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Sunday, July 5, 2015 - 5:58 AM CDT
Name: "harry georgatos"
Big plot hole in a film that has very little action and none of the mindbending qualities of the mindbending qualities of the tv show.
A visual masterpiece of a story that just isn't that good. There were better stories in the tv show.
I still can't get over in how the two missing bodies of Jim and Claire were left unaccounted. This is the CIA not some underfunded police department for crying out loud
The film is extremely light in action and needed more scenes as it felt like DePalma left a lot of scenes on the cutting room floor. MI is a visual treat but the story sucks big time.
ROGUE NATION is the type of script DePalma should have had.
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 11:25 AM CDT
Name: "roger"
I agree - the charm (and the shaggy-doggedness) of the first is in those elipses, a mystery in part because it is not clear what is going on.
Compare it to the 4th one (Brad Bird's fine entry) in which is inserted, every 20 minutes or so, a clear talking-heads scene to explain what is about to happen, as if it tested poorly and they had to spell out their plot.
I love how DePalma's film is 3 different films - a spy film, a caper film, then a big summer blockbuster.
Cheers, Roger
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 10:33 PM CDT
Name: "Lin"
MI1 extremely predictable with two neat set-pieces. Too many talking heads scenes disguized with stylized camera angles. At times not much happening. Extremely predictable when it comes to the eventual villian.
Pales into nothingness when compared to the tv show. Looking forward to MI5 with an epic trailer that promises a huge landscape of spy fun.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 6:56 PM CDT
Name: "Sarah"
2016 will be the 20th anniversary of Mission:Impossible 1. Can you tell me Geoff if there's going to be an extended cut on blu-ray for the anniversary?
I was hoping the opening scene where the three way love triangle between Ethan, Claire and Jim might be added on the bluray which was taken out due to poor test screenings. Plus if a ton of deleted scenes are going to be added on a possible anniversary release? There are shots in the trailer with Ethan and Claire passionately kissing and some shots that don't play in the movie and might find them on the anniversary release?
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 7:53 PM CDT
Name: "Geoff"
Hi, Sarah-- I have heard nothing of any special Blu-Ray release to come. But if we consider that the newest film should be released on Blu-ray later this year, perhaps they would plan some special box set for Christmas with some new bonus features. Who knows? That would be interesting.
I do recall De Palma saying that the love scene between Ethan and Claire simply got in the way of the action, or just slowed things down too much. But I would love to see that scene from the trailer-- it definitely evokes North By Northwest, as does the finale.
Sunday, July 12, 2015 - 8:54 AM CDT
Name: "scott brooks"
Sarah, no offense, but there never was a movie called "Mission: Impossible 1". Sorry, but I hate when people stick a "1" after the title of a movie because it is the first in a series, and it never had one to begin with.
But thanks for mentioning that about the trailer, because I've never noticed that before, and will have to check it out.
Cheers!