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Skyfall

Roger Deakins is a true master, there's no denying that. Just about everything he touches turns to gold. How on earth this man has not won an oscar yet is beyond me. As for the movie itself I have to say I was disappointed. I am a huge James Bond fan and I've watched them all multiple times and Skyfall did come up short as fa as the script. Sam Mendes is a great director and Daniel Craig is arguably the best to play the part (my humble opinion) but the story itself just did not work for me.
 
This movie proves that 4k resolution is not important when 'future proofing'
it will be watched on 4k screens and still be liked. More so than 90% of the productions being shot in 4k.
 
I loved the way this film was shot - but I can't get over how terrible it was. Particularly with its 'Home Alone' ending
So dissapointed!

On behalf of the UK, we apologise to the rest of the world who likes Bond films
 
The script was weak, which is disappointing because the previous Daniel Craig films were so strong. It's like they went with the philosophy of stringing together a few over the top action sequences with a plot. (Watching Top Gear's 50 years of Bond cars showed some of the BtS of Skyfall and some of the car rigging and set work was brilliant.)

*SPOILER ALERT* Who was the guy assassinated across from the glass room? Why would Bond assume the woman in the other room was in on the asasination? Shouldn't he have had some kind of conversation or additional surveillance to confirm it?

The story was just weak...

And Javier Bardem's makup and hair were shockingly bad...

I thought the Cinematography was successful overall. The glass room may have been a nightmare to shoot or a missed opportunity for more creativity, hard to say if you were not there. The Mansion was soft, gray, and dreary, which successfully reinforced the back story.
 
Valentin Paris said:
For me, it is one of the worst Bond I've seen, in every way. Some scenes are really ridiculous. Sorry for hurting you or people here.

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I know skin tones are a big deal on this forum, but sometimes the Director and DP don't give a crap about the skin tones. If you have ever been out at night, have you ever seen natural skin tones? It's about the mood they are trying to set for the story. If they exceed or fail in that interpretation, it's totally subjective. examples:
 

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Max Nguyen said:
I know skin tones are a big deal on this forum, but sometimes the Director and DP don't give a crap about the skin tones. If you have ever been out at night, have you ever seen natural skin tones? It's about the mood they are trying to set for the story. If they exceed or fail in that interpretation, it's totally subjective. examples:
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Indeed, not even the human eye/Brain combination that master of removing colour casts and the like would see the scene from bond posted as anything but with an warm orangish glow.

The DVD version I have seen looked off, in the cinema it looked great, want to get my hands on the blu-ray to see if that's better than the DVD I saw.
 
Max Nguyen said:
I know skin tones are a big deal on this forum, but sometimes the Director and DP don't give a crap about the skin tones. If you have ever been out at night, have you ever seen natural skin tones? It's about the mood they are trying to set for the story. If they exceed or fail in that interpretation, it's totally subjective. examples:
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Max, I see what you mean but in skyfall I found the Macao light especially grotesque. You compare with O'brother or Amelie Poulain, two movies where the tonality of light is nearly the same from the beggining to the end, a feeling as going into an old postal card (especially for O'brother, the first image is a immobile picture), so hard to compare with skyfall, which is completely different kind of movie, trying all the time to transform unrealistic into realistic for the audience where Amélie or O'brother are totally unrealistic atmosphere stories/movies.
 
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Valentin Paris said:
Max, I see what you mean but in skyfall I found the Macao light especially grotesque. You compare with O'brother or Amelie Poulain, two movies where the tonality of light is nearly the same from the beggining to the end, a feeling as going into an old postal card (especially for O'brother, the first image is a immobile picture), so hard to compare with skyfall, which is completely different kind of movie, trying all the time to transform unrealistic into realistic for the audience where Amélie or O'brother are totally unrealistic atmosphere stories/movies.
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You do know Deakins shot O'brother? I think its obvious but we all know he can achieve any look he wants, and what you see in Skyfall was not a lack of ability from anybody it was a stylistic choice and certainly not "crap/cheap lighting."
 
Carlos Reyes said:
You do know Deakins shot O'brother? I think its obvious but we all know he can achieve any look he wants, and what you see in Skyfall was not a lack of ability from anybody it was a stylistic choice and certainly not "crap/cheap lighting."
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Yeahhh. I know IMDB, so I know all the Deakins filmo ! Yes. Deakins is usually an amazing artist. YES.

And, even it is a stylistic choice, here it is a ridiculous one, it looks totally crap.

Sorry. I will not change my mind on this. Skyfall is a bad movie, in every way, as far as I am concerned, and I don't care 1 000 000 000 $ USD Gross.
 
I'm not sure if I'm in the majority or minority but I thought Skyfall looked amazing due largely to the DP work... giving it scope when it needed it, intimate 'warm' shots when the scenes relaxed, gritty fight scenes, beautifully-lit casino scenes. It was one of those films where every possible type of camerawork was used amazingly. I mean, I dunno... I loved the look of it across the board and it reminds me how much of a novice I am in comparison... whereas some films you see and go, "I can do that."
 
My wife loved it, I didn't. I'm inclined to believe that if you're younger and are more familiar with Brosnan and Craig as Bond, then you may not have liked Skyfall. It deviated from familiar plotlines and intense action that we've seen since Brosnan did GoldenEye in '95. Just my personal opinion, but it felt a little gimmicky--at best like the Sean Connery era, at worst like Austin Powers. I'm speaking mostly of the plot, not the way in which it was shot.

It's still amusing, however, how it seems everyone had such a strong reaction one way or another to this film. Bond is a franchise. You didn't like this one?--don't worry, wait for until you've seen the next dozen.
 
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