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mattjoes wrote: » Ludovico wrote: » Mars Attack! Bigger role, better role, and more my kind of humour. I might confess it here: I find Robin Williams overrated as an actor, including as a comedic actor. Haha, I find him underrated, espec…
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To be honest, I’m not sold on either. Perhaps Theo James a bit more (but as has been discussed before he doesn’t seem keen). I know some others here have hinted even in The Gentlemen his performance feels a bit limited, and I can understand that. AT…
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I don't think Martin shared his father's interest or enthusiasm for Fleming's Bond, or at least not to the same extent. Nabokov seemed to be more his thing. Must admit I haven't read all that many of his books, but I enjoyed the ones I did. Not s…
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GF is Fleming at his most brazenly absurd, or at least it is in the third portion. Once Goldfinger agrees to make Bond his personal secretary for some reason there's really no going back! But I do kind of appreciate what he was trying to do. Much li…
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Also @peter I like the idea of the villain wanting to make this ‘cult’ through technological means. Again, reminds me a bit of Dr. No’s trickery and his need to appear all powerful. The backstory and motivation would have to be ironed out. Same f…
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SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » A modern villain who likes everything about the 17th century and appears like a man from 17th century England. Maybe he's a huge fan of the pirate, Edward Teach. Maybe with all his love for ancient stuffs, Bond's moderni…
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sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » peter wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » If they want to go for a ‘weird looking’ Bond villain I think it’d be more interesting if some of their physical tra…
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peter wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » If they want to go for a ‘weird looking’ Bond villain I think it’d be more interesting if some of their physical traits are self-inflicted. Think the literary Dr. …
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sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » If they want to go for a ‘weird looking’ Bond villain I think it’d be more interesting if some of their physical traits are self-inflicted. Think the literary Dr. No wearing contact lenses, stretching his…
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SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » Yeah @007HallY Or maybe the blind villain rumour that was floating around NTTD then. I don't know, maybe we just need peculiar and colourful villains for Bond 7's era, like the early Bond films did. That would also help …
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » I don't Know. YOLT was a sequel to TB. The epic and bigger style was Thundeball's legacy. Well, it’d been heading that way…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » I don't Know. YOLT was a sequel to TB. The epic and bigger style was Thundeball's legacy. Well, it’d been heading that way with every Bond film really. GF of course invo…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » I don't Know. YOLT was a sequel to TB. The epic and bigger style was Thundeball's legacy. Well, it’d been heading that way with every Bond film really. GF of course involved a big scale final battle and was a much gl…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » It’s legitimately strange for me trying to understand how TB is essentially the second most successful Bond film of all time (fina…
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CrabKey wrote: » In what way did GF take the absurdity up a notch? A notch from what and to? Bond's childishness? Specifics, please. Fair enough. I would say that GF honed/expanded on a lot of the stuff that the previous two films did. Whil…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » It’s legitimately strange for me trying to understand how TB is essentially the second most successful Bond film of all time (financially anyway). I guess when you have no context…
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It’s legitimately strange for me trying to understand how TB is essentially the second most successful Bond film of all time (financially anyway). I guess when you have no context of Bondmania during that point it really doesn’t make much sense. …
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MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » I wonder if the back to back'ish plan that M:I tried to execute (granted some if it was during COVID) spooked them a little? Especially with Part Two being dropped from the the Mission title? Maybe, as …
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As I've said before I think it depends on the scale of the film and what's been put in place prior to official pre-production (development can take a long time remember). Release dates can also go a bit beyond the timeframe it takes to actually make…
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To be fair I'm not sure how accurate the $400 million budget claim is (and we won't know until later. I've not seen any other credible source claim this). It'll be an uphill battle making the next one a big success though. I'm not sure if that ma…
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Thunderball wrote: » Mallory wrote: » Mars Attacks! is more my cup of tea than Mrs Doubtfire, a film I can never understand why it's so popular. Dude, same. I can't understand why Mrs. Doubtfire is so popular and Mars Attacks! isn't. So…
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I actually agree that Doubtfire is a weird film. Never been a favourite of mine personally. If I want to watch a questionable spin on Some Like It Hot I'd take White Chicks over it (actually I quite like that movie, although it might just be kitsch …
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I don't think that'll matter at all. The gap will be long enough between films, we'll have had a Bond video game, a reality TV show, and all kinds of rumours of ATJs/other actors getting the role/a build up to it that no one will care about NTTD. …
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CrabKey wrote: » @007HallY - Fair enough. As a matter of interest, of those top 10, which did you see? Barbie, Oppenheimer, Guardians, John Wick, Spiderman, Super Mario. John Wick was more my thing to be honest, and I’m a fan of the previou…
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Yeah, there’s definitely a few reasons. But a good Bond film can definitely stand out and even be very successful. If anything this year’s releases is missing something like Bond, something that’s escapist and thrilling, but also familiar/reliable e…
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CrabKey wrote: » This old person doesn't mind sitting in a darkened cinema for 2-3 hours if a film is worth my time, which there seems to be less of these days. Of the box office top 200 films in 2023, I saw 17 of those films, only five of whic…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Depends on what you mean by success. Superman Legacy’s main financial hurdle is that its budget is massive, which is a risk given it’s Gunn’s first DC entry. First films in these sort of new eras often se…
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Malek’s accent is strange, agreed. It’s a sort of nowhere European accent. Then again the character’s name is essentially Lucifer Satan so I suppose we’re working with a level of Bondian ridiculousness. And yeah, his motivation at the end of the …
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Depends on what you mean by success. Superman Legacy’s main financial hurdle is that its budget is massive, which is a risk given it’s Gunn’s first DC entry. First films in these sort of new eras often set a good, but not explosive record, and work …
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I think people forget that even Fury Road wasn’t a smash hit by any means and only made around £380 million in 2015. I wasn’t expecting this new Mad Max film (which doesn’t seem to have Mad Max in it?) to be a huge hit either really, at least financ…
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