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Agreed. And I love the circle tracks a moving vehicle. They did the same in OP, of course.
You know, for some reason, I have all that dialogue that begins with Q saying "then I bring the two images together" memorized.
That would have been my other choice today. You enjoy as well!
Bond is busted.
So I've ascertained what looks the most different about Roger in this film for me. It's not the mole removal though that does help. I've never been 100% sold on the theory he had a face lift prior to filming. It's his eyebrows. They've been obviously colored in and look thicker. I did a play a couple years ago when my eyebrows were colored in slightly and I thought it made me look like Roger in AVTAK. I looked at least 15 years older when the makeup person was done.
Nevertheless contrary to popular opinion, Roger looks amazing in this film to me. Leaner, meaner and yet undeniably Roger.
I remember the film looking very bright and colorful in the theater. The red of Maydays dress, the Golden Gate Bridge and of course the GB blood really stood out.
The flesh tones looked normal, though and not too magenta. Roger looked tanned.
I do think the Blu-ray looks reasonably close to the film in the cinemas, except the titles seem darker, especially that opening shot of the model unzipping her jacket.
Personally I think the early laserdsic by CBS/Fox Home Video is probably the most true version in terms of the color timing. I was pretty obsessed with color settings when I was a kid and thought the VHS tape by CBS/Fox Home Video actually had right look.
I always liked it. Sneaky Bond, action Bond and the famous "Roger punch".
I love the Glen films. All five of his films feel like Bond films to me, even LICENCE with it's deviation from formula. I think because he had done 2nd unit direction, and edited previously, he knew Bond inside and out. I kind of wish Barbara and Michael would just promote a director from within the Eon mantle the way Cubby did. The drawback to that in this day and age , and with our luck, it would probably be Purvis and Wade directing.
I'm on the bit where Zorin's about to flood the mines and Bond has discovered his plot with Stacey. I really love Barry's cue here. Helps Stacey's monologue as well.
Bond casually looks at the chart and immediately realizes they have less than an hour.
Zorin rests the barrel of his revolver on the hand rail. LOL .
My Mom really deplored this scene. It made her not want to see another new Bond film with Roger if they were going to be this violent. Yet, four years later she liked LICENCE. Tim gets a pass for being in a violent Bond, Roger does not. My Mom preferred MOONRAKER era Roger.
I wonder if there was water and electrical wires present on the B25 set the day Grace Jones supposedly walked away from her cameo?
THAT is NOT the soap!
Menu up on the Bond50 Bluray, I still have mixed feelings about the films score, though one positive is it gives a unique feel to the film.
INITIATE MISSION...
I do like the gun barrel and theme on this one
This film is slick and tightly directed
Immediately I feel like I am watching a Bond film, there are some good shots in this pre title sequence
The Ferrari and Aston Martin scene is great, it cleverly keeps the pace from the pre title sequence going.
On a related note, I look back fondly --and not very critically-- on the more naive portrayal of computers back in the 90s. I'm reminded of the film Copycat, a fine thriller in which computers and the internet are kind of magical. I also recall Michael Douglas moving through a virtual library in Disclosure.
True and it always occurs to me the mainstream audience perception of what happens in films (things are dumbed down often), I was a computer programmer in 1990's Boris's ineptitude was highly amusing.