It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Or this:
http://movieweb.com/star-wars-rogue-one-diego-luna-biggs-darklighter/
That character / actor does have similar look. So who knows.
I agree with @Murdock, though. If they can get McNeely, I'll be even happier. His score for The Avengers (1998) compels me to watch that film time and again.
Jar Jar Biggs, that is?
I thought most of CR 67 was pretty good. But the movie fell apart when it shifted to Casino Royale again for the finale sequence. And that is when it became shit.
Oh God. Hasn't Rey been idealized enough? What is she going to do next? Walk on water?
But to me TFA achieves is a much more satisfying film.
TFA although on paper is probably less original than Spectre, but for some reason when viewing the films it feels the other way round.
Canon. The way SW references it's canonical past feels more appropriate and intelligent. It may be not always subtle, but the audacity and entertainment value of some scenes are classic. In fact I was trying to pick a favourite scene and found it near impossible due to the quality of everything on offer. It feels effortless.
Music. The music is a huge part of the experience. John Williams brought the right cues at the right time. I felt newmans score was really weak, and I am a lover of his skyfall score.
Villains. You can't have a decent bond with out allowing a significant portion of screen time to his antagonist. To root for bond and to understand his motivations. Just throwing crammed information out there in the last 20 minutes isn't the way to do it. With Kylo ren we learned more and more as the movie played. I thought he was a great villain, and there is real scope for the character to grow.
Humour. Star Wars is a funny film but wisely JJ Abrams nearly always undercuts the humour with a serious point straight after or a moment of pathos. It works in terms of changing the tone immediately so we aren't in a gag fest. And the humour isn't gags, unlike the 'atmosphere' button. How did that get through test screening?
Star Wars felt relaxed and confident. Spectre did in part but overall there was an insecurity running through it as one reference was piled on top of another with little clarity and logic.
I felt spectre was a 3/5 film. Kind of like diet coke. Artificial but kind of satisfying. Ish. Star Wars wasn't perfect but in entertainment terms was damn near. 4.5/5
It's not There Will be Blood, but it's a fun ride.
What do you all think?
If I could sum up my view, for me it's all about the execution. TFA was just executed very well - they knew how to tell the story in an engaging manner and got great performances out of their cast, which added to the believability. This is something that the prequels didn't do.
Sure it was derivative, but if you tell the story well enough and use everything that the medium (sound, visuals, character interactions, dialogue, flow, pace) has to offer, you can still captivate the majority of the audience. In such instances, most can suspend disbelief, myself included, because it becomes an emotional experience as much as an intellectual one.
As I said earlier in this thread, it's not what you say and do (most of it has been done before anyway somewhere), but how you say and do it. A question of finesse. TFA nailed that aspect, at least for me. It didn't feel like a series of random plot points / tropes thrown together to get to a finish line and satiate the hardcore fanbase (even though it very well might have been), but rather as a whole, integrated product. Storytelling 101 I would think.
Succinctly put. See, where the Bond films since SF have sort of gone of course with what they set out to achieve with CR is to bring in familiar elements and retread a few staples in a meaningful, fleshed out and well told way. JW did this to a lessercextent butvdidca hettervjob with it than SP did and TFA did this brilliantly. It's frustrating that Bond after all this time and in this say and age either still have so much to learn or they just don't give that much of a damn. Goodwill can only get you so far but you still have to put the work in and deliver!
EoN need to prioritise piecing together a fantastic script and bring in a composer who knows wtf movie they're scoring. Jurassic World got Michael Giachinno who put his own stamp while paying homage to Williams' iconic sound. For TFA awakens, Williams delivered yet again as per usual and I'm pretty sure desolate who has taken over scoring duties from Williams for tge Harry Potter movies will do another incredible job for Rogue One. Newman's work on Bond is largely absolute trash. Bring in someone who can bring in the magic of what Barry brought to the series as the music for Bond is equally important as everything else and considering OHMSS, one may argue its the second most important component after having a great script.
On another note, it's no surprise that...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens added yet another $29.5 million domestically and $37.7 million overseas on Tuesday for a total of $67.2 million for the day. The Lucasfilm release has now earned $600.9 million in North America and $627.4 million internationally for a worldwide total of $1.228 billion.
Overall a good film, even if it did suffer from Die Another Day syndrome a bit in terms of frequently referencing the earlier films.
What . The . Hell? :-O
^
Cooking with Chewie's parents... as per this creature's instructions.
EDIT: Rock music in the days of the Empire. I take it Jabba would be a fan of this.
Ow, the animation begins. They mention Kazan!!! :D
EDIT: Other than the Fett being here, I fail to see the point.
EDIT²: This is worse than Grindhouse. The picture quality is ridiculously low and sudden reel jumps happen from time to time. The animated Han Solo looks like Silva after he pulled the false teeth out in Skyfall. :P
This is worse than those Ewok movies. :p
The reason I'm watching this is because I can then enjoy this:
http://www.nowplayingpodcast.com/
EDIT: end titles rolling. I feel violated. This is absolutely terrible.