Mission un-international

by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2006/05/09 10:45 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2006/05/09/593658.aspx

Now I can understand how this sort of thing can happen in movies that are not targetting heavy worldwide releases. But can we really believe that they don't plan to try to sell the movie in some of the markets that clearly didn't do their homework on?

Ah well, they'll get their money, so I suppose they don't really care much if people in Shanghai notice the problems in the Shanghai scenes, or if people in Rome wonder who the hell wouldn't expect their city to be in Italy.

But as we become more aware of the world around us, we can spot the mistakes no matter where we sit. Hollywood might need to start getting it right....

I’m still trying to get over the facts that:

1) In the original TV show Mr. Phelps was the GOOD guy. He was in charge of the Mission Impossible Force and would NEVER be a BAD guy. But Tom made Mr. Phelps' character BAD, so Tom Cruise could take over!

2) The Mission Impossible TV Show was ALWAYS about the TEAM – there were no “hot shots” – Tom ruined the team-work of the MIF!

3) Lalo Shifrin’s original music was written in 5/4 time – but that’s too hard for today’s musicians. So the remakes are ruined by playing the song in 4/4

4) Lalo Shifrin also wrote great incidental music for the TV show that isn’t used (cool snare drum cadence with trombones)

OK, I feel better now (^_^)

dude - it's just a film (and not a very good one), if u believe tom cruise can act then It should'nt be very hard to ignore a few stupid mistakes.

I don't see any reason to let someone off the hook because it's an action film or any other genre. These are things that someone thinking for half a second would notice, so it's obvious that the filmmakers didn't spend even that much time.

Laziness is laziness and it's no more excusable in a summer blockbuster than in an art house flick. In the end, it's just an indication for contempt for the audience.

Hi bg --

I have to agree with Carlos here -- with the additional responsibility of a film that will without shame sell in a market, some minimal work here is really required....

On the subject of technical accuracy, I always chuckle when characters on 24 start talking in computer terms. They use real words, but the words are strung together in meaningless sentences.

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