asajoseph wrote:
Last of the Mohican's was a brilliant film (and is a superb book!), haven't seen it for a few years though so not sure how it's dated.
It's a bit dated, it's a bit pre-Internet in the obviousness of its depiction of the relations between British, French, colonials and native Americans before Independence (set in 1757). The premise is 'this would be an agrarian utopia with colonials and redskins living in perfect harmony if not for the meddling, officious British and French'. It just feels like a very 90s view of colonial relations - one which accepts there were problems without admitting how deep they ran.
The production values are good but not stellar. The lack of CG is felt quite strongly - it seems less 'real' than a comparable film would nowadays! Daniel Day Lewis and Madeleine Stowe are still both very attractive leads by today's standards.
USArsenal wrote:
i like this more as i get older.. and the music throughout the movie is one of the best scores ever
The Hans Zimmer string bit is incredibly crucial to the film ... the way it plays through the last ten minutes or so of action? Whoa. Intense. My girlfriend and I were joking about what it would be like to play that theme over the ends of other films (Chinatown, Empire Strikes Back, etc.) ...
Re Brosnan as Bond ... the trouble was, in its desperation to return to the "traditional feel" of Bond after the two Dalton films (and bear in mind, License to Kill was very "traditional") they created quite a campy, almost Carry On Bond.
The one-liners pushed way too hard on the fourth wall and syndicated touches like John Cleese as Q were utterly disastrous, almost cartoonish.
