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I don't agree about DAF being boring but I agree with your statement. In fact that's why I put FYEO last and SF a lot lower than most fans.
I really find myself agreeing with you on this. I like aspects of DAF (namely Jill St. John and Charles Gray), but it really is the only film in the series that I genuinely struggle to finish.
I certainly agree that the last half hour or so of SP is pretty dull.
That would piss me off for ANY film I saw in theaters, whether I was loving it or not. If you can't put away any electronic devices for two hours and sit through a movie undisturbed, then the theaters aren't a place for you.
I give 100% focus to any film I catch in theaters (unless it's shit and I start to tune out), and it's still easy to catch someone using it. Sitting in a dark theater where the only light available emanates from the screen or EXIT signs, it's incredibly simple to spot someone on their phone, lowered brightness or not.
If it was my first viewing, then I would have lost it. Thankfully I didn't notice any of this then, but it could just have been because I was more focused on the film the first time out.
If I were to guess, I think the section of the film after 'ball buster' which deals with the recuperation (loss of armour and all that gibberish) all the way up to the Vesper betrayal in Venice would have had the theatre lit up like a Christmas tree.
Indeed. I was enthralled by Spectre, yet in the Moroccan scenes people were fidgeting and using their damned phones. It's very hard too ignore.
Yeah. Audiences were very much into SF. I actually think all the negative publicity surrounding SP put a damper on audience enthusiasm. Media obsessing on the wrist slashing remarks, whether or not Elba should be Bond etc etc brought a negative cloud over SP. SF was a celebration.
SF, though, I disagree on. I think it's one of the best paced and most thoroughly entertaining from start-to-finish.
And SKYFALL is the best Bond film since FRWL. No kidding, and therefore no addition of "It's true. People tell me that all the time."
I'm afraid I must disagree, Skyfall is the most anti-Bondian film of the whole franchise. 007 is no longer a gentleman spy with class but a worn-out, beardy bodybuilder who drinks Heineken from the bottle and plays working class bar games with scorpions. This film portrays a "Bond" for the politically correct masses who lost his elegance and with that basically his essence.
But has Craig's Bond ever had the elegance of a gentleman? Think about him ordering a Vodka Martini in Casino Royale. A funny scene but not how a gentleman would behave.
It bothers me throughout his tenure, less so in QOS but to a greater extend in SF.
Mine also great movie.
And yet he has a family manse...the script makes no sense.
Then in SP we see his flat. That Just doesn't feel like Bond either (yes, I know, I know, May and LALD/Miss Caruso, but since CR we have had far too many scenes with the MI6 characters at home). It used to be a rarity (OHMSS).