Mission intolerable

I will not make a habit of the "OMG, the trailer for BLADE 7: The Ressurection is up!" movie nerd type of post. However, I do feel it necessary to comment on the Mission Impossible 3 trailer. Not because there is any Crazytom action you need to be alerted to. It's because the trailer reminds me of playing Metal Gear Solid 2, minus the cool stuff. Action video games long ago subsumed and reinterpreted the wrote structure of action movies, and the interactive elements and low cost of microwave popcorn made the video game version much more attractive to guys than going to the theatre. So in the Bizarro world we live in, movies, genre movies, have begun to ape video games in turn. Now you have scenes like, Tom aiming a small gun. Tom Aiming a big gun. Tom aiming a missile launcher. Tom dodging guided missles. Tom outrunning a helicopter. ETC. Pan up of a hot chick. Pan up on the (soon to be) obligatory Asian chick. The Black Sidekick heartily welcoming Tom with the language he barely understands (English). I guess there would be nothing too sad about this if the people who made this stuff remembered that WATCHING SOMEONE ELSE PLAY A VIDEO GAME IS BORING AS HELL. The thing that makes cats forgo your $300 Million action flick or video game adaption is that by making the story non-participatory, you have ripped the controller out of our hands and make us sit and watch while some crazy person has all the fun.