Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (God, 2011)

[megladon8]

Jeremy Renner will be taking the lead role in future films in the franchise.


Very cool. I like Renner a lot. I think it'll be great to see him with his own action movie franchise.

[number8]

Not if Cruise doesn't want to give it up.

[megladon8]

Not if Cruise doesn't want to give it up.

Well since they're already openly talking about it, doesn't that mean that Cruise is maybe down with it?

I mean, the guy's almost 50. He can't keep doing these forever. He's already having trouble keeping the fit-physique, as demonstrated by him so obviously sucking in his gut in shirtless shots from this and Knight and Day.

[number8]

He's a producer on these films. He can change his mind and take the series back if 3 years from now when he feels like he needs another easy profile boost.

[Irish]

I mean, the guy's almost 50. He can't keep doing these forever.

You'd think that, right? But then Arnold did a Terminator movie at 56, Stallone made another Rambo at 62, and guys like Harrison Ford run around doing Indiana Jones movies at the age of 66.

It's ridiculous, but ego is a powerful force. You're the go-to action guy for 30-odd years, you're not giving that up lightly.

[Morris Schæffer]

French trailer cam

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50171

Looks action-packed, but also a bit generic...I think.

[Henry Gale]

Generic-looking, maybe.

Completely capably put together and cool-looking with an amazing cast and some potentially great action setpieces? Definitely that too.

I'll hold out for a better quality trailer with English dialogue to fully judge it, but right now it still looked pretty much as awesome as I was hoping it would.

[Morris Schæffer]

Well, I expected something a bit more elaborate from the Burj Kaliffa sequence, but it looks like Hunt is simply trying to reach another office.

[Barty]

Great trailer on the big screen, really well put together, and looks epic for the type of movie it is.

[Watashi]

Trailer.

In Bird I Trust.

[DavidSeven]

It's well put together, but sort of generically so. The previous film had a much more evocative trailer that suggested Abrams was really trying to put his stamp on the franchise. You could probably make the same case for the first two films. Not really seeing that here.

[DavidSeven]

I guess that stuff with the dust cloud looks like it has potential.

[megladon8]

What the hell was with that terrible choice of music?

And Paula Patton is smokin'. I want to have her babies.

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What the hell was with that terrible choice of music?

I thought the beat worked well with the action cuts.

[Watashi]

It's well put together, but sort of generically so. The previous film had a much more evocative trailer that suggested Abrams was really trying to put his stamp on the franchise. You could probably make the same case for the first two films. Not really seeing that here.

Brad Bird.

[Irish]

I guess that stuff with the dust cloud looks like it has potential.

My big takeaway: Looks like Bird et al is returning, in some form, to the idea of IMF as a team.

One of the things that annoys me about these movies is that they ditched the entire team aspect of the television show, in favor of being a Tom Cruise star vehicle.

I thought the beat worked well with the action cuts.

It was well put together, but Eminem is such a weird choice. Kinda goes against the grain of "mainstream Tom Cruise action film."

[number8]

Nah. Eminem is also considered old, safe and mainstream nowadays.

[Irish]

It's more about the kind and quality of music than his being considered "old, safe."

[Ezee E]

It was in the Call of Duty trailer. And people like that game.

[Ezee E]

I liked the first movie the most, also because of the teamwork aspect of it. It looks like this movie has some of those intentions, but is still falling back on being all about Ethan Hunt.

I'm curious though.

[Watashi]

Less talk about Enimem and more about Brad Bird-awesomeness.

[Ezee E]

Less talk about Enimem and more about Brad Bird-awesomeness.

It's his first live-action feature. Can't really identify anything that looks impressive from a directorial standpoint. Do people even know what the Burj Dubai is?

[number8]

I do like the more team-like tone, and I'm liking the cast of this team more than M:I3's. Cool that Simon Pegg is now a field agent.

Other than that, pretty unexciting trailer, but I like the shots I see. Is this the first time this high-profile of an animation director do a live-action movie that's equally high-profile? I really can't think of another.

Maybe Kevin Lima for Enchanted, but that's sorta debatable.

[Watashi]

I do like the more team-like tone, and I'm liking the cast of this team more than M:I3's. Cool that Simon Pegg is now a field agent.

Other than that, pretty unexciting trailer, but I like the shots I see. Is this the first time this high-profile of an animation director do a live-action movie that's equally high-profile? I really can't think of another.

Maybe Kevin Lima for Enchanted, but that's sorta debatable.

Andrew Adamson went from doing Shrek 2 to Narnia.

[megladon8]

It also seems like they're trying to up the ante with "explosions Hunt couldn't have possibly survived when he was that close".