#stephen oyoung

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🎬 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning is a chaotic, caffeine-fueled PowerPoint on what happens when you let an AI write dialogue for a spy thriller. Tom Cruise defies death (and aging) while the plot defies coherence—swinging between heart-stopping stunts and dialogue so clunky, you’ll wish The Entity had erased it instead. Peak franchise absurdity, complete with a villain who’s just ‘angry guy who skipped therapy’ and a climax that thinks gasping at murder is romance. Buckle up for a fun mess. 🔗 Read the full review on Moviez4U: 👉 https://moviez4u.blog/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning/ ✍️ Written by: Ad1mz

[littlekidsteve]

@ammomancer yep Stephen Oyoung is the face model for Jason too

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[emodialisse]

No way I forgot Stephen makes one single appearance in Scandal

[amnmich]

ok just watched mission: impossible - the final reckoning, major major major spoilers under the cut

- started off strong, i wanted the usual mission then self destruct message, but its cool that erika is the president now

- i wish we had gotten more of grace as an agent now. we see some of her training at the party in the beginning, but we know that she’s been an agent for a couple of months now and we didn’t see much of it. the scene where she and ethan are captured, they play up her thievery skills again, but just show her being kinda out of it as ethan beats up that guy with the hammer which i feel like took away from her being an agent

- luther being sick !!!!!!!! i love how his entire story played out in this, he kept his usual cadence of playful but serious and tempering benji’s nervousness and ethan’s borderline recklessness. his message from the poison pill playing over that ending shot was gorgeous

- ONE THING I WANT TO MENTION - my bad for having expectations before going in, but i fully thought we were gonna get ethan’s imf agent origin story based on mi dead reckoning, and ilsa being implied to know gabriel. i thought we were gonna find out that’s why ilsa trusted ethan almost immediately in mi rogue nation but alas

- i like them bringing back william dunloe, that was funny. a very easy way to have benji get the coordinates without the enemies getting them tho

- did not like how gabriel’s story played out. they built him up to be this giant big bad, he had the potential to really, really hurt ethan, but the farthest he goes is threatening to hurt grace because she happens to be a girl ethan associated with

- also another thing i didn’t like, i feel like they tried to make grace more of a love interest wHICH. PLEASE NO. ethan had such dad energy with her in dead reckoning, i hated the boob shots when she was giving him cpr. and then being together in the decompression chamber was fine i guess and it could be taken as platonic but i feel like they were going for a romantic thing there which. personally i despise.

- like the direct parallel of lindsey being like a younger sister to ethan and him recommending her for field duty, and ethan recommending grace for field duty kinda. THEYRE FAMILY YOUR HONOR

- i kinda saw han solo rey parallels with ethan and grace, esp when they go to the doomsday ark. the outfits, and grace having no family, no background, not even a last name really felt like rey nobody to me. also han solo, hotshot pilot turned tired old man = ethan hunt, hotshot spy agent turned tired old man. just burnt out tired old men and their excitable, found family daughters

- liked the scenes with grace, paris, and benji. really thought they were gonna kill off benji for a sec there, maybe go the pass the baton route but ig not. would’ve been cool to see ethan pass the baton to grace, degas, and paris tho

- DEGAS AND PARIS. BRO. MY SHAYLAS. i will take this ship and sprint with it. love their dynamic. everytime paris goes a little feral and violent degas is just over there like. we talked about this. please don’t. and paris is like nah im gonna do it. CHEFS KISS MWAH

- idk if i got queerbaited but it seemed heavily implied that erika was gay so. yay!

- sidenote the amount of times i said to myself “come on mav, do some of that pilot shit” while he was on planes in this movie lmao

- was not the biggest fan of the submarine sequences. love the uss ohio, the caption was mad charming, the crew was awesome. im sad we didn’t have more time with them but that could be my love for found family talking. uss ohio was great, but the stuff in the sunken submarine was kinda boring imo. and they really played up that he would be under extreme pressure and his muscles wouldn’t work and termites and nerve damage, but when he fucking took of his whole damn suit, nothing really happened

- i liked the plane sequences, very cool, very suspenseful. did not like that gabriel’s big death was him getting fucking brained on the bottom of the plane tho. also how did ethan get another parachute? who knows!

overall i enjoyed it, say 7/10. i expected more from a finale, but it was still enjoyable as a movie. i had a very dead theater, maybe having a better crowd could have bumped it up to an 8.

[oceanusborealis]

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning - Movie Review

TL;DR – Does it nail those moments of spectacle? Absolutely, in ways few can. But it is also filled with a lacklustre antagonist, a meandering narrative, and a desperate need to find some relevance. Look, it is just okay, and that’s fine.   ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene.Disclosure – I was invited to a press screening of this film. Mission:…

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Twisters (2024) Review

Kate a retired tornado-chaser is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team collecting data to try and help people survive when a tornado hits. Leaving the comfort of her computer in NYC. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Twisters (2024) Review

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[gamerwoman3d]

There was a post on mk subreddit where someone posted a model that (I think at least) looks a lot like Bi Han.

His name's is Ibere Nakamura. If you look for the post you can find the comparison pic

My understanding is he already denied the claim, according to this source:

Screenshot of the source is below the cut, jn case twitter is unavailable. Ibere Nakamura is clearly a gorgeous man, but a scanned computer render of his face would look different from Bi-Han.

I still think it's Stephen Oyoung.

From a technical standpoint, Nakamura is NOT in close physical proximity to Warner Bros/NRS studios. A quick glance shows he is Brazilian and Japanese and his management company is based in Italy. That would make it difficult for him to acquire and accept work contracts in the USA where the game was made. He also has no visible prior videogame or mocap experience.

[Above Images - Characters based on Computer Generated imagery utilizing Stephen Oyoung's facial scan data.]

Oyoung, on the other hand, already has a credit in the game ["kredit," Sektor, MK1.] He has already done motion capture, facial mocap, and sat for 3D face modeling for another major game studio IN Los Angeles where Warner Bros/NRS is headquartered. (Disney/Marvel Spider-Man, as Mr. Negative.) That means he has already done the type of work required to create an angry scary asian video game character, IN the same geolocation as NRS/WB (Disney lot and WB ranch lots are right next door.) WB/NRS would have needed that skillset at that location at that timeframe. AND He already would have been on set/cleared by security to enter the WB premises just for the VO sessions.

[Above Images: A computer generated character based on Disney/Marvel's facial scans of Stephen Oyoung compared to computer generated images of Bi-Han.]

It is understandable if Oyoung does not look like his characters after the computer geometry scan/final render. Even Noah Fleder doesn't look like Kenshi to me, and he is 💯 Kenshi’s model, Konfirmed.

But what I'm seeing is similarities between the sculpts for Mr. Negative [Disney/Marvel] and the sculpts for Bi-Han [WB/NRS]. The 3D faces from the scan can look so different from the actors' faces that it can be near unrecognizable.

[Above Images - Same guy, according to computer geometry]

It would ALSO explain why there's no official kredit to Sub-Zero's face model. The imdb for this game is a clusterf*ck right now. Tony Chung is credited as Sub-Zero's face model for MK11 and we know he's also Scorpion's face in MK1. Both were a version of Kuai Liang. But in ONE game Kuai Liang is Scorpion and ONE game Kuai Liang is Sub-Zero. So it's easy for the folks at IMDB (who probably never played all these games) to assume that Sub-Zero's actor from the last game IS Sub-Zero from the current game, especially considering that there is ONE NUMBER DIFFERENCE between MK1 and MK11.

Ultimately, if Stephen Oyoung is the face of Bi-Han (Sub-Zero) in MK1, then it is between him, wb, nrs, imdb, his agent, and his management, to ensure that he gets properly credited for his work. And if an agent goes to imdb one day and sees he's kredited as Sektor on MK1, that agent might just check that "Ensure WB have Stephen credited in MK1" off their todo list. This is true ESPECIALLY if correcting imdb's listing means they have to fend off a sea of misinformed beardnecks who can't tell the difference between MK1 and MK11, or who have no idea how to explain the difference between SubScorp(Traditional) from SubScorp(Problematic).

[Above Images: An image of Stephen Oyoung compared to computer generated images of Bi-Han.]

Tony Chung also never to my knowledge claimed to be Bi-Han's (Sub-Zero's) MK1 model: Chung only claims to be Kuai Liang.

But it would be so easy to get misinformed by someone who misread an article. "Tony Chung was Sub-Zero and Scorpion in mortal kombat" is a true statement. But so were other actors, such as John Turk and all the actors who played Scorpion/Hanzo prior to Tony Chung's takeover in MK1. But of course Tony probably wasn't BOTH characters in the SAME release.

It's a headache for people who KNOW Midway Mortal Kombat lore and WB/NRS New Era MK1 lore to explain Sub-Zero, OR Kuai Liang, OR Bi-Han, OR Noob Saibot, OR Kuai Liang's Scorpion transformation to others in the know. Imagine trying to explain it to some office worker who doesn't play these games and doesn't care about them.

[Above Images: Stephen Oyoung's Mr. Negative character has vantablack skin and glowing eyes when using his power. This would be important to WB's casting decision for Bi-Han, as Noob Saibot will theoretically look similar. WB/NRS had to cast someone whose facial features will still track properly and look good when the character is essentially "in dark mode"]

I imagine workers in the departments in charge of doing the kredits can make mistakes with that particular kredit easily.

Ultimately, I don't see Warner Brothers and Nether Realm Studios bothering to cast Stephen Oyoung, a highly accomplished ASIAN actor with Disney and MARVEL experience in martial arts MoCap purely for some cyborg effort noises. Not when he has *that face* and that experience with crafting a game character for a top competitor.

And not just any type of character - a terrifyingly powerful, charasmatic, murderous leader of an ancient ASIAN clan with top tier martial arts prowess. That's a tall order, and Stephen Oyoung fills it. He filled it in Spider-Man. And I think he filled it in Mortal Kombat, too.

I've been wrong in the past. We may never know for certain the identity of Bi-Han’s face model. For all I know, Stephen took one look at this dickcicle blog and told his agent "On second thought let's *not* announce that I was the face model for that guy." I wouldn't blame him.

[Above Images: Bi-Han and Stephen Oyoung make a point.]

But it could also be that he, like a lot of actors, game creators, mocap specialists, and other creatives, just have their hands full at the moment. The SAG-AFTRA strike is over and there's still a lack of protection for most of the VOs, mocap folk, game folk, and live streaming entertainers. It isn't impossible that he's not on great terms with the studios if he elected to speak out about some of the behind-the-scenes problems of the game-entertainment industry.

He may not even legally be in a position to ask them for kredit where kredit is due.

It's honestly the only explanation I can think of as to WHY the fuck we do not have a clear-ass answer for whose faces we're looking at in these damn games.

Below is a screenshot from January 29, 2024

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Stephen Oyoung Levels Up From Stuntman to 'Mission: Impossible' Star

Martial arts expert Stephen Oyoung developed a love of acting as a child, but with his career heading down the path of stunts and fight choreography, a seemingly impossible mission to find his own roles would take some serious self-confidence. Now starring in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Oyoung tells M&F how self-belief and the watchful eye of his hero, Tom Cruise, has proven that…

[goatsghost]

asian-ifying the batfamily with technically-not-quite-canon evidence but it makes enough sense in my head:

dick is half romani/half white, and it sounds like romani people are considered indo-aryan, and come primarily from india but also any of the surrounding countries in that area, so we’re good here

BUT, to be extra, i’m also heavily leaning into the wfa live action that got cancelled, where dick was going to be played by yoshi sudarso (indonesian), who i love. AND dick’s voice actor in gotham knights is christopher sean, who’s mixed japanese/white

basically what i’m saying is that the dick in my head deserves to be a poc at this point

cass is already canonically chinese/white

damian is also already canonically arab/chinese/white

jason, though he is canonically fully white, before finding out his biological mother was sheila haywood, both he and bruce briefly consider lady shiva (for some reason). so. he must at least look to be mixed race for it to be a genuine possibility

also his va in gotham knights is chinese (stephen oyoung)

for tim, i am still living in the era when ryan potter made a video to campaign to be tim drake for ben affleck’s batman. it didn’t work, they didn’t want a robin for those movies, but from then on he became the tim drake in my heart

though in titans (which i haven’t actually watched), it looks like his character is blasian? (jay lycurgo) so i’m here for that too, tim is just meant to be mixed race <3

duke i’m coming for you next

[emodialisse]

HOOOOO OKAY

Hey I think you might like this @daizu-1

ALSO WHO ARE YOU HELPING BACK THERE HUH, PETE? (probably a random bald raft inmate but still)

I'm going insane 👍🏽

[eunisyn]

My friend just told me all 4 of the batboys are not white, not half white. Like I knew about Damian, but what?!

tbh they can be whatever you want them to be

i headcanon tim as asian, idk what asian prob viet bc im viet (I also hc jason as asian bc i love stephen oyoung as his VA) so they can be white, black, mixed, whatever!!

who cares! dont restrain yourself to canon it'll be retcon by the next writer anyway

[jbberry7]

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(left to right) Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Esai Morales, Greg Tarzan Davis, Angela Bassett, Hayley Atwell, Tom Cruise, Chris McQuarrie, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Eddie Hamilton, Tracy Robbins and Stephen Oyoung attend the global premiere for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning at Leicester Square Gardens in central London. Picture date: Thursday May 15, 2025.