Brad Bird’s fabulous re-launching of the Mission: Impossible series, Ghost Protocol, comes out on Blu-ray/DVD tomorrow. Hopefully some of you got the chance to see that in an IMAX theater – it was quite spectacular. Feel free to order Ghost Protocol below through the LFM Store.
In related spy news, this fall brings the release of Bond 50, the new Blu-ray set commemorating the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series – which launched in 1962 with the release of Dr. No. This new Bond 50 set (see the trailer above) features all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray disc in one set for the first time, including nine 007 films never before available on Blu-ray: The Spy Who Loved Me, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, A View to a Kill, Octopussy, The Living Daylights, Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies. Needless to say, the Sean Connery and Roger Moore films will be the best.
The set also includes more than 130 hours of bonus features – so it should be quite comprehensive. You can pre-order the set above.
Posted on April 16th, 2012 at 3:07pm.
I make this point very often on numerous sites, but I like to repeat it in order to make sure that the word spreads. I find it intereresting that Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol succeded domestically ($209 Million domestically) and overseas ($693 Million global) because:
1. The heroes are brave, selfless, loyal, highly skilled AMERICAN (NOT UNITED NATIONS ala GI-Joe) covert operatives who risk it all to save the world. They are not the self-loathing/stone cold assassins who target civilians like the Bourne series, nor are they the cynics who end up giving up on fighting the enemy ala Body of Lies.
2. The enemy is an fanatical foreign terrorist (though not jihadist) who cannot be appeased and is determined to bring about annihalation in the name of his ideology. The enemy is NOT some “right-wing neo-nazi capitalist” like “The Sum of All Fears” or our own intelligence agencies like the Bourne series, or traitorous American military brigades/war vets as in XXX:State of the Union.
3. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH= The American President, (who at this time is Obama), is the only American to really come of negatively. He quickly throws our heroes under the bus for the sake of politics and makes no attempt to discover the real enemy in order to stop his plans; even when there is mounting evidence that the conflict is the work of a foreign terrorist. Instead, he is content to simply disavow an ENTIRE agency (IMF) dedicated to protecting the American People (thus forcing its members to go underground) and specifically TARGET our heroes as “terrorists” to be hunted down for the sake of politics (part of the Janet Napolitano playbook).
4. In addition, there is even a scene where a character outright points out the general dishonesty of the media.
– I THOUHT THESE FILMS DO NOT PLAY WELL IN THE UNITED STATES OR OVERSEAS? OR AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT THE LIBERAL ELITES IN HOLLYWOOD CLAIM.