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Yes, I think we're both correct and actually validating each other. It's all about scaling and distance -- looking at it from a distance in real life is seeing it at the same scale you're seeing it appear on Instagram.
But you're right - it's designed to viewed "smaller". It's for a quick consumption. Not an immersion.
Brave new world
As much as I love and miss the old formula, it feels awfully out of day especially by the 80's films when the key cast got much older. The new team both in front and behind the camera have been modernised and with Fukunaga directing at least this film will feel like contemporary. Best example is the Q scenes - dear old Desmond was great but it would not work today
Im hoping this is the version they release as the NTTD edition, like they did with Spectre.
Calling Skyfall Home Alone is plain stupid since the two have very different plots. I may as well call Octopussy Tarzan or Die Another Day Transformers
+2 or from Russia with love is North by NorthWest
They feel like Bond films. The elements are all there. Deconstruction doesn’t mean denial. MR is very different from FRWL. LTK is very different from DAD. CR is very different from YOLT. Just like SF is very different from GE.
Of course Skyfall uses the Home Alone setup, like the latest Rambo movie, too. I don't have a problem with it, though. What I do have a problem with is SF's plot and having the best parts of the movie placed in the PTS. But that's another thread.
I'm definitely with @matt_u on this. Bond films are always in evolution. What are the "traditional" movies @CASINOROYALE is talking about? Even in the '60s, a film like OHMSS strayed rather far away from its predecessors. Don't tell me LALD looks or feels anything like GF. In '77, some purists must have been sorely disappointed wih how different Bond films had become since FRWL. So, until when are we talking about "traditional" Bond films like they were something consistent and formula-rigid?
I don't believe in a cemented Bond formula. I believe every Bond film re-establishes "the" formula. The elements that constitute such a formula are still there, but like on a soundboard, they get reconfigured depending on the flavours of the times and the intentions of the filmmakers. How the various elements, whatever they may be, are being prioritized, is something that has been in heavy permutation from the start. But, as @PanchitoPistoles pointed out, a film starring James Bond is a Bond film. Does it "feel" like one? That depends entirely on your own preferences. Some say that GF provides the ultimate template; others will say FRWL; others still will pick OHMSS and then there are those who'd call GE or CR or SF the ultimate Bond experience. So depending on where your heart lies, which Bond film you'd personally crown the "quintessential Bond", you may call SP a very "Bondian" Bond film, or not at all.
In any case, these debates are simply meaningless and moronic. They're as silly as Pepsi versus Coca Cola or Coffee versus Tea. The closest thing to anything objective would be Fleming, and even his tone and direction shifted over the span of half a dozen books. If the Craig era doesn't feel like "DN-DAD", it's because you're not feeling it. And if it does, it's because you are. It's that simple. But then we can start debating the consistency of "DN-DAD", pretending that DN, MR, FYEO and TND are somehow more closely related than the Craig films. I guess we can all start submitting our own theses, but none will be 'truer' than the other and folks, this isn't an exact science, so let's stop the pointless bickering.
Skyfall uses the Home Alone setup only because they're both set in the main character's house?
Fantastic analysis @AgentM72!
Up close I really don't like the poster, and every international version is slightly different. The UK one is very washed out, other countries have upped the contrast and it has far more impact.
But when I saw it on my computer screen as I walked back into my office, I stopped and thought oh I get it. It packed far more of a punch at a distance. Especially as Bond appears in motion, like he's walking back into the game, all tuxed and ready to go, which contrasts nicely with the bright blue but worn wall behind him.
If he's retired in Jamaica, is Cuba where he returns to the game?
isolated home (with a couple of guns )and invites bad guys.....wow. Away from all the security and army and police. What were the writers thiking. Also , CR and QOS are basically one story. So all of a sudden why bond is so old and almost retired. Really since TWINE we have not got a good "bond" film.
One of the reasons it ranks at the bottom alongside SP on my list.
"Too many people are dying because of me. [...] All right. But just us. No one else."
It is literally and explictly said in the movie. But it's much easier to criticise a movie than actually paying attention to it, the latter requires some concentration.
Moreover Bond is a human and makes mistakes, that's what makes him more interesting than characters such as Ethan Hunt.
If that means more from her on the film, I'm all for it. We should all rejoice ;)
Good point!
Re-Joi-ce, indeed.
This month they will film all the scenes that they weren’t able to shoot because of the ankle injury. Hopefully Ana will be prominent, even tho I believe we will see her only in the scenes set in Cuba.
Why would that be so difficult?
Going by how you read David Dencik's comments, the explosion might've been a part of the delay too.