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sunshine_queenOh man. I saw Mission Impossible 3.
I'm going to try my best to list all the things JJ ripped off himself- there were so! many! but they'll be beneath a cut. Right here, I'll just say that the movie was amazing and you should go see it. Yes, you.
Mad, crazy spoilers, but not so much about the plot as about the things JJ did.
To start with, Alias Cameos.
- Greg Grunberg had a super cute cameo talking to Tom Cruise at the beginning
- The guy who played Roberto Fox was an agent who took Tom down.
- JJ started, of course, with a "twenty four hours" earlier, and it was just delightful. The second thing that happened in the first five minutes was that we found out that Tom Cruise had a bomb. In his head.
Yes. In his head.
- He was in a backroom somewhere in Asia, and was tied to a dentist chair. Like Syd was in APO pt. II. For reals.
- Pseudo-Marshall, who really just took his babbling. And it was only a little. But it was obvious.
- The crazy strings of doom off tall buildings.
- "Oh, I am not a spy! I am really someone who does importantly boring work! Really!"
- "Business trips!"
- When Tom met with one of his superiors, the shot in the 7-11 was exactly the same as it was when Syd would meet Vaughn in season one. Like, same shots and everything.
- Use of inappropriately perky music.
- Is the government official really bad?
- The clothes worn by the girlfriend/wife when she was found- exactly what Syd was wearing. It was insane.
- The music. Just shy of Michael Giacchino.
ETA: Nica says the music was Giacchino, so there you have it. In addition to using the writers, he used his Music Man. Oh, nepotism.
- The slow-mo.
- Cocktail party scene entirely Alias.
- the masks and vocoders, but that was from M:I:II to begin with.
- breaking into the Vatican!
- the use of a completely ridiculous item to steal that never, EVER gets explained! Oh, classic JJ.
- Behavior during missions, including the wildly amusing but probably inappropriate banter over comms.
- The name "Julia." Oh, JJ.
There was so, so much more, but between my mother, my sister and I, we can't come up with anymore, so you'll have to it. Suffice to say the movie was exactly what you'd expect- flashy, lots of explosions, lots of violence and gunfire, loud and fun and oh man. Tom Cruise might be batshit insane, but the boy knows how to command an audience. And sure he looks a bit crazy now, but overall? Dear jesus. He was good. And poor Felicity! It was funny, because JJ came up with Alias through the idea "What if Felicity was a spy?" And there was Felicity, being a spy.
The girl who played his wife/girlfriend was so completely... she looked kinda like the girl with a lisp from Grey's Anatomy, kind of like Diet Katie Holmes and very, very innocuous.
I'm trying to prepare for tomorrow's exam. Turns out it's in the afternoon. Yaaay. Somehow my copy of "A Streetcar Named Desire" disappeared. Dammit.
I'm going to try my best to list all the things JJ ripped off himself- there were so! many! but they'll be beneath a cut. Right here, I'll just say that the movie was amazing and you should go see it. Yes, you.
Mad, crazy spoilers, but not so much about the plot as about the things JJ did.
To start with, Alias Cameos.
- Greg Grunberg had a super cute cameo talking to Tom Cruise at the beginning
- The guy who played Roberto Fox was an agent who took Tom down.
- JJ started, of course, with a "twenty four hours" earlier, and it was just delightful. The second thing that happened in the first five minutes was that we found out that Tom Cruise had a bomb. In his head.
Yes. In his head.
- He was in a backroom somewhere in Asia, and was tied to a dentist chair. Like Syd was in APO pt. II. For reals.
- Pseudo-Marshall, who really just took his babbling. And it was only a little. But it was obvious.
- The crazy strings of doom off tall buildings.
- "Oh, I am not a spy! I am really someone who does importantly boring work! Really!"
- "Business trips!"
- When Tom met with one of his superiors, the shot in the 7-11 was exactly the same as it was when Syd would meet Vaughn in season one. Like, same shots and everything.
- Use of inappropriately perky music.
- Is the government official really bad?
- The clothes worn by the girlfriend/wife when she was found- exactly what Syd was wearing. It was insane.
- The music. Just shy of Michael Giacchino.
ETA: Nica says the music was Giacchino, so there you have it. In addition to using the writers, he used his Music Man. Oh, nepotism.
- The slow-mo.
- Cocktail party scene entirely Alias.
- the masks and vocoders, but that was from M:I:II to begin with.
- breaking into the Vatican!
- the use of a completely ridiculous item to steal that never, EVER gets explained! Oh, classic JJ.
- Behavior during missions, including the wildly amusing but probably inappropriate banter over comms.
- The name "Julia." Oh, JJ.
There was so, so much more, but between my mother, my sister and I, we can't come up with anymore, so you'll have to it. Suffice to say the movie was exactly what you'd expect- flashy, lots of explosions, lots of violence and gunfire, loud and fun and oh man. Tom Cruise might be batshit insane, but the boy knows how to command an audience. And sure he looks a bit crazy now, but overall? Dear jesus. He was good. And poor Felicity! It was funny, because JJ came up with Alias through the idea "What if Felicity was a spy?" And there was Felicity, being a spy.
The girl who played his wife/girlfriend was so completely... she looked kinda like the girl with a lisp from Grey's Anatomy, kind of like Diet Katie Holmes and very, very innocuous.
I'm trying to prepare for tomorrow's exam. Turns out it's in the afternoon. Yaaay. Somehow my copy of "A Streetcar Named Desire" disappeared. Dammit.
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Date: 2006-05-08 02:32 am (UTC)It was funny, because JJ came up with Alias through the idea "What if Felicity was a spy?" And there was Felicity, being a spy.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
You crack me up, chica.
Not going to see that movie, though.
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Date: 2006-05-08 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 03:29 am (UTC)I can't sit through anything that he's in.
It's the same reason I've never seen Gladiator. I *hate* Russel Crowe. Can't sit through it.
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Date: 2006-05-08 03:39 am (UTC)I usually don't hate anyone to eschew a movie because of their presence. Except for Kevin Bacon. Dear sweet Jesus do I hate Kevin Bacon.
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Date: 2006-05-08 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 03:45 am (UTC)I was mad at Tom Cruise for a long time, but I got over it.
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Date: 2006-05-08 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 08:21 am (UTC)As for the movie, you made me want to watch it. I hate when you do that. :D
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Date: 2006-05-08 07:15 pm (UTC)It's real good, Cryssa. Go watch it!
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Date: 2006-05-08 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-08 10:57 pm (UTC)So would you suggest that first I watch the movie or read the book?
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Date: 2006-05-08 11:19 pm (UTC)See, I saw the movie first, and loved the story so much I read the book, and it's now my second favorite of all time. I do suggest seeing the movie first- because I am one of the few people who liked the movie (it was good! honest!) and the book just ameliorated everything. Things might not have gone so well if I'd read the book first. Because the movie is different.