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Offline Nix

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Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
Can you tell me how much of a role Simon Pegg plays in it?

 
Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Offline Windrunner

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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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

 

Offline TheCaptain

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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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.

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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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.

 

Offline Ulala

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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Offline Fury

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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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?

 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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

 

Offline Prophet

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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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Offline Ulala

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Re: Mission Impossible 3: What's your take?
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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