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True, this. How do you make a movie with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper and it turns out so poorly no distributor wants to touch it? She's had zero box office success with her western films - Things we lost in the fire, and Love is all you need (starring James Bond!).
Again, assuming there's any truth to it, it would be stunningly bizarre choice. Giving a low key director who specializes in quiet romance/tragedy/family drama films a $200 million(+) blockbuster that has to deliver massive cutting edge action sequences...is...odd.
A woman!
(I'm not proud of myself, but somebody had to...)
I'm waiting for the day when a beautiful woman calls for me to stay with an "I need you" so I can look back as I go out the door and say, "So does England!" The quote would obviously work better context-wise if I was indeed in England, but anyway...
I am skimming threads quickly this a.m. before work; sorry if someone already posted this.
I don't agree with their assessment of Spectre, though. ;) Still, to this day, I love Skyfall and really enjoy Spectre. Different tone, but Spectre is a good Bond film and solid entertainment. All my opinion, yada yada. So many on here are happy to bash Spectre again and again; I don't see it like that at all.
How many of us are sick of the term "reboot"? Of course the next film will be different ... how different is totally up in the air still. I think too early to call it a "reboot" as a done deal, though.
I think you maybe right. I think SF is a better movie than SP overall but yeah, the rewatchability of these 2 are practically non existent and don't hold a candle to the films that came before.
My sentiments exactly.
Indeed!
Mendes has also come very short in terms of action sequences, in comparison with CR and QOS. I respect what he was trying to do with his films, but after CR and QOS set the bar so high in terms of making Craig's Bond an action Hero with a capital H, he dropped the ball big time.
The opening of SF is head and shoulders above anything in QoS.
It definitely is during the SP train fight.
Horses for courses. The Slate fight does nothing for me, it's just riffing on Bourne. I much prefer the stairwell fight in CR, which doesn't pitch Bond as some sort of super soldier. Yes, there's more refinement from SF on, but I like that in my Bond. Just to add, the original comment was about 'action scenes' in general, hence my comment about the SF PTS. The others you mention are fight scenes.
The SF Skyscraper fight is also impressive, imo, and unlike the two QoS fights you mention it is somewhat original, rather than Bourne-lite.
Yeah, odd that they did that.
Name an American director of an EON James Bond film?
Precisely! ;))
You got more chance of the ghost of Kevin McClory making Thunderball part 3 than an American director helming a Bond film.