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There can’t be such a thing as a wet-behind-the-ears 00: they’re the best of the best. He learns about having a relationship on the job in the film, but he knows the job.
Anyway, we were talking about him and M, not his experience.
Isn't it understandable that a Bond from that background would bristle a bit when confronted with hidebound authority figures? This is why I liked them making Mallory ex-SAS - because he'd know that the way to get the best out of an asset like Bond wouldn't be to tell him how to do something and maintain oversight, but to point him at it and let him get on with it. The bit in SF where Tanner and Q think they've been busted by Mallory but are relieved when he urges them to ignore the rulebook and carry on rang true for that reason. And Mallory himself certainly ignored a big part of the rulebook in NTTD, eh!
Yes, from memory I think he went to Defence Intelligence between the two in the fictional biography, but that works.
I don't even know who that is.
He is one of the kids in Dunkirk, former boy band member.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/british-spy-agencies-spoil-wordle-for-each-other/1100-6500348/
Yes I hope so.
Hopefully the the next era, pick a direction and stick with it, if you go dark keep consistent.
Yes. I like SF/SP/NTTD for what they are, but I absolutely loved CR/QOS and still regret the soft reboot with SF and the reintroduction of lighter and dafter elements.
Same mate, I enjoy them don't get me wrong but I feel like the darker element in Casino and Quantum suited Daniel's run better. If they didn't go lighter than Skyfall I would been okay with it
I thought I was the only one...
even the games felt better pre 2012 Bloodstone and Goldeneye specifically.
I just wish the final three films with Craig were more Fleming based and darker in tone.. if we had to bring Moneypenny and Q back so be it but it should of been the same tone as Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.
Also a minor thing but Craig should of had nothing but Fleming titles for his films.
I agree with you mate but I do love Skyfall admittedly. The only thing I'd change about that film is I wish there was more of a confrontation between Bond and Silva at the end, but the "last rat standing line" and old fashioned method of death was satisfying
I hope Bond 26 has a more likeable villain like Silva, the best films are always when the villain is likeable as well as frightening
+1. I think they were trying to find safety in the comfort of nostalgia. Personally, I didn’t find it too jarring in NTTD but the attempts at the lighter touch didn’t work for me in the Mendes films.
If they decide to go darker again I hope they have the confidence to commit to it without feeling some obligation to gradually reintroduce silliness. We’ve seen that tonal arc play out so many times and I think there are other ways to keep the franchise compelling if the filmmakers are bold/creative enough to do so.
Heck, even CR wasn’t as dark and dreary as QOS, as much as you all try claiming otherwise. In fact, it’s one of Craig’s lighter performances. It’s really in QOS that he acts more like a sourpuss.
It's no mistake to assume the first two films of a new era were paving the way for a similar tone throughout. I can't say I had definitive expectations at the time but it would've been fair to assume the sequels would have continued in a similar vein.
I'd agree that CR has more of the Bond tone than QoS does. CR feels quite like TLD to me: getting the balance right. QoS (and to some extent NTTD) have slightly lost touch with that Bond feel, for my money.
CR did, but not QOS. They’re wildly different films. The former was a relatively stripped down Bond film, whereas QOS was a poor Bourne knock off that EON assumed audiences wanted more of. If QOS was more popular, it probably would have signaled the continuation of that style. When SF was being promoted, the filmmakers cited CR as the template which is why Alexander Witt and Stuart Baird were brought back. This is why I view QOS as being the odd duck of Craig’s run stylistically and tonally. CR, SF, SP, and NTTD have that more classical style. The only difference with the Mendes films is that he doesn’t put heavy emphasis on Craig having cuts on his face.
So he should, though - he hasn't had a chance to work through any of the fallout from CR, he's mourning the love of his life and he's driven by rage. Haggis wrote it, and Craig played it, perfectly. Immediately after QOS, Dan did say that he wanted to reintroduce Moneypenny and Q, so that would've happened in some form but I think you're right and if QOS hadn't taken such a beatdown from the critics the next films would've been closer to it in tone than the ones we did get.
If only that would've happened.
Campbell did a better, dare I say more believable, grounded, character-based, job with the construction equipment at the beginning of CR.
Agreed, totally. If QOS set out to blaze a new trail, SF took a big step back towards the safety of the path.
QoS wasn't all that great though. And then SF was and it made more money than any other British film up to that point.
Folks are always say that Bond films should stick to the formula, then we talk about when it went back to it and folks are saying how they shouldn't have. I can't keep up sometimes :)
I think those are two separate groups, though: the people who enjoyed the stripped back nature of the first two films and those who are loathing the idea of Bond having a child/Bond dying/other major characters dying.
I personally loved the approach in the beginning of the era and was never pining for the return of MP, Q, etc.
Different strokes for different folks and everyone's different. There's not much to really "keep up" with when everyone has a unique view.
As you didn't want Q, 'Penny etc. back it just goes to prove one thing: no matter what they do someone will complain! :D