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Haha! That's deep though. For me, the chilling Norway opening, Matera chase & the Bunker shootout are good and have rewatch value. If I'm to watch the rest of the film, it's simply to see more of Craig's Bond and hear Zimmer's score...when I'm not listening to it separately.
Exactly! We need to get back natural action directors fast! I can only imagine how good NTTD's action scenes would have been, if a natural action director directed them....Gosh!
Some of the action in Safin's lair look like a poor copy of John Wick: Chapter Two Catacombs shootout.
True, the arthouse directors for me are different, they worked more on Indie (Independent) Films or sometimes in realistic dramas, the most obvious example would be Tory Kotsur (the director of CODA).
If Coppola only directed The Godfather, he could be qualified as an Arthouse director, but he'd lost in that category when he did other genres.
Fukunaga and Mendes aren't arthouse, they're only standard directors, Fukunaga is an unknown director, they're just on the same level as Rian Johnson, and just because of Knives Out and Glass Onion, would it make Rian Johnson an Arthouse director? No, that wouldn't make him an Arthouse director, it needs to be fixed in your specialty as a director, a certain level of style, he still did Star Wars.
Came from the word itself, 'Art', there's a quality in every arthouse films, a realistic approach, somewhat surreal and bizarre in a realistic way, that conveys inner imaginations, think of Van Gogh if he became a director, it needs to be consistent and consistent in particular way or style.
Ironically Mendes’s action wasn’t bad, it was the drama that was lacklustre.
I do enjoy it and I can agree with you mostly. It does feel a bit like Home Alone at first. Even Kincade is like Old Man Marley in more ways than one!
Right.
I can’t believe some haven’t even mentioned that John Wick’s visual style is heavily influenced by SKYFALL, especially the Shanghai sequence. Fans always say it should be Bond that starts the trends. There you go! Thank SKYFALL!
I appreciate SF has it's fans, but CR beats it hands down.
I completely agree. CR is better than SF. Martin Campbell is the modern Terence Young.
I love them both but I would always pick CR of the two.
I remember that picture. In it. she is wearing the same black dress as when the assassination happens in front of the Modigliani. And the two men she is with are in the room, too. So the scene with her walking is likely the lobby of that building, where is going to meet. It would have been interesting how much more of Severine we didn't see. A "deleted scenes" reel for Skyfall would be epic.
Someone attempted it here. The scene in question is at the :30 mark, and she appears to pass Patrice on an escalator.
It sure would have been greet to see more Severine. Since SF was more dramatic than action-packed, it needed such characters to add more to the story.
Sometimes, I do wonder if SF was tailor-made for someone like David Fincher.
Given the passage of time and reading much of the commentary, I think NTTD suffered from being a pre-pandemic movie released at a moment when (at least a portion of) audiences wanted an escapist spectacle. Or, in the case of David Mitchell, apparently apparently thinking Bond is meant to be panto. NTTD might be many things, but that isn't one of them.
I think one of the issues was the comment Bond makes about a waste of good Scotch. But I always interpreted that as a way to distract Silva and his henchmen: to get them thinking "huh?" in which they let their guard down just a bit.
What's interesting is my positive reaction to NTTD is due in part to its release: its tone and theme fit perfectly. I don't think I would have liked the film (or nearly as much) if I had seen it in April, 2020.
Bond didn't let Silva knew his weakness, he'd tried to show that he's still tough.
But we know that Bond was kind of shattered deep inside.
Maybe escapist spactacle rather than spectacle was the word I should have used in my little list. Avatar, Maverick and undoubtedly the upcoming Dead Reckoning show that there is a very large audience for something that wows them, takes them away and has some nice sequences you want to re-watch. Like, we talk about Safin being an ill-defined villain with an unclear motivation. It's totally unclear who the villains in Maverick even are. Obviously that doesn't work for Bond; the villains are so important, but still about half of Maverick skates by on having set an arbitrary goal (do this run at this altitude in this time) and we then watch the characters fail and then succeed in achieving it. That's it. There's some stuff before and after that and some character building in between but that's the core of the film: Here's the mission, go do it.
The question then is: Does it work because it's fighter jets or can it be done some other way that would be more in line with Bond? Maybe the underwater infiltration of Mr. Big's island could be a set-piece to build something like this around? The first act of Trigger Mortis could be a jumping off point too. I've said for a while that the F1 hype in the US after Drive to Survive could be something to steer into for Eon.
To be fair I think both are the most fondly remembered Bond films nowadays amongst the average viewer (yes, even compared to the old ones).
I'm more of a SF fan personally though.