007HallY
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Haven't seen FYEO in a while now so had to look up how old Bibi was meant to be... um... https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Bibi_Dahl#:~:text=Bibi Dahl is an ice,Greek heroin smuggler Aris Kristatos. 16 apparently... I genuinely didn't know tha…
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I always think NTTD feels like a massive step up in that way for Bond. The way it bends stuntwork and VFX is amazing, especially during the Matera and Cuba sequences. That said even CR uses a surprising amount of VFX/CGI.
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Depends on who gets the franchise I suppose, but I suspect in most cases it’d be a Star Wars situation. One relatively successful film which plays on superficial nostalgia followed by diminishing returns and then an over saturation of material (stup…
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I suppose everyone’s tolerance for Bond film nonsense is different. Personally I’ve never really noticed any of those contrivances in the Craig films, nor FRWL. Heck, I’m able to happily go along with TSWLM and MR. If the film keeps me engaged it ca…
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I think an element of Moore's casting was that he was the right actor even despite his age. The guy was older than Connery at the time Indeed, he was older than Connery for his whole life! :P 😂
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I think there’s something wonderfully absurd about the SF PTS that’s mixed so well with the tone of the film. Again, we start with a pretty standard chase which slowly escalates to Bond chasing Patrice through a bazar on a motorbike, and then of cou…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » Well, TMWTGG was released just a year later. It's possible that they still thought about making movies every year. No idea. Perhaps with how stripped back LALD and TMWTGG were they might have presumed a yearly cycle wa…
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Dragonpol wrote: » CrabKey wrote: » Caller: Bond and Madeleine are on their way to Matera. Blofeld: How do you know? Caller: We know. We're SPECTRE. We know everything. Blofeld: Rght. Put a bomb in Vesper's tomb and have some sheep ready to…
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I think an element of Moore's casting was that he was the right actor even despite his age. The guy was older than Connery at the time (although he definitely came off as younger) and I suspect the goal was to keep an actor in the role for as long a…
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Ludovico wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » It really depends for me. Sometimes for every Mads Mikkelson (who I wouldn't call unknown but had only really been acting for 10 years and was lesser known to American/UK audiences) you need a Christopher Le…
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Red_Snow wrote: » TripAces wrote: » Creasy47 wrote: » I know what to expect from Luca but I simultaneously wasn't ready for just how visually playful it looks either. I'm even more excited for this one now. Yes. It looks fantastic. …
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DewiWynBond wrote: » I like that mustard colour. Not too sure what colour hair he had then haha It's a very strange picture for me. Is he a red head or is he brunette? Is he 25 or 35? Is he smiling or has he just opened his mouth in the mid…
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It really depends for me. Sometimes for every Mads Mikkelson (who I wouldn't call unknown but had only really been acting for 10 years and was lesser known to American/UK audiences) you need a Christopher Lee or Donald Pleasance (essentially someone…
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I suppose there's a sweet spot for everyone when it comes to Bond fights and how natural they appear, both in terms of style and choreography. For me those fights are Grant vs Bond, the staircase one from CR, and weirdly the elevator fight from DAF …
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True. I would honestly say this is the worst example as well. Not quite as jarring as the others, but something about Roger Moore's early career as a sweater model just doesn't scream Bond.
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I'd say it's pretty clever. They go from foot, to car, to motorbike before we get a pretty big sequence and finally showdown on a train. There's a wonderful progression/build up in that sense. We know exactly what Bond needs to attain and what's at …
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Venutius wrote: » Yes, I also thought that the hand-to-hand in SF was several rungs below that in CR and QOS. Would the Bond that killed Obanno and Slate have just stood stationary in the komodo pit with his dukes up? Probably not, I'd say. …
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To be fair I actually like the SP moment when Bond gets the helicopter away from the crowd in time. No innocents actually die, and you get a sense that there's lives at stake (and of course it plays into the event being an international incident lat…
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mtm wrote: » Yes I prefer the SF fight too; plus it's just more exciting because there's more at stake. I get the sense in the second Patrice fight in the skyscraper that they really know what the other is about to do like a dance, but again it's…
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Creasy47 wrote: » @007HallY, that's an interesting take cause I feel the same way but reversed, where the action in SF feels so stylized and overly choreographed that it never feels natural or real as it unfolds. Bond and Slate trading blows is wa…
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Venutius wrote: » Don't forget that Dan Bradley filmed the action scenes in QOS, including the opening car chase, not Marc Forster. Bradley's description of his method at the time is quite revealing too: 'One of the things I really believe is that…
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Forster’s not a bad director by any means (I really like Stranger Than Fiction). But I get the sense he was a bit out of his depth with this one. QOS for me has some great ideas and individual moments, but I’ve never felt it’s a very confident film …
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CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » There's very little shaky-cam in QoS overall. Not as much as people think anyway (it’s more the editing that’s the issue). That said a weird cinematography quirk…
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CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » There's very little shaky-cam in QoS overall. Not as much as people think anyway (it’s more the editing that’s the issue). That said a weird cinematography quirk of QOS I’ve always noticed are these occasional el…
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I like to see a bit of conflict between Bond and M. But I think it’s definitely something that should be done differently in the next era. Again, it’s why I like the idea of a Bond and M relationship that’s closer. Have Bond be genuinely respectf…
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Yeah, I wouldn’t say there’s been a single Bond film or novel that hasn’t been a stand alone adventure. Even when you have a DN-FRWL or CR-QOS situation they’re all distinct stories. Same for things like Jaws or JW Pepper returning or various thread…
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I think the route they'll go in is less an origin story but simply a very important mission for Bond. Perhaps one where he has to make a difficult decision over the course of the film and come out better for it. …
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I think the route they'll go in is less an origin story but simply a very important mission for Bond. Perhaps one where he has to make a difficult decision over the course of the film and come out better for it. Something that impacts him, maybe eve…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » Benny wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » A successful movie needs a sequel. You can't avoid that. Lots of successful movies don’t have a sequel, so I don’t know where you got that from. Joker 2. The Bon…
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Bond is at his most interesting when he's 007. He can be younger or earlier in his career in this role, but I think Bond has to be a seasoned professional whatever way. While I don't mind seeing Bond make a critical mistake for the purposes of story…
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