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One thing is for sure, though. Constantly hating on something won’t make it go away. Considering how the general public still thinks of Bond in the Brosnan way: the womanizing gentleman who saves the world while looking good in a fine tuxedo, that sort of style will come back on the screen one way or another. So, I wouldn’t bother kicking the hornet’s nest, my friend. ;)
KHAAAAAANNNNNNBROSNAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
I shall leave you as you left me. Marooned for all eternity with Brosnan's Bond films. Buried alive...buried alive.
Equality!!!!!
I absolutely adored this fight. Really well done.
Thank you!
Seconded. GE and Pierce Brosnan reinvigorated the Bond franchise. People seem to forget that it was Brosnan’s Bond that pulled the film series out of its longest gap, a time when many people were wondering if Bond would ever be back, and some film experts were calling Bond’s return a “several million dollar risk not worth taking” (see the documentary Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007). I look forward to the day that Brosnan’s interpretation of 007 gets the same favorable reappraisal that Dalton and Moore eventually received. Perhaps once Bond #7 takes the reigns we will see this.
I wouldn't say no to Diane Lane in a Bond film now.
No, SP is straight boring. I am not bored by TND and TWINE because they are much less bloated.
I think Bond 25 will be at least 15 minutes shorter than SP which is a good thing.
Well that’s subjective so your statement doesn’t really hold water
What about two toilet scenes. One with girls and one with man.
Then there wil be moment the wall breaks between the 3 - 4 toilets like domino's comes together and them both bring down the last girl. For some humor there can at Tanner one of toilet next door with his finger on his ear.
There. That's my controversial opinion of the day.
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Re. B25: I've probably asked this before, but when can we expect the press conference to take place?
Nice. Wonder if we'll hear more rumours or news before then.
I think it’s likely. If we don’t hear rumors between now and then I guarantee that people will begin to panic again about lack of news. That is a certainty.
I think it's interesting how little have been leaked so far, actually. Doesn't mean we won't hear more before the press conference, but it makes you wonder what we can expect to hear.
We'll surely get this commentary again for Bond #007. Connery will always be the benchmark against whom comparisons are made.
I think it's because he didn't get an opportunity to go out on a 'high' and because CR followed DAD. Also, there is still a prevailing 'incorrect' opinion that he was dismissed (when actually, his contract just wasn't renewed due to the producers desiring a change of direction to tell the CR story, compete with Bourne who was changing the landscape, & to jump on the Nolan reboot bandwagon).
Which could be said about basically any opinion uttered on this site. What is your point exactly??
I think some will disagree with you. Brosnan got off to a good start with GE, but every film he did after was weaker and weaker. And sadly Brosnan overacts badly in TWINE which wrecks it for me. Craig's got, IMO, two classics under his belt with CR and SF, and I personally find QOS and SP far more interesting than TND and TWINE. The less said about DAD the better. Hoping Bond 25 is Craig's third classic.
Certainly agree there!
Oops! Was I bashing Brosnan now? ;))
These are fair criticisms, especially the statement that QoS and SP are more interesting. However, imo, a valid counter-claim to that statement would be that they're arguably interesting for a lot of the things they don't get right.
The Brosnan era had less lofty ambitions compared to QoS and SP, which both had interesting ideas behind them but were ultimately disappointing in execution compared to TND and TWINE which were fairly standard adventures executed competently. I suppose a lot of people find a by-the-numbers film, executed reasonably well, more entertaining than an thematic ambitious failure, which is fair enough.
Apples and oranges, I guess.
Also hoping the next film is a third thumbs up for the Craig era. All the signs for Bond 25 are good.
TND and TWINE "executed competently"??
Well, that sure is debatable. Apples and oranges as you say.
I'd certainly hold the opinion that they were acceptable but not outstanding. That's pretty close to the definition of competent, right?
Everything's debatable. That particular debate would be saved for a different thread though.
Hopefully we'll never have to have that debate about Bond 25.
Cause then we enter the subjectivity zone and the fan battle royale zone. And none of that brings us closer to discussing Bond25.
Fair points, and you're probably right. People have certain expectations of the Craig era thematically now, so I suppose it's a certainty that the people who have issues with the last 14 years will continue to have them.
Thankfully, my own personal issues are mostly limited to SP, so I don't have too much to worry about!
I remember the initial positivity, alright. Simpler times!
Imagine if you will instead of Janus being introduced and destroyed in the same film we had a few films to build up to it with perhaps trevellyan’s reveal being more shocking two films later... similar to Craig he had his own organization to take down but when they got the Spectre rights back suddenly Bond takes down both quantum and Spectre in one film seriously I get that if the villain always gets away eventually it makes the hero look incompetent but with the absence of Smersh having an organization last a few films allows not only for easier story telling but allows the producers to go back and rework the plots of the novels in new ways
Quantum (or Janus or Spectre) has a diamond smuggling operation to help increase funds stop it 007 (and the film can follow the novel diamonds are forever)
Quantum is selling black market antiquities (and the plot of live and let die follows)
Again the one tiny tiny issue I have had with Michael and Babs era is the constant throwing the baby out with the bath water.... sigh so tomorrow it will be a month till the press conference cool