MK asked me to try to contribute to this board a bit more often than I have been, so here ya go. Spoiler Warning

It's been my experience that true fans of the original MI TV series HATE Cruise's movies. I certainly do. I thought a thread devoted to our reasons for hating them might be therapeutic. My two biggest ones are as follows:

My first and biggest gripe is about the first film. Dammit, you DON'T make Jim Phelps a rogue agent!!. That's like having Marshall Matt Dillon of "Gunsmoke" rob a bank or LAPD Officers Reed & Malloy of "Adam 12" commit murder. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN!! Would LAFD Paramedics Gage and DeSoto of "Emergency!" refuse to rescue someone? NO!! Would 918th Bomber Group General Savage of "12 O'Clock High" defect to the German Luftwaffe? NO!!

After that, I barely paid any attention to the rest of the franchise. I think I saw 2 & 3 on cable simply because there was nothing else on I could tolerate. I've never seen 4. There is a 4, right?

My second gripe is about the whole franchise. They don't follow the signature pattern of most of the series eps. I have cherished memories of watching it with my parents. We'd see Barney and/or Big Willy setting up various equipment, etc. with only a vague idea of why thy were doing it. There was a point in almost every ep where we said "Oh that's what they were setting up!" or "That's why they were doing that!" The films just don't capture that IMHO.

Let's hear 'em, movie haters.