Alright goddamn it, enough of this crap. Ms Lansing... Would you please step away from the editting bay? If the movie is as awesome as John Woo can put out... then LEAVE IT BE! If Tom Cruise is also Happy with it... LEAVE IT BE! God forbid you release a film that was MADE FOR ADULTS with the proper Rating. Oh... by allllll means cut out the meat... the more serious ramifications of the cartoon violence... Don't show any true suffering. Just make it more 'FAMILY ACCESSIBLE'. After all... any friggin film with a MILLION DAMN GUN BLASTS... and heavy duty fight stuff.... It's a family film. Films like TERMINATOR 2 ($204,446,562.52 domestic) seem to have done fine in the R market. If Woo has his film taken from him by Paramount, I personally hope every action and adventure fan in the WORLD stays away from the film like the fucking plague. Enough of this crap. Let the man make the movie, you promote and see the movie he makes! That's the way this business was MEANT TO BE!
Harry,
It was a pleasant surprise to see my comments about "M2M" on the site. I have never written in before (despite being present at many advance screenings) becasue I lacked the motivation. After seeing "M2M", however, I felt it was my duty to try and promote it ( I never expected you to actually put up my short little paragraph. ). Here's some new info about an issue that I am very concerned about:
It seems that Director John Woo and Paramount Pictures are in a heated dispute over the final cut of "Mission Impossible 2". John Woo's "cut" runs 2 hours and 12 minutes and will almost certainly receive an R-rating. Paramount has insisted the he re-edit the film to receive a more "friendly" PG-13 rating. In an effort to appease their demands and prove to them that the film will not work that way he has cut an alternate 96 minute PG-13 version that is very lackluster. Currently, Cruise supports Woo's first cut (he longs to be considered more than a pretty boy; an action star) but the "producer" within him worries about the future of his potential franchise and how an R-rating may affect the box office of the film. Paramount is on the verge of taking the film out of Woo's hands and cutting their own 1 hour 55 minute PG-13 rated version.
Omega Prime
