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Yes,THIS
I think that the scenes at the Fabergé Egg auction (taken from Fleming's Property of a lady story) are exactly what has been missing in the modern day 007 film - a slow set up some & intrigue to precede the action and adventure!
Absolutely. To be fair, I did think SF did that moderately well up to the end of the Silva's island sequence. After that it goes abit awry.
I do really recommend 'The Two Faces of January'. The tension builds brilliantly and satisfyingly slowly. I'd love to see that approach in a Bond movie, leading to a traditional grand confrontation.
That's settled then. I was considering going to see this, and your endorsement has sold me on the idea :)
Plus Viggo Mortensen is such a class act (he, incidentally, has a bit of the Dalton about him, both in looks and thespian-ness). If he was British he'd have been an excellent 007.
Mortensen is excellent. A brilliant trio of actors in the main parts actually. They work brilliantly together. I long for this kind of real tension between the actors in a Bond movie - you can almost taste the friction, loathing, distrust. I think the closest Bond has come to this is Connery and Shaw in FRWL - which is of course one of the greatest confrontations and face offs in the entire series.
Yes, Mortensen is incredibly adaptable. Come to think of it, he would have made an excellent Bond. Why not have a Scando as Bond? Our Danish and Swedish cousins often speak better English than we do! He convinces utterly as an American in this film (IMO). A brilliant portrait of a man imploding under the weight of his own failed dreams. Excellent acting.
Except for the animadversion about the dialogue, I agree with your assessment. This is Arnold's worst score, yet many regard it as his best. What can one say? And the "action" in the back half of the film is quintessentially generic and thus dull as dirt. Clearly, the Powers ran out of ideas and substituted mindless explosions and machine gun fire. A pity, because near to the first half of the film was classic Bond. If they could have sustained it, TND would be a slam dunk for the Top 10, IMO.
The problem with OP's silliness is that it is silly without being clever. I can easily forgive the silliness in DAF because it is also witty as hell.
There is plenty about Sanchez that is "fantastical," even comedic. The iguana, the dark sense of humor lighten Sanchez just enough. For a truly grim and sadistic Bond villain, see the inexplicably underrated Stromberg.
Yes. The Bond films have occasionally squandered, or at least underused terrific characters. Severine and Julius No spring readily to mind.
It is a mystery.
Didn't sit that well with me this time around, and I think the film has an abundance of action that just falls flat for me. The fight scenes are undermined by the horrendous fake punching sounds, some of the dialogue is terrible (though some of the lines are fantastic, so it's half-and-half), and I think Elliott is just a terrible villain. His cheesy dialogue, his mocking of the kung-fu (which is so cringe-worthy), and his overall plot is pathetic. I think he's a loser, personally. He comes across as a nerd who got bullied one too many times, so he's still keeping with his interests and killing people just to be on TV and have a popular newspaper. Spooky. Now it's time for TWINE.
politely
You're being too kind to the film. It's much, much worse.
Like this, perchance?
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy TND, it just isn't as fantastic as I remembered it. GE, on the other hand...never fails to impress me.
Watching TWINE now. This PTS is wonderful.
I'm watching it on ITV as I type, Bond has reached Cuba. I mind wandered for a moment, and it dawned on me that I was 16 when I first saw DAD in the cinema.
Fantastic PTS, thrilling and suspenseful the whole way through, all the way leading up to what could've been a fantastic battle between Bond and Renard, but it was filled with bad dialogue and a mediocre fight scene. "Welcome to my nuclear family." Don't make me cringe, Renard. Having said that, it's my second favorite Brosnan Bond film. I love it. Finally, we've made it to DAD.
*Takes the Bond slap back*
'Die Another Day'
I'll cut to it, it's entertaining enough for what it's worth.
Pros:
- It has its moments, mainly the PTS, the scene in Cuba, the sword fighting scene, and the Iceland car chase.
- Halle Berry is smoking hot.
- Brosnan doesn't look as old as Moore did in his final outing, which is good.
- Dare I say I like the score? Sans the theme song. I mean, it is catchy, but just listening to the lyrics makes me cringe.
Cons:
- You know what goes here: the horrible CGI, parasailing scene, the invisible car (nifty idea but comes off as cheesy in numerous parts), Madonna's cameo, the entire gene therapy plot, that horrid electro-suit, and the very disappointing finale, along with the dialogue.
- Michael Madsen is horribly miscast and doesn't belong anywhere near a Bond film, and the even more upsetting fact is someone thought "You know what? Madsen isn't doing anything lately, let's ask him to be in this trainwreck."
- But, none of that compares in the slightest to the worst offender in the film: having MP and Bond kiss. Virtual reality or not, I don't care, it doesn't belong in the film at all. Shame on you.
And that concludes my Bondathon. I've watched the Craig films way too many times lately to watch them again, so I'm moving on to my other films. But, it has been very fun!
It also dawned on me last night that DAD was another opportunity for them to introduce Bond as a gritty, dark, smoking-and-drinking (I guess he accomplishes these last two) agent after being imprisoned and tortured for 14 months, but nope.