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Avatar is without hesitation my least favorite film to have seen in the cinema. Pretentious overrated crap, and I've seen a ton of awful films on the big screen.
Which is far better.
If by "cheaper" you mean "unpretentious" then yes. The original is an actual comedy that knows it's a comedy, a parody that knows it's a parody. It does not try to be an action movie because it's not.
No it isn't. Just you being annoying.
Yes it is. It's an unpretentious comedy. Hollywood never understood French comedies, that is why their remakes fail miserably.
True French comedy I can enjoy while a movie like "trois hommes et un coffin"was betetr brought in its American version.
The French have their own style of movies and they are bloody great I rarely compare them to the US. The US tends to take the more European liberal style out of remakes from European or Asian productions and make it too moralistic for my tastes.
I fell in love with French cinema due to its beautiful and more natural actresses Catherine Deneuve to name one.
speaking of French cinema Luc Besson would have been an obvious choice for Bond in the 90s
Luc Besson is another director I'd keep away from Bond by all means necessary.
He directed LEON, which was scored by Eric Serra.
No it's Cameron's movie I think is crap.
I was aware it was a remake and I have only seen clips of the French film. I stand by what I say...True Lies looks cheap. It obviously spent the budget on set pieces and Arnies salary and the whole Bill Paxton section drags even if it is only a quarter of the film.
But I can’t agree that it looks cheap. To me it looks and feels like a fairly big budget movie.
Miami for example is filmed in a far better manner than it was in LTK.
As @BAIN123 pointed out, the whole Simon angle was taken from the French movie, and it does feel typically French and very unlike Bond. I also recall I felt the movie perhaps a tad jingoistic, but then again, Cameron was only aping Bond and his allegiance to the crown so maybe I was being unfair in my criticism. I liked True Lies, but I'm glad Harry Tasker never replaced 007 in people's affections. Cameron was planning a True Lies 2, but that was scuppered soon after 9/11 as Cameron felt to make a movie about Arab terrorists after such a tragedy would be in poor taste. Basically, Cameron took far too long to hatch his sequel. In saying that, it would've been interesting to see Harry Tasker go toe-to-toe against Brosnan's Bond, as it might've made Eon up their game a bit more with GE and TND.
Perhaps you're right. It just seems to me a stupendous lack of judgement on the part of M to put the young gun, renegade, doesn't follow the rules agent and hand over millions to play in a card game. Who cares if he's good at cards, he's completely green, no experience in the ways of the secret service. Such a risky venture would seemingly suit a more mature agent better. Not to mention the idea of Bond quitting the force would have more reverence if he was nearing the end of his career, not on his first assignment. The Bond of the novel was not described as on his first assignment, if almost as if they weren't paying very much attention when they were putting the script together.
I’ve tended to view the archive shootout/tank chase sequence in GE as Eon’s response to TL.
Let's see if someone over there has the common sense to realize they are at another fork in the road again, at least imho. If not, perhaps the studio at least.
Craig is older now than Brosnan was in DaD. :)
EDIT: I miss ole Barry. He was one of a kind.
I don't know 100% if this is true but I seem to remember reading it somewhere on here. I can understand why if they did.