Reichstag rules 'Mission: Impossible 3' film shoot impossible

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Reichstag rules 'Mission: Impossible 3' film shoot impossible

4 May 2004

BERLIN - A top official Tuesday said it would be impossible for scenes for the new Tom Cruise movie "Mission: Impossible 3" to be shot at Germany's Reichstag parliament building.

Wolfgang Thierse, the parliamentary president, turned down a Babelsberg studios request, saying the 110-year-old building has never been used as a film location and never will be.

"Bundestag Speaker Wolfgang Thierse does not intend to make an exception for this production either," said his spokesman Hans Hotter.

Cruise toured the building in March while scouting locations in the German capital. He reportedly felt the structure's soaring glass cupola, added to the building by architect Norman Foster in the 1990s, would make a dramatic backdrop for scenes in the new movie.


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http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=7224

Edit:
360° pictures of the building (German only, sorry). The small arrows are to change the level:
http://www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/virtuelle_rundgaenge/hotspot73.html

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1. Would be nice if every place refused to host that "movie"

Since the other two were utter crapola, adn Cruise couldn't act if his life depended on it, I'd be ashamed to have my building associated with it.

Unless there was a *boatload* of money in it. :-)

[Kellanved]

4. I wouldn't go that far

It's hard to oppose a multi-million project for one's hometown. Cinemas rejecting to show the movie - yes. But please film it first ;-) .

But using the Reichstag for an action movie? That's a little too much. They want to use the Berlin (Prussian) State Parliament instead.

I mean, this year alone:
- electric power was shut completely down in an inner city district.(Bourne Identity 2)
- The central Gendamenmarkt place was modified to look like Victorian London. (Around the World in 80 Days)
-Several east Berlin public buildings were reverted to be usable as "communist buidings"
-Charlottenburg castle and it's premise was closed to the public (Around the World in 80 Days)
-...

Well, Berlin seems to become what Prague was in earlier years: a backdrop for Hollywood cinema. Several movies were just shot in Berlin, with the city just posing as LA, Moscow, Warsaw, London or even Prague (and of course Stalingrad) .
A few future movies will actually have a story taking place here, a development I like very much - in theory that is. In theory, because most movies with a "Berlin-Story" are almost guaranteed to suck - MI3 being a prime example.

However the city needs the short-term economic benefits, so movies like MI3 won't be turned away by State authorities - although a really bad movie might destroy this booming industry sector



So: I hope they continue to make the movie, I hope that it won't suck too much and I hope that I'll never have to see it.

[Canuckistanian]

2. "Mission Impossible" is the only movie I couldn't stomach

I will sit through the worst dreck just to say I've seen it or even to mock it while it's playing.
But after only a FEW lines from Cruise and his smarmy 'tude made me reach for the remote.

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3. same with "Last Samurai"

I was pretty sure it was gonna suck and be bad - and I wasn't let down at all on that - but when Cruise first showed up in the movie, I knew it was gonna be worse than I thought. And it was. It was like everything not involving Cruise was quite good - and the filming was brilliant - except the scenes with Cruise were acted poorly, shot poorly (very cliche shots every time Cruise is on screen, probably due to him throwing a tantrum or something), and written poorly.

He's such a bad actor, he can't even play himself, because I don't know if he has any idea who he is. He's just a totally self-absorbed pathetic ass. IMO.