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...not a Newman fan I take it? Just kidding... I want a new composer too although I liked the SP score far more than the SF one.
I enjoy Newman's work outside of Bond. His Bond scores are pretty bad to me and make me want the likes of David Arnold or Michael Giacchino to take over.
It is. His name is Campbell. Martin Campbell.
Before Bond he was one of my favourite composers. Probably in my Top 5.
But his scores for SF and SP have soured things for me. I still enjoy his body of work before 2012 but his Bond scores are the worst he's ever done.
Sadly the same goes for Mendes, SF is by far, by far his weakest directing job in an otherwise great body of work. I was very surprised at that. To be honest, the only thing that saved SF from being a total failure was the exceptional, probably best cinematography job ever, and I am still furious the Academy didn't give Deakins the award. A scandal.
Yes, indeed.
I was being a bit sarcastic but I agree I enjoy Newman and I was maybe expecting more.
And I agree with @BondJasonBond006 regarding Mendes.
Although Casino Royale was very good too.
So Mr Mendes may return. He has my blessing, even if I didn't care for Skyfall.
Yes I also thought the SP score was better than SF too - although still pretty underwhelming
But both of his soundtracks are nothing compared to the one of CR or especially QoS
Jaume Collet-Serra. He has directed 3 of Liam Neesons better action thrillers (Unknown, Non-Stop & Run All Night) as well as Neesons up and coming, The Commuter. So at least he knows his way around a thrilling sequence.
As for the composer, I don't really have a choice. Just so long as it is someone who would put aside their own ego, and put the Bond theme in (and not just one bar here, and another there) the film.
It seems i'm one of the few people on here who loved SP. Come on guys, it's classic Bond.
I wish the Mr.White passage would be part of the hopefully better Bond 25 - it's wasted on SP.
I think SPECTRE is the only Bond movie I would like to re-edit myself and throw everything out that I dislike and would end up with a movie I would like, too. I keep skipping several scenes - especially in the last third.
Leave out the whole MI6 Building crap, HQ scenes and the insane bridge finale and it becomes a decent Bond movie.
That's why I don't want Mendes to come back - even the problems are more in the writing department I guess. With a better script, maybe he could bring another great one? Probably but I'd like to have somebody else direct B25.
it seems we get only one masterpiece per decade (not counting DN to YOLT)
er…YOLT? surely FRWL was the sixties masterpiece and still reigns supreme as best Bond ever!
is the franchise in a better place with these plots/stories in place or worse, we all have our opinions but my impression is that we have a consensus on this. You can give credit for all the good things Mendes did but, for me, these issues tower above all else.
I never saw anyone say they love it.