Private Hudson
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ORIGINAL: DONOVAN KURTWOOD See when mendes was picked i feared the worst and that the action wouldn't deliver. But the second unit teams are so good on the Bond movies, collaborating with mendes they all delivered fantastic action scenes. My personal preference is to lean towards an action director, but this is the opposite direction that the producers seem to want to go Actually that is an excellent point. The director probably doesn't film much of the action scenes at all and will leave it to the season pros of the 2nd unit who have been with Bond for many films. Except QOS which was horrible in the action department. As for the next one, can they just stop referencing if this is a "new" or an "old" style Bond and just make a proper adventure? I was happy enough with the characters in Skyfall but what's the point of trying to add serious drama when they mention Goldeneye or other things so overtly? Funnily enough I don't think the action was the issue in QoS. A rubbish villain, one of the dullest scripts (I mean how can you mess up with Latin America as your background?), zero wit and humour, but crucially it didn't have any scenes to make it memorable. And that is the main point. Most of the recent movies haven't had that 007 Moment factor. And by that I mean things that when you see, you go "Wow". Or something we just haven't seen before (or a lot). From Russia With Love had Rosa Kleb's shoes, 007 getting 'killed' in the maze by garotte, and obviously the famous fight on the train. Goldfinger had the bit when he pops up in a frogman's outfit and then reveals a tuxedo... the ejector seat... Oddjob's hat. I'm not going to go through them all, but you get the drift. What were the iconic moments from CR, QoS and SF? I'm unsure if there were any at all. And I would also include DAD in that list of recent movies that lacked something. Call it the X factor or je ne sais quoi. I am sure most of you know what I mean. Something that tells you right away you are in a Bond movie.
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