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I could barely follow that one, and it was lifted right out of the first Bourne movie in style. Same with the rope fight, obviously more original but the editing was just awful.
I didn't mind the boat fight as much as others and could follow that, but the best action in QOS happens at the Bregenz Opera House and at the Perla de Las Dunas. These to me are strong reasons why the action in QOS rises from poor to average.
If these are your only reasons to elevate it then I strongly suggest you reconsider.
What action is at the Opera? Bond shoots a few blokes in slow mo. Its hardly the ski jump or the fight on the back of the Hercules is it? Its a nice dramatic scene with a few soupcons of action but its not exactly groundbreaking.
Ditto the finale. Bond shoots people and shit blows up. Wow - thats something fresh and orginal.
If thats the best that QOS offers then surely average is far too kind?
The Perla fight fit the revenge motif perfectly. It's not always all about the actual scene as there are, as you admit, lots of average action pieces. But it would be nice to see them cut loose with something big to wow the audiences. Wasn't it you Wiz, who posted something about having a battle with jet packs? I'd love to see something like that, but it's hard for me to tell if EON still finds the wild action of the Connery and Moore eras viable nowadays.
Hmmm...future movie plot point... -saved- ;)
Yes it does. And your point is? We are criticising QOS here? How are the shortcomings in SF's action scenes a defence, or even relevant?
No I can assure you it most certainly was not.
@Risico- maybe that's because many of us prefer Skyfall to QOS?
Mod edit: member addressed via PM.
I put up a clip of some proper stuntmen doing a real freefall scene.
To be honest I dont know why but even though it is actually a real invention I've never really liked the jetpack in TB as it seems a bit too ridiculously OTT and I would hate to see it return.
(Sorry for putting things on-topic)
Well you are quite correct over the topic of the thread if not your other conclusions but as we are back on topic I'll leave it at that.
I would prefer facts over rumors.
EON will confirm when they are good and ready, meaning when every other news site has reported it as official will they release the truth, the lost art of keeping a secret.
It's more than just speculation - the news has come from several reliable sources.
Why if I may ask?
They can if they start production by the end of this summer.
They've been pretty consistent in saying that they don't want to rush things.
Btw, Sir JM, I found a Variety paper which explains that MGM could not bring its own money to finance its part of Skyfall, that they had to create debt from "studio partners" (including Sony again ? - or MGM private stockholders who then asked for a lot of interests ?). Seems Sony is indeed the milk cow that did not get much and took all the risks, the ongoing war about Sony Entertainment may have a very important role in the near future for Bond !
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/mgm-eyes-650-million-refinancing-deal-1118064283/
In May last year, the president of Sony distribution announced that Bond 24 would have a late 2014 release date. Broccoli laughed and responded that "he was getting a little overexcited". In November, she told the Los Angeles Times, “Sometimes there are external pressures from a studio who want you to make it in a certain time frame or for their own benefit, and sometimes we’ve given into that but following what we hope will be a tremendous success with Skyfall, we have to try to keep the deadlines within our own time limits and not cave in to external pressures.”
As for the script being in the works, I haven't heard that. Michael G Wilson told Den of Geek in October that no preparations had been made (at that time) for Bond 24. When asked when it would be released he answered, "if we’re rapid it’ll be two years, if we’re not it’ll be three." It was announced later that month that Logan had been re-hired.
We can all hope that it comes out in 2014 but it's looking unlikely. All the signs point to 2015.
Thanks @Suivez. That's interesting. Looks like MGM borrowed the money from Sony for their own part in the equity investment. I'm not too worried about Sony - they may have took the financial risks on SF but they earned a nice windfall from it. They will have certainly weighed the risks before investing and it's paid off for them.
It was reported the director of Headhunters said EON met him and offered him to read Bond 24's script. It's a direct quote from a Norwegian interview with him.
But now one of their biggest shareholder publicly disagree and explains Sony Entertainment doesn't get enough money (lowest margins of the sector).
Yes, sorry, I meant that I hadn't heard it had been in the works "for about a year" as @doubleoego reported.
Yes, your information about that has been very interesting but I'm not hugely worried that it would delay production like the MGM bankruptcy did. Partly because Sony have no hold on the rights to Bond as MGM do. Although I would like to know more about Sony's deal with MGM.