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it can be a mixture of a bunch of different factors - least of which is the script.. it could boil down to how Berry interprets what is written, or even what the director wants out of the performance as well.... but people are quick to pass the buck on the script - when it's up to the actor to bring that character to life off the page...
in the case of DAD, her acting was extremely hammy - so no matter what was written, her performance of said material probably would've sucked either way..... a great actor can elevate any mediocre script.. but a terrible actor can destroy something oscar worthy (if you've seen Hot Fuzz, look at how bad acting can ruin Shakespeare lol).. now i'm not saying the script to DAD was anything close to oscar worthy - but what was written, and what we got from Berry's performance might be two totally different things..
Jinx first appearance scene with Bond is one of the most cringeworthy in the series, and it doesn't get any better!
Halle Berry is the worst Bond girl of all time. She has no chemistry with Pierce Brosnan. She delivers her lines as though English is her second language.
Berry is a great actress and has proven her acting skills on countless times, but at the same time she has had her fair few flops of portrayals and this for me goes hand in hand with her dreadful ‘Catwoman’ performance. Part of me blames Berry for her over-acting and corny-ness but the other part of the blame goes to the writers: I think they wrote the part especially for Berry and wrote the part as a stereotyped ‘Halle Berry’ Bond Girl. What they should have done was create a unique and interesting Bond Girl and then challenged Berry to see if she was up to it...... Berry was out-shined in ‘Die Another Day’ by newcomer Rosamund Pike and in the ‘bikini-coming-out-of the-water’ moment to the iconic Andress.
Agreed.
There is just no way to avoid how bad that scene actually is.
You cant justify it in any way,shape or form against any scenes in AVTAK.
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That's strange!
Agreed.
That's a big YES.
I rank it #3 among Roger entries. Slightly better than OP for me, mainly because I love Zorin-Mayday and I quite like some moments of crazy violence.
I'd place that honour to MR to be honest. At least in AVTAK we have Zorin mowing down all his men and leaving the rest to drown. We wouldn't see that in any of the Pink Panther movies. We have some silliness going on with the "California Girls" sequence in the PTS. But overall the laughs aren't as silly as previous efforts.
I am not sure who I should give credit to, but the theory of Bond being old and a step behind the younger Zorin gives me a new fresh perspective on this film. I would love to see this theme really fleshed out in a future film.
Maybe that will happen in NTTD? Malek is younger than Craig, and AVTAK was Fukunaga's first Bond film.
Yes, but Achille Aubergine? Ma car! Ma car!? Deleted scene with police chief checking Bond s gadgets? Warehouse "fight"? Fire truck chase? Tibbett getting a hard time? It just reminds me very much of Pink Panther, all of that.
I could agree with this, honestly never thought of how reminiscent it is of Pink Panther. Damn, do I still love this film, though. It's objectively flawed in several areas and Moore's just a bit too old in the role but I've always had a great affinity and affection for it.
I can also just hear Clouseau exclaiming "That is not the soap!"
VTAK passes the 'Ebert Test' of having a great villain, so why is it so rubbishy?
The Bond films of yesteryear always had A, great stunts and B, said stunts filmed and edited to great effect. In AVTAK they are, at times, awful. I offer up the Paris car chase, fire truck chase and Gogol meeting Pola as evidence.
Agreed, it was at an all-time low here. I recall a friend of mine who wasn't a Bond fan jeering during the pre-credits when Bond is snowboarding that the stunt double looked like an Eskimo and that comment always sticks with me whenever I watch that scene.
The film also seems to have a very high percentage of rear and front projection on several scenes as well. And this isn't just in the era of high-definition equipment; I notice these back in the day AVTAK was new.
The score is excellent, as expected from John Barry. The opening scene(apart from the Beach Boys nonsense) is good. The final fight atop the Golden Gate Bridge with Zorin is one of the most memorable endings.
While on the subject of Zorin, thanks to the mercurial Christopher Walken, he is my all time favourite Bond villain. And he brings out some real intensity in the second half of the film from Moore. Bond genuinely seems to despise Zorin, and doesn't hide his contempt with witty banter, as we are accustomed to in a lot of the series. Good stuff. Almost good enough to make me forget about the quiche!
Once we get past the quiche scene, the film ups it's game a notch, for sure.
The first half feels more Bondian. The films set primarily in the U.S. often get criticized for being less interesting than those set in other worldwide locales and AVTAK is a prime example of why. I still feel when Bond arrives in San Francisco it's one of the most boring stretches in any Bond film. We trade in Macnee for Chuck Lee, the most colorless sidekick in the series. Add in the screaming Stacey Sutton, the cheap comedy and a tone that's all over the place it just drags it down that much farther.
Walken is the film's only saving grace for me. AVTAK made me a Walken fan. Whenever he's not on screen the film plods along. It's one of the few times I rooted for the villain to win in a Bond film and that's due to Walken's Zorin, who's fascinating to watch.
The Eiffel Tower sequence is pretty good.
About all the nice things can say.
Walken really is excellent, I love all his little tics and mannerisms when he speaks, and to be fair to Roger, he really is great in his scenes with him.
The pts is great fun, if only they used the Bond theme with the snowboarding sequence, and the climax on the Golden Gate bridge with the Skyship is terrific.
Must say I really like the steeplechase set piece as Bond really gets bashed about a bit more than usual.
Unlike most of the Bond movies though, I really have to be in the right mood to watch this one!
ME !!!
Didn't they go down this route somewhat with Skyfall?