Cruise needs money.
http://www.mania.com/mission-impossible-4_article_115765.html
There's also a new Star Trek bit in there. They're saying summer 2011.
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - Yay! Netflix
This is the funny one, and not just because of Simon Pegg.
Pretty implausible situations and solutions.... some things are made a lot more technical than they need to be.... but there are more laughs than all of the other movies put together, so it ends up being a pretty fun movie.
Pretty implausible situations and solutions.... some things are made a lot more technical than they need to be.... but there are more laughs than all of the other movies put together, so it ends up being a pretty fun movie.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
It was on Netflix and I watched it. Holy geez what a bad movie. I went in expecting a bad movie, and it blew my expectations away.
So many times I was shaking my head at how stupid things were.
Spoilers:
Trained expert agent dudes trained to notice the smallest of details, etc, etc, etc. They don't notice a group of camels walking in the middle of a desert road. As in, flat and wide open. Well, not until a passenger points them out at the last second and they evasive maneuver around them.
You have the launch codes and the dude that wants to use them to destroy the world heading to the same hotel room. Instead of jumping them and taking them both out, you devise an scheme where you redecorate two floors of a hotel, hack the elevators, make masks to impersonate the bad guys, etc, etc, etc, so you can fake the exchange they are there to make. That's definitely the easiest and safest way to handle that situation.
Entire server farms boot up (when power is restored to them) in about 2 seconds. Power is cut. Good guys fight the bad guys trying to get the power switched back on. The good guys win the fight! The push the main breaker lever back up restoring power to the server room! Agent 3 sees the servers booting and inserts the two hard drives (why couldn't they be in there waiting for the power to come back on?). Server boots, receives missile abort codes from a remote briefcase, transmits abort codes to missile on the other side of the planet, missile falls into the ocean. From the time the breaker lever is pushed up, to the missile aborting is about 2 seconds. Of course.
The list goes on. Just stupid stupid stuff. Horrible writing. Horrible movie.
So many times I was shaking my head at how stupid things were.
Spoilers:
Trained expert agent dudes trained to notice the smallest of details, etc, etc, etc. They don't notice a group of camels walking in the middle of a desert road. As in, flat and wide open. Well, not until a passenger points them out at the last second and they evasive maneuver around them.
You have the launch codes and the dude that wants to use them to destroy the world heading to the same hotel room. Instead of jumping them and taking them both out, you devise an scheme where you redecorate two floors of a hotel, hack the elevators, make masks to impersonate the bad guys, etc, etc, etc, so you can fake the exchange they are there to make. That's definitely the easiest and safest way to handle that situation.
Entire server farms boot up (when power is restored to them) in about 2 seconds. Power is cut. Good guys fight the bad guys trying to get the power switched back on. The good guys win the fight! The push the main breaker lever back up restoring power to the server room! Agent 3 sees the servers booting and inserts the two hard drives (why couldn't they be in there waiting for the power to come back on?). Server boots, receives missile abort codes from a remote briefcase, transmits abort codes to missile on the other side of the planet, missile falls into the ocean. From the time the breaker lever is pushed up, to the missile aborting is about 2 seconds. Of course.
The list goes on. Just stupid stupid stuff. Horrible writing. Horrible movie.
Jason Statham versus....GORDON wrote:If I wanted technical realism I'd watch Hackers.
Because, you know, waiting for a server farm to boot up realistically would make an awesome action movie...
The Blue Screen of Death
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
But, the whole time I'm watching that scene, I'm thinking "There's no way that stuff boots up in time for things to work". I mean, even the most retarded PC user knows that PCs don't boot up instantly. Have the things booting and show a progress bar or something. Better yet, just write a good scene that makes sense from beginning to end!
If you had the most scaled down of scaled down operations with a specialized OS and hardware, a couple seconds seems realistic for a time approximation, although retarded as all hell from a practical standpoint.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Gordo is right that this movie is hilarious, but Cake is right that it's terrible.
Worst MI movie yet, and that's saying something!
The entire car park scene was beyond comedy. Secret agent fights 60 year old scientist and gets his ass kicked? Did they forget that the main villain isn't a trained assassin?
Worst MI movie yet, and that's saying something!
The entire car park scene was beyond comedy. Secret agent fights 60 year old scientist and gets his ass kicked? Did they forget that the main villain isn't a trained assassin?
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell