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The helicopter stuff is all good enough, but not if taken to be any kind of megastunt. But I don't understand why they didn't show the entire flip in the film. I think it was in the trailer...
I suspect it ranked as low as it did because of the relationship between Bond and Blofeld!
The parade is awesome. The best bit of the PTS is when Bond follows Sciarra after the explosion through all these people in costumes, especially the bit with the women who seem to "float" (on wheels?) over the street.
It's a great setting for a PTS.
The helicopter action is good, mainly due to the danger with all the people down there. However, it is true that the action could somehow be even better. It doesn't look real at some points and it is an interesting point that a "hook" is somehow missing (as mentioned by someone else).
The CGI destruction of the house looks good but it is still obviously CGI and therefore a (tiny) minus point.
I like the coach gag ;)
I see the point that the PTS could have more tension (a problem of SP in general).
However, Craig Bond walking over the rooftops is a highlight for me. This man knows how to be stylish, even walking is enough to show that.
That's kind of a microcosm for how I feel about the whole film: lots of good bits and nice moments, but it doesn't cohere into one good film.
He must've hated shooting 1917 then! :))
I actually enjoyed that moment in my first viewing.
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999)
featuring well-rounded figures.
TWINE received one silver medal, and additionally also obtained five other top 10 spots, all of which landed between 6th and 10th.
Three members, however, rated it outside the top 20, with even one penultimate ranking, which was also its worst placement.
TWINE collected 97 points in total.
#24 for me.
Yes, tediously long, the Q boat was a cool looking vehicle, but the sequence just goes on and on and on, with little excitement, and its always a little disconcerting for me to hear "Cheerful Charlie Chisolm" speaking with a French accent! (Fans of 'Minder' will know what I'm talking about! 😉)
The boat chase always fascinated me as a teenager and I still have a very good time with it. Bond driving through a restaurant with a boat is nuts and I love it.
The stunt in Bilbao is also cool, Brosnan shines there.
Bond falling on the roof, grabbing some ropes and the titles starts: another highlight for me.
By far the best part of the movie.
Although I do like the escape from the office, enough, everything leading up to it seemed painfully awkward somehow. The lines. The delivery.
And there was no rhythm. It was plodding along for such a short interaction.
Then we have the scene with M which plants some exposition, but further seems as if the scenes are moving at a glacial speed.
Bond running through MI6 and yelling, well, I wasn't on board with that, and then--
The boat chase on the Thames and on the roads (and through the restaurant)....
Sort of like the Spectre, this PTS had elements to make it one of the better ones, and it probably looked good on the page. But the flatness in execution killed this one for me.
Not one of the worst, but not as slick and energetic as it should have been (like the previous film's PTS)
Also, on a rather subjective note, the Cigar Girl is stunningly beautiful.
Indeed. True. Yeah. Oh, YESSS...
SKYFALL (2012)
featuring VW Beetles.
Two silver medals were obtained by this one. On top of that, one more top 5 and five more top 10's were counted.
At the other end of the spectrum, SF stranded in the bottom 5 on three occasions, two of which were penultimate places.
In total SF acquired 99 points.
The car action in the beginning is maybe a bit too slow but the rest is very good (imo). It has an interesting start in the house, where we don't know where we are. The motorcycles on the roof, the bridge jump, the digger, the dramatic finale and how it leads to the titles: great stuff in my book and my #7.
Anyway, SF’s one of my favourites. The opening shot’s brilliant, there’s a great variety of tone (it’s pretty seamless seeing Bond having to confront a dying fellow agent, then see him doing up his cuffs after jumping on the train). The action too improves upon QOS (no rapid, hard to follow editing or camerawork. There’s just a naturalness to it, and as mentioned above it has a nice order in terms of how it starts out on foot and ends on the train). I remember watching it for the first time as well and finding the build up to Bond getting shot genuinely tense and him going into the river shocking.
My feelings exactly. Came in 24th for me as well.
It's also one area where I'd rate SP above it, though not by much.