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An agent trains for a mission, and Brosnan Bond executed that and seemed pretty exercised and engaged by the time he was on shore.
Plus those waves were "Jaws" I recall.
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I wouldn't say spectacular, but confident and assured? Certainly.
I would say mundane and by the numbers with some ridiculous slow mo effects ;)
The fencing scene however is good. Probably the only highlight of the film.
I was speaking about the performance, not the film as a whole.
Ah, my bad. Thought we were talking about the action :P
Yes, Brosnan does seem more comfortable and assured in DAD than in his other films. I think some people go overboard in their praise of his performance though.
It likely seems better when balanced against the OTT nature of everything else in the film. He's quite low-key throughout. He almost (but not quite) manages to sell some of the more groan-worthy dialogue he's saddled with because of it. If the film was more in line with what he evidently thought it was when making it, it would have been a superior effort instead of one of the rock bottom ones for many.
I liked the music but not the lyrics of that song. The beginning it’s really good and the violins part it’s a great moment of the song.
The lyrics were a little pretentious and the sigmund Freud was like WtF but song is good
...but I did not like the song at all. The torture montage was done well, but it could have been shown elsewhere in flashbacks to allow for a less downbeat title track.
Beyond that scene, there are bits and pieces here and there that I appreciate (“Abandoned station… for abandoned agents.”), but the cringiness of it all just gets too be too much.
With every viewing I spot a new little gag I hadn't noticed before, which only makes me appreciate it more. First, it was the couple in the hotel who comment on Bond's beard and pyjamas ("My, standards are falling") . Most recently, when the flight attendant (Deborah Moore) bends over to give Bond his martini, her butt is right in a passenger's face, and said passenger reacts to said butt.
Yes, DAD is indeed a lot of arse!
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It is a close call exactly because DAD's quality drops so abruptly 30 or so minutes in, so it is hard to "average it out" for a comparison, but I know what you mean.
It makes MR and DAF look like masterpieces in comparison.
I read a comment like this, and can only think, this person has not watched very many films.
As Vesper might have said, there are bad films, and there are bad films. ;)
Of course, I think it’s only the third worst Bond film.