Mission Impossible Movies

[CaptainZombie]

Who here is excited for MI:III?

Did you like the first 2 movies?

[p2xgamers]

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The 3rd looks pretty sweet, I'm excited for it.

[Defel]

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First one was good. Second one was downright awful. Third one should be better.

[Skerik]

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I love the first one....thank god they've finally come out with an anamorphic DVD of it. Unfortunately, the studio felt like nobody understood the "complex" plot of the first one and they dumbed down the second one, which I didn't like very much at all.

Hopefully the 3rd one will be less of a popcorn movie and more of an intelligent black ops movie like the Bourne Identity movies, but it's looking like a Summer popcorn flick from what I've seen.

[Beantown]

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First was very good....second was watchable but nothing special....hopefully this one will be better. I'll probably end up seeing it in theaters, but wont be disappointed if i end up waiting until DVD.

[JayBee74]

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I liked both MI movies and am definitely looking forward to the 3rd-hard to believe it's been 10 years since the first one.

[pk500]

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Both sucked, following the typical Tom Cruise formula of "arrogant guy faces tragedy, life-changing event or injustice that forces him to right a wrong and become honorable and give a sh*t about someone besides himself."

Top Gun
Days of Thunder
Far and Away
All the Right Moves
Cocktail
Jerry Maguire
Both Mission Impossible movies
Rain Man
The Color of Money
Young Guns
The Firm
A Few Good Men

He played basically the same role in all of those movies. Only his wardrobe and the set changed in each.

Seriously, what Cruise movie hasn't followed that formula other than "Risky Business," "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Minority Report," which were about the only good movies that guy ever has been in? "Vanilla Sky" and maybe "War of the Worlds," I guess.

Cruise is the most overrated actor in Hollywood, by far. The guy can't act his way out of a paper bag and is typecast beyond belief.

Take care,
PK

[ExtremeGamer]

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Tom Cruise was in Young Guns?!?

[Skerik]

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From IMDB....

Trivia for Young Guns (1988):

Tom Cruise was disguised with a mustache and is hiding behind the barricades on the street during the shootout.

For this role, he didn't appear in the credits and appears credited on IMDB as simply, "Cowboy." I hate that Tom Cruise. Always typecast as the guy wearing the fake mustache hiding behind barricades.

[CaptainZombie]

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I don't like Tom Cruise, but I liked the first 2 movies since I was a big fan of the show.

[pk500]

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Oops: I f*cked up on "Young Guns." But Cruise is typecast in every one of those other movies on my list.

Bottom line: The guy has incredibly limited range as an actor. He's a popcorn-movie box-office draw, nothing more. The acting equivalent to a pop sensation like Britney Spears or Kelly Clarkson.

Take care,
PK

[Thrasha]

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Oops: I f*cked up on "Young Guns." But Cruise is typecast in every one of those other movies on my list.

Bottom line: The guy has incredibly limited range as an actor. He's a popcorn-movie box-office draw, nothing more. The acting equivalent to a pop sensation like Britney Spears or Kelly Clarkson.

Take care,
PK

I guess I am the only one who thinks Tom Cruise is a very good actor. I thought he was great in Collateral, and Minority Report.

[JayBee74]

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I guess I am the only one who thinks Tom Cruise is a very good actor. I thought he was great in Collateral, and Minority Report.

No, you are not the only one-Tom's a fine actor (IMO) and has been in an incredible number of good movies.

[pk500]

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I guess I am the only one who thinks Tom Cruise is a very good actor. I thought he was great in Collateral, and Minority Report.

Cruise was excellent in "Minority Report" and "Born in the Fourth of July." I didn't see "Collateral."

He has been a typecast stiff in just about every one of his other pictures. Cruise has no range -- the dude plays the same type of character in nearly every movie, just like Bruce Willis.

Take care,
PK

[Double Eights]

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Does it really matter which kind of movie an actor stars in? Seriously, if the actor does a good job and the movie is good then what does it matter if he only does action movies?

Also, War of the Worlds wasn't really an action movie, but yet I thought it was really good, and I thought tom cruise did an excellent job in it. It was one of the best movies i've seen in some time.