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Fair enough. That was just my first gut response to your post but it hit me hard enough I had to respond.
I enjoy commentaries especially the director's commentary. It's insightful. Even if I don't agree still gives me a chance to understand where the filmmaker was going most of the time.
Thanks for responding to my comment. We said how we felt. No worries.
P.S. I'm glad your back and no I don't really want you to go. Just hit me wrong.
Those are some sweet steel books. Where can they be found?
So if you have a problem with people's negative comments about Mendes, I have a problem with your constant negativity about the Brosnan era.
And before you respond: I greatly enjoy both SF, SP.
Then you failed to take into account that TWINE is my favorite Brosnan-film. And it saddens me that you did not read that. It saddens me enormously that you fail to take into account that I LOVED Sophie Marceau's emotionally deep performance of Elektra King. A character that, for me, is one of the highlights of the franchise.
Moreover, check the kind of topics I have created. I'm quite flabbergasted that you dare to call me "one of the most negative members". And please go back on-topic. Have a look at the pictures I made of my steelbook collection, INCLUDING that beautiful steelbook of "GoldenEye"!
This is why I don't usually come to online forums ...
Clearly there's going to be no point where any of us see eye to eye on this, and that's fine; it's the nature of debate. I would simply ask that we could for once have discussions that don't after a while stoop to cursing and name-calling. It isn't hard to debate with someone professionally and courteously, but it appears that skill set is lacking here at very important times. There's enough tension around the forums already without more unnecessary fires being raised and fed. It seems the climate now for members to viciously berate each other for everything from their views on Bond down to their religion, political views and how they take their eggs in the morning. It's honestly exhausting and past its sell-by date.
I nor any others here meant to cast aspersions of any kind towards you; we are simply giving our side of this argument over the negativity some seem to have of Mendes. Again, I do not prescribe to that notion, though I am also not so blind that I do not see his flaws, and I shan't be lambasted for it.
Yes, I think SP is as close to a Moore styled Bond film we have, though I don't necessarily mean in its use of levity. The ending in MI6 recalls TMWTGG, the train fight with Hinx reminds me of the one between Bond and Jaws in TSWLM and Bond's style sometimes even calls back to that of Moore. This is helped by the love both Dan and Mendes clearly have for LALD and much of the Moore era, which they have expressed many times before.
I understand.
You should be thankful. I had typed a massive post eviscerating your drivel but shitty iPhone suddenly decided to randomly just post that while I was in the car and I lost it all.
And I can't be arsed to type it all again.
I understand too.
Anyone else?
"Guys, look on the bright side. We Bond fans still get offered so many wonderful insightful things. Perhaps we should be a bit more grateful for that. And perhaps this should also be channeled a bit more on the forums".
Sorry.....that this didn't come across like I wished. Have fun everyone ;-).
The reason people slag off Mendes and SP and SF and Brozzer and Moore and DAD and everything Bondion is because TAHT'S WHAT WE DO. Bond fans care so they pull stuff apart, and if it doesn't sit well with the next Bond fan it's because they care as well.
Casual fans went to see SP and they said 'I enjoyed that more than SF' or 'I preferred SF' or 'I hate Craig' or whatever and then they forget about it for 2 or 3 years.
We don't.
We argue amongst ourselves and take offence if others don't agree. It's because we all like the same thing, but we just happen to like the elements of that thing in a different order.
No one should be upset, or leave the forum. Somewhere on here there are like minded people for all of us.
Loved SP by the way...is this the right thread?
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Lol ...we all can just have coffee instead. Whatever works :)
I'm curious where do the fans here buy their Bond films when they're released? In the U.S., Target(a national big box store) normally does their releases on a Tuesday(Feb. 9th) and I'd rather pick it up there, than waiting for an Amazon to deliver a couple days later. As the market is going more on-line for viewing movies, Target has scaled back their av departments. When Casino Royale was released, Target had 3 or 4 posters, keychains of the Aston Martin and the New Holland front loader alongside. I'll be there first thing to see what else is available.
At what? Shooting guns? Driving fast c
Very well put, @NicNac. In my experience it's very much true that the most critical are also the most passionate. It's just what fans do.
I'm not much of a hugger, but I can deliver a mean high-five or chest bump with the best of 'em.
It's always Wal-Mart for me, @FLeiter, or a video store in the one mall about twenty minutes away from me. I live in a very sparse, rural area and have to go a little out of the way for a lot of purchases of this kind, and often have to settle for what's there, like Wal-Mart as previously stated. They've got really good bargains in their entertainment department a lot of the time, so it's an easy choice.
I have shied away from online ordering simply because the shipping costs can be beyond torturous and insufficient care is often taken with packages on the move. I very much like to pick something out myself and bring it with my own hands to the register.
Me too. I remember every Bond film purchase I ever made.
As in the James Bond books and films are great - didn't think I'd have to explain that on a James Bond forum :)