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Different strokes for different folks. I absolutely love CR, but I also don't care for SF at all and I know it's pretty much loved across the board by die-hard fans and general audiences alike.
Only on this site, lol
Christ I forgot about the TWINE ski chase.
Of his big action sequences:
TND
PTS: It's a cracking PTS but the action itself is largely bangs and explosions. 5/10
Car park chase: Decent, apart from the stupid cable cutter in the BMW badge (but that's not Vic's fault). 7/10
Bike chase: Very solid apart from some dubious model shots (again not Vic's fault). 7/10
Stealth boat finale: Pretty inspid. Just explosions and gunfire. Is that Vic's fault or the script and director? Difficult to say but I guess he has to share a slice of the blame. 2/10
Overall 5.25/10 (21/40)
TWINE
PTS bankers office: Fantastic stunt brilliantly staged and shot. 8/10
Boat chase: Some inane bits (jumping out the side of the MI6 building, driving down the street) but for the most part the action is fabulously staged (although as I mentioned previously, in the behind the scenes stuff Simon Crane was also heavily involved here sp not sure Vic can take all the credit). Special mention for Gary Powell and the speedboat barrel roll which is a fantastic and extremely dangerous stunt. 9/10
Ski chase: Extremely dull. The only decent stunt is when the snowmobile drives off the cliff. 2/10
The missile facility: Rather pedestrian. 3/10
Caviar factory: Fun but you can see the choreography. 5/10
Sub finale: Again interesting but not particularly thrilling. 5/10
6.4/10 (32/50)
DAD
PTS surfing: Best stunt in the film by a million miles. Not sure how much Vic had to do with it though. Didn't they just hire some top surfers and send them to Hawaii with a camera crew? 7/10
PTS hovercraft chase: The helicopter exploding is a great shot but after that it's all very by the numbers and you can practically see the air cannon flipping the hovercraft. When Moon's rams Bond's and it flips over is a low point. Looks so like a rig they made that can flip the hovercraft back and forth so they can keep going back and doing it over and over till they get what they want in the can. 3/10
Blades fight: Shockingly overrated. Nowhere near Grant v Bond, Green 4 and Necros, Alec v Bond or the fights from CR and Slate in QOS. 4/10
Car chase on ice: Meh. Some really great driving but this gets lost with all the crappy gadgets exploding and shooting stuff and then smashing through some fake plastic ice walls in the hotel. 6/10
5/10 (20/40)
Overall Vic isn't terrible just a very average, meat and potatoes safe pair of hands. He'll do a competent job but that's all. A rather dull and predictable choice.
Hear, hear.
I think what you're seeing is that some members just think it's time for him to move on. That's his time in the saddle is up after 13+years. That's all. Perfectly reasonable I should think, and I'd imagine similar feelings existed just prior to AVTAK's release. After all, the Daltonites even today scream that their man should have had a crack earlier.
I think that is indisputable at this point. SF was the high point in terms of global popularity, it was always going to be downhill from there. Not that he needed to quit in 2012, but if they were going to continue, they needed to be more prompt about it. Imagine if we had a four year wait for AVTAK or DAF.
This wasn't on here. I just was watching a CR YouTube video and the comments section were littered with it. About 95% of the people here I feel like Craig, it's the external ones that don't
No one hates Craig, or CR. What some people disagree with is the constant "Craig is the best Bond since Connery", and "CR is the best Bond film ever made". It has become less in recent years, but for a good decade that was all you would hear.
I was trying to put it a way which wouldn't get a telling off from the mods, ROFL. :))
Nice to see you back around here, Quantum Org.
Making mud pies 007?
He's a legend, no doubt. Not my first choice however. My point was that locking him in now means there's plenty of movement over at EoN. If there was no script, or if production was potentially going to be delayed for a period of time, there's no point in securing the 2nd unit director and his team.
More than likely is that he's been locked because he has something he's working with (script, schedules), so that he can start his prep (assembling his team and locking them into the production, working with locations and building what these set-pieces will look like)...
Armstrong who’s seen and done it all, including Bond, will be able to help guide Boyle in this venture (even scaled back set pieces will still be more than anything Boyle has done x 10).
I’m sure Armstrong will also be used as a firm hand to say “no”.... Directors come up with brilliant (and crazy) ideas all the time. They’re idea wizards. And if Boyle were to
Come up with a visual set piece but had no idea of cost (both time and money), Armstrong will be that authority to tell him “not this time”.
I'll just hope that Boyle edits the hell out of them to give them some pace and visual flair.
Personally, that's how the action in Mendes' installments felt to me, way too staged.
^ This. Some are better than others, but for me a lot of the fisticuffs feel extremely staged (both during the Craig era and before).
No doubt. I'm eager to see what he returns to the table with after all these years.