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I certainly am. It's in practically every film now and has long lost it's novelty.
I preferred when each Bond actor had his own vehicle: the Lotus for Roger, the BMW for Pierce (even though that idea was pretty much blown).
As for it appearing in chase sequences, I'll take the Citroen chase over the Aston Martin chases in QOS and especially SP any day.
Go back to The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2005.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/15/movies/MoviesFeatures/bond-franchise-is-shaken-and-stirred.html
Excerpt:
"We are running out of energy, mental energy," Mr. Wilson recalled saying. "We need to generate something new, for ourselves."
Curious to see where they take it from here. It looks like they've decided to kick the can down the road for one more, and then it might get stressful for them again.
It's quite clear that Pascal had quite a bit of involvement with Craig's casting. I hope the next studio has input for the future film as well. A balance of viewpoints is required.
She's wrong though. Craig isn't as tall as Connery. Not by a long shot.
So has it actually been confirmed Barbara and Michael are considering selling after B25?
No...nothing yet.
My personal view though is that one day they will, if the price is right and once they feel like they've done what they can with the character.
This from the time in the article sounds like a number of people on here now
'Bond fans quickly reminded the producers on Friday just how risky their decision to shift direction might be, and that "dark" and "hip" were far from what they imagined as the shaken-not-stirred polish of the James Bond character.'
Good.
I've been feeling that could be as well considering the long gaps between films and general feeling after each one is weariness. I do hope Eon gets their second wind soon and can plan for the series' future. Right now it seems they are milking one more for the Craig era rather than moving forward.
Having said that, new blood (whether it be actor, studio or writers) always brings new energy & ideas as well. When Sony took over in 2006, one could feel the new energy.
NSNA is a terrible film.
That does seem to be the prevailing opinion, perhaps unsurprisingly, among 'Bond' fans. The fact remains it was reasonably successful (far more than many EON produced entries).
And it's a considerable improvement over TB.
It's not fit to lick TB's boots !!
Hear, hear!
Agreed. Don’t care much for NSNA at all, while I love TB.
Speaking of which, good to see a lot of TB love from the Community lately.
Lots of love from me,it's sitting pretty at #5 in my rankings !
My whole point though was that NSNA proves Bond can survive EON. Babs and Michael have pretty much admitted that themselves (not about NSNA, but that Bond will live beyond them).
I still think there might be many producers out there with the need to re-invent Bond to suit their own agenda. Perhaps change 007's occupation from a British Secret Service MI6 double O agent to a Chicago based vascular surgeon? Sounds like I'm being facetious, but in the new re-boot of DEATH WISH Paul Kersey is now a doctor rather than architect. Of course Paul Kersey is nowhere near the icon that Bond is, and it's a silly comparison, but there are countless media articles addressing Bond as out-dated, or in need of change.
People can only speculate on so many things before they've run out of clickbait and juicy gossip, I suppose. I'm sure they'll fire up yet again whenever we get our next bit of concrete news.
It's the calm before the storm.
TB is solidly in my Top 4. I just watched it again the other day, and what puts that film so far up my rankings is the post-sex capture of Bond by Fiona. It is evident that the encounter between foes ended up being much more than that, and that under different circumstances, they may have had something. But the situation was what it was. And when Bond says what he did was out of service to his country, we can see he regrets saying it and that Fiona is very hurt. Here we have two cold-hearted killers who have just enjoyed each other, tenderly, and they now know they are about to do terrible things to each other. PHENOMENAL!!!!!