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Yes, we do. I'm closer to Houston. I believe we have one or two in Houston. Not sure.
The one thing I don't care for with these rules, though, is that the employees don't seem to abide by them; constantly walking in front without trying to duck, speaking rather loudly without any attempts of being quiet or less disturbing to the audience.
2018 it will be. Sounds perfect to me :-).
Daniel Craig is Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in SHATTERBLOOD. Coming Nov 2020
@BondJasonBond006, I'm sorry, but if you pay to watch a movie, I think you should watch the movie. Nothing on a little bright screen is going to be more interesting than the movie you're missing. Not to mention how annoying it is to look at the screen and have your peripheral vision lit up by the screens of all those phones.
Talking is fine, when the people aren't being obnoxious. And of course laughing too, as it's part of the theater experience and atmosphere. Like I said, just nothing obnoxious, with loud chatter and assorted acts of disrespect like phone use and seat kicking. The rare time I speak during a movie, it's always in a whisper, as I know how it is to be on the receiving end of loud and disruptive chatter. All of this is why I go to any movie I can alone. I know many use movies as an opportunity to hang out with friends, but there's some films where I would refuse to go to with others, especially for a Bond film. I want to lose myself in the movie I've been waiting so long for, without having to worry about my friends trying to chat me up. It's too important an experience for me to risk it.
But anyway...
Just respectful and passionate about film.
If I go to a movie with a group, which I rarely do, I simply don't respond to anyone who talks to me, once the movie starts, or I give them a nod or unhh, and they get hint.
But usually I go with one other person, and as it takes two to yak, the other person tends to join me quickly in the no talk mode.
I really think no talking in movies is a no-brainer though, at least in a theatre full of adults.
But yes get a bunch of teenagers together for a youth targeted film, there will be talk. Don't see anyway around that, unless the theatre staff really cracks down.
Well this could be part two of the two parter, if Babs stays on schedule for 2018 (assuming there is any schedule)
Shoot the two films together and it's doable.
Are we just glossing over @jake24's scoop from previous page?!
ie Seydoux is showing baby bump at Tiff.
How does this effect filmmaking?
Does Haggis finally get his wish that Bond make a baby?!
Is Seydoux-Swann actually evolving to Seydoux-Suzuki .
B25 is potential YOLT riff!
Just have to hope the Shatterblood two-parter comes through.
Leaves me somhow puzzled. Or daz'd and confus'd.
I predict Babs and Mickey G will delay development on BOND 25 until Lea's child is not only born, but old enough to start school. Then in 2022, Eon will miraculously realize the general audience doesn't remember Madeline Swann the way they remember Honey Ryder, Pussy Galore, Solitaire, etc and will scratch the whole continuation of SP idea. By then Craig will decide whether or not he will return for his 5th outing at the age of 54 and we will finally get an announcement.
lol she has plenty of time before Bond 25 starts filming if for a Nov 2018 release
I still think its going to be 19'
@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, I think I'm going to need to let Spectre sit with me for a while before I can post in a "Spectre Appreciation" thread or devote much energy to searching for themes. ;) (However, I do appreciate how Madeleine follows in the footsteps of Vesper, Camille, and Severine in terms of holding a "Violence/revenge will only destroy your humanity" mirror up to Bond—might find an essay in that some day.)
I do certainly appreciate things about the film—I believe the middle section with Bond meeting White and then all the business between Bond and Madeleine at the clinic and in L'Americain (minus the plane chase) is really the film's strongest stretch. But this latest viewing has unfortunately only reinforced what I initially felt about the film: underwhelmed by what appeared to me to be a lot of retreading without reinventing. To be fair, I reacted quite negatively toward Skyfall upon its release as well, and time (as well as the release of Spectre) has helped me better appreciate the finer points of that film. Perhaps time will help me reappraise Spectre, too.
I never decided on a ranking for Spectre after I saw it in theaters, but I now have it fairly close to the bottom of the pack, somewhere around my bottom 5. Maybe that's being too harsh of me, but even after waiting nearly a year to watch it again, I wasn't that excited to revisit it, and after seeing it just now, I again feel no strong desire to watch it again. That's an awfully rare thing with Bond films for me.
I think at the end of the day, Sam Mendes' style of Bond film just isn't for me.
As for what I'd like to see addressed if Craig returns, more than anything I would like a return to the style of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace—cinematography with a brighter and more natural color palette that still focuses on capturing gorgeous shots, Bond in the field getting on with his mission, a villain with a clear plan and clear stakes the audience cares about (though I'll admit even QoS is a bit muddied there), and a return to the big, inventive, and thrilling action sequences the series is known for. David Arnold wouldn't hurt either. Or anybody who isn't Thomas Newman. ;)
In terms of story, which is probably what you were asking about, I'd be perfectly happy sending Craig off with a good old-fashioned stand-alone mission, but they really can't do that I guess, can they? Not without it seeming a bit tacked on to his Quantum/Spectre tetralogy. I guess they could pull it off, but that would take some real quality craftsmanship and I don't see them going that route anyway.
So the question becomes what to do with Spectre and all the themes they've been building (at times somewhat haphazardly) over the past four films. We've seen Bond go from rookie to washed up to getting his stride back to maybe retiring into the sunset. We've seen him go from earning his 00 to Quantum to Spectre to Blofeld behind bars. We've seen him find and lose the love of his life, learn that revenge leads to no solace, lose his mother/mentor figure, form a tenuous and briefly lived alliance with a former enemy, and again decide that violence is not always the best path.
What should definitely not happen with Bond 25 is to have Bond repeat arcs of progress we've already seen him accomplish during Craig's tenure. Which means no more of this "I need to salvage what's left of me before it's too late" stuff. We've been there and done that and been there and done that.
I've said before I would love to see Craig's final outing be that faithful YOLT adaptation many fans have long wanted. Yes, it would see Bond turning into a broken man again à la Skyfall, but if he were to lose Madeleine, there would be far better justification for it than a seeming betrayal by M. Also, now would really be the perfect time to use that storyline with Spectre back in the picture and Craig realistically having just one more film left. Whereas Bond has previously learned revenge is not the way, let's see him pushed to a place where he has had so much taken from him that yes, now revenge truly is the only way, and let's see on film how that metaphorically destroys him by wiping out any sense of his own identity and leaving him a hollow shell of a man to wander off unknowing and unarmed into a dangerous world. Let him have his revenge and let us see what that does to him. It would be new. It would be dark. It would feel true to Craig's era. It would be a natural and hopefully satisfying follow on from Spectre. It would make fans of YOLT the novel happy at last.
Too much darkness and angst again? Okay, scrap Spectre altogether. Just give us a fun, light-hearted stand-alone mission. Whatever they do, I just hope we don't get Skyfall/Spectre Part III. I want something new.