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Oh dear, you've resorted to immaturity and bullying once more it would seem.
You've just about managed to p*** off several longstanding members on here recently including @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, @SirHenryLeeChaChing and @TheWizardofIce with your childish behaviour. Congratulations(!)
1. Agreed, clearly P&W were out of fresh ideas as the two chiefly responsible for this script. Logan did a good job.
2. Chase scenes have always been a part of Bond movies. How would you improve them?
3 and 5 are at odds with the other. Severine was anything but PC, according to some of the brain surgeons who cling to their ridiculous beliefs as I've amply described to the point that they apparently have no response. Severine was a great Bond girl in terms of beauty and Marlohe's performance who I wanted to see survive and was highly disappointed that she did not. A classic sacrificial lamb in the context of the story who paid dearly for double crossing Silva.
4. I see Silva as a classic Bond villain and a great one at that. As do many others. He has qualities of other recent non-Bond villains, but that manic quirky edge has been seen in Bond films long before the more recent ones so it's a pointless debate.
Just flag him for instigating and let the mods deal with it. That's what I did. His non response to Wiz and myself, let alone his post which is clearly an off topic rant, shows his true motivation.
I agree with @SirHenry about point 4. Silva was a fantastic villain. One of the best we've had in years, arguably since Sanchez in LTK.
Now now, @forgotmyusername, let's not go there please. :-)
I think Abrams' Star Trek movies are basically his demo for Star Wars. There is always a risk of making the second movie a repeat of the first. It happened with TSWLM and MR, it happened in many other franchises too. But I think Mendes is capable of doing something different.
Knowing your right wing politics and you know my ethnicity - I presume your answer was tinged with the slant of a mass debater. You quite skilled at mass debating. Leave it wizard of odd and let's agree o avoid each other.
Stand back! Don the butcher's smock! This one could get very interesting if Wiz pulls out his idiot proof carving, slicing, and dicing knife.
Sorry to deflate your clearly monumental ego like old Milton Krest's* head but I have not the slightest inkling to your ethnicity and care even less. To me you are just a faceless nobody on the Internet I'm afraid. Just clicked on your profile and it doesn't mention it there so how am I supposed to know? Am I expected to follow you on Facebook or am I the only person who doesn't PM everyone on here asking for their race, faith, sexuality and any disabilities?
However as you are only insinuating rather than accusing and the fact that I feel sorry for you carrying that chip around with you all day I'll cut you some slack rather than flag it. But the mods might want to keep an eye on you bandying such comments around as it could leave MI6 open to legal action should you write something more libellous.
*Was going to go with Mr Big originally but given the veiled accusations implicit in forgotmyusername's comments didn't want to risk him thinking he had me bang to rights on a racism charge! It's obvious hes operating at the stunted intellectual level where he would misinterpret the use of Mr Big as being blatantly racist rather than comprehend it is because he was 'deflated'.
But - and here is the key point of this post, really - it does NOT matter. Nobody cares about your ethnicity, religious faith, where you live, what side of the bed you sleep on, how you have your toilet paper unroll, or how you vote in elections. It's not a factor, @forgotmyusername. I bet we have a wide spectrum of folks on this forum.
But we are here because we have one, and perhaps sometimes only one, thing in common: we are James Bond fans.
I think I did this pages ago, but here are some for me:
1) A great Bond girl that lives till the end and ends up with Bond
2) Another outstanding villain
3) A very well written script (wait, that should probably be first)
4) A location that involves lovely snow scenery (not just the arctic)
5) A great soundtrack! With excellent, memorable theme song
And preferably one where the composer gets to collaborate on the theme song.
Now that Mendes is back does this mean its 99% certain Newman will return too?
If Arnold does return, i'd like to see some of the soundtrack with a John Barry(ish) feel. Hopefully along the lines of the beautiful haunting music they used for Bond and Vesper's love/romantic scenes - but slightly different to go with the scenes for Craig and the new girl..(and a girl that's alive at the end of the film..
@Wiz- Ditto this. Although I suspect Mendes will push hard for Newman getting a second chance, and for all we know at this time it may have been part of his terms for returning. Suffice it to say, I have little faith in Sony exec Lia Vollack. She's easily more competent in taste than Anita Camarata (she of MGM who negotiated a million dollar flop of a deal for Madonna's participation in DAD and actually loved the song- god I would love to literally piss on her back) and had a winning suggestion in Cornell, but when she selected Jack White (who refused to work with Arnold), and then stated "I am very fond of that song" (from the Burlingame Bond music book) with Keys wailing in the bridge like a wounded cat, ach, well, you see what I mean. If only Amy Winehouse had sobered up long enough, we could have been cooking with gas. I'd love to know what the deal was between Newman and the Adele camp as far as possible collaboration, anyone know?
Would still like to see Michael Giacchino get a shot one of these days, but I feel either Arnold or Newman could do the job next time out. I won't complain. Yet :))
2. Needs to avoid yet another disappointing 'third-act'. Maybe have a two parter with a cliffhanger at the end of first film.
3. David Arnold to do the score and not let some dozy music supervisor cut it to fit.
4. No quips unless they're really really good.
5. Bond should be more of a bastard.
I would like to see a modern "remake" of From Russia With Love or The Man With The Golden Gun.
If you look at the movies in 2014 and 2015 the Bond movie will probably involve an ex-member of the 00 program, maybe even the founder, going up against Bond. Sort of like another Alec Trevelyan as the henchman, not necessarily the villain.
Mansfield Smith-Cumming back from the dead, you mean?
As Skyfall's antagonist was an ex-MI6 operative and Trevelyan was a rogue 00 agent in Goldeneye, I can't see the producers going down this route again. At least I hope they don't!
I am thinking more on the line as an-ex 00 agent who was drummed out of the 00 program for a crime or instability, such as a Craig Hanson character from Strike Back.
But even then, it's still too close to what we've just had. I would personally like the next villain not to have any current/previous relationship to MI6.
What are you basing this hypothesis on exactly?
Trevelyan, Miranda, Vesper, Mitchell, Silva - thats 5 in 7 films. We really dont need any more double agents for a while surely?
Vesper worked for The "Financial Action Task Force" of HM Treasury. I am not suggesting this person is a "double agent" either.