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The drama should be the one other characters have to endure. This is what feeds our own deep rooted desire to be saved into an escapist adventure. The mundane and its dramas need to have escape points. And we should have our own escapists to lead us to those points of escape and rescue. Ethan Hunt or James Bond or Indy… Being remember of our heroes mundane nature and their failability was fashionable in the last few years, but do we need that right now? Do we need to be reminded of death, family issues, sickness, suffering,…?
I say no. Really looking forward to see this in the cinema and to feel what Cruise made me feel with Maverick. The man still knows jow to balance things the right way.
Yes, but it was great in GP and Fallout. I also find his relationship with Elsa really interesting... if you're going to have a movie about a team then you need a team dynamic, and that's drama. It's certainly what I want alongside all of the action and excitement, not least because it helps build the tension for those things.
But I also wasn’t a fan of FALLOUT essentially being an extension of the last movie, rather than being a new standalone adventure. Solomon Lane quickly became the most obnoxious villain in the series.
I'm just joshing. I don't agree, I think he's good and I like the films continuing the story, but fair enough. You don't need to have seen any of the previous films to follow Fallout also.
There is also a case to be made that there were was more than a "hint of attraction" in Rogue Nation between Ethan and Ilsa. She quite literally asked him to run away with her.
“Great” is kind of overselling it.
The halo jump was all cgi in the last MI film although Cruise did film sky jumps for promotion. Cruise is an avid sky jumper.
Imho Moonraker's opening sky stunt still the best ever done in a film.
The ramp has been changed to rocky terrain understandably, but I don't see that the background has been comped in. He's doing the jump.
Not sure what you mean by wire safety?
It's clearly not all CG. He's jumping out of a real plane quite plainly. There are some shots in there performed in a wind tunnel though, yes.
The close ups on Cruise in the halo jump looked green screened. Paramount (which produces the MI franchise) were not given permission to film the halo jump at night over Paris. Inho the halo jump in TND looked far more realistic. Wonderful camera work and editing.
Re wire safety... Cruise was on a wire:
Whether or not any of those jumps are in the final edit.. who knows. All we see is a far overhead shot which looks composited. No close up at all. My guess is we'll see a closer angle in the film. Not much point Tom Cruise riding off a cliff and no closer shot to see it's him actually doing it! That would be strange.
I'm not sure who or what her character is or does, so maybe I'm being unfair, but from the trailers it just irks me a little.
They replaced the backgrounds, yes: they weren't over Paris. But he clearly is doing real jumps for some of it, for some of it (like the stuff where he's swapping the air tank etc.) that was done in a giant skydive wind tunnel at ground level.
The initial close up where he jumps out of the plane and zooms towards camera is all real.
That's from the test jumps they conducted at ground level in the UK. Notice his hair is a lot longer than in the film. They did a lot of testing to make sure of how it would work. There are plenty of videos of him doing the jump properly in Norway with a parachute, including from passer bys who watched the filming from below the cliff.
You can see pretty much when that photo was taken in the first few seconds of this video, and the test jumps into a quarry are shown at about 2.50 in:
The test jumps are not the ones in the film.
Frankly it would be easier to do it for real than to fake this video.
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I'm not a huge expert in the series, but MI strikes me as always giving Hunt the chance (and him of course taking it), to accomplish the mission and save all his friends/wife/whatever. Not that I'm a fiend who needs to see Ilsa or Benji or Luther or Vanessa Kirby's character die for the film to be succesful (escapist entertainment and all that), but they do hint at it quite heavily and it would be a pretty massive ending for the first one (albeit almost a cliche).
I definitely thought that Benji might die in the climax to Fallout- it was very tense because, as you say, it's perfectly possible for a team member to die.
But you think they'll kill Elsa? Yes, that seems possible. I hope not though because she's such a strong female character, and killing her might venture into 'fridging' territory, which I don't see McQ indulging in.
Simon Pegg lost his hand. Shocking.
I can't help but think there must have been better shots of Cruise available though? It feels like a bit of a snap and he wasn't quite ready...?
Killing Benji makes sense from an "arc" point of view. He sees Ethan not just as a friend, but also as an inspiration. He was just a nerdy analyst when he was introduced, but he became a field agent of the back of his interactions with Ethan. The impact that could have on Hunt would be equally as impactful as losing someone he loved.