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Same here. @doubleohdad has totally convinced me with his well argued points. Rog is not the living man-God I'd previously thought, but a puff pastry in a wig. ;)
And here's one of Dan from SF;
But Roger isn't crying, I'm sure. Let it never be said the man has no sense of humor. ;)
(Oh, and Sir Rog likes the picture you found, @chrisisall. He said to tell you there is a box of exploding cigars heading your way.)
I don't know why he came back in DAF. Greed most likely. He always complained that Cubby and Harry screwed him financially, and he wasn't paid enough.
Sean seems to forget he'd have been a nothing without EON.
Going back to DAF, he's far too overweight, and isn't even playing the same character. One semi decent fight in a lift does not a good Bond film make.
An example please dear @Thunderfinger
It also features the camera crew in the mirror at about the same time. Typical of a Guy Hamilton Bond film.
It's like Hamiltons Bond films are him saying " We've got this great character and stories. But I can make it better."
After Terence Young made DN and FRWL, Hamilton came along and added over the top fantasy and gadgets. Worst director of the series so far. Oh wait...Tamahori. But then he did only direct one, too Hamiltons four.
Are you on first name terms with Rog?
Yeah. One of the perks of the job.
The free-fall sequence in QoS is abysmal. Obvious CGI and if they pulled the parachute that late (they were probably 100 feet from the ground) they'd be flattened like a pancake. BASE jumpers can get away with it (although that distance is pushing it even for them) because their bodies haven't been falling and accelerating for several seconds already. If you're going to take yourself as seriously as the Craig films do you can't get away with things like this as easily.
In LALD, it was done for real. No CGI.
Absolutely 100% agree. CGI is not there yet and they should use it more judiciously in the Bond films in particular. Marvel can get away with more because it's a fantastical universe but Bond cannot.
I always come back to the CR crane scene. A work of absolute art and a recent benchmark re: how to do it. The QoS bell tower fight in Siena had CGI and it took me out of the experience
Rog: "I'd like to thank the world for letting me make a mockery out of James bond. For my next trick I will be donning a gorilla suit, then rolling around like a pastry atop a rear projection set. Thank you!"
Yeah, except the stuntman has to sit there and wait for the Moore to do it since he's so slow and painfully awful at fighting, then 'react' like Moore actually had some power behind his 'blow'.
Well-spotted.
That certainly would have mede them believable, since the Moore could not fight to save his own life. Love how he slams the head of the guy against the wall THREE times, yet pulls back each time just enough to ruin the effect.
Good one, Rog!