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
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.
― 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
it's been a while but I think the first's the better movie tho fourth is pretty fun. I've probably only seen first and fourth.
― conrad, Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
― max, Sunday, October 28, 2012 12:00 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
i actually give cruise a lot of credit for that, he usually knows to try and work with the right people
1 is a movie that i wasnt sure would still hold up (i used to love the Untouchables too but blegh now), but its still a good time. my favorite scene is actually the restaurant conversation between cruise and henry czerny (that guy's criminally underused) that ends with the exploding fishtank. so tense! so de palma!
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Despite being all Abrams-ish I liked 3
― d-_-b (mh), Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah absolutely, cruise made the right moves to make 3 and 4 good, and did it w/out just trying to bourne-ify the movies a la bond
― max, Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
3 is cool. love hoffman in it, but fishburn gets to have a lot of fun too. so does billy crudup! i enjoyed the attempt to make it a more emotional/personal story. mi2 sorta tried that too but it just didn't work; woo's style of taking small moments and dragging them out in an infinity of slo-mo and furrowed brows was torturous when applied to scenes/relationships we dont care about. and his action got pg13'd, clearly for the worse. apparently there was like a 3 1/2 hour cut which i would perversely love to see, even though More Movie is the last thing mi2 needed.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
― max, Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:46 (12 minutes ago) Permalink
he found a few good men to help make them
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
i havent seen Alias so i think abrams' bag of tricks didnt seem worn out to me at that point too
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Watching MI2 for the first time and christ this movie really hates Thandie Newton.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 3 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
i really wanted to like rogue nation (i love this series! i loved jack reacher) but i didn't :((((((( like why do u have the most up for doing his own stunts leading man of all time and have the main set piece be obviously cgi....why do the stakes feel so low....why is the car chase 4x less exciting than jack reacher...why isn't having a compelling villain a priority for movies like this...every scene with alec baldwin and/or jeremy renner could have been excised...idgi guys
― slam dunk, Sunday, 2 August 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
wow i might've loved it as much or more than Reacher, which i saw multiple times in the theater... it doesnt beautifully skirt that ridiculous/awesome line which is what gets me hooting thru most of Reacher, but its got more heart... McQ's made 2 of my favorite action movies of the last decade at this point
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 2 August 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i loved that mcquarrie couldnt resist reacherfying Ethan Hunt a little... not too much, but that alec baldwin speech about him being the living manifestation of destiny, so perfect, so reacher. at the same time it keeps rolling with that weary/humble angle on EH that they had in Ghost Protocol and which blends really well with cruise's intensity & charisma, he's never been more likable than in these last 2 m:i's
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 2 August 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link