Mission: Impossible

I'm really defending my tossed off comment and minor thought about a movie too much. My argument is also sort of like, "Man that Movie would have been better if all those girls were topless."

uhm.. I really liked that scene where Tom Cruise ran. I was impressed.

-Helicopter chase through windmills was asinine. They are in HELICOPTERS, fly ABOVE the blades. Also, how did they get from Germany to the windmill farm in Tehachapi so damn fast? Note to filmmakers - don't use an easily recognizable landmark and say it's somewhere other than where it is.

-Hooray for Simon Pegg! When's the next Shawn Of The Dead movie?

-The most unbelieveable part of the movie wasn't Cruise, the action scenes, or the over-reliance on masks. It was Keri Russell as superagent Felicity "I couldn't find a guy at NYU so I'll join the CIA."

-Abrams didn't appear to take advantage of film all that well. Much of it was framed like a TV show.

-There's a mole in the organization? This is only the plot of every episode of Alias ever.

-Vatican scene was exceptionally well done. Felt like a different movie all of a sudden. The bridge scene was also great, but like the windmill scene Cruise could have just run around to the half of the bridge that wasn't missing instead of wasting our time by jumping across.

-I like the no-show of the heist too. Reminded me of that Neal Stephenson chapter that ends "everything else was just a chase scene." Negative points for the ridiculous line about "it's the prayer I used for my cat to come home" though.

When I heard Abrams, those were two things I was expecting, and he delivered.

Helicopter chase through windmills was asinine. They are in HELICOPTERS, fly ABOVE the blades.

The helicopter being chased was "trynna lose 'em" among the windmill blades, and I loved the way they established that the windmill blades were massive and threatening before they had a helicopter run into one of 'em. Pretty great scene, actually.

I agree that the wind farm scene wasn't all that hot, but who cares if the wind farm was actually in CA. This is an American movie. If we can export our pop culture, we can export our disdain for geography. For M:I:X, I hope a computer-generated Tom Cruise jumps from the top of the Eiffel Tower onto the Kremlin. California? Is that the one shaped like a boot, or the one that invented clocks?

What, they don't fall over when they are struck by missiles that just missed the good guys, and their blades don't blow up bad guy hellicopters? 'Cause that was the important part. I'm pretty sure they work that way when TOM CRUISE IS KICKING ASS.

Besides, these are German windmills. Didn't the Germans invent them to run their dikes in La Mancha? I suppose you think think THEY DON"T KNOW HOW TO BUILD COPTER KILLING MACHINES IN LA MANCHA.

PWN3D!

Who would play Cantiflas?

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The wife pissed me off.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Monday, May 8, 2006 6:17 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nu-uh.

sort of think 1 is better than 3, but only marginally. they should have used PSH more.

love 1, can't remember 3. trying to watch it now but tv reception is going bonkers.

interesting fact: you remember the train roof that Cruise flails about and leaps from in MI1 ? My dad built that roof. yay.

3 is so rad

if 2 had been anywhere near as good the trilogy could be a legit bourne rival imo

besr florida keys bridge attack since true lies

lol @ brontosaurus on this thread

3 is really great yeah

love my argument with brontosaurus.

i can't even remember that scene now

but i gotta see this again soon

oh i remember the bridge attack, yeah that was good.

did cheers cop out by never showing vera?

the big quez

Musgrave: I thought you could get her back. But I wasn't going to let all people, to let Brassel to undo the work I've done. I took action, Ethan. On the behalf of all working families of America, the Army force, the white house. I've had enough of Brassel and his sanctimony. IMF director, he's an affirmative action poster boy. You grabbed Davian like he wanted, then what? Davian is a weed. You cut him down and two more springs he's just like the next day. Arrest him, then what? You use him. Collaborate with him. Then it's Christmas. In 18 hours, the Rabbit's foot will be sent to its Middle East buyer, we've got the Intel to prove that. Then the UN counsil will have an emergency meeting, we're taking a military strike in a week. Then when the sand settles, our country will do what it does best: cleaning-up, infrastructure, democracy wins.

^^ POLITICS

3 rad

Uh:

"Mission: Impossible IV," which once seemed truly impossible, is taking shape at Paramount.

Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have agreed to co-produce the sequel, which is aimed at a 2011 release.

The return of Cruise to Par itself is surprising in view of the circumstances surrounding his departure in August 2006. Apparently irked by the heft of Cruise’s deal, among other issues, Viacom chief Sumner Redstone abruptly terminated the 14-year relationship between the star and the studio. Cruise’s then-CAA agent, Rick Nicita, termed Redstone’s decision “shockingly offensive and graceless.”

The rift led to Cruise becoming the chief of United Artists and taking a more active role in production decisions. Redstone, meanwhile, has sought to heal the relationship. At a recent appearance, he described the star as “a great actor and a good friend.”

The “Mission” installment would augment Paramount’s formidable array of sequels, which will include “Star Trek 2” and a third “Transformers.”

Work on “Mission: Impossible IV” would inevitably be delayed by the busy schedules of the participants.

Abrams will be responsible for guiding the “Star Trek” sequel, while Cruise recently committed to an untitled pic (formerly called “Wichita”) for 20th Century Fox that will be directed by James Mangold and co-star Cameron Diaz.

And here we go.

Uh.

Damn you for starring in this Jeremy Renner. I liked you.

m:i3 owned hard

no idea what brad bird will do with it tho

a GHOST?!?!

m:i3 owned hard

You mean m:i iii (pronounced "meh")?

m:i iii was ill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDOFVCtIN6E

pretty stoked for this, the ~advance buzz~ is really good, so far M:I2 is the only dud in the series

with you on that 100% my man

"ghost protocol" is such a hilarious video game name

wait I had no idea 3 was any good

i wish it was Ghost: Protocol so they could cram 3 colons in there

"ghost protocol" is such a hilarious video game name

i read that as 'ghost recon'

its pretty good iatee! philly seymo hoffman steals the show

is there an actual team? what bothered me most about 2 was how crappy and nonexistent the team was.