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Christopher McQuarrie Has A MISSION Should He Choose To Accept It!!
The Kidd here...
I'm sure there will be some disappointed faces upon here at the news that Brad Bird won't be back for another MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, but that's the way it goes some times, and, in particular with this franchise, Paramount has been pretty firm in bringing new directors to the table to give each film its own unique feel. If there were going to be any repeat customers in the director's chair, it would have been the last two installments, which are widely considered the best of the bunch, but neither J.J. Abrams nor Bird now returned, so the series moves onto yet another auteur. And it's looking more and more like Christopher McQuarrie will step into the slot.
Deadline reports that Paramount has been thrilled with his work on JACK REACHER, as have Tom Cruise and Abrams, who has stayed on with the series as a producer, and, as a result, they're ready to hand over the reins to the fifth installment to him. Cruise has been building a working relationship with McQuarrie since he penned the script for VALKYRIE, as McQuarrie also wrote ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and was working on TOP GUN 2 before the film collapsed.
Following the enormous success of M:I4, Paramount would like to get the next sequel up and running sooner rather than later, and locking up a director they're satisfied with would be a big step towards making that happen since the principal cast is mostly cemented.
-Billy Donnelly
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..as usual.
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my balls smell
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When I saw the first trailer for Reacher, I felt it had a Mission: Impossible feel to it.
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Big fan of The Way of the Gun.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:05 p.m. CST
Didn't Cruise mention he wanted a different director for each movie?
by Taragor
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that is all
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:09 p.m. CST
The last one was definitely the best but I thought III was shit and boring.
by alan_poon
The team had a nice chemistry in the last one. It wasn't all about cruise.
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Cuz he likes the taste
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and has always been an underrated movie.
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...everyone's too busy insulting Tom to notice I spelled destruct wrong.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:16 p.m. CST
Tom Cruise dies on the set of MI:8 and is replaced by the brain of Ted Danson
by Ricardo
... or that's at least how Karl Pilkington and Ricky Gervais established.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:19 p.m. CST
MI4 played like a CHARLIE'S ANGELS sequels complete with paint-by-numbers set-pieces even children must have noticed
by golden tribw
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:20 p.m. CST
MI3 was far worse, though, it's true. But #4 does not deserve the praise it gets.
by golden tribw
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:21 p.m. CST
Honestly, only the 2nd flick is a lump of crap. It's actually, overall, a really good series
by Al
I think Ghost Protocol is way awesome and I really dig part 1 & 2. So, oddly, this is a mainstream movie-star series that generally the outings are better than you would expect. It's kind of a fluke, but a good fluke. I think people harping on part 3 & 4 are just, y'know, trying to be unique.
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the best one is I shagged my girlfriend on one of the first eurostar services..and a few weeks later when it featured in the climax of the movie we had a right laugh! The other one is about meeting Jon Voight in Prague between takes.
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OK, I'll say it. Brad Bird probably would have directed another MI. This makes me believe Brad Bird could very well be up for Star Wars 7. I would be pretty thrilled with that idea honestly.
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Am I the only one who thinks DePalma's is the best overall movie? Not only was the action great and iconic (and not as rapid-fire as the following installments) but the script was actually weighty and ran deeper (IMO) than any of the others. There is great character work in the first one and as many mental standoffs as there are physical ones. 3 and 4 are considered the best? By who the ADD generation? I enjoyed 4, especially in IMAX, but I felt it was ALL action and not much else. People acted like it was the 2nd coming, but 4 just didn't run very deep I'm sorry.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:27 p.m. CST
To clarify, (spoiler) the Eurostar train features in the movie not my shaggin'.
by LeonardsBellbottoms
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:29 p.m. CST
Any surprise B Bird wasn't coming back? He's directing the next Star Wars man.
by kindofabigdeal
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fo sho
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It was a soul-less, by the numbers, ridiculously unbelievable mess. I cannot begin to understand the praise for this movie. MI3 was the only decent one in this series.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:48 p.m. CST
raptor, I'm with you. It was mildly entertaining as I watched it, but instantly forgettable and
by Simpsonian
soul-less, as you say.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:50 p.m. CST
MI3 was great - MI4 lacked a bit - Well up for McQuarrie for MI5
by Swordfleece
Still enjoy every movie though for diff reasons
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:50 p.m. CST
MI:2 is the best because it's so ridiculous. But Chow Yun Fat should have been the bad guy instead of that Scottish limp dick.
by Ray_Tango
The official best order: MI:2 MI:1 MI:4 MI:3
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See what I did there?
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:56 p.m. CST
MI5: Cruise Lathered up with the aftermath of an E.T. bukkake. That's the movie you know you want.
by UltraTron
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...I'd be down with this in theory; the only problem is that Jack Reacher seems an awful lot like a Mission: Impossible movie as it is. Hard to imagine an action vehicle starring Tom Cruise as a special ops agent written and directed by the same guy being especially different.
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bar the odd scene or element or two. De Palma's: Dull as ditchwater, boring visuals, poorly paced and nothing much happens. Does have one great sequence (the Langley break-in). Woo's: An absolute mess, nothing to do with the concept of Mission Impossible, and not even a good action film period, since it was butchered in the editing suite to get a PG-13 rating. Jar Jar's: Apart from Hoffman's terrific villain, by-the-numbers crap, filmed like an extended TV episode of Alias, and quickly forgotten - like all Abram's stuff. Bird's: Terrible villain, dull third act. More by-the-numbers stuff, although the scaling of the Burj Khalifa was a good sequence and Bird showed a cinematic flair for action. MI is just a cash cow series that Tom Cruise can use to pay for his extensive Scientology sessions. Only a few engrams to go, Tom, and you will be rated 'CLEAR'!
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:58 p.m. CST
understand this motherfuckers. Tom Cruise is the undisputed king of hollywood
by rakesh patel
That is all.
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Thanks!!
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Gotta' hand it to Cruise, the man is damn near unstoppable.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:04 p.m. CST
I didn't know McQuarrie directed Jack Reacher. I might have to see it.
by beastie
I love Way of the Gun!
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Just horrible. The rest have been fairly entertaining, I would say three is the best, but the first one is a close 2nd. The last one went way overboard with action set pieces.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:07 p.m. CST
Is part 3 really that different from 4?? How are the two movies different?
by moorE12
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:09 p.m. CST
moore12 in 3 he jumps off a really big building and in 4 he jumps off an even bigger really big building
by Stephen
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Tom Cruise: 'Who's the gimp?' Simon Pegg: 'That's Kevin Spacey, he's the new head of MI6. I mean IMF.' Kevin Spacey: 'Are you ready to get back to work, Mr Cruise?' Tom Cruise (kneeling): With pleasure Kev, with pleasure.
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In the next one he jumps off the moon, swims through space, and then breaks Felix Baumgartner space jump record.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:16 p.m. CST
Moore 12: In 4, there is an actual mission, unlike 1, 2, and 3 which all deal with inside traitors.
by kdoc13
And the girl in 4 was actually hot. That was a nice change. But that's about it. Other than that, all the same. Same car chases, same ariel acrobatic nonsense, etc.
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That's a ridiculously good price! I almost bought Alien the other day just to save some money and get the one I wanted most, but damn... I'd have been kicking myself over that!
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:30 p.m. CST
After watching MI:1, I found the effects dated, I liked 2 the best...
by tickled_by_elmo
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...seriously, seriously undermined by having a key moment used as the pre-credits tease. Seeing that one scene took all of the tension out of everything that came before it. It served the same effect as one of those awful trailers that basically spoil a movie before you even see it.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:36 p.m. CST
Worst of the bunch MI2 John Woo on his downward slide from Hollywood
by Torben
The rest were just ok for me...
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:43 p.m. CST
The 4th one is the most fun, and had a great supporting cast. Don't see how anyone could hate it.
by kidicarus
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:44 p.m. CST
kidicarus yeah 4 was fun but the only movie in the world thats more pure fun than MI2 is Face/Off
by Stephen
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i even like paycheck!
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Nov. 14, 2012, 4:09 p.m. CST
I know it is not the popular opinion, but I kinda liked MI 2 better than MI 3
by lv_426
Ghost Protocol is easily the best one, but for some reason I kinda like number two better than the first and third. I know, call me crazy but that's how it is.
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3 has a few good things but plenty of JJ Abrams-esque awfulness (everything feels lifted from other movies, e.g. True Lies, and the lens flares, and shaky cam). 4 is enjoyable. But 1 is an actual movie, with interesting characters and a complex (and coherent) plot, a sense of style. Did someone say it's 'dull'? Gimme a break. It's so NOT dull. Visually interesting and some pretty intense scenes (Langley, Prague), and even a dash of Hitchcock with its intriguing femme fatale and great reversals. And easily the best script of the four MI movies.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 4:39 p.m. CST
Like the series and Cruise in it. For me, a far more enjoyable series than Bond or Bourne.
by MariusXe
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Basically, you are saying that Tom Cruise and Chrisotopher McQuarrie are close. REALLY close.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 5:06 p.m. CST
MI3 was a remake of MI2. MI1 is the best, MI4 was good. Both MI2 and MI3 sucked.
by Jt
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Quite easily.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 6:28 p.m. CST
MI-3, while it looks pretty, plays like a television episode. The action seemed bland, and so did most of the plot. Just could never like it!
by Ali Kerim Bey
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Nov. 14, 2012, 6:32 p.m. CST
@antonstark: Are you a baby heads? You like to fuck boys?
by kindofabigdeal
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Nov. 14, 2012, 6:34 p.m. CST
I remember how excited i got when Fincher and then Carnahan each were attached to MI3 but dropped out. McQuarrie could be excellent so i hope this goes forward
by Sean
Unlike most other film series, i try not to have a preference for any MI film as they are so different. I love the original. The second, has a terrible script but Woo's work is fucking amazing...i will defend him strongly. I thought the 3rd was rock solid too and 4...well it was good. I was expecting to be blown away with Bird on board. IT was more, "quite good". I honestly can't remember that much about it. Certainly with the villain anyway.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 6:41 p.m. CST
Yeah... one finally caught-on to something when she finally said, "wait, WHO has been slipping me your mail?"
by Ali Kerim Bey
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Nov. 14, 2012, 7:22 p.m. CST
1 was the best, 2 had some good moments, 3 is feels strangely cheap and bland, 4 was predictable.
by GINGE_MUPPET
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FACT
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Nov. 14, 2012, 7:50 p.m. CST
I like Abrams direction, generally, but I HATE MI:3. IT'S TRUE LIES WITHOUT THE HUMOR...
by ThulsaBoom
...I'll take the worst John Woo movie over it any day. Furthermore, the only parts that suck about part IV are the ones that connect to MI:3. I certainly didn't need a wife-plot in my Mission Impossible, definitely not one lifted and gutted from a superior Cameron/Schwarzenegger film. The rest of the series ain't Bourne or Bond, but it's fine.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 7:51 p.m. CST
MI-3 - was just bored seeing the whole 10-minute tedious break-in to the Vatican. With MI-4, each step of infiltrating the Kremlin was tense and enjoyable.
by Ali Kerim Bey
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:04 p.m. CST
M:I - 2 Had Limp Bizkit music in it. Making it easily the worst of the bunch.
by Bob
John Woo did nothing to help that either.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:42 p.m. CST
coudl thiws have anything to do with Bird directing star wars ep7??
by FleshMachine
thatd be swell.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:49 p.m. CST
As someone else pointed out, I'd like to see K. Bigelow on one of these flicks.
by Orbots Commander
It'd be an interesting way to go.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 11:46 p.m. CST
Bigelow on an M:I movie is a good call. I like that idea.
by Brian Hopper
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correct
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Not much else.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 5:58 a.m. CST
The MI series are ALL 3 star movies but with 5 star set peices.
by Bradly Durant
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Nov. 15, 2012, 7:03 a.m. CST
Tom Cruise has way too much control over these films.
by Christian Sylvain
Which is why De Palma's film will always be the best of the series. It's the only time where the director actually clashed with that egotistical midget to get a decent movie out of the project, as opposed to just sucking Cruise off for a meal ticket. This series needs someone with balls AND creative talent. Brad Bird's film came closest in quality with part 4, (which conveniently has the least of Hunt) but I'm still waiting for another Mission: Impossible flick with better writing and a greater lasting appeal.
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Yet to see an MI movie that could top the thrill of watching that one for first time. Yeah, MI3 and MI4 are widely considered to be best of bunch, but then Transformers are also widely considered to be better.
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It was the only one that had any of the feel of the tv show, focusing on the team, and not simply The Tom Cruise Show.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 8:17 a.m. CST
I say the movies would be better if Hunt wasn't the team leader.
by Royston Lodge
Let somebody else get the "your mission, should you choose to accept it" briefing. Way more opportunities for drama if Hunt isn't the team leader. After Philps, could Hunt ever trust another team leader, etc, etc.
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I hated that flick. I merely tolerated #3. I haven't actually seen #4 yet. I fear the lens flares.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 8:22 a.m. CST
Oh wait, #3 was by Mr. Lens Flare, not #4. My mistake.
by Royston Lodge
Sometimes snark gets ahead of the facts.
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I was derided for that by many for a while. Though I'm no surprised that people put it either at #1 or #4 of the series. it's definitely not for everyone.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 8:37 a.m. CST
call me crazy, but I haven't like a single MI movie. MI3 came close but no.
by Joey Stars
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Nov. 15, 2012, 8:46 a.m. CST
What famous place should he break into next? I'm thinking Mossad HQ.
by whatevillurks
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Nov. 15, 2012, 8:51 a.m. CST
they should really take this series into James Bond territory
by Stephen
like moon base and volcano lab Bond. Did #4 even have a villain? Villains, bro. they make the movie. nobody actually likes good guys. Until we get a real Dirk Pitt thing going this is the closest we're gonna have to american Bond. but why did it have to be doucheface cruise? :( What happened to those Brad Pitt is taking over rumors? he's at least watchable.
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I thought it was terrible. Just boring. Characters with no personality and no rapport. Plot that made no sense mostly built around characters doing pointless self-defeating things in the most complex way possible. And that subplot about Renner possibly killing Cruise's wife was beyond amateur. The big stunt sequences were good, but that probably accounts for less than 10 minutes of screentime. Awful movie. Pointless series.
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never see in a mainstream movie: Israel.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 9:35 a.m. CST
BRIAN DEPALMA'S MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE IS A CLASSIC WHILE THE REST HAVE BEEN FUCKING TRASH!!!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinManForever
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MI:1 feels the most like the original series, most of the action set pieces are scaled down, but still very intense. MI:2 most WTF, obviously has the Woo touch, was weird and wacky in the MI universe, kind of dig on it as a HK action flick that just happens to star Tom Cruise MI:3 great villain, the whole wife/family angle seemed out of place, some good set pieces, lost of some of the good team vibe from the first MI:4 More like a Nolan Batman flick, but appreciated it being more mission driven vs. 3, some beautiful set pieces, better team mojo, ass kicking chicks I'd probably go: 4>1>3>2 ...with 4 and 1really being a tie in the top position.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:16 a.m. CST
BRIAN DEPALMA'S MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE IS A FUCKING GREAT MOVIE!!!FACT!!! THE SEQUELS ARE GUN AND EXPLOSION FESTS DESIGNED TO COVER FOR CRUISE'S LACK OF MASCULINITY!!!FACT!!! FURTHERMORE....
by CreepyThinManForever
Mission: Impossible was the best flick of the summer of 1996. DePalma's movie is superior in every way to the sequels. The thing I liked most about it was that it had the right balance between Tom Clancy style espionage and Bond style set-piece's. John Woo's sequel just turned it into an outright Bond clone. I really wish that Cruise had been able to get Oliver Stone to do Part 2, as was originally intended, but script issues and Kubrick kept that from happening. Scorcese would have been ideal for Part 3. Imagine that, a trilogy of flicks Directed by DePalma, Stone and Scorcese?! I've always thought it was strange that Cruise never tried to get Steven Soderbergh to do one of these as the Ocean's flicks are, technically, the best Mission : Impossible movies ever made. As I mentioned before, Oliver Stone was supposed to do part 2 and I remember thinking “what a fucking awesome idea” but the project got pushed back repeatedly because Cruise was stuck on Eyes Wide Shut shooting 100 takes of himself walking through a door for Herr Kubrick. Then there were script issues and, IMHO, the fact that Stone probably wasn't prepared to do a PG-13 popcorn flick, U-Turn being about as "popcorn" as Stone gets. If given the chance to do an R-rated M:I movie, I have no doubt that Stone could have delivered a great sequel. Eventually, Stone left and Cruise searched for a replacement Director which ended up being John Woo, no doubt after seeing Face/Off which had seen Woo realize his fullest potential in the American action market. But Kubrick continued to fuck about while they tinkered the script which had been developed by Paramount's Star Trek golden boys Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore while Robert Towne had been brought on to do the final polish as he had done on the first M:I. If you look at the finished movie, you can tell that they just went out and rented every movie that involved spy's or people wearing masks not to mention the shout outs to Woo's own flicks. The cigar cutter was from Darkman. Cruise and Newton's playful car racing recalling the scene between Pierce Brosnan and Famke Jansen in Goldeneye. Cruise slapping a mask of himself on a bad guy who is then killed by another bad guy is yet another ripoff of Darkman. Cruise's line to Newton before jumping out the building cribbed from Last of the Mohican's. They even riffed on the vault break-in from part one with Cruise jumping into a building with wires attached to him while practically everyone in the fucking movie is shitting doves as they run or dive through the air and shoot at each other with a gun in each hand. The movie was just so fucking boring not to mention that the decision to shoot in Sydney Australia was a mistake as it offered fuck all in the way of interesting environments, no offense to those who live in the former penal colony. Ving Rhames was fucking wasted in his role as Tom's Uncle, Newton proved that she was a zero charisma non-entity while I'm sure that Hopkin's got paid enough to keep awake for the five minutes it took to shoot his pointless cameo. The only fucking good thing about Mission : Impossible 2 was the fact that shooting went on for soo long that Dougray Scott, the non-threatening loser posing as a villain, lost the role of Wolverine in X-Men to Hugh Jackman. Fuck Mission: Impossible 2. Jar Jar Abrams M:I-3 is totally forgettable. A generic action film that ripped off True Lies with an uninteresting villain while they didn’t even bother to create a proper MacGuffin for everyone to chase after. A typically lazy move for Abrams and his two script chimps Orci and Kurtzman. Unfortunately Cruise decided to retain Abrams services for M:I-4, as a Producer and no doubt due to his post-Star Trek clout at Paramount, but brought in Brad Bird for Directing duties. Now, Bird is a hugely respected animator (The Simpsons, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles etc….) but the script was another generic pile of fucking wank involving nuclear launch codes. There was more emphasis on making the movie a team effort but I don’t find any of the peripheral characters interesting. The set piece’s didn’t have the flair that DePalma’s original did and the entire film has a feeling of “been there, done that”. What they need to do with any future M:I flicks is return to the suspense-thriller aspects of the first movie and get away from both WORLD ENDING MacGuffins and any bullshit about Ethan Hunt’s personal life because I don’t give a fuck. Like I said, the Ocean’s 11 movies are the best M:I sequels we never got and I’d fucking kill to see another M:I film that combined those movies sense of team based subterfuge mixed with the rampaging paranoia of the first.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:20 a.m. CST
OH AND SPIELBERG'S MUNICH IS THE BEST R-RATED MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE MOVIE WE NEVER GOT!!!FACT!!! LOVE THAT FUCKING FILM!!!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinManForever
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Nov. 15, 2012, 2:48 p.m. CST
Shut that cunt's mouth or I'll come over there and fuckstart her head!
by Rhinosaur
Anyone who wrote that for a movie can direct whatever he wants in my book.
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It goes like this: MI4>Either MI1 or 3>MI2.
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Love the bike action at the end!
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