{"id":119,"date":"2006-06-11T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=119"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:55:19","slug":"big_screen_miss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/06\/big_screen_miss-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Mission Impossible III."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great line in this movie: <b>Please don&#8217;t interrupt me when I&#8217;m asking a rhetorical question.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Also Amanda greatly enjoyed the use of &#8220;embolden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now on to the show: Yes, Tom Cruise is a freakshow. But if you can just forget about that for the two hours you&#8217;re in the theater, this is just as fun as your average summer action flick and not much of a letdown unless you were dumb enough to go into the theater expecting &#8220;high art&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes in China really reminded me of Tomb Raider 2 (which is a good thing in my book, but probably not in yours).<\/p>\n<p>Not a great flick. No WOWza moments. But for a summer action movie with some ass kicking fights, and some chase scenes, and some things blowing up, and some twists &amp; turns = it was just fine.<\/p>\n<p>The girl playing Cruise&#8217;s fiancee, Michelle Monaghan I think?, looks eerily like Katie Holmes in a couple scenes. Spooky, man. Billy Crudup and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers are showing up all kinds of places you wouldn&#8217;t expect them these days, aren&#8217;t they.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great line in this movie: Please don&#8217;t interrupt me when I&#8217;m asking a rhetorical question. Also Amanda greatly enjoyed the use of &#8220;embolden.&#8221; Now on to the show: Yes, Tom Cruise is a freakshow. But if you can just forget &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/06\/big_screen_miss-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}