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Christian Slater, back when he was still one of Hollywood's cool dudes. Great Zimmer score, too. Quite underrated, I think.
Pretty slick action film.
"Goddamn, what a rush!'
Regarding MI borrowing from Bond: to me these new MI films aren't Bond films -they are MI films through and through. They focus more on a team. Any similarities are to older Bond films and exist in the stylishness and fantastic use of locations and landmarks, the humour and irony, the ground breaking vehicular and fight action and the general attitude of these films. For me at least, they fill a void which has been vacated by Bond while it continues with the Craig introspective continuity driven experiment. Once Craig is gone Cruise will probably be done with MI as well, and so Bond will be able to go back to occupying that light hearted adventure spy thriller space it held for so long, if Broccoli chooses to cast an actor who can own it, and if she wants to go back there.
Yes that is why I think we won't have to wait much longer for next bond actor because EON might go for another soft reboot like Roger Moore time . I want mi to go for more like mi4 for the next film if it's going to be last.
7. Liman wanted The Bourne Identity to have the same feel as the German action classic, Run Lola Run. He uses plenty of handheld cameras and other tricks to give the movie the same veracity. He also cast the star of Run Lola Run, Franka Potente, as the female lead, Marie. She was originally written to be an American.
I have a feeling they will move forward very quickly once B25 is done with the next one. Universal is biding its time imho. They have plans for this franchise (and perhaps for MGM).
https://outtake.tribecashortlist.com/run-lola-run-the-90s-movie-that-took-over-the-world-ebc2371426af
At this rate we’ll be asking who influenced cave drawings. ;)
For me, Fox in the Batman films is a brilliant nod to Llewelyn's Q, and came online at a time when EON had dispensed with Q. The same goes for Benji in the MI films. He first appeared in MI:3. There was no Q at that time, since EON had decided to do an origin story (ironically, jumping on the Nolan bandwagon - see how things go in circles).
In the past, there was no comparison to EON. All we had were second rate pretenders. These days I don't see it that way. The Bourne films, the Nolan Batman films and the Cruise/McQuarrie/Bird MI films have truly raised the bar in many ways, and even though they openly are inspired by (and borrow from?) the classic Bond films, they do things in a fresh and interesting way (imho), executing brilliantly. To a large degree, I think they evoke the best of EON better than EON is doing right now. I don't mind it, as long as I get my fix of greatness, and I'm glad that MI is here right now to give it to me.
Joker shoes from FRWL
Skyhook scene of hongkong from Thunderball ending(fox mention CIA had program back im the 60s to get their people out called skyhook).
Harvey half burned face from GoldenEye (even mentioned Romans in both films)
TDKR opening from LTK
TDK convoy from LTK
I respect that but at the same time I want Cary to bring at least one action piece which we haven't seen any film whatsoever.Take fast & furious 6 for example I was blown away by the London chase I don't think any film has ever done it with ramp cars which Luke Evans was driving. I mean how difficult it is to bring something new to the table.
Helicopter scene in FRWL was straight ripped off from airplane scene in "North By Northwest".
I know I even mentioned it above somewhere
That's why a lot of people think LTK underperformed as EON just stuck to what it knew by releasing its films every 2 years and just putting the Bond brand out there without much fanfare, thinking just that alone would sell the film.
Glad you enjoyed it, I have found with some 4K films I need to adjust the picture on occasion. The film is technically brilliant I may watch it again later, awesome score drags me into the film from the off.
I have previously looked online for optimal picture settings for my specific TV so I have two Expert pre sets, I usually end up using one of them from time to time.
I can't wait for them to release the other Die Hards. Hope they get to it soon.
It's worth looking, for my TV I found several videos on YouTube for picture settings and kept the ones I liked. I don't have HDR10, though have HDR some pictures can be dark though you see the phenomenal detail, I recently bought Superman The Movie in 4K which was initially jarring though after a few viewings the depth and richness in detail is pretty amazing.
I think the remastered 4K films (like Die Hard or the earlier MI releases) are where the real benefit will be felt, because the new releases are pretty good as they are on blu ray, and the player and tv will upscale it anyway. Something similar happened with the Lowry remasters of the Bond films, where the biggest improvements were felt with the earlier films on blu ray.
Only M:I has arrived so far hopefully the other will be delivered tomorrow, though the first film really looks impressive the image pops for the most part in crystal clarity, there are occasionally obvious shots that are not as sharp though it still looks great.
The early Sean films are unbelievable upscaled to 4K, FRWL I watched again a few weeks ago, my brother could not believe how incredible the film looked.