It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
These scenes in SF and SP and Bond's reactions to what's happened in them really show that Craig's Bond stands apart from the other actors to have played Bond and, IMO, puts Craig very very close to the literary Bond. Of course this has most to do with the writing in Craigs films rather than he himself.
I've said it a million times on these forums but that scene on the dead island with Severine and the scotch is one of my favourites in the whole franchise. It's in my eyes an entire Bond story condensed into one scene.
It's this generation's laser table.
Well, a pun would be a play on words, which that wasn't. The line as discussed is more of an ironical joke than anything. Not that it matters, but that was the clarification being requested.
They'll print anything these days.
Bond news is click bait. Make anything up, no way to dismiss it. It gives the bookies who pay Millions a year for press advertising a reason to pull punters in on a who will be next bond bet. Absolutely no way would Barbara say that she worships the ground the guy walks on. The respect is clearly mutual.
No need to be such a sourpuss, mate.
To my notion the idea of SP being a fun/camp movie is a gross missunderstanding. I have yet to meet a single person that wasn't somehow bored by it. It's not that most people hate it, it's more that it does nothing for them. Most of the time when I talk with someone about it I get an unqualified shrug and something like "so la la", which is the German way to say "just so so" or - for people shy of controversy - even worse. I never ever hear people ( especially young ones, many of whom seem to have to have a tradition with their fathers going on to have watched yesteryear's Bond's on videotape/DVD/TV) talking about TSWLM,MR or even DAD that way.
I have no idea what you two are on about!
A credible one? Has there even been any that meet this criteria? I suppose it would depend on where one stands and what one wants. That's what I've been noticing on this thread anyway. I guess "it's all a matter of perspective", as someone once famously said.
For me they tried that with DAD and look how that went down? Especially the second part of the movie.
Good call!
Agreed wholewheartedly - they got the humour absolutely right in CR.
Bautista comes across like a really sincere and humble guy. Someone who sees the Hollywood industry as a means to an end. I'd recommend listening to the whole podcast, as he gives a very honest account of working in the industry.
It's not surprising that a sniffy Oscar-winning director like Mendes and working in England intimidated Bautista.
However, as much as I love the "thought he would never shut up" line, it would have totally killed the moment with Madeleine after. Her "what do we do now?" followed by the love scene is one of the more intelligent, witty and charming moments in a pretty messy movie.
Can we get Bautista back for Bond 25? He was a pretty generic thug in Spectre. So having him return isn't totally unthinkable. Also in his Empire podcast special, Mendes teased it as a possibility.
A similar gag works perfectly with Q when he discovers the Aston gone, but it's unnatural and tonally iffy in the Hinx scene.
Precisely. In fact, if you look at Craig Bond's overall disposition, he's in a very good place that is until Vesper dies and even then, right at the very end of the film Bond manages to crack a triumphant smirk.
CR is definitely the blueprint that encapsulates a favourably balanced Bond film.