wow, and I thought the Producers Guild nominations were the nadir of today's film action.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Just poor Sawyer. xp
― Nicole, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
poor, poor sawyer cut down in his prime
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
the entire Dubai sequence was fantastic, yes
we got a lot of lols at Tom Cruise leaping at things and slightly missing them
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
i liked that he was too short for the eye scanner on the train
― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― ain't nothing nice (bnw), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
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, 3 January 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
any Weather Girls for shots of Tom's cleavage?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
This part made me openly lol.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
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
― goole, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
its a way better experience than avatar, but i understand your trepidation
― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― goole, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Well, this is a movie about a pint-sized guy dropped into an ordinary-sized world. Is that close enough?
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 January 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Guessing the Dark Knight 6-minute opening was shot in IMAX as well?
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, it was.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― I Love Pedantry (D-40), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
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
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
It says something about Bird and his screenwriters' shrewdness that Cruise gets little dialogue here.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― s.clover, Saturday, 21 April 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
i watched this on an airplane and loved it.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
I love how the sand storm chase scene is basically Brad Bird living out his fantasies to direct Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
Correction, his fantasies to direct James Bond as a Raiders movie.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
Also liked the entire IMAX cinema audience jerking forwards at Tom Cruise's re-entry into the hotel.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
jerking it to IMAX tom cruise
― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
I watched the first Mission: Impossible, the DePalma one, recently. They really took the "impossible" part more literally, in that I don't think half the things in the film are in any way physically possible. The newer films are more "Mission: Very Highly Improbable" in comparison.
It was also painfully obvious that it wasn't yet a Tom Cruise franchise at that point, as all the team mission bits felt like a team effort, not just a handful of people doing specific tasks enabling him to succeed in the one important thing. I think that's what I didn't buy about the last one -- you're supposed to care about wtf Renner's character is worried about, but any time Cruise is on screen the camera gravitates toward him.
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
you're supposed to care about wtf Renner's character is worried about
I don't know that this is ever the case in any film Renner's in! Tho I haven't seen him as Bourne, jr.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
I feel kind of sorry for the guy, he keeps getting stuck with roles where you don't really care about his character's motivation. In MI4 his goal is to... keep it together and succeed while not feeling like a bad person? In the Bourne one his role is to survive, but only because Bourne triggered the manhunt. His plot arc is literally that he is trying to survive and somehow not lose his intelligence.
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
New one was great imo. Bringing back the blond spy dude with the mask from the first movie was really amusing and unexpected.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
4>1>3>2
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
i agree with that ranking
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
4 was too brad bird-y, needed more sombre and grim deaths
― 乒乓, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
4>>1>>>>>3>>2 imo
― sug ones (omar little), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
i agree with omar's more precise ranking as well
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
2 isn't terrible imo just out of place in the series and woo is all wong for the material. i liked the villains, dougray Scott and Richard roxbrough. Everything else was mediocre.
― sug ones (omar little), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
all wong
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
Roxburgh. Also I swear I didn't mean that apparent racial slur.
― sug ones (omar little), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
:(
― sug ones (omar little), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
PSH was the best villain, wish he was in more of the movie
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
the villains are pretty forgettable in a lot of ways, I guess psh was the only one who was a more formulaic (not a negative) charismatic action movie villain.
― sug ones (omar little), Sunday, 28 October 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
the villain in 4 is not believable at all. PSH was properly detestable.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 28 October 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
I think 1 is pretty tight but voight is a little ridiculous in the role. his character's scheme is so half-assed.
― sug ones (omar little), Sunday, 28 October 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
instinctively i wouldve put 1 over 4 but i havent seen it in a while. feels weird that this series ended up being so good?
― max, Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
1 seems really ridiculous if you watch it now. I know it's Mission Impossible, but the entire helicopter in a train tunnel sequence is silly.
― d-_-b (mh), Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link