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How about both??
One standard and one CR style
That might be overkill. I just don't think it's necessary to end it with a gunbarrel; it would feel a little forced most likely.
Precisely. The GB has been tampered with far too many times in the Craig era. Once was more than enough.
Whats wrong with the movement?
It just fades out instead of the usual shaking movement of older gun barrels. Not a big deal but I'd like to see that little quirk return again.
Casino Royale, the pseudo-retconning of the gunbarrel to represent his first kill on the path to becoming 007 was brilliant, and it was so unexpected that I was blown away by it when it happened.
I liked your earlier post and suggestions but don't see the point in bringing back Craig at this stage unless Waltz also returns and they wrap up the interconnected story. Swann is not necessary, but unfortunately Blofeld took an interest in her (and gave her a threatening staredown at the end) so they've somewhat tied their hands.
I'd have loved a simple post-credits in Spectre showing heavily armed police/guards escorting Blofeld to a cell in some military prison or something, and then slowly zooming in to show one of the guards wearing a Spectre ring. People everywhere and all that.
Yes. I'd also like to hear a traditional version of the Bond Theme, the music in sync with the dots and melody played twice after the gun is fired. This hasn't happened since TLD.
In addition, and I'm going to be picky here, I'd like the composer to put their individual stamp on the sequence by variety in instruments. For instance, YOLT is traditional in it's music sequencing, but has a bass melody. LALD and FYEO are both classic yet distinctive. Lets forgo that same Bond Theme arrangement that's been used since, when........ TWINE?
I agree with James Bond Kenya on this one. Bond in the US has rarely if ever been a success. He always seems diminished slightly on American soil. May be its because the harsh realities of geopolitics have to kick in and underlying absurdities of British exceptionalism are exposed for what they are - fantasy.
May be the issue is the way they've used the US previously. I agree it should be possible to make it work and there are so many amazing locations available. A Bond villain hanging out in a Frank Lloyd Wright house would be awesome.
But for whatever reason Bond in the US has never felt right.
Well argued post but if past behaviour is the best indicator of future perofrmance then B25 will be a continuation of SP. I accept everything is speculation at this point but getting back Blofeld was a big deal for EON. They waited years for that. They now have a very clear and obvious chance to make the YOLT that never was during the Connery/Lazenby era.
As for SP and its reception and the implications for B25 this conversation could go on endlessly. All I will say is that I've heard the same criticisms of QOS ("it was sh*t", "the audience and critics hated it") but QoS was followed by the biggest film in Bond history, so these alleged dud entries clearly never do too much harm. Ditto LTK was supposedly a disaster but was followed by the highly successful GE.
My suspicion is that with Bond, if people are slightly disappointed this just increases their hunger for the next one to be a step up.
Any way, SP is not the sh*t on the doorstep people make it out to be. No It wasn't as successful as SF but what were the chances of that happening?
The DC era has overall been highly successful from a critical and commercial perspective. It would be strange if they suddenly changed tack dramatically for the last entry in his era. Which is why everything points towards YOLT (or something very closely inspired by it) for the denouement.
You make a compelling case and I certainly wouldn't be against this scenario.
My only caveat is that a direct continuation of the Spectre narrative carries a higher degree of difficulty than a clean slate, considering the initial failure to establish a strong enmity between Bond and Blofeld.
Which isn't, of course, a valid reason to abandon that course of action.
No, bad idea. We've had all of that at the start of CR, end of CR, end of QoS and end of SF. Gunbarrel has to be at the start and we need the proper opening up of the iris too.
This was on my twitter feed this morning thought I would share.
Amen to that.
I was gutted to miss a special event with Lucy Fleming recently - she was reading from her mother's (Celia Johnson) letters. I think she's right and that's what they've pretty much done in the film series - given a new Bond for each generation.
She's spot on. This is why a period film is off the cards.
I agree, the yellow filters used in Sp didn't help with that hot/ cold idea either, but one of the aspects of Bond that I personally love is the use of locations, Sp didn't use them well. Tswlm or FYEO made great use of locations IMHO
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3038061/Daniel-Craig-returns-Spectre-set-going-surgery-repair-knee-injury-caused-playing-007.html
I thought that was CR when Vesper sneezed?
Hahaha fair play Wiz,that made me laugh out loud...bravo !