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If Tom Cruise at 61 can ride a motorcycle off a cliff six times, Van Damme at 63 can surely still do a split between two trucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
by js2 3y ago
If Tom Cruise at 61 can ride a motorcycle off a cliff six times, Van Damme at 63 can surely still do a split between two trucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lsFs2615gw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lsFs2615gw
- slim 3y agoor you can have a stunt man do it, then make a fake making of video where van damme pretends he did it
- raffraffraff 3y agoBasically, Tom Cruise is the world's wealthiest stuntman. I'd love to know the carbon footprint per second of video for that scene. And honestly, would it have looked worse had it been created using CGI?
- js2 3y ago> would it have looked worse had it been created using CGI? I think so. Just watch the latest Mission Impossible and then watch the latest Indiana Jones. The difference is obvious. You don't even need a huge budget to do a better job with practical effects: they just look better - watch How to Blow Up a Pipeline for a great thriller done on a budget with little CGI.
- jbverschoor 3y agoBasically why I don’t enjoy watching these types of movies anymore.
- geon 3y agoThe entire cliff was cgi.
- js2 3y agoI've watched the making-of video I linked several times and I get anxious every time he rides the motorcycle off the ramp. In comparison, the final version in the movie where they used CGI to remove the ramp is way less exciting to me. I found the scene in the movie a bit of a let down.
- raffraffraff 3y agoExactly this. And after watching the whole prep montage, I was expecting to be at least moderately impressed by the final scene. I wasn't. The cliff looked improbable. But even if you believed that it existed as it was rendered, its surface is rough, yet as the bike accelerates along it the suspension doesn't absorb as much as a pebble. That made the whole thing look more CGI than it actually was. And it's the same with the other MI movie stunts: they make such a huge deal about Tom doing his own stunt that they forget to make a movie with a remotely plausible plot or relatable characters. These movies are wrapping around a few big stunts. 50% spectacle, 50% "so did you know that Tom (61) does his own stunts" But I get it, these movies aren't aimed at me, they have their target audience etc. Edit: Tom did not do his own aunts. That would be a very different film. Edit2: my wife just suggested two movie titles, "Mission Incest, or Ant Fucker?". Sorry. Laughed so hard.