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On that basis though you, shouldn't you write off Star Trek and Star Wars? Lot's of sounds in space there.
Hell, even the flight into space sequence, as ridiculous as the concept is, is really well done, with superb special effects and accompanied by Barry's wonderful, haunting score. In fact, Barry's work goes a long way to making the film what it is, it seems as though he played it deadly serious to try and offset the crazy stuff on screen.
The more I think about it, the more I realise there's actually a hell of a lot of awesome stuff in that film.
YOLT
DAF
LALD
TMWTGG
MR
FYEO
AVTAK
LTK
TND
TWINE
DAD
QoS
52% of the Bond series falling under the average/weak category. Naturally this goes without saying but I don't expect most or anyone for that matter to agree with me on this. However, this underpins my initial comment that has facilitated the current, on going discussion. The series in general is largely passable hence why I think it's mediocre and it's ability to endure the test of time is, that through out the series, there are good to excellent releases sprinkled here and there that rise above the more average and weaker entries of the series and it helps that the average and weaker entries aren't exactly total abominations. DAD, regarded as one if the worst if not the worst did receive some critical praise at the time and made a killing at the BO, films like that won't kill a series with that sort of revenue, creative regrouping, sure but it serves a point that if a film like DAD can receive the initial reception it did, make the money it did, well, mediocrity with excellence here and there can sustain and that's exactly what imo this series has done.
MR has lots of ridiculous moments but this is not one of them.
Very well said. Which is why the invisible car crossed the line.
Precisely. Anyone wanting to criticise MR should first eviscerate YOLT because the grasp of aeronautics in that film is ludicrous. The YOLT rocket wouldnt even get out of the volcano with that amount of thrust.
One thing's for sure, though. I will never, ever, buy Halle Berry as an NSA Agent.
and the Opera Sequence is by far one of the best scene in Bond history.
the win in Casino Royale eclipses it ever so slightly.
That's how I feel about Roger Moore being an MI6 agent.
Amended accordingly :D
Yes, that was a terrible moment. As was Moneypenny's seduction by the physio-holographic Bond. Not only impossible, but in incredibly poor taste.
Meh. By possible, I mean possible in the here and the now. If you want to project ahead infinitely, nothing's impossible.
Not controversial. The Tosca sequence is routinely cited as QOS' shining moment of triumph and as one of the best sequences in Bond.
As for QOS being brilliant, yes, that's controversial alright, although like every Bond film, it has its defenders.
Yeah, amazing not only how tonedeaf Tami was, but that Micolli allowed this travesty to escape the cutting room floor.
http://www.space.com/23193-spacex-grasshopper-rocket-highest-hop-video.html
And the lack of thrust you cite is a bad effect only. Digitally added fire & smoke would fix that.
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Exactly. Counter examples can be just as valuable as examples. Or, as Mathis once said, just because one is dead doesn't mean one can't still be useful.
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Agreed very much on that, but then QoS is in my Top 5!
Yes, that was shown in the Top Gear Bond special last year, I believe. It used screens attached to its sides to sort of mirror its surroundings, but it was nothing like the car in DAD, albeit it used the same theory of technology.
Drax's Gambit, you say? Read more related stuff on that here:
http://thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/kingsley-amis-draxs-gambit-and-reform.html
I see little controversial in that, @Murdock, although I suppose it was done for comic effect in the PTS of FYEO.