JoeA3 wrote: » Don't bother, its dreadful, the worst in the series by a long way.
Tom Cruise tore into members of the “Mission Impossible 7” crew for breaching COVID-19 safety protocols, according to an audio recording obtained by The Sun that has gone viral.
pixelburp wrote: » Empire has an article on MI7, and there's a photo I think is spoiling the latest "Tom Cruise tries to kill himself" set-piece; no doubt it'll feature heavily in the trailer (whenever that happens), but for those staying spoiler-free, it'll involve ... a train https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-7-saving-cinema/
For anyone curious about more details on what death-defying stunt Cruise will attempt this time, apparently at CinemaCon Paramount gave some details; I'm spoiler-texting it just in case some people wanna keep the surprise - though presumably the trailers will have snippets of it.
During Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon 2021, exhibitors were treated to a 10-minute video detailing Cruise’s latest stunt. This one will see him drive a motorcycle off an actual cliff, jump off the motorcycle in mid-air, freefall a few seconds, and then parachute to the bottom of a huge gorge. And, of course, it’s actually Tom Cruise doing this. Not a stunt person. So he had to practice and train a lot to be able to pull if off.
Over the course of a year, Cruise completed about 500 skydives, which sometimes included 30 in one day, as well as 13,000 motocross jumps on a specially constructed track. All of this was done to make sure Cruise was a complete expert at not just base jumping and parachuting but motocross too. He’d need to be all of those things to pull off the stunt on the day.
Sometimes you really, seriously gotta wonder if Cruise's reach might one day exceed his grasp. This does sound especially dangerous ... but then again so did all the others!
When most viewers see these sequences they just assume it’s CGI or a stunt man, unless they read the article or watched the featurette on the making of in advance of course. As impressive as Cruise’s stunts are, I am not sure they contribute in a meaningful way to making the action seem more authentic anymore. Rather than demonstrating commitment to the film they just seem to be a way for Cruise to do his rich guy in a midlife crisis thrill-seeking hobbies while also being paid.
I dunno, I don’t think ‘Tom Cruise using studio to work through his lengthy mid-life crisis’ and ‘physical stunts making the film better’ are mutually exclusive. I don’t pretend to speak for every viewer, but the joy of the recent MI films is their sheer commitment to the physicality of the action. Your stomach flips when Ethan steps out of that Dubai tower - few CG action sequences can ever hope to have that same effect.
If I watch a Buster Keaton or classic Jackie Chan film, I am still wowed by the relentless dare devil spirit of those actors. It will never not be impressive to see Chan’s big mall stunt at the end of Police Story. It’s something that’s all but absent in modern cinema - quite rightly for healthy and safety reasons in many cases 😅 But at least there’s one ongoing series willing to push the boundaries of the physical action we’ve seen on screen before. Sure, it might also be Tom Cruise being an obscenely wealthy thrillseeker… but as long as the films are good and the stunts are spectacular, I’ll hold my objections.
I dunno about the first bit; Cruise has rebranded himself as the modern Buster Keaton willing to endanger himself for jollies. I'd have said it's well understood across audiences the MI franchise is about real, dangerous stunt work. While the cinematography has always been such that there's never doubt it's Cruise hanging off the side of that plane, as a for instance. God, It still looks so amazing, precisely because it's authentic.
Cruise's stunts are going well past the kind of physicality of Buster Keaton or Jackie Chan though or the kind of stunts he did earlier in his career. In the last M:I it was really him flying the helicopter while it was going into a dive. Now how do you shoot that so that audience knows or cares that it's really Cruise? You can see they tried their best but I am not sure it really comes across. Audiences have seen Cruise in similar sequences in the past which would have been mostly blue screen or stunt men and I am not sure what difference it makes if it was really him in a few of the shots.
Tom Cruise's BMW was robbed in England.
They should make a real life documentary of Cruise trying to hunt down the scumbags who robbed his car.
That would make a better film than another MI.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9931055/Tom-Cruise-thousands-pounds-worth-luggage-stolen-thieves-bodyguards-BMW.html
The helicopter scene in MI6 did not impress me at all.
Arnie flying the harrier jet in True Lies was for more impression and that wasn't even real.
I feel they could of done the helicopter scene just as well without cruise flying the helicopter for real.
Again I dunno, I think it was pretty clear it wasn't a stunt man in those scenes, the cameras around the cockpit working to show it was the actor at the wheel. As did the exterior cameras for what was clearly a gruelling climb (presumably harnesses were air brushed out). In this clip you can sorta see the difference between the "on a set", green screen cockpit during the fist fight, and the bright, in situ cockpit when Cruise was flying a real chopper.
But like I said I think the franchise now trades on its audience understanding the stunts are, for intents and purposes, real.
Mentioned in the Top Gun thread already, but this has been pushed back to a September 30th 2022 opening. Don't think #8 ever had a release date, despite the (apparent) back to back shoot.
M:I7 will now be released July 14, 2023 (previously Sept. 2022)
Title confirmed by Cruise. https://variety.com/2022/film/news/mission-impossible-7-official-title-tom-cruise-1235243504/
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
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Discuss: Mission Impossible is the only consistently great long-running Hollywood series, and the new one looks bloody fantastic.
Steam train set piece. Car chase in a little yellow car. I mean, what else do you want?
The only thing I want is for it to release this July 😄
I'd agree with that. Number 2 was bad, really bad and has aged like milk, but the whole series has been the gold star for Hollywood action blockbusters. Fallout set the bar and would consider it on a par with Fury Road for best in class.
Now, much of that success' foundation is built on its star's willingness to risk life and limb for the pursuit of increasingly crazy stunts. Even when Cruise did injure himself during the shoot of Fallout, the accident made it into the final cut. But the end result are a set of movies whose action is just unparalleled in American cinema. Once Cruise retires from action cinema, you'd have to imagine that'll be it for the series.
I wonder what Christopher McQuarrie will do after cos you'd imagine he has opened a good number of doors for himself.
As for the trailer? Yes please. Looks absolutely stonking. Proper action cinema.
Did Cruise do the motorbike off a cliff stunt near the end of the trailer?
Apparently, yes. Don't have the article but there was an interview that went into it, the logistics of performing it safely.
I watched that and thought "this has to be a trailer for both parts" but no, just part one. I have to say I agree the M:I series is one of the best action wise but I thought Fallout was overstuffed with action for the sake of it (did they really need to Halo jump to a party in Paris?). I'm slightly concerned this might suffer from the same problem and I also know McQuarrie likes to write on the fly, which again I think showed in Fallout. I still enjoyed it but Ghost Protocol is still the best for me.
