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Bond: "No owls in Los Oregano. Nothing to see till the morning. Not out there anyway"
Jinx: "So what do owls do when the sun goes down?"
Bond "They feast......... like there's no tomorrow!"
Some people are just convinced it's bad, snap of a finger, it's bad. No its no buts. No reasonable deduction. Just insults and uncalled-for words. Yet, I remember loads of reviews from that time that DAD "is the best Bond film ever made" by some. And yeah, even Roger Ebert held it in his favour. So, that says pretty much about it.
And it certainly does not ruin my enjoyment of the film, but that's entirely a different thing, as well.
Agree 100%. In many ways it reminds me of a Moore era Bond movie. It's over-the-top and not meant to be serious at all. Not to mention that it's basically a better remake of DAF, which, let's face it, is a Moore era Bond with Connery shoehorned into it (not to malign his performance; it just doesn't match his usual Bond style).
I feel exactly the same way about it. And I love the film just for that reason: Escapism.
I've seen 35mm prints of Superman screened a couple times in the past decade or so, and I must say on the big screen the effects really do hold up. It helps tremendously that it's actually shots of Reeve most the time. I didn't even bother with Batman V Superman as to me the whole film just looked like a video game. I hate that CGI video game look that dominates pretty much ALL major films now. I absolutely hate it.
Even SPECTRE, which was shot on film looks CGI- especially in the PTS. Compare the helicopter shots in FYEO. Aside from some back projection, it looked pretty real. SP had the digital look to it.
One thing I'll say for DAD- is that it does look like film and old school vivid Technicolor as well. Aside from the PTS sequence which was deliberately given a gray washed out look, DAD visually is stunning. The Cuba scenes stand out, and the Ice Palace is in the Ken Adam style. Get rid of the crappy windsurfing bit, the awful shots of the plane going down at the end (TLD did it so much better), you'd have a great looking Bond film.
It's terrible. I don't even know whether it was filmed for real or whether it's cgi
It really is noticeable.
I watched DAD recently and enjoyed it. But the dialogue between Jinx and Bond is like a clunky Carry On film.
Plus that windsurfing moment is so poorly done. Just a bit of editing would have made it look better.
The dialogue is quite fun to re-enact though.
He's not a secret agent, he's a very naughty boy!
Wait till you get to the sex.
Yeah, I like it to this day. And of course it's absurd, but if we start pointing out all of the absurdities in the Bond films we'd hate them all. In fact, I think absurd is one of the big elements of the entire franchise in general.
Oh, and @Mathis1, although I get my "knickers in a twist" over a few things in Spectre, I do think it's better than DAD and I rank it higher.