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Memo to Brad Bird, Bad Robot and Paramount: Please don’t give us another effing Mission Impossible Tom Cruise franchise flick! Don’t create action sequences based on the principle that you have to top the last similar-type sequence in the last big budget-busting action movie…begging you! Just figure out what your movie is about and do what feels right for your own purposes and then play it real and to hell with the competition.
I know you won’t do this. I know you’re going to be playing the same old “top the last action movie” game. I know that big studio tentpole actioners are the sworn enemies of movies like Drive. And I know exactly how I ‘m going to feel as I sit there in the 8th row at the all-media, getting bludgeoned and pounded into submission.
Watch the Italian bootleg trailer (i/e., “bootleggia“) and tell me if my suspicions seem correct or excessive or whatever.
Directed by Bird-o with a story by J.J. Abrams and Tom Cruise, obviously starring Cruise as Ethan Hunt with Ving “Mr. Hillbilly Rapist soon to be in agonizing pain” Rhames, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Jeremy Renner. Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire) and Michael Nyqvist (the ’09 version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol opens on 12.16.11.
I agree. It’s a more elaborate Fast Five with better actors.
Your memo is a little late.
Josh Holloway FTW!!! Typical Wells not knowing him and not knowing how kick ass he is.
Looks fun. I doubt you can expect it to be reasonably better than any of the others…the first still takes the cake. Hard to believe that was 15 yrs ago.
It’s a foregone conclusion that I’m going to get a ton of shit for this opinion, but hasn’t the M:I series pretty much taken up the mantle as THE premier PG-13 action-feature series helmed by a different mercenary A-list director each time out?
I mean, say what you will about the second flick (I dig it, although I can see how some people would be turned-off by its infidelity to the TV series), but show me three consecutive, self-contained (i.e. Matrixes don’t count) movies that deliver on the high-octane front without completely surrendering to the temptation to dumb everything down for its audience. It’s certainly not Bond — those films haven’t had a solid run like that in years.
Be interesting to see what Bird is able to do outside of the animated realm. The Iron Giant and The Incredibles showed he has a pretty impeccable knack for pacing without sacrificing character development. If he’s successful here, it could set a very interesting precedent for some of his peers hoping for a crossover into live-action.
Tom Cruise IS Ethan Hunt.
And unless you watched a different clip than I did, that trailer is en francais.
I’m with Kane. I always look forward to seeing what the new director will be able to do. The first one was a lot of fun, the second one well, it killed John Woo for me, the third one was good, and I’m looking forward to seeing Bird’s take.
Kane, I agree. I loved the fun of number 2. I can’t fathom why everyone hates on it. I liked 3 too. This looks bad ass. The new Bond is too much of a bummer, we have Borne for that sad sack shit. This looks fun.
I hated the second one because, if you removed all of the slo-mo shots, the movie would be ten minutes long. It was padded beyond belief, had no point of view, and the action was substandard in comparison to other films of its ilk.
The best set-piece of the trilogy is still the vault in the first one. The silence of the who scene only adds to the tension
Ray — I agree on all of those fronts (and lol@ the slo-mo dig), except for the “substandard action” bit.
Flick takes FOREVER to kick into gear, but once it finally gets cooking, those last 45 minutes are kind of a joy — albeit a guilty pleasure-laden one — to behold. Seriously, that motorcycle stuff is pretty great.
But yeah — it’s pretty easily the most uninspiring of the three.
French!!!
I don’t think these films are necessarily as bad as being a bane to interesting movies (like the arbitrarily-chosen “Drive”). If anything, it’s a chance for Brad Bird to play with big expensive live action studio toys. If Bird doesn’t work as a live-action director? Oh drat, it’s a fourth Mission: Impossible, who cares?
But if Bird delivers, wouldn’t that be something? How many more exciting, interesting directors are there behind these big dopey action franchises? Something like Twilight is always gonna suck, and something like X-Men is bound by people who consider the source material GOSPEL. But Mission: Impossible? With Abrams producing and Cruise being extra careful with his image lately, there’s reason to believe, in some aspects, Bird has the keys to the car all by his lonesome. And that’s sadly rare amidst the world of action tentpoles.
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I never thought Cruise worked as an action hero. The Mission Impossible was good because it was more of a suspense thriller. I just don’t believe that Cruise could kick anyone’s ass.
Ving Rhames isn’t in this film, the trailer isn’t in Italian and it looks pretty darn fun. Three strikes, Wells.
I used to think Gabe was awful, but that post above, as well as a couple of other recent efforts, is perfectly stated on every point.
CRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUISE POWER.
The man is the SINGLE GREATEST ACTOR of ALL TIME, has THE BEST HAIR EVER, makes the BEST movies ever.
There is only BOWING.
Also MI:2 is by FAAAAAAAAAAAAR the best of the series. BY FAR. Because it is the most REVERENTIAL and WORSHIPFUL of CRUISE. And because of his AWESOME long, flowing hair in it.
CRUISE, CRUISE, CRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUISE.
The KING.
I watched the original film again not long ago. It made me miss the time when there were different levels of summer blockbusters; that was the summer of MI, Twister, ID4, and The Rock.
Boulderkid: just wait until the Tom Cruise as Jack Reahcer movie comes out. Cruise is ridiculously miscast in that.
That should read “Jack Reacher.”
Lex: I still haven’t seen part 3, but I figured you’d be in for the first one like everyone else. I guess those pointless religious references irritated the hell out of you, too?
The original is by far the best, as others have said the vault scene is a brilliantly original and exciting piece of cinema. The second one is pretty boring (a pretty major crime for an action film) and like a third-grade rehash of Woo’s own ‘The Killer’. Some fun scenes and nice shots though. And the third one is… well, let’s not go there.
Have some hope for this new one, Bird is a pretty inspired choice and i’m sure he’s put everything into his live-action debut. Fingers crossed.
Having said that every time Simon Pegg walks on-screen (outside of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) the movie he’s in stops dead.
The original is by far the best, as others have said the vault scene is a brilliantly original and exciting piece of cinema. The second one is pretty boring (a pretty major crime for an action film) and like a third-grade rehash of Woo’s own ‘The Killer’. Some fun scenes and nice shots though. And the third one is… well, let’s not go there.
Have some hope for this new one, Bird is a pretty inspired choice and i’m sure he’s put everything into his live-action debut. Fingers crossed.
Having said that every time Simon Pegg walks on-screen (outside of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) the movie he’s in stops dead.
The problem is Cruise. He has no personality within the role. There’s no quirks. No tics. No discernable personality traits whatsoever. He’s just BLAH.
My only interest in this is to see what Brad Bird does with a live action film.
“The problem is Cruise. He has no personality within the role. There’s no quirks. No tics. No discernable personality traits whatsoever. He’s just BLAH.”
I agree. I think the first one is the best and the 2nd and 3rd are entertaining enough without being too dumb. However, the “Ethan Hunt” character never stood out to me as even being the same person from movie to movie aside from obviously being Cruise each time. I couldn’t help but think that if they didnt call each one “Mission Impossible”, and tell you that he’s playing Ethan Hunt each time, all three movies (and probably the 4th) could have been stand alone espionage movies with him seemingly playing someone else each time and very few changes would have to be made to the plot.
The most blatant example to me is that he seems like a responsible no nonsense agent in the first one putting the mission above all else – but then in the second movie he potentially risks the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, just so that he can save his obligatory love interest. And then in the next sequel there’s no mention of her ever having existed in the first place and he’s moved onto the next love of his life.
It’s ultimately “the formula”, and I get that, but I can’t help but wonder if they’d be a little more memorable if they made the slightest effort at character continuity between the action scenes.
Anyone ever notice how the true villain in every movie (Voight/Reno, Scott, Crudup), besides sucking, also ends up being a former IMF agent? I’m fairly certain that since the agency cranks out supervillains at such an alarming rate, that the department would have lost government funding by now.
You’re right in general, J – I am eager to see Drive (scanned Netflix the other night for a good action movie, but, save those I have already seen, it’s all CGI, explosions, cars bouncing down the road, the protagonist jumping off a bridge – BORING!) – but expectations have been set for the MI movies (admittedly low), and this trailer seems to indicate a movie falling reasonably within those expectations, if not exceeding them.
As my nom de plume indicates, natch, I recommend all and sundry to catch up with Night Moves – not exactly action for most of it’s length (but when it comes…), but it’s even better now than when it came out.
Cruise RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULES.
The entire series is a paean to his Cruiseness. I hate people who don’t like Tom Cruise. He’s everything you should aspire to be in life. If you don’t like Cruise, you’re just a hater, and you have no vision. CRUISE.
“It’s a foregone conclusion that I’m going to get a ton of shit for this opinion, but hasn’t the M:I series pretty much taken up the mantle as THE premier PG-13 action-feature series helmed by a different mercenary A-list director each time out?”
Assuming that descriptor is meant to be a compliment, um, no, I mean, who remembers anything from any of those movies? Utterly disposable, because Cruise never plays a human being, even when the script is ripping off one of the great dramatic thrillers of all time (Notorious). They’re usually decently enough made, but the minute they’re over, they’re gone.
“Anyone ever notice how the true villain in every movie (Voight/Reno, Scott, Crudup), besides sucking, also ends up being a former IMF agent? ”
Much like Jason Bourne, superagent of a CIA which exists only to hunt down its own employees (and to have them hunt it in turn).
I don’t believe everything Hollywood does is blatantly pinko bordering on anti-American, but the fact that they can’t find any enemies besides US government officials for their super agents to fight is pretty telling.
“He’s everything you should aspire to be in life.”
I’m going to take a pass on “thick-as-brick follower of a crazy sci-fi cult run on slave labor,” thanks.
He has a better life than you or me or anyone who posts here.
Money and fame is everything.
“Money and fame is everything.”
Half right.
I love Tom Cruise in movies. Real-life Tom Cruise is a let-down for the Scientology nonsense.
Money is fiction, though. The half of the equation that’s correct for most people is fame. Money is good in the here and now, but think about what happens when you die. Stars like Cruise will be known and talked about a century from now, they will achieve a kind of immortality. Now, me, I don’t care about that, but I acknowledge that I’m a weird aberration. Reality shows have experienced such a preeminence because people want to be known, they want to make their mark. I think the important thing about Cruise is that he hasn’t really destroyed his image. When he dies, people will forgive the couch-jumping, Brooke Shields mocking, exuberant proselytizing because dude made the Mission Impossible series, Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Top Gun, Risky Business, Born on the Fourth of July, etc.
“I don’t believe everything Hollywood does is blatantly pinko bordering on anti-American, but the fact that they can’t find any enemies besides US government officials for their super agents to fight is pretty telling.”
Agreed: the unintended blowback to this long-rooted trend has been tea-baggery and other “anti-government” political salesmanship. The more-susceptible filmgoers must be inferring the message….
They’re not ALWAYS government officials. Sometimes they’re Nazis (see Sum of All Fears).
I don’t think of Cruise as a guy who kick butt, I think of him as a guy who does stunts. Granted, he doesn’t do all of his, but he does as many as possible and I remember Cameron Diaz said in an interview that Cruise is constantly looking at different ways to do stunts. He sees a tall building and wonders about all the different ways you could do a stunt off of it.
I’d rather have money than fame. Don’t care that no one’s heard of me; I’d rather have my family set up for life. Sans fame, no need to hire boydguards.
“It’s a foregone conclusion that I’m going to get a ton of shit for this opinion, but hasn’t the M:I series pretty much taken up the mantle as THE premier PG-13 action-feature series helmed by a different mercenary A-list director each time out?”
Assuming that descriptor is meant to be a compliment, um, no, I mean, who remembers anything from any of those movies? Utterly disposable, because Cruise never plays a human being, even when the script is ripping off one of the great dramatic thrillers of all time (Notorious). They’re usually decently enough made, but the minute they’re over, they’re gone.
“Anyone ever notice how the true villain in every movie (Voight/Reno, Scott, Crudup), besides sucking, also ends up being a former IMF agent? ”
Much like Jason Bourne, superagent of a CIA which exists only to hunt down its own employees (and to have them hunt it in turn).
I don’t believe everything Hollywood does is blatantly pinko bordering on anti-American, but the fact that they can’t find any enemies besides US government officials for their super agents to fight is pretty telling.
“He’s everything you should aspire to be in life.”
I’m going to take a pass on “thick-as-brick follower of a crazy sci-fi cult run on slave labor,” thanks.
“Money and fame is everything.”
Must be why Elvis died so happy.
(And Marilyn, and Michael, and Heath, etc…)
Rev. Slappy is right on the money re: the Reacher adaptation. Tom Cruise is a ridiculous choice for the lead, but writer, Lee Child, is ballyhooing his casting on his author’s website.
I’m reminded of some fella’s comment on the first MI movie, pointing out the “You haven’t seen me mad” was a good line, but imagine it said by Lee Marvin.
From Lee Marvin to Tom Cruise…
I don’t buy all the pissing and moaning about the homosexualization of American men, but…where the movies are concerned, if TC epitomizes the quintessential tough guy…
Oops, posted on the wrong thread. Ah, pretend you’re readint the Supreme Court story, I couldn’t seem to post it there anyway.
This thread is strange in that every single negative thing that is being said about TC is true…but so is everything LexG is saying…
I feel like V’ger at the end of Star Trek…head exploding…does not compute….bzzzzzzt
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The movies that TC has lined up look like they could be big box-office hits.
Mission 4 could do better than Mission 3, Rock of Ages could do Hairspray and Dreamgirls numbers, and the sci-fi, love-story, PG-13 Oblivion might become his third $200 million US hit.
And he hasn’t aged a bit since 2000.
Or they could all be Knight and Day.
Or they could all be Knight and Day.
The most disappointing moment of CGI in the first Mission Impossible occurs when the water drop lips off the glass.
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