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GHOST PROTOCOL |OT| (Dir. Brad Bird) The Cruise Missile lands in Dubai

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Watched this in an "XD" theater, the closest I have to an IMAX. :P It was what the trailers indicated: an above average action movie. If you're looking for interesting characters or an intriguing plot, look elsewhere. It is well-made though, but it does nothing new. It's not all that dissimilar from MI3.
 
jett said:
Watched this in an "XD" theater, the closest I have to an IMAX. :P It was what the trailers indicated: an above average action movie. If you're looking for interesting characters or an intriguing plot, look elsewhere. It is well-made though, but it does nothing new. It's not all that dissimilar from MI3.
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It's dissimilar from MI3 in one big way: it's fun.
 
You get it, Cochise.
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Scullibundo said:
I find both fun. I find the action in MI4 better, but the narrative circumstances under which the action in MI3 happens more compelling.
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Okay, I can agree with this somewhat. I like the menacing villain in MI3, and there are a couple of fun scenes like the
Vatican operation
and
Hunt's escape from IMF
, but it's really bogged down by unnecessary stuff. MI4 as a whole was more enjoyable.
 
The villain's pretty boring, I think. No tension at all around him, unlike Mi3.

Also wasn't he depicted as someone who's capable of thinking one step ahead of Hunt's team? Near the end of the film he's not that much intimidating.

Overall the story is pretty forgettable, but each scene is fun I don't mind watching it again.
 
Blader5489 said:
Didn't they say he was ex-KGB?
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I'm pretty much 100% sure they said he was ex-special forces of some kind, for Sweden or Switzerland or something. It just just a little detail they dropped in when they were in the train car I think.

I was pretty confused as to why he could fight back till I remember that. Still a bit of a stretch though, I doubt he's being running around doing spec-ops shit to keep in shape for the last 10 years
 
Actually, I don't quite remember the last big set piece in the trailers or commercials. I just knew Paula Patton was gonna have a sexy ass dress on.

Fuck you Robin Thicke
 
btw how much imax content is in this movie?

SpeedingUptoStop said:
"we gon show you what's gonna happen and you STILL won't believe this shit happened" basically
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eh

frankly this has been a really lame year for hollywood blockbusters. Uncharted 3's set pieces destroy anything I watched in an action movie this year. Haven't seen Tintin yet though.
 
jett said:
btw how much imax content is in this movie?



eh

frankly this has been a really lame year for hollywood blockbusters. Uncharted 3's set pieces destroy anything I watched in an action movie this year. Haven't seen Tintin yet though.
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You better see that shit properly.
 
Action scenes was great, but I was disappointed by the villain and the lack of any twists or turns. I was hoping for some double crosses or plot twists or something.

I still like the first mission impossible the best.


But man, Cruise's suit in Dubai was fucking awesome.
 
aparisi2274 said:
So is Cruise up for more MI movies? I had read somewhere that Jeremy Renner was supposed to take the reigns from him...
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That was probably bullshit. Renner has the personality of a lamppost. M:I needs to be rebooted. Less crazy action more spy thriller plz. That's why I like MI1 the best, it pretty much only has the one action sequence at the end.

Scullibundo said:
You better see that shit properly.
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LULZ I still might
 
aparisi2274 said:
So is Cruise up for more MI movies? I had read somewhere that Jeremy Renner was supposed to take the reigns from him...
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I think that was more of a backup in case either this movie bombed (as Cruise has not been much of a box office draw lately) or Cruise wanted to move on. Doesn't seem like either of those things are happening though.
 
Just watched it. Loved it. Super-fun (asides from a boring barely there villain). Tom Cruise rocks. Rest of the cast rocks. Cool stunts and set-pieces, very funny moments here and there.

I want MI5 now!
 
On top of my previous nitpicking, something new bothers me.

When Ethan is in car with the secretary and brad, he tells them the nuke launcher is missing and only tells them of the villain's involvement. Even Brad I think asks what's the villain gotta do with this when Ethan shows him the sketch on his hand. The secretary asks Ethan to go rogue b/c it seems like they have no lead but to blame the IMF team.

But then how did the USB drive the secretary hands it to Ethan have the villain's bio and his next meeting and all that crucial info?
 
hayejin said:
On top of my previous nitpicking, something new bothers me.

When Ethan is in car with the secretary and brad, he tells them the nuke launcher is missing and only tells them of the villain's involvement. Even Brad I think asks what's the villain gotta do with this when Ethan shows him the sketch on his hand. The secretary asks Ethan to go rogue b/c it seems like they have no lead but to blame the IMF team.

But then how did the USB drive the secretary hands it to Ethan have the villain's bio and his next meeting and all that crucial info?
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Shit mind blown
 
This is like the perfect popcorn action movie. Thoroughly entertaining without being thoroughly insulting (read: Transformers).

And that Dubai scene in IMAX. My lord.
 
The movie felt longer than it should have been. The villain...well was there? We barely see him at all in the movie.

Besides that I fairly enjoyed the movie, it was tons of fun, Dubai was amazing and Pegg was hilarious.

Oh, those opening credits....uhm...why show that?
 
This was a good action movie. I saw it in IMAX and it was worth seeing. Some characters aren't too intriguing and the plot isn't mindblowning, but it's still a solid film that's better than a lot of the action movies that have come out this year.
 
I'd like to know the name of that tall, beefy bear that stood in front of Cruise during the beginning prison scene.

Ay dios.
 
I took a secret day off from work and family and treated myself to a movie, so I have to admit I went in with completely low, completely forgiving expectations, but I thought it was a fun, meaningless action movie with some of the best suspense I've felt since Departed.

Forget dialogue, story, and character development. And don't get me started on the complete miscasting of Renner and the supposed comedy stylings of Cruise's see-through henchmen, but still -- this is exactly what I expect out of a modern action movie. Fun, fast, and just a touch of lulz and intrigue. I'll never watch it again, but I'm glad I did.

Edit: agreed w/above -- it felt a bit long for what it was actually delivering.
 
PantherLotus said:
I took a secret day off from work and family and treated myself to a movie, so I have to admit I went in with completely low, completely forgiving expectations, but I thought it was a fun, meaningless action movie with some of the best suspense I've felt since Departed.

Forget dialogue, story, and character development. And don't get me started on the complete miscasting of Renner and the supposed comedy stylings of Cruise's see-through henchmen, but still -- this is exactly what I expect out of a modern action movie. Fun, fast, and just a touch of lulz and intrigue. I'll never watch it again, but I'm glad I did.

Edit: agreed w/above -- it felt a bit long for what it was actually delivering.
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Why do you think Renner was a miscast?
 
It was really fun but a bit disappointing as well. I guess we're never going back to the smart, realistic Mission Impossible. The diamond exchange piece was creative and well done. The gadgets were off the charts.
 
The silent sequence with the fake wall and the water droplet worked really really well, it was intense and just dead quiet in my theater.
 
Saw it a few days ago. The plot was incredibly simple and cliche, and the twist about
Cruise's wife could be seen from a mile away,
but it was just so well done and tense that I didn't care. There were a ton of moments where I was on the edge of my seat, including literally the entire time they were in Dubai.
 
Thought it was surprisingly good, really didn't expect to like it so much. I loved the entire sequence in/on/outside the building in Dubai with the dust storm approaching.

Scullibundo said:
I find both fun. I find the action in MI4 better, but the narrative circumstances under which the action in MI3 happens more compelling.
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Seriously? In what way?
Whenever I think of MI3, several images pop into my head: the schmaltzy wedding, the slowmo overly happy -completely unearned- ending, the entire plot revolving around a macguffin that is never revealed, and godawful cg windmills/helicopter at the beginning. Oh and Maggie Q giving a cheesy monologue about her cat or something.
I thought the film was both atrociously written and directed. MI4 didn't have a great plot either, but I thought it gave the characters decent and believable motivations, there wasn't any corny, unbelievable romance, and the movie built suspense quite excellently. And I loved the team that he assembled, they felt much more natural than MI3's, probably because they weren't given crappy monologues that were pretending to be character development.

I mean I get the argument about the villain not being compelling, but he really wasn't the focus, and I don't feel the movie was worse because of it.

Also LOVED that they never resorted to using the fucking face masks for cheap twists like MI3 did. I felt like the face masks always fucking up was a jab to how overused they were in the 3rd and 2nd.
 
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