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I understood what you meant, it's just that TLD has far more silliness imo than what came after, except maybe DAD.
$100m, no hits and a show about octopuses: what is going on with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Amazon deal?
The star has taken home a staggering amount of money for doing... well, pretty much nothing, it seems
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/phoebe-waller-bridge-amazon-prime-video-deal-b1226778.html
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/14/phoebe-waller-bridge-amazon-deal-fleabag
Boris, Jack Wade, Zukovsky, Xena .. the movie is pretty light.
Oh really? Do you have more info on that?
TLD isn’t overly gritty or dark. It takes itself more seriously than the Moore films did I guess, but it definitely doesn’t skew as dark tonally as LTK or GE can.
Anyway, heightened or even comical characters can (and arguably should) exist in a Bond film, even those that lean darker. Look at NTTD. GE’s a film with humour, spectacle etc. but also a harder edge, and ultimately I’d say what we do get in that regard is quite far from TLD, mature as it is (I don’t see anything as visceral as that final fight with Travelyan, Travelyan’s death, the satellite massacre and Natalya’s escape, the death of the admiral, Onnatop’s death…)
Well an obvious action sequence for Bond 26 is Bond fighting a villain in a London Eye pod or on the London Eye ferris wheel itself.
The actor doesn't have to be suspended from the actual wheel (!)..... a part of the wheel can be made with precise accuracy and raised twenty/thirty feet off the ground with padding on the ground. The new Bond actor can hang off the imitation wheel and composited into wide shots of the real London Eye. A pod can be made to scale on a sound stage and the London skyline added in post production.
The London Eye is an ideal location for an action sequence. Maybe the precredit scene. 😉
By the way, Cruise lied about no cgi in Top Gun Maverick plane sequences. Cgi planes were used and the vast majority of the train sequence in Dead Reckoning including the scenes inside the train carriage as it tilts were cgi. Cgi was also used in the halo jump in Fallout. The promo videos of Cruise skydiving were real. That's not what was used in the final edit.
Cgi train in Dead Reckoning.
Never believe everything you see in action films. A huge amount is enhanced in post production.
The fights are fights... There are plenty in TLD.
Sorry, you see a darkness in GE that I don't.
Yeah. I agree. Also, TLD is something of a romantic Bond adventure as well. GE is simply darker. Also, Eric Serra's avant-garde score, adds to it being dark.
There are fights in TLD, but not quite like that one with Travelyan. No music, only the sounds of the two men beating each other up, blood, and of course us seeing Travelyan fall and break all his bones when he lands (before the satellite falls on him). It’s more along the lines of LTK.
The admiral’s death is pretty dark, outrageous as the concept is. It’s definitely played in a macabre, unsettling way with the shadows showing Onnatop trap him, the close up of his face, and then Onnatop’s taking pleasure in killing him. It’s another example of Bond treading those lines, and it’s pretty out there for the series (a villain can kill someone in a unique, outlandish way, and it can still feel dangerous or dark). I can’t think of anything quite as unsettling in TLD. The fact that it’s so weird and has a bit of humour at the beginning even puts it above a lot of the stuff in LTK for me.
But to each their own. Personally, I find GE stands out in terms of the Brosnan era for its harder edge. It’s a good Bond film to look at for Amazon potentially in terms of how it balances everything.
It may be an age issue.
I dunno man, maybe GE’s just not your thing 😉 I must say, you’re not always the best at understanding this film from our conversations, haha.
It’s the fact that his face is fixed in that expression which makes it so unsettling. You know exactly how he’s died. It’s that sense of weird, twisted dark humour that sometimes you get with Bond. Again, I think it treads those lines well.
But anyway, I don’t think TLD has anything quite that twisted or harder edged than those examples. GE’s more comparable to LTK.
I understand the movie perfectly. The thing is, it wasn't my first Bond film.
It definitely wasn’t mine either :) Anyway, sometimes certain Bond movies just aren’t our thing and we revisit some more than others. I appreciate it’s not your favourite and not everything in it works for you.