Ryven posted...
But today, that scene would be shot with green screen, wires, and giant fans. It would look phony as hell.
but they literally did actual skydiving jumps for one of the recent Mission Impossible movies.
Are you sure you're talking about "modern movies" and not just bad movies?
Don't forget that James Bond was the "big budget action movie" character of those days. He was essentially a 1:1 equivalent to Mission Impossible now. Plenty of movies in those days were using wires and wind machines instead of actually jumping out of planes, too.