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Anya is wooden and TSWLM’s weak link I wouldn’t say weak link. Not the best acting from a Bond girl, but I think it works for the character’s more by the book manner, so I can forgive the stilted line readings at points. I think the story is effe…
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talos7 wrote: » TDS is strong here… Tendency deposit scheme? 🤔 no… The Latin medical abbreviation doctor’s use for take three times a day? No… 🤔 I give up. What’s TDS in this context? 😂
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » These are opinions I’ve had in the recent past anyway, but having rewatched The Dark Knight for the first time in a long while last night, here are my controversial takes on it I feel have been cemented a bit! …
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From what I understand the script is quite long and descriptive (so very much like Fleming’s prose but in script form. How good an experience that is to read vs how effective it is as a script I don’t know). There’s also seemingly no M. It wouldn’t …
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Timothee Chalamet being the next Bond would be extraordinarily strange. Firstly he's American which doesn't work in his favour. Secondly I don't there's much that's Bondian about him.
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I'd go for the first meeting with Swan in SP (the questionnaire at the clinic that is). It's a simple scene but Bond has to convey a surprising amount of stuff. And yeah, I believe auditions are comprised of the FRWL scene, a fight scene, and a s…
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I suspect the scrutiny they’d get from EON wouldn’t always be the same as we’ve given them here. I don’t think they’d completely write off a candidate because their voice is maybe a bit high pitched for example. Or if they’ve don’t necessarily have …
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These are opinions I’ve had in the recent past anyway, but having rewatched The Dark Knight for the first time in a long while last night, here are my controversial takes on it I feel have been cemented a bit! I like Ledger as Joker, but overall …
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LucknFate wrote: » TripAces wrote: » muzz100 wrote: » Has he made a truly great film yet? I’m playing Devils Advocate of course. He’s never entirely convincing as an action hero, and too hard to be an artist. Faod I think this is a good th…
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I’d say there’s definitely a strong sense of pretty much everyone in Harlem being in direct cahoots with Big/against Bond, even if it’s inherently just the way the story tells itself. It’s not an uncommon criticism of the film either (I suspect it w…
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'Serious stuff' I feel is a wishy washy description here. There are plot and character threads that I don't necessarily think work in some of Craig's films - Blofeld and Bond knowing each other as children being one - that come under that descriptio…
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Since62 wrote: » My humor getting weaker and weaker. Need a new film to consider and blab about. On THAT point, if the money folks want to go Marvel-style with a Bond-verse, and if EON does not want to go that route, then how to break the rumored …
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The 70s Hamilton era films were very particular and probably not something to emulate going forward, much as I appreciate the films. Lower budgets, questionable filmmaking, a mixture of campy humour, cynicism, and occasional nastiness etc. There’s a…
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Directing Bond is a big job and requires a lot of experience. I do work on videos for my current work, and I have personal projects, but I'd certainly say I'm not at the level required for that role. I'm not a scriptwriter by trade, but I guess I…
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I'd say one thing we take for granted nowadays is the calibre of director/direction we got after a point with the Bond series, and how much it's improved over time. I know Terrence Young and Guy Hamilton have their highs and are rightfully praised f…
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Glen and Hunt are the only directors who were hired after making their way up the ladder at EON, going from editor to helming the 2nd Unit team, to eventually directing. It sounds like an odd pathway nowadays, bu…
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Glen and Hunt are the only directors who were hired after making their way up the ladder at EON, going from editor to helming the 2nd Unit team, to eventually directing. It sounds like an odd pathway nowadays, but it was more common back in the earl…
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It looks more like the cinematography than anything to do with the film stock. And yes, OHMSS's cinematography is superior, and those are good examples. You can see there's much better framing and the lighting isn't as flat as in LTK. Like I said…
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LeonardPine wrote: » Mathis1 wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Depends what you define as a 'great' film. It's entirely subjective. I'd say Casino Royale is not just a great Bond film, but a great film altogether. Personally i consider L…
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I wouldn't call LTK the most polished Bond film in terms of filmmaking (stuff like the slow motion run Felix and the DEA agents do feels a bit weird, and you get the occasional moment like Pam appearing to Dario as an 'angel' which feels like it was…
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Revelator wrote: » SIS_HQ wrote: » The Bond books were literally written when Fleming was getting married to Ann Charteris and she's pregnant at the time to Caspar, Fleming at the time who was used to Bachelorhood felt anxious and nervous at t…
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slide_99 wrote: » There's a difference between Bond movies with dark scenes in them and Bond movies that are made with the sole purpose of being dark. NTTD is a nihilistic satire of Bond. I don't think that was the sole purpose of NTTD (or…
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Bond films have a tendency to get surprisingly dark in places. The older ones certainly could, particularly the Moore ones. Even MR had moments like a woman getting mauled by dogs. The early Jaws scenes in TSWLM with him biting his victims feel like…
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I've always found it interesting that in OHMSS Bond actually has concerns at one point about his marriage getting in the way of his adventurous life. The entire book has Bond being quite contemplative and conflicted at points anyway (the opening wit…
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MaxCasino wrote: » https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/1i72rh7/i_find_the_parallel_amusing/#lightbox So by this logic the next Bond actor and Pattinson's Batman will share a very broad similarity. Which actually I can see being the …
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If I recall correctly (and it's been a while since I listened to it) there's an interview with Fleming where at one point he talked about inaccuracies in his books. He definitely acknowledged they were there. It was more to do with certain brands of…
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Tokoloshe2 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Not sure if this has been mentioned, but one connection I always noticed is that the one liner ‘and you’re full of it’ was delivered by Bond in both TMWTGG and TLD to the villain (preceded by slightly diff…
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Didn't expect the film itself to get a nomination but ever so slightly surprised Craig didn't get nominated. But honestly, it really doesn't matter. As I've said before plenty of great actors never got an Oscar (sometimes not even nominated) and ple…
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Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » mtm wrote: » You should try Spectre or No Time To Die. B18, the film with the BMW backseat, has Bond cradling a dead loved one btw. Same for Bond returning to London, getting the Aston M…
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mtm wrote: » You should try Spectre or No Time To Die. B18, the film with the BMW backseat, has Bond cradling a dead loved one btw. Personally, I think if Bond 26 had a scene like the opening of SP where we see him strutting along th…
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