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I would agree with this.
I would agree too. The whole sequence is inspired.
Yes, including the score.
Definitely!
I'd agree too except I find the PTS of SF much better than SP action wise.
To be honest I don't think any come close to Parkour, but I would possibly agree with you. I'd be torn over the SF and SP PTS'.
Am I the only one who thinks the PTS of SP is only average?
There's a lot of waffle about Sam's amazing opening shot but for all the effort and expense is it really any better than the simple shot of Dalton in TLD or the crane shot on the top of the dam in GE?
I also think that due to lots of other problems with the rest of SP the CGI building collapse seems to get a free pass where people have been happy to slam the one in CR which is far less prominent.
The weightlessness in the helicopter is pretty good but the hanging on the side of the chopper is better in FYEO.
Also disappointed they didn't have Bond kick Sciarra out as it barrel rolled so he fell through the rotors. This would have been a classic 'he had lots of guts' moment.
Newman's awful reuse of the SF is score is also jarring and irritating.
Overall I'd give it maybe a 6/10 and have it somewhere in the middle.
I thought it was one of the best of the series. I do agree about the music though. I spent a good deal of it in the cinema thinking, isn't that from Skyfall? I also think, I've seem Spectre once so this is how I remember it, that there were large parts of the helicopter stuff unscored that I would have rather had scored.
I don't like the building collapse. Didn't like it in the trailers and don't care for it in the film. I love when Bond walks out onto the rooftops and the score. I enjoy the general chase and I think the genuine stunt work is great (the bluescreen shots are jarring, much like the facial replacement in SF). Are either of them top tier? I'm not sure. On the subject, I wouldn't mind seeing a slimmed down PTS in the future, in the vein of GF or OHMSS, both of which I love.
I think the opening tracking shot is one for the ages. However, as you noted, the action is on the dull side, and there wasn't really any stand out creative moment in the chopper itself. Nothing really smart or interesting happened. So they fought, and one fella was kicked out (like we didn't know that was going to happen) but no real impressive memorable action moment.
I think the SF one is probably better overall. It's very tense, all the way up to when Bond falls and the camera focuses on Dench's face, as she realizes what she's done.
I liked it. But again, as with many of the Bond films, it lacked sense.
Two buildings have just collapsed (or partially collapsed) and yet...
the Dia de los Muertes festival goes on without a hitch (with police lining the streets for security, unconcerned and somehow unaware) just a block or so away?
But what the hell. :D
Hmmm, now that you mention it...
Whereas I agree for the most part Bond and the baddies battling centrifugal force translated pretty well on screen. SF yes for me too had a bigger impact.
Yeah, I don't like that moment at all. One of many reasons why I rank SF so low on my list.