The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, are about four years apart in age, with both of them in their 40s. While they’re in the same collective generation of media, they’ve discovered little differences of “you had to be there” moments when it comes to the big movies of the 1990s. In 1996, the original Mission: Impossible was over Will Johnson‘s pre-teen head. To Don Shanahan, who was an independent, car-driving teenager at that time, the Tom Cruise summer blockbuster was the stuff fit for a date night. Coming back to Mission: Impossible and its first sequel, M:I-2, now at the end hits differently.
For their 201st episode, two mask-pulling film critics, two special agent dads, and two stuntman teachers,
Will and
Don, begin a group of retrospective episodes reflecting on the recently finalized (for now anyway)
Mission: Impossible franchise. Taking them a pair at a time, this first episode covers Brian De Palma’s
Mission: Impossible from 1996 and its wild 2000 sequel
M:I-2 from director John Woo. Will and Don are united in praising these two standalone adventures that flaunted what made Tom Cruise and this series interesting and cool before the larger and increasingly overinflated arc would take over later. Come learn more and stay for the mutual love and respect that fun movies encapsulate. Enjoy our podcast!
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Don Shanahan
