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I am sorry for that. I can't help it either that I feel annoyed lately when you are giving your arguments. It's just so....negative. And everything you come up with negative arguments from a different perspective.
Then again, I agree with you that we should be more civilized. Especially me. I hope I don't make you feel....bad :-(. Maybe it is better if we ignore each other's arguments a bit or that we're not directly quoting each other. You are a nice girl.
How we miss John Glen's genius for action.
I understand that you don't agree with my views on SP. That's fine. I may not agree with yours all the time. However, I don't call you out on it and have a go at you because I believe you're entitled to your views. Even if I may not agree with it, I read it and I learn something......from every member here. I don't take anything you say personally though. Life's too short.
If Mendes had made a film that was better for me, my views on it would have been more positive. He didn't. That's all. It happens. I still enjoyed the film.....I enjoy many things that I am critical of. If we are going to critically dissect on here, which is what we do, then I will voice my views. Some films have more to be critical of, and some have less to be critical of. It's all opinion at the end of the day. What's key for me is how the point is presented and what substantiating points are given. Sometimes there is none.......I may just not like something, or I may just love it. It's all good.
I was playing off of Gustav's comment, which I assume was made in jest......I hope.
Perhaps I should be female and I'd be given a little more slack by some.....never hit a girl and all that jazz.
I think next time I check the forum I need to scroll back to get the history. :-t
Well said. I don't really care for explosions much. It's become so standard and can be found everywhere to the point Id be genuinely surprised if people find wonderment and awe in such an effect. The only way an explosion would have an impact is if a loved character the audience is heavily invested in gets trapped and caught in an explosion, naturally being killed in the process, that would work but other than that I just don't care for them to the point a studio needs to impress the masses by investing millions into an effect that frankly could have been achieved more creatively and at a cheaper cost. This is what happens when you have more money than sense. World record for the largest explosion? Great. Meanwhile, the producers and the execs are wondering why the film has to make more than half a billion just to break even and why the film itself isn't doing SF numbers.
I don't think Bond movies need to have such huge budgets. It actually makes the directors lazy. I think QoS sufferered from the same issues. Too much pointless location hopping and OTT action sequences. Look at LTK - one of the tightest budgets in the series but the action is wonderful.
Hmmm. I loved the train fight personally. That is the action highlight of the whole Mendes era. I cannot think of anything else Mendes has done in the action department that comes close.
I would have preferred just a small insertion here and there in SP to remind us that he's not superhuman, and post-thrashing from Hinx would have been the best place. They did a good job in TSWLM with that brief scene where Anya checks out Bond's shoulder wound before they decide to attend to more pressing (ahem..) matters, and this scene was probably calling for something like that too, at least imho.
I always thought you were a male. But I recall that this week or last week in here, through a post, you were actually female. So I was a bit confused. Sorry. Male it is.
I have no idea why EON waited three years to make a sub par action movie with Mendes (DC might be to blame for this as well). Look at Mendes laughing and excited, i think he thought this films success is a sure thing.
I really hope we get one more film from DC with a new, younger and edgier director.
Didn't Chris Corbould once say the TWINE explosion was the biggest he'd done? I expect it's Corbould's own wish to better his previous work than any arrogance on Mendes's part.
That said, I still find the most viscerally satisfying explosion from Corbould's remains Skyfall lodge.
I couldn't agree more. The scene after the train fight was the only one that I hated.
The big issue I find with that scene is how easily Madeleine falls into Bond's arms, and in such a predictable fashion. Their romance could work, it just needs time to properly develop, which I feel it hadn't on my first viewing.
I get that the pair were full of adrenaline and thankful for each other's help in surviving Hinx, but Madeleine not ten/fifteen minutes before said to Bond that her body was not his Wonderland, which made their love making feel slightly artificial. It just felt cheap and like what every Bond girl does; says no, no, no to him one moment before falling into his arms the next.
Bingo. Love the ensuing scene after the train fight personally.
Can't live with them, can't live without them .
You're one your own with this one, mate. Just consider yourself lucky that the female population on this forum is in the minority, otherwise you might find yourself in more than a little spot of trouble. ;)
A line that's always stuck with me from True Lies
*shrugs shoulders*
Sooooo....$850 million worldwide looks like a lock, as does Spectre passing Avatar in the UK.
Great article @Germanlady. I especially like this quote:
And this one (and it shatters my feelings that in this forum Craig's portrayal as Bond in "SPECTRE" is barely...looked upon!):