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I like action scenes that create tension. A lot of times Bond doesn't really seem to be in peril. The Matero car scene could have been so much better if a seething Bond was really worried about the attack. No matter what weapon the bad guys pulled o…
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Bond is a character at home in any time without necessarily being of that time. He doesn't need to do anything that panders to whatever characterizes the current generation. There's nothing unique about Bond using current technology. He's always don…
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@MaxCasino - TWINE arguably walked so SF could run. I have no idea what this means.
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As a Bond fan since 1962, I don't need any of that, nor do I see the need for it. Spin offs are nothing more than proximity to the real thing. I prefer the real thing. Without their associations to James Bond, would any of the spinoff characters be …
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Of the Moore films, LALD is my favorite. But none of his films fall into the classic category for me. Primarily, he never convinced me he was Bond and I agree about YOLT and DAF. For me the Connery era ended with TB. By the time Moore era rolled aro…
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I absolutely see that. It's great when you can move beyond a film looking old and dated. NxNW and Vertigo I can watch over and over. Once you're no longer bothered by effects and things like that but can focus on the acting and the story, that's wha…
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SIS_HQ wrote: » The best is subjective, some of the fans in here ranked the film at middle and not number 1, some prefer Skyfall to it, or Goldeneye (latter, is in my case). True. We like what we like. I wonder how many base their opin…
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So, a faithful adaptation can't be done. Bond novels are too out of date for today's audiences. Those stories can't even be updated because they are so old fashioned. But taking bits and pieces from MR and using them over and over is always new and …
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For me there is nothing unique about today that would prevent a Bond novel, any Bond novel, from being updated to make for a cracking good story for modern audiences. Bond stories have always been updated. However, far too many have been lousy adapt…
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On the one hand here we praise the brilliance of screen writers who can conjure up all sorts of imaginative stories, but trying to tell the story of a supposedly patriotic billionaire who builds a rocket to be used on his own country, sorry, nothing…
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Yeah, who wants to see a story about a nut job who wants to blow up London with a rocket. We need more visually exciting stories about nano-bots and stolen computer chips with the names of every MI6 agent in the world. It's not as if computer techno…
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Paladin A Life Worth Taking The Seventh Syn The Golden Mile Don't Look Twice No Kiss, No Mercy For King and Country The Enemy You Know Coffinmaker Angels Do Not Care The Way the World Ends Seeing is Believing All Bets are Off Don't Coun…
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Adapt a Fleming novel as closely as one can or keep writing 100% original screenplays. In name only stories don't work for me, nor do screenplays that sample bit and pieces of previous films and novels as if that somehow legitimizes new works. The …
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Does snatching a couple of scenes and songs from an earlier work really count as an adaptation? The original films were barely adaptations. Were the YOLT references in NTTD supposed to give it some authenticity? To me it was a reminder that there's …
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Daltonforyou wrote: » The 9 year-old schoolboy in me still wants The Undertakers' Wind. or Zographos The Undertaker's Wind - In this explosive reboot vaguely reminiscent of DN, a fuming M (because M is always fuming at this best agent…
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Why do we like some talented writers more than we like other talented writers? Because we do. I don't think P&W are untalented hacks. But I'd like to see others take a crack at Bond. As far as knowing Bond, they know their Bond, their versi…
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If Nolan started tomorrow, we could have a film by December 2025. Whatever the reason we're not hearing anything, I don't think it has anything to do with so much is going on.
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Heightened reality, a mixture of tongue in cheek humor, and genuine tension and spectacle are not unique to EON. No shortage of films do this. What EON has going for it is they own the Bond elements: gun barrel sequence, the music, the Bond name and…
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Given the hundreds of titles suggested on this thread, it will be surprising if the producers manage to come up with something that hasn't been pitched here. But there are words I believe they will avoid in the first film of the new series. De…
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Green was spectacular as Vesper, so I don't want to imagine who else could have played the role. But Lara Pulver, yes! There are so many other Bond women she could have played. It's baffling how a series that prides itself on the concept of the Bond…
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If Green was miscast, then it was a wonderful mistake. And she certainly does not look child-like. But I do agree the set up before meeting her didn't meet expectations. This is a series that has little regard for continuity and details. Her nati…
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For me it's not the motivations and turmoil of the characters on paper, but what's on the screen. It's clear that NTTD wants to be that great love story Bond is willing to sacrifice his life for. The child part works. Who wouldn't sacrifice onese…
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The better analysis of Bond came courtesy of Vesper when she and Bond met on the train. Without question, Madeleine and Bond are a handsome couple with a cute kid, who manages to be more interesting on screen than mom. Their romance should have g…
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mtm wrote: » CrabKey wrote: » LS is certainly pouty and sexy, but she keeps me (vicarious Bond) at a distance. I never sense she ever lets go emotionally. Vesper, on the other hand, lets me in. Throughout the entire series, she is the one who …
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Of course there's no objective way to measure any of this. It's what one sees on screen, what they like, and what they project onto the characters. LS is certainly pouty and sexy, but she keeps me (vicarious Bond) at a distance. I never sense she ev…
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For me the Blofeld reveal trashes everything we've previously seen about the character and his organization. I don't buy the different Bond in a different timeline nonsense. I am fine with the actor playing Bond changing from time to time. I think o…
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Casting white actors in non-white roles would certainly not fly today. I am thinking of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffanys. No shortage of such casting choices in the past. The Bond series itself is not without sin. Though I am not in favor …
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@George_Kaplan - If the next Bond is black or asian, you are suggesting that because Bond will no longer be from a privileged group, his race will have to become a necessary part of his story. What will that look like? I agree, race has not been a p…
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@Mendes4Lyfe -- I'm almost certain Sope will be the next Bond because he's a charismatic black actor, and thats who the media thinks bond should be in this day and age, they've been banging on about it for years. Why does Bond need to be black? I…
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