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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (July 2023) and Part Two (June 2024)

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Just watched that, jaw slack.

 

Thoughts:

 

1. There are better stunts in this YouTube video than the last four Bond films put together.

2. Why does Christopher McQuarrie not get any credit for his extraordinary innovation and direction on his films? Instead of the likes of Nolan, etc?

3. Just retire Bond - you cannot compete with committed crazy.

 

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Like him or loathe him, who is going to be doing this shit when Tom is gone or hangs up his career? Not even what he’s attempting, but the level of commitment and authenticity he brings to every movie these days. I was never really a fan of young Tom, but older Tom is killing it.

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52 minutes ago, Tempy said:

Like him or loathe him, who is going to be doing this shit when Tom is gone or hangs up his career? Not even what he’s attempting, but the level of commitment and authenticity he brings to every movie these days. I was never really a fan of young Tom, but older Tom is killing it.

 

What I think is particularly staggering is how much better his stunts look than any cgi. They look genuinely breaktaking in a way that cg Iron Man doesn't.

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1 hour ago, krenzler said:

It's f*cking amazing. And also totally batshit crazy. 

 

"Don't be careful, be confident".

 

I want a Hot Toys 1/6 Tom Cruise dammit.

 

"...be competent" is what he says.

 

He's a lot of things, but crazy isn't one of them. He works his arse off to get it right, safely.

 

This film is incredible - the amount of prep to figure out how to do the stunt safely is why he gets an insurance company to cover him doing it, and not a stuntman. He is a stuntman at this point.

 

It makes Burt Reynold's years making films with his friends positively tame. 

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The only problem I have with his stunts is that some of them feel wasted in the context of the films they’re in. The one where he’s on the side of a plane was the opening scene, had very little setup, and was basically unrelated to the events that followed. The halo jump was filled with CGI storms so none of it looked real, and he might as well have done it on a blue screen. Same with the sequence with him holding his breath underwater - he might as well have faked it, because the it didn’t look real to me (plus he goes out of shot a few times).

 

It’s astonishing he does all of this himself of course, but I think it’s exciting enough without an added layer of movie fluff. Some of the best stuff in these films are the smaller stunts grounded in reality. The helicopter stuff in the last film was exceptional I thought, because it was raw and real.

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6 hours ago, krenzler said:

So basically Cruise just fires any insurance company or person that says "No" to his face? :)

 

There's an interview with someone working on one of the MI movies (I think it's on the behind the scenes stuff from Ghost Protocol but I'm not 100%) where they mention that what makes him hard to insure isn't how crazy the stuff he wants to do is, but his habit of giving it a bit of a go before they've fully sorted out the safety stuff. It's accompanied by some shots of him scaling the outside of a building with no ropes on the first day they got there to scout it as a location :lol: 

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58 minutes ago, JPL said:

I think my favourite Tom Cruise stunt is when he jumps from the exploding helicopter onto the train in the Channel tunnel.

 

And he gets Goldeneye face for a second.

 

I think the motorbike chase from the most recent film. The crash at the end is so jarring and real feeling.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Festoon said:

 

And he gets Goldeneye face for a second.

 

I think the motorbike chase from the most recent film. The crash at the end is so jarring and real feeling.

 

 


Yeah, this is great. As you say, it looks and feels real which makes it super exciting.

 

Another one I thought of is the Burj Khalifa climb - it didn’t need those silly sticky gloves, and would’ve been more exciting without them I reckon.

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13 hours ago, Paulando said:

The only problem I have with his stunts is that some of them feel wasted in the context of the films they’re in. The one where he’s on the side of a plane was the opening scene, had very little setup, and was basically unrelated to the events that followed. The halo jump was filled with CGI storms so none of it looked real, and he might as well have done it on a blue screen. Same with the sequence with him holding his breath underwater - he might as well have faked it, because the it didn’t look real to me (plus he goes out of shot a few times).

 

It’s astonishing he does all of this himself of course, but I think it’s exciting enough without an added layer of movie fluff. Some of the best stuff in these films are the smaller stunts grounded in reality. The helicopter stuff in the last film was exceptional I thought, because it was raw and real.

 

The halo jump was ridiculous. It looked like CGI anyway, and it seemed bizarre that you'd need to go to those lengths to get into a nightclub. I could buy it if they needed to get into a North Korean prototype fusion reactor, or whatever the modern equivalent of Fort Knox is, but a nightclub? Even a criminal nightclub for global megavillains doesn't sound that hard to get into. If they'd cut straight from the briefing to Tom Cruise slithering in through a skylight, the audience would have bought that.

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38 minutes ago, K said:

 

The halo jump was ridiculous. It looked like CGI anyway, and it seemed bizarre that you'd need to go to those lengths to get into a nightclub. I could buy it if they needed to get into a North Korean prototype fusion reactor, or whatever the modern equivalent of Fort Knox is, but a nightclub? Even a criminal nightclub for global megavillains doesn't sound that hard to get into. If they'd cut straight from the briefing to Tom Cruise slithering in through a skylight, the audience would have bought that.

 

Someone hasn't tried getting into the Berghain.

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