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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nix on May 15, 2006, 02:41:03 am
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I saw it tonight, and must say it's one of the better new action flicks I've seen in a while. This film feels much much more like the first one, rather than the second "woo-ieized" film. Much better than 2. Abrams did a good job, nice twists, but my god, Giacchino has GOT to find another style of music! It felt, at times, I was watching someone play a modification of Call Of Duty, while having the TV behind me playing episodes of Lost. "COD:Mission Impossible!"
But it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Phillip Seymour Hoffman pulled off a wierdo pretty nicely, and Fishburne could play a secondary role without having to steal the spotlight. It was almost as good as the first film, but seemed over the top during the intense scenes. Anyone else seen it? Think it was pretty good? Utter crap?
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Does Tom Cruise die at the end only to suddenly rise again to the tune of heroic music and win the day?
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Can you tell me how much of a role Simon Pegg plays in it?
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Simon Pegg? A small one, but he steals every scene he's in. His part was worth my ticket alone but then I've been a Pegg fanboy since Spaced so...
I enjoyed it, thought it was very well writen and funny when it needed to be. It also has the best random villain death ever but I had one, glaring problem with it.
There's a scene, a very short one with Tom, riding alongside a runway at sunset on his bike in shades and a leather jacket. Suddenly it was 1986 again (I was two again aswell which was probably the most freaky part), Otis Blackwell's "Great Balls of Fire" was ringing in my ears and I was up there with the best, of the best again.
It last just for a second, but it chilld me to the bone.
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What part does Simon Pegg play? I couldn't care less about MI:3 but Simon Pegg on the other hand is one of the world's still relatively undiscovered comic geniuses. The studio should ask themselves who is the real draw here for MI:3. Simon Pegg or the cruiser?
Oh yeah Mission Impossible. Well MI:1 killed the triolgy for me because it wasn't a film about a Mission Impossible team. It was just Tom Cruise running around doing his one man army thing. Okay he got a pair or assistants later (that big bloke and "the cleaner") but they weren't an IMF team. In fact they were rubbish. Then along came MI:2 and the once great (Hard Boiled) John Woo dug up the dead trilogy, incinerated it's remains, and pissed on the ashes.
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I think I'll wait until it comes on the TV. I won't be paying to see Tom Cruise, no matter what. That guy can kill an erection from a 5 miles away. :ick:
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to put it simply i liked the movie. J.J Abrams did a good work with it.
and who the hell is simon pegg???
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I thought it was fairly good, and definitely closer to the classic first MI movie, much improved from the over-glossed MI:2 - though that did have its draws, mainly that it was based in Australia and that's always cool :D
Phillip Seymour Hoffman was fantastic as the somewhat indifferent, slightly sadistic Owen Davian. But it had a bit of an action, made for tv movie tinge to it, more than a blockbuster flick as I was expecting - though of course there were elements of the high-budget movie in there in certain climactic scenes. I'm not really sure if Abrams purposefully wanted to keep things slightly low-key or not, but to me it came across that way. This wasn't really such a bad thing for the most part.
In all, it was one of the better action movies out there. 8/10
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to put it simply i liked the movie. J.J Abrams did a good work with it.
and who the hell is simon pegg???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pegg
simon pegg played the tech guy Benji Dunn who assists Ethan Hunt in a couple of key moments - was most notably in Shaun of the Dead, hilarious zombie-comedy out of Great Britian
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That guy can kill an erection from 5 miles away. :ick:
I love the fact that this comment is so completely irrelevant ;). Tom Cruise being king of the action blockbuser where the word "action" is not equivilent to the word "porn". Actually I'd much rather talk about porn blockbusters than MI:3. If MI:3 were a porn blockbuster it would be called "Position Impossible:3(some)", but Tom Cruise would have to be replaced for the reasons you discussed earlier.
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zombie-comedy out of Great Britian
A romantic comedy (with zombies) :).
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Does Tom Cruise die at the end only to suddenly rise again to the tune of heroic music and win the day?
...how'd you know?? No, really!
Oh yeah Mission Impossible. Well MI:1 killed the triolgy for me because it wasn't a film about a Mission Impossible team. It was just Tom Cruise running around doing his one man army thing. Okay he got a pair or assistants later (that big bloke and "the cleaner") but they weren't an IMF team. In fact they were rubbish. Then along came MI:2 and the once great (Hard Boiled) John Woo dug up the dead trilogy, incinerated it's remains, and pissed on the ashes.
QFT. :yes:
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zombie-comedy out of Great Britian
A romantic comedy (with zombies) :).
To be accurate a Rom-zon-vom-com in the words of the man himself.
A Romantic Zombie vomit comedy... not that there was much of the vom element.
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You don't know how happy I am that there are other Pegg fans out there. I'm equally happy that he steals every scene he's in, as I was quite sad to see he wasn't in the trailer at all.
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Movie was a good time-kill. What I'd expect out of an Ethan Hunt adventure.
The wholel "love" thing with the "wife" was really crappy though, but it could have been more abysmal than it was. Hoffman kicks ass tho, pretty much what makes the movie.
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I didn't really dig the part where he manages to overcome the activated bomb inside his head and somehow fight the bad guy all of the sudden because "the power of love" help him to do so or some such thing. *shrugs and walks away aimlessly*
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I didn't really dig the part where he manages to overcome the activated bomb inside his head and somehow fight the bad guy all of the sudden because "the power of love" help him to do so or some such thing. *shrugs and walks away aimlessly*
:wtf: Seriously?
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Well, according to scientology Tom Cruise can control the mind of goats*, so I guess it must have seemed perfectly plausible at the time.
*Not just goats
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I didn't really dig the part where he manages to overcome the activated bomb inside his head and somehow fight the bad guy all of the sudden because "the power of love" help him to do so or some such thing. *shrugs and walks away aimlessly*
Say what!?!
I have changed my stance about the movie. Someone has to pay me to get me to watch it. :doubt:
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I didn't really dig the part where he manages to overcome the activated bomb inside his head and somehow fight the bad guy all of the sudden because "the power of love" help him to do so or some such thing. *shrugs and walks away aimlessly*
:wtf: Seriously?
Unfortunately, yes. :doubt:
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You don't know how happy I am that there are other Pegg fans out there. I'm equally happy that he steals every scene he's in, as I was quite sad to see he wasn't in the trailer at all.
Exactly, that's why I asked, now I know he plays a decent enough role I think I might go and watch it.
I lovey you Simon!
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to put it simply i liked the movie. J.J Abrams did a good work with it.
and who the hell is simon pegg???
I also thought it was good. There were lots of explosions and thats what counts the most.
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I had no idea who Simon Pegg was untill I saw this and posted this thread.. I'm going to have to check him out a little, cause I thought he did GREAT comic relief in the film. Although it wasn't his line, it was Fishburne's, I think, when he was commenting on the failed first mission in the movie, where the computers got torched..
"Crispy, I think the technicians said" Or something to that effect, with the scene up on the screen with a very nicely toasted, REAL hard drive platter. I like it when they actually show the correct parts of a computer in the film.
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I had no idea who Simon Pegg was untill I saw this and posted this thread.. I'm going to have to check him out a little, cause I thought he did GREAT comic relief in the film.
Watch Spaced.
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I didn't really dig the part where he manages to overcome the activated bomb inside his head and somehow fight the bad guy all of the sudden because "the power of love" help him to do so or some such thing. *shrugs and walks away aimlessly*
:wtf: Seriously?
Unfortunately, yes. :doubt:
What are you folks smoking because I want some of it please.
There are no scenes like that in the movie. The thing is that he knows the charge is in his brain, he knows whats going to happen if he fails, he's well motivated to do what he can to get it out and so he fights as best he can and you'll notice that he's gripping in pain the whole time which I thought makes the scene feel realistic enough (given the settings :)) to fly with me. There's no "power of love" garbage because I would have walked right out if there was...
I liked MI:3 a whole lot more than MI:2. MI:3 was funny, it had action, it had a good pace, and it was a fun movie to watch. I'm no Tom Cruise fan but this was good and far better than the John Woo testosterone fest that we witnessed the last time with the motorcycle fight and all that.
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There's no "power of love" garbage because I would have walked right out if there was...
I'm actually more inclined to agree with them... he was suffering from that brain-bomb, got these flashes of his life, centered around honey-schnookums, and all of a sudden overcame the pain and fought back. Call it the power of love or call it realizing what he was about to lose, they made it fairly clear that it was his thoughts concerning her that gave him the extra oomph.
Totally and utterly unrelated... does anyone else find some mild measure of humor in the fact that "oomph" and "Zero miles per hour (00 MPH)" are visually the same? :p
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There's no "power of love" garbage because I would have walked right out if there was...
I'm actually more inclined to agree with them... he was suffering from that brain-bomb, got these flashes of his life, centered around honey-schnookums, and all of a sudden overcame the pain and fought back. Call it the power of love or call it realizing what he was about to lose, they made it fairly clear that it was his thoughts concerning her that gave him the extra oomph.
Totally and utterly unrelated... does anyone else find some mild measure of humor in the fact that "oomph" and "Zero miles per hour (00 MPH)" are visually the same? :p
Maybe I'm just not that "in tune" with the whole emotional thing...mr no relationship thing here anyways...so maybe that bit passed right over my head but that scene didn't bother me one bit. Didn't even blink.
Never noticed oomph before...not that I use MPH very often. You have ADD don't you? *shiney!*
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Never noticed oomph before...not that I use MPH very often. You have ADD don't you? *shiney!*
Why... actually, I used to be as a child, yes. Is noticing bizarre things like that a telltale sign?
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Ooooooooooo! *reaches for the shiney!*