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Oh no doubt, I'm not questioning that, just saying that everyone has their own tastes and that's why it's hard to keep track of what the "fans" want, since everyone's so different.
Regardless, no matter what they do in the future, it certainly won't please everyone! That's an impossible task sadly.
There's a world of difference between Bond ordering missiles to attack over the phone like a drunk bloke ordering a pizza, versus Bond realizing that missiles are coming that he is powerless to stop and completing the mission by himself.
I'd like to see Bond 26 feature Bond out of contact with the office and having to rely on his own wits, his phone taken away from him/blown up/dropped in the ocean.
They should get the entire theater crowd in on it, too. A purely phone-less cinema experience.
They seemed pretty clear in a recent interview that they wouldn't want go period with the films.
When CR ended, it showed Bond triumphant over his capture of White. He didn’t look like a man mourning over Vesper. He looked like Craig having transformed into the classical James Bond. It was a perfect ending of an introduction. But then comes along QOS saying “oh no, he’s actually still bitter over her!”
IMO they should have taken the route Fleming did with his follow up to CR. Instead of having the film set directly after the ending of CR, it’s set months later with a new mission turning up that gives Bond the opportunity to get some payback. No literal mention of Vesper. Leave that to the subtext.
It would have been easy to be able to make it work as both a second chapter and a stand-alone film. Given how stylistically different QOS is from CR, I would have preferred that it was more a stand-alone entry. That’s why I think the two films actually DO NOT work together back to back because they’re so jarringly different in execution. It always astounds me when I read fans claiming that QOS works great as an epilogue to CR rather than a stand-alone. WHAT?! Watching QOS right after CR just makes the former look even worse!
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Here here. QoS is a flawed film but it does a better job in what it sets out to do better than the 3 films that came after it. It manages to do so much more with less, Bond doesn't need to be a speech-giving chatterbox and we get incredible scenes like Mathis and Bond on the plane, the Tosa shootout, Mathis' death, Bond's escape from MI6, Bond and Camille's interactions and the PTS, which I think is the best car chase in any Bond film. QoS is a gem and we're fortunate to have it.
Ha!
I want to hear the screen Bond say "balls to you Tiger, and balls again!".
Or was it "Be a darling and. . "
Ah, the old ways.
Well put. And spot on. For a short film with relatively little overt exposition, there's so much in it. You're right, jimjam, QOS is a gem.
I truly believe that a step in the right direction would be to hire new writers that would simplify things. QOS does do that, although I don't think it was as effective as it could have been. Regardless, new life needs to breathe into the series. That's a definite.
Hahaha great post. I wonder if P and W will ever retire from Bond?
Heracles, more like. ;)
Well said. The only thing I can think of is that they're financially a good deal for EON. I all honesty, their scripts have become stupider and stupider.
I wonder why everybody keeps talking about the next Bond being set in the 60's? Do insiders know something we don't? Or is it pure speculation
I think, unless it's a one-off, there is zero chance. They aren't interested in playing with the formula too much - they've said they don't want spinoff streaming movies or series, I doubt they want to commit to two decades of locking themselves in the past.