Venutius
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For myself, it's because I'm hoping to see at least three more Bond films before I kark it, man! ;)
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When Blofeld says he was the architect of all Bond's pain, I always wish Dan had scoffed 'Yeah, right' and just dismissed it as a lie. Can you imagine how infuriated Franz would've been if Bond had just swatted aside the big reveal? Given the lack o…
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Univex wrote: » Daniel Craig set an unrepeatable standard, an interesting paradox, I’d say. There is simply no actor n hos 20s or 30s, nowadays, with that level of charisma and experience. He steals the room, as someone else put it. Indeed. B…
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Cheers for that, echo. Agree with the article about the action (it's great!) and the song (it's nowhere near as bad as is claimed), but disagree with it about Greene - he's a superb villain. He's not meant to be a bravura megalomaniac like Silva, bu…
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Guaranteed that Paul Haggis won't be writing the script, though.
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Sounds like Charlie would've preferred DAD II over CR, tbh! Has he ever 'fessed if he used to lurk on CraigNotBond? ;)
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peter wrote: » Venutius wrote: » peter wrote: » I think the new actor should be one who can possess all of Bond’s strengths: physically attractive (but emotionally unavailable), a gambler and risk taker, physically honed and fit and traine…
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peter wrote: » I think the new actor should be one who can possess all of Bond’s strengths: physically attractive (but emotionally unavailable), a gambler and risk taker, physically honed and fit and trained in modern unarmed combat, great marksma…
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Yes, that snakey guitar riff intro straight after the freeze-frame is just perfect. I know it's always been divisive, but I wouldn't change it for the Arnold/Bassey song, tbh.
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Yes, that's a great scene. Trying to comfort her amid the flames, almost in a counterpart to the shower scene with Vesper in CR. More of Forster's use of 'elements', maybe? And yes, you're right, Jordo, Bond is going to kill Camille to prevent her d…
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Greene was a fantastic villain - you hated him on sight! That's how it should be.
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Yes, same. Wasn't the implication in SP that Madeleine had used her father's gun to kill the man who came to her childhood home looking for Mr. White? That shows it can't have been Blofeld.
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Rachel Ward...the early 80s...it's all coming back to me now...
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » there was way too much baggage with Craig’s Bond that I wouldn’t have wanted with the new Bond. Agreed. CraigBond was carrying a lot of emotional baggage. NewBond needs to make his own way and live his own life, unbur…
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The humour in QOS was spot on. Dark and deadpan. Perfectly suited to Craig's Bond. That's the type and level of humour I'd like to see return.
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Agreed - anyone trying to reconcile continuities between the 25 films and the various actors will end up doing their nut (er, in the British sense, I hasten to add!). EON themselves rarely attempted it pre-Craig and completely failed on a few memora…
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I suppose it would've had a similar impact as Marie being killed unexpectedly at the start of The Bourne Supremacy. But a greater one, given the relative unexpectedness (is that a word?) of such a move in 1969-'70. Marie doesn't die in Ludlam's book…
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There definitely have to have been many major missions in CraigBond's career between QOS and SF. When Silva asks 'Is there any of the old James Bond left?' he can't just be talking about the events of CR and QOS. In NTTD, Bond and Felix haven't met …
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peter wrote: » If Craig cocked it up for you, then ignore it. Love up all the other ones, and love the next guy. And that's the absolute beauty of it, because with Dan's self-contained run, people can do exactly that with no loss of enjoyment…
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talos7 wrote: » If done correctly, the new actors cast as iconic characters will be embraced by the audience. Yes, they will. Plenty of us will remember the stir of protest when Whishaw was cast - the most extreme example of it was someone ov…
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Yeh, Pike would've been pretty good, I have to say. I'm sure we'd all had our own image of Vesper in our heads for a long, long time before CR, though. I know I had. But I'd seen Eva Green in The Dreamers and Kingdom of Heaven, so I was already a lo…
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Yes, I remember the bafflement in a few quarters back in the 00s before it became accepted that it was the same actress playing a different M. Hopefully, people would get it from the start if they did it again with Fiennes, though. Er, he says, mayb…
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SIS_HQ wrote: » she played it more like a villainess, unlike in the novel where she's an innocent with a devil manipulating her from inside, she's morally torn and ambiguous, something that the Vesper of the film lacked, because she showed her att…
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Eva Green is the most glorious creature who ever lived. I may have said this once or twice before... :x
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Yes, I know what you mean. It's not that Madden's bad - he isn't. He's solid, capable, dependable - but it's not enough. There needs to be that extra quality, that special flare about Bond.
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DarthDimi wrote: » Provided we have an actor who's willing to work on the film the same way Craig did. We'll be very fortunate if we get another actor with anything like Craig's level of commitment to the role, tbh. The bloke gave everything,…
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I'm not worried - if the writers' strike affects Bond 26 in the same way it affected QOS, we'll have another all-time classic on our hands.
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Love the idea that Welles basically didn't spend 10 years practicing scales in his bedroom before he played a gig, he went straight out and punk rocked Hollywood because he hadn't been cowed by its conventions and limitations. Excellent. They don't …
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Yeah, I can still see the appeal of pulling the same trick twice and casting Ralph Fiennes as Sir Miles Messervy. Without any explanation, not even a knowing aside. Ok, it's a bit too 'post-' to actually happen after they did it with Dench, but Fien…
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Ludovico wrote: » I think my issue with Madden is that even in the roles and TV series I liked him in, I never found anything outstanding about him. Yes. Someone else described him as 'serviceable' - which he is; but Bond needs to be a lot mo…
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