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Right off the top of my head for the day: no more CG animals of any kind, please.
Excellent list
What? I love Felix. But I agree with you about ski scenes; these have been done so superbly by OHMSS, TSWLM, and FYEO that Eon shouldn't even try unless there's a truly compelling story reason. Strangely, SP was crying out for an Oberhauser/Bond ski scene because skiing ties into their shared history.
I would have loved seeing Craig on skis because quite frankly, Daniel Craig in that winter suit and those sunglasses would have looked spectacularly cool on skis!
I WANT, I NEED THAT CLOTHES INCLUDING SHOES AND SUNGLASSES.
I'll call Tom Ford in person if necessary :))
How very astute.
And how very ungrateful of me to the chap who kept Bond alive in the 70s and 80s. I actually like TSWLM and one or two of his other ones. He just happened to pilot some of the worst films they ever made (with one exception).
For Connery era stuff, I'd say:
The "007" theme.
The star of the show looking bored shitless.
Connery's wardrobe in DAF.
For Brosnan, I'd have to say:
Brosnan.
Agree that M, Q and Moneypenny need to stay in London, and only seen in the beginning.
He elevated the franchise to more Box Office than ever.
Absolutely......and if they demand more airtime sack them and employ someone else. These people are not indispensable. Mendes mucked this up in a big way but we could see it coming even in SF (there was no need for a backstory for MP imho........just make her interesting and employ a decent actress for the part).
he was well cast as 007 as his job was after quite an absence to reintroduce the franchise, and he did so very well. The Dalton lovers are the only misguided minds that really thought that such a job could have been done by him. Brosnan was always going to be James Bond 007 and did so in a splendid way. You might not like the actor but to call him miscast is like saying Sly Stallone made a poor Rocky.
Having said that, he did help the franchise re-establish itself economically at a very delicate time, and he should be commended for that. Those thinking people will look back on his run with more critical appreciation with time are deluding themselves imho.
That's your opinion.
Brosnan (like Moore and Craig) has build up a loyal and not small fan-base with the 90's youth and young adult generation that will last as long as Moore's or Craig's does.
He was a very popular Bond and I don't take that away from him. I just thought he was miscast.
LOL. I cringe every time I go to see a new Bond film because audiences have gotten so bad. I expect to catch more the second time around because of people incessantly talking the first time.
:))
Luckily in my 3 viewings people behaved :))
When I was seeing The Last Witchhunter there were mainly young people probably still teenagers even.
Sometimes I worry for the future when I see the behaviour of such teenagers. They seem to be symbiotic with their smartphones and/or Facebook/twitter/instagram and that's even the least worrying feature of them...
2. M or Moneypenny(especially) in the field ever again.
3. Any satellites with diamonds.
4.Q joking about his work (thanks Ben)
5. Computer viruses/hacking/any bullshit related to this.
"james I need you"... "So does England"/the world :-)
Lets get back to basics, Bond is a formula but it's a classic that has lasted a long time, Why?, because it works.
No more back story or ensemble cast involvement For F**Ks Sake it's not the Avengers or MI (which I actually think is better written at the moment), just a mission.
Should be PTS, Titles, MP customary by play followed by M briefing, bit more by play, Q issues new gadgets, then meet the bad guys, sleep with girl, girl gets killed, action, action, action, meets main girl, defeats bad guy, rescues girl, kisses girl, end credits.
Please can EON stop feeling so Bl**dy insecure about their product, stop copying others & start innovating again, Bond works & has for over 50 years. I loved CR, liked QoS, SF was OK & I liked SP but part of me really yerns for a modern FRWL or GF, just classic Bond. [-O<
At the showing in Hong Kong someone behind answered their phone saying "喂你好。你去哪里?“ like they were walking on the street. During the climatic scene in MI5 a woman did something similar. So many women could have used a finishing school.
:-@
I agree. I don't mind if they shake up a few elements of the formula (Vesper dies, Bond doesn't sleep with Camille, etc.) but I don't like when they go too far afield in any one film.
I do think QoS is crying out for a critical reappraisal decades from now, much like OHMSS. Crazy editing aside, it is much more restrained than SF and SP, and there are individual scenes better than anything in SF and SP.
She surely rubbed him the right way......and vice versa possibly....