Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol Pre Release Thread - Page 2

Catholic daycare, E.C.E., Pre-kindergarten, Kindergarten, Grades 1-8, four years of Catholic high school. You’d understand this if you weren’t a fucking moron. But since you’re from a former penal colony and your ancestors were the dregs of society and mentally degenerate, your incomprehension is understandable.

Brilliant. Utterly brilliant.

 

Seriously, this is going too far. News flash, North America was also used as a penal colony by the British and the French.

Crap!! I'm supposed to paint my appartment today but Tax Master probably spoiled that plan. I need to be here for his meltdown which seems imminent. Will this be the fastest meltdown in board history?

 

Oh and what happened to that POST release thread?

The Rain Dog is an immoral, illiterate, son of a degenerate??? Holy shit!

If you had maybe come across as more reasonable when initially posting your opinion, we probably wouldn't be ragging on you. I mean, I think we have the right to feel insulted by a remark like "Now, I know that everyone here likes to slobber Brad Bird's knob for his animation work but he's never Directed a feature before".

 

And then when we posted OUR counter-arguments, you responded by calling people cunts and pedophiles. It's like Patton Oswalt says, we have to acknowledge your opinion, but if you're a douche about it, we certainly don't have to respect it.

 

For a counterpoint, look at the civil, reasonable discussion Rain Dog, Darkmite and I have been having about John Carter. Do we disagree on it? Certainly; I have no real connection to the original Burroughs work, so I'm just excited based on what I've seen for the film. But RD and Darkmite do have some sort of connection to the property, so they're disappointed that a big studio is tackling it when a more true-to-the-spirit low-budget bloody extravaganza could have been made just as easily.

 

Because they argued their opinions civilly and didn't call me an asshole/cunt/whatever for daring to have a contrary opinion, I respect them even as I disagree.

This surely has to be creepy thin man again.

Troll quality as of late has left me bitterly disappointed. Not only here but everywhere on the internet. Shame.

 

<oldguy>

 

It's the end of an era.

 

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Remember swedish miyagi?

 

Almost makes me want to create an alt account and start picking fights.

 

Or, have I?

His misogynistic rants and in-jokey references to Devin in the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo thread should remove any doubt that it is indeed ol' creepy and his particular brand of compulsive mania.

Guys? You keep distracting our friend who most likely is BurninHell/CreepyThinMan/Unpleasant White Person and making it unable for him to focus on giving a long rant about how all the women in this movie are cunts.

 

And I want to read that!

I'm watching MI:3. It's better than I remebered. Although Ethan Hunt is too bland and serious. At least his KNIGHT & DAY character was a bit wacko.

Oh and I totally forgot Aaron Paul is in this, acting a bit like Jesse pre-Walter.

I'd love for any sort of consistency in these MI films. First is great, second left me bleeding from the eyes. Third was decent but nothing special. On top of it, they're all completely interchangeable. There's no character progression or linearity to Hunt after three films. He's a different guy every movie.

Ving Rames to Cruise: "That look in your eye is a pain in my ass"!

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Some may even be able to argue each iteration of Hunt represents a differing point in the last fifteen years of the career of one Thomas Mapother the Third.

So... this was alright.

 

I never saw the second. I think this is a step above the third. It's different than the first, because it's SO action-intensive. The first movie, you get the vibe these are actual people doing this stuff.

 

I don't know what the budget on this was, but it feels a bit smaller. The plus side to that is a greater emphasis on the spy stuff. Some of it is kind of hysterically weird. Lots of holograms and stuff. Also, bizarrely, no masks this time around. The mask machine is seen breaking in the middle of creating a mask. Cute.

 

The team feels a little skinny. It's Simon Pegg, Paula Patton and Jeremy Renner. Pegg's fun, but the other two don't really register all that much. Could have used another element or two. Could have used Luther Stickwell!*

 

I gotta say, though - that skyscraper stunt... see that in IMAX. It's INCREDIBLE. Stunt of the year. The audience applauded, in that reluctant way that suggests, we're not the type of audience that applauds these sorts of things, but that was insane. It's the beginning of a solid half hour of action. The finale is pretty good, but the action-y midsection is kind of incredible.

 

I don't know if Bird is really a live action director yet. This is mostly a bunch of set-pieces strung together. Some of them are really clever ideas, but visually, they don't exactly pop, and most of it doesn't entirely stick with you. The opening sequence is breaking Tom Cruise out of a Russian prison (don't ask), and it's calibrated to focus on a series of prison doors opening to the tune of Dean Martin's "How Lucky Can One Guy Be" but it's not timed correctly and it's just a mishmash of collapsing bodies and messy fights.

 

And for the Josh Holloway fans...

 

Big Holloway spoiler (Click to show)

 

*Stickwell is in this movie, but it's a tiny role. Clearly, Ving Rhames was busy.

 

Well, it's nice to hear it's at least good. Do you think Bird just needs another live-action film to really solidify his transition?

"*Stickwell is in this movie, but it's a tiny role. Clearly, Ving Rhames was busy."

 

We talked about this earlier. He's ended up in DTV sequels to Death Race and straight to TV zombie movies. What on Earth is going on with his career?

Hard to say. I do think Cruise is the real auteur of this series, and a lot of the screentime is spent (convincingly!) telling the audience LOOK AT THIS GQ MOTHERFUCKER HE IS SO BADASS. The first titles that come up are A TOM CRUISE PRODUCTION followed by A BAD ROBOT PRODUCTION and then A BRAD BIRD FILM.

 

I really feel disappointed that I didn't see any of Bird's usual bonkers insanity. A couple of scenes actually feel sort of botched. But he does well with the finale, which is set in a fancy car garage (product placement!) that is essentially a more straight-faced version of the end of The Green Hornet.

Caught it tonight on IMAX. I found it to be on-par with M:I3, but it felt a bit disjointed whereas J.J.'s effort seemed a bit tighter. That hallway hologram bit was great.

Edit: Accodentily posted this in Pre-release thread.

Edited by Kriegaffe - 12/15/11 at 10:54am

Hahahaha Josh Holloway