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Like many have said here if they ever make something wrong in one film it's easier to fix it in the next one.
And its easier for regular audiences to watch the movies that way and every bond flicks get new fans
Is that so?
He never really strikes me as the self-obsessed type in interviews. Needless to say, Hiddleston isn't the only one who doesn't exactly give off a great first impression (DC comes to mind).
Never struck me as being like that either. The difference with DC is that his brashness is usually in interviews, whereas I guess you could say my mate was speaking with him in a professional capacity (albeit different fields).
For the record, I don't think it matters, but did find it surprising.
I think Skyfall did better business than Quantum even taking inflation into account.
These figures are for the U.S. market only, but Quantum sold 23,449,600 tickets.
Skyfall: 37,842,000 tickets
SPECTRE: 23,001,900 tickets.
If you go back to GoldenEye, The Bond movies sell between 23 million and 27 million tickets in the U.S.-Canadian market, with the exception of Skyfall.
Regardless, I couldn't care less about the actor's personality. As long as he's capable of respecting Fleming's creation and giving a performance of high caliber, I'll be the first one on board.
Me neither, but I do long for the days of gents like Roger.
Doesn't surprise me in the least.
Ha ha, I was waiting for you to chime in.
I see that in Hiddleston. It's effortless. Craig too can do it naturally. Something in the expressions that suggests a complex character underneath the bravado (which also must flow naturally).
Some actors have to 'strain' to convey that and it comes across fake. Ultimately, I just have to see more of Turner before deciding where I stand on him.
No overt continuity.
Have Bond be unapologetically Bond.
Give us a truly menacing villain.
Make these films character AND plot driven.
No wasted Bond girls...meaning no 5 minute screen times for them and none of that I love you crap after 15 minutes of meeting the man.
Pushed to the extreme limit of pg-13 love scenes.
More visceral hand to hand combat.
Toss out all that pedestrian action set pieces and come up with something inventive, exciting and unique.
Hire the best writers and director for the job! Where they come from (country-wise should no longer be an issue)
More glamour.
A bloody decent composer!!
Make use of the bloody stuntmen!
No ill-fitting suits!
M, MP and Q should remain in LONDON.
Cut down on the locations.
Keep the budget UNDER $200million!!
No Guinness world record breaking explosions. It's not necessary!
More use of wide shots.
No cutting away from intense scenes to arbitrary ones.
No personal vendettas.
James Bond is a 00 agent. That's his job. Let's see him get on with it!
I wonder if they will dare to break the fourth wall again in some next Bond movies (hey, Deadpool was a success). The other fellow is a superficial but funny kind of meta-narrative.
That would be incredibly obtuse.
Film studios and makers need to know wtf they're doing. Jungle Book had an ape and Bear singing a musical number and that film was a success! Connery sang underneath the Mango Tree, "Lets up the ante on it going forward in this new direction"! 8-|
The film makers need to go back to the essence of who Bond is and what he's all about. Deadpool was a success because the film makers did exactly what I'm suggesting EoN do. When you have people knowing what they're doing and not deviating from what made the ip special and appealing in the first place, there's no need to try and reinvent the wheel, which often results in straight lines and corners. It saves one from foolishly wondering what the hell went wrong or trying to figure out yet another new direction.
-Meaningful, interesting & witty dialogue (put the CR train exchange on loop). It's a Bond differentiator
Let's send the memo to EON. It will probably be thrown in the dustbin but it's worth a shot.
I think the BBC Sherlock series reinvented the wheel magnificently whilst remaining true to the original source material.
Absolutely! The dialogue exchange and the whole set up on the train passing through Montenegro was brilliant, sans the incredibly cringe-inducing Omega plug.
That is true, which is why I was careful to say reinventing the wheel often doesn't work. Some times it does and most of the time it doesn't. Bond is unique because he's not beholden to a specific time period like Holmes usually is. Bond has always been a contemporary character but the essence of who he is doesn't need to change much if at all even if the world around him does.
Can't disagree with that. The great thing about the Mission Impossible films is that they've been able to take a drastically new direction whenever the previous film hasn't succeeded, and that's got to be partially down to the lack of continuity, beyond characters. If they started asking me to remember events from disappointing Mission Impossible sequels from 2008 I probably wouldn't bother.