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Despite what some members think, there's no reason to course correct from the Craig era in an overly drastic way, at least in terms of the film itself. That's just not where we're at. If anything it gives EON the opportunity to look for a new leading man who can bring something a bit different to the part. Obviously it's way too early to predict what/who exactly that could be, and I'm sure there's countless routes they could go with this.
I think one of the ways in which GE corrects LTK is the lack of gratuitous violence in the film. I love LTK, but holy sh@* that film is brutal and outright bloody at times. It’s one of the reasons I tended to gravitate towards TLD when I was younger, and why I still think GE manages to be a better viewing experience.
I do always think the way Onatopp kills the General is quite brutal/very non-PG. Perhaps for slightly different reasons than LTK’s deaths though. I also find Travelyan’s death with his broken body after he falls surprisingly violent too.
Good points, GE’s deaths were very brutal too. I don’t know maybe it’s just the image of Anthony Zerbe’s prosthetic head swelling before exploding has become permanently imprinted in my brain haha.
They made 2 movies in 10 years. Yes, I think an update is necessary.
A natural evolution can't work if you don't make movies
True, people have short memories.
Yeah, there was unfortunately a small pandemic which delayed the last film (dunno if you remember it).
Delays or slow output (for whatever reason) isn’t the same thing as deciding what to do creatively. So I don’t see your point personally.
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Funny is that Hayden sound like ''heden'' when you say the name in English what mean present (now) in Dutch.
Brosnan was kind of a combination of Moore and Connery - Moore's comic timing with a dash of Connery's grit, and I think in retrospect the general public needed that. Brosnan's era also got bigger actors in supporting roles, and threw more money at the screen, with Goldeneye making LTK look cheap by comparison, and I think that's something that can't be overlooked - Eon started to the move to the prestige product in Brosnan's era, and they simply kicked it up a notch in Craig's.
I think we're in a similar position now as we were when Moore quit, in that I don't think the general audience are tired with the way Craig's Bond has been played and they don't want a radically different performance or change in style. We've actually seen some course-corrections in Craig's era, with Skyfall making concessions to the old formula: going back to the gadget-laden DB5, and reintroducing Q and Moneypenny, so I don't think the eras are quite as cohesive in style as we sometimes talk about them as being. Whatever direction Eon start out in, they'll course-correct several times depending on what they think is working.
I rate CR and Skyfall very highly; I'm less keen on the other three Craig entries. I think the Craig era relied too much on big 'character defining' moments which ultimately leads to having to reboot the character, so I'm worried that we are going to get more of the same. The general public probably isn't worried, though. I don't think Eon is going to change much about the way they're doing things.
I think people *were* tired of Moore. Look at the contemporaneous reviews of TLD.
Eon's march toward prestige started with...wait for it...Halle Berry.
I personally don't see his Bond as humourless at all (none of the Bonds are). The closest we get to that is Dalton though. I do think there needs to be an element of humour, and while I rate Dalton's Bond highly, I'm not sure we're going to have another Bond quite like that. I think a big part of the cinematic Bond is that sardonic humour, and an actor needs to be able to play it with that element.
Oh no! They'll have to throw out that gunbarrel scene they released last year, and all those suits they were making for him!
People were tired of Moore and they were tired of Bond itself.
Dalton came too late IMO.
I don't think Taron Egerton is in EON's view. First, he is already in a franchise like Kingsman, he was already playing a very popular British man in the biopic of Elton John (for which he was also nominated) and he also has some films on his schedule that are in pre-production and development. ...and one of these is another upcoming Kingsman film.
Definitely, those who write these and propose actors doesn't know nothing about James Bond. They don't know s#%@! about it.
I'm sure EON will surprise us with the seventh actor because it will be someone who perhaps hasn't been mentioned much.
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This was breaking news from 2019.
He's Canadian so I can't see Eon keen to cast him. I'm sure they'll look closer to home (as in the UK).
You might as well not jest. Trust the process and let it unfold naturally. Besides... Do you get comments like this: "You'd be a great looking model in a catalogue"?
Lol, that's good, it must be all the right minerals you consume. What's the catch with the insanely hot younger female? That spells trouble.
No idea who the hell he is or if he's been mentioned before, but hey, I'll add him to the list.
I have to ask, which list?
I mean potential Bond. No idea how he came as friend suggestion, he's got like a thousand of them and none I'm common with me. So I'm wondering if he hasn't been mentioned on a Bond page, sometimes algorithms pick up on it.
I knew that, just being snarky... ;)