Mission: Impossible Movies Are Only As Good As How Far Tom Cruise Falls
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2023
- We all know just how much Tom Cruise loves risking his life for our entertainment. The entire Mission: Impossible franchise is now based completely around the star and producer one-upping himself with practical stunt daredevil-ry. What we’re looking at here though, is one type of stunt specifically, and how each film in the franchise lives and dies based on it. We’re talking of course about the drop.
The heights from which Ethan Hunt can fall have been explored extensively and in wildly different ways by each filmmaker who’s pointed their camera at the IMF. From Brian De Palma creating the first iconic heist scene in the series, to John Woo and his hyperstylized slow motion motorcycle martial arts, to JJ Abrams physics defying mystery box maguffin, Brad Bird resurrecting the allure of the franchise and Christopher McQuarrie doubling down on all the right things all the way through Dead Reckoning part 1, each film has a major drop stunt that can make the difference between something memorable or something that can not stand the test of time.
This video was written by Siddhant Adlakha, edited by Justin Donaldson, with title graphic animation by Casey Redmon.
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I watched the cliff jump in theater on opening night, when he jumped off and let go off the bike, the entire theater held its breath, there was pin-dropping-silence. We all held our breath till the parachute went off. Instead of cheering and applause there were people loudly exhaling, finally breathing again. It was amazing - both the stunt itself, and the experience of being in a theater with an audience that knows to respect other people by not ruining the movie with claps and woos.
This is why I go to midnight showings. The Dark Knight & Endgame were historic experiences with a shared crowd.
Videos or it didn't happen
@@bootymcnasteez2033 I don’t take my phone out and blind/distract the people behind me at the movies
One of my best cinema experiences was watching Singin in The Rain on the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna with a crowd of about 3000 or so people and one of the highlight of that was the enthusiastic applause after "Make 'em laugh". One of the beauties of watching movies with other people i.e. of cinema, is that you never know how an audience is going to react to anything. Hate to be that guy but if you feel like you're entitled to absulte silence you should just stay at home.
@@punkfan96 Of course not, I watched Avengers Endgame 3 times and every single time the theater was roaring during the crucial moment. I was in on the cheering and clapping too. It’s just that certain moments just require you sit there and take it all in. I watched Oppenheimer last night and some dude tried to clap as the nuke went off and you just heard an awkward clap slowly get quieter and stop as he realized he was the only one clapping. There’s a balance of both, and also a time and place for both.
"Tom Cruise doesn't fear gravity, gravity is afraid of Tom Cruise"
He is the Chuck Norris of gravity.
That Mission Impossible III building slide was also a reference to Jackie Chan's similar stunt in "Who Am I?" Hollywood's soon to be most spectacular stunt actor homaging his Hong Kong predecessor.
If Clint leaves Cinefix I go as well, that's the voice I will forever associate this channel with no matter who owns it.
Oh come on! Surely the original Mission Impossible "stealing from a high-tech secure room from above" scene was really inspired by "Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers" ;-)
Tom deserves his paycheck,
and any bonus he recieves
If I remember correctly, MI series is his child and he produces them. Of course, no one pays for movies from a single pocket and it’s a collective effort of different investors and studios… but one can essentially boil it down to a phrase: he pays himself here 😂
10:23 That shoe drop is a great touch😂
I'm always impressed at Cruise's versatility for acting. The amazing stunts aside, he still gives his heart in the dialogue heavy scenes of this franchise. What was on full display in Born on the Fourth of July, Magnolia, etc. is still present nowadays albeit more muted scripts. He is the last movie star.
I truly pray that Tom Cruise doesn't go the way that Houdini went.
Getting punched in the stomach?
7:00 Best transition ever.
I love Mission Impossible 2.
I make no apologies.
Are we all NPCs in Tom Cruise's life?
lol too real
No amount of cgi (no matter how well rendered) can ever replicate the excitement of seeing a flesh and blood person doing death defying real stunts.
Tom Cruise in West & Jacky Chan in East. Both crazy & cool for performing all of their deadly stunts in their movies👍👍
2:00 reading the title I immediately though of this scene and the parody in Spice World of the spice girls.
Thank you for this!!! Watching this channel in Bolivia 🇧🇴
The opera assassination attempt in Rogue Nation is likely a homage to the climax of Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much," which has an assassination attempt of an ambassador at a concert that is similarly wordless except for the music.
I think Cruise's helipcopter fall in Fallout is as deserving (or even more) of mention than the Halo jump.
That bein said, Siddhant Adlakha's writing in this piece seamlessly fits into Cinefix's long-time successful style. Congrats for that.
The reason the first one is better is because he FALLS rather than drops. Ethan Hunt is a little too cool for school, and seeing him literally sweat is as out of his depth Hunt gets
Agreed, it is works better at showing he has experience with this sort of stuff.
What's really been established is that nobody has less job security than Tom Cruise stunt double.
That was an amazing video, thank you for your work. One minor nitpick, that is not what “suspended animation” means (at 12:13)
While each of these drops are well designed to be exciting for the audience that first drop was THE WORST suspension of disbelief moment in cinema history! A floor sensitive enough to detect a pressure difference of one drop of sweat would have SCREAMED when Hunt dropped toward it! The change in the air currents in that room would have been so dramatic the moment that the ceiling panel was opened that the entire scene never could have happened in the first place.
We loved the way Ethan Hunt "landed" from the cliff jump. Great movie!
nice to see these all in a row
I never thought I would hear "Mission Impossible" and "Jack Ass" in the same statement.
He's like buzz light-year irl
Good video, but the narrator (name?) sounds tired here compared to his other usual top 10 videos. And/or sound quality is subpar.
Think I need to go rewatch 1 & rogue nation :)
Jaw "dropping"...
I mean that's the image the franchise has been given by the public and they leaned into it so now that is all the movies are being marketed as.
but imo it would be a bit unfair to reduce them to just "let's admire tom cruise's crazy stunts". MI3 and MI6 are genuinely great movies. well directed, acted (for the most part), written and just always a fun time.
Mission Impossible 3 is not a great movie.
@@Olematonnimi think 2nd one is not great and 3rd one is boosted by one of the best actors ever as the bad guy though
@@Olematonnimi I doubt Abrams has ever made a great movie.
He obviously doesn't think he's going to be in any danger!
Cruise really loves gravity
We could actually instead of making Chuck Norris jokes, start making Tom Cruise jokes.
"Tom Cruise doesn't fear gravity, gravity is afraid of Tom Cruise"
What song is played for a couple of seconds at 16.49? I can’t put my finger on it
It’s the beginning of Friction by Imagine Dragons !
Sesame Street (1969) 1:57 nice
When did Cinefix become a part of IGN?
a few years ago
Spoilers for Dead Reckoning Part 1 :
I find myself disagreeing with the fact that the drop in Dead Reckoning Part 1 isn’t tied into the story as well as Fallout’s drop. It was the result of Gabriel being highly efficient, and capable enough to get rid of every option Ethan has to get on that train. What’s more, there’s two main reasons Ethan needs to be on that train: to get the key from Alanna, but to also keep his promise to Grace. Losing Ilsa has made being on that train at any cost just that much more important to Ethan, that he’d quite literally jump off a mountain onto a moving train, just to protect his team. It’s quite frankly brilliant.
I also liked how Benji is the one who came up with the crazy plan, and Ethan is the one who has to go along with it.
Guys guys guys guys for your next homemade movie episode do a doctor who 60th anniversary homemade movie I will probably watch that a thousand times over and that way I can see how you guys would make some of those the props
Personally; as a constituent, comprehensive whole they're Great. Rogue Is thus far my favourite. But.. ... just like any/all of the wicks there ARE Better, Tighter, Smarter Similar Genre Film Pieces Out There*..
In De Palma's drop, the risk is not that Ethan Hunt will die, but that he'll be caught. That's because it's a spy movie with action sequences rather than just an action movie. The later films get into idiotic action movie territory full of James Bond-esque villains who want to BLOW UP THE WORLD despite the difficulty that should pose employing henchmen.
The only guy who wanted to destroy the world was a lunatic with precisely ONE henchman who knew the plan. The rest were mercenaries who were kept in the dark. Heck, the big bad even had to sub in for his own henchman at one point.
Lark/Walker didn't want to blow up the world, just murder and harm a lot of people, in the mad hopes that it would *somehow* create world peace. Which is itself a bigger-scale version of the plan from Lane/The Syndicate/Apostles; kill important people, often with massive overkill, to push the world in the "right" direction.
In MI2, the plan was to release the virus, and then sell the cure. The bad guy and his team didn't actually care what happened as long as they got rich.
In the latest movie, we don't even know what The Entity's actual goals are. Just like we don't know what the Rabbit's Foot from MI3 even does.
The stupidest rope handling technique ever depicted in MI1. I have the strongest hands in history so I'll just barehanded this thin rope holding 150+ lbs on the end. It'll be fine.
But it's a great scene. And a movie so 🎉
I don't think the Today show date was correct at around 10:40ish. It said (1952) as the date.
Yep it's becoming more about the spectacle rather than the plot of the movie.
to be fair I think mission impossible it's a case the movies get better as they go because the first ones for me weren't good ...
@@clintstewart5545 No, De Palma's is genuinely a good movie. It's just that the 2nd was the worst in the franchise so a mediocrity like MI3 came across like an improvement.
We all know that JJ doesn’t create anything original. He only knows how to copy and/or do fan service.
Erm wasn’t the Matrix made in 1999? And wasn’t the original show from the 70s not the 60s? Come on now, some basic research would be good 😂
It began in 1966.
Abrams should go back to TV. Has not done very much original work in films.
Movie was boring ….couldn’t finish watching it the 2x I went to see it, and Haley Atwel acting is sooo stuck up…like we get it you were agent Carter. She has bedroom eyes for everyone and it’s just annoyingly cocky.
JJ Abrams is a con artist and if MI2 wasnt so ridiculous MI3 would be the worst in the series.
The MI movies are so boring, they are just two hours plus of Cruies´s ego getting stroked. No different from the run of the mills a dime a dussin Marvel movies except Cruise does over the top stunts.
He can do great action-movies just look at Top Gun Maverick, but this is just the same thing over and over again but with a different country and villian.
Dont watch them and keep suffering everytime you baby brain😂
@@alexcoyg3281 I don´t suffer but they also give me nothing and you forget about them the second they are over = bad movie.
Baby brain good one...
@@tetepeb Yeah, only first one made by De Palma is really great.
And yet you chose to watch all 7 of them because why?
@@garrett3726 i like movies and even a blind chicken can find a piece of corn so maybe one can be good by default