J.J. Abrams made Mission Impossible III, A.K.A. "What Alias Would Be Like if Jennifer Garner Was a Dude."
Thankfully, Abrams is neither directing or writing this project!
And Patel, all bitching about Abrams as a creative force aside, can you not agree the concept is at the very least, solid?
What, Blair Witch Project as a disaster movie? That's not a concept, that's an abortive film school project.
What, Blair Witch Project as a disaster movie? That's not a concept, that's an abortive film school project.
It really hasn't been done on this scale in America. Sure, it's POV with HD handycams and whatnot, but it's obviously got a budget behind, as evident by the pyrotechnics and STATUE OF LIBERTY HEAD that crashes on the pavement. I think the concept is gold.
Cloverfield > The Darkness
That Star Trek reboot is going to be a trainwreck :lol
That Star Trek reboot is going to be a trainwreck :lolit will piss fans off to no end. Remember the writers of Transformers are the same writer's behind the Trek reboot. They have been saying while on the transformers press circuit that this trek will be a huuuge action adventure with tons of explosions and fighting unlike the previous ones lol.
It will make a lot of money since it will OMG MATT DAMON HUGE EXPLOSIONS EPIC ACTION FILM rather than star trek, but it will piss SOOOOO many people off who are trekkies.
Wrath of Khan and First Contact were good sci-fi flicks, but the rest were pretty much garbage. Oh yeah, The Undiscovered Country was good.From what I can tell I don't think Nimoy will be playing Spock. He'll have a cameo as something random. Just for a "omg itz nimoy" thing.
But casting other people as Kirk and Spock in an age where people still remember Shatner and Nimoy for those two career-defining roles, not to mention Nimoy apparently has a cameo, is going to backfire. And it's going to backfire huge.
New monster movie is a Godzilla movie I bet lolSony owns the rights to Godzilla, not Paramount. It will be "Godzilla like" I think, as in a big ol' monster crushing a city type of deal, just a original creature. Paramount doesn't have any control over the Toho monsters, Sony has 100% rights to use 'em.
From what I can tell I don't think Nimoy will be playing Spock. He'll have a cameo as something random. Just for a "omg itz nimoy" thing.
And it is going to be VERY hard to sell the new actors. But Abrams "dream" for the franchise is to turn it into James Bond, make it the Captain Kirk franchise and recast Kirk whenever the current actor gets too old. It's damn risky since unlike Bond or Super Hero's it has had one actor in the role for 40 years.
Even though I am excited I do not expect the audience will buy it up easily. Matt Damon in that gold fuzzy little top and black space pants from the 60's will be a veeeeeery hard sell.
Transformers, which was the equal to a ton of fun in whatever Cybertron unit of measurement that Autbots use, was cockblocked by J.J. Abrams before the movie started. This here teaser (http://www.freevlog.hu/video/6844.html), for Abrams' hush-hush monster movie codenamed "Cloverfield", is probably the best teaser I can ever remember in recent memory. It generated a buzz and an insane amount of interest just in our small theater - it's that awesome. The concept looks incredible and it comes out of my birthday to boot. Here's hoping it's solid.
eh, trek reboot with nostalgia and "big" actors is still 100x better than enterprise or more 24th century shit. Also I think your Shatner idea makes sense, because the dude was apparently pissed he hasn't been offered a cameo.
You've said this like, ten times before. Just because its Abrams' idea doesn't make it a good idea.
New monster movie is a Godzilla movie I bet lolSony owns the rights to Godzilla, not Paramount. It will be "Godzilla like" I think, as in a big ol' monster crushing a city type of deal, just a original creature. Paramount doesn't have any control over the Toho monsters, Sony has 100% rights to use 'em.
They should just wait until Shatner, Nimoy and original crew are all dead and then use photo realistic CG to make new adventures with the classic Nimoy/Shatner. I mean, if you are going to rape their characters, then at least go all out!But the fantastic Michael Giacchino (Lost, The Incredibles) is doing the score :( Hearing how he pulls off the epic movie theme will be so worth it. :punch
Actually, I easily forgot it - it was forgettable.
And DePalma's original Mission: Impossible adaptation was about a billion times better than Abrams. I mean, his entry was better than John Woo's, but that's like saying his film was better than Batman & Robin - it's not really a compliment.
DePalma built legitimate tension in the first one, something Abrams never accomplished. I don't even know what the fuck Abrams movie was about. I've already forgotten it and it's been like - what? - a year or so? Two? That's so bad.
Also, all the stunts were a billion times better than any in Abrams' film. You know DePalma's was better because Mission: Impossible was so much apart of 90s pop culture. How many parodies of Ethan Hunt's classic Langley hacking sequence did we see? Maybe a billion? There's nothing close to that in Mission: Impossible III.