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In Reply to: Top 5 Bond Movies posted by TomD on November 24, 2006 at 08:36:25:
I am going to go out on a limb perhaps but I have seen every James Bond Film and IMO this was the best film of the lot. And to be honest I think it's much better than what is in second place!Firstly This was the only film that didn't seem like a cartoon with an unstoppable super hero character but a real killing machine. In fact while I was watching Daniel Craig in the role I felt I was watching a human shark. He portrayed the role with ferociousness. Connery played it debonair Craig is playing it raw with tremendoue physicality. I understand he did many of his own stunts.
This film gives Bond a real personae - and for the first time a true character ark.
As an added bonus - the fight scenes in this bond actually seem realistic as if someone is really trying to kill bond and that bond could actually be harmed (and is on occasion) and not your usual "the bad guys can;t hit the broad side of a barn.
Kudos to the entire crew and to Daniel Craig for overcoming the pre naysayers. And for the first time in a long time the Bond girls are actually believable people and so for that matter are the criminals.
Not only is this a very good Bond film -- it's a very good film.
Follow Ups:
the ridiculous beginning scene where he chases a guy in an embassy all around and then, after ducking automatic weapons fire and using a handgun shoots the shit out of a small platoon, blows up the second and third platoons after they have him in their sights.
Surely, one of the silliest scenes in Bond, or any, film.
The foot chase, of course, was ludicrous also but I'll be kind and not elaborate upon it.
It must be that you and others here are so dying to have a series to love you overlook all the moronic faults. Hype? Yeah, it probably plays a part, too.
How many years did people feel America was winning in Iraq, after all?
The power of the media is a monster.
I laughed when he blew up the embassay but it didn't take me out of the film... it was part of the enjoyment. Also that chase scene was a great scene... the guy he was chasing is the originator of those kinds of gymnastic type stunts and it took 3 months to choreograph and film. Sure it was silly... but it was fun.
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
film's producers as well, are arguing that this is a return to a more realistic, more Fleming-esque Bond.
Not.
This film is a bloated whale with no mounting tension. It's a fun film with a teenage sensability: try to have it all. Faster FASTER. Bigger explosions.
Instead of one kind of excess which sank Bond before, we now have another kind.
Pick your poison.
Fun?
Sure.
See Oldboy.
The big payoff scene in this picture is at the card game. Of course there are big stunts chases fight scenes -- it would not be Bond otherwise. However, for the first time in a long time Bond has a character arc, the women are not inept eye candy, the bad guy is not completely idiotic, and Bond is not infallable.With a score of 96% of National film critics who liked the film -- well yeah it probably will tank at the box office and 4% of the critics still didn't like it. However, I can't think of a better Bond film.
game(s) as it's climax... London, we have a problem.
It was not long - and 96% of the professional -- not a hack - didn't seem bothered.
This is a film -- I am comparing it to films and to other Bond films. What does Iraq have to do with it. Your analysis of films is what is truly abysmal.
> > > "It must be that you and others here are so dying to have a series to love you overlook all the moronic faults. Hype? Yeah, it probably plays a part, too." < < <Not by a long shot, tin. I can't speak for RGA, but I for one wasn't influenced by any hype surrounding this film! Furthermore, your suggestion that those who've seen this film and like it WERE sold a bill of goods is just another veiled insult (see my earlier post).
> > > "How many years did people feel America was winning in Iraq, after all? The power of the media is a monster." < < <
Not even comparable. You and I can see eye-to-eye on the realities of Bush's bogus war and how the media and public was manipulated in order to prosecute it, but we'll have to part company on our impressions of this film. No offense, but you really should stick to areas where your opinions appear better informed and more widely received. I mean this in all sincerety because you seem to be on a crusade in respect to the latest Bond film. Note: Since we already have a self-righteous rationale for going into Iraq, why do we need to wage a war of attrition against poor ol' James Bond! ;^)
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