Best Shot Per Decade - GE , DAD & SP (The Finals pt:1)

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• Junglist_1985 Los Angeles

  November 2022 Posts: 1,036

  Hard to argue with the GE winning shot: iconic, sharp, deadly.
  
  TND has some great shots… leaning towards one of the hotel scenes in tuxedo with pistol and vodka. Right out of Fleming isn’t it.
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  November 2022 Posts: 9,086

  For this game, TND has the advantage of not having a particularly prominent role for the art director/production designer. It's not a special achievement to film a wide-angle view of a Ken Adam set, or you'd have to be an idiot to fail. But here, the DOP mostly has to put up without those spectacular sets. Much of it is simply real. And my favourite is indeed the close-up of Elliott Carver.
• GoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà

  November 2022 Posts: 7,221

  LucknFate wrote: »

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: »

  
  Delicious
  

  
  This one is amazing.

  
  I never noticed how much his eye matches the Carver logo, not sure if that's intentional.

  
  Never really noticed that either.
  
  For this particular shot, I love how his right eye is a dubiously framed news article.
• Dwayne New York City

  November 2022 edited November 2022 Posts: 2,870

  Benny wrote: »

  
  
  Meet the sea drill Mr. Carver
  

  Alternative Label: “…the produces promised me my role would be just like J.J. Hunsecker!! LIARS!!! Tell my agent he's FIRED!!!!!"
  =))
  While I’ve always found TND somewhat perfunctory, it does have its’ moments.
  
  
  Michael Wilson cameo
  
  
  Let’s see how she responds to my voice Q?
  
  
  Cover blown (He's no Banker!!)
  
  
  Commander Bond
  
  
  Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh)
  
  
  
• marc Universal Exports

  November 2022 Posts: 2,611

  Boat explosion
  
  
  
  Snow jet
  
  
  
  Misguiding satellite
  
  
• marc Universal Exports

  November 2022 Posts: 2,611

  A terrorist supermarket
  
  
  
  Danger below
  
  
  
  White Knight, 4 minutes to impact
  
  
• GoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà

  November 2022 Posts: 7,221

  Just bringing an ode to one of my very favourite title sequence moments in the entire franchise:
  
  
  Ready… set… jump!
  
  
  Diamond Dive
  
  
  Into the news!
  
  And here are a few others I wanted to give a mention:
  
  
  DB5
  
  
  Who is the one trouble now?
  
  
  Don’t worry, they’ll finish it together…
  
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  November 2022 Posts: 14,691

  
  Evacuating the area
  
  
  Escorting MI6
  
  
  Another banker
  
  
  High altitude
  
  
  Sunset bay
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2022 Posts: 13,941

  Okay you pulled me in.
  
  Consider the Petri dish titles moment.
  
  

  

  
  
• Junglist_1985 Los Angeles

  November 2022 edited November 2022 Posts: 1,036

  Slightly different shot in hotel
  
  Bond Awaits
  
  
• GoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà

  November 2022 edited November 2022 Posts: 7,221

  QBranch wrote: »

  
  
  Another banker
  

  
  Very nice!
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  November 2022 edited November 2022 Posts: 14,691

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  QBranch wrote: »

  
  
  Another banker

  Very nice!

  Note that in this scene where Bond and Carver first meet, it's warm colours around Carver and cool colours around Bond. I think that's intentional and can symbolize certain things about the characters and their motives. Perhaps warm for Carver's fire and chaos, and cool for Bond's staying calm in a crisis.
• GoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà

  November 2022 edited November 2022 Posts: 7,221

  QBranch wrote: »

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  QBranch wrote: »

  
  
  Another banker

  Very nice!

  Note that in this scene where Bond and Carver first meet, it's warm colours around Carver and cool colours around Bond. I think that's intentional and can symbolize certain things about the characters and their motives. Perhaps warm for Carver's fire and chaos, and cool for Bond's staying calm in a crisis.

  Wow, that’s an interesting observation for sure.
  
  TND’s cinematography is pretty phenomenal imo. It can’t rely on Cold War atmosphere or Mediterranean/Caribbean settings, though it still looks absolutely stunning.
  
• LucknFate 007 In New York

  November 2022 edited November 2022 Posts: 1,676

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  QBranch wrote: »

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  QBranch wrote: »

  
  
  Another banker

  Very nice!

  Note that in this scene where Bond and Carver first meet, it's warm colours around Carver and cool colours around Bond. I think that's intentional and can symbolize certain things about the characters and their motives. Perhaps warm for Carver's fire and chaos, and cool for Bond's staying calm in a crisis.

  Wow, that’s an interesting observation for sure.
  
  TND’s cinematography is pretty phenomenal imo. It can’t rely on Cold War atmosphere or Mediterranean/Caribbean settings, though it still looks absolutely stunning.

  
  It's funny, while I always recognized the skill behind the camera, the effective storytelling of the middle Brosnan films, it's only later that I recognize them as truly artistic in their cinematography at times. I think it's because most modern movies are so dark all the time with their digital sensors, and the Brosnan Bond movies were the last (and I guess CR and QoS) where you could still see everything in frame on first watch. They're nice looking movies now! But still not sure I'd call them pretty, personally. SF, SP, and NTTD frames are so dark at times.
• CraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland

  November 2022 Posts: 8,236

  Are we going to vote on this or what? :P
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  November 2022 Posts: 14,691

  Time for a... Station break!
• SIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters

  November 2022 edited November 2022 Posts: 3,800

  Sorry for this putting thread in the fridge.
  
  I will check later if I can arrange those pictures for the voting. ;)
  
  It's hard arranging those pictures, sometimes they often gets lost because of a weak signal.
  
  Don't worry, I will check later if I can.
• echo 007 in New York

  November 2022 Posts: 6,393

  LucknFate wrote: »

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  QBranch wrote: »

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  QBranch wrote: »

  
  
  Another banker

  Very nice!

  Note that in this scene where Bond and Carver first meet, it's warm colours around Carver and cool colours around Bond. I think that's intentional and can symbolize certain things about the characters and their motives. Perhaps warm for Carver's fire and chaos, and cool for Bond's staying calm in a crisis.

  Wow, that’s an interesting observation for sure.
  
  TND’s cinematography is pretty phenomenal imo. It can’t rely on Cold War atmosphere or Mediterranean/Caribbean settings, though it still looks absolutely stunning.

  
  It's funny, while I always recognized the skill behind the camera, the effective storytelling of the middle Brosnan films, it's only later that I recognize them as truly artistic in their cinematography at times. I think it's because most modern movies are so dark all the time with their digital sensors, and the Brosnan Bond movies were the last (and I guess CR and QoS) where you could still see everything in frame on first watch. They're nice looking movies now! But still not sure I'd call them pretty, personally. SF, SP, and NTTD frames are so dark at times.

  
  I guess it looks okay but the locations are so drab. I know they were going to actually film in Vietnam, and that was exciting, but Hamburg and Thailand? Boring.
  
  Skyscrapers and car parks? Is this a Bond film or a business convention? Doubly boring.
• zebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade

  November 2022 Posts: 4,348

  I like the Hamburg scenes, not worse than rainy Berne (OHMSS). And Carver is head of a large Media group, of which Hamburg has a few, explaining the choice of location. I agree about the car park, but who cares, that scene is a lot of fun.
• CraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland

  November 2022 Posts: 8,236

  zebrafish wrote: »

  I like the Hamburg scenes, not worse than rainy Berne (OHMSS). And Carver is head of a large Media group, of which Hamburg has a few, explaining the choice of location. I agree about the car park, but who cares, that scene is a lot of fun.

  
  Yeah. I don't really get the criticism at all. Skyscrapers and car parks are spy film staples, after all.
• ringfire211

  November 2022 Posts: 655

  echo wrote: »

  LucknFate wrote: »

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  QBranch wrote: »

  GoldenGun wrote: »

  QBranch wrote: »

  
  
  Another banker

  Very nice!

  Note that in this scene where Bond and Carver first meet, it's warm colours around Carver and cool colours around Bond. I think that's intentional and can symbolize certain things about the characters and their motives. Perhaps warm for Carver's fire and chaos, and cool for Bond's staying calm in a crisis.

  Wow, that’s an interesting observation for sure.
  
  TND’s cinematography is pretty phenomenal imo. It can’t rely on Cold War atmosphere or Mediterranean/Caribbean settings, though it still looks absolutely stunning.

  
  It's funny, while I always recognized the skill behind the camera, the effective storytelling of the middle Brosnan films, it's only later that I recognize them as truly artistic in their cinematography at times. I think it's because most modern movies are so dark all the time with their digital sensors, and the Brosnan Bond movies were the last (and I guess CR and QoS) where you could still see everything in frame on first watch. They're nice looking movies now! But still not sure I'd call them pretty, personally. SF, SP, and NTTD frames are so dark at times.

  
  I guess it looks okay but the locations are so drab. I know they were going to actually film in Vietnam, and that was exciting, but Hamburg and Thailand? Boring.
  
  Skyscrapers and car parks? Is this a Bond film or a business convention? Doubly boring.

  Wait. So Vietnam would have been exciting but Thailand is boring? How so? We’re talking about a similar geographical area here. If anything I would think Thailand is more exciting because of those magnificent islands dotted throughout.
  
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  November 2022 Posts: 9,086

  zebrafish wrote: »

  I like the Hamburg scenes, not worse than rainy Berne (OHMSS). And Carver is head of a large Media group, of which Hamburg has a few, explaining the choice of location. I agree about the car park, but who cares, that scene is a lot of fun.

  
  I love Hamburg overall (though I'm glad I stopped driving into there every morning for sure, after retiring), and you can't place the media group in any sunny and exotic old place that looks like you'd wish to spend all your future vacations in. But Carver's headquarters were placed in Hamburg because the Hamburg Film Promotion Board payed handsome (tax-payers') money to the producers for choosing the city for its movie locations. Otherwise it made no sense that an English-language media company was placed there instead of, say, London. Especially considering that Germany had no private TV and radio stations until the mid-80s.
• CraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland

  November 2022 Posts: 8,236

  j_w_pepper wrote: »

  zebrafish wrote: »

  I like the Hamburg scenes, not worse than rainy Berne (OHMSS). And Carver is head of a large Media group, of which Hamburg has a few, explaining the choice of location. I agree about the car park, but who cares, that scene is a lot of fun.

  
  I love Hamburg overall (though I'm glad I stopped driving into there every morning for sure, after retiring), and you can't place the media group in any sunny and exotic old place that looks like you'd wish to spend all your future vacations in. But Carver's headquarters were placed in Hamburg because the Hamburg Film Promotion Board payed handsome (tax-payers') money to the producers for choosing the city for its movie locations. Otherwise it made no sense that an English-language media company was placed there instead of, say, London. Especially considering that Germany had no private TV and radio stations until the mid-80s.

  
  Dublin had no social media companies until the early 2010s. Now they have Facebook, Twitter and various other "European" HQ. Things change quickly. For all it's corportate cynicism, it would be easy to argue that TND was ahead of the curve in more than its media representation.
• SIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters

  November 2022 Posts: 3,800

  Apologies for pending this.
  
  The Voting lines for the best shot in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) is now open!
  
  #1
  
  Bond in action
  
  #2
  
  Bond awaits trouble
  
  #3
  
  Searching for a stealth
  
  #4
  
  Meet the sea drill Mr. Carver
  
  #5
  
  White Knight
  
  #6
  
  Grow up, 007.
  
  #7
  
  Another great Brosnan moment.
  
  #8
  
  The banner sequence.
  
  #9
  
  Prepping for the jump
  
  #10
  
  Learning a new tongue
  
  #11
  
  Blades of death
  
  #12
  
  Delicious
  
  #13
  
  There's no new news like bad news
  
  #14
  [/quote]
  3, 2, 1......goodbye.
  
  #15
  
  Candid Camera
  
  #16
  
  The Dutch delay Titanic, but will stil see a sinking ship soon...
  
  #17
  
  Richard this is new man of the match Mr...
  
  #18
  
  Carver Potcast what i thinking about that...
  
  #19
  
  Corona Outbreak in Carver TV Studio
  
  #20
  
  One Camera down
  
  #21
  
  For Natalya: Boys stil playing with toys[/quote]
  
  
  #22
  
  Michael Wilson cameo
  
  #23
  
  Let’s see how she responds to my voice Q?
  
  #24
  
  Cover blown (He's no Banker!!)
  
  #25
  
  Commander Bond
  
  #26
  
  Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh)
  
  #27
  
  Boat explosion
  
  #28
  
  Snow jet
  
  #29
  [/quote]
  Misguiding satellite
  
  #30
  
  A terrorist supermarket
  
  #31
  
  Danger below
  
  #32
  [/quote]
  White Knight, 4 minutes to impact
  
  #33
  
  Ready… set… jump!
  
  #34
  
  Diamond Dive
  
  #35
  
  Into the news!
  
  #36
  
  DB5
  
  #37
  
  Who is the one trouble now?
  
  #37
  
  Don’t worry, they’ll finish it together…
  
  #38
  
  Evacuating the area
  
  #39
  
  Escorting MI6
  
  #40
  
  Another banker
  
  #41
  
  High altitude
  
  #42
  
  Sunset bay[/quote]
  
  #43
  
  Consider the Petri dish titles moment.
  
  #44
  Bond Awaits
  
  
  
  Note: If I've missed a picture/shot, kindly reply in this thread, so I could put it immediately.
• ToTheRight

  November 2022 Posts: 16,226

  #2
• Benny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator

  November 2022 Posts: 15,171

  I vote for…
  #6
• Tokoloshe2 Northern Ireland

  November 2022 Posts: 1,175

  #44 for me.
• MooseWithFleas Philadelphia

  November 2022 Posts: 3,370

  44
• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

  November 2022 Posts: 45,489

  34
• GoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà

  November 2022 edited November 2022 Posts: 7,221

  #12 for me, that shot really is delicious.
  
  @MI6HQ I meant for #37 to be called “Who’s the one in trouble now?”, but I forgot the in :)