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I love the DB5 as well, and no question I would vote it as the most iconic Bond car. Still I agree with everything you said. It's almost as if the filmmakers have to prove it's a Bond film by having it in each film. By DAD, I was sick of it. Especially all the publicity emphasizing that "the Aston Martin is BACK". Whoop dee doo. It was back 2 films ago.
I liked the idea of each actor having his own car- the DB5 for Sean, the Lotus for Roger, the BMW for Pierce. I think, since the Dan films seemed to be at least trying a characterization closer to the books, a Bentley would have been more interesting.
Also with which film did it become mandatory for Bond to have a gadget filled car each time? What happened to the creativity of maybe providing Bond with another vehicle instead? Little Nellie for instance, the Amazon boat in MR? Even the motorcycle in NSNA? Had any of those films replaced those vehicles with the standard Aston Martin, I don't think those chase sequences would have been as interesting.
Might I add (here I go again so please forgive me), if the films were released on a more regular/reliable basis, Eon wouldn't have to prove this is a Bond film and reintroduce the Aston Martin each and every time!!!
“I’d be very honoured and it would be a lot of fun, but it’s all rumours. It’s all the media stirring something up. I don’t know why rumours grow or what initiates them,” she said.
Bier added that she is yet to be approached by Broccoli, but stressed that becoming the first woman ever to direct a “James Bond” movie would be “amazingly fun.”
We think Brosnan was very good, and very funny. But we also think that Daniel Craig is doing it excellent in different ways.
SPECTRE was very much funny. But my wife put her hands in front of her eyes when that big villain made the other member of SPECTRE blind.
Let's see what happens with Bond #25. James Bond will return.
Thank you. The tank chase in GoldenEye..........could they do something like that again in Bond #25? What about a chase with drones.
But, some of the people I know here would heartily and radically oppose to that idea. ;)
Right on the money.
Between GF and TND 33 years later we had a gadget car in just GF, TB, TSWLM and TLD.
(Tentatively you could class FYEO burglar alarm as one and GE Z3 has gadgets even though they are never used.)
Since (and including) TND to now we have had TND, TWINE, DAD, CR (I'm counting that little tray to hold his gun), SF and SP.
So 4 instances in 18 films over 35 years.
And 6 instances in 7 films over 19 years.
And the DB5 is just as bad! Twice in 17 films between 62 and 95. Since 95 (including GE) it's 6 times in 8 films. If that's not flogging a dead horse I don't know what is.
It's got to the extent that in GE, TND, TWINE, CR and SP that we get both the DB5 and another car. Bond isn't Top Gear FFS.
The gadget car is pastiche now and, crucially, shockingly unoriginal. Particularly during the Brozza era it was extremely tiresome. I can just about live with it in the Craig era as, despite the timeline making no sense, the DB5 opening up with the machine guns in SF is a cracking moment and the SP chase is reasonably fun. But enough EON please.
Let's have a revamped Little Nellie by all means but can we have a break from a gadget car for at least 10 years - same gap as TSWLM and TLD, and when Dalton opens up that gadget panel after so long it was exciting.
I think every 3 or 4 films is sufficient.
And it will get slaughtered at the BO.
From the back end of October through to December is no joke. You have a couple of animated films from Disney, universal's Grinch film, star wars, The harry potter spin off (Fantastic Beasts), Andy Serkis' jungle book film, Mary Poppins and a few others.
If Bond is getting a 2018 release date, it's going to have to be one hell of a film that blows everything and everyone away and quite frankly I don't see that happening.
excellent chance that it will suck? Mate, Disney are not MGM. Plus; given the time of year and a cast that boasts Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep in this new Poppins film; it's going to do well. Very well. Bond can't be coasting in these new climates and landscapes; especially after the disappointment of SP. EoN really are going to have to do something special and knock it out the park.
Yes it's inappropriate, but if EON runs out of options, Seth Green for Bond!
Theres gonna big releases regardless from October to Dec for the next few years regardless. You cant play scared. Just do it and see what happens
I'll say, though, it does seem like the winter season is the new summer as far as blockbusters go. When GoldenEye broke the trend and was released in November, back then there really wasn't a ton of franchise competition that time of year. Eon is still going to have to make the next one an event.
Which is why I said EoN need to make one hell of a film. With the way things are Bond can't coast and expect to generate pleasing business. Still, I have a hard time seeing EoN's situation being resolved in time to get a magnificent script ready in time for 2018, which at the moment looks like the safest year to get a Bond film out compared to the next few subsequent years which will have other major films and Star Wars and Avatar dominating the Autumn/Winter periods.
Furthermore each and every Bond movie has made a positive Return On Invest percentage.
Meaning all 24 have made profits, mostly huge to very good, only the newer movies have made less ROI but still enough to make any other studio jealous.
Yes please
Fiennes talks sense. It's good to hear that someone working on the films realizes that all these navel-gazing questions about Bond's place in the world aren't necessarily fascinating. I thought the series had already explored this stuff in 1995. But then, I'm sure Mendes thought he was breaking new ground... This is a guy so far up his own ass, he thought a boat chase on the Thames had never been done before! Of course, we all know it has, and it's been done outside Bond, as well.
Fiennes also vetoed M-as-traitor. Make him a producer! Or at least keep him on as M. He was fantastic in Skyfall and although I thought he was a bit cartoonish in Spectre, you can't deny that he has a clarity of intention as an actor. He knows what he wants and puts in the work. I think his M could easily become just as valuable an asset to the new films as Whishaw's Q has proven to be.