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The motorbike stunt

posted a year ago by spurtle467 (1520)
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I kind of wish I hadn't let myself be overexposed to this stunt prior to seeing the movie. It was sold as the biggest stunt in the film, maybe the franchise, and had a behind the scenes look on YouTube about it which I watched. So knowing so much about it and seeing the ins and outs of the stunt beforehand, when it came to it in the movie I was a bit underwhelmed by it, whereas I probably would have been a lot more thrilled by it at the cinema had I not known.

Obviously it's hard to not blame yourself if you let yourself become too exposed to a movie before you see it on a big screen, but I do believe there is too much over-promotion of films in general right now, with multiple trailers, trailer length that often reveals important plot points, behind the scenes looks at certain parts of movies etc. I mean imagine if Jurassic Park was coming out today, I bet they'd do a behind the scenes look at the first T-Rex attack among other things. I'm grateful to have watched that film at a pre-YT time when new blockbuster films weren't over-marketed and shoved down your throats.

[–] Porsche911 (2904) a year ago

The marketing failed here due to covid and tried to mirror Top Gun by over exposing all the action sequences beforehand! I gave the film 6 outa 10 at best!

[–] spurtle467 (1520) a year ago

I enjoyed the film despite my complaint above. Probably give it a 7.5 out of 10, something like that.

After the success of the previous movie and Top Gun: Maverick being a huge hit, this film was pretty much going to sell itself with not a lot of need for over-marketing. For me I just prefer a time when things were a lot simpler. You had your trailer, you had your interviews with actors and directors publicising the film everywhere and that was it. Nowadays you can almost piece together the whole film through the various clips they reveal pre-release.

I'm old school anyway, the one thing that will sway me most is the reviews, not anything else.

[–] whatwazdat (380) a year ago

I disagree. I like the over exposure and reminder of what is real. In this day and age, I assume everything is fake in the movies. Without telling us the jump was real, I would have thought it was fake, CGI, green screen. You have to get the word out. I've been most excited about his past two films due to their marketing.

[–] WhereIsRent (1032) a year ago

I try and avoid trailers for films that I’m already planning on seeing as they can really show too much.

I’ll be doing the same for Dead Reckoning Part Two as well, it’s already pretty much guaranteed to be great with Christopher McQuarrie directing, the guy hasn’t directed a bad Mission: Impossible film, even his Jack Reacher film was very good.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8445) a year ago

If you want to see a real gem, and you haven't already watched it, go watch his debut Way of the Gun. Great movie.

[–] WhereIsRent (1032) a year ago

I was looking at McQuarrie’s filmography and I realised I hadn’t seen that one. I’ll be sure to check it out, thanks!

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8445) a year ago

I watched it way back when it first came out and have made a point to revisit it over the years. I would even say it remains my favorite film of his. It just goes to show that a huge budget is not what makes a movie great.

[–] Burk48917 (11116) a year ago

I watched this early this year. I was not impressed.

[–] SandyR (7710) a year ago

The train/bridge sequence was much more thrilling, I thought.

[–] ExTechOp (2770) a year ago

Yeah

Impression I get is that the motorbike stunt's the most dangerous and requires the most skill of any M:I stunt, but to a layperson like me, it's less impressive than riding outside a plane or climbing the Burj Khalifa

Logically, the latter two are "safer" because they require less of Cruise than the motorbike stunt, but it doesn't "feel" as impressive

Same with the helicopter chase in "Fallout." It's only impressive because we know Cruise learned helicopter stunt flying just for the film. Otherwise, it'd just be another chopper-chase.

Also, another disappointing bit here, we know they had to hide the ramp with CGI, and if they're doing that much with CGI already, why not CGI the whole stunt? Would we have known the difference if it hadn't been promoted to high heaven beforehand?

[–] TheArgentinian (6651) a year ago

this is why i never watch any promotional materials. I didn't know what was going to be this movie's big stunt. It's not as elaborate as the previous ones but it was still breathtaking.

[–] IronStorm (96) a year ago

Trailers these days show too much.

About the whole motorcycle sequence...I was wondering if it actually wouldn't have been better for him to follow the train directly on train rails or very close to the track, instead of going all the way around through terrain.

[–] TandyMan (10660) a year ago

I watched a whole big ten minute "making of the stunt" hype reel in the movie theater that they ran before the trailers of whatever I was watching. Months and months before this was released. It was amazing. Far more impressive than the finished product they put into the movie with all the CGi around it. The impact was completely blunted. I had a pretty good chuckle when they actually put the stunt into the opening credits of this movie. Just in case you managed to miss it, here it is right in the beginning of the movie! Got you! Like freakin DVD menus showing you all the action before you can push play.

[–] MarcTale (85) a year ago

Basically it was just another skydive/base jump, except it started from a motorcycle instead from an airplane (like in the last movie).
And you see similar stunts in movies all the time.
I thought using that as a highlight would not get more people to watch it, even if Cruise did it himself.
But that's just my cent (not 2)...