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A Cool And Sandy 3 Minute Clip From MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL!!
Merrick here...
I'm hearing exceedingly good things about MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL, and INCREDIBLES helmer Brad Bird's first foray into live-action direction.
There's a new three minute clip making the rounds which seems to bear out the "badass" adjective many people who've seen this project are throwing around. Yeah, it does look a little like a particular level in MODERN WARFARE 3. But, I really like MODERN WARFARE 3, so that's more than fine by me.
Embeds abound for this clip - we're using one from DailyBlam.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL opens this Friday in many IMAX theaters and the following week in broader/standard release.
HD of the same is HERE!
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Dec. 13, 2011, 10:18 a.m. CST
Tom the Cruiser starring in yet another Gay Porn flick under the guise of a hollywood blockbuster
by AllThosePowers
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The 'jump out of incredibly fast moving car and just roll out the momentum' takes me out of a movie so fast.
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Editing feels too slow, and meandering, while the coverage seems weird, like they didn't know what to point the camera at.
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Can I also be on the ground floor of showing my superior intellect by needlessly bitching about this movie? I, for one, thought it looked cool. But I am a moron, apparently.
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Beige alert. I have no strong feelings one way or the other.....
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Chuck Norris back on the big screen.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 10:39 a.m. CST
Bring back Estevez as a villain seeking revenge for being killed off in the first one so fast
by Tikidonkeypunch
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I'm really looking forward to this. There hasn't be a great action adventure film in theaters in some time. I watched the "G.I. Joe 2" trailer everyone was so excited about, and it's a well edited trailer, but it's more of the same ridiculous, cartoony miles-over-the-top type of action and high tech weaponary stuff I've seen a dozen times in recent years. "MI" Ghost Protocol" looks much more fun to me.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 10:45 a.m. CST
Why is he constantly battering that poor smartphone?
by Ian Holm's milky ass sweat
Does he think beating his phone improves its gps sensor? I know they ve done this for dramatic reasons but, geez, that makes him look so dumb.
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I like you, you like me too? It doesn't look like poo!!!
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No one gives a fuck for your retarded, infantile and homophobic attacks. Cruise is a great actor and action star and this looks to be a fun movie. That's all that matters. Get a fucking life.
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Looking forward to this. No Ving Rhames though but we have sawyer from lost and simon pegg........sweet.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 11:22 a.m. CST
Yeah,i liked MI3 a lot although it shamelessly ripped off True Lies.
by KilliK
JJ Abrams.visionary.rofl.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 11:24 a.m. CST
Quoted from one review: "In his first live-action film, [Brad] Bird gives us a cleaner, clearer, smarter and better action film than Michael Bay has in any of his nine straining, slapdash efforts."
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Thats enough for me.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 11:42 a.m. CST
Sorry folks, but this looks like the SHIT! Not shit but THE shit! I can't wait for this!!! LOVE me some M:I film action...I love ALL the films! Yes, even M:I2.
by Dogmatic
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Talk about underwhelming.. That had sucktastic written all over it. You can suck this movie off all you want, look's like total shit.
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Anyone else think he looks like David Beckham?
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For what that chase was worth it was all right, personally parts of it were stupid but it's a movie i'll forget that fact that the drive should have just braked let ethan roll off then run him over with his car but whatever.
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if you want faster editing, you should stick to good old michael bay
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I hope so.
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Looks pretty awesome compared to all the fast-cutted CGI-Bullshit from the likes of Transformers. Like its in a world that have actual physics. Movieworld physics, granted, but at least some!
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Dec. 13, 2011, 12:10 p.m. CST
Cruise seeing the bad guy's blip coming at him full blast on the tracker
by Terrence
That immediately made me think Brad Bird for some reason. That's the type of shit he did in Incredibles all the time.
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just got a hell of a lot more impossibler.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 12:13 p.m. CST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTmuVRCJmv0&feature=related
by MamboMan
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Dec. 13, 2011, 12:21 p.m. CST
Not bad and I'm sick of every one comparing shit to MW3
by alienindisguise
Here's a news flash...the mw series uses places that are real so SHUT THE FUCK UP!
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He brings it in all his movies, even the ones that sucked like War of the Worlds. And he gets a lifetime pass from me for Collateral. And true, the Mission: Impossible films have nothing to do with the original series. The original series involved a team of many different people with different talents. It was closer to Ocean's 11 than "The Tom Cruise Show with the Guy on the Computer", but they were decent action flicks. And what else is there this season? Sherlock Holmes? Sure, Robert Downey Jr is cool but if the first one and the trailer to this one are any indication, these movies somehow manage to get rid of the detective part of the novels in favor of blowing shit up while still managing to be boring. This holiday season blows for movies. I never thought I'd miss Harry Potter. Well, I still don't miss Harry Potter but you get my point.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 12:23 p.m. CST
nerd rage = excellent question: both here and at the box office. Right on.
by ClayMatthews
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I'm tired of movies that completely ignore physics and human frailty. Also tired of seeing guys hold on to the tops of moving cars. The second the brakes are hit, the guy goes flying no matter how strong he is.
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...Bayerische Motoren Werke. New 6 series looks shite. Film looks good, though. They've all been fun so far, save for John Woo's installment, which was as shit as everything else John Woo's done since he came to Hollywood.
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more movies need to shoot with IMAX cameras...way more immersive then 3D...the depth and clarity to the IMAX scenes in Dark Knight and Revenge of the Fallen were amazing...Dark Knight Rises should make even better use if it...more directors need to follow Christopher Nolan's push for IMAX...James Cameron's 3D needs to fade away
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Dec. 13, 2011, 12:39 p.m. CST
I for one like it, I seen all the MI movies, and i think this will
by BikoQue
give this property with Cruise a good ending
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What modern convertible has a detachable top? ... None of them right? They ALL go in and out of the car at a touch of a button nowadays. Esp BMW's. Beemer needs to get it's money back...
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Dec. 13, 2011, 12:52 p.m. CST
From that three minute clip i just watched i feel fairly confident in procliaiming
by werewolfbynight
that Brad Bird is unstoppable. This man is goinng to continue to move onto bigger and better films. He is the onlly director that has continued to indubitably impress me. I am so up for a Brad Bird film festival. I am going to start with Iron Giant. Followed by The Incredibles with Rattoutille for desert. Then Ghost Protocol for an apterif. After this stream of perfection, I may never watch another film again.
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And the moment the SLIGHTEST bit of brake is applied, you go into the fucking sun.
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this looks fun and badass
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and not in IMax just to see the Batman prologue either.
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Yuk yuk
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And no matter how good an actor he is he can't hide the smug factor.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 1:25 p.m. CST
I watched this at work where I don't have speakers and it STILL riveted me! I cant wait to get home and watch it with sound!
by Dogmatic
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It's a 6 series that has a canvas/nylon top (like the 1), and it looks like the owner tried to put it up during the storm and it got ripped off (he was chasing it down the street). A sudden 50-60MPH wind could shred a [soft] vert roof just like that ... not sure what your're nitpicking ... ?
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The guy is a PIMP. I liked MI 1 and 3, and adding Bird into the mix should only make it better. Doesn't look like he had any problems transitioning to big time live action to me. Looking forward to this one.
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Don't care much for tom cruise, but he is a bad-ass in this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLzfpVOkvI&feature=relmfu
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Dec. 13, 2011, 1:59 p.m. CST
Why would all those people be driving fast in a fucking sandstorm
by Rupee88
this looks retarded although Brad Bird's involvment makes me curious
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Yes movies are about suspension of disbelief, and this is more of a point in action films. But then i think of a movie like Ronin and all these flying cars are taking me out of the experience. Like that explosion in MI3 that throws Cruise SIDEWAYS.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 2:07 p.m. CST
I suppose Brad Bird deserves some faith given his track record. I just wish i were more interested in this particular franchise.
by dahveed1972
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Dec. 13, 2011, 2:08 p.m. CST
A completely original Brad Bird action movie would have me really excited.
by dahveed1972
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Kills me how the people in these kinda' film just run over ANYBODY in their way. What a way to remembered, killed by an overzealous field agent on a crap highway.
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true story
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Fucking professional.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLzfpVOkvI&feature=relmfu
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Everyone has to be so bitter but this movie looks AWESOME. I'm seeing it at midnight on IMAX... Yup eat it.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 4:28 p.m. CST
Reminds me of when I used to play GTA IV and be constantly looking at the GPS map while driving
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
Loos pretty good though, I have faith that Brad Bird will deliver a fun movie.
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So he gets the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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That is REALLY well-directed. Clearly not made up on the fly then stitched together in Avid (like so many crappy recent movies). There is a progression and a logic to the scene. If the rest of the film is even remotely this good, it should be quite a movie.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 6:58 p.m. CST
Best of all, the scene is really visually interesting... reminiscent of how Hitchcock approached
by Brian Hopper
an action scene. The sandstorm is arresting to look at, and Bird uses it fully by pausing the action at several points so we can absorb the eerie atmospherics. I'm not saying this is on the level of North by Northwest (that remains to be seen)... however, there is a dash here of Hitchcock's careful integration of a setting into the action a la the airplane attack on Cary Grant in NxNW, etc. Very impressive action scene IMHO.
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And currently at 95% on RT. Can't wait. That has to be the best reviewed "big action" movie in quite some time.
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but if a midget with a lesbian haircut stole my car in the middle of a sandstorm, I'd be slightly annoyed.
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Dec. 13, 2011, 7:41 p.m. CST
So, is this whole movie an ad against texting while driving?
by Evil_Homer45
Because Ethan Hunt is a terrible driver in this scene...
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Can't wait to see this in IMAX.
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by nick
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yeah, we get it. those 4 notes are really exciting! have you got any more?
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...prologue video has already leaked. LOL
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Great! Now can we all agree on the best MI film? Please stop saying the first one because that one sucked ass juice.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 3:14 a.m. CST
I hope that isn't the final audio. Sand is another lame trick like making everything dark to cut costs.
by btc909
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf16ItxEZ1o
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LOVING Banes voice and accent.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 5:16 a.m. CST
Saw Ghost Protocol last night and it was actually AWESOME!
by Poptard_JD
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Dec. 14, 2011, 5:17 a.m. CST
but I had no idea that the Ghost in Ghost Protocol was actually...
by Poptard_JD
Steve Jobs. Holy Apple Product Placement, amiright?? what...too soon? nipplepinch! >(o)<
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Dec. 14, 2011, 5:26 a.m. CST
Dark Knight footage...am I the only one who wasn't blown away?
by Poptard_JD
It's going to be hard to top that last one and so far Bane hasn't really impressed me as a villain. I still have high hopes of course!
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Dec. 14, 2011, 5:49 a.m. CST
This new M:I movie, givne it's a Tom Cruise movie, means it's a movie for me to avoid.
by AsimovLives
And it goes double because of JarJarAbrams/BobbitoOrci/KlutzKurtzman/LindenOFF's involvement. Fuck this movie. Not even it being directed by Brad Bird puts any interest in me. And i can bide my time until i see any images from TDKR. I'll wait until it's shows with a proper movie worth watching.
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Banes mask looks like a mohawk, is that why B.A doesn't like to fly..?
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...but the producers had to put sandstorm glasses in his business suit
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It looked like it was trying to build tension but I kept looking at the timer.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 7:55 a.m. CST
Oh so now it's cool to suck Tom Cruise's dick again? The hate has leaked out?
by AsimovLives
AICN geekry, the most febble, victims of the time's mood and fashion of all the geekdom.
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I was slightly worried Bird could pull it off because he's never done anything like this before. Well, not very worried because I really don't care about a 4th M:I flick, but the thought had passed through my head that he could fuck up the staging or the pace. Looks like he hit it out of the fucking ballpark! What could have been a really confusing, boring and ultimately stupid scene was filled with gripping tension. And that's with no backstory or any clue what the fuck is going on! Now I actually want to see this film and prior to seeing this I was pretty meh about it. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
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Dec. 14, 2011, 9:04 a.m. CST
Although I agree jumping out of a car doing 80mph is dumb as fuck
by Jaster Mareel
It was sort of a trick used in Speed. There was no way in fucking hell that bus was going to make that jump, which amped up the tension to an incredible degree. Then Yan De Bont CHEATS by having the bus go off an invisible fucking ramp! In this scene I kept waiting for Cruise to put on his seatbelt, or see what kind of strategy he would employ for the impact. Instead he just jumps for it! Because that would have of course severely crippled him at least, it's a cheat, but this is the movies after all and it works in its own deformed logic. Remember that this is the franchise that if you kick a gun buried in sand, it shoots straight up 4 feet. That one bothers me more though because the jump-out-of-car thing is sort of a Hollywood staple at this point.
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Research things better dude. Abrams only produced the film. Orci and Kurtzman and Lindeof? Their names are nowhere to be found on the credits. Admiring a film is "sucking someones dick" Maybe MI4 is actually a good film, did you ever think about that? Oh that's impossible because Abrams is involved right? Give me a freaking break already. So far, everything I have heard about this film is nothing but good.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 9:24 a.m. CST
Dec 14, 2011 7:55:43 AM CST Oh so now it's cool to suck Tom Cruise's dick again? The hate has leaked out? by asimovlives AICN geekry, the most febble, victims of the time's mood and fashion of all the geekdom.
by rogueleader66
Be careful with your insulting, blanket statements there buddy. You tread on dangerous ground sometimes my friend, making broad generalizations like that is not at all cool.
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96% on Rotten Tomatoes right now. The only negative review seems to complain about the movie's politics more than anything else. I can't wait, and envy you! The Cruise hate is just hysterically funny, most of it centering around his supposed gayness (he would seem to be bi at most) and his Scientology (pretty strange stuff, but as others have said, the core beliefs of most religions are pretty absurd if you're not a part of it). People more upset with him jumping on a couch (wtf?) than, say, Mel Gibson's bigoted rants amuse me greatly. Jumping on a couch? So fucking what? Can't wait.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 9:27 a.m. CST
I agree with whomever said Brad Bird gets the benefit of the doubt here.
by rogueleader66
Guy has never directed a bad movie. I don't give two fucks who is producing it. Bird is aces, period. Go ahead tell me he isn't. You can't, end of story.
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Action only works if it's based in reality. This sadly is not.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 10:21 a.m. CST
Is Tom Cruise Sprint Running now like Pachino Yelling and like Kristen Stewart Biting Her Lower Lip?
by Atkinson
'Cause I'm starting to notice a pattern here. Jason Bourne never sprints, and never does James Bond.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 10:28 a.m. CST
So is Tom Cruise Sprinting now the equivalent of Pachino Yelling and Kristen Stewart Biting Her Lower Lip?
by Atkinson
Because I'm starting to see a pattern here.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 10:30 a.m. CST
@winona_ryders_pussy_juice 'Now can we all agree on the best MI film? Please stop saying the first one because that one sucked ass juice.'
by Brian Hopper
The first one.
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Danial Craig did plenty of sprinting in his films. The problem is that most of the actors playing Bond simply weren't athletic enough to run well. If they could have...they would have.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 11:16 a.m. CST
Holding a GPS while driving will get you a traffic ticket in many jurisdictions.
by Royston Lodge
Ethan Hunt, you're such a badass.
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anybody remember that from mst3k? think it was a hercules movie... that's all i could think about when the clip started
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that would have been embarrassing to fly off the end of a half-completed cloverleaf
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Attended a free IMAX screening of GHOST PROTOCOL in Denver last night and it proved to be a very entertaining and worthwhile night at the movies for my good friend and I. Bird's direction is pretty confident from the opening prison break scene in which Ethan Hunt is mysteriously amongst the psychotic inmates. As to why he's there, well, you'll learn that in due time. The 2 hour and 13 minute running time was, for the most part, very well paced and kept the audience involved from the beginning to the very end of the film. Not a fan of the series as a whole (the first two are pretty bad in my opinion and the third one was decently entertaining), I can easily say that Ghost Protocol is the shiniest and most entertaining of the series. The M: I Team goes off the grid early on in the film and the rest of the film can pretty much be broken down into "action set pieces" that continue to try to top one another as the film goes on. Josh Holloway fans? Don't get that popcorn during the opening of the film because you won't get much after that. The "Break Into the Kremlin" Set Piece is amusing in and of itself. Bird's use of technology in this set piece shows you we're into 2011 and beyond. This set piece lays the foundation to kick start the film into better territory as it moves onto the more impressive action scenes to come. The DUBAI Action Set Pieces will easily be the most talked about. IMAX is used wonderfully throughout the entire film, but IMAX easily shines the most in Dubai. Outside of the amusing Cruise/Spider-Man Shenanigans, the interior hall of mirrors hijinks within the hotel prove all the more kooky as the M: I Team is going after Nuclear Lanch Codes (the basis of the entire plot, kids!). Not a Cruise fan much anymore, Cruise proves efficiently solid throughout the film. I expected Renner to be handed the franchise earlier in the film, but, alas, it IS pretty much the Ethan Hunt and Company show throughout. Cartoonish action and unbelievable stunts ARE, of course, the centerpieceS of any M: I film, but this fourth film raises the bar for the series and proves to be (surprisingly) well worth an IMAX Ticket Price. I also highly commend the fact that when the main bad guy dies in this film, he DIES and you witness it. Not trying to go Faces of Death on anyone, but most know that the bad guy in action films usually takes the pussy way out in terms of what is shown. Here, you get a head and body bouncing down onto a car and down into the pavement. Bounce splatter SPLAT. For those who miss Ving Rhames, he pops up at the very end for a beer to exclaim he'll return in M: I 5 if you decide to drop some coin on this one. Ghost Protocol is a fanciful fuck of escapism worth journeying to if you can stomach Cruise and cartoonish fun action at the movies. It entertained the hell out of me and gave more than I had expected. B+
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Abrams could had just been the toilet janitor, it would already poisoned the movie for me. But the big factor is that it's a Tom cruise movie, and after fucking MI3 i vowed never to watch one of his movies ever again. specially if he starts in them. VALKIRIE was an exception but i watched it because it is a Bryan Singer movie and the subject matter is aces.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 4:15 p.m. CST
About 3 years ago, when i first joined this place, people would fight over who disliked Tom Cruise the most. It was a real contest.
by AsimovLives
Nowdays it's cool to suck his dick again? Just proves how fickle the AICN geekry is. People of little convictions whose opinions change with whenever the wind blows.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 4:22 p.m. CST
One of the things i find the most irritatign about the Mission Cruise Impossible franchise is that only Cruise gets to spectacular stunts.
by AsimovLives
What an incredible egocentric bullshit thing! One of the things i most loved about INCEPTION is that the two most spectacular action pieces were not given to the movie's star Leonardo DeCaprio's character, but to two of the supporting characters, the revolving corridor fight for Joseph Gordon-Lewitt and the snow gunfight battle for Tom Hardy. Where DeCpario the egomniac queen that Tom cruise is, he would demand to have those two scenes given to him, while the rest of the cast would be seated on their asses watching him. This is the thingthat truly pisses me off about tom cruise's mission Impossible movies: all the cool action stuff is his and his only. The rest of the cast just seats ontheir asses admiring Tom Cruise's awesomeness. Bullshit!! Fucking bulshit! This prima-donna egomaniac bulslhit makes me furious! would hurt too much to tom cruyise, who's also the movies producer, to allow his cas tto shine as well? Instead of the meager crumbs they get? A fucking disgrace. After enduring that shit for three movies, i'm done with Tom Cruise. Defiantly. This far no futher. No more!
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Dec. 14, 2011, 4:23 p.m. CST
Want to watch a real Mission Impossible movie? Watch INCEPTION.
by AsimovLives
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Dec. 14, 2011, 4:25 p.m. CST
The best M:I movie? Easy: The first one directed by Brian De Palma. By a wide margin.
by AsimovLives
Brian De Palma is such a badass director he can overcome the negative Tom Cruise effect and actually make the movie watchable. Despite Tom Cruise being in it. The rest of the cast also helps.
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You call generalization, i call majority. Broad majority. Overwelming majority. If you don't think you belong to that majority, then you are not. I can't namethem all because it's too many to do and there' is so little time... and pacience.
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Be they CGI cartoon or live action, HE WAS THE MAN FOR THE JOB. And he has connections to Spielberg, started with his animation episode for AMAZING STORIES. Why oh why Spieberg didn't gave Brad Bird the gig for the Transformers movies is a mystery for the ages. But what a bad call that was. Crime of omission indeed.
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Fuck how i hate that modern CGi bulslhit of making heavy objects liek cars in this movie and tanks in Trashfuckmers 1 (another shit movie beloved by AICN and the geekry) bouncing on the ground after landing as of they are bade of some super-jumpy rubber. It's oen thingto bend physics a bit for the sake of a cool stunt, but it's another to go full retard. And as Tropic Thunder teached us, it's wrong to go full retard.
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good movies.
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I'm in, if only for the mindless excitement.
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Terrific reviews, supposedly great direction, teamwork, and stunts. All the frantic Cruise-hate is just amusing. People should get a life.
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