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In response to "there was nothing new to it. -- nm" by Mel Profit

Sure, but it's a Mission: Impossible movie. Like with a Bond movie, you have to judge it by how it plays with the formula.

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Sep 4 '12, 07:29

I liked that something went disastrously wrong on every set piece, and that it had more teamwork than any of the other MI movies. (There is still too much 'Tom Cruise is the star' though)

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there's formula and then there's The Hangover II and MI:4. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:33 11
- I just gave two examples of where MI:4 differed from the formula established in the earlier movies. - Roger More Sep 4, 07:42 2
  - I'll give you that the team of MI:3 would have eaten the lunch of the team in MI:4. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:46 1
    - they wouldn't have bothered drinking their milkshake, they just would have thrown it in their faces and laughed. -- nm - Diva Sep 4, 07:48
- Except that one was the worst movie of the year and the other was the best. - David Sep 4, 07:36 7
  - I didn't hate MI:4 - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:38 6
    - and not to nitpick but it's still a plot hole if you know it's a plot hole, admit it and try and talk your way out of it. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:44 4
      - I don't know what you are referencing. -- nm - David Sep 4, 07:46 3
        
        (spoilers) - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:51 2
        
        That's a plot hole? I think it's more a turn of events you didn't find believable. -- nm - David Sep 4, 07:56 1
        
        you know I'm right. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:57
    - and guys guys guys...Robot and Frank. See it. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:39
they kinda lost me with the sandstorm climb building scene. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 07:30 8
- I literally lost interest with the rest of the movie after that. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:34 2
  - yeah, I did not like MI 1 or MI 2, but MI 3 made me go "OOH!!!" and this one was a dud IMO. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 4, 07:35 1
    - I liked MI:3 a lot. -- nm - Diva Sep 4, 07:38
- That's one of the better action sequences I've ever seen on film. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 4, 07:32 4
  - THIS -- nm - MDH Sep 4, 07:51
  - that was one of the first WTF scenes in either of the good MI movies - groiny Sep 4, 07:34 2
    - I loved it in the way that it was an impossible gadget that didn't seem impossible - Will Hunting Sep 4, 07:36 1
      - ironically, I literally saw something on a defense blog after the movie that Darpa is working on something very similar. - Mel Profit Sep 4, 07:40

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Sure, but it's a Mission: Impossible movie. Like with a Bond movie, you have to judge it by how it plays with the formula.

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