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It's fine mate, it's a good tool for getting your 1st draft down and then in the rewrites you make it your own. Obviously the human provided the story and the AI collaborates.
I understand your opinion but it feels like your accusing me of something I haven't done yet. I'm happy to be creative and working on my story. It's just zombie sci-fi.
For Bond: A.I. can be a good concept for a movie! Bond outsmarts it with a gadget or has a human advantage in something to defeat it.
Nolan makes cold and detached big budget films. Just compare the energy of the ski sequences in OHMSS to the ones in in Inception. He may be a fan but that does not make him a great fit for directing Bond.
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Exciting but too dry for me. Everyone is asking for more fun in Bond, not less.
There are a handful of decent action beats peppered through Nolan's films, but I find it overall to be lacking.
Just ask Zack Snyder and his version of Superman.
I think we could do way worse than Nolan but as others have said, his films are a bit too dry and serious for Bond. I want a little more camp and fun and liveliness injected back into the next era.
I figure it's not gonna happen but I'd be the first one with a gigantic smile on my face if he was cast.
I think back to Brosnan nearly taking over before Dalton did, only to get the position after, and while that time gap is way smaller than the one between the start of the Craig era and the next era, it'd be nice to see Cavill getting a shot finally after almost having won it back in the mid-2000s.
It really depends on what the filmmakers do with Cavill and the Bond character, @Shaken_Not_Stirred.
Could produce greatness.
This is why having an experienced second unit director would do Nolan wonders. Bring in Alexander Witt to do his thing, rather than let Nolan personally handle every moment behind the camera. That’s how it’s been with Bond for 60 years, I don’t imagine Eon conceding to Nolan on that front especially if it further slows down production.
My bigger concern would be bringing back Lee Smith as editor. I’m not a fan of his cutting, and he was detrimental to SP. I wish Eon had been able to keep Baird on board for SP, because the combo of him and Alexander Witt was what made the action sequences in CR/SF really sing, while SP had such an awkward flow in its action.
Will be too old by the time they start the next one. Also he has another super spy film coming out soon called "Argyle". And they are talking about him starring in U.N.C.L.E. 2.
Perhaps if he surgically removed the pickle up his rear.
Nolan’s quite a rigid filmmaker and, as he ages, I don’t see him loosening up what has, to date, satisfied him as a storyteller. His instincts of what makes an exciting film seemingly runs counter to what makes the best of Bond work.
Someone should have had the balls to tell him Tenet was half baked and to continue rewriting it until it made actual narrative sense.
That was, without a doubt, the most annoying film I’ve ever sat through. I was gritting my teeth, and it was my own stubbornness to see how it ended (or I would have (and should have), walked out).
Tenet and Interstellar are at the opposite end of that scale for me. There's that strange mixture of 'rigidity' in the storytelling that some people have mentioned (I'm relatively sure Tenet is meant to be by design a rather cold and un-engaging film), and yet at the same time he has a tendency to be bizarrely artistic when it comes to certain technical aspects, sound being the major example. The sound design in both films have a tendency to take audiences out of the story, and it's something I've noticed Nolan's later films have in common (I don't believe it's a fault of the sound team as he tends to work with different sound crews each time, so I do believe it's down to his decisions as a director).
Personally, I think we would have gotten the best Bond film out of him around 2004-2008. I'm not sure what the Nolan of today would be able to do for Bond. Then again maybe hiring him (again, with a set of limitations in place) might reinvigorate him as a director to do something a bit less cerebral and clunky than his latest stuff.
I feel asleep, funnily enough not for the first time in a Nolan film: I snoozed in Inception too. I might give it another go some day as it's got nice big action visuals but I can't imagine when that day would be.
I remember loving Memento at the time (haven't seen it since) and I found Begins the most enjoyable of his Batmens, yes. Even if I felt, and still do, that treating Batman realistically just turns him into being a dangerous nutter: no-one in their right mind does that. I know he's not exactly portrayed as being healthy, but he would have to be really, really unwell.
You’re braver than me!
If and when you do get around to it, please tell me who the soldiers are fighting at the end? We don’t see the opposing military. It was so strange. The entire film felt as bizarre and as incomplete as a pretentious dream, dreamt up by an arrogant creator who dictates the screenplay to himself whilst gazing at his image in a giant mirror…
That's kind of why I appreciate The Batman. It shows the character as not only flawed but possibly even mentally ill.
Anyway, Batman Begins for me has the right mixture of superficial realism (maybe the better word is verisimilitude) and style. Just the way Gotham is depicted is much more Noir-ish than the later two Nolan Batman films. Not my favourite Batman film, but a really good one, and I think it strikes that balance well. Like I said though, I'm not sure if the Nolan of today is going to make such a film for Bond.