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As if I would let John Woo be brought up, without referencing Hard Target.
Is that a game like 'whack-a-mole'?
I’m sure it’s better than any other Spottiswoode crap.
It's missing the doves alright (I think, I can't remember them if they were there), but it has all of his other trademarks that make it distinctly Woo.
Sort of. But this is the Permadeath Mode: Punch-a-Rattler.
Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot makes ALL his movies crap then, eh?
But I feel TND is taking a beating, so to increase its self-esteem, I'll say I'm happy with it just as it is.
Hard Target was delightfully nuts. MI2 was dreamy in its romantic action. TND was character-driven w/crazy stunts & gun fire.
Just sayin'.
I think the only movie I like associated with him was 48 HOURS. It’s the only writing credit he’s ever had, oddly.
Nice catch. Yeah, he did good on that.
Best Of Times, Air America, Shoot To Kill, The Pursuit Of DB Cooper.... he wasn't a newbie to film-making...
A sinking ship is a submarine, sort of. Sorry, mixed up the wording. But yes, both of those are boring.
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper is a great movie. Years since I seen It!
Honestly the fact that you managed to do it once using an iPad is damn impressive lol
The chaotic writing process might have influenced this movie in a negative way.
I actually think it’s a tribute to the movie that it turned out as good as it did.A chaotic writing process can really mess up the final result ( See QOS, though it seems to have its fans on this forum ).
And we are many!!!
I would take QOS over the borefest that is TND any day of the week!
;)
Wow. QOS was a mess, but in the end I feel like it was a pretty coherent mess. TND was never a mess at all.
Basically yes :))
I respect that, and I love TND, but it’s hard for me to stand by some of the decisions made within that film. QOS has one or two elements that work for me but the rest falls apart, and it’s a movie I really want to like, I want QOS to have that same journey with me that LTK did, where it went from my most hated to one of my most appreciated, but it’s just hard for me to enjoy QOS when so much of it doesn’t captivate me.
On a different note, anyone else feel as if Ricky Jay was incredibly wasted in TND? The idea of a Bond Henchmen throwing razor bladed Playing Cards as weapons could’ve put Gupta amongst the series best/most memorable characters, but just annoys me with how they cut so much of that out.
In MY Bond Universe, the scene with Gupta throwing razor-edged playing cards at 007 was never cut from the released print of TND. One of the highlights of a film with several other highlights to it.
They deleted those card throwing scenes for a reason.It looked ridiculous.Gupta was better as just a computer nerd.Besides,the film already had two capable henchmen.If anything I think Dr.Kaufman deserved more screen time ( Though the scene with him and Bond is definitely one of the best in the film ).
Agreed. The film was edited pretty flawlessly. The deleted stuff was interesting, but the movie flowed better without it.
I don’t think it looked ridiculous at all, it gave him a trait that would’ve made him much more interesting as a character than just another “Generic Computer Hacker”
Brosnan has two of my favourite moments in this film. They don't mean much but when he's being informed about "an urgent phone call", he does that thing with the nod and smile that says "yeah right, I know what's about to happen but I'll play along." I just love that. And then of course his "I'm having a blast!" face during the parking lot chase.
Great moments. In the first one, I also like how he tilts his head when listening to the security guard. His entire body language says exactly what you mentioned.
That's interesting that you mention the "urgent phone call" moment because that's always been one of my favorites too.