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True, but weren't you one of the first to point out how shoddy the SF lodge looked?
SF has great production values undoubtably most of the time though.
The problem with GE is that the model work often looks too obvious. It may have been a call back to the older films but nonetheless, I agree certain moments do look a bit naff now. Kind of a shame as Derek Meddings was behind the model work.
Nonetheless, I think most of the interior sets in GE are impressive and a step up from those in the previous film.
The reactions to the article are interesting ;) if not very surprising.
Hm. Citizen Kane comes to mind...
"We're gonna need a bigger boat"
I'd say so too. And that it may even be an overrated Bond movie, an overrated movie and maybe even one of the most overrated movie of the last ten odd years. I say this even as someone who loved SF. But the most overrated movie of all time? Not by a wide margin.
More than My Heart Will Go On when Titanic was released? At least Adele's song was good!
(And on a side note, what a contender for most overrated movie of all time Titanic is! Even if he is not nearly as praised now as it was then.)
In all honesty, you shouldn't even think that.
genius move getting adele on board. I assume Mendes must have played a significant part in that, for which he deserves a lot of credit.
She is exactly the kind of mainstream but talented artist that suits Bond. There have been so many misfiring title tracks in the last few decades - it was great to have one that really worked. Chris Cornell would be the only other one if put close from the last few years.
Adele and Bond were an obvious and turns out perfect match. Shame Newman wasn't able to rise to the occasion and properly integrate the song into the soundtrack.
Any way, Adele accounts for a significant chunk of the SF BO.
But one can't accuse the writer of the article he doesn't know his cinema while he clearly makes more than a few interesting points about other films as well. He doesn't shout a statement and leaves it there either, he gives reasonable arguments for his choices.
I like Videodrome and Amarcord but he does have a point about them being a tad overrated compared to the alternative he provides.
Style over substance is the perfect description IMO.
That said, I thoroughly enjoyed both in the cinema.
I can only conclude Mendes is an alluring stylist with an impeccable visual sense but not much else.
I also think this explains the excellent box office but sliding critical appraisal.
Yes it's the lack of rewatchability that makes me think SF and SP won't stand the test of time. For all the claims that they're like chalk and cheese they're really remarkably similar. Personal motivations, often incoherent storytelling, emphasis on 'character/theme' lots of stylish, moody cinematography, weak action, and both very, very long. These types of films can become 'classics' but I do think their length will work against them. They just drag after a couple of viewings without the wit or joy or the best films in the series to keep them afloat.
He might know cinema but I daresay that his knowledge is clouded by his subjectivity. And his short memory, since he makes that ludicrous claim. Had he said Skyfall was an overrated movie, Bond movie, even the most overrated Bond movie, fine. It is debatable but yes one can make valid points about it. But when you claim a movie is the most overrated of all time then you better back it up.
Maybe but that does not change anything to the ridiculous claim in itself. And that's his name on the article.
What?
It was even less a justifiable claim then because it was far too fresh.
It isn't.
What it did do was almost single handedly re-invent film making techniques. One critic said it was like they had never seen a film before, so forward thinking and unique was it's cinematography and camera work.
Now, those techniques have been done to death, and we are left with a film that has a story which doesn't always involve the viewer and more than a couple of hammy performances.
CK has to be remembered as an iconic, game changing film with some great quotable dialogue, but there are greater films out there.
Take a juxtaposing black and white composition that left Fritz Lang in awe combined with a story that could just as well have been written tomorrow. All this single handed created by a guy that was doing his first movie (!) while at the same time excelling in playing a main role that practically lived through the mother of all character arcs ( and a real one at that not the imagined by some in SF). I maybe wouldn't go that far to call it the best movie of all times since I'm really not sure to which movie I should give that title anyway, but I always feel humbled in the extreme when I watch it.