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rtprod:
--- Quote ---I go to the movies maybe ten times a year. (Actually, I don't think I went to see a single movie in the theater during 2004... small child + no babysitter + not really excited about any of the movies = stay home and rent something.) And I have disliked Tom Cruise since the 80's. (Enough so that my husband had to trick me into watching Collateral with him. And it wasn't bad. But Tom Cruise is still really annoying.)
So given those kinds of criteria, is MI3 (or anything else released so far this year) worth seeing?
After the Oscars, I swore that I would only go to movies that my friends raved about. So is this a huge rave, or is it a "well, 2006 hasn't been very good so far, but this is good for 2006" rave?
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I hear ya, movies today just don't add up to much and the situation, on the whole, is getting progressively worse if you don't live in a major metro area and have access to independent and foreign cinema from around the world. If you do, there is alway something worthwhile and worth time and money.
The best thing I can say about MI3 is that if you like a good action film that is expert on nearly every level, moves like lightning and makes you laugh a bit, thrill at its sequences (they are truly off the charts spectacular) and then feel a touch of emotion for its husband and wife in peril (cruise and michelle monaghan), you'll dig this.
I'm not saying it's BBM, but honestly, it's a superior example of exactly what the genre should be, and almost never is. And it has a heart as well. What more do you want?
Besides, if not Cruise, then who for the role -- to my eye, all of the other big action stars are either too "long in the tooth" or have imploded, Vin Diesel style (not that there's anything wrong with him, he got a pretty raw deal and is re-making his career).
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rtprod:
--- Quote ---the train sequence was in part 1 wasn't it? part 2 climatic end happens in Australia. but yeah, I liked neither films and I'm cautious about seeing the 3rd. i might catch a matinee if i'm especially bored between projects.
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If you approach it with low expectations you will be blown away.
Yeah, the train sequence was in part 1. The hilarious Thandie Newton-falls-out-of-the-convertible-over-a-cliff sequence was in part 2. LOL.
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starboardlight:
--- Quote from: rtprod on May 03, 2006, 03:01:00 pm ---If you approach it with low expectations you will be blown away.
Yeah, the train sequence was in part 1. The hilarious Thandie Newton falls out of the convertible over a cliff sequence was in part 2. LOL.
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I have to say, I kinda liked Thandie in the first half of that movie. I had seen her in The Beloved but didn't really connect with her much. In MI:II I hated that she started out a really strong character and devolved into a passive victim who waited for heroic Cruise to save her. I just thought the woman she started out as would have been more pro-active to the end.
rtprod:
--- Quote ---I have to say, I kinda liked Thandie in the first half of that movie. I had seen her in The Beloved but didn't really connect with her much. In MI:II I hated that she started out a really strong character and devolved into a passive victim who waited for heroic Cruise to save her. I just thought the woman she started out as would have been more pro-active to the end.
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Wait until you see what happens with Michelle Monaghan in the climax of MI3 when a gun is put into her (nurse) hands for the first time. She nails the scene and it's pretty damn cool. She has a certain feral quality not unlike the terror Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling felt in Buffalo Bill's lair when she's holding the gun in the climax of that classic.
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rtprod:
OH, and I love Thandie Newton immensely in about everything she's ever done. Sweet girl in person too. Ever see her in Bertolucci's Besieged?
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