Mission Impossible 2 movie gun question???

Correct on the bikes..... Baddies with style would've chosen Ducatis.. but anyway:

The gun that Cruise kicks up out of the sand looked like a full size USP to me.. and the DAO Versions (as I am cursed with!) have bobbed hammers.

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-Essayons
 
Hey hey hey now...
I LOVE the Triumph Speed Triple! I HAD been eyeing that bike for some time now and was thinking about buying one...
It would be a good step up from my last bike.
Last was a Yamaha RD400 Daytona Special (also a "naked" bike).
 
Another subject change: All that slow motion crap was driving me nuts! And how many times do you have to be kicked in the head before you get a bump and/or bleed from a cut? I also enjoyed the 9mm bullets that could throw a 200lb man backwards off of a motorcycle moving at roughly 40mph.

Is it just me or did anyone else get tired of the silly stunts? And what was up with the birds flying through fire? I think Woo tends to set his movies up as a series of particular stunts that he recycles for each movie.

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Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
 
The Slo-Mo and the doves are trademarks of Woo.

As far as Woo movies go I think this one was about a 6. Face/Off was a 9 and The Killer was a 10.

I was talking to a buddy who "loved" MI:2 last night, he kept comparing it to Matrix.. I told him that in Matrix, part of the premise was that the laws of physics were flexible, so I was cool with the stunts there... but MI:2 was supposed to be in the real world.... and in the real world Motorcycles and Human bodies do not do the things that we were being shown.
 
Exactly!! Again off topic, but the whole idea of the matrix was that they could "bend" the law of gravity in the Matrix. Now everybody in movies are doing these incredible kicks from the ground running across walls sideways etc. The only thing they left out was that this is supposed to be real world so it kind of makes it silly to try to beleive. Lets see: 2 bikes heading toward eachother @ about 60-they both jump of and smack into eachother @ a combined speed of about 120-I think you would here crunching of bones and two ragdolls would hit the ground, end of movie.

I still liked it though.
 
The unbelievable fight scenes started with the Hong Kong movie industry. I believe that Woo introduced them here and the Matrix took them to the max. Take a look at Black Mask with Jet Li which came out before Matrix yet has the same type of stunts. It's just what sold tickets in China.
 
i don't believe one of the premises of matrix was that the laws of physics were flexible. it was a movie about the philosophy of mind, specifically cartesian mind-body dualism.

remember, the reason they could jump so far and fight wo well was because they were doing it inside their minds, while their bodies were still in the ship. they couldn't do any of that in the real world.

[This message has been edited by rstevea (edited June 02, 2000).]
 
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