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Movie culture seems to be divided into two categories these days:
Before Star Wars (a time that most can't comprehend) and after Star Wars.
Also many of them are not aware that some of the best cinema was made in another language than English.
"What? Subtitles? You mean I have to READ while I watch?!"
Westerners do sometimes have a habit of thinking the world revolves around them.
Totally. But only American and British films, because let's be honest: none of the others actually matter and therefore aren't worth rating period. Chinese movies are all action movies, all French people do is film people eating under the Eiffel Tower, Italians are too busy cooking to care and Japanese films are also only action...and there's also anime, but cartoons are for kids.
I'm not so sure about this. I agree films from the 1930's plus contain many classics. But the whole reason other countries watch British and American cinema is that it is superior.....in general.
SF or TLD
@Getafix, he means TLD.
The more humorous aspects of the film fall flat for me. For a movie that's supposedly harder edged, The humor from Moore's era still lingers and it hurts the movie and Dalton's performance at time. Which brings me to him. I don't really care for Tim's performance in the movie. It's too stiff and overdone. It feels staged and not natural. I put that down to nerves and not enough good direction from Glen. Dalton really needed a Terrance Young type of director to shape him into the role ready to go.
Lastly the final half in Afghanistan was boring to me. It's hard to sit through after a while. Other than that there are lots of good things to like about it but sadly it sits on the top of the bottom 5.
I disagree, the reason why so many people watch American films is that they have bigger budgets for easy-to-digest popcorn movies and there is a big audience for that kind of film.
Filmmaking doesn't end there though. In terms of the more slower-paced, subtle, thoughtful and groundbreaking arthouse films the works of Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, etc. can definitely be considered among the best works of cinema ever.
I see.
I actually find Koskov and Whitaker, as well as their more grounded and real to history plan (in the time of the Soviet invasion), very refreshing. After the Moore era the films were in dire need of a bit of cold, hard reality, and it feels like a modern spy film on the whole.
I love Dalton's performance overall, but I agree that the holdover elements of the Moore era were forced on him and at times, hurt his impact. The one-liners shouldn't have been in there, and they rear their head at times in LTK too, a film where Bond shouldn't have ever been willing to spit one of them out while tailing the man who killed his friend and dismembered the other. The tone can at times feel confused because of that, but that's a failure of the script to support Dalton, and not wholly on him. It's clear what his strengths were, and that's all his era should've been focused on.
I still really enjoy TLD though, and for the great character building of Bond in the beginning, the fantastic Pushkin, Saunder's death, Kara and the fantastic airstrip sequence in Afghanistan, it is higher on my list of Bond films.
I think LTK is better overall in many notable ways, but both films cement Dalton as my #3 favorite Bond.
Disclaimer: I don't normally watch Russian movies either, but just because the supply isn't really there. But though I don't understand Russian, I wouldn't be scared off. I've watched Italian movies with Italian subtitles, rather than a German-dubbed version...and I don't even speak Italian. I just hate dubbing.
At least the editor remembered that it's not a roger Moore film anymore
Well apart from Milovy herself,that doesnt help it...its just a boring film at the end of the day ,with some sporadic good moments.
I don't mind the idea, but the gag at the end ("nothing to declare") is horrid.
I loved LTK when it came out and saw it twice in one day but over the years despite it having some great sequences it also has some pretty awful moments.
I'm afraid Dalton never got the entry that truly could have made his Bond endure outside the fan base.
For that reason alone I prefer Craig's era, well up to SPECTRE that is. Craig just looks more confident from the get go, there is no feeling of he's out of his depth in scenes or not suited, can't say that for Dalton especially in LTK.
I'll give Tim the pass with some of scenes in TLD like the humour as he was working with a film that had been scripted for Rog and then was re-written for him not tailored.
Although when he did get that film they still couldn't drop the cliches and the reason they included them just makes all his attempts to hark back to Fleming look glaringly out of place amongst some of the elements in LTK.
I agree, it is really out of place and feels like a holdover from the Moore era.
For me though the whole of SF is a bore.
Exactly, there is also the question of advertising as well. I don't see a big advertising campaign for La grande bellezza, one of the best films in recent years, across Time Square. Transformers Part 10 would have advertising campaigns all over Italy (on the roads, in the cities, tv spots, radio spots and what not).
A Flemish proverb says: unknown is unloved.
The Afghanistan scenes are not that bad, its TLD slow section, ALL Bond movies have a slow section. It doesn't hurt the movie, itsstill a classic Bond film, with a classic Bond! Cant understand how you could call Dalton stiff. He's utterly compelling and oozes screen presence. Compared to Brossa, who has the patent on stiff and wooden!