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Good question, @mtm. I guess SF doesn't really qualify as a big action Bond. Perhaps that is also part of the reason why the film was so well received?
Personally I enjoy it because there is always a scene I want to see coming up. If I turn on the tv and it's on I'll end up watching it through to the end. I can't tell you exactly why, though - obviously filmmakers always try to make each scene interesting, but it doesn't always work on the majority of viewers. The great Casablanca has little action, but always grabs me when it's on and doesn't let go. Again, it's difficult to say why, I've seen lots of films which should be great but somehow just fail to work. I'm sure filmmakers sweat over just these questions.
And I kind of think that's what a Bond film should be. It is style over substance: John Barry, Ken Adam, Sean Connery etc. - all big movie names who were good enough to win Oscars, all in the middle of a slightly silly adventure plot about spies. I want Bond to be a glossy expensive fashion magazine, not a cheap newspaper. So the idea of a stripped-back Bond, all in one country with no money spent on it etc. seems contrary to the point of the thing to me.
Someone above sniffily said that we were 'distracted' by the cinematography of Skyfall to how bad a film it actually is, but I'd say it's all the surface stuff that is half of the point of the thing.
I agree. As Sir Roger Moore said about Skyfall, it proved Bond would survive another 50 years. I agree.
Yes its my biggest gripe with CR too. The rest of the film they got pretty much spot on, and it really felt like the novel in parts, but the ending climax let's it down (apart from the Mr. White finale showdown which is superb).
I would have much preferred an ending more closely tied to the book, even though it isn't a spectacular action fest. If P&W had gone this way originally as members here have indicated, then I take back everything I've said about them.
And yes, I much prefer CR to SF. The action is far harder, more brutal. From SF onwards we started getting too much dark orange lighting and pretentious low whispered dialogue (looking at you Moneypenny, shaving Bond), an irritating trait which ran throughout Craig's final 3 films.
I'd like the next film to have about the same level of action as SKYFALL.
He's worked with Christopher Nolan very well.
He's worked with Daniel Craig. In the film Layer Cake, his character is last seen mourning Daniel Craig's character. And if you look at a lot of Craig's Bond movies, he's paid respect to his previous films such as Layer Cake by having many including Ben Wishaw cast in 007 films.
It will be a very metaphorically solacing to have Tom Hardy hold up the series as it continues with Bond 26. Especially if Christopher Nolan wants to direct two of them. All he needs is his own actor like Tom Hardy who has the proof of potential to make it credible and work well. That way there is more focus on the quality of the story/film/character.
B26 is in “development” on imdbpro.
In development, isn’t the same as preproduction.
Development is when all the financing comes in, people start getting paid to write scripts, attachments are made (director), auditions can be arranged and a small crew can can be paid….
I’d assume we are all in for the trickling of real news from EoN in short order.
EDIT: the studios hafta hammer out something with the actors, but the optimism is it will follow shortly.
It is? I'm glad to hear that.
A Stephen Soderbergh and Chris (or maybe his brother Luke) Hemsworth on a 3 picture deal (to complete the lineup):
Lazenby 1
Dalton 2
(Hemsworth 3)
Brosnan 4
Craig 5
Connery 6
Moore 7
Yes, and not just that, he's the right age (now), and not too iconic.
He could also do drama, humor, gritty, I mean the genre of his filmography are complex, so not just looks, he's also a complex actor.
I think Hemsworth could be a decent Bond if given the chance, but I do think him playing Thor for all those years kind of puts him out of this race. Same for Henry Cavil, at this point they’re too well known.
Personally I want a left field choice.
Chris Hemsworth ticks a lot of boxes for being James Bond. But is he the right man for the job?
If they go for a three picture deal with a film every two to three years then it could work I suppose.
Is he not a little bit too beefcake for Bond though?
Yeah if you were “distracted” enough by the acting, dialogue, cinematography, etc to get swept up in the film despite the ropey plot then I think it’s done its job as a blockbuster. And at the end of the day that’s what Skyfall still is.
I think the praise for it made a lot of people, myself included (I loved it, watched it too many times and decided it was overrated, then didn’t watch it for a while and found myself loving it again), expect something more than a blockbuster. But I don’t think the critics were tricking us by pretending it was anything more. It’s still a silly heightened reality spy film. It got praised the way it did because it’s a very, very well made one, that used the usual blockbuster logic and tropes to explore some themes Bond hadn’t before.
I think I went through a similar thing with Goldeneye and Casino Royale. I rarely think films live up to high expectations, and it's probably telling that the film I was most blown away by in the cinema in my adult years was L.A. Confidential, a film I had little interest in seeing but was dragged to by a friend; it's never had the same impact on me on the small-screen, though.
QoS lingers right towards the bottom however, so it's not just because I like the new ones! :)
With NTTD, we found out in August 2017, the script was to be written by Purvis and Wade and they announced the official release date for November 2019. This was about a week before Craig announced his return.
No idea how they'll do it this time round. Director first presumably?