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| lostwire |
 Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject: HOLLA! - Mission: Impossible (Special Collector’s Ed.) |
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This thread is for discussing the review Mission: Impossible (Special Collector’s Edition) by Shawn McLoughlin (aka: Notoriousaurus).
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| Shoe |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Noto pretty much across the board here. This was a helluvan action film with lots of style. The standouts for me were:
INSTANTLY ICONIC and one of the greatest sequences in an action film ever. Totally tense, pitch-perfect and masterfully done. Hitchcock couldn't have done suspense better.
And:
Dear god, was I ever in love with her. Those pouty lips are god.
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| John Carter |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent review Noto.
I really like this movie and Jean Reno has got to be one of the most underrated actors ever.
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| Cru Jones |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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Canada Uber Alles
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Awesome slow burn, looking up from under the eyelids shot:
Worthy of Kubrick.
Couple that with a kick ass line, delivered with a delicious sneer:
FUCKING AWESOME.
I loved Mission: Impossible. I saw it three times in the theatre during a summer that was crammed with dozens of other must see blockbusters. It's disappointing that the sequels haven't lived up to the original.
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| John Carter |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Originally posted by Cru Jones:
It's disappointing that the sequels haven't lived up to the original.
Well that's because the original one had the brillant Brian DePalma running the show.
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| Surf Monkey |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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Originally posted by mlemmond:
Well that's because the original one had the brillant Brian DePalma running the show.
Breaking up the team dynamic and making it all about Cruise didn't help much either.
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| John Carter |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Dolemite
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Originally posted by Surf Monkey:
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Originally posted by mlemmond:
Well that's because the original one had the brillant Brian DePalma running the show.
Breaking up the team dynamic and making it all about Cruise didn't help much either.
Well to my knowledge John Woo has never made a team or group oriented film he usually has a central hero. To JJ's credit I thought the third film got back to the team element a little but like Alias it still centered around you lone hero.
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| LarPhillips |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Noto, great review and Lost awesome rotator image! 
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| Noto |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad to see that there is much love for the original M:I film.
I still have yet to see the 3rd, which is sad, because I have simply been too busy instead of lack of interest.
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| Noto |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Saltinicus Crackacus
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Originally posted by Shoegaze99:
Dear god, was I ever in love with her. Those pouty lips are god.
Quoted for emphasis...
I had a full-on 15-year old chubby seeing that in the theatre!
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| Hardcore Legend |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: |
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Originally posted by Cru Jones:
Cru, our taste in films suddenly seems perfectly in-line.
This is one of those lines that you repeat over and over again in everyday conversation, and those in the 'know' give you a grin like.."You're a fucking moron...but I dig it."
Much like, "Red Light, Green Light".
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| Monterey Jack |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:46 am Post subject: |
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CRACKERJACKING BUFF
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Originally posted by Cru Jones:
Awesome slow burn, looking up from under the eyelids shot
One of my very favorite De Palma setpieces. The crazy dutch angles, Danny Elfman's brilliantly nauseating music cue as Cruise realizes he's being set up, the final, orgasmic, slo-mo release as the fishtanks detonate and Cruise runs to safety...whenever I watchthis movie, that scene is the one I look forward to the most (even moreso than the CIA break-in). Just a shame that this "special edition" DVD reissue was such a wash. Where's the Laurent Bouzerau documentary with freshly-conducted interviews (fuck, even Obsession earned one of those)? Where's that deleted Cruise/Beart love scene that you can see snippets of in the trailer? Everything on the disc is either a piece of decade-old EPK fluff or shameless Cruise ego-stroking. For shame. 
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| Cru Jones |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:05 am Post subject: |
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Look on the bright side: at least it's anamorphic.
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| Monterey Jack |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:54 am Post subject: |
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CRACKERJACKING BUFF
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Originally posted by Cru Jones:
Look on the bright side: at least it's anamorphic.
Which means precisely dick to me, as I'll probably never own a set capable of displaying anamorphic for years, if ever. This film deserved some "real" extras.
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| Cru Jones |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Originally posted by Monterey Jack:
Which means precisely dick to me, as I'll probably never own a set capable of displaying anamorphic for years, if ever.
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| Noto |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Originally posted by Monterey Jack:
This film deserved some "real" extras.
Anamorphic is the ONLY important extra on a widescreen DVD.
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| Shoe |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: |
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Loquacious
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Quote:
Originally posted by Monterey Jack:
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Originally posted by Cru Jones:
Look on the bright side: at least it's anamorphic.
Which means precisely dick to me, as I'll probably never own a set capable of displaying anamorphic for years, if ever. This film deserved some "real" extras.
Fuck that. I'm an extras whore, by all means - a terrible extras whore, really - but I'll take a bare bones disc done right than one with extra features any day.
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| lostwire |
| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Originally posted by Shoegaze99:
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Originally posted by Monterey Jack:
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Originally posted by Cru Jones:
Look on the bright side: at least it's anamorphic.
Which means precisely dick to me, as I'll probably never own a set capable of displaying anamorphic for years, if ever. This film deserved some "real" extras.
Fuck that. I'm an extras whore, by all means - a terrible extras whore, really - but I'll take a bare bones disc done right than one with extra features any day.
Amen.
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