Lee Tamahori=Worst Bond Movie Director?
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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.
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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)
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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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