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The pace of NTTD is it's biggest strength in my opinion
I've said for quite a while, the only Bond film I could see Tom Hardy do is the COVID version, where he gets to wear a damn mask the whole film as those are appartently the only projects he has been taking for quite some time. Have it directed by Nolan, too, so they can finish their mask-trilogy of The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk and that.
Just a little riff on the tabloid fodder that plagued the production of NTTD! :)
I have a habit of paying extra attention to how anything related to Russia is portrayed in Hollywood films and get a masochistic kick out of how many stereotypes are displayed. NTTD did not disappoint, and the absurdities like the villains' names uphold a fun Bond tradition. The use of the Kuril Islands though is very impressive. Ever since footage of the filming at the Faroe Islands emerged, I immediately wondered if that location was doubling for a villain's base in the Kurils.
Cool insight. That island was an amazing choice for the film I think. It only makes it more of a shame this film wasn't a more loyal take on YOLT. Imagine if Blofeld had erected a Japanese Castle on the island? Would have been awesome.
Poo Another Day
The PTS will see Bond in his DBS chasing down one of those rogue Amazon van drivers who were hoarding customer PS5 deliveries for themselves and switching the console round with dog food
Later on he’ll get Q to track down some scalpers using “internet technologies” and then they’ll be a massive finale at the end on a ship that’s been blocking the Suez Canal for weeks but is actually Brofeld’s secret base of operations whereby he plans to control the worlds supply of toilet roll to hold the world to ransom - Operation Main Shite
Kind of interesting what we immediatly realize as at least an anachronism if not an outright mistake based on our backgrounds. I read something about the number plates on the imdb bloopers page, but kind of thought "well, that's a bit nit-picky, isn't it?" But if a film has the wrong type of German number plates or gets wonky with the geography of a place I know very well, it of course jumps out to me immediatly.
Makes me appreciate the fact that here seem to be so few bloopers/mistakes/anachronisms in the film even after a quite diverse audience has had some time to go through it with a fine toothed comb (although the world-wide release to home media is still to come).
I agree. I would have loved it if this was a Lawrence of Arabia style, 5 hour film with two intermissions! :P
Overall, I'd say that the attention to detail in the direction and production design is outstanding across all the geographies portrayed in NTTD.
It's more like the bizarre constant descent of the GoldenEye pre credits!
One of my favorite examples is the car chase in Raiders of the lost Ark. Most of the chase takes place on a road going through a flat, desert landscape with ocational trees and houses. Then we cut to the next frame and a car is diving down a massive, bottomless cliff at the side of the road that appeared out of nowhere :))
Maybe they just drove on a bit...and the chase continues...
In TLD pretitle, I've been told the action that involved the Land Rover magically switches from Gibraltar to Beachy Head in England when the Rover actually gets airborne.
To the masses that have no idea about these things, or notice them, it barely makes a difference....sometimes I'm glad when I had no idea either lol
For whatever reason, this wasn't too jarring for me when I've watched the film. I guess my mind filled in the elevation required to get them from the road to the hills!
Ha! Yes, that is a shocker. I kind of like it for the pure, illogical cheesiness of it :D
It does, yes. I think one of the most jarring was watching the climax to A View To A Kill a few years ago after I'd visited the quarry in Sussex where they'd filmed the Main Strike mine- when Bond grabs the airship's rope I had completely forgotten it was supposed to be set in the US, so when we see him still hanging on over San Francisco for a brief moment I thought he'd been holding on all the way across the Atlantic! :D
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3 out of 5 or the Craig PTS have some kind of spatial fudging going on. The car chase in QoS takes place across several hundred kilometres; the bridge he gets shot off of in Skyfall is in a completely different part of Turkey than Istanbul is; and they constantly walk down the streets the wrong way to end up where they are going in Mexico City in SPECTRE. I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar goes on in NTTD, although it seems quite logical as far as I can remember.
Does anyone know where the place is where Bond and Madeleine go swimming before driving to Matera?
There is one in the NTTD pts too. There is no such bridge in Matera, so they filmed that scene elsewhere. I am not certain where the picturesque coastal road Bond and Madeleine drive through right at the beginning is, but it is definitily not right nearby Matera as the film makes you believe. Matera is situated at least thirty miles from the sea (more or less), and the coast there is quite flat with only a few minor hills.
I have always thougt it was funny how Bond gets his balls battered in Montenegro, yet they move him to a clinic by the Como lake in Italy :))
The worst one I saw recently was the Jack Ryan TV series where Ryan has a rooftop chase that starts in Leicester Square and ends with the baddie jumping into the Thames. But that would requite there being no roads between Leicester Square and the Thames- just one continuous set of rooftops. Which is obviously stupid even if you're not familiar with the layout of London.
Tom Cruise's one in Fallout is slightly similar although actually mostly works- it would just require him to make one 20 metre leap from St Paul's to the next rooftop :D
Is that weird? Why wouldn't MI6 evacuate him?
Plus, another little sidenote: Mr. White‘s house at the end of the film, Villa Gaeta, is about 15 minutes up the road from the Villa del Balbianello, where the hospital scenes are shot. So if you ever want to get into the spy world, knock on the gate of some villa on the west side of Como around Menaggio. There’s a good chance some kind of tradecraft is going on there..
I was too on edge about Bond having to protect Madeleine and Mathilde to notice any of this, or care. I just wanted them to get back to safety!
I might have been too shaken that they took the Toyota Rav4 or whatever, and just left that V8 just sitting there! :))
Well yeah, it might be a specialist ball clinic- the best one in Europe or something :) And as you say, it looks nice, and that's what we want in Bond!
Yes that was always an odd choice. It looks so similar that you might even think it's the same house; just a bit needlessly confusing for the viewer.
And how come he's living in that palace when his wife and daughter are in a tiny little shed in Norway? :D
Yes, that did seem a bit mad, mind you it would have stood just as little chance of outrunning those Range Rovers than the Toyota did! :)
Especially as they seemed to have the ability to fly through the air at one point. Perhaps a tribute to TMWTGG and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? ;)
You got a point there, @NickTwentyTwo, but think how much more traumatized you'd be if the V8 got scraped and beaten up in that chase. Bond made the right call. "Oh no, dear, they're not f@#$ing up my car. We're taking yours." ;-)