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Sorry, @LastRatStanding ;) I forgot to refresh.
GE - 5
DAD - 2
SP - 2
GE - 6
DAD - 3
SP - 3
DAD - 3
SP - 3
I like the composition in the shot, and it's also out of a scene absolutely full of beautiful and imaginative camerawork. The other two, while they obviously look nice, are completely standard "look at the hero" shots that you would get anywhere. Oh, hes's in the dark and there's a bit of light on him! I've seen William Shatner in that Goldeneye position, and a thousand private dicks in the DAD position.
I didn't vote in the last round because all the shots were kind of like that. I love TLD, and I love Tim's reveal, but there's nothing terribly impressive or novel about how that shot looks.
DAD - 3
SP - 4
GE comfortably in the lead it seems.
I'll give it two more days, see if the tension rises. If not, we have our two finalists by Monday at midnight CET :)
GOLDENEYE
I'll be back soon to open the big final voting lines :)
Actually that’s been my issue with these last few films. As good looking as they may be they come across too much like postcards to me. Too pristine, too neat, too painting-like. I like my film to look a bit more realistic. None of the 60s Bonds have that perfect postcard look yet they do a great job of telling a story AS WELL AS drawing me in to want to come and visit all those places. That’s how a Bond film should look! Even when it comes to 80s Bonds I get more out of Alan Hume’s cinematography than these last few Bonds (aside from Roger Deakins). Watching FYEO or OP I get more out of those locations than the last few Bonds. The cinematography fits the story perfectly and beautifully captures the locations with a realistic look. Instead of a fake-looking postcard look that’s been run through several filters and touched up to death.
Well, I don't think any of these shots are the best of their era, of their films, or in many cases, of their scenes. There's a lowest-common-denominator quality here. All six not only feature James Bond, but James Bond posing in a Bondian way. The Spectre one is the only one with anything more interesting than Captain Kirk lighting, and I also find that one a somewhat strange choice for that film, or for the Craig era.
You have to view the finalist in light of how they were selected. They competed in a round system first against all other suggested images from the same film and only later against each other. Suggest one image from a Bond movie that encapsulates what you think is most Bondian and then scroll back to see where it lost against some other image.
It is just a game and everyone will view some other image as most iconic. The one where Connery leans against the AM did not even compete, because only screenshots were allowed and that was a publicity still. One day we can play this game with publicity material, maybe then a worthy winner is more obvious.
Is this less Bondian and more "postcard-like" because of its contrived composition? I don't really follow. This stuff didn't start with Spectre or Skyfall or the Craig era. (Though it did get better.)
Goldeneye isn't a bad-looking movie, but I'm not sure it's "techno noir" as much as it's just a movie from 1995. In any case, shots more imaginative than this Morticia Addams one are all over that movie too.
I see why the shots here were chosen, and I quite like all of them. But it seems iconicness has overall been considered as the most important part of a shot.
As for the competition, I will open the lines tomorrow :)
Best not to turn yet another thread into a debate by throwing terms like "Bondian" and "contrived composition" around; just focus on the voting. Don't sour the mood, folks. :)
Nicely put, @GoldenGun.
I've seen surveys of the world's funniest joke where people of various cultures are asked to vote, and what you end up with is a joke that is the least unfunny to the largest number of people, and probably not the funniest joke in the world.
Quite right, @CraigMooreOHMSS!
Indeed, I was delighted about that too!
The big final between Tim's introduction in TLD and Pierce's in GE!
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
GOLDENEYE
Please vote for your favourite :)
Fair enough! But to be clear on one thing, I only meant "contrived" in the sense of "deliberate". I used it to describe the shots I most admired! :)
So that makes:
TLD - 3
GE - 3