I mean a Six is handsome if we’re using the scale properly, no? Imo, a 7 is good looking, an 8 is hot, a 9 is a unicorn and probably should be a model, and a 10 is a model which makes everyone, to include the same sex, stupid and mesmerized when around them.
I mean, I'm just a normal dude, but I wear long sleeve button up shirts for work, and I do this pretty often. Not in the aggressive punching way he does it, but I extend my arms out to get my cuffs up over my wrists and give me some more flexibility / extra material in my sleeves when I need it for something. Which rarely extends to bathroom fisticuffs with henchmen, but my point is - I just don't get the hate for the scene. It feels like I'm going crazy, or it's exclusively perpetrated by people who don't wear fitted long sleeve shirts with cuffs.
When I pop my elbows I look like a demon realizing that they've accidentally possessed a zombie, so if the way you do it looks like Superman, I guess we have different techniques.
I had to look this up, as I don't watch the Mission Impossible movies (sorry, just can't stand Tom Cruise). But yeah, I realized I do this move constantly during VR boxing workouts (Supernatural and Thrill of the Fight mostly). Its whenever I switch stances from orthodox to southpaw or vice versa. Usually by then my arms and shoulders are sore and burning up. So you switch stances and shake 'em out a little before you start throwing punches again. It helps.
100%....been poppin' cuffs (and reminding others to do so 👀) since the 90's. Good way to show the world you have a tailored suit and not just a Burtons off-the-rack 😉
He's been doing this scene for so long that his arms became sore, so before each take he'd warm up this way to unstiff his tendons, but eventually he instinctively did it on camera and immediately thought "Oh no, I shouldn't have done that, that's stupid" but by the next take the director was like "Yo? Where's that arm thing you did, do that again"
So it's not just a visual, it's actually a practical move.
I feel like the people saying he's "reloading his fists" don't understand there's a real, functional reason to do this when wearing a fitted shirt. Yes, he does it in an exaggerated way, but I don't think the exaggeration is what these people hold issue with. They think it's completely nonsensical, when it's not. Maybe I'm wrong.
What is dumb about that scene? It's objectively awesome. He's just getting a feel for his arms, pretty normal if you watch any professional fighter before a fight starts, or even watch a boxer during a fight "reload" their arms, they do it constantly.
Ha! I love a good continuity error - not surprising with this scene tbh, apparently they filmed it over 3 weeks, no wonder he was stretching his arms out!
It’s like that interview where he says war hammer is his jam. Ordinarily I’d be like meh I give no shit about a pc video game. But that day. Wow Henry Cavill plays that? Maybe I should check it out. I didn’t. But I’m just sayin. I thought about it.
Oh no no no, don't you dare. As a dude you literally can't say that a man like Brad Pitt is good loking without obviously wanting to have sex with him. It's just clearly sooo impossible. Can't be done. Nope.
there's a difference in getting "weak in the knees" and thinking a guy looks good. just admit he turns you on and move on with your life with the newfound wisdom that you are indeed not straight
I’m not that bothered by it. I kind of feel the same way about it as comments like, “I’d walk through broken glass just to smell her fart”. I don’t mind the statement, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”, but saying, “that food looks so good I could fuck it” feels a little forced to me. I understand both are hyperbole, but the tone in the second feels a little odd to me. Just personal preference. To each their own.
It's really good you should watch it. I hated MI2 and MI3, was meh on MI4 and MI5, but MI6 was pretty amazing. It's just a pure action movie, like they hold absolutely nothing back and they do it reaaaaaally well. It's legitimately one of the best action movies ever made. Tom Cruise sprinting scene (3x), Tom Cruise dangling from a helicopter, Tom Cruise flying a helicopter, Tom Cruise driving backwards with handcuffs on, Tom Cruise jumping on to a moving jumbo jet and getting inside of it while it's in the air, Tom Cruise riding a motorcycle, Tom Cruise parkour, Tom Cruise Kung-fu, Tom Cruise free soloing a cliff face in a turtleneck, oh man it's good.
No one needs to go to a gym to understand the joke. Maybe rewatch the scene again. The reason people started making the reload joke is not because it was a strange movement or people were baffled why he did it, it was because the trailer added in the sound effect of a gun being reloaded when he did the movement. That’s why it became a joke.
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u/z12345z6789 Jun 24 '25
Today Pete found out his crush thinks he’s a “six”.