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Amen to that.
Still @bondjames, THE HOLY MONTH HAS ARRIVED! A MONTH THAT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE EVERY THREE YEARS! An to prepare the countdown properly, I will add with every new post a nice piece of Bond music :-D! Today, a beautiful cover of "We Have All The Time In The World", the title song for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Composed and arranged by John Barry, lyrics by Hal David and sang by Rumer:
17 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in The United Kingdom & Ireland !
28 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in The United States !
20 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in The Netherlands !
21 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in Norway, Sweden, Finland !
24 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in Mexico !
26 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in Belgium !
27 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in Germany, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland (DE/IT-speaking) !
28 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in Spain !
33 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in France, Switzerland (FR-speaking) !
34 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in Australia, South-Korea!
43 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in India!
56 DAYS and counting until the premiere of "SPECTRE" in Japan, China !
Please just don't play anything Sam Smith or WOTW and I'll definitely be able to retain my enthusiasm before movie night.....if you play Sam I may have to 'slit my wrists'.
I'm still excited for SP, but I am going to go on record as saying I personally don't feel that anything they have done to date on marketing, press talk, song or trailers has had the same positive effect on me as that first teaser for SF (which really blew my socks off) or Adele's song (and I don't even like Adele or the song all that much but it was so refreshing after AWTD).
I think my expectations were way too high after SF (since I liked everything about the way they promoted that film and even though it's not my favourite Bond film, I really do enjoy it...)
SP has some big shoes to fill...
By the way, I have already forgotten about today's 'bad' news. Thanks in part to @RC7's great reasoning and pragmatism.
They can let him off the leash once the film has made $1bn but they should keep him on a tight one until then.
His language, the constant use of the f word, the "only for the money" mercenary remark - sheesh, what a tosser he sounds. Really comes over in a bad way. To think the most enduring film franchise has this guy representing it. Incredible. What a lousy spokesperson he is for the franchise Cubby Broccoli spent a lifetime working on.
The sooner he goes the better. I've lost all respect for him. SPECTRE - his last film? I sincerely hope so!
Is it the stuff he said that is stupid? Or stupid people who don't understand hyperbole? Probably the same stupid people who think The Onion is a real newspaper.
That's true. He should know that though.....that this would happen....after all 'he's been playing the game long enough'.
DC's humour is very much like his Bond in SF (with Q and with that psych evaluation fella).....deeply sarcastic and 'cutting' but additionally with a few blue collar 'f' bombs thrown in for good measure.
I think he should finish off every smart remark he makes with a 'just kidding' and then folks will get it. He probably assumes too much about the global media being able to interpret every nuance of his humour or maybe he just doesn't care about them.....in which case, as I said before, he should be leashed.
But then the reporter would simply leave out the "Just kidding" part. And for all we know: he already did. The context and tone of DC's comments were left behind in order for headlines to be made.
Fair enough. That's true. Can't win I guess.
The problem with that is, when do you take him seriously?
Not when he is doing movie-promotion-interviews.
You could take him seriously, when he does an off-interview while he's not promoting a new product.
Depends on what he says and how he says it.
In his heartfelt interviews like in the CR and EON documentaries.
Funny, it was alright to bash and worry about that stupid song and that the film is yellow, but no so much about whiney millionaire with a bummed knee.
Oh well doesn't matter I'm tired of griping and fighting too.
Ok ok ok ....bring on this film before we start WW III. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhJ_A8XUgc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99AsHWjSu1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBt8fN7mJNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqJAiR000LQ
Yes.
I can't personally imagine how what he says like that would affect box office - I can't think I would choose to go or not go to a movie because of interviews by the actor.
This will probably just affect what lots of people probably think of him, and all in a negative way. Perhaps including the film-makers, who surely can't take any positive from it....and possible a whole barrel full of negative.
Just really disappointing. Keeping mouth shut would be the smart thing to do.
Pretty much, like with people in general.
Humor is difficult in that it's not universal, and something that may be humorous to someone may not be to someone else at all. The more context available there is, the more obvious it usually is how people mean things - were they joking perhaps, what were the circumstances and the timing, what else was discussed, how did they seem to be feeling, and so on. When an interview is written down, some editing always happens, but a good interviewer will try to present the truth of what the interviewee is saying - which is more than just words - so they always try and give plenty of additional info.
A few words or sentences out of a context can make anyone look bad one way or another. Famous people do get judged like that all the time, but it's still unfair. I suppose that most people rather read little soundbites than a proper interview. How many people here have read the short quotes some people are now upset over? Everyone I presume. How many even here bothered to read the long and rather excellent Esquire interview for instance? Was anyone upset about that, did Craig seem like he's ungrateful or doesn't respect the franchise, the character, the role, what it has given him, etc.? No. But there's no controversy and so no discussion to be had about the nice stuff, I suppose. The nice stuff gets forgotten, while the controversial stuff - even if meant in jest, or misquoted, or taken out of context - that will be what gets attention.
So is he done with Bond? Maybe yes, for now. Fully rested and recharged, and having seen the complete movie on the big screen, my guess is he'll be persuaded to do another.
Spot-on!
It's Saint Craig, the saviour of the franchise.
Some have difficulty having their hero criticised, it's always someone elses fault, never the Saint's.
DR makes 8 Potter films in 10 years
Just goes to show
Goes to show what? You're like a Pound Shop Riddler at times.
I am sure the feeling would be mutual. Trial by media. You don't know what was said, how it was said and in what context yet your ready to throw him to the lions. I find this attitude to be sad, uneducated and gullable. Said before why has this interview back in July now just been published a few days after DC says he will keep going as long as he physically can. Smells of select editing, a magazine drawing attention to itself and a journo who would rather have different Bond takeover. But you keep on lambasting the guy without facts and hearing his side. If the same magazine told you Elvis was alive, grass is purple and that the world ended Wednesday you would probably believe all that too.
Haha, that's a new one! Never been called that before!
Oh well, nice to know I have some sort of impact around here, even if I'm not always the most succinct, shall we say!
P.S. I have been a distant admirer of your opinions lately, especially regarding WOTW and Craig suicide discussions. We don't always agree (cough CR cough) but recently you have very much been right IMO. And lacking the time to post my own thoughts in depth, its good to know someone is still the voice of reason when everyone loses their head.
Funny. Personally speaking my expectations after SF are pretty low. Anything that's an improvement on SF and I'll consoder SP a success.
I also find the trailers for SP much more effective than SF. SF showed all the action in the trailers. I really feel with SP that they've managed to keep a lot more secret and the film is going to be full of surprises.
I think the SP trailers are the best for years. They have just the mix I am looking for. I remember seeing the CR trailers years back and being totally underwhelmed (although the film turned out to be much better than the trailers). This time I think the SP trailers are making it look like my kind of Bond movie - hopefully they are accurate.