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007HallY wrote: » GadgetMan wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » GadgetMan wrote: » I think the fact that Craig and Seydoux for some weird reason don't seem to have chemistry, doesn't help Bond's death reach the emotional height it was aiming fo…
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For Bond 26, I just want a sense of wonder from the places Bond visits. Think TSWLM and the pyramids--you felt like you were there. Aside from the PTSes in SP and NTTD (and arguably SF), the locations of the last three films felt oddly generic/dis…
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007HallY wrote: » The ending is strange for what it's worth, even beyond the fact that Bond dies. I've talked with a few people who saw the film first time and were under the impression that there were things foreshadowing a reveal that Bond had s…
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The gangster scenes (including the Spangs) are some of the weakest Fleming there is, which is why they haven't been adapted. They also place the film in the US, which typically doesn't go well. Anytime there's been a gangster in the film series …
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Amnesia is a bit hoary as a plotline, but I could see how Eon might have it be ambiguous enough to please all fans: i.e. Bond is missing and he shows up and tries to kill M.
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ShakenNotStirred wrote: » I have to say, as for how silly and downright cringe the ending of DAD can be.. it is still a more classic send off for Brosnan's Bond. But comparing missiles to the face to in bed with Halle Berry, tough choice. ;) …
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Thunderfinger wrote: » MI6HQ wrote: » I'd also love to see Gala Brand she's one of my favorite literary Bond Girls, but I think Vivienne Michel could also make a good bond girl too. Maybe EON can now use the character because Fleming has been…
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I get what you're saying about it being hard to shoehorn him in (except for the fact that the Craig films kept going back to Italy) and he is a minor character compared to Felix. What felt fresh to me about CR is that they were really going all-i…
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I remember being really excited that they introduced a key Fleming character in CR. That had not been done in quite some time. And then they summarily killed Mathis off... :( Shades of deaths to come? Vesper's death in CR is integral to unde…
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CR had the right idea with Bond going after a married woman, which is very Fleming. I sense that Eon wants to keep the films as "family entertainment" so we may get more of an affair in the past like in TND rather than an affair playing out in th…
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Birdleson wrote: » ColonelAdamski wrote: » Perhaps one day, in a future film, Bond will be at a funeral with Felix, and during the service, Bond will look maudlin and walk away. And the vicar will say to Felix . . . "was it something I said?"…
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Venutius wrote: » Yes: clean slate. CraigBond was carrying a lot of emotional baggage and the weight of a hard life by the end. Unfair to burden NewBond with all of that. Let him make his own way and live his own life. I agree with this. N…
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jetsetwilly wrote: » Denbigh wrote: » MajorDSmythe wrote: » ...then why the references to the past films? Like what specifically? Because most of, if not all, the references I can think of are just homages for the fans. I can't think …
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I blame Cubby for not adapting YOLT/TMWTGG properly in the first place, and letting Ludlum and Bourne get ahead of Bond on this plotline. I'm half-kidding.
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sandbagger1 wrote: » Birdleson wrote: » I don't want to speak for others, but it seems, like with me, those who disliked the ending didn't care for the death because it didn't work as intended, and felt as though we were being overly manipula…
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mtm wrote: » thelivingroyale wrote: » jetsetwilly wrote: » mtm wrote: » jetsetwilly wrote: » Matt007 wrote: » I think they’ve rather foolishly painted themselves into a corner. Like is bonds death the fate of any future incarna…
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I disagree. Props to Lazenby for being the most physical Bond, and for being credibly frightened when SPECTRE was chasing him at the ice rink (probably because he was literally frightened by the acting challenge.)
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I can't believe anyone is defending Smith assaulting a comedian. Seriously. Back on topic, I found Eilish's acceptance of the Oscar a welcome respite from the unpleasantness of Smith's action.
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I don't know but I sure was impressed by it when I saw it. And Helsinki in general.
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The only thing that would have made Bond's death more moving is if it had been interrupted by all of the different Craig gunbarrels, and then one final gunbarrel as he falls.
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Helsinki in general, but especially the Temppeliaukio Church: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church#/media/File:11-07-29-helsinki-by-RalfR-030.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church#/media/File:Temppeliaukio_Church…
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mtm wrote: » Yep, Campbell, as with Mendes, can do 'Bond', whereas I feel like Forster and Fukunaga don't quite get it. Agree about Campbell, and Mendes for SF, but not for SP. SP should have been Craig's YOLT, leading into his final TMW…
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Since62 wrote: » VERY interesting ! For that to have worked, then the whole of NSNA would have had to be different, not just the ending...or else it would have been jarringly different from the rest of the film. Remember the passage in the book wh…
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ImpertinentGoon wrote: » MSL49 wrote: » Is it Danny Boyle's time? It would be pretty funny, but not totally unreasonable if they went back to him. "You didn't want to kill him the last time, so we did it without you. As we don't want…
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Pokébond. It would be a cool updating of the bridge game in MR.
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MSL49 wrote: » Moore to Dalton switch would be good. Old to younger without past baggage. That's some soap.
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hoppimike wrote: » George_Kaplan wrote: » Frankly I'm surprised more people weren't upset by how Nomi was portrayed. She's cocky and arrogant so we're obviously supposed to dislike her and as far as female agents go, she certainly has nothing …
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j_w_pepper wrote: » I haven't read at least the last 440 posts or so, and I don't remember if I commented on this in the earlier 560, but I think that anything but a clean sweep would be a recipe for failure. I like the recent cast, but with Bond…
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MSL49 wrote: » Lighter with no personal baggage. There's been personal baggage in every film since 1989.
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I find Marvel movies to be spectacles but soulless...Craig put more character work into his five films than there is in all the Marvel films combined. I also think the hand-wringing over people constantly repeating "They killed Bond! They can't …
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