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Ok mate you are the first person who has informed me of that, I understand the respect of copyright on this site now you mention it, cheers.
This is actually pretty hard, considering that I believe the software the site runs on immediately embeds every video directly into the comments such that you can play it immediately. If there's any way to make a video (as from YouTube) a simple url, I haven't found it.
I believe if you hit the link icon and put the video on the page that way, it doesn't embed. What I don't understand is why EON cares. It's not like we're posting bootlegged versions of their films. It's just fans discussing their work. It's practically like free advertising. Litigious.
Let's get back to Bond 25
IMDB still have Syncopy as production company on the main site. Not that it really matters.
That is one sick gunbarrel
And people thought SP was cold!
I don't think Eon spent all that money on Blofeld and Spectre to stop using them after one film.
Not anymore.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382320/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co
(*I sadly feel like I need to include a sarcasm disclaimer here)
They're soooooooo sneaky!
Don't forget, they're also secretly filming B25 behind our backs as we speak.
Bond 25 was actually filmed through all of 2016, @BMW_with_missiles. Now EON are actually filming Bond 26: Dan signed on for back-to-back films. I read it all on the internet, there's no way it's not true. IMDb reported on it too, and they're essentially the internet equivalent of Mother Mary!
If you search Syncopy on imdb it still has Bond 25 as part of their listing.
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0147954/?ref_=fn_al_co_1
Sure, Bond has always been 'find a clue, move to another exotic location', but some instalments deliver on suspense. FRWL is, of course, the benchmark.
I would argue that OHMSS, FYEO and LTK also fared well in the narrative stakes. TWINE had the makings of a memorable narrative but the execution was botched.
Craig needs P&W to hit a home run. He doesn't need operatics. He doesn't need to push any thematic boundaries.
He needs a great spy thriller. That'll do me.
It's a film production wrapped up in negotiations, so what exactly do you expect to learn? After the Sony incident, EON owes no information to anyone, and they've never been big on sharing anyway. People seem to think that pre-Bond 25, EON shared everything with everyone on the Bond films. It's always mum leading up to a film production; only after do you get tidbits, like the video blogs on the Mendes films.
The antagonization of EON by people who are too spoiled to wait like a sensible person for real news is a never ending headache to endure. Maybe we could simply trust that they are doing their jobs on the next film, and understand that just because we don't get daily Bond 25 updates it doesn't mean EON are hacks or asleep at the controls? Surely that can't be too much to ask? Ah, who do I think I'm speaking to?
I think Cubby always felt a fairly consistent release schedule was important
I think the real difference is the internet, which gives everyone the ability to whine at high volumes about things older fans never did in Bond's heyday. I'd love to see a world where the internet was around during Connery's hiatus, and how bad George would get flamed in the comments, for instance. It'd make the things people say about Brosnan seem like compliments in comparison.
Everyone with a keyboard feels the need to spill their hearts and frustrations, despite not having the salient pre-requisite of having any idea what they are actually talking about. Because of their ignorance, we see comments that call EON lazy, simply because certain posters don't have the privilege of getting morning phone calls from Barbara every day to tell them where Bond 25 was at. Because we don't hear updates on the Bond productions out the ear, it must then mean that EON aren't doing anything at all. How's that for logic?
Back in the day, when none of this rather cancerous technology was around, people just accepted that they'd have to wait for another Bond film, and they just did something else (like watching the other films, reading, sleeping, living) until it came. They didn't have a place to whine about the Connery/Lazenby changeover, the big gap between TMWTGG and TSWLM, the turn from fun to serious with Dalton, the big hiatus, etc. They just sucked it up and went on with things, the way it should be done. It's unfortunate that we now have a way for people to do anything but get on with it these days, via social networking, forums and the like, where they yammer endlessly like their hearts won't keep pumping if they don't. Through these mediums of communication, many "fans" come off as very spoiled in their supposed love for Bond and its creators, and feel myopic about life's many lessons regarding patience and empirical observation, both of which they lack to worrying degrees.
It's the equivalent of taking a road trip with a bunch of school kids along for the ride, their voices chirping up in unison with incessant calls of, "ARE WE THERE YET?!" If only we could pull over to the road and kick them all out, urging them to find their own way home.