• UKFilmNerdM
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    106 months ago

    I was amazed to find out that after throwing a steam train off a cliff for the previous film, almost the entire thing was replaced digitally. The live action footage was used for reference. Don’t get me wrong, if I’d never seen the vfx breakdown, I’d probably never know. It’s some amazing work by ILM.

  • @Audacious@sh.itjust.works
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    36 months ago

    His best movies are the lawyer ones earlier in his career. I don’t like most of his action movies. Too bad he basically ruined Mission Impossible’s formula.

    • @IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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      26 months ago

      As an old school M:I devotee I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the original series fro time to time and thoroughly enjoy it.

      I also cringe at the mental gymnastics over the plot of this new 2-part movie…. You’ve got an evil AI on board a Russian sub that tricks the crew into torpedoing itself. The crew all dies but the AI survives onboard the sunken sub. And despite being stuck on a blown-up sub at the bottom of the ocean the AI is still a serious global threat. On top of that a two-part physical key that is the only thing that can disable the AI somehow made it off the sub and everybody is scrambling to find them. Once the keys are recovered somebody (clearly Tom Cruises character) will have to get onto the sunken sub and destroy the AI.

      Why doesn’t the US or UK just go shoot a few more torpedoes at the sunken sub and obliterate the AI once and for all? The need to suspend so much reality for this plot drives me nuts.

      • @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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        16 months ago

        The AI has made it out into the world, and the submarine has something that can stop it. The ai probably was recovered from the sub by the same people who went for the keys.

  • @Artyom@lemm.ee
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    36 months ago

    The last one was so bad it killed all enthusiasm I had in the whole series.

    • @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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      76 months ago

      I kind of stopped watching Tom Cruise films after finding out he’s in an anti-science cult founded by rich people and occasionally murders people. Really puts a damper on his whole vibe.

    • maegul (he/they)M
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      36 months ago

      It was oddly bad wasn’t it. I described it as a parody of a good Mission Impossible film. Something was definitely off in the directing/writing of that film.

    • @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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      26 months ago

      Just saw it the other day and it was bloody awful. The actors looked like they wanted to die rather than say “entity” one more time, and it went on for nearly three hours despite having the plot of half a regular MI film. The high RT score doesn’t make any sense to me at all.