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Please, don’t be condescending; look at the totality of the last 3 films of each franchise; it isn’t even close.
MI has has run away from Bond, on and off of rooftops.
Sadly Tom and co are my more frequent go to franchise for action. I wish it weren't always so. But they do deliver in the stunts done for real department like Bond used too.
Is this really an accurate description of Bond's recent output?
So, from my perspective, absolutely and particularly in the context of what this franchise has delivered in the past. It's important to note that there would be no MI without James Bond. Now we have a fair number of life long fans (including myself) seeing them as being superior in the stunt department. We would never have said that in the past.
Of course it's subjective. Aren't most things?
There has been no benchmark action sequence (at least in terms of stunts) in a Bond film with Craig apart from the CR crane sequence and the SF PTS.
From my 'subjective' perspective, the last two MI films are the current benchmark in this genre.
I kind of enjoy the Mission Impossible: _______ (insert sub title here)
I'm curious to see what McQuarrie does with the next one, because he's said it will be a little different in approach, whereas the last two deliberately filled a void left by Bond.
"Are the stories true" Cruise pauses and then smiles. No need to reply. Nicely underplayed (we know that they are) but a hint that Hunt is becoming a legend within the team and, based on how young the girl is, a recognition that he was creating stories whilst she was a baby. She is a little in awe of him.
McQuarrie really understands the series and delivers IMHO.
If only EON had someone who understood Bond in the same way that McQuarrie "gets" MI. Once you have that, you are half way there.
I could very well live with that.
Could potentially work... And make things for Bond even worse
If Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa Faust becomes the leader of the team and the M:I film franchise becomes film-based like Ghost Protocol rather than having one lead and supporting sidekicks, it would work.
+1
Even if for just this one sequence, Watch the opera scene and picture Craig in Cruises place.
The attention to detail is indeed masterful and I like the addition of glamour and humour. It really helps to elevate it. I'm partial to Nessun Dorma as well (perhaps the only aria I like - it was used by the Beeb during the 1990 World Cup and I remember it vividly from childhood).
Re the opera scene, the direction is very traditional with no shaky cam and quick cuts. It lets the tension build up and up with the music leading us to the crescendo and has room for little jokes (like Cruises height) without at any time, undermining the main thrust.
@talos7 picture Craig in the PTS hanging on the side of the cargo plane. Any action adventure would be proud to have that stunt/set piece within its movie. The issue that we have with Bond is that the nature of the stunts have to be individual. Hunt's plea "the wrong door!" adds tension and dry humour at the same time. But who opens the door (both actually and as a metaphor) for Bond? An explosive watch placed on the door? and lazer pen? It just pushes it too far.
And now we have Hunt in the underwater data vault set piece. Another team effort. And it works