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Agreed. The only one I recall getting right for sure was the Top Gun commander's call sign, Viper, and I guessed at the Miles Davis question in Collateral and got it right. I've only seen Collateral once.
Collateral is the only one I got. I recalled the artist was on the soundtrack and figured that would be a logical choice.
Bond did it already so maybe, maybe they won't do it.
I have been wondering myself if they would go for that. But I don't really want to watch that film. I don't care for seeing old protagonists sharing screen time with new ones.
It could be great nostalgic fun or it could really jump the Mosasaur. (Though some might say the last Jurassic World already did that).
All I'm gonna say is that if they're going to kill Ethan Hunt off in the last one, Tom Cruise had better do it for real. You can't pull all those crazy stunts off for 25 years and then chicken out at the end.
I agree. Jurassic Park should just kill off the bad guys, like it always has. This whole 'kill the hero' trend is rubbish.
Ha ! Speaking of bringing back the old crew members a la Jurassic Park, maybe they'd get Mimi Rodgers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes to appear ? At least one of them might volunteer to portray a character who gets to off Ethan Hunt...
At any rate, I don't see MI going that route. Not so much to preserve the possibility of Tom Cruise coming back for more, but (a) it's been done and (b) he could be preserved for a storyline appearance even if not as a primary character. I really doubt they'll quit making MI films altogether when Cruise stops. I see a pause, to let audiences move on a bit and be more receptive to new characters, but not TOO long a pause - as we've seen with some other films and then it turns out they're not so much of interest to the then-current audiences, and then start up again. They'll need actors for all the parts who are compelling and draw people in.
If they do continue the films, I think Cruise will remain very much in control of them creatively and will likely even take a prominent behind-the-desk (but not really) role in the film like Fiennes' M.
I got just one of those questions right, the one about Collateral.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-paramount-1235116830/?fbclid=IwAR2dbMw1QZmJ-aY9F_2wU_KiAKnhzCvHsICDjmAHDcd1_4LNSIyn_KmY09k
Fascinating reading though, thanks for the link: I imagine 7 in particular has cost way more than they hoped, and probably taken a few years off MacQ and Cruise' lives too!
I have to assume they're hoping 8 will be cheaper, since it's doing a lot of location filming in South Africa doubling for other countries and will be shot post-vaccine.
Also, a helicopter service in South Africa posted and then deleted this behind the scenes filming video.
Makes NTTD’s production troubles look quaint.
Bloody hell, that makes NTTD look cheap. I'm sure it'll be worth it, if the last two films are anything to go by
I do wonder how much of that plays into MI8's production costs though, too, like the submarine being utilized (or whatever that situation is) in both films.
The budget levitated that much only because all of the COVID related delays the film suffered in 2020.
Yeah it’s amazing how much cheaper the previous films have and yet, even though I do enjoy the Craig Bonds, these have delivered more on the thrill factor.
Massive +1.
Even over Casino?
I only got 1 right lol
Craig's Bonds have been at a high level of quality and enjoyment, as were those of his predecessors. However, the MI films - particularly the last few - have had action set-pieces, or sequences, that have been superbly done and presented and are genuinely exciting to watch. Giving credit where it is due.
Last four and we're agreed. If McQuarrie had been a name at the time and somehow got the gig, I do wonder what his QoS could have been like.
It would have depended on whether D Craig would have been willing to hang onto an airplane, plant a magnetically attached bomb on it, then dive into the sea, jam a handgun -- they're amazingly capable devices, per SP's climactic scene later on, so, why not ? -- into a rear propellor to thwart a submarine, then ride a top a cruise (ahem...) missile to get above the surface again, open a panel and re-program the missile to go to the villain's lair, and then use a squirrelsuit he was wearing all that time to fly to a nearby island...without a stuntperson. From that island, he would get a view of the villain's lair blowing up, blowing up real good (thank, Messrs. Flaherty and Candy), while taking his first sip from a vodka martini, shaken, not stirred, from a...um...friend who was waiting for him at that island. Oops. Sorry, but I think I might just have divulged the plot to the MI-10 pre-titles sequence.