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Or a musical film where the villain only speaks in song. Bond wins the dance-off.
If Bond does a big dance every couple of scenes, I'm in!
NSNA beat True Lies to the Tango scene by quite some time...
I said “proper”. NSNA’s wasn’t. Hence TRUE LIES being the first proper tango sequence.
You can feel the compassion radiating from Bond with that line. ;)
I agree.
I can respect that. They probably didn't want Purvis and Wade messing up their script. They wanted pulled a Martin Campbell and Marc Forster. EON showed loyalty to their writers too often and upset some people, both crew and fans.
That’s not the issue. It was that if Boyle was going to have rewrites conducted it would be done with Hodge. It had nothing to do with Purvis and Wade. EON could have brought any talented writer on board and Boyle would still be against it.
It's not really a fumble. It's business as usual in Hollywood.
You'd be surprised by the amount of money that sometimes gets spent on stuff that never gets made.
I disagree strongly with almost all of it.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE has coexisted with Bond for nearly 30 years now, and if anything, that has taken a lot more cues from Craig Bond than the other way around.
I don’t think there are any obvious new challengers in the spy-actioner arena. The Last of Us is the bigger new sensation on TV, and that’s doing well more for its fantastic chemistry between Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey than the post-apocalyptic zombie action. I wouldn’t be shocked if they tried to find a place for Ramsey somewhere in the new film, but otherwise I think they might simply try to place more emphasis on chemistry between Bond and his co-star(s).
I think it was more of a byproduct of hiring known actors in parts that used to be small, and the filmmakers feeling they need to make use of their talents by giving them more to do, rather than actually taking influence from M:I. Besides, Bond is only out in the field with that team for a very brief period in London before he has to fend for himself when captured.
Spot on, pal! =D>
Me too. Hard to respect their judgment when they can't grasp the importance of water to the plot of QOS and they think that ephemera like the dearth of gadgets is one of two or three issues to highlight as a major flaw. I mean...pffft.
As long as they're clever, but I didn't exactly miss the gadgets in CR and QOS. The Brosnan era went a bit overboard on them.
Bond 26 Needs Better Villains
Yes, something other than a guy from someone's past seeking revenge, which they did three times in a row. I wouldn't like revenge being a factor at all in Bond 26. It's basically the only plot Hollywood does nowadays when it comes to action movies.
Bond 26 Should Honor Classic Characters
Yes. Write the characters as they're supposed to be instead of writing original characters and slapping legacy names onto them like Moneypenny and Blofeld.
Bond 26 Needs To Forget The Overarching Story
Agreed again. They can still have a loose continuity, but each individual film should work on its own and not just be links in a chain.
Bond Himself Needs To Be Different
Every Bond is different simply from being played by a different actor. But they shouldn't try to re-do the Craig era.
Daniel Craig's Bond Era Was Too Serious
The Craig era wasn't brought down by seriousness, it was brought down by bad ideas. If they had just made 5 movies with the same level of seriousness of CR, only with good plots instead of what we got, it would have worked.
The Next Bond Movie Probably Needs A Different Continuity
Obviously, This isn't really even a suggestion, it's a necessity.
Another possible route is spectacle. I am very sure EON had a meeting where they watched Top Gun: Maverick and discussed why that one was the "MOVIES ARE BACK"-blockbuster and not NTTD. Frankly, I don't think there's a lot to take from it approach-wise. They tried to do spectacle and nostalgia and high value and TG:M just did it more succesfully. The more cynical, Moonraker-version would be: Let's do fighter jets. However, they are too slow for something like that nowadays and the basic business plan of "hey here's a film that's a bit like the one you liked before" just doesn't work anymore, now that viewers can just watch TG:M four times a day at home, if they want to. (Little side possiblity would be Top Spy and copying more of the Top Gun dynamic between the pilots. That would be atrocious.) MI obviously also works in this register, so it's a big continuing influence there. Avatar and Marvel also kind of fall into the category of spectacle, but there's really nothing to take from those, other than people are seemingly done with Multiverse.
The final thing and that's maybe a bit out there is the kind of sneaky return of indie but coupled with, let's call them outsider stories. I am largely basing this on Everything Everywhere All At Once. Weird premises, but heavily tied to the personal stories of the creators and actors that have to be outside of the white, western, straight mainstream. Now I can't imagine anything further away from Bond - the patron saint and personal protector of the the white, western, straight mainstream - but it's a massive succes story and again I can't imagine EON isn't huddling together and trying to pull something from it. The first obvious hindrance is, you can't do crazy sci-fi on that conceptual level with Bond. The second is, even if they decide to cast a non-white actor, the story can't suddenly completely revolve around the specific historical trauma and experience of whatever heritage he may have. Plus, we've already had a huge run of personal stories. So a very real possibility would be that they don't take anything on a conceptual level and instead look at EEAAO and say: Hey, Michelle Yeoh was awesome in TND. This Ke Huy Quan guy is good, too. We like to cast previous Best Supporting Oscar Winners. Let's do an Asian Marial Arts film with him. A bit more out there would be to hire Daniels to do a film, but I don't think they'd be interested in doing something that is true to Bond (I don't know them at all) and be more interested in other character in a Bond Universe making Bond a side character, which has been a huge concern for fans for years now.
No, No and no, even the Matera scenes, I'm not looking forward into it.
Maybe the Cuba scenes (but I thought the cinematography used there was too dark), but those all of the scenes involving Madeleine Swann, no I'm not looking forward into those, I'm now looking forward into forgetting them now.