I'm all caught up now.
MI1 - I remember a lot of hype for this when it came out. Not really worth that hype, but I guess it's not as boring as some other spy movies. At this point, Brian De Palma started to decline.
MI2 - I did watch it. I swear. But I wasn't paying attention because it was boring me and thus I forgot it entirely. Some motorcycle... some Metallica song...
MI3 - Finally, a more engaging entry. This is where JJ Abrams stepped in, and it starts out with a bang. Literally. Philip Seymour Hoffman played a good villain, even though I've never found him actually intimidating, but I definitely hated him, that's for sure. This one also brings in Simon Pegg, and he's always great. This is perhaps the only film in the series that felt like it had real stakes, but ironically, the scene that made those stakes feel real was negated at the end, but that doesn't matter. Still a pretty decent flick.
MI4 Ghost Protocol - Jeremy Renner came in on this one, and I always remember ads featuring that suction/window stunt. That's probably the most memorable part in that movie, but it wasn't bad.
MI5 Rogue Nation - I started zoning out again by this movie. I mostly remember that water scene, but I do appreciate that TC likes to do his own stunts. It's very cool. He held his breath for 6 minutes or so during actual production? I can hold my breath for a few seconds...
MI6 Fallout - This one was pretty cool. I think Henry Cavill is to contribute to that, but the setting and nuke plot was also pretty good. Cool action scenes and whatnot. Plus, they finally brought in our seemingly written out character of Julia. And no Renner this time.
So overall, the series was better than I was expecting. The first two are still pretty mediocre, but thank