64% Drop at box office this weekend. Worse than Fallout - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Discussion

[–] clashwho (758) a year ago

Maybe the "Part 1" is turning people off? That works for stuff like Harry Potter and Hunger Games as the culmination of a book-adapting series of films, but Mission Impossible is just a film series, so maybe people don't like the idea of forking over cash for half of a story. That's all I can think of, since Top Gun: Maverick did so incredibly well so very recently. It was one complete story.

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[–] millsey72 (10666) a year ago

I haven't watched Fast X because I'm waiting till part 11 comes out and then will watch both back to back. Why deal with half a story at this point?

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[–] mikethemartian (6903) a year ago

It’s like in the Weird Al movie when the record executive (played by Al) tells him that no one will pay full price for a parody song when they can get the real song for the same price.

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[–] darkpast (8884) a year ago

Barbie + Oppenheimer + Sound Of Freedom

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[–] Evoken (1413) a year ago

Yeah seems Mission Impossible is getting lost in the shuffle.

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[–] bozo_500 (13275) a year ago

Barbie

Audiences abit 'Cruised out' from Top Gun? (although you think that would've boosted MI7)

Too long?

Titled 'Part 1' might've turned audiences off abit ?
https://moviechat.org/tt9603212/Mission-Impossible-Dead-Reckoning-Part-One/6495b498537b4a6c1dfd1587/why-call-it-Part-One

Maybe Part II will get back up to Fallout box office once everyones seen Part I on stream/blu

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[–] pjl69 (2647) a year ago

Don't ask me. Never understood the popularity of MI movies or Tom Cruise...

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[–] veezer4551 (275) a year ago

In a world filled with cgi and green screen it is nice that practicality still exists. You can't fake actual stunt work it takes serious talent. Mission Impossible always showcases why stunt work holds up so well overtime.

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[–] pjl69 (2647) a year ago

You people really believe the BS of Tom Cruise doing his own stunts seen in these movies? I've seen the movies on television and they look artificial as f... The producers wouldn't risk harming their billion dollar man by doing those stunts for real. Its part of his Hollywood myth.

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[–] veezer4551 (275) a year ago

There is nothing to believe it has been confirmed he actually did them. During one of them he actually broke his ankle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCm7uhCqo9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I720xCnnPUY

I get you do not like the films but when you can confirm the stunts are real you make yourself look silly. Learn the difference between a practical stunt vs a fake one. Now since you claimed they were fake go ahead and provide evidence that they are fake. So far all you have said is meh it looks fake. I can show behind the scenes footage of him performing those stunts. Now lets see your proof.

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[–] pjl69 (2647) a year ago

Nah, I'm certainly not going to revisit those movies for this conversation to point out which stunts I find artificial. If you believe the Hollywood BS myth, fine. I don't care.

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[–] veezer4551 (275) a year ago

I did not ask you to revisit the movies. I asked you to prove that the stunts were faked. All I had to do was provide a quick youtube video of behind the scenes proving that the stunts were real. You finding them artificial vs the stunts being artificial are two completely different things. I gave you the chance to prove your case and you refused to do so. I did not have to re-watch the movies in order to provide that proof. Anyways take care.

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[–] punkrockgirl (1270) a year ago

There isn't much of a reason to not believe he does his own stunts. There is always information readily available out there to read about the stunts that actors will or won't do.

As for not seeing the appeal of the movies, you could say that about anything else. People like action, it's in the action genre, or they like to watch Tom Cruise run.

My family thinks that, yes, he does his own stunts, but is always heavily wired and made sure by the whole crew to be at the upmost safety at all times.

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[–] BillySlater (4256) a year ago

He jumped out of a plane over 100 times to film 5 mins of footage for Fallout. People literally filmed him doing it. Of course he does his own stunts. Saying its a "myth" based on nothing is on par with being a flat-earther at this point.

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[–] pjl69 (2647) a year ago

Ooh, jumping out of airplane... I have jumped out of airplane almost 100 times myself when I used to do parchute jumping, that's nothing. I was talking about stunts where is a high risk of breaking your neck and the only way you could film those stunts with the real actor was to compile them in a computer.

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[–] BillySlater (4256) a year ago

Lol. Sure you have bro.

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[–] pjl69 (2647) a year ago

Its true. I did parachute jumping in summers of 1996 and 1997, so its quite a long time ago. ;-)

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[–] BillySlater (4256) a year ago

That was only for a 5 minute scene in Fallout, 5 years ago. He did 500 sky dives and 13000 motocross jumps to prep for the latest movie, but Im sure "that's nothing" too. lol

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[–] pjl69 (2647) a year ago

Sounds like a real life hero. He must have not much spare time with all this practising.

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[–] MavKilledGoose (874) a year ago

He performs the showcase stunts. Does he perform ALL of his stunts? I doubt it. Playing beach football is more dangerous than a lot of conventional stunts (actors have broken legs and ribs doing it). It's the relatively little things that get you. Indeed, his biggest injury came while wired and jumping to a building.

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[–] DoctorThirteen (14658) a year ago

'Never understood the popularity of MI movies or Tom Cruise...'

Ditto.

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[–] [deleted] a year ago

There's a LITTLE bit of variety at the box office now, so it's tougher competition (I'm not jumping on the anti-Barbie bandwagon; it's a movie for girls and women and if that's what they want to watch, okay; it is obviously drawing an audience, so it's providing competition).

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[–] MartyDeniro (4184) a year ago

Should've opened first weekend of July, but its fortunes were always about its foreign legs anyway.

118 US + 252 Intl = 370m

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[–] Porsche911 (3741) a year ago

Where did you find those updated numbers.
If $370 is the new BO the net profit is about $185M! It has a long way to go to recover its production and marketing costs at at $500M!

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[–] MartyDeniro (4184) a year ago

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Mission-Impossible-Dead-Reckoning-Part-One-(2023)#tab=box-office

Most foreign is updated weekly rather than daily.

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[–] Porsche911 (3741) a year ago

Thank you

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[–] Porsche911 (3741) a year ago

Audience 15-35 aren’t watching this in huge numbers!

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[–] Galactus03 (4381) a year ago

They are not watching much. Except maybe Barbie... 😂

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[–] millsey72 (10666) a year ago

Its still too dangerous to sit in a theater with Covid still lurking around

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[–] Galactus03 (4381) a year ago

I went to Indy 5 last week. A Monday. 10:30am. I was surprised the theater was well I over half full. As long as you are not sitting too close to people you should be fine. Covid is here to stay and will always be lurking about unfortunately. But soon, if not already, it will be in par with getting the flu or a really bad cold...

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[–] millsey72 (10666) a year ago

Thanks for clarifying

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