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Yeah, and I suspect that's probably where we'll be going with B26 too to some extent for much the same reason. It'll feel fresh but I'd surprised if they try and scare the horses much on a CR kind of scale.
Yes it feels much tamer now, like a sort of proto attempt at a Craig but just falling between two stools and being neither an old school Bond or something new and dramatic.
I always think, when folks are shocked and appalled at Bond having a daughter or dying, or a lady having the 007 number, or him having blond hair etc. and go on about it being an unacceptable change to the formula, that it's easy to forget that something like LALD or TWINE or OHMSS even were big shakeups of what had come before, doing stuff Bond had never done previously and which felt pretty seismic at the time, and yet nowadays with hindsight we don't even notice. They're each just another Bond film in the series.
Well, It's a Bond movie. It's exactly what he should have done.
It's like having a car with gadgets and not using it... oh, wait
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It feels like a very watered-down version of Basic Instinct.
That's a good observation about Basic Instinct.
I wouldn’t say it always should happen, especially with the henchwoman (in fact in this case you’re hoping Bond doesn’t fall into the same trap the poor admiral did). The BMW stinger missiles are such a missed opportunity, agreed!
To each their own. I think she’s one of the weirdest, twisted, but memorable secondary villains of the series. And I have no issue with Basic Instinct or Bond taking inspiration from it! Even if they’re very different.
I'd love a Bond film set extensively South Africa. With Pearl Thusi as a Bond girl. And/or Chiedza Mhende.
I'm of two minds about this. An older Trevelyan depicted as a twisted mentor figure of Bond would have given the character gravitas and authority, but I can't see Hopkins (or Rickman) being much of a credible physical challenge in the climax. Unless Trevelyan had been split into two: the leader of Janus and the henchman who goes against Bond mano a mano. Come to think of it, it might have been interesting: say the head of Janus personally trained Bond AND said henchman.
I think the next Bond actor should do one real stunt. Maybe hanging on the side of a car or some jump. It doesn’t have to be some crazy stunt but just convincing enough to make you know the actor did it for real. Nothing too dangerous. For example the actor is hanging 50 feet in the air then it's cgi'ed a bit in post production to make it look he's much higher up. Real but then exaggerated in post production.
Yeah. I don't think hanging on moving vehicles is new in movies, though. For MI, I'm sure the difference would be the camera angles, higher altitude and all that. But we'll see. But all in all, it isn't entirely new. Except Chris adds something new to it.
In TLD, Bond parachuting out of a plummeting jeep was really inventive. Yeah, so I think even if Bond stunts go bombastic too, there's always that element of inventiveness that makes them standout.
I’m sure the next one will do better than the last. I’m not sure how high its ceiling goes though, even if they’re well regarded. I must admit, I have no interest in paying for a ticket to see this one (MI can be very hit or miss for me. Not a Tom Cruise fan either if I’m honest).
Worrying about action sequences is a bit cart before horse at the moment: first they need an idea for the next movie, characters, a plot, casting...
Well, some is, some isn't. There's enough real stuff in there to sell it, and at points the actors are clearly on top of a real train. At other points they have to use effects, I don't mind that.
But for sure it's a common misconception I've heard - that's to say everything in MI is 'real' and there's no VFX. It's something I liked about NTTD's advertisements - you heard from the SFX, VFX and stunt leads in certain promos, and it really gives a sense of how big the team is making those films (and it's not just the lead actor jumping off of bridges!) That said I'm sure MI has something like that, even if Cruise's 'action man' image is played up more.
As you say, you can see the vfx reels online (although weirdly apparently even behind the scenes shots in EPKs get touched up with effects now- lots of blue screens visible in those shots get tinted to grey to make them less obvious, very rum) and they're quite happy to show that in the much-vaunted HALO jump in Fallout, Tom really did jump out of the plane, but they also shot stuff on the ground in a wind turbine thing like they did for QoS.
Didn't know that about Maverick. Yes, that's definitely a film with VFX work even with its well done aircraft work (about 2,500 shots worth more or less of VFX, at least last time I checked).
I mean, VFX, SFX, and practical stuntwork are really not separate. Go back to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin and you get these guys doing very real jumps, rolls, routines, even putting themselves in dangerous positions, while cinematic 'tricks' are utilised to create the finished scene. We've always had studio work in films too, even if the technology has advanced. It's all just part of filmmaking and the 'magic' of it.