When I watched the latest and final installment in the Mission Impossible franchise I left dissapointed. I didn't hate it, but it was overly theological, long, boring, etc. If you love it, that's great! If you don't, well maybe this can help.
What am I doing? Well I am working on fixing MI:8 to be yes in some places a bit slower but not lose itself in exposition dumps and create an epic final tale. With Ethan Hunt and his team on one last mission that by all accounts will be "impossible".
A big change will be that Ethan dies in my edit, why? Because it's the end of the franchise and isn't it almost poetic that the man who tried to avoid the loss of others lives in the end gave his own up to complete that cycle? Yes Luther will still die. But, I can't fix that. :_:
I have so far made the following cuts
The opening no longer has the A.I flashback
Presidents Message is in mindset of potentially getting edited down or chopped altogether
Paris no longer has a flashback to Gabriel telling her she will betray him
I am planning to remove the flashback of her remembering Ethan saving her
Grace no longer has a flashback explaining who sent her to Ethan, instead Ethan just knows by her dialogue.
Ethan makes no remark that he needs his "cuff-links" to escape he just assures her he has a plan (might reverse)
When Ethan is picked up by the government we know longer have a random conversastion about how the guy's dad was killed by Ethan so the son now hates Ethan, blah blah, no cut it all.
I am definetly removing the ice-dome romance scene completely. I might even look to the deleted footage reel
THIS is the only stuff I have SO far
I am going to make more cuts. But this is what I've got as of 10/25/26 @10:06PST. I will make more edits
For my work so far here's clips
I've also worked to cut down the Entity & Ethan chat, it got a bit too religious for me with the "As it is written" and "you are the chosen one" so I cut it down.
V1
I must give a shout out to Spence a fe.org member for their minor assistance and idea discussion.
What am I doing? Well I am working on fixing MI:8 to be yes in some places a bit slower but not lose itself in exposition dumps and create an epic final tale. With Ethan Hunt and his team on one last mission that by all accounts will be "impossible".
A big change will be that Ethan dies in my edit, why? Because it's the end of the franchise and isn't it almost poetic that the man who tried to avoid the loss of others lives in the end gave his own up to complete that cycle? Yes Luther will still die. But, I can't fix that. :_:
I have so far made the following cuts
The opening no longer has the A.I flashback
Presidents Message is in mindset of potentially getting edited down or chopped altogether
Paris no longer has a flashback to Gabriel telling her she will betray him
I am planning to remove the flashback of her remembering Ethan saving her
Grace no longer has a flashback explaining who sent her to Ethan, instead Ethan just knows by her dialogue.
Ethan makes no remark that he needs his "cuff-links" to escape he just assures her he has a plan (might reverse)
When Ethan is picked up by the government we know longer have a random conversastion about how the guy's dad was killed by Ethan so the son now hates Ethan, blah blah, no cut it all.
I am definetly removing the ice-dome romance scene completely. I might even look to the deleted footage reel
THIS is the only stuff I have SO far
I am going to make more cuts. But this is what I've got as of 10/25/26 @10:06PST. I will make more edits
For my work so far here's clips
I've also worked to cut down the Entity & Ethan chat, it got a bit too religious for me with the "As it is written" and "you are the chosen one" so I cut it down.
V1
V2 this one is a bit longer but makes more sense and has less editing glitches. But neither are the final, I'd love to see feedback.
I must give a shout out to Spence a fe.org member for their minor assistance and idea discussion.