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Yea it was just DC telling SM that he couldn't 'effing' ski or something like that.
Have Bond ski down a series of hills that leads to the roadway Madeleine is being taken down in the convoy, show him fighting off enemies as he goes, jumping from each high summit until he reaches a last jump, which rockets him into the air, landing him on the roadway which he skids along just in time to jump onto the convoy carrying Madeleine, after which he kills all the guys inside the vehicle and takes control of it, racing her out of there, ramming Hinx's car over the road as he goes.
The aftermath would still be the same; the conversation with Bond and Madeleine would be unchanged from what it is after the plane sequence, it would just be exchanged inside the vehicle as Bond speeds away towards Q's hotel room.
One can dream.
Hence why I created this topic a few years ago ;-):
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/5596/spectre-bringing-skiing-to-new-levels-in-austria-julian-carr-halvor-angvik#latest
This is awesome.
This isn't.
Would've been infinitely better than what we got. Shame. Maybe we'll get a return to skiing in the near future.
I like both. Snow Plane uses a lot of flourishes of brass that recall Barry. And the Bond theme (or something that sounds like it) is teased twice (2:33 and 3:55).
It certainly doesn't elevate the sequence like a great score should, however.
As it stands I think the plane chase is good, but not great. It's great on paper: Bond has a firefight while flying a plane, when he then crashes it and uses it to total the convoy before finishing off the last couple of guards. Sounds like a great setpiece, and it does have some good stuntwork and a couple of great moments. But it wasn't very well executed, imo. The music is the main problem. There are a couple of nice flourishes but what should feel like an epic, heroic moment (Bond emerging in the plane) actually feels pretty pedestrian. I think the editing felt a bit bland too. Which is weird because on the whole I thought Spectre's action was terrific and that Mendes really hit his stride with the action scenes (the PTS and the Hinx fight being the highlights), but then with this one he seemed to regress a bit. It was like he was bored with it and wanted to just get past it and on with the plot.
It's a good seqence. The setup is brilliant (I love all the scenes at the clinic), Bond telling the guard to stay because (no matter how easy it'd be for him) he can't be arsed to fight him is a personal favourite highlight. And I love the cocky wave he does to Hinx before the shooting starts. And like I said the stunts themselves are actually pretty impressive, and the scenery is great. A better score and some more intense editing/direction and it could have been a great setpiece. As it stands, it's fun enough and technically impressive but is definitely the worst action scene of the film imo.
I can't believe anyone prefers this to the tank chase. The opening alone (when the tank smashes through the wall and speeds down the road as Bond emerges from the hatch, theme blaring) is one of the most epic, memorable moments of the series, but then the chaos of the tank smashing through walls and speeding round tight corners and the tie straightening bit are the icing on the cake. The sequence is remembered as one of GE's highlights. I think the moments people will remember from Spectre are the opening tracking shot and the DB10 stuff. Noone is going to remember the plane chase.
Is the tank chase cheesey? In parts. But I'll take dumb, ridiculous but well executed fun setpieces over blandly executed, ridiculous but played pretty much completely straight (but with no intensity whatsoever, Bond emerges without a scratch) setpieces any day. I feel like some people just have trouble giving anything from the Brosnan era the edge over anything Craig. That's really the only explanation I can think of for people preferring the plane sequence over the Goldeneye tank chase. Either that or an aversion to any sort of humour whatsoever in action scenes (as the humour is really the only real critique against the tank chase imo).
Why not ;-)?
He's 78 years old, and hasn't tackled a project the size of Bond in a very long time. He'll be 80+ by the time the next Bond movie got started. He's very good, don't get me wrong, just not someone that I ever see helming a Bond film.
Agreed. I love SP a lot but the score was the biggest let down for me. There are 2 great tracks at most but the rest of it does not elevate me in the slightest. This is movie that deserved a few good blasts of the Bond theme in its entirety.
Campbell would be 75 when he starts filming Bond #25. Ridley Scott is actually 6 months older than Verhoeven.
I think in the end it all depends on fitness. All of the above directors currently are fit enough to do another movie.
Verhoeven made some of my favourite movies, he's a one off, but all too old IMO.
It still doesn't alter the fact that Verhoeven doesn't have any recent experience with a movie of this size. Interesting choice, but he'd never be picked over the countless other options.
After rewatching 'Haywire' yesterday, I'd love to see Soderbergh do a Bond film.
No, no, no. How Ritchie is still in demand I don't know. If there were ever a director that epitomised style over substance it's him. Even worse, his style is middling to shite. There are so many interesting directors out there. Hiring Ritchie would be Tamahori MKII.
But.....I like his films :(
I also like his films. I thought UNCLE was great fun. Whether or not his style would suit Bond now is another story, but we could probably do a lot worse!
Now that I would love. Especially if we were taking some direct inspiration from a certain novel and putting the Garden of Death on the big screen. Imagine the tension!