Lee Tamahori=Worst Bond Movie Director?
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TMC-4 — 12 years ago(September 30, 2013 12:21 AM)
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TMC-4 — 10 years ago(November 05, 2015 12:05 AM)
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/46394/rank-the-bond-directors/
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TMC-4 — 13 years ago(March 03, 2013 11:38 PM)
http://debrief.commanderbond.net/topic/61629-was-brosnan-let-down-by-t he-producers-or-did-he-let-them-down/page-4#entry1250877
And as for DAD, the reason Tamahori gets a lot of the blame, is because it was his choice for a lot of the "additions" to the film. He pushed for the speed ramping, pushed for the film to be more reliant on CGI than traditional stunt work And he also reworked the entire finale of the film, at one point it was to feature Bond and a group of Marines assaulting Graves Korean base on the beach. -
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(August 12, 2016 12:15 AM)
Reading about this makes things frustrating because it's easy to believe that
DAD
would've been a much better film had it been in the hands of a more competent director.
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/41335/die-another-day-from-script-to-screen/ -
TMC-4 — 13 years ago(March 11, 2013 03:35 PM)
http://iansadler.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/musings-on-bond-at-50-die-an other-day/
Released in celebration of the franchises 40th anniversary, Die Another Day is a poorly written, special effects laden, and over-the-top offering that deserves all the critical scorn heaped upon it. Even Roger Moore, the most gadget orientated 007 of them all, lamented the technological excesses present, I thought it just went too far and thats from me, the first Bond in space! Invisible cars and dodgy CGI footage? Please!
Forget wobbly back projection. Forget wooden acting from the likes of Britt Ekland and Stacey Roberts. Forget every second featuring Jaws. The single most excruciatingly naff moment in the entire Bond canon occurs roughly 90 minutes into Die Another Day. A CGI 007 surfs over CGI water, whilst hanging onto a CGI parachute and avoiding CGI ice flows. The sheer awfulness of experiencing this computer generated fiasco for the first time in a packed cinema is an event never to be forgotten. Mouths fall open. Popcorn drops in shock. What the beep? emerges from more than one row of seats. Upon viewing that awfulness the producers should have excised the scene and if necessary mounted a reshoot to bridge the missing footage.
The driving force behind the inclusion of the footage was Lee Tamahori without question the worst Bond director ever.
Unlike fellow New Zealander Martin Campbell (director of GoldenEye and later Casino Royale) Tamahori has no feel for Ian Flemings world and seemingly wanted to retool the series for the MTV generation. When the director of a James Bond film declares hed be quite happy if 007 never wore a tuxedo again or ever sets foot in another casino its blatantly obvious that this is not a person you want following in the illustrious footsteps of Terence Young and Peter Hunt. Tamahori demanded several changes to the production, including the addition of the much derided CGI para-surfing sequence. Set designer Peter Lamont had to rebuild and strengthen the Ice Palace constructed upon the 007 Stage to accommodate Tamahoris wish to take the Bond/Zao car chase inside the set. The director also relocated the showdown between Bond and villain Gustav Graves from an indoor beach resort in Japan to a plummeting Antonov An-124 aeroplane above the Korean DMZ. -
TMC-4 — 12 years ago(March 28, 2014 11:59 PM)
http://whatculture.com/film/10-directors-never-trusted-giant-budgets.p hp/5
7. Lee Tamahori
After his theatrical debut, 1994s Once Were Warriors, was a huge success in his native country New Zealander Lee Tamahori quickly headed Stateside, with his first Hollywood picture being so-so noir thriller Mulholland Falls, before survival drama The Edge fared much better both critically and at the box office. Moving into more commercial territory, Tamahori was given the job on Along Came A Spider, the $60m sequel to Kiss The Girls that saw Morgan Freeman return as James Pattersons Alex Cross. Despite poor reviews, the movie earned over $100m worldwide and led to Tamahori being chosen for the momentous 20th entry in the iconic James Bond franchise.
Armed with a budget of $145m, Die Another Day suffered from a distracting overuse of CGI and ludicrous action scenes that saw the franchise veer dangerously close to Roger Moore territory. Still, the enduring popularity of the Bond series saw it become the highest-earning outing for 007 yet with over $430m worldwide. Next up was xXx: State of the Union, a $110m sequel that substituted Vin Diesel for Ice Cube and tanked at the box office, earning just $71m. Tamahoris last big-budget offering was the turgid Next, a laughable sci-fi that just about clawed back the $70m budget and was easily overshadowed by Nicolas Cages mullet.
Going back to the drawing board, Tamahoris The Devils Double was his cheapest movie in almost two decades at $19m. Despite being his best movie in years and boasting a brilliant lead performance from Dominic Cooper, it earned less than $5m worldwide. After some questionable decisions in his personal life, it is unlikely that Lee Tamahori will be entrusted with another big-budget movie. Which is probably for the best, because he isnt particularly adept at making them any good.
Read more at
http://whatculture.com/film/10-directors-never-trusted-giant-budgets.p hp/5#A3JLc8Ggggd65XuY.99 -
domester82 — 11 years ago(April 25, 2014 08:29 PM)
Tamahori is without question the worst director ever to helm a Bond film.
Mendes, Forster, and Apted may be primarily arthouse directors, and you could argue they're not well suited to an action film, but at least they're good directors in their own right. Has anything Tamahori directed ever been any good? He directed DAD like it was trying to be a Matrix film. You could argue that Quantum of Solace was trying to be a Bourne movie, and Skyfall was trying to be The Dark Knight; but hey, better TDK than Batman and Robin! DAD is the Batman and Robin of the Bond franchise.
Joel Schumacher would likely make an even worse Bond film than Tamahori! -
TMC-4 — 10 years ago(November 03, 2015 11:00 PM)
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/44941/worst-bond-director/
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/44941/worst-bond-director/page/2/
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/44941/worst-bond-director/page/3/ -
TMC-4 — 10 years ago(November 07, 2015 12:07 AM)
Die Another Day
for a lack of a better word, feels more like a sci-fi action film than a traditional spy movie. I'm not necessarily saying that a sci-if heavy Bond movie is automatically or necessarily a bad thing per se. It's just that w/
DAD
they were trying too hard to top themselves (w/ the action and effects) and other film franchises at the time. It's when you get right down to it, the "mid-life crisis" Bond movie. -
oz_mant — 10 years ago(November 10, 2015 11:09 AM)
The people calling Mendes the worst director in the series have no clue about movie making att all. You can hate skyfall and specters story all you want it's still the some of the best directed movies in the series
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Suntory_Times — 10 years ago(February 03, 2016 01:50 AM)
You should watch Lee's first film if you haven't. Regarding the cgi there are so many cgi shoots in The matrix sequels that no one would realize isn't real it is quite honestly crazy. Sure some you can see, but I don't recall them saying everything would be perfect (they may have, but I can't remember any claims like that).
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