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Well QoB had a lot of CGI including the jumping out of the plane which is of a quality that can easily compete with DAD's worst. ;)
I may write my version of DAD, so stay tuned when I incorporate this stuff.
Yes. Yes we are.
I will grant you the climax is rather lame, actually scrub that, it's awful, but...
the PTS
Cuban clinic
swordfight
aston vs jag (sans the invisible stuff)
are good.
But when the film gets to Iceland it all sort of falls apart.
I'd say the film is "iffy" from fairly early on but it's at least watchable and quite intriguing.
For me the film becomes almost unwatchable the moment Bond gets into that rocket thing. From then onwards we aren't in a Bond film but a crappy sci-fi flick.
That sums it up. It is better directed than GE and doesn't try to do anything fancy like TWINE. I'm not saying its good but its definitely the least bad of the Brosnan era. Arnold's score comes as a welcome relief after GE and the first half looks quite stylish. I also thought Brozza and Yeoh work okay together.
Wow. We agree. I never understand the argument that DAD starts strongly. It's a creaking disaster from scene one. The whole sequence where Bond is imprisoned for months and emerges like a fat sow is hilarious. The hovercraft chase is so bad it is embarassing. And it only gets worse.
Saved by the bell! Some chance.
TND has loads of genuinely good action scenes (unlike TWINE or DAD), the first Bond girl who can genuinely claim to be of similar heroic statue to 007, a retro plot with a modern satirical slant, a slightly murky atmosphere (which the director describes as 'smoky'), and a race-against-time plot that adds urgency throughout. A lot of Bond movies feel over-long in places, but TND never slows down. This does admittedly make it more frantic and less deep than some of the other movies, but as an action/adventure it's great. Bond is truly an action man in this - he flies a plane, drives a BMW (from the backseat), jumps out of a plane, scuba dives, co-drives a motorbike whilst handcuffed to Michelle Yeoh, and infiltrates a stealth boat. He prevents a nuclear explosion in the first few minutes whilst taking out a horde of terrorists, then later prevents a potential third world war by defeating Jonathan Pryce as a psuedo-Murdoch, after stealing his wife Teri Hatcher. What's not to like? TND is fantastic entertainment.
So when GE was finally announced it was with a huge feeling of relief to the audience and the box office would have generated a huge feeling of relief to the studio and to EON. I think after what happened in the 80s there was a "play it safe" mindset - don't do anything to lose the audience like with LTK. It also accounts for some of the less brilliant moves, such as the studio wanting actresses with high download and internet search ratings cast instead of unknowns like Jaansen and Scorupa who had more presence or better acting chops - hence Hatcher, Richards, and Berry.
But then after Bond had been firmly re-established then EON felt it could take a bit of a chance with Craig and CR. But they needed many years of the safety that Brosnan gave them to get to that point.
How old are you, if I might ask?
It's called opinions.
I never said that!! I said that its its "watchable" - not a "creaking disaster" - but it does have a "B Movie" way to it. The hovercraft chase is alright IMO. At least it's a real action sequence.
Here's some advice from an old man, just because you say something is an 'Opinion' doesn't make it any less crap or offensive.
But some people take their "opinions" too far, and it gets downright mean and nasty.
And that's apparently ok on here but only if it's Brosnan. EG- I've lost count of the ammount of times people have called Brosnan fat, just scroll up, there's a post on this thread that does.
But if somebody called Craig ugly (which btw, I don't agree with) half the site would attack that person and we'd probably have a thread pop up about how the haters should go away.
Dude, you have to watch DVDs in the proper aspect ratio, if you watch them stretched out horizontally, people will appear 'fat'.
Die Another Day is just a long series of bad ideas. 'Let's have a CGI bullet during the gun barrel!" "Yeah, kids love CGI! And Matrix-style camera work! And extreme sports!" "Let's have Halle Berry in the film without giving her an actual character to play!" "Cool, let's also get Michael Madsen for no reason!"
Why not just go the whole hog? Let's have Judi Dench turn out to be Jaws' mother. Let's have Bond having a wank during the pre-credit sequence. Let's have the whole film animated in the style of Yellow Submarine. Car chase on ice? Let's have Bond ride a giant rubber duck in space.
TND. Despite a strong leading lady, the movie was basically "generic Bond" to me.
My one problem with TND is there's maybe a bit too much action in the 2nd half. I'm a big fan of mindless action films but Bond needs to be something more than that.
But TND is still a good film. It's just tons of fun. It's a bit of a generic Bond film but it's slick and fast paced, the time does fly by when you watch it.
I prefer GE and TWINE but TND is a good little Bond film.
TND is far and away Brozza's best.