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Author Topic: Mission Impossible 3 (2006) Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 05-14-2006 11:45 AM                     As long as you are not referring to that crappy music during the credits. I dread cleaning that movie just because of those two songs.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-15-2006 10:48 AM                     The crappiest music in "M:i:3" is definitely that Kanye West garbage on the end titles. I'll sometimes sit through end credits to see what effects houses worked on the project and other technical stuff like that. No chance this time. As soon as that rap crap started playing, I had to be gone. I guarantee all 20 years from now when someone watches this movie and comes across that Kanye crap on the end titles they're going to laugh at how bad and DATED it is. Anyway, regarding the movie, I liked it. At least I liked it a lot more than M:I:2, which sucked oily ass. However, I still prefer the first Mission: Impossible movie over the sequels by a healthy margin. The first one had a better storyline and overall more authentic spy movie feel to it. The characters in this movie seemed more like they were trying to act like members of a Navy Seals team or a Army Special Forces squad. That kind of thing is entertaining, but there is hardly any "spy" quotient involved in it. The story line in this sequel is very thin, but the action set pieces throughout were just enough to lift the show out of dull two-star review hell for me and barely rest on the three star level. I did find some moments a bit odd in this film. Sorry for making the mistake of not checking my brain at the door. You'll enjoy this film if you think less. 1. The explosive charge the villian puts into people's skulls. That little device provides a rather disturbing and gross moment early in the film. But if one were to try to insert such a device into a person's brain through the nasal cavity in the manner shown, the very act of doing that would probably kill the person almost instantly. 2. Bigger "Duh!" kind of problem. I fought hard not to get pissed at the movie for this kind of stupidity. Can someone please explain to me WHY Cruise needed to leap across the hole in the highway before firing on the helicopter!? WTF? He just took out another aircraft from far away and now he needs to run closer to a helicopter to take a shot? Why not just fire on the 'copter from back behind that car? DUH! Also, other good guys on the road still have guns. Why aren't they firing at the helicopter? Why aren't they firing at the "Jesus Pin" assembly where the main rotor meets the body? It's the most vulnerable part of the aircraft. It's standard military training to fire on that part of the helicopter if you're trying to bring one down. With a little shuffling in the jumping the road hole and then getting the big gun this scene would have been far less stupid. The focus of the movie looked pretty good where I saw it (Carmike 8 in Lawton, of course). Although I will agree much of the movie is shot with really low depth of field (lots of blurry of focus stuff in the background). This was probably a 2K digital intermediate job. The sound mix could have been better. It was pretty loud in DTS, but the bass just didn't seem to be in the right places. Overall it seemed a bit shrill. I expected those track-ball aimed guns early in the movie to have more oomph in their reports. There was a lot of audio in the surrounds, but hardly anything with good panning fly-by effects.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 05-15-2006 08:12 PM                        CINEMA: Megaplex 20 at The District, South Jordan, UT AUDITORIUM: 19 PRESENTATION: DLP/Dolby Digital Cinema PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: A little buggy, but we got there. RATING: Three stars (out of four) It's big. It's orange. The exterior SCREAMS "cheap". It may be the ugliest megaplex ever constructed. Megaplex 20's grand opening is this Friday. But they fired everything up for the employees over the weekend and, apparently as a result, decided to soft-launch through this week to work out the bugs. So yes, you can go watch movies there now if you want to. The entry has a circular brick facade that immediately reminded me of the AMC "Odyssey" facade. "MEGAPLEX 20" hangs off a big mess of a cluster of red tubes. But the entry doors that lead into the massive lobby slide open automatically. Once inside, things are much nicer with the focal colors throughout being blue, black, and gray. The lobby is laid out like a mall food court with a ticket booth at the end. There's eight eateries including a Mayan Express and a Pizza Hut. There's lots of work still being done. Equipment and workers are everywhere. But in the midst of it all, there's a ticket seller. Smiling Ticket Seller greets me and I say "I heard a rumor that you're secretly open and showing movies." And she says in really cute and bouncy way, "You heard right!" She showed me a paper list of showtimes, some of which were lined by a pink highlighter. "Pink" indicated DLP presentation. Auditorium 19 initially looked like a Regal room. But it has better seats and sconces. And better sound than any Regal build I've been in by a wide margin. My wild guess measurement of the screen (done though the magic of finger lengths compared to the exit door) peg the screen at about 45-50 feet vertical. The surrounds are JBL's. The DLP unit is NEC. When I first entered, the overhead floursecents were on, the booth window was open, and a big "Dolby Digital Sound" map was projected on the screen. Apparently they're firing up rooms on a case-by-case basis if somebody shows up and buys a ticket. I can hear a guy in the booth saying "What are all these hanging wires for? They're just hanging out of this port." Then they got word a ticket was sold. The port door was shut, the Dolby sound map shut off and a guy came running in to turn off the flourscents. Trouble is, he didn't know how. He messed around with some switches on the wall, then looked behind the front wall curtain, then headed for the other side of the screen when guy in the booth radioed, "No, go back to the switches." He did. Nothing. "Make sure they're swiched to the right, then you'll have to hit the switch by the door." So he left the room and the lights went out. The trailers started sans sound. I figured Booth Guy knew this. He didn't. So when the feature started, I ran out and advised the ticket taker. She got on the radio. When I returned to the auditorium, the sound came on. Then something that has never ever happened before happened. With a push of a button, the projectionist stopped the movie and instantly RESTARTED IT FROM THE BEGINNING!!! That was awesome. I never bothered with Mission:Impossible 1. My review of 2 was three words long..."Action Chick Flick". I have four words for this one: ACTION! FACIAL EXPRESSIONS! SHEEP! Sure the sheep were on camera for about a second and a half, but still. WAY exceeded my expectations. Not bad at all. The projection was a bit soft in exactly the same way others have noted...with focus being in and out through the film (uh...I mean...digital video). The DLP in this room performed acceptably. It will not be a problem with customers.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-04-2006 06:15 PM                        Finally caught up with it today 6/4/2006 @ 12:20PM, Regal Cinema World 8 in Eugene, House #7, SR•D. Looked like new except for too much dirt. Rock Steady!® Sharp as a Tack!® Digital sound warbled badly during the Superman trailer. Attendance about 10. Easily the best of the MI franchise so far. This is a genre that's been done well so many times it's hard to do something original, yet this almost accomplishes that. I liked it a lot. There are some shots that are just plain out of focus, intentionally or not. Mostly though this looked very sharp and detailed to me. 3.875 out of 5 stars.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-25-2006 11:33 PM                     We finally showed this this weekend. And we had showed the trailer for the past few weeks. I was struck by how much the trailer looked like a onelight, i.e. as if it were not color-timed, color saturation all wrong, almost as bad as a workprint. Did we just get a bad dupe of the trailer, were all MI3 trailers this bad, or what? --jhawk  |  IP: Logged

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