Mission: Impossible Director Christopher McQuarrie Recommends Movies from His Letterboxd Watchlist

[@KillahMate]

Compliments to Brian for this interview - the questions and comments were very insightful.

[@brianformo4536]

Thank you, kindly! He's a wonderful interview.

[@drewg4261]

Wonderful interview...highly insightful. You could tell McQuarrie loves talking movies!

[@NecroMoz]

Chris McQuarrie is perhaps the greatest living action director. He has yet to receive his due (perhaps because Tom sucks up so much attention) but Chris is the key to the recent MI films and Top Gun.

[@hagros93]

he didn't direct Top Gun

[@strikerbowls791]

​@@hagros93He produced and wrote it

[@hagros93]

@@strikerbowls791 OP said "greatest living action director" and named Top Gun as an example. Also he was 1 of 5 writers.

[@joe8108]

no he isnt

[@jqyhlmnp]

@@joe8108yeah. Chris McQuarrie loves Eyes Wide Shut

[@johndoderino2609]

The Train is truly incredible, great choice

[@bencarlson4300]

That run from Frankenheimer of The Train, Seconds, The Manchurian Candidate, and Seven Days in May is amazing (I haven’t seen Birdman of Alcatraz or Grand Prix, so it could even be 6 classics in a row).

[@rockinchimp]

​@@bencarlson4300 It is, trust me. He was an incredible director with one of the best runs in film history

[@henryrowlands7590]

A true auteur, thanks to McQuarrie for gifting us back to back action film masterpieces

[@jhbhbhbkjb]

McQ is one of my most favourite creative artists of all time- a creative genius and an incredible personality- I absolutely adore this man! 🥰🙌

[@vladimirhorowitz]

Great stuff. The Train is one of my favorites, too. The McQuarrie/Cruise collaboration will be talked about decades from now. Maybe even in a century, when actors and directors have all been replaced by AI algorithms (I hope not).

[@RSG_TheMonster]

Fitting since the villain of MI Dead Reckoning is an AI

[@strife9878]

Dude that train sequence was like seeing a good Uncharted movie for a couple minutes. These guys are absolute masters of their craft

[@CarlosGomez-mf2gp]

Didn't expect McQ to say he was a security guard in a rough neighbourhood's movie theater . What a badass.

[@scootertart]

Always liked Christopher McQuarrie and his movie making/ scripts. For me his best film is Way of the Gun - such a firecracker of a movie. Really enjoyed MI7 part.1 - looking forward to Part 2.

[@carder_music]

Christopher McQuarrie is the greatest action filmmaker working today in my opinion.

[@chaosinorderrr]

Definitely up there

[@Praveen-msd7]

​@@AbhayPotluri125yeah makes movies so unbelievable that you fall down 100 stairs and get back immediately

[@ryangettig274]

McQuarrie's got great taste & temerity,just screened Crimes & Misdemeanors the other nite,perfect mix of bubbly comedy and dooomy drama,great camera work by Carlo DePlami...

[@WormTimeProductions]

excellent! this feels very valuable. thank you!

[@wishvakrish3583]

Tom cruise is a gift to film industry .

[@strife9878]

After seeing this movie, YOU Can't tell me that a Metal Gear or good Uncharted flick isn't possible. Tom and Christopher are on a whole another level compared to the rest of action movies

[@alexpilgrim8248]

Those two games came to mind. I thought of MGS 5 with the sandstorm shootout and Uncharted 2 with the train derailing.

[@apocalypsepow]

I feel like Midnight Run has been having a moment lately.

[@fernandohinojosa3211]

Lone star--->Masterpiece

[@barryosullivan7763]

While I enjoyed MI:7 you can tell that the action came first and emotion 2nd (which McQ admits at 3:36 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH2vf5aOlJuBadE), why for me the action scenes in Fallout are stronger with more at stake!

[@DanArnets1492]

Once again there's this thing about real experiences making for good movies, specially action-oriented ones · Irvin Kershner = from WW2 and a photographer in bad exotic places to The Empire Strikes Back · James Cameron = from a wild highschooler to Terminator and Aliens · Quentin Tarantino = from usher in a porn cinema and other random stuff to some fantastic action scenes · Christopher McQuarrie = from security guard in a poorly-placed cinema to Mission Impossible A nerd like JJ Abrams or Rian Johnson could never ever do a properly good action movie, they haven't felt a good rush in their lives! If you've never experienced, accepted and even enjoyed bursts of adrenaline, you just can't direct movies about that

[@shitpostheavy]

Hell yeah

[@belair344]

You should work with them too

[@Jon-bt4zv]

Could have linked his profile here guys

[@LetterboxdHQ]

His list is linked in the full description :)

[@Pumpkinking64]

He literary only recommended one movie

[@brianformo4536]

every movie he talks about - the general, the train, etc. is a recommendation for inspiring his work and they're all on his letterboxd list of recommended movies...

[@Pumpkinking64]

@@brianformo4536 you are lying!

[@jesseowenvillamor6348]

​@@Pumpkinking64No, he's not

[@poopyloopy7236]

he sounds like stephen king

[@ccan_max5285]

clap

[@stevenharsono9911]

The problem is Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa Faust character that we loved is dead and becoming a corpse on the Venice bridge , hopefully he can fix this disaster in part 2