Lounge of Tomorrow - Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

Saw "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" last night. Fun, certainly in keeping with the improbability of the original. The CGI was predictably bad, but not overused. Tom Cruise was, well, Tom Cruise, but it was still fun. Bits of humor here and there. One scene went on for far too long in my opinion- trying to get a briefcase, oh, almost, something happens and it's gone again, almost! , gone again, oh, wait! almost! gone...

Yeah, we got it, make it more interesting than that. James Bond of late does this, too, with chase scenes. A couple time is fun, after that I'm just waiting for it to end.

And the thing with his wife? I liked the inclusion. A little backstory, a little detail, and yet he remains Ethan Hunt in all his omniscient glory.

Good scenery, nice place-setting shots, good toys, cute girls.

innerSpaceman

01-11-2012 05:31 PM

More screeners:

Albert Noobs was awesome. Glenn Close predictably fantastic in a story based on truth about not one, but TWO women who disguise themselves and live as men in a time when women were merely chattel. Very bittersweet and well worth watching.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy left me wanting to read the book. It had to have been mercilessly condensed (it was previously filmed as a 7-part miniseries starring Alec Guiness), but I'll be damned if I can figure from this movie what was cut out of the story. The cold war spy drama was dry yet fascinating. Good performances by Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth and John Hurt.

Loved, loved, loved Arthur Christmas. So much adorable fun from the folks who do Wallace and Grommit. Gonna have to buy this one and add it to the films I watch every year at holiday time (or, well, most years - since I didn't watch a single solitary one of my obligatory holiday movies or TV specials of yesteryear this year).

Not Afraid

01-11-2012 05:32 PM

Noobs is what I call my new boobs.

innerSpaceman

01-11-2012 05:33 PM

Bwahaha, I'm gonna start calling you Albert, and refer to them as Albert's Noobs.

Alex	01-11-2012 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 355723)

More screeners:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy left me wanting to read the book. It had to have been mercilessly condensed (it was previously filmed as a 7-part miniseries starring Alec Guiness), but I'll be damned if I can figure from this movie what was cut out of the story. The cold war spy drama was dry yet fascinating. Good performances by Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth and John Hurt.

Yeah, I'll be reading the book. But leaving the movie I did think that 14 hours (or 7, not sure if they were two hour blocks) would have been a horrible slog since at 2.25 it was so incredibly tight.

innerSpaceman

01-11-2012 07:41 PM

Out of curiosity, I read the plot summary on Wikipedia and, um, the movie didn't leave out any of that summarized plot. More curious than ever what the original story is padded with.

Snowflake

01-12-2012 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid (Post 355724)

Noobs is what I call my new boobs.

I'm sure this has been submitted for posterity more than once already. But, I did anyway. Snort!

Snowflake

01-12-2012 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 355734)

Out of curiosity, I read the plot summary on Wikipedia and, um, the movie didn't leave out any of that summarized plot. More curious than ever what the original story is padded with.

Long tracking shots of Alec Guiness as George Smiley cogitating. ;)

I'm going to see TTSS this weekend, I can't wait. Only thing missing would be a cameo by Alan Rickman.