Because there’s no need for a spoiler box in a thread where that plot point has been discussed at length. Once it’s been discussed, it’s no longer a spoiler. It’d be a spoiler if Quimby had access to the plot of the NEXT Mission Impossible movie.
I honestly missed any specific discussion of that plot point so I figured better safe than sorry.
Fair enough. I hadn’t noticed any discussion of that point except in a post that was labeled with “SPOILERS FOLLOW” in the first paragraph.
No big deal - I’m just always confused why people put spoiler boxes in a thread where the entire discussion is about specific plot points that aren’t in spoiler boxes. To me, it dilutes the purpose of the spoiler box for when actual spoilers arise.
(I’m also perplexed by threads that are nothing BUT spoiler boxes.)
Fair enough. I don’t work for Tom Cruise or Paramount and I wasn’t trying to start a fight or anything. The point about the limited release opening is of particular interest to me though, because I work in the IMAX industry, and MI4 is the first film ever to open with an IMAX-only pre-release (in America). So the fact that it destroyed the old record for a limited release opening is actually kind of a big deal to IMAX people.
That’s it - no fight here, everyone go about your business as usual.
It’s cool. (And, for the record, your point does strike me as a genuinely interesting one.)
Tom Cruise is cruising with box office from Mission Impossible. His beard, oops, I mean his wife, Katie Holmes, starred in Jack and Jill.
I wonder who got the biggest paycheck this year?
BTW, went to see MI yesterday - it was a decent popcorn film. Exactly what I expected it to be - a mindless romp with lots of WTF moments of disbelief.
I got exactly what I paid to see.
Just saw it in IMAX.
I thought it was 100% pure awesome and one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. Loved it, loved it, loved it. My whole theater jumped quite a few times, especially during the Burj Khalif segment.
Just a great movie all around and my favorite action movie in awhile.
I’m going to assume that we don’t need spoiler boxes at this point.
About the US spotting the missile - my kid thought the same, but I think he’s wrong. It was one missile fired from the middle of the Pacific. It might be noticed on launch, but I think that would be a lucky spot. Assuming you don’t see that, then you’ve got only the minute or so after it hits radar on re-entry, right?
Even if it was spotted - what is the actual response time? You’ve got to get the President to activate the nuclear football, right? They showed it was a +/- three-minute launch to impact - I doubt the US could respond that quickly. The nuclear subs are there because we need a way to respond to a massive sneak attack that would knock out the land-based options.
I was wondering why the Russian police had decided to assassinate the US Secretary of State.
It’s a movie?
I just assumed that BMW had persuaded Tom Cruise to front their ad campaign, because the trailer looks like little more than a car commercial.
I had assumed
that they didn’t know he was in the car, they just knew that the guy who had blown up the Kremlin was in there and got excited. But yes, I wondered at the global reaction to a cabinet member getting killed by state police.
IMDB trivia has a weird trivia bit that can’t be true. I’ll spoiler box it.
Ving Rhames was paid $7.7 million for his cameo, doubling the fee paid in the previous film.
Dude, no way. We’re talking like 45 seconds or so. No way that can be accurate.
According to various stories I’m seeing onilne, $7.7 is what Rhames wanted in order to return to the movie in a non-cameo role and he didn’t get it (and thus just the cameo).
Here’s one example.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by “small” here, but by any definition I’d use, this movie was not small. Filmed in Russia (at the Kremlin/Red Square), UAE (Dubai), Prague, and Mumbai (and some nearby sites), I admit it may not have been the epitome of “globetrotting”. Still, it was huge in special effects, action, and energy. And, if nothing else, knowing that Tom Cruise really was up there, made the hotel sequence even more gigantic.
On top of that is the little-known fact that they really did blow up the Kremlin. Although it turned out to be an accident and not by design.
Went with my son. Plot had more holes than a wheel of Swiss cheese, but it was a pretty good action ride and worth the movie bucks.
I am disappointed the original MI movie made Phelps a villain. No reason to do that IMO.
Honestly it was more a feeling than anything that I couldn’t really articulate. I am wondering if it was because the same handful of people are in nearly every scene. Either way it was a minor complaint.
I have never seen any of the Mission Impossible films, and I wouldn’t have seen this one if it hadn’t been for a bait and switch by the cinema we went to. My son (9) and I went to see The Muppets on one of the most complicated days of my life. We were skipping off school and seeing a film in order to make it fair that his older sister was going to the theatre to see a matinee of Mary Poppins.
The Muppets had been taken off so that the cinema could show The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The only PG films left were Sherlock Holmes and Mission Impossible 4; Mission Impossible won out. I went along with it thinking that if nothing else, it would be engaging for him and I could have an expensive nap if the sound weren’t too loud.
It was a pleasant surprise to see Brad Bird’s name in the opening credits, and I was immediately wondering why I had missed his previous live action efforts, as even the opening scene in the Russian prison had been extremely well shot and edited. It just got better from there. This was top notch action film escapism. Never mind that the next day I was thinking of all the implausibilities (He walked away from that car crash? I fell off my bicycle and couldn’t move for half an hour. He just hacked his way into the computer controls of a Russian prison? I can’t even get my iPod to synchronize on the first try. And so it goes…), during the film, all disbelief was joyfully suspended. Certain sequences, like the Burj Khalifa, had the entire audience gasping at the same moment. I left the theatre thinking ‘Brad Bird hit a grand slam home run with that one.’
Then I found out that Mission Impossible 4 was his first live action film, and my respect for him went off the scale.
I’ve since seen the first Mission Impossible film on DVD; it wasn’t anywhere near as thrilling. We’ve been watching the DVDs of the TV series, to our great enjoyment.
Mission Impossible 3 (directed by JJ Abrams) is worth watching if you liked MI:4. It is more similar to 4 in style and action than the first movie. (FTR, I like the heightened paranoia and complexity of the first movie–especially the opening sequence when the team is being killed off one by one.) By all means, skip MI:2. It is by far the worst of the series.