This one is going to be very special!

 

You can see cruise is in the back seat of an F18 there, not the front seat. Non aviation enthusiast moviegoers wouldn't notice though I'm sure. 

"If we were going to do it it must be real." Err, yes, but some of the manoeuvres were not exactly real. Like one scene where he fly's right between two jets at close range. Not allowed, 🙄 it was simulated.  

CJ Lamoine, retried F18 pilot, did a great breakdown of what was real and what wasn't.

Will be  a great film I'm sure but the nonsense they come out with for the promotion is amusing. 😁

Yes, all the pilot actors were in the rear seats, but certainly good for up close facial reactions. I suspect there are several CGI scenes based on the proximity of the jets to one another at high speed and G force maneuvers. Good hype though!

Whatever, it will be a great watch, and combined with an update to the aircraft on MSFS, great stuff, even though he is a nutter.  Cheers.

Edited April 19, 20224 yr by FrankPilot

6 hours ago, martin-w said:

You can see cruise is in the back seat of an F18 there, not the front seat. Non aviation enthusiast moviegoers wouldn't notice though I'm sure. 

"If we were going to do it it must be real." Err, yes, but some of the manoeuvres were not exactly real. Like one scene where he fly's right between two jets at close range. Not allowed, 🙄 it was simulated.  

CJ Lamoine, retried F18 pilot, did a great breakdown of what was real and what wasn't.

Will be  a great film I'm sure but the nonsense they come out with for the promotion is amusing. 😁

They have to top the  "Communicating, Keeping up foreign relations" scene in the original film with something even more outlandish 😄

I  read somewhere there will absolutely be no CGI in this film. Trick camera shots and angles that fool the eye, but every image is real. e.g. a fighter crashing and burning is not really a plane, but it is a real something exploding and burning, not a drawing, not a cartoon.

I hate CGI. CGI ruined Hobbit because there was too much of it for too long. There's a limit to how long a viewer wants to see a pack of giant cartoon wolves chasing Sam and his band of dwarfs. The dwarfs weren't really that small but they were real people and so believable. Not so the over the top emotional lupine villains!

I liked the bit where he said "ready for some G's" and then did an ultra low G aileron roll. 😁

Also said, all actors launched from the carrier. Wrong! It was only Cruise. The rest took off from bases.  🙄

They do get a bit annoying in these promotional trailers. My favourite was for The Matrix when some guy said Keanu Reaves got so good at martial arts he could take out Jet Li. 🤣

Edited April 20, 20224 yr by martin-w

16 hours ago, Fielder said:

I hate CGI. CGI ruined Hobbit because there was too much of it for too long. There's a limit to how long a viewer wants to see a pack of giant cartoon wolves chasing Sam and his band of dwarfs. The dwarfs weren't really that small but they were real people and so believable. Not so the over the top emotional lupine villains!

 

Yeah, CGI is great when its done well and not to excess, but sometimes they go bonkers. Like some of the Marvel films that look so cartoonish and the characters movements weird and fake.