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The 'grieving' thing wasn't bad I agree. It's just that the scene doesn't gel all that well for me. It was almost like the whole thing was inserted to get the supposedly witty "No" response from Bond. Force fed.
The 'why did you come' however was brutally bad imho. That was in the later trailers and was a tip off to me that this film was going to be less than stellar. Even a 7 year old could have written something better. In fairness the same applies to 'some men are coming to kill us. we're going to kill them first' from SF and yet I've had that one up near my avatar for many years.
If there is one impression I don't got from the early bond movies,then it's that that they filmed to much in the studio. Hell, in Doctor No alone there was more shooting on location then in all of Skyfall together.
Or mesa!
Also, not so sure about your "auteurs" argument, @haserot. There's certainly less "auteurs" around today than there were in the past. Unless you're talking about indie films whereby someone with a cheap video camera has shot something entirely on a shoestring budget and calls it art. I guess there's plenty of terrible quality, homemade trash passing itself of as proper movies nowadays. One only needs to take a look at some of those Amazon download movies available for streaming today, to see how the standard has hit rock-bottom. I don't think many directors, aside from Darren Aronofsky (God only knows why he keeps getting funded?) and perhaps Tarantino, Nolan and small handful of others, can afford to be too far up their own jacksies. Can't really see much of an independent movement going on today, to be honest. It's not like we're in an age where we can compare "auteur" names such as Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut, Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kubrick, Bertolucci, Howard Hawks, Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, Rossellini, David Lean, Luis Buñuel, plus Sergio Leone and the like to the modern crop.
are you sure?.. yes, they filmed a lot on location, in the same location - but the majority of that film was a sound stage.
i didn't mean actual auteurs - i said "those that fancy themselves auteurs".. because filmmaking is a far more accessible medium than it has ever been before, so now you got a few thousand handicam heroes that believe they are the next Hitchcock - thats the point I was getting at..
yes they shot at Piz Gloria - but you are telling me all those interiors at Piz Gloria were shot on location as well?.. you don't think the interiors were duplicated on a soundstage at Pinewood?... yes, all the exteriors, including the skiing were obviously done on location at Piz Gloria.. but mostly every interior shot, even the main room with the 360 view - that was a sound stage.
the technique is not rear projection... rear projection is what they used for the closeups during the skiing and bobsled scenes..
the mountain scape during certain shots was an obvious matte painting
(for those unfamiliar with what a matte painting is, or how it's utilized, here is a link... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting)
here in this scene - the legit location being used, is when they are all sitting down, getting ready for dinner.... once it cuts to the closeups, it's a matte painting on a sound stage.
Well.... I stand corrected - and I am willing to eat this plate of crow and humble pie in front of me - in regards to OHMSS... i was just reading this about the making of OHMSS, and Syd Cain had to practially build Piz Gloria on location... from the article...
so... with that being said....
As of right now, moving the release date to Dec. 4 would open Bond up for three weeks of no serious competition.
Certainly not! At any rate, I do agree famous actors are not necessary at all.
Thank heavens for that!! I too, don't think the producers need to cast an already established "star" — I use the term loosely as they're clearly aren't any stars anymore — for the role of James Bond. That we both agree upon.
Possible, but unlikely. It’d be quite awkward since he already formally stated he was coming back. I think they still haven’t found his replacement.
I'd say he's 90% coming back, but if they haven't signed on a director yet, those odds could drop if things aren't in place within the next few months, could be another Dalton/Brosnan scenario.
Absolutely, it'd be 2020 at the earliest, I'm guessing. Probably restart from scratch, order a new script, begin the arduous search for a new actor, etc.
... But the more I think about it, the 60th Anniversary is in 2022, only 3 years after B25.. Its possible that EON try and pry him back for the big anniversary.. Although I wouldn't put them past using the occasion to usher in a new 007, like they did with Dalton.
That's how I feel. Not only did Craig say it on the Colbert show, but Eon put out a press release immediately after.
I think it would take something of a highly disruptive nature to change. It looks bad otherwise.
I’m sure the majority of most of the films was shot at Pinewood. But Dr No certainly gives you a taste of Jamaica. Lots of great locations used. A young Chris Blackwell (of Island Records game) was the location scout. He is Jamaican so knew the island well and it really shows. His mother happened to be having an affair with Fleming at the time which no doubt contributed his getting the job!
Would love to see Bond back in Jamaica. Hasn’t happened since LALD and there it didn’t feature as itself.
Time for some up to date Jamaican locations.