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Other films have had them occasionally but they were never too much into our faces in my opinion.
Could be. The point is it was destroyed.
I certainly prefer Surrender but the one they used is decent enough. Arnold is even thankful that his song made it into the movie (well, the end credits). No reason to bash the song because of a missed opportunity imo. Both songs sound bondian to me.
Crow's song is far and away my least favorite Bond song, so I think anything would've been better. It's like they recorded four minutes of someone mumbling lyrics and put Arnold's music over it. Probably the most lifeless of the Bond songs.
Personally I'd put it somewhere in the middle of the title-song rankings but it's way more lively than All Time High though. :)
All Time High has an actual vocal high, though, something to reach in the music itself that crescendoes. With Crow, I hear her voice registering as it would if she sang with a bucket on her head. Basically, drowned out sound.
Definitely. The sound effects in TND were sub-par. I heard that typical window-getting-broken sound effect (usually includes a cat screeching). Then during the finale it sounded as if Stamper was punching a bag of meat and not Bond...
Yeah, weird. That one moment in the interrogation really stands out for me. The goon stops mid-sentence, almost in anticipation of this cartoonish THWACK! Nothing like the sound of an actual kick connecting.
That whole scene is pretty embarrassing, with Bond rolling about on the floor - not very cinematic. Something else I noticed is that quite a lot of the henchmen in this film are really old! It reminded me of AVTAK, actually.
Those sound effects help make TND's action scenes (particularly the hand-to-hand combat) unenjoyable and some of the most forgettable in the series. All the fighting in the recording studio/printing press area is generic as can be.
Now I don't mind those at all, they sound a little quieter and less exaggerated to me.
We had this discussion ages ago :). I simply dislike exaggerated sounds effects, as it cheapens the movie experience quite a bit. The ones in TND and OHMSS are inexcusable imho.
Not a fan of the slide whistle, then, are we? Don't worry, you're amongst friends in that regard.
You can even say this of the Aston Martin: for all its in the end it failed Bond completely.
I wouldn't count it as a total mark against the DB5. In all areas of it gadgets it responded perfectly and took out at least one or more enemies. Bond simply got put in a tough position, where he was completely boxed in. He had to drive it in the wall before the collision smashed him up worse.
Bond's cars usually end up worse for wear anyway, whether they're blown up, crushed, riddled with bullets or crammed in shop windows. Sometimes Bond errs, but I feel the cars support him well.
Nothing is worse than gadgets handed over in the beginning that are completely outlandish, with no apparent purpose in real life, and later on in the movie, lo and behold, it just so happens that the statistically insignificant occasion for them becoming useful arises. That case is just bad writing.
In turn, so is the case of totally useless and wasted gadgets. Say, the Z3, which is described as having all the latest equipment including Stinger missiles, and all it is used for is driving to the place where they are to take over the plane from Jack Wade. Product placement may be ok, but this is stupid product placement that does not even have a real function for the movie.
Also, in reference to Bond's LALD Rolex, it's interesting that they bother to mention in the early stage when M is chastising Bond for wasting taxpayer money that Bond mentions the watch can deflect the path of a bullet at long range, but we never see it.
But then we get a cutting gadget we don't know about, which feels like a bit of a cheat in that it makes it too easy for Bond at that point.
This isn't where I thought you'd stand on this issue. Very interesting.
The buzz saw works as a gee-whiz reveal, but it's good they didn't wear out that sort of thing.