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Fans? You mean toddlers, right?
Jinx feels like a caricature dreamt up by younger teenage fans.
You're doing teenagers a real disservice there. ;-)
And replace the Icarus Satellite with say the Icarus nuclear missile. (Ala Moonraker Novel.) And it would make for better suspense.
And therein lies the problem.
You have a good outline there but then it was passed on to Wade, Purvis and ultimately Tamahori who turned it into absolute shit.
dramaqueen that your are. ;)
But a nuclear rocket makes no sense when it comes to the placement that is Korea, the Icarus satalite at least does indeed clear the minefield thus making an invasion possible. For suspense this choice works.
The genetherapy works too as a Korean man changed into a western man, which is far more difficult as Flemings Drax taking the identity from a dead POW during WOII or WOI.
And I did enjoy that bit of mayhem and destruction when Bond visited the hospital.
When he reported to M about the clinic she told them they did not know about the clinics existance and Bond told it did no more. :D
The movie does suffer under an overkill of OTT action as the rocketshiprace and Bond being chased by a satalite ray and the CGI surfing bit. Another bad point is the OTT ending on board of a plane. They had some serious drama in their hands with son vs father, the two ladies and Bond vs baddie for the final fight. With some better scriptwriter who can come up with some exciting ideas the movie could be much more grounded and dramatic.
And your point is?
That a lot of people dont just like DAD, they love it!
Any evidence of that or is it something you've taken a guess at?
I actually hate both ;-)
The fact that it got mainly very good reviews and was a huge box office hit...oh and the fact that Empire magazine called it one of the best Bond movies ever?
So did Skyfall. In fact it took nearly 3 times as much Box Office, won Oscars and BAFTAs and currently has a better score on the likes of IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic but you've said it's a terrible film.
So does that mean your argument falls flat on it's ass?
Total Film pretty much admitted DAD was poor when they reviewed Casino Royale.
I don't think SF is the "best Bond film ever" but I think it's ONE of the best.
Why are you comparing box office and awards between Bond movies 10 years apart?I dont dispute any of your facts but this thread is about DAD and the fact is that it was a very popular film.
At the end of the day it doesnt matter how much money or awards ( everyone knows they are just a joke anyway ) a film makes.Its what you yourself think of a film.Skyfall could have won a dozen oscars and been the highest grossing film of all time but doesnt change the fact that i think its terrible.
While were on the subject though, i beleive Skyfall only made so much and got awards is because of 50th anniversary hype and advertising.Its a british instituition! We have to honour the Bond series! The film makes british people feel proud! It makes MI6 and James Bond look like utter morons for failing to recover state secrets, prevent terrorist attacks, and getting their boss killed for stupid reasons like taking her out to a remote location with no backup to take on an army of mercenaries!
You fail to see the point I made. I asked why you think DAD is so well liked. And your answer was to give me "Good reviews and Box Office figures" and as you've just stated, that doesn't prove it's well liked at all.
It always comes last in any ranking list compiled on this forum and has terrible scores on the sites I mentioned in my previous post.
So there is more evidence that the film has more thumbs down than thumbs up.
Regardless of how much ££ the film made I don't think DAD is well liked at all nowadays. When it's own star is shown laughing at it in a documentary made by the film's makers I think it's fairly obvious what the general view of the film is now.
At the risk of going off topic...
Skyfall is absolutley the worst Bond to me.The films plot makes no sense whatsoever, Bond and MI6 look like utter morons for failing over and over again.Besides the impressive PTS there is very little action of any merit, the climax is just Home Alone in scotland, and worst of all, Bond gets M killed and is not only not fired/court martialled for screwing up so badly, everything seems forgotten about and is just handed his next assignment by the new M.
But this thread is about DAD, and while i am aware of its flaws ( the cgi ice surfing is just inexcusable ) it is still a fun Bond film.