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He most likely won't. As I've said before he likely won't be committed enough to do it in the near future. Also, he probably wouldn't be the right fit depending on a) his interpretation of the role and b) what direction they want the series to go in after the Craig era. Besides, he's usually mentioned in potential Bond lists alongside Hardy, Elba and Cavill so this is a sign that he won't, in all likelihood, be cast.
I respectfully disagree. Moments like Jaws dropping the rock on his foot in TSWLM are clearly designed for children to enjoy. I'd also throw in the elephant spraying Pepper in TMWTGG.
Cubby, Barbara, and Michael I think are all on record calling the films "family entertainment."
It sorta depends on what kind of Bond films are made. I can see kids gravitate towards the outlandish entries like GF, YOLT, TSWLM, etc. On the other hand, I can’t see kids enjoying the more grown up films like LTK and QOS on the same level. And Craig’s films definitely leaned more heavily on grown up films than not.
We hope so, we’re all waiting!
I could see some reintroduced characters from the books and movies make an appearance in the next couple of Bond movies. Blofeld, Goldfinger, Trevelyan, Goodnight etc. That’s one current trend that I see EON following for a while. For better or worse, it is a movie series trend now. It’s how they do it that will make it work. If it’s another origin story, I would like to see Charmian Bond and May finally get their film introduction. Also, if they go that route, I would like to see EON take inspiration from Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson’s Bond 15 origin story. There is some great story beats in that screenplay.
As an early teen in '64, seeing Goldfinger for the first time made me a Bond fan for life.
Well, it’s a daunting task ^^
There certainly is a completionistic streak in the fandom and I think it’s very much a question of access. I really got into Bond to more of a degree than just „I enjoy these current films and I guess I’ll check new ones out“, when a streaming service here in Germany I have access to had all the films available. If I would have had to pay for every single one, I’m pretty sure I still would never have checked out TLD and LTK for example, just because I barely was aware of them. Those are never on TV here, f.e. It’s all Connery, Brosnan and Craig and now and again a Moore thrown in. Which is why I hope Amazon can get the worldwide streaming rights sorted and give way more people way easier access to all of the films.
And then it’s kind of the decision whether you want to and have the access dive into the older films, to be able to keep up in places like this, or you just kind of stay at surface level.
Same for the books, by the way. If I hadn’t found a semi-legal (we’ll honestly fully illegal) way to get digital copies of the Fleming books, I probably would have never read them. I still have never touched a continuation novel except for the Horowitz‘s.
But that’s kind of every bigger fandom. Watching all of Game of Thrones is a roughly 70 hour commitment, plus the books. The MCU is 27 films and a handful of TV shows, plus hundreds of comics. Bond has the distinct advantage (or used to) that it really doesn’t take away from your enjoyment of GoldenEye whether you’ve seen Diamonds are Forever or have read Casino Royale. It all kind of comes together when you know all of it, but it’s hardly necessary.
There were a few characters during Craig's tenure that I wondered about, particularly Corinne and Beam from QoS. In fact, I would have liked seeing David Harbour reprise his role as Beam, to be what Ash was, in NTTD.
That's all I was saying. I'm not taking away anybody's childhood, please relax.
And teens are not kids. That's what makes them teenagers. Teenage themes can include smoking, drinking, some sexual stuff. That all happens in your teens to most people viewing these movies. But the movies are not INTENDED for children to be the primary audience by the filmmakers, unless they work for the toy licensing department.
I don't want anyone involved in a Bond movie seeing people ask to be treated like children; I dislike Sam Mendes two Bond films because I can see his childhood, not a movie.
I assumed he was fired and or imprisoned for his role in aiding Quantum. M says he was replaced but he had to have received more punishment than a simple demotion.
The story, comedy and sexual element for adults and probably some of the comedy and the stunts for kids.
I saw AVTAK at the cinema when I was 7 years old. I started my son on the Moore films, TSWLM, FYEO, MR and AVTAK and he thoroughly enjoyed the stunts at 10 yrs old, he didn't take all that much interest in the story of any of them though.
Subsequently, he has shown zero interest in the Craig era as the fun has been drained out of the series. This is what needs to return. I like the good Craig films but I don't find them as re-watchable as even the mediocre films of the original 20, due to the lack of fun.
Hmm. We must have watched different films. ;)
I like about a third of Skyfall, and it's the Home Alone part, which still doesn't make me happy. Sam Mendes is as big a franchise hack as Lee Tamahori, playing with his favorite toys. He even took Mr White's return straight from this forum, I'm almost positive.
Wouldn't that have been the scriptwriters, not Mendes?
Yeah, award winning filmmaker and guy who only did Bond because Daniel Craig asked him to at a party Sam Mendes is a "franchise hack".
Yeahhh....no. Mendes and Tamahori don't even belong in the same category. Tamahori is the Joel Schumacher of the Bond universe.
For civil servants, promotion also isn't out of the question.
I wondered about Mathis' girlfriend Gemma. Nice lady, still seemed like she could hold a grudge.
Because SKYFALL and the direction by Mendes are nearly universally praised, it’s not a surprise there’s some fans that want to tear down that narrative and will even go as far to say he’s the worst thing to happen to Bond.
Even if he hadn’t come back for SPECTRE he’d still get derided by those folks. Maybe even the assertion that “he thinks he’s too good to do more than one film”. Because, haters gonna hate.
I'd say Mendes is middle-of-the-road for me in terms of Bond directors, like Lewis Gilbert. Not terrible, but not great either, but he has to be given some respect because SF was universally praised, and he also did more than one movie.
My favourite directors would have to be Young, Hamilton, Hunt, Glen and Campbell.