Mission: Impossible

3 was definitely better. not really sure why this has such an insane rotten tomatoes score. the girls were pretty smokin though.

also "wait until you see the car" and then the awesome future mobile is stuck in traffic, no -_-

3 was definitely better. not really sure why this has such an insane rotten tomatoes score. the girls were pretty smokin though.

lol, I think possibly the answer to sentence 2 may lie in sentence 3

also I got shamed by my wife when I accidentally referred to Mrs Thicke as "John Legend's girlfriend"

at some point I will remember/look up her name

whut, is Mrs Thicke some kinda Diana Rigg vixen?

pretty much, yes

MI4 is the best in the series by a country mile, i dont think ive enjoyed a hwood action movie this much in a few years

perfectly paced, the dubai sequence - from the tower scaling to the meetings to the sandstorm chase - was really remarkable. bird's a natural storyteller. the tower climb was terrifying in IMAX, i was grippin my arm rests for dear life the entire time.

there's a lot of nitpicks to be made, but again the pacing is so good that they mostly don't occur to you until the movie's over. the villain didnt amount to much, but that was fine because the focus of the movie was on the team itself (its truer to the show than any of the other movies, in that respect) and the tension comes from what i guess you would call the escalating circumstances - everything going totally wrong at every turn, forcing them to work as a team and think laterally.

movie had exactly the right tone too. fun and freewheeling without crossing the line into cornball or undercutting the tension. it was a good change of pace from the overdetermined seriousness of the previous 2 flicks. pegg was pretty funny imo

i agree that the process-stuff of figuring out solutions to things was excellently done

i was also really struck by the beauty and quiet of the sandstorm foot chase, and the screenwriterly humor of having his goggles for it

the lightness of tone and the very movie-ness of the villain didn't really do it for me, but i did get a kick out of nyqvist's taped speech in favor of nuclear war

MI4 is the best in the series by a country mile

― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

exploding iphones at dawn u monster

i agree that the process-stuff of figuring out solutions to things was excellently done

i liked how they set the stage for this by having him bang on the phone booth in the beginning

the lightness of tone and the very movie-ness of the villain didn't really do it for me, but i did get a kick out of nyqvist's taped speech in favor of nuclear war

― goole, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:24 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i think ive been seeing a lot of mixed reactions. i guess it was just exactly what i wanted; i also suspect that the dubai stuff left me feeling really generous about everything else. tom cruise sprinting down the side of the world's tallest building is the kind of big-time spectacle that i go to these sorts of movies hoping for, and rarely get

lol lag∞n are you ice cr?m

yeah duh

anyway i liked it but not as much as the 1st 2, kinda wish i had seen it in imax

maybe its time for marathon impossible

I would see it in imax, it really would have been meh for me without it.

lets duel like in MI2 when they jump off their motorcycles and hug each other midair

*removes magic climbing glove, slaps face*

i tried to see it in imax btw but it was sold out, rip my mi4 experience

yeah the IMAX is pretty crucial on this one

so I should watch this eh

you might dig it! there's not a lot of hot manass in it though, so that might be a concern

wow, and I thought the Producers Guild nominations were the nadir of today's film action.

Just poor Sawyer. xp

poor, poor sawyer cut down in his prime

the entire Dubai sequence was fantastic, yes

we got a lot of lols at Tom Cruise leaping at things and slightly missing them

i liked that he was too short for the eye scanner on the train

the dubai stuff probably hurt the rest of the movie. none of it worked as well as that. (parking lot was cool but felt a lot like the car plant scene from the last movie).

i still liked the kremlin infiltration a lot, and the prison escape. the party in mumbai is the kind of thing i like but im not sure was pulled off too well

one thing i thought was incredibly dopey but sorta charming were the hokey music cues, like in an old cartoon where they'd play the oriental riff if the setting was asian. so you get this booming tetris music in russia, and in mumbai its suddenly some bollywood thing with the MI theme mixed in a little. real saturday morning cartoon stuff

any Weather Girls for shots of Tom's cleavage?

i liked that he was too short for the eye scanner on the train

This part made me openly lol.

The number of critics beating the "see this in IMAX!!!!" drum (universal, really) almost convinced me, but thankfully a) I had these flashbacks to the "OMG! Avatar!" hype and b) my go-to-the-IMAX bud backed out due to his primal aversion to Tom Cruise. Dunno if I'l get around to seeing this at all.

the party in mumbai is the kind of thing i like but im not sure was pulled off too well

didn't help that the billionaire mark was played like a peter sellers sketch

its a way better experience than avatar, but i understand your trepidation

avatar was just relentlessly stupid, this movie has some wit and energy to it. be not afraid. i didn't pay for imax and i had a pretty good time.

I think it'd be fun to see a movie in IMAX where the star was life-sized and he was just sort of dropped into this giant, overwhelming world.

Well, this is a movie about a pint-sized guy dropped into an ordinary-sized world. Is that close enough?

Guessing the Dark Knight 6-minute opening was shot in IMAX as well?

Yes, it was.

i thought this was pretty good. i liked that it had lots of throwbacks to the first mission impossible (which is still much better than this) even though it tried to 'fix' what was supposedly wrong w/ the first one -- like having the plot carefully explained to the audience through unnecessary exposition from characters.

also the actors in this don't touch the incredible character acting from jean reno or ving rhames or jon voigt or vanessa redgrave

and my final criticism was that a lot of times the fight sequences went on far too long -- the suspense set-ups and that sort of thing were great, but the parking garage scene didn't make use of the garage set-up the way it could have, and there's nothing cheaper than when they repeatedly bang the main character's head against things

but despite these drawbacks i really liked this. saw in IMAX, was def worth it.

So this was serviceable. So this is Cruise's first huge hit since WOTW, right? Dunno how it's any better than the others, which weren't bad (I liked the first one well enough; the Vanessa Redgrave-Cruise exchanges are the only convincing sexy male-female exchanges in any Cruise film).

I dont know what it is about that first MI movie but it's one of the few cruise flicks where he seems comfortable in his own skin. maybe it's the de palma touch, but he never makes your skin crawl with the way he can put so much effort into his 'acting' and still not resemble a human being. re: mi4 I really like how he has seemingly grown into a deadpan too-old-for-this-shit persona, it suits him & i thought it was a really good 'star' performance

It says something about Bird and his screenwriters' shrewdness that Cruise gets little dialogue here.

grew up watching the tv show and didn't like the first one: cruise, jon voight sullying jim phelps, killing kristen scott thomas right off

killing emilio was okay tho

Wait, did dude just levitate into the server room using a bunch of freaking magnets!? Wouldn't super strong magnets screw up all the comp... whatever.

i still liked the kremlin infiltration a lot, and the prison escape. the party in mumbai is the kind of thing i like but im not sure was pulled off too well

one thing i thought was incredibly dopey but sorta charming were the hokey music cues, like in an old cartoon where they'd play the oriental riff if the setting was asian. so you get this booming tetris music in russia, and in mumbai its suddenly some bollywood thing with the MI theme mixed in a little. real saturday morning cartoon stuff

― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 12:01 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^ on this. Gooey slathering of nostalgia, but I dug it. Movie equivalent of boxed mac and cheese, but fucking hell you need that some time.

I found this thread by searching on "Ghost Protocol." Just thought you should know.

Yeah, I really liked this, just caper after caper, and two hermetically sealed packages of Feelings, one of which you can skip if you leave early.

Also not one but two watchable foot-chases!

i watched this on an airplane and loved it.

I love how the sand storm chase scene is basically Brad Bird living out his fantasies to direct Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

Correction, his fantasies to direct James Bond as a Raiders movie.

Also liked the entire IMAX cinema audience jerking forwards at Tom Cruise's re-entry into the hotel.

yeah, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian De Palma!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, May 5, 2006 9:58 AM (6 years ago)

Ah, the good old days, when Morbs pretended like he was fond of De Palma.