastic) are forgetting is that this is Part 1 of 2 and no Mission Impossible movie is without its “expectations will not be met while hopes will” theme. There’s no way these guys aren’t taking into account the AI’s ever-reaching-all-knowingness. Shouldn’t we assume Cruise blasting through that train window in a both ridiculous and highly comedic way is not just luck (of course it is), but also an opportunity to “outsmart”the omniscient AI? I feel like they ran this discussion through its paces long before it became part of the lexicon, you know? Happy to be wrong! You guys are great, particularly Drinker👍

Applebee's is giving away free tickets to Indiana Jones

Kathleen Kennedy reminds me so so much of Catherine Zeeta-Jones’ character from Rock of Ages. Except for the sex appeal, singing and coming around at the end.. basically everything that is good.

I thought Mission Impossible 7 was great in almost all aspects. Looking forward to part 2.

It was not hard to follow 😂 love you guys,but it was phenomenal, fun, and made under rough circumstances…I don’t go to movies, but I went to MI and will again.

Sound Of Freedom is now over $80M at the Box Office.

You guys obviously didn't see 'The Pillars of the Earth' on Channel 4: Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Matthew McFadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Attwell and Donald Sutherland. It was very good.

I got my favorite seat during my local screening of Indy 5 as well. At my flat, in my chair, beer in hand, re-watching Stargate.

No, Ethan is not still married. Remember she was with someone else in Fallout?

Critical doggoes take on Indy 5 was quite bold, but maybe all the slurs wasn't necessary?

The drinker is my hero. His review of blade runner is pure poetry. 😊😊😊

Vanilla Sky is a good adaptation... a good remake. I like it better than the original.

What if the AI turns out to be the good guy at the end? Like, it was leaving breadcrumbs for Ethan all along, and had a plan to thwart who was controlling it?

"Who cares about Cyberpunk?" I did. I do. I played the table top in high school. It's easily one of my favorite sci fi settings. They kept fixing stuff and the game play got better and better and I say this as someone who absolutely hates FPS games. I think it's the laziest, crappiest gameplay possible but Cyberpunk hooked me. And I am looking forward to what else they'll add fix or enhance.

Never thought I'd hear the Rakka Bro's movie being mentioned here. Danny and Michael have certainly come a long way from their RU-vid days. They were the ones who produced/wrote Talk to Me.

Obi-wan should have been a Fist Full of Dollars type plot.

2:28:30 - 1995's "First Knight" with Sean Connery as King Arthur remains the only movie I ever walked out on! When Connery walks in on Guinevere and Lancelot, the entire audience in my theater just cracked up, laughing out loud, and you could tell, they hadn't intended the scene to be hilarious. What got me to walk was the interminable fight scene at the end where they repeatedly switched between showing the entire field of battle to showing Arthur or Mordred, sword raised toward his opponent, to a close-up of one of the armies charging toward the other, then back again, over and over and over and over, to the point where Dragonball Z fans were screaming, "GET ON WITH IT!!"

Smokey has had way to much to drink lmao , he is absoloutly hammered

I thought the airplane scene was brilliant. I also loved when Ethan crashed into the train 😂 And I thought it was made pretty clear early on the Entity wasn't at full power yet.

I think Grace's character grounds all the over the top antics in the movie. She behaves as a normal person trapped in crazyville. It really made the movie for me.

I like MI: Dead Reckoning, but I think it's weak compared to the previous films, but that could because it's Part 1.

With Cyberpunk 2077 they were able to pull a No Man's Sky by the time Cyberpunk: Edgerunners came out and the game is getting a full "2.0" update for the DLC coming in September. Right now with the 1.62 Patch it's a really good game and with the aforementioned "2.0" update it looks amazing. So come Sept it's definitely worth another look if you gave up on it.

2:20:30 on the censorship note, Netflix censored "Ferris Buellers day off " they removed the scene where Sloan changes at the pool, then later she asks Cameron if he saw her naked he says yes which makes no sense if this is your first viewing!!!

I always thought/assumed/hoped that the EU would be developed into the last trilogy. It was a slam dunk with how popular thar series of books/comics was, but that of course would have been too easy and too male dominated! It would have been very cool to see Mara Jade developed on the screen, while the Skywalker family expanded! 🎉🎉

sucks that people get so worked up over spoilers. there are very few movies that can be truly spoiled. only 2 i can think of are 6th sense were a spoiler trully ruins the movie, and the prestige, but that one tries to spoil itself so the spoiler is mostly bypassing the craft of the plot. most movies its fairly predictible what is going to happen in the end so the fun of the movie is how they get there. thus spoilers almost never bother me.

I'm 100% with Mauler on this movie..I actually nodded off some times lol..

I would have liked an Ethan Hunt POV for that jump so you could see him looking forward and then suddenly the bike drops away and the whole vista opens up. that would have really nailed that they did it all.

The issue with 9 dash line is much more complex than just some islands, and it affects more countries in the South East Asia than just Vietnam (it is basically about Chinese claims in the sea that are not recognized by anyone else)

MI2 has John Woo's signature action, and Newton is great, but the film felt less like a MI story, and more like a Bond.

Imagine how Dial of Density would've bombed if they kept the original ending, which involved Indiana waking up in his New York apartment, putting on the Fedora, and reflecting "this hat is perfection" to which fleabag responded "it will be once it fits a woman" and then she took the hat and put it on. Indy tried to protest so she aimed a machine gun at him, pointed to her eyes and said "look at me, look at me, I'm Indiana now" and then she put the dial in the hat and became the Retcon Girl, so she went to collect the Shankara Stone, The Arc of The Covenant, and The Holy Grail, but with all that power and awesomeness she became Miss Multiverse, and went to turn Lara Croft into a strong character while taking from her the Triangle of Light, El Gato from that movie with Stifler and The Rock, the mummies of Imhotep and the Dragon Emperor, and onto discover the cradle of life, and even King Solomon's Mines, and with the machine gun to embarrass every WW2 and WW1 and Napoleonic war male protagonist by taking down all the nazis in those movies before them...

Can I recommend getting Aiden Mattis from the Lore Lodge to come to the bar? He has been on Pop Culture Crisis to talk about films & makes a lot of interesting but good points.

Mission impossible was awesome, but don’t act like it’s completely dominated. It made WAY less than predicted

1:16:12 The two intelligence agents were one of the better parts of the movie.

As far as censoring, I was introduced into anime by bleach and ghost is the shell. So when I say the rerelease of the ghost in the shell trade (or the thick book) I picked it up. Was told that it was censored from the original. Don't know what, I hope it was only some excess nudity that I assume was common in early manga.

Im sure the live action "Shit Brown and the Seven Activist Hipsters" will do gangbusters and the House of Mouse will rise again.

I don't know the Barbie plot, but there must be something about the patriarchy in it.

Your opinions of the airport scene is wrong it is a lead up to how complicated and a precursor to how hard the main will be while they are figuring it out

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 2: Jack’s Revenge. We learn The Entity was created and controlled by Jack, who never got over his elevator accident and wants to take it out on the world. The Entity was actually the Rabbit’s Foot, and Ethan stealing it is what unleashed it upon the world. Everything comes full circle in the end.

I agree that MI7 has a pretty rough script. But I think the talk around the main stunt around the 1:20:00 I disagree with the points they all are making. Them saying that Ethan wouldnt hesitate and wouldve just jumped and Benji yelling at him to just jump is reversing roles. This has become like a running joke with the MI movies. Them either going into detail about how dangerous something theyre about to do and Benji underselling it, or Ethan hesitating and taking a minute to take in just how dangerous what he is about to do is, with Benji telling him to hurry. Whether its Benji underselling how dangerous the Burj Khalifa climbing scene is, Benji constantly underselling how dangerous and complicated it is when Ethan has to hold his breath for 4 minutes to get to the under water servers. Or something as basic as Ethan taking a minute to get the courage to jump out of a 3 story building and Benji on the coms yelling at him to hurry.

I wrote this on one of the clips from this episode, but there is evidence of the prequels taking place during the Clone Wars and being about Obi-Wan and Anakin going back to the 70s. Kurtz was probably only remembering part of the ideas Lucas had, which were constantly evolving. There is a list on yellow legal paper that comes from before TESB came out where the original movie is listed as "Episode 6" with Episode 1 being listed as a "Prelude" (possibly the "origin of the Jedi" idea Kurtz recalled), Episodes 2-4 being the "Clone Wars Trilogy," and Episode 5 being a "Prologue/Epilogue" before the original film. And there are plenty of interviews from back in the day where they talked about 1-3 being the story of Anakin and Obi-Wan. So these ideas of what the prequels were "really about originally" and that it was Lucas being stubborn and changing the "original idea" doesn't hold water. This explains why Lucas shifted from saying there were plans for possibly "12 films" to saying there were "9 films;" he just eliminated the loose idea of prologue/epilogue type films being necessary. And then he nixed the original Sequel trilogy ideas (mainly Luke finding and training a lost sister in a remote part of the galaxy and then teaming up to defeat the Emperor) while planning "Return of the Jedi" and just crammed them into the last film (this is a fact by the way) because he became exhausted with making Star Wars films, especially after his divorce.

I wasnt expecting the Critical Doggo to use that much harsh language. But i agreed with all of it

Disney etc seems too dumb to know how to make a profitable movie, may I interest you in a preview of Snow Latina and the Multiracial Dwarves?

I just saw MI:7 in IMAX and I have to say that it is a great experience. It’s one of those films that’s made for a huge screen and sound.

I wish that the guy who asked the cake question last Open Bar did it when Little Platoon was on.

Congrats on being on Russel Brand

Less Grossman needs to lead negotiations against the SAG

No mention of The Last Kingdom for Netflix series? I don't know the numbers but it was extremely well done and kept fairly close to the books.

Ethan’s wife has remarried in Fallout, so who is he still married to?

Kittridge and the White Widow are nice connections to the first film, but it is surprising some other people from past films aren't used. Then again, this is only part one.

"This is your mission if you choose to accept it." "Nah fam, that sounds a little _too_ impossible." "o.O"

Tell Mauler to take a hike and finish his goddamn Force Awakens review he started 4 years ago.

Drinker it's not just the fact that it was a drone shot that made the motorcycle jump less real. It's also the Orange and Teal filter that makes everything look like a fake Instagram story Post. That and several other filters they use to make the real shots look softer and more artificial so that the CGI doesn't stand out as much. It hate it too. They should have tracked his jump with a camera guy jumping parallel to him.

I've seen the general! its a great buster keaton movie, the physical comedy he could pull off was brilliant

1:03:00 doggo action.

Can we get this posted on podcast networks?

Love this content. It’s really insightful and fun

Do the Darth Bane trilogy and make it well, actually follow the books and I guarantee 3 massive hits.

I laughed pretty damn hard at the idea that Extraction 2 is better than MI:7😂

Love it: asking Clint Eastwood what civil war was like, followed by what was Jesus like 😂. Cracked me up, Drinker and Mauler

Phoebe Waller Bridge is proof that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.... Unfortunately in this case the beholder failed their eye exam.