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Add me as a fourth. LOL
And I think it is the one Bond song that works really well because of the title sequence.
I'd be the fifth. I really like this song, both against the film's opening titles and on its own. It's a nice, harder-edged contrast to the three ballads that would follow and does a good job of capturing the young, more brutal, and perhaps more reckless side of Bond we see in the CR and QOS storyline. Who are the other two, by the way?
Before the extended cut of Aliens plays, Cameron mentions something along the lines of how "conventional wisdom at the time said to cut your movie shorter rather than longer" and so he did but that the extended cut is his preferred version of the film. I could have done without seeing Hadley's Hope before the marines arrive for the increased suspense value, but by and large the scenes that were removed really do improve the experience.
There is of course the opposite end of the spectrum as @Birdleson mentions where you're haphazardly CGI-ing tauntauns into the background of every scene, and I'd say the majority of extended versions released on Blu-ray only make a film a longer and slightly less interesting experience and serve to demonstrate just why particular scenes were cut in the first place. But yes, Aliens and The Abyss demonstrate the value of giving a film's initial edit a re-think during a later era.
I really doubt a Bond film will ever receive an extended version or a director's cut though. When given the option of digitally removing the crew that's plainly visible in the dressing room mirror during the fight in TMWTGG, the producers declined as they wished to preserve the legacy of the series as it was made, blemishes and all. They prefer moving forward rather than looking back.
I nearly choked on a cashew nut I was eating when I read that!
SERIOUSLY?!!! 😮
As you might expect from my username, I'm very excited to watch the 22nd Bond film at 22:22, on 02 22 2022.
Wear a tutu while you watch and you will go down in legend.
Not to go without mention: on Twosday.
You should wait until Febtember. And two hundred years!
Nice!
Look deep into the subtleties and please share any new things you pick up for yourself from the film.
The music was very similar to a song that came out before SF was made called "Water Shape" by Monocular. If you don't believe me, listen to it towards the end before the chorus picks up one last verse.
Then there's SP...Conjure One had made a song called Still Holding On. From the very beginning of that song you can hear the kind of Daniel Craig with Sam Mendes collaboration brewing from a gunshot that wasn't supposed to happen a-la SF on the train Bloody Shot or the title sequence of SP.
My point being...since QoS, we haven't had as much originality with detailed scoring...although the use of David Arnold's music and Louis Armstrong's are always welcome when played in a scene made with care as they were in NTTD.
Yeah. This might sound stupid, because it's only music. Although, I like some tracks from Newman's SP score and feel SF is his best Bond score...and I love the entire Zimmer score, but maybe if Arnold had scored all five of Craig's films, it might have helped the films feel like CR & QoS. I can only imagine what Arnold would have done with Skyfall, knowing it's Bond 50th anniversary...with him being a huge Bond fan as well.
The music really made the intricate details of emotion for CR and QoS...Newman and Zimmer are similar in that they use simplistic beats with limited musical instruments.
Same here.It’s my most rewatched film of all time.
Yeah. Arnold's music really gives CR & QoS, serious rewatch value.
The man knows the Bond sound.....👍
Every penny of it! :)>-
Think about it:
He scored QoS after the principal photography finished. He knew about the anxious mood on the set. You can hear the emphasis of how lonely it was for both the protagonist and the actor/crew/set while they were filming Mathis' death scene in Bond's arms.
His absence is truly felt.
Deeply!
CR and QOS kind of feel "soapy" to me, for lack of a better word. Days Of Our Lives music. There is good Bond sound peppered in though. Diamonds in the rough.
Was it the lack of Bourne movies being made?
Pretty much spot on 👍