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I agree. When it comes to Bond there are certain staples that just can't be avoided, especially when there's a catalogue of 50 years worth of movies. The slightest deviation of what's come before people start accusing the film of not being a proper Bond movie and then when traditional elements are reintroduced tge movie is paying homage or referencing it's own history. However, I do think it's fair to say that there are a few homages considering what the Craig era has set out to achieve but other than that, it's all just Bond being Bond.
I personnaly consider Bond movies are genre movies, and all these concepts then disappear IMO. Some elements are part of the genre, and there you go.
There are some elements that are outside the genre (for instance I still don't get what they meant when Bond moved his fists at the casino like a drunken guy in Skyfall - despite LALD reference if you want, I don't find this scene is "Bond", it's more Johnny English, I've never seen this fight mentioned by anyone as a high moment of the franchise or even the movie), but in the end the genre always come back, or the franchise will die amongst generic spy movies.
Some are going to notice it right away, and I think it will bother them, but for others it will only be subconscious, and will actually help endear the film to them.
That is a difficult thing to pull off.....some directors have done it far better than others. Martin Campbell for instance, and even Mendes himself (nearly every major scene in SF is an homage to something from the past, but I thought it was done very refreshingly).
I respect your opinion and expertise... I think my tone started off offensive.
For that part I apologize.
I also think all the responders made good points.
I think we are all agreeing more than we think.
Let the hype commence!
When do you think the marketing machine will be running on full power? Early Oct?
Even earlier, depending on when the final trailer lands. When it does, expect TV spots to go full steam ahead in all territories. Maybe even in the next couple weeks we should be seeing more spots.
Not quite. In a Moore movie tension would have been turned down by comedic moments. The henchman would have been more buffoonish at some point. For Connery's time, he had the widest variety of henchmen I think (silent hunter like Grant, or brute like Oddjob). I don't think he had someone like Hinx (big and fast).
It was released online worldwide on Friday night. Had its first airing in the US today.
And the TSWLM train fight with Jaws is rather straightforward, without any music.
As for the comment about Hinx being not similar to the henchman in YOLT or OddJob or whatever, this does not change from the fact he definitely fits the superhenchman profile.
Gee, it's hard to answer without spoilers :)
No problem. The UK ones you refer to are short no new footage cinema (not TV, BBFC wouldn't classify TV spots) spots promoting the ticket release (one says September 7, the other say Tickets On Sale Now)
whoever said a couple months back that the producers/studio isn't doing enough to promote the film.. well.. we are still 2 months out from the film opening here stateside, and we are already getting flooded with TV spots... i don't watch a lot of TV, and this is already the 4th or 5th time i've seen the commercial in the past week.
Haven't seen any on this side of the water yet. Makes sense to tackle the bigger demograph early, though. I'd say the UK/Ireland campaign will swing into gear in the next week to 10 days.
Source: Heineken interview about James Bond and Heineken in Tomorrow Never Dies, Skyfall and Spectre.
In the mean time 8 days a go there whas more news about Belvedere:
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/style-stephanie-sigman-bevedere?t=&s=&id=03961
http://www.filmpro.ru/materials/40533
True. From what we can see, he sure does not look goofy like Jaws sometimes does.
Source: http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1002/Show/article/detail/4145184/2015/09/21/Primeur-de-Heineken-reclame-voor-de-nieuwe-Bond.dhtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6&v=vuMvhJaWIUg
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https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/spectre-heineken-daniel-craig-tv-commercial?t=&s=&id=03965