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avoidz
10/11/09

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Orci and Kurtzman are bad writers.
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tvscifi.com
10/10/09

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I really hope Mission Impossible can return to the TV Show's roots; a caper film where the perfect crime/rescue/dictator overthrow is planed and executed. The Mission Impossible movies are more like Americanized James Bond films. IM was about tricking bad guys with head games, not car chases and out running fireballs. JJ Abrams needs to hire some of the "Leverage" writers.
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gorehound
10/09/09

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since hollywood likes to rape my past and remake some of my fave films why not just remake mission impossible but with all the surviving members instead of new casts.

yeah right i hate YARM.
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Obee Juan
10/09/09

In reply to Spock In Mission: Impossible 4? Yes Please
I distinctly recall reading a press release about 6-8 years ago that Leonard Nimoy had "retired" from acting. Lately, it seems he's more active and in demand than ever. Go figure.
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MinervaAlpaca
10/09/09

@Obee Juan:

Yeah, and Stephen King was going to "retire" from writing. That was how many books ago?
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MinervaAlpaca
10/09/09

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I gotta admit: I don't recall Nimoy's "Paris" character all that well, but more Nimoy is usually a good thing.
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Wookie1972
10/09/09

@MinervaAlpaca:
Nimoy wrote in "I Am spock" that he did not have fond memories of his time on MI.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
10/09/09

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Can't...resist...making...fun...of...typo...

Can someone ask Abrams,Orci and Kurtzman if getting stickled in a room hurts.

Ahhh. That feels better.
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AngryEddy
10/09/09

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: A gentle hand and a safe word is all they'll need.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
10/09/09

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: Fixed. Nuts.
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Rumtum
10/09/09

In reply to Spock In Mission: Impossible 4? Yes Please
Lessee: Peter Graves (as Mr. Phelps), Barbara Bain (the lady disguiser Cinnamon), Martin Landau (the male disguiser Rollin), Steven Hill (Dan Briggs, the original team leader before Mr. Phelps), Peter Lupus (Willie the Strongman) ... all are still alive and kicking, more or less.
Only Greg Morris, the techie Barney (a breakout role and really my favorite character on the IM team) has died - of cancer in 1996. So we could have a real IM reunion movie. Think of the cross advertising:
"Mission: Impossible/Depends"
"Mission: Impossible/Polygrip"
"Mission: Impossible/The Scooter Store"
Ah the possibilities.
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TemporalSword
10/09/09

@Rumtum: Well, but at least this way there's no reason to have Cruise in it, so that's a big plus right there.
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CParis
10/09/09

@Rumtum:
You could get Phil Morris (Greg Morris's son). He's a literally a look-alike and was in that Mission Impossible TV reboot back in the 80s.
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Rumtum
10/09/09

@CParis: Great idea! Keep it in the family, as it were.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
10/09/09

@Rumtum: Phil Morris has the looks and experience. I'd love to see the whole gang together again. With 100% less Xenu-boy.
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AngryEddy
10/09/09

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It's a horrible cop-out, but if you really want Peter Graves, have him coming out of hiding or retirement or whatever and just say something off-hand like "I told you my brother was a prick" to Ethan - or something else that explains that Jon Voight's Mr. Phelps wasn't the same as Graves' Mr. Phelps. Lame, but for Hollywood it's a stroke of genius. You're welcome, Abrams.

And yes to Nimoy. Make it happen.
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Temidien
10/09/09

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Less Tom Cruise please.
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TemporalSword
10/09/09

@Temidien: Here, here!
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The Curse of Millhaven
10/09/09

@Temidien: But he is already so tiny.
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mistermac2000
10/09/09

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Here's a possible workaround for the "Mister Phelps" continuity problem - without an alternate universe. Establish that "Jim Phelps" is not a person's name, but the agency's standard code name for the agent responsible for assembling an MI team. Then the "Mister Phelps" in the first movie was not the SAME Mister Phelps we all knew and loved from the TV series. After all, we know that the guy from the TV show could never had betrayed his team like Mister Phelps did in the film.
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Zyg
10/09/09

@mistermac2000: boom!
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NerD: Blattella
10/09/09

@mistermac2000: I like it! It has a very "The Prisoner" feel to it.
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PistachioWildebeest
10/09/09

@mistermac2000: Bing! Just like James Bond is the name used by all the 007s. Makes perfect sense.
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TemporalSword
10/09/09

@PistachioWildebeest: What? You mean Connery, Moore, Brosnan, Craig, et. al weren't all playing the same exact person! You, sir, have just blown my mind!

No, really, that actually would make a lot of sense. Otherwise you have one guy who's been roughly the same age for 50 years and still going strong.
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TemporalSword
10/09/09

@mistermac2000: I like it!
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AngryEddy
10/09/09

@mistermac2000: Crap. Your idea is better... But mine is charming in its stupidity. At least that's what I tell it to make it feel better.
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The Curse of Millhaven
10/09/09

@mistermac2000: Sort of a "Dread Pirate Roberts" vibe.
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omgwtflolbbqbye
10/10/09

@TemporalSword: Lee Tamahori had the same idea about James Bond and he made Die Another Day... so you're in good company...
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jajbowler
06/11/09

In reply to Do We Really Need Another Mission Impossible, Even With J.J. Abrams?
If I recall correctly, which I probably don't , David Fincher was originally attached to direct MI3. I was pretty excited about that. I'm not sure what happened, or if I'm just making shit up, but I wouldn't mind them trying to (bring him back and) move forward with a Fincher-helmed Mission: Impossible film.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
06/11/09

In reply to Do We Really Need Another Mission Impossible, Even With J.J. Abrams?
Well if they are going to make another one I hope it's Abrams because his was the only one of those that I could tolerate.

Seriously John Woo, do you just forget to pack your talent whenever you fly to Hollywood?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/11/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: His talent flew away on his two doves. Seriously, I can understand that it's his "trademark", (air quotes because jeez, man.), but in that one movie that was based on "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (too lazy to imdb, at airport), he had to throw in doves, too? Go away! I want my old-school HK movies with their wtf plots and shitty acting and fuck-you-gravity kung fu!
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
06/11/09

@crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Paycheck?! (Total Recall was Wholesale, but no biggie) Yeah Paycheck.. I'd forgotten about that. God. I wish they'd let me erase that one from my memory, luckily my brain and booze has done the brunt of that work.

Oh Affleck... grrrrrr
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/11/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Oh FUUUUU-

PAYCHECK. So sorry, so sorry. My flight is 2 hours late and I'm incoherent.

What, you didn't like how that one lady blinked and her contacts slipped and Affleck was all "OMG YOU NOT REAL" and it was like haha wtf.
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Meredith Woerner
06/11/09

In reply to Do We Really Need Another Mission Impossible, Even With J.J. Abrams?
I guess I was just happy with 3.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/11/09

@Meredith Woerner: I agree with the Acidic Bullfighter above; 3 was much more enjoyable than 2, at least.
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BullfightsOnAcid
06/11/09

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I have this argument all the time because I think without a doubt MI3 was the best of the franchise. In fact I don't see how anyone can defend the first two when they were such a mess. Abrams took the franchise and made it a straight-forward fun action adventure which is exactly what he did with Star Trek. Why wouldn't we want more good movies like that?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/11/09

@BullfightsOnAcid: Well... 3 was much more coherent and, more importantly, FUN. So maybe. Maaaaybe. At least with a sequel, it's no YARM.
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Dominus Astra
06/11/09

@BullfightsOnAcid: I actually think the first one was the best, with the third a second close.

Bring back Brian de Palma and I'll watch it. de Palma's work was coherent, plausible, complex but not complicated, down-to-earth and faithful to the original series. the Impossible Mission Force was a detached, small, covert, CLANDESTINE and subtle (probably even private contractors). The bad guys should not even know what just hit them, even if they realized something was wrong at all.

De Palma's action sequence was thrilling but still believable - the characters were forced into the situation.

Abram's was fun, but wtf about storming a nestful of bad guys with a geek and two backups? is not exactly logical. The second and third movies tried to up the action, turning the IMF into a bullshit commando unit (I'll admit that Abrams did the much better job)

Go back to the roots: Mission Impossible should be about brains, not brawns. I have Michael Bay for that.
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BullfightsOnAcid
06/11/09

@Dominus Astra: I'm a big Depalma fan too (I even loved 'Casualties of War' and 'Femme Fatale' (Is Femme Fatale Sci Fi? Discuss)) however I think his MI movie was NOT coherent. There's that scene where Cruise throws the NOC list away because he thinks it's fake but then goes back when he realizes that he was confused and actually threw the real one away. Nobody knows whats going in that movie, even the main characters.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/11/09

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But I WANT to see two people slam into each other after jumping off of their motorcycles going at 60MPH and not break every fucking bone in their body and then still manage to punch at each other!

I also want to see people taking off their latex masks again and again and again and again and again...

It reminds me of when we saw MI:2 (MI:II?) in high school; everytime there was something implausible, we'd say, "And then he takes off his mask." and BAM, it was true!
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