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Me too. Checking for a friend
Don't waste your time. Grainy resolution and giant moustaches everywhere - and not just on the men.
Czech Casting in 4K much more like it. Or so I've been told.
SP final act, the return to London falls flat but up to then its very entertaining.
DAD goes wrong just after the opening surfing sequence.., action, theme song, cast, dialogue , cinematography, effects, all dire! It is literally painful to sit through!
Pretty much. DAD goes wrong far sooner than when SP does. Besides much of SP’s third act, it’s a decent Bond film in most aspects.
With SP Mendes seemed to think he was Kubrick but didn't actually have the material to justify it. The SP plot is such a big dogs dinner it's a wonder anything came good out of it at all. It is a good film though, (but bottom of Craig's tenure) has a fantastic PTS, looks great, has one of the series best fight scenes, the torture scene is good up to a point and it's all very watchable.
That's the difference for me. DAD doesn't try and be anything but a big action fantasy. SP had the potential to be something really special and never came close.
SP is a fine, OTT escapist Bond that I also view regularly. Dan rocks here. And I don't care that the music is recycled from SF because like MR I never watch it, so I don't notice.
And I like both movies all the way to the end. ;)
Thank you for putting it straight!
As far as coherence of plot and volume/severity of plot holes goes, DAD wins.
As far as not ruining an established character from the glorious past of the franchise with a soap-opera style personal connection goes, DAD wins.
As far as a satisfying ending goes, DAD wins.
As far as musical scores go, DAD wins.
DAD wins.
And despite the praise I've given DAD a page or two back, I still consider SP the 'better made' film and put it a bit higher in my ranking.
To people like you it might. People like me rather watch it twice a week then to sit just once more through SP (or SF for that matter).
Even if he had the right material he still wouldn't be Kubrick. Kubrick was a genius, Mendes is just mediocre talented at best. And all the talent he has lies in being pretentious.
I agree about Mendes. It makes me laugh when all these big name 'auteur' directors get mentioned in connection with a Bond film.
They don't suit a Bond film. As Martin Campbell proved, you don't need a big flashy director to make a good Bond film. It needs a down to earth disciplined director who can handle a big budget movie.
Yep, me too.
Anyone know what John Glen thought of the Mendes Bond films?
That last sentence is easily the biggest sin for me, and why I'll always elect to pop in DAD over SP. .
I don't think an auteur has ever worked on a Bond film. Serious high-brow film critics--the sort who seriously throw around the word "auteur"--do not regard Mendes as an auteur. They view him as a middlebrow who wandered in from the theatre and tends to make white elephant films. Michael Mann on the other hand is considered an auteur, even if he's also directed action films. What a Bond film requires is a director who's skilled at directing action, has a certain sense of style and elegance, and can get credible performances from the actors.
This, 100%.
The villains plot is better in DAD.
The Bond performance is better in DAD
I truly hate the cinematography of SP. I can't understand why people like it. It looks as though the film was dropped in coffee before it was developed. So DAD...
Come to think of it, surfing and one-lining aside, I prefer DAD.
Did Hoity Toityma actually piss on the filter? Is that an artistic method? At least it is cheap.
It's either that, or he worked on the film in the middle of a Chinese street and all the air pollution seeped into the footage.
More money for Mendes to blow on the explosion? @Thunderfinger, I think you cracked it!