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I never thought of Birds of the West Indies, though I completely associate it with Bond. I like it. I do feel we're overdo for a Bond title with more than just two or three words. Seems in this day and age simplistic titles are all the rage.
I can't take credit for making them, but thanks! They were my favorites I found for those titles.
This one gets my vote! Hell of a poster. And no, I've no problem with the DB5 just as I don't have a problem with the PPK.
I didn't care to see it at all in SP, it has worn out its welcome with me now, I'm afraid. Perhaps it would've been more of a statement for Bond and Maddy to drive off in the DB10, with 'music enabled for 007' flashing across the LCD screen as the Bond theme plays in the background. Even though he nicked the car, he did capture Blofeld, so he deserved the DB10 by the end of the film.
As for the PPK, does anyone actually have an issue with that? Whether he has it, the P99, or another Walther doesn't bother me - but he should always revert back to the PPK.
Well done @JamesBondKenya. A rare voice of sanity amongst an outbreak of utter lunacy.
007 In New York is an appalling title. Uninspired, lazy, none of the poetry of a good Bond title. Even The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift or Police Academy: Mission to Moscow have more lyrical beauty and inventiveness.
It is exactly what it was designed to be - a hastily thought up title to a short newspaper article Fleming bashed out by way of apology for Bond not appearing to like the place in LALD.
I'd genuinely prefer both Mendes and Newman back and M to be on leave a la FYEO and Rory stepping into the breach than see this war crime of a title foisted upon the world.
Thankfully I can console myself that however bone dry EON's well of inspiration seems to be at the moment I'm certain there are at least enough drops of creativity left that this is a non starter.
Not just MR.
In fact until 95 the majority of films didn't feature a Bond car.
FRWL - Bentley (though barely glimpsed so I don't really count it)
GF - DB5
TB - DB5
OHMSS - DBS
TSWLM - Lotus
FYEO - Lotus
TLD - Vantage
That's 7 in 16 films (and only 4 cars with gadgets in 16).
Since 95 which, lets face it is the start of what might be termed the fanwankery era, we have had:
GE - DB5 and Z3
TND - DB5 and 750i
TWINE - Z8 and DB5
DAD - Vanquish
CR - DBS and DB5
QOS - DBS
SF - DB5
SP - DB10 and DB5
We are now up to a ludicrous rate of 13 cars in 8 films (and 5 gadget cars in 8).
The phrase 'flogged to death' leaps to mind. But they are so entrenched in the modern homage culture I don't expect anything to change.
In 87 when we got the gadget laden Vantage I was thrilled because it had been so long since the Lotus. Now when there's a gadget car I'm just bored and think 'That's another big Bond action sequence wasted on an unoriginal premise' and I wistfully recall the halcyon Glen era which had the best and most inventive action of the series and only felt the need to wheel out the gadget car once in 5 films.
I'll be ecstatic if B25 is not titled 007 in New York and there is no Bond car. My expectations are so low at the moment I would settle for that but realise only one is likely to come to fruition. Thankfully I'd rather have the car than the title so at least there is some solace in that as I'm fairly certain EON aren't creatively moribund enough to use that title.
In the context of our times, it would sound like Bond has gone Spiderman.
I would like to emphatically add that the bringing back of a Bond car in the past used to be a clear statement against the need for it. The DB5 from GF re-appears in the pts of TB, only to be dumped for the rest of the film. The Lotus in FYEO is quickly done away with before Bond can do much with it. The filmmakers had the inspiration and balls to make it clear to the audience that they don´t need the bloody car for a good Bond film. They had aspirations to build on the past and move on into the future (which ironically can also be said for CR and QoS).
It was a nice touch in GE when Bond drove the DB5, because Fleming´s Bond also drove an oldtimer. But from then on, it got a little weird.
TWO new and solid sources (from US and UK) puts Nolan on the front... We could expect something official around January or February.
I would actually believe it. Nolan didn’t have any films planned out after Dunkirk, and he has expressed interest in doing this before. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried; I feel iffy about his style mixing with Bond. We will see about this...
I wouldn't be disappointed if Nolan gets the gig - what I really want is something different in tone to the last two films. Having said that, I've noticed Mendes style being compared to Nolan in the past - and there are similarities - which makes me wonder whether we would actually get that.
I would imagine it being somewhat similar to SF and SP for sure. I think Craig’s last should probably be closer to CR and QoS in tone - less humor and very gritty. I appreciated the lighter moments of SP, but I think it’d be more fitting for Bond 25 to be on the darker side. Maybe Nolan can surprise me; I did love his Batman movies.
Whatever the outcome, this is exciting!
That would require them to go back to Fleming.
What?? Craig is 100% back.
Read my comment above why Nolan directing Craig's last Bond film COULD make sense. What's not happening is Nolan directing from Purvis and Wade's script. So if Nolan is in, P&W are out. (Remember, Peter Morgan was officially announced to write Bond 23 and later got completely replaced.)