Watching movies, they say, involves a suspension of disbelief. I know this, and no film title acknowledges it more than the Mission: Impossible series. Accordingly, when watching Mission: Impossible III, I was willing to let Tom Cruise base-jump off a building through a sheet of plate glass and be OK, to one-shot numerous bad dudes under incredible circumstances, to find an abandoned and practically unscatched black Mercedes in which to make a getaway from an aerial assault on a bridge, &c., &c.
I was not, however, prepared to suspend disbelief enough to allow for Tom Cruise doing mathematics with a white pen on a window[1] to figure out the trajectory for his next zany stunt.
[1] cf. Russell Crowe's John Nash - a mathematical genius in A Beautiful Mind.
5 comments:
stopped watching MI after the first one, I still dont get it, and when the sunglasses exploded in the the 2nd one, i just put it off, load of bollocks.
i'd like to point out that it was in fact, I who noted that tom cruise doing "maths" was so unbelieveable and inconceivable that i felt the need to compare it to another little movie gem: the ben affleck "figuring it out way faster than his brain is capable of" moment in pearl harbour...for those of you unfamiliar with this little scene, it's a slow-mo turn of his head, complete with slow-style narrowing eyebrows as he realizes that his biatch has been boinkin his best mate...it's classic.
dayne and i also love alec baldwin's "tough cunt" speech towards the end of the movie, i swear, p.h. is worth watching just for it's pure badness!
I still like PH, but you guys already knew that I dont get why everyone rips this film. :P
Simple: 'cos it's absolute shit!!
It's pretty kak, Greg. PH is kak.
Coming back to MI III - saw it last week. My fav bit is at the end where wifey asks Tom (or Ethan) what MIF stands for and he replies, 'Impossible Mission's Force' as if he just can't take the name seriously himself.
Love it!
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