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I have waxed lyrical on many an occasion about how it would be great to get a car chase in the same vein as the ones in Ronin but unfortuntely it just never happens. My god, when you watch Spectre's car chase in Rome on strangely empty streets, it's enough to put you to sleep compared to the brilliantly, excitingly shot Ronin scenes. None of the Bond car chases hold a candle to Ronins car chases.
I've never cared if the Bond villains have had some grand, fantastical scheme but I like a taut story with gritty, fairly realistic action and some decent detective work and character movement that revolves around all of this. Grand sets are great too as opposed to the generic, claustrophobic sets we were given in TND and TWINE.
In terms of the villain's scheme however, soemthing more in the lines of FRWL and TLD is also fine with me. It's what happens around this that's my main concern.
Don't worry, I get your absurdist humour.
I remember that debate. Thought it was hilarious. Bond is clearly buying time and not getting Silva get the better of him
What about the QoS car chase?
Yup ..it's Mendes/Craig/Logan/P&W actually at their best. Even clever reference to 1962 without blatant reference to Bond history.
Yeah I remember Mark Kermode having a dig at that line - but always just thought that it was Bond showing he wasn't affected by it to Silva rather than being a line that was out of place - especially after all the childing from Silva - 'Is there any of the old 007 left?'
I had no idea that was what Moore was doing all these years.
Bravo! =D>
I'd rather they not even be given the pen.
Keeping busy. ;)
Half of the current era is like... "Hey, remember that thing that was there and happened certain certain years ago?" or hideous and uninspired references to some old Bond films labeled as "easter eggs". No thanks. Give me a good story with James Bond in it, which also sounds Bondian. Don't drift away from the formula, but don't make your story rely on it, either.
Keep the character true to its roots, and don't "diversify" him. Diversity applies to stories and the atmosphere covered around it.
Live and let die: the entire plot of burried treasure financing Smersh update it to terrorists and instead of pirate treasure it's biblical treasures (gold from solomon's time etc) and you have an engrossing plot for a bond film that would find our hero in Israel the carribean and maybe South Africa
Moonraker: the idea of M asking bond to investigate the local cheat at the card house and then how that moves into a whole other plot and with neonazism sadly on the rise even Hugo Von Drache being a nazi (and his real name) could both be updated and used in a future bond film also gala brand could be there too
Diamonds are forever: the whole dam book can be used for a film adaptation
There that is three books and three films for Eon I will take my check now thanks
Those are solid ideas. I couldn't agree more. I always felt The Spy Who Loved Me novel could be reworked in some way- as in that book he is in between SPECTRE assignments.
The Bond section of that novel could almost be used as a PTS, then much like the film adaptation of TLD- elaborate from there.
The Man With The Golden Gun novel could be re adapted to include the assassination attempt on M.
There's a ton of Fleming material left.
Hopefully that's next.
Sounds more like an Indy plot than a Bond one.
Given the rise of the far right I quite like the sound of that.
One of Fleming's weakest books. I wouldn't mind the scene at the mudbath and Bond scaling the outside of a cruise ship could be epic but the plot and the villains are from 30s gangster films.
In the immortal words of Mr Noel Coward 'No, no, no, no!'
The number of times you hear people suggesting this, or that '007 in New York' would make a good title merely because they are Fleming.
There is plenty of good material left in Fleming but this isnt it. They are making a massive, spectacular, international, action film. Rescuing a random bird from a couple of thugs at a motel just doesn't cut the mustard on any level.
We've said that Ronin was the gold standard that Bond should be aiming for for how many years now? I suppose the QOS car chase came close apart from the shoddy editing but the chases in Ronin smash everything in SF and SP out of the park and probably all of the Ronin chases together were filmed for a fraction of the cost of the Rome chase in SP.
Bond films used to have that, if somewhat more campy. TMWTGG, OP or AVTAK have ferocious car chase work, aside from some nonsense like a slide whistle.
Because Bond 21 and Bond 17 had a nice ring to it as well?
a) Did they convince them, thanks to Bond? or...
b) Is there now another reason for EON to say yes to Sony?