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1. Jettison the nanobot angle and make Heracles an actual virus, that way it would be easier to accept that Bond is stuck with it and there's little hope of a cure being developed any time soon, if ever.
2. It was already established that Safin's plan was to 'kill millions' with the Heracles, so why not have Bond infected with that version of the virus. That way his sacrifice would be all the more necessary and heroic, having him die saving everyone, not just Madeleine and Mathilde.
3. Make it fatal. Establish that the virus will kill Bond, albeit slowly (I know that's not how it functions earlier in the film but maybe this is a different version designed to make the victim suffer). So even if a cure was available, there wouldn't be time to get it to Bond, nor a way to do it safely. It would then leave him with no alternative but to wait for the missiles and grant himself a quick death.
Great idea 👍 @George_Kaplan
Much more believable.
The #3 is so sad, like Bond weakening and dying slowly and wait for the missiles to strike? That would be so much emotional than what we've got.
I don’t need those changes to be honest.
1) I have no issue believing it won’t come off: we’re told that’s how it is;
2) Dying for his family alone makes it the more heroic and tragic for me: he would always have died for the world in any film, but to die for just two people shows how much he loves them;
3) Again it makes it more tragic that the virus will never kill him but he chooses death to save them. If he hadn’t had that choice the impact would be lessened slightly.
Honestly. It's that good. Makes one wonder which of the writers wrote the Matera sequence.
I'd say it was the lack of Bond, but something like Skyfall has the M 'retirement planning' and MI6 attack scenes after the credits, and that all flies by.
I remember watching Tomorrow Never Dies a little while ago on telly and realising I hadn't seen the sinking of the Devonshire in many years :D
I do love the opening flashback in Norway as well. Almost like something from a horror film at points (reminded me of 009's death in Octopussy in an atmosphere sense).
I have friends from outside of the UK and none of them can understand why it's so distracting. Genuinely though, it's just so random (perhaps Waller-Bridge's involvement had something to do with it?)
Oh yeah, forgot about that. It's clearly ADR too so presumably this was put in because someone thought the audience wouldn't be able to follow the plot point for whatever reason.
Yeah that really threw me the first time I watched it; I mean, I know he's a baddie (although in fact it's not really clear if he is or not during the film- it almost seems like he's just going along with everybody telling him what to do) but it's a bit like if Boris had said suddenly spat out "all women are sluts" or something at the end of GoldenEye. It just doesn't quite fit for the funny guy to suddenly turn so nasty.
Yeah his weird racist outburst felt so out of nowhere. It was there solely to give Nomi a triumphant moment and to give Waldo a reason to be killed rather than captured
:D
Yes. There's two great gags in NTTD: 'Not the first thing I thought you'd take off' and 'I've just shown someone your watch' (let down a bit by the 'blew his mind' coda - IMO, obvs). 'Shouldn't we get to know each other first' was pretty good. The almost slapstick elements do detract from Cuba for me, but Paloma was so great I'm conflicted on that one! ;)
The watch has always rankled with me a bit though: why does Q give him a disguised gadget when he’s going on a commando raid? He doesn’t need an EMP that looks like something else; he’s not undercover, he’s got a great big machine gun :D
Luckily Bond was the psi--he's the trident thingy.
I realise I'm tough to please when it comes to Bond films, but I do prefer a darker tone, to my mind Bond himself should never been funny, he should be witty
(my friends call me Dominic... I'm sure they do)
I think most of the comedy stuff in NTTD should have been left out, it dilutes a lot of the better funny moments when there's so many attempts at humour.
2) Bond reluctantly teams up with Blofeld to take down the new Safin led SPECTRE.
3) Make Primo more of a threat.I liked his look but he spent the entire film either getting strangled by Bond or being a fool.
4) The virus ( Nanobot or otherwise ) is a SPECTRE invention.
5) Kill off Madeline in the PTS.It makes it more necessary for Bond to team up with Blofeld to take SPECTRE down.
6) Make Paloma the main Bond girl.Bond doesn’t have to sleep with her,as someone said earlier it can be a Mentor relationship.
7) Make Safins plan a world domination plot along the lines of Stromberg and Drax.
8) Bond doesn’t die.The film ends with him taking down SPECTRE and Blofeld killing Safin along with himself.