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Indeed. Action is one of the Brosnan era's strongest positives.
Did you listen to Peter. Seems to me, he knows what he is talking about. People like him dont let themselves being taken off the markett just like this.
And yes @Murdock. Arnold snd Lindy.
Is there any other kind of opinion?
ROFL.
Quite. It’s hard to think of a single original action scene in any of Brosnan’s movies. Not hard to come up with quite a few embarrassing ones though.
Not too difficult, considering there is hardly any in them.
The Mexico scene in SP being a prime example on having all systems go on the big action scene while the screenwriters are still trying to crack the rest of the story.
Good point Atomic Blonde and Red Sparrow both did okay business but hardly set the world alight yet I, an old fashioned bloke who assesses women mostly on their jugs, went to the cinema to see them both and had a great time. But a disgusting chauvinist like Bond is smashing it at the box office despite his 'rape' of sex trafficked Severine or shagging a widow just to get info out of her.
Is the Bond audience only made up of men who hate women or - shock horror - do most normal women (not the liberal PC #metoo brigade) actually enjoy Bond films too? To hit the billion dollar mark I would suspect the latter.
Seriously?
I'm with you mate. As if my expectations weren't low already I've just got on the express train to Underwhelmed Central.
Vic certainly a legend but went past his sell by date with TWINE and DAD nearly 20 years ago. The TWINE PTS stuff is decent (although Simon Crane did a lot of that) but the caviar factory and DAD hovercraft sequence feel like those choreographed stunt shows you get on Universal Studios tours.
This news is like when your club sacks the manager and you imagine exciting, innovative managers like Simeone or Allegri might come in and then they go for Big Sam or Pards.
B25 increasingly seems like a film that no one really wants and is just being made for the sake of it because Dan decided he was coming back. Once we get it out of the way let's clear the decks for Christ's sake and start from absolute scratch with both cast and crew as there's a stench of staleness around the whole place that was last smelled in 1985 as the Roger era limped to its conclusion.
There is a sense of filling out an obligation surrounding this one, true. Like they've faffed around for long enoygh, and suddenly realised time is running out, they've got to show SOMETHING. :))
But then it's not an opinion, is it?
I want instinctively to say that you're being too cynical here, but frankly it's hard to disagree too much with what you've said. I'd chalk it up to at least two things:
1) They painted themselves into a hell of a corner with SP. There are all sorts of issues of plotting, tone, and characterization that will be hard to address. I be sweating if I were a script writer or director for B25. You're so constrained from the off.
2) EON - and I've said this many times - urgently need a hurdygurdy man to be shaking hands and kissing babies on their behalf. Even if what you say is true behind the scenes, the outward-looking face of EON should always be projecting excitement about the next film and passion for the legacy. Instead it's always "we don't know, nobody's told me anything, I'm too tired," etc.
People like Armstrong are always in hot demand, so he's not going to sign on if things aren't moving along.
No reason to lose any sleep over Bond 25's production development yet.
Me too.
Hemming is one of the best.