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What is it with Woo and those stupid masks!

posted 11 years ago by Moss-37
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It really got on my nerves how they just put on a flimsy mask and without explanation,a silly bit of plastic around their adam's apple so they look and sound exactly like the guy there impersonating...just like Woo's silly face off film,is just so lazy,stupid,crazy,bonkers, bit of suspended realism i've come across,do I expect this nonsense from every Woo film I might watch in the future(highly unlikely)? The only face I want to rip off right now is Woo's real one!!

[–] granitodiaz 11 years ago

actually in face/off the voice thing is realistic, some device implanted in your trachea, while here it is basically an sticker in your neck, how the hell is an sticker suppose to change your voice?

[–] JoeX2525 11 years ago

It's a Mission: Impossible movie. They've been doing those masks since the '60s. Not really a John Woo thing.

[–] smoko 10 years ago

@Moss-37 To be fair to Woo the first Mission: Impossible movie also did the masks, so maybe it was just a franchise thing.

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 10 years ago

@Moss-37 To be fair to Woo the first Mission: Impossible movie also did the masks, so maybe it was just a franchise thing.

^^This. I actually liked the mask bits, they were great, added to the story and gave us some good shocks/twists. Not sure why some found it sooo annoying but to each his own.

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[–] frankzappayay 10 years ago

It was moronic. I could kind of forgive it in the first film because it was used so sparingly but it is still hard to believe. In MI2 they use it constantly and the only thing stupider than that, is the strip of star trek tape on their neck to change their voice. It's sad the average IQ of the average MI2 watcher is so low that they could even contemplate a script so ridiculous.

[–] dan-2199 10 years ago

As previously posted, this mask thing was a regular part of the original TV series. It was the 1960's and these kind of shows could get a bit campy. It obviously takes a suspension of belief to buy the mask bit. Its more believable here than it was on TV.

[–] yertletheturtle 9 years ago

Like most others have said, it was used on the original 1960s television show which is why it's always had a place in the films. That being said MI:2 easily took the use of the masks too far as it uses them frequently and makes them out to be these easily acquired disposable things. In the first and third films the masks are used much less and MI:3 even shows us how they are made. In MI:2 they just come out of nowhere and add cheap plot twists and surprises.

However they are just over the top spy films, so it's best not too get upset about the use of these masks. The films really aren't supposed to be realistic anyway. Especially not this one. It's a fvcking Jon Woo film! 

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