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DC has been crucified by the arc he was given. CR is a towering Bond film, but the arc blew its load too early. So did the character, in terms of meeting the girl who would shape his soul. DC was young and reasonably fresh faced when CR rolled…
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I mentioned him mainly for The Thomas Crown Affair CC4, but I love those films too. Great director.
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Just on Noyce, I loved the romanticism of The Saint. To me, the best Bonds have this - FRWL, OHMSS, TSWLM, TLD, CR. Note that this element can enhance a good story and doesn't necessarily need to be dark and angst-ridden. In fact, if done cor…
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Yeah Campbell is still my first choice. Guys in the vein of John McTiernan and Phillip Noyce too. Proficient journeymen, that's the correct antidote to Mendes!
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Soderburgh would be better than Nolan IMO. SS has a wonderfully stylish touch that would reinvigorate the dour DC era. We need more old school charm. Hiring Nolan would be doubling down on bombast. My only stipulation would be that SS respe…
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On Nolan. I like his films, but tend not to revisit them. They are great, thought-provoking spectacles, but I find little in the way of old-school entertainment. One area of concern is his obvious calling card for Bond - the snow base in Incep…
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Daniel Craig's standing appears to be losing lustre by the day. This is unfortunate, as he has been a spectacularly good Bond IMO. Flawless in CR, QoS and SF. CR was a near perfect Bond film. In QoS, Craig's performance was diminished by…
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Let's be clear here, the third act of Spectre is the trainwreck we all suspect occurred involving Purvis/Wade/Logan. The portrait gallery in the abandoned MI6 building was possibly the laziest, most cringeworthy sequence I've seen in any Bond mov…
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BMW_with_missiles wrote: » Birdleson wrote: » I don't mind Bond being conflicted, but this whole thing is becoming indulgent. And caricature doesn't necessarily mean simple. When done well in Bond it is played and writ large. Very satisfyi…
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SP was mostly mediocre, but that fight with Hinx, oh man. It was an epidural for a weak feature. But even that sequence felt contrived. (insert FRWL homage here) Mendes shouldn't have been given a second go. They should've seen his arthous…
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TripAces wrote: » GetCarter wrote: » Shardlake wrote: » Did Campbell have anything to do with that scene? He directed it yes but it was no doubt written by P&W or Haggis, I'm not sure Campbell bought anything to the story like say M…
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SP is a fascinating film in many ways. Rarely has a Bond film lavished so much on looking good whilst failing in almost every other department.
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Shardlake wrote: » Did Campbell have anything to do with that scene? He directed it yes but it was no doubt written by P&W or Haggis, I'm not sure Campbell bought anything to the story like say Mendes is reported to have. I know some dir…
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Regardless of plot holes, I don't watch SF and SP as often as I watch CR and QoS. There is something shallow about the Mendes approach. They are sensory experiences that lose their lustre over time. Where Mendes fails is in the small moment…
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DarthDimi wrote: » Reading some posts again, it's almost unbelievable how content hungry we have become, how much more we seem to care about quantity than quality. - Babs is doing something else. - Oh no! I know that the next Bond film will be…
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DC as an older man looks like a head kicker from a Guy Ritchie flick. Well played, made me laugh
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I'd be rapt with Hardy, but I know that's not a widely popular choice. I just think he'd be an immensely exciting, dynamic, unpredictable Bond. Bit on the short side, but we've trending downward with DC anyways :) Also, I don't think Hardy wou…
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I have to admit when I look at him I just think of how bad The Hobbit trilogy was. I don't think he's AAA Bond material to be honest.
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001) halve SP's budget 002) remove Craig from creative decisions 003) establish an ongoing bond script house with a revolving team of talented writers 004) spend time on perfecting a ripping spy caper 005) commit to a production schedule of one …
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What we need is QoS brutality and lack of sentimentality with just a bit more time for savoir faire than that film had. That would be the perfect DC send-off. Not sure the producers can give us a tough, old school Bond in this post-SF world, t…
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Daniel Craig is a prisoner of Casino Royale. First, there was the alakine counter-punch of QoS, increasingly well received amongst hardcore fans for being the bullet to the previous film's heart. Since then, his arc has been comprehensively bo…
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... as Mendes gleefully writes a treatment featuring Bond's death ...
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0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » I'm so f*cking tired of this shit, honestly. Dan is so clever and so witty that people aren't even smart enough to understand his brilliant and dry humor, and that lack of understanding kicked off a series of click-b…
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FWIW my partner is in no way a Bond fan and was the one who alerted me to the story. She also remembered Craig as the one who'd "rather slash his wrists" than return as Bond. Unfair perhaps, but that story resonated at the time. Personally I love…
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Meh, just give me a plot-driven Bond film please Babs. Don't care who's in it, I just want the story to be engaging. Haven't felt that way since LTK to be honest. Sure, I enjoyed GE and loved CR, but they excelled for other reasons. Where are the ti…
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In recognition of the great Sir Roger Moore, I'd like to declare my love for the 'Moonraker' theme, IMO the best of the Bassey themes.
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0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » [quote="pachazo;733750" @pachazo, my apologies, then. We don't really converse on here, so I didn't know how to take your reactions (nuance is lost in text anyway). I'm sure that at times I could hold back a litt…
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The only way I can see Craig succeeding in B25, if he is indeed set to return, is with an airtight thriller. There are reasons to love each of DC's movies, but I haven't found any of his plots very engaging. Sure, Bond has always been 'find a clu…
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Meh, I'd prefer it if bond didn't become a vanity call for big name directors. Proficient journeymen please. Hunt, Campbell, etc. The more you engage "visionaries" who invariably seek to impose themselves, the less you have of the formula w…
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0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » bondjames wrote: » However, I have to say that the film does absolutely nothing for me. Everything it did has been bettered (imho) in the series since. The same cannot be said of DN, FRWL …
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