{"id":1779,"date":"2011-12-13T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2011-12-13T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T23:00:39","slug":"imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/imf\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbg99ykA2bk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionimpossible.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mission: Impossible<\/a> instalment is around the corner and I&#8217;m kinda interested, kinda excited, though not because I&#8217;m a fan of either the franchise or <b>Tom Cruise<\/b> hisself &#8211; it&#8217;s  for the directors who&#8217;ve gamely signed on (and the first one doesn&#8217;t count because <i>Nobody knew<\/i>)*:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &#8211; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mission:_Impossible_II\" target=\"_blank\">M:I-2<\/a> by a post-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Killer_(1989_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Killer<\/a>, pre-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paycheck_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Paycheck<\/a> <b>John Woo<\/b>;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &#8211; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mission:_Impossible_III\" target=\"_blank\">M:I:III<\/a> by the insanely prolific <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J.J._Abrams\" target=\"_blank\">J J Abrams<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &#8211; &nbsp;and now <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mission:_Impossible_%E2%80%93_Ghost_Protocol\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Protocol<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Iron_Giant\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Giant<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Incredibles\" target=\"_blank\">Incredibles<\/a> maestro <b>Brad Bird<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Yeah, I&#8217;m in.<\/p>\n<p>Although somehow, somewhen along the way, whenever I think of the <i>M:I<\/i> franchise, I always flash on this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBPXVknON-4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* <small>Disclosure:  I&#8217;ll watch anything by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000361\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian De Palma<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Black_Dahlia_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Anything<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Mission: Impossible instalment is around the corner and I&#8217;m kinda interested, kinda excited, though not because I&#8217;m a fan of either the franchise or Tom Cruise hisself &#8211; it&#8217;s for the directors who&#8217;ve gamely signed on (and the first one doesn&#8217;t count because Nobody knew)*: &nbsp; &#8211; &nbsp;M:I-2 by a post-Killer, pre-Paycheck John &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/imf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IMF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4,6],"tags":[217,218,219,220,221,42],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-brad-bird","tag-brian-de-palma","tag-chicken-run","tag-j-j-abrams","tag-john-woo","tag-mission-impossible"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}