River Phoenix and Javier Bardem on the actual Tumblr do too.

I'm not anti-tat, I think they can look cool, but none of them were "working" for me until I saw Johnny Cash.

I guess I was thrown because Hatake is supposed to have taken a bunch of kids, and her being special could just as easily have been to do with the virus. I also have no recollection of the lost daughter talk, so I guess that answers my "was I not paying attention?" question.

Funny you got FDW from that, it reminded me of the Season 3 premiere of Lost a little. Very DHARMA.

"Helix is like a car crash. It knows its terrible in places"

How did you manage to avoid Donnie Darko for 13 years?

"Hatake finally tells Julia that he’s her dad, which we have known since the pilot (good job, everyone!)."

That over-the-topness is far more egregious than…Tom Cruise running. Which, you know, happens in everything. I think the time M:I:3 was released probably had more of an impact on your enjoyment of it than it did the content of the film.

And a radio, don't forget the radio. Latest thing.

"I saw MI4 when I was on a plane"

You watched a different M:I-2 to me, did you miss the bit where the entire opening is an opportunity for him to look cool in sunglasses which then explode, or the bit where he manages to have a slo-mo waltz in his car?

The anti-god speech was great as well. It couldn't be worse than our imaginations. My favourite MacGuffin is still the NOC list though, as it's an actual piece of intelligence rather than a weapon.

Cruise getting blown sideways into a car on that bridge is as close as the series has come to having another moment as iconic as him dangling from the ceiling at Langley.

As much as I dislike M:I-2 (and I really, really dislike M:I-2) I identify "Take A Look Around" with the franchise so much.

I'm a big fan of the Mini chase in The Bourne Identity.

I wish they swapped Holloway and Renner.

Laurence Fishburne and Billy Crudup are great too.

Ghost Protocol got so much praise as the best in the series that it was impossible for me not to be a little disappointed by it. Going from PSH to such an insanely forgettable villain was part of it, Ving Rhames being reduced to a cameo in favour of Simon Pegg (good as he is) didn't help, the most generic MacGuffin…

"he relishes calling her a bitch"

Rachel Weisz & Paula Patton.