http://ambival.net/movies/jerry-maguire Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:17:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://ambival.net/movies/jerry-maguire#comment-967 Ambival.net » Movies » Mission: Impossible III Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:39:41 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=452#comment-967 [...] I have to say, much as I loved the first of these movies back in 1996, much as John Woo’s sequel eventually won me over on multiple viewings, my anticipation for this movie was literally non-existent. Even after the spectacularly gripping opening (most of the teaser trailer, “there’s an explosive device in your head …”) I wasn’t surprised to find myself let down when the movie appeared to bizarrely flash back over Tom Cruise’s career to either Vanilla Sky, Jerry Maguire or a combo of the two combined with True Lies or Mr and Mrs Smith. Ethan Hunt is married? It could’ve been a disaster, and like I said, it wouldn’t have surprised me … to say the movie doesn’t have its share of clichés and homages would be a big fat lie – here’s a Spiderman moment early on (oh no! Ethan can’t tell the love of his life what he’s up to! But oh, how cute, she trusts him!), a Minority Report moment towards the end (that one might be a spoiler – matter of fact I can’t remember what it was, lol, but it made sense when I was making notes), etc etc. But we can’t complain – Director of the first movie, Brian De Palma, has been ripping off Hitchcock (in the best way possible) for decades. I just say this to show how much I obviously wanted to hate it (I really don’t know why, it’s a mystery, so don’t ask me, lol). [...] [...] I have to say, much as I loved the first of these movies back in 1996, much as John Woo’s sequel eventually won me over on multiple viewings, my anticipation for this movie was literally non-existent. Even after the spectacularly gripping opening (most of the teaser trailer, “there’s an explosive device in your head …”) I wasn’t surprised to find myself let down when the movie appeared to bizarrely flash back over Tom Cruise’s career to either Vanilla Sky, Jerry Maguire or a combo of the two combined with True Lies or Mr and Mrs Smith. Ethan Hunt is married? It could’ve been a disaster, and like I said, it wouldn’t have surprised me … to say the movie doesn’t have its share of clichés and homages would be a big fat lie – here’s a Spiderman moment early on (oh no! Ethan can’t tell the love of his life what he’s up to! But oh, how cute, she trusts him!), a Minority Report moment towards the end (that one might be a spoiler – matter of fact I can’t remember what it was, lol, but it made sense when I was making notes), etc etc. But we can’t complain – Director of the first movie, Brian De Palma, has been ripping off Hitchcock (in the best way possible) for decades. I just say this to show how much I obviously wanted to hate it (I really don’t know why, it’s a mystery, so don’t ask me, lol). [...]

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