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Natalya may just be the most believable Bond girl in the franchise.
I still think QoS has one of the best PTS in the series.
The best pre-title sequences are GOLDFINGER, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, MOONRAKER, OCTOPUSSY, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, QUANTUM OF SOLACE and SKYFALL.
I second this. The PTS car chase is amazing. Not every car chase has to be panning, wide angles. I like the fact that every shot was shown just for a short time, the editing is tight and minimalist.
Interesting. I always thought it is a given that the editing in QOS was generally disliked.
Obviously not. It will be interesting to see how the PTS of QOS will do in the elimination game.
I will re-watch it (it's only roughly 4 minutes) tonight and re-evaluate my opinion on it.
I disagree, my top 5 PTS are
1. Casino Royale
2. The Living Daylights
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. From Russia with Love
5. Quantum of Solace
I agree it is a good car chase, but that is all it is. I think the Spectre car chase would have been a better pts.
I think the QOS PTS is too much like an advert in terms of its editing.
IMO I had a bigger sense of 'TV advert' style during the sequence when Bond enteres Camille's car in Haiti, up until he gets kicked out of car.
and the establishing shots at the party/Craig and Fields getting out of the Ford(?)
Also, I think Connery should have been the only Bond to get away with NOT uttering the signature "Bond, James Bond" in each film. That it was removed from QoS, to me, makes the film feel even less like a Bond movie. However, I do feel it should be worked in smoothly and not forced. The Moore films, IMO were best at fitting it in there, yet not really calling attention to itself.
A truly awful sequence only there to satisfy Ford execs. The crappy music hat sounds like an advertising jingle doesn't help. I find it even more jarring than the similar Ford advert scene in CR.
Although the 10 minute shot of Bond's hand at the controls of the JCB in SF just so we all get a good look at the Omega he is sporting might just be worst of all.
Come on, product placement is hardly new in Bond.
Technically speaking Craig's Bond has yet to have a very good car chase, IMO. CR's is closed with an impressive stunt but can you call that a chase? QOS's is just plain bad. SF's brief car chase in the PTS doesn't stand on it's own as it's one part of the larger chase for the list. SP's is just too jokey and doesn't have any sense of pace. So I am still waiting for a good car chase from Craig.
In an alternative universe I like to imagine that the QOS car chase did not exist and that the Sienna chase was the PTS instead, ending with the upside down shot used as the gunbarrel.
So? Like, seriously, so what? That doesn't mean anything. It's dumb product placement. Something that whilst we can't do anything about we don't have to be content with. It was not at all a problem in the Connery films, and then slowly grew until it exploded in DAD and the Craig era. Enough already. I don't care what watch Bond wears anymore.
Oh yeah Natalya is great.
Imagine how Star Wars fans would feel if they saved the iconic Star Wars theme for the end.
Yeah I'm not sure what is up with this recent minimal use of the Bond theme since CR. I understood it being used less as it was Bond earning it but QoS onward should have had it more dominant during action scenes at least. And I don't know why David Arnold's arrangement for CR had to be used in Skyfall and Spectre. Why couldn't Thomas Newman do his own version? Surly there was enough time for him to do a new arrangement of it. There are a lot of questions that need answering. Like is Monty Norman asking too much for royalties of the Theme? Is that why it's featured less? I'm really curious to know because I miss the days when the Bond theme was added perfectly into an action scene and made you want to shout YES THAT'S JAMES BOND RIGHT THERE! Without out it's like Superman without his Iconic theme.
Bang on the money. As the speedboat roars out of the crumbling MI6 building any director worth his salt would have said 'I want the Bond theme at full blast here' buy Newman thinks his own music is better.
Perhaps it is a royalties thing. Perhaps if they use the CR recording Monty only gets paid at 2006 rates or something. Or if they did a new version they'd have to renegotiate with his agent and now the films are making $1 bil he would demand a higher rate? Perhaps they went to pay Monty his royalties but then realised that there was a big black hole in the budget which Mendes had blown up so they couldn't afford to use the Bond theme?
Or maybe it's just that Newman hasn't got a clue what he's doing and should never be let near the franchise again?
You're right on Superman too. Watching Man of Steel (which I consider a very poor film) near the end of all the tedious skyscraper smashing there's a bit when he looks beaten and is stuck under a load of rubble. If at that point the proper John Williams theme had started up and Superman had flown up and kicked ass I would have pretty much forgiven the film everything.
That's the power of these iconic them tunes and you discard them at your peril.