More MI III Trivia
I meant to include this in yesterday's review of Mission Impossible III and forgot. Simon Pegg has several scenes in MI III. If you can't quite place the name, you might remember him in the role of slacker hero in Shaun of the Dead, the funniest zombie movie ever made (and, perhaps, the best of the genre, period).
Pegg has obviously been eating well over the past few years (and I just realized the unfortunate turn of that phrase in conjunction with the previous reference to the brain-consuming undead), but he still has the knack for playing the nervous paranoid-but-brilliant Britgeek character that appears in films ranging from Tomb Raider to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe.
His presence in MI III reminded me that we never bought a copy of SOTD and so I've just returned from Best Buy where it was on sale for the low, low price of $9.99. Sweet.
Oh, and I hope writers of future MI installments will come up with a new name for the Mission Impossible organization. It takes away some of the secret agenty cachet whenever they mention the "IMF" and all you can think of is the International Monetary Fund. Or, perhaps I need to spend less time reading the Wall Street Journal.
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I wasn't as grief-stricken over MI II as you, so I can't say that you'll find the redemption you seek in III, but I can say that I thought it was far superior to both of its predecessors. It had some humor (which I recall II, especially, lacked), cool gadgets and cars, plenty of action, and some characters that you actually cared about. And, MI IV could be quite interesting, if it really continues where III leaves off.
That better?
Posted by: Eric at May 6, 2006 08:39 PMA little better. Your reviews are usually so articulate and complete... but you apparently had yardwork to do, so you're excused.
I actually liked the first MI and wished 2 had as much creativity.
Posted by: Jim at May 7, 2006 03:36 PMShaun Of The Dead rules. I laughed so hard and so often that I nearly wet myself.
But I didn't.
Posted by: Foo at May 8, 2006 07:18 AMWatched all the 3 parts and i think the 3rd part is the best till date. It has lot of action and humor which holds u back. Lets wait for the 4th one. Hope that will beat this one!
Posted by: tom at May 9, 2006 02:33 AMAbout the publisher
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Well, you really didn't write a proper review for MI 3. I appreciate your enthusiasm and it is duly noted that the director of 3 is not Roger Woo who simply should not be allowed to make movies anymore. So it's got that going for it. But I saw MI 2 and I still feel robbed. It was, and this is only my opinion, mind you, nauseating in the extreme. A terrible waste of celluloid, not to mention my time.
Posted by: Jim at May 6, 2006 07:12 PMSo MI 3 makes up for it, you say?