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I mean honestly, it's CGI for the most part but it looks real enough.
And the atmosphere is fantastic.
It's a crime, it's misused for the most embarrassing entry scene of a villain with rat talk and feeling up Craig's legs. Not to mention....mommy....was....verybad....YIKES
The lair of Oberhauser is fantastic. The meteor room! The surroundings, everything.
It gets enough screen time and a fantastic shoot out sequence.
The Ice Palace feels more Bond tough. Much more. It evokes Ken Adam to some degree, something none of the current era films ever managed to do.
Those too, I forgot about those. That means it's time I give myself a Bond refresher Bondathon.
DAD is 15 years old now and I can see that in the next five years it will become one of my favourites again, because it was in the 00s. I had DAD at No 9 or 10 for a good decade.
With so many great Bond film it's hard to rank anyway, at the moment it's No 17, but I think it'll go up again.
DAD was dead last by default for several years.
Now it has grown immensely on me. Recent outings like QOS and SF make me really long for those old school Bond efforts.
It was around 2000-2002 that I really got into Bond. The Nightfire game and my first cinematic 007 experience are unforgettably nostalgic moments for me.
DAD was that film. In retrospect I've really grown to like it. This film is a celebration of 40 years of Bond and it unapologetically pays homage to every single entry that came before it. It starts as LTK and ends as TSWLM.
The sword fight is brillant, I also like how Bond knows how to fence (very stylish), Halle does the playful Bond girl fine (bar the 'momma' comment), the Vanquish is a gorgeous car and so is the Jag (great chase), that Raoul character makes for an amusing ally, the ice palace is a fantastic set in the tradition of Ken Adam, the Arnold score is great, I love the Madonna track, the cinematography is excellent, I also quite enjoy the snarling Graves as 007's alter ego and most of all Pierce is exquisite!
There you go! Love this film!
I get my two hours of unabashed entertainment, so I do manage to enjoy it. For that reason, DAD sneaks into the top half of the list for me (I have it at #12). I actually find the darker opening to be a detractor, especially because the film producers really didn't commit to that darker approach at all. If they had just gone full camp from the start like Moonraker it might've scored more points from me.
My complaints with DAD are more or less the same as the typical ones, but probably to a lesser extent. I view them as minor crimes in comparison to trying to make Bond something he's not (in my opinion).
SF is fun-less, dreary, boring, soap oper drama level, almost completely humorless, very unbondian and has a villain that would be better off in an Austin Powers film with cringe worthy dialogue and over"acting". Craig looks awful even in the PTS and it's by far his worst performance of all four films. And that "score"....*throwup
I too am beginning to 'appreciate' DAD more than the other two over time. It's a film that's not ashamed of what it is (although perhaps it should be). There's something to be said for limited narrative ambitions & just going all out for entertainment.
I think there's less to be ashamed of here than the directionless TWINE, which just feels misguided and exhausted on nearly every front.
Die another day is the film with a villain that belongs in an austin powers film, first off. I like bardem as silva. Craigs worst preformance is in quantim of solace. Die another day certainly has it with score, fun/ ebtertaining, funny, (skyfall does have some good humor in the mix though)but it also has it with terrible dialouge, worse writing, an inferior james bond, and absurdity.
That being said, though it should be recognized for the pile of horsecrap that it is in many respects, there is certainly great non ironic entertainment value Its great because of its unapologetic ottness, its absurdity. Skyfall is the more artistic, but die another day is the testament to the beauty of ott action. I cant call it anything other than a bad film, but it does have its greatnsss, abd therefore its not that bad overall.
Silva would have been good for a film like DAD. But in the serious, non-fun, dreary SF he is just off, he feels out of place, and some of his acting feels like something Mike Myers would do, his dying scene. Moooother.... etc.
Gustav Graves on the other hand is simply the perfect OTT super villain and he fits DAD like a glove.
As for artistry. SF has the best cinematography ever. It's stylish and it looks great. It's just hollow and has a non-sense plot that is even a bad copy of TWINE.
I'm not sure if I immediately hated it from the outset, but it certainly didn't impress (the convoluted plot and wasted potential immediately came to mind), and it's gotten less and less bearable with each viewing. I now find the mid-section of the film to be padded and completely unfocused.
I HATED the bloody plot twist and Renard, he is just boring. Also the film in general is quite dull after the PTS, I like the Ski scene and I like the scene with Christmas Jones in the underground. That's about it.
+1
I agree if GE and TND get an AAA rating.
It's hard to think of a worse action scene in the series.
I swear you were sent by God to make me have a stroke.
God? It was the devil!
2 points of contention.
Gustav Graves does fit dad like a glove, and i do appreciate him and sort of like him in that film, but on the other hand he fits dad for a lot pf the wrong reasons.
I like both, but skyfall is the better version of twine.
Craig Bond just would look silly.
The Ski chase is a terrible, terrible action scene. Next to FYEO, shot nearly twenty years earlier, it looks completely laughable. No energy, no speed, no momentum. I actually don't mind most of TWINE, but this is a shoe-horned stinker.
That doesn't really make any sense.