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So why not meet with Ritchie? He made a made 60's set spy flick last year. It makes sense. I'm not keen on him taking it though. I can just imagine Kermode ribbing his Bond film as 007 ladding about.
Just imagine Ritchie's Bond....Popping in for a pint. Getting lairy with the bouncers. Pulling Denise who works in recruitment. Getting thrown out of The King's Arm at 12.30 for mild racist comments to the Korean doorman. Getting a donair meat and chips. Promptly dropping it by the kerb. Eating it off the kerb.
His style is too boisterous. Snatch is a fun film but it's hardly deserving off it's status ("Five minutes, Turkish"). His gangster films are trite rehashs (made worse by the fact that he's from the same middle-class town in Hertfordshire as me, which is a long way from cockney life). He rebranded himself well with the Sherlock Holmes films and I really enjoyed UNCLE. However, they were all fairly generic. I'm trying but really struggling to remember anything from them.
As for "C", I could imagine because it sounds similar to "see". Another possibility could be a word that ends with "unt".
Actually I´m surprised now that I didn´t notice this while watching the film. Bot Bond´s comment, "that sounds lovely", as well as Bond calling C, "C", are classic instances of Bond confronting and provoking the villain.
Way off topic but I really thought Apted would do better.
Like I said :-). I think we Bond fans seriously need to consider Guy Ritchie as the next Bond director. I'm all in for it. A more dominant touch of 'Guy Hamilton' combined with Ritchie's suaveness in "UNCLE". I really think it could work. Add to that a story that's set on a giant Formula One racing circuit, and I think we're in for a special Bond film again.
Guy Ritchie plus a scene at a 'giant' F1 track (God alone knows what that is? The Nurburgring is the only one that springs to mind that qualifies as 'giant' but it's been many a year since they had F1 races there)? Going to take more than that to get me excited for a new Bond film.
If Ritchie gets the gig I'd be very surprised given that these days EON seem to be shopping for higher calibre talent behind the camera and his track record since Snatch has been dire, with the exception of the Holmes films (which are fun enough in a poor man's Roger Moore vein I suppose). I can hardly say I'm brimming with the excitement you seem to be struggling to contain at his potential appointment.
Then again, you're never that happy or positive about the finished Bond product...are you :-). With your behavior on here.....you perhaps would...'slash your wrists' soon :-P.
For instance, he's said many times that he liked 80% of SP, so 20% of negativity in your view doesn't really equate to your view of him as "never" satisfied.
everyone here loves fluffing Martin Campbell - but had he never done a Bond film, and just got the gig to Bond 25 - we'd be like "the guy who made that awful Green Lantern movie??? WTF are you thinking EON?!?!?!"..
i mean, FFS Roger Spottiswoode's only claims to fame before he helmed TND was "Air America", "Turner & Hooch" and "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!"..
Guy Ritchie or anyone else on GG's list i wouldn't have a problem with if chosen..
Watching it was...traumatic. You know those moments when you're watching someone else doing something they think it good but is actually extremely bad, and you can't help but feel a wave of embarrassment overtake you, almost as if you're in their place? Well, that was me for those five and a half minutes.
@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7:
Two things:
1. Why is your username so long and confusing to type?
and
2. You really must try Googling the word "Fremdschämen", a word for which there is no English equivalent.
Whenever I've had to create a username in my life, I've always run into the problem of having a lot of what I type being taken by someone else. When I first joined the forum I expected the number of regular members to be bigger than it was (I was foreign to the Bond forum world, or any forums for that matter), and so I made a username that was more specific and that used letters and numbers to more effectively come up with something that wouldn't be taken, but that also incorporated Bond.
I actually hate my username, and would change it in a heartbeat if I was able to, now that I know there'd be no chance of coming up with a name that wasn't taken. Most vets who've been with me since 2011 know me well enough to just call me Brady now, which makes it way easier to communicate.
Thanks for passing that german world along to me, by the way. It gives a name to a feeling I experience often.
@DontHitMeILoveQuantumofSolace
@EvaGreenLoverXoXo
@VesperLyndRIPXoXoXo
@DiscipleofConnery
@SeanIsGod
@WhyIsntSeanMyDad
That's all I got.
i think the only thing i would request, is that my name look like hASEROT, instead of all lowercase.. thats it lol.
GoldfingerMyOctopussy
a little too much??
:)) :O)
lol whatever works.
Skyfalls ending alone leaves it as the darkest of the Craig era IMO.
SP showed that there is room for both - it was just handled poorly at times... hell, even CR established that back in 2006 there is enough room for both, it's just all in how it's balanced... CR did this masterfully..
its just all a matter of execution.
Not often no. Its called striving for perfection son. Even OHMSS and CR I can pick tiny faults and things that could be improved.
Dont get me wrong when I realised Bond was going to eject himself in SP I grinned like a little boy. Obviously I would have preferred a better stunt after it but thats by the by.
But just coming on here and frothing endlessly about how fantastic everything is when there are clearly serious issues that need to be addressed with the film and EONs general direction doesnt really interest me.
Theres nothing to be gained by endlessly fawning over the 80% of SP thats good - that 80% will still be good at the end of it. What we should be trying to do is improve the 20% thats bad as that is the only way we can get anywhere near 100% which I'd like to assume we are all striving for?
I'd just like to point out though that in the Ritchie case above it is not the finished Bond product it is just pure speculation which somewhat underwhelms me. Now Waltz I was made up for and excited that we had got him and looked how that turned out? You might think that merely adding Ritchie and some F1 scenes are all we need to remedy the 20% but some of us feel it goes slightly deeper than that.
PS - It was only DAD that made me slash my wrists. I'm still in therapy once a month but I'm getting there.