Comments on: Atomic Blonde (2017) https://thegoodsreviews.com/atomic-blonde-2017/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=atomic-blonde-2017 Watching and asking: Is It Good? Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:54:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/atomic-blonde-2017/#comment-3381 Thu, 23 May 2024 00:16:51 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=12326#comment-3381 In reply to ED.

Haha! I love your indignancy. Perhaps you share Matthew Vaughn’s resentment of “the States” as I hear you all call us. I did add in a spoiler warning to your comment just in case a reader might not want the final twist of the film revealed, amusing though your righteous anger is.

]]> By: ED https://thegoodsreviews.com/atomic-blonde-2017/#comment-3313 Fri, 17 May 2024 13:40:41 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=12326#comment-3313 I remember seeing this film and enjoying it, despite (SPOILER ALERT) the protagonist being a dirty-dealing, back-stabbing Yankee double-crosser betraying MI6, so it’s almost certainly Very Good indeed if I’m willing to enjoy the film despite that major handicap.

On a less ardently-jingoistic note of patriotism, the film being set in AD 1989 poses the intriguing question of exactly which version of Bond, James Bond might have shown up, had 007 not (presumably) been busy elsewhere with some mission.

(A word of explanation: 1989 falls under the ‘Great Hiatus’ between Mr Timothy Dalton’s last Bond film – LICENSE TO KILL, 1987 – and Mr Pierce Brosnan’s first – GOLDENEYE, 1995 – so a case could be made for either, though not both, versions showing up in a story set in 1989).

The things we needs do ponder!

]]> By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/atomic-blonde-2017/#comment-3282 Tue, 14 May 2024 02:30:31 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=12326#comment-3282 In reply to Hunter Allen.

Oopsy doopsy. Fixed. Thanks!

]]> By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/atomic-blonde-2017/#comment-3281 Tue, 14 May 2024 02:30:16 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=12326#comment-3281 In reply to Hunter Allen.

Yeah the music is noteworthy. I didn’t hate the needle drops but something felt off about them in a way I couldn’t put my finger on. Maybe it’s what you’re describing.

]]> By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/atomic-blonde-2017/#comment-3280 Tue, 14 May 2024 00:07:21 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=12326#comment-3280 In reply to Hunter Allen.

Oh, and 2017.

]]> By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/atomic-blonde-2017/#comment-3279 Tue, 14 May 2024 00:01:49 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=12326#comment-3279 I actually probably prefer this to any John Wick, and definitely to any besides Chapter 2. Only semi-serious problems, as I recall, are how it elects to be more structurally opaque than its story probably deserves, and Leitch’s customarily (then-customarily?) irritating use of music unnecessarily anchored to the diegesis–anchored by rocks, rocks attached by chains–so that we wind up with really annoying sound mixing choices between cuts because the “sound” is “farther away” now. Drives me nuts. (See also the Kaleida sequence in John Wick 1.)

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