Mark & Jack – Mission: Impossible – POND OF WOOD
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.5 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Mark Kermode and Jack Howard are back to rank the eight Mission: Impossible films in order of preference, and talk about everything from Tom's tumbles to theme tunes.
Films and people mentioned in the two episodes are:
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Limp Bizkit
Lalo Schiffrin
Mike Oldfield
Nick Hornby
John Wu
Secrets of Cinema
Kim Newman
Nick Jones
Wallace & Gromit
Oceans 11
Brian de Palma
JJ Abrams
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Tom Cruise – action movie Jesus
Eddie Hamilton
Simon Pegg
Doctor Who
Michael Bay
Ben Bailey Smith
Chris McQuarry
Brad Bird
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones
Dark Knight Rises
Michael Giacchino
Paddington
Jurassic Park – Lost World
Joe Kramer
Lorne Balfe
Han Zimmer
Sean Harris
Turandot
Nessun Dorma
Simon Mayo
Alex Baldwin
Stanley Kubrick
Punch Drunk Love
Henry Cavill
Stone Cold
Brian Bosworth
Terminator 2
No Time to Die
Ethan Hawke
Julie Delpy
Top Gun Maverick
Vanessa Kirby
Rebecca Ferguson
Hayley Atwell
James Bond
Face-Off
John Travolta
Nic Cage
Lea Seydoux
Paula Patton
Ana de Armas
Star Wars
John Boyega
Jon Voight
Vanessa Redgrave
Michelle Monaghan
True Detective
Dune
Buster Keaton
Thandiwe Newton
Sean Connery
Jason Bourne
Danny Boyle
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. |
| 0:01.1 | Thanks for downloading this Kermod on film podcast, which, for reasons that will make sense if you were listening to the previous podcast, is called... |
| 0:08.6 | Mission Impossible. |
| 0:09.7 | Pond of Wood. |
| 0:10.3 | Pond of Wood. |
| 0:11.5 | I didn't decide on... |
| 0:12.4 | Why is it called Pond of Wood? |
| 0:13.5 | Because it was... |
| 0:14.4 | It's one of those, you know, quantum of sausage stir of echoes. |
| 0:17.7 | Like, what? |
| 0:18.4 | The Sontum of Qualis. Yes, you know, question of sport. |
| 0:21.7 | Because we were having conversation about the Mission Impossible films, and in the first part of this episode, which if you and then we just get through the list and then we'll start talking about some stuff and then we'll stop and then we'll start talking about the list and we just started doing the list and we just started having a discussion about the films individually so we're going to pick up in the middle somewhere somewhere we're going to pick a spot Don't even know where |
| 0:54.7 | Because we're actually recording |
| 0:55.8 | This new introduction |
| 0:56.8 | In the middle of the discussion |
| 0:57.9 | That we had after our producer said |
| 0:59.5 | You need to cut that into two |
| 1:01.2 | So we're going to pick up with whoever speaking now |
| 1:04.2 | Top three |
| 1:04.9 | Top three, here we go |
| 1:05.7 | Okay, so how do you want to do this? |
| 1:07.7 | I think we're going to be |
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