Mission Impossible 3---Low Expectations yeild happy returns

So I just got back from seeing MI3. It was actually really good. My girlfriend made the comment that it seems to be best if you go into things with low expectations...because usually you seem to be happier when you do. I didn't think it was going to be BAD, per say, but I didn't expect to like the film as much as I did. I wish there was a way to seperate people from movies. Their private lives I mean. Tom Cruise is coming off as a whack job these days, and that's sad. As a kid, he was always in a lot of my favorite movies. I never thought a day would come when I'd cringe at the sight of him on TV. He's just so fake. At least, he seems fake. His religion (I use the term loosely) is offensive because it seems to strange/money oriented. I don't know...I think I like books better because there is so little hype. So little knowledge about the author AS A PERSON. I'm sure I've read and enjoyed books written by people FAR more unsavory than Tom Cruise...thing is...I don't have those people crammed down my throat 24/7 by TV and magazines. This whole "TomKat" thing is really stupid. I guess I'm old school, in that, actors should act and not appear on my morning/nightly newscasts. I don't want to hear about anything an actor does unless it's about acting OR unless some sort of crime has been comitted. In the old days, the private lives of celebrites was unknown by the vast majority of the public. Reporters acutally LEFT THINGS OUT of reports if they were asked to. Do you think JFK's affairs were unknown by the newsmen of the day? Of course not. Everyone knew he was screwing around. Thing is, people weren't interested in that stuff. It would tarnish the office, ect. Hollywood used to carefully make up and create images/personas for their actors. There caricatures were all the public knew of their idols. That was fine, I think, because these things never got in the way of the job they did on the silver screen. We've become obsessed with celebrity these days. We have aisle after aisle of magazines dedicated to what celebs EAT, DRINK, FUCK, SAY, ect. That's such a sad, sorry, waste of time. Why are we such voyers? Don't we get enough time with them on film? Or on TV? Is your life so sad, that you have to live someone else's? I guess it's similar to going to the movies. I guess it's just another type of escapism. But it's still so crude and creepy.

Anyway, I lost my focus here. Mission Impossible 3 is everything it should be. It's a nice, aciton/adventure flick with pleanty of twists and turns. There's a couple of nice capers, fights, and some (surprisingly) nice emotional parts. The movie has one of the best openings I've seen in a while (no, it's not a massive piece of action/pyroteknics). Right away you're drawn into the STORY and the CHARACTERS. The villian was a little weak (or should I say Villans). I guess the main problem isn't that he's weak, just that his motivations are left unexplored. Now that I think about it, the film is actually a lot like TRUE LIES. If you remember that movie, think basic story...minus all the comedy. It seemed really long, but in fact was only like 2 hours. There was no previews, however I did just watch the new James Bond movie's trailer. I can't make up my mind. Everything looks good, but the new Bond. I don't like his hair! What a dumb reason to not like someone, but it's too short, too blond, and styled all wrong. Dumb reasons, but I have this image of Bond and blond is not that image. Anyway, I'll go see and probably end up liking it. Why? Because I have low expectations.