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Mission: Unpalatable III

The Question

The Question

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The Good: The chick is hot. Sasha Alexander is in it. Good stunt choreography.

The Bad: It was 3 hours for a story that could easily have been told in the average 48 minute television episode.

The Ugly: Tom Cruise. That and the fact that they didn't have the good sense to kill off his character and spare us the dread of just knowing they're probably going to throw another lump of shit at us from this franchise's steaming pile in another couple years.

The verdict: Should've been a television episode, not a feature-length film. Should've either had a different actor for the lead or terminated and replaced the lead character.
 
Has anyone here seen any of the original Series? Damn that was such a good show. Even Alias doens't have the kind of "mind fuck" the original series had...
 
Yep. I loved the original. Even when they did an updated TV series in the late 80's, early 90's, they stayed with the same formula and tied the two series together.

I gave up on the Cruise crap when they made Jim Phelps the bad guy in the first movie. They took what was an iconic character from the TV series and fucked it up for the movie.

Screw them.
 
Tisiphone said:
^That was my major problem with the first one, too, them using Phelps as a baddie.
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Me too! I mean how could they? It was just wrong. I didn't even go to the movies at all to see MI:2 and I won't go to MI:3. I waited until it came on cable. I was glad I didn't waste my money. They ruined a GREAT character in Jim Phelps all to glorify Cruise. It was bad story telling, and a terrible thing to do to Mission Impossible continuity. What are they Communists?
 
The reason they did that in the first one was to get your attention.
They couldn't do the same as the tv series'.
Pure group psychology.
 
There's already talk of big screen versions of Man From U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-0, Hart To Hart, Manix, The Rookies and a few others.

Chris Rock was said to be cast for a new Six Million Dollar Man at one point and there's still talk of a Hogan's Heros and a Gilligan's Island movie.

I stick with what I said a while ago. There's no original talent left in Hollywood. These young "up and coming" writers, directors and producers can't fathom the idea of an original concept. So they take the old classics and turn them into modern crap.
 
Mission Impossible III was basically unfathomable, and I ended up nodding off through several parts of it.

That woman is gorgeous though.
 
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