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There's always some way in which the Craig films weren't right, isn't there.
It looked like a GI Joe plane. It seems fine to me but I also had no problems with the invisible car.
That's cool, because I've literally seen the glider from NTTD in the Bond In Motion exhibition at Beaulieu.
You can see it in this publicity photo above the car.
That seems to satisfy the criteria pretty exactly.
I think I've seen the model of Scaramaga's car at an exhibit too. Because it couldn't really fly either. But that's fine because it's old.
Love watching videos like that. It’s so impressive what the VFX team can do on Bond and how it melds with the practical and location work (I’m saying this as some who’s struggled to make a convincing doughnut model in Blender). This one doesn’t show the Matera sequences interestingly. From what I understand most of the architecture in the background/landscape was VFX with the motorbike stunts all being done on location by a professional. So well done.
Yeah there were several effects houses working on the film: ILM, Framestore, DNEG and Cinesite at the least - as this is a DNEG reel I guess one of the others did Matera.
The breakdown of the off road chase is really fascinating if you come across that- they replace a lot of the actual ground to make Scotland look more like Norway, some of the vehicles get replaced etc. - it really is amazing.
https://www.artofvfx.com/no-time-to-die-charlie-noble-overall-vfx-supervisor-with-jonathan-fawkner-framestore-vfx-supervisor-and-joel-green-dneg-vfx-supervisor/
There's an extended BTS here:
Yes, the Matera scenes were very good put together. Intense, wonderfully framed. I would have loved for the chase to be a tad longer though.
They sit in it on the plane, the sub dock one may have been a different prop, I don't know.
The amount of work and attention to detail is staggering, especially considering these are often shots we don’t fully realise are VFX. I’ve seen Online Editors and Flame Artists work on stuff, but this is a whole other level.
It’s really cool! Like I said wish I could do even a bit of what these teams can.
NTTD was almost OTT in terms of action effects, almost like Marvel films already, beautiful looking but a bit unrealistic, at least in my view.
CR has its share of VFX/CGI too. Here:
I think it’s more a concept thing in terms of what they wanted from NTTD’s action sequences more than an issue of CGI. CR has some moments of complete nonsense too (the bit when Bond just casually catches the gun on the crane never looked very convincing to me). But I can’t fault the VFX work in either film. Again, great blending of practical and CGI. Bond doesn’t get enough credit for its recent VFX in my opinion (I think it’s better than what we tend to get in Marvel/DC films, although for a more relevant/fairer comparison I think it’s often better than Mission Impossible’s VFX despite how hyped up its stunts are).
If we want a winter Bond scene again, then there are snowmobiles, and even we could get a car chase down a mountain.
Me too! Very cool moment!
I've not figured out how to use the "edit" function. How does it work?
A fair question to ask is when does a series play out? While I have always been a Bond fan, I haven't been a passionate Bond fan for a long time. I do not want the series to end, but I wouldn't be heartbroken if it did. In some cases absence makes the heart grow fonder; in others absence can lead to caring no longer. I don't feel these lengthy gaps between films are beneficial. I don't need to hear how each film continues to make record returns. That's someone else's measure of success, not mine. Will I see Bond 26? Hopefully I'll still be around when it comes out. Will it be an entertaining film? I would expect so. But I am not one who worships at the shrine of BB, EON, and P&W. They have made their share of bad decisions.
As for this particular gap, I suspect it primarily has to do with the title of this thread: Where Does Bond Go After Craig? Will they get there? No doubt. But what are we likely to see that we haven't seen a dozen times before? That is the rub. How do you freshen up a ski chase, or Bond falling out of a plane, or a ski lift sequence, or on a train, or underwater, or at a gambling table, of getting cross ways with M.
In those early Bond days, which remain my favorites, the films felt fresh until YOLT. That should have been a much better film than it was. Bad decision making. OHMSS turned things around. DAF was the nail in the Connery coffin. LALD jumped started the series again and then petered out by the next film. TLD we see a brief resurgence and then nothing especially memorable until CR. (Not a PB fan.) With Craig we got a great Bond who was much better than the material he was given. Though I am not knocked out by SF, that should have been his exit.
I truly hope Bond 26 can reinvigorate the series as CR did. I hope we get more than just a young guy doing everything his predecessors did that leaves us with the feeling of been there, done that. If that's the case, then let's leave it as Craig did.
And in book and film (and comic and game and non-fiction and any other form) I don't see evidence it will end any time soon.
Yes, I agree. We are lucky with him, and the people in charge.
But for it to work they somehow have to play with the theme of being an orphan later on.
EON can't really do a lot with CR as it is an origin story and has only been made in the last 20 years. But when I think back to TSWLM and GE, I think big, exciting, adventures. A bit over the top, some very memorable big scale set pieces and fun.
I think this is the style of film that possibly EON will be looking to make. Something that gets Bond back in the cinema was a bang. That lets audiences know MI is big on stunts, so what. This is JAMES BOND!
In order to do that, they don't have to re-create the character. They just need to look at what's worked before and update it slightly for a more modern audience.
I know it's easy for me to type that, and obviously harder to actually achieve, but surely it's the kind of starting point they could be looking at.
It's like starting all over again, but without the literal introduction, it would just continue the Bond adventure.
I think this is what the Producers (Barbara, in particular) are talking about, they can do whatever they want to do with Bond now, and it's up to them.
An origin story like Spymaker. Eton, a war, women, etc.
I think it is possible they will bring in 007's supporting players slowly, perhaps one or two introductions per film: M in the first one, Felix in the second, Q and Moneypenny in the third. It would be a way of keeping interest going, similar to the way Craig's films left Moneypenny and Q until the third outing.