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Right you are, @jake24.
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I am a great admirer of Eastwood's work, but American sniper has shown that he is past his time. And Ridley? It must be decades ago that he made something really remarkable. To me he's only cashing in on the brilliant work he delivered in the late 70s and early 80s. Come to think of it, just like Spielberg.
Well, Tarantino would, too. But I'm guessing you mean among leading candidates for the job.
Spielberg on the other hand, once had a terrible reputation for going hugely over budget and over schedule. So much so, that it was George Lucas that had to stick his own money into Raiders of the Lost Ark to guarantee that Spielberg wouldn't repeat his previous mistakes. If Lucas hadn't done this, I doubt if many studios would've been so willing to have given him a second chance. He almost bankrupted both Universal and Columbia with Jaws and CEOT3K and especially with his 1941. Fortunately, the first two movies were successful enough to recoup the studio's exorbitant spending and losses, alas 1941 proved otherwise until Lucas came to his rescue. I'm sure had Spielberg made a Bond movie in the Seventies, as was his wish, then it would've ended up being the most expensive Bond movie ever made, bar none.
I don't think Spielberg would have done a Bond film until FYEO...and I can only imagine how that would have gone.
I could see Spielberg skipping the gunbarrel, PTS, title sequence and theme song altogether and just doing his own thing.
If Bond 25 excludes gunbarrel, pts, title sequence, and/or theme theme song I will be pretty ticked off. They should never leave any of those out of a Bond film; only DN didn’t have a pts and they were just getting started then.
I wouldn't go any better than 7/2.
Fair point.
The CR one is awesome and Craig's best by a million light years but it's still not traditional.
That's a rather generous assessment.
The QOS one was an atrocity and they've been getting incrementally better with every subsequent film but at the rate they're improving it will take about another 17 films until normal service has been resumed.
It's not hard is it? I genuinely don't understand how they can keep messing it up.
That's gold. But hey, when you have to go...
The QOS design looked more like what you'd see in a spoof of the gunbarrel- like something on the Simpsons or Saturday Night Live.
I was thrilled the SP had it back at the start, but the music was out of sinc, I HATE that the Craig version remains still after the gunshot lacking the back and forth swerve, and I DETEST the pretentious Dead is Alive rubbish. Had the dot opened on the skull, I would have been far more satisfied. I will say, though I did like the shade of red for the blood.
One of my prime concerns, hypothetically if Eon does sell in the future, is that other owners will do away with such beloved traditions. It seems every major movie now is a giant PTS, as all credits are saved until the end. In addition, I can't recall a single non-Bond film in the past 15 years with a music score I can hum by memory.
I don't think it's hard, and that they keep messing it up is obviously subjective. It isn't as though they've forgotten what the traditional gunbarrel looks like and don't know where to go to find it, they're obviously just trying new things, like they did with GE (moving reflection = amazing) and DAD (3D bullet = awful).
IMO the CR was fantastic, Skyfall was fine but should have been at the beginning, QoS was awful and Spectre was great, but controversially I liked the fade to black and "the dead are alive" card.
If you change tiny things, everybody knows you´re still playing the same song but try to keep it vibrant. And then you can even make a different song out of it, if you do it gradually. If you change too many things at once, people will be annoyed by you playing a different song.
Be prepared to be incarcerated for the rest of your life. Come to think of it, I´m pretty sure I wouldn´t mind that one if I liked the film a bit. With the film being so low on my list, the deliberation with the end of the gb obviously seems highly pretentious to me.
I do enjoy Spectre despite all it's glaring flaws, so I'm not opposed to the words at the beginning, but I can easily see your point.
It's unlikely until this era of experimentation is over and done with though.