MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 – IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST TOM CRUISE!! :D

Yes !! I am so much in awe of Tom Cruise!!! He is 50 n yet a hottie..!! ;) 

Mission impossible 4 starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton and directed by Brad Bird is a complete masala flick with an amusing combination of action, humor, suspense, thrilling stunts and the astounding use of gadgets and technology. 

The main highlight of the movie is the Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper in the world. It’s incredible how Tom Cruise plays around with it, climbing on it one moment and sliding down it in another.  One another breath taking stunt is where he uses his belt to slide over and escape from the hospital.

              
 

                                                                                           

The gadgets and technology used in the movie just gets the eye-balls rolling!!  Everything related to tech is at its best.

1. The Elecro- magnetic gloves which Tom Cruise wears in the epic scene scaling Burj Khalifa                                       
2. The surface computer

3. Lock Picking – Throughout the movie Ethan(Tom Cruise) and Benji Dunn(Pegg) use their iPhone 4 to unlock doors. Thanks to a special attachment case for the iPhone, Cruise inserts a card-sized attachment into card reader slots. The iPhone then figures out the code to hack into the door lock granting nearly instant access to hotel rooms and government offices containing nuclear launch codes.

4. Hacking From a MacBook Air – It’s the thinnest and lightest portable on the planet yet it packs the power of a full-fledged computer, so of course it’s the laptop of choice for tech guru Benji and the IMF team.

5. Facial Recognition Scanners – Facial recognition cameras have been done before, so how does Bird take it to the next level? He places a computerized contact lens on the eye of one of the IMF agents and has it work in tandem with the iPhone to do facial recognition scans of a massive crowd of people. The contact lens is connected to the agent’s iPhone and discreetly scans faces in the crowd to find a match for the person they’re looking for.

6.The electro magnets that keep Jeremy Renner floating..

7. iPad Reality Distortion Field – Aaah!! This one is my favourite bit from the entire movie!

To deceive a security guard, the IMF team uses an iPad connected to projector and screen to create a Reality Distortion Field. The iPad is used to handle all of the computing, while a camera tracks the eye movements of a security guard so that a life-like image can be projected on a screen that blocks the IMF team from view. It sounds complex, and it is…but it’s totally awesome and you should definitely check it out. I was so fascinated by this part of the movie!!!

Of course Apple is no stranger to product placement in movies. Apple products were featured in 24 of the top movies from 2010, but no movie has used Apple’s technology to as many awesome things as the Impossible Mission Force uses them in Mission Impossible 4.

Few others are Contact lenses that can scan a document with two eye-blinks, causing an exact photocopy to print out inside a nearby briefcase. (The briefcase can also print out an exact copy, with some of the numbers in the document scrambled, just as instantaneously.)  lol:P

There are also magic holographic screens, Minority Report-style car windshield displays, and tons of other crazy science fictional toys.

And oh my god! How can forget to mention the use of really sexy  car BMW i8 which Ethan uses to chase the villain Cobalt. 

Classy !!! Exotic!!! Splendid!!!!! Isn't it??

There are a couple of totally random, out-of-nowhere events that I didn't see coming, which help propel Tom Cruise into the plot proper. Ethan Hunt gets sprung from a Russian prison and is sent on a mission to discover the identity of a Russian traitor whose sexy henchwoman has stolen some nuclear launch codes. Hunt and his team get blamed for an act of terrorism in Moscow. Soon, they're all disowned by the U.S. government, and they have to stop the real terrorists without any government support.

Although some humor in the film doesn't work quite as well, like the whole bit where Paula Patton has to seduce a rich Indian businessman (Anil Kapoor) to get some satellite codes from him, mostly, it's a triumph of Brad Bird's visual sense and action sensibility over all the tired spy-movie formulae. 

At last I would say I loved the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it with my friends! And I would give this movie 4 stars. ****:)

3D MOVIES - A DISASTROUS TREND!!

Remember the film Chota Chetan and with it India first experienced the thrill of 3D cinema..? How many of us had thought then, that soon every other movie in the theatres is going to be 3 Dimensional? That film makers are going to be so fascinated by the whole concept of 3D effects?

Two years ago James Cameron's Avatar created storm at the ticket window in India and more recently Vikram Bhatt's 3D horror film Haunted also became a huge hit. The recent trend of 3D movies is giving the filmmakers a reason to strike gold at the box-office.


According to me ,the way Avatar was presented in 3D was pretty cool, it was definitely better than if I were to have seen it in regular 2D.  The only 3D movie that I’ve ever liked and enjoyed is AVATAR. The experience felt was so real and that’s only because of James Cameron's Innovative New 3D Technology. He co-developed a new generation of stereoscopic cameras, which made the movie so spectacular and a massive hit! 

Simplified, this is the equivalent of two cameras strapped together, each providing a slightly different perspective on the scene, mimicking the way human eyes view the world in three dimensions.


However, I don’t undertand why most of the film-makers today are getting so negatively influenced about the whole 3D concept.  I mean most of the movies today are made in 2D and then converted to 3D, which is precisely why there are barely any 3D effects and the whole movie-watching experience becomes disgusting. 
I completely hate the idea of watching 3D film. I saw this movie called THOR. I could not stand those 3D glasses and the nauseous feeling. I removed the glasses. And I could see the images fairly clearly, which again goes to say that there was absolutely no need for the movie to have been made 3D. At first I was excited that it was working for me, but then I found myself feeling sick. Around 30 minutes in, my head started to hurt. A couple months later, I go to see the last Harry Potter and was really disappointed when they handed me those insipid glasses. I wish I'd paid attention and realised it was 3D before I went. I'd have saved my money.
The notion that we are asked to pay a premium to witness an inferior and inherently brain-confusing image is outrageous.


I like seeing special effects, but I definitely do not go to a movie just for special effects, I like to hear a good story. Sadly today,  some  movie makers  rely on the effects a lot more than creating a storyline. My message to such film makers is that  technology isn’t always good; it doesn’t always create a buzz!


While I was doing a small research on how 3D films are made and how the  recent trend of 3D has changed the face of cinema forever, I came across a forum where people like me, who are  sternly not for the whole idea of 3D.  This was what some people had to say,
“I don’t find it in any way relaxing. I have had migraine-style headaches from spending 15 minutes in a 3D cinema. Two hours of it could quite easily make you sick.”


“3 D movies are awful !!!! Quit making them!!!!! ”


Another person commented – “3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches. It is driven largely to sell expensive projection equipment and add a $5 to $7.50 surcharge on already expensive movie tickets. Its image is noticeably darker than standard 2-D. It is unsuitable for grown-up films of any seriousness.”

Processing 3D Images Causes Brain Strain:
 A Northwestern University ophthalmology professor warns that a large segment of the population may develop a headache, nausea, convulsions, altered vision, light-headedness, dizziness, and involuntary movements such as eye or muscle twitching and cramps while watching 3D movies. This is due to the brain strain involved with processing the three dimensional images - the more an image jumps out at you, the more effort your brain must make to fuse the pictures together.  


Lastly I would like to leave on a note that because of Avatar,today, Hollywood, Bollywood, infact companies like Sony and Samsung too are going crazy over the idea to make more things 3D capable… My question is, is it wise to be all like “let’s make EVERYTHING in 3D ??”