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The things we want to return to the Bond movies.
Benny
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Now I've looked around, and also did a search and couldn't find a similar topic. If there is one, this can be closed and merged.
We have a thread for the things we never want to see in a Bond film again, but what about the things that we do like. The things that are left out, or overlooked.
For instance, I would like to see Bond and the villain face off in a game of some sort. Classic examples being golf in Goldfinger, backgammon in Octopussy and poker in Casino Royale. Even the skeet shooting in Thunderball. All of the above are some of the highlights of those respective films for me. It brings a certain something to the film I find.
Another thing I'd be happy to see would be when the villain wined and dined Bond, often letting their ego run riot explaining the finer details of their diabolical scheme, and how they're going to kill Bond in the process.
Maybe a return of the station heads of the British secret service. (And not have them be traitors). Let's go back to Station T - Turkey, Station V - Vienna or Station C - Canada. But hopefully open up other unseen locations that Bond hasn't travelled to, but be aided by an ally when he is there.
And finally I'd like to see a return of Felix Leiter. Beef up his role slightly so as he has more to do than an extended cameo, but not over shadow Bond.
I'm sure there are elements, characters, locations or anything at all that you'd like to see return to the series.
How about the great "OO7" theme not heard since Moonraker. Sadly.
We have a thread for the things we never want to see in a Bond film again, but what about the things that we do like. The things that are left out, or overlooked.
For instance, I would like to see Bond and the villain face off in a game of some sort. Classic examples being golf in Goldfinger, backgammon in Octopussy and poker in Casino Royale. Even the skeet shooting in Thunderball. All of the above are some of the highlights of those respective films for me. It brings a certain something to the film I find.
Another thing I'd be happy to see would be when the villain wined and dined Bond, often letting their ego run riot explaining the finer details of their diabolical scheme, and how they're going to kill Bond in the process.
Maybe a return of the station heads of the British secret service. (And not have them be traitors). Let's go back to Station T - Turkey, Station V - Vienna or Station C - Canada. But hopefully open up other unseen locations that Bond hasn't travelled to, but be aided by an ally when he is there.
And finally I'd like to see a return of Felix Leiter. Beef up his role slightly so as he has more to do than an extended cameo, but not over shadow Bond.
I'm sure there are elements, characters, locations or anything at all that you'd like to see return to the series.
How about the great "OO7" theme not heard since Moonraker. Sadly.
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In no order, I'd like to see more of the following:
1. Bond being a smart aleck and showing off his knowledge about something to M in the office (either relating to the assignment, or his taste in the finer elements of life, or showing up Q)
2. Bond and M enjoying a glass over a meal and discussing a case like the early Connery scenes
3. Showcasing some real life technology or technological location that teaches something about science. As an example, the centrifuge G tester in MR (which I'm presently watching as I type this). They don't do this enough any more. I loved the early scenes in Angels and Demons at CERN (where the antimatter is stolen) and felt that location and scene would have been perfect for a Bond film.
4. More filming of a suspense scene at a famous landmark (e,g Fort Knox in GF, or the Pyramids in TSWLM), at sporting events specific to a culture (e.g. Sumo in YOLT or Thai kick boxing in TMWTGG), or in other interesting locations (belly dancing change quaters in TMWTGG).
5. More of Bond using his smarts to intimidate and put the villain off balance (like the OP backgammon or GF card game as already mentioned, or even like how Bond played Milton Krest against Sanchez in LTK)
6. Bond in space (kidding.. I'm watching MR right now after all).
2. New cars. As much as I love Aston Martin, I'm sick of seeing them in Bond movies. Both old and new Models. I'd be happy to see a Lotus again.
3. Bombastic, Bold and Memorable music with a full use of the Bond theme nicely utilized. Since the end of Pierce's run it's been put on heavy restraint and I'm sick of it. I want to hear Bond music, not amateur hour ambiance and Zimmer influences and the 007 Theme as @Benny pointed out.
4. Fantastical Villain lairs. While Blofeld's Crater Information station was pretty cool, I wish we could have gotten to see more of it.
5. Bond on a mission for Queen and Country, not himself. The whole Bond on personal non sanctioned missions, Like Aston Martin has worn out it's welcome.
2. The return of decent music to the franchise. Is it really that difficult to get a quality title track and a decent score these days? Judging from EON's track record, it must be.
3. Bring back the Blofeld who was just a criminal mastermind at the helm of SPECTRE. Having the films be full of both Bond and his villains having parental issues has gotten old quickly.
First and foremost I would like a decent score. SF/SP score killed those movies for me
Bond does not need a car in every film. Lets have some more inventive chases were Bond just nicks whatever vehicle is to hand like the 2CV or the tank.
2. Some jaw dropping, iconic stunts. Give us something that thrills and we can see has a real bloke putting himself at risk.
3. Just stop pissing about with all these different designs and go back to the Brosnan era GB.
4. Some fun deaths like the 'he had lots of guts' guy or people falling into piranha tanks.
5. Get a composer who will co write the theme song and properly integrate it into the soundtrack.
-I'd like to see a little more sexual tension and wit between Bond and his girls. More early CR with Vesper than SP with Swan. That's trademark Bond at his best, and difficult to duplicate in other more pedestrian franchises. Bring a little class to the verbal sparring & dialogue please.
Forget that - He's Dangerous needs to return!
That is one thing that actually irritates me in some Bond movies, when Bond is a know-it-all and simply knows so darn too much about too many things. I'd be glad to see less of this. That Bond knows his wine, what makes a good meal and about sauce béarnaise, fine. That he knows about diamonds, gold, every single alcohol on the planet, that is a stretch.
As for other things... I think there are two things we desperately need, both of them in the villain department. Villains have fallen by the wayside in recent films and we need to go back to our routes for those.
Dr. No and YOLT Blofeld (not liked around here, which IMO is ridiculous) are two of my favourite villains (006 is my absolute). Both villains only appear in the closing twenty or so minutes of their respective films but they manage to inject such a lasting presence and menace in those minutes. What made them good (apart from the long buildup to them) was that they never gave a f*ck about Bond. Never so much as flashed a smile at him. With almost all of the other villains, they put on a fake 'happy pretext'. None of that! Dr. No, YOLT Blofeld, and perhaps Le Chiffre never put on a 'pretext'. It was no mercy and always business with these guys.
We also need a henchman wherein the meeting with Bond is teased for a long period of time. Like Red Grant. I'd say that it was not the inherent characteristics of Grant that made him memorable. It was how he was executed and played out. There is so much suspense leading up to his fight. The writers who are developing a henchman need to think not just about the fight with the henchman but also everything leading up to it. Necros is played with to a vaguely similar vein and he is also one of the better henchmen IMO.
TL;DR - we need another villain conceived in the personality of Dr. No and we need a henchman who is executed in a similar way to but not necessarily like Red Grant.
Sadly.
Yes! When did we last have that?
Well, in Craig's movies he wears these uniforms (albeit not always black) far more often than in the movies before him.
As already happend with QOS i think there whant to preper people more with Spectre. But from other side there also whant to make it bit of a more trational Bond movie. Overall a very bad visible plot. Spectre trailers lie again. There should go full in with terrible truth. There hinting ''Casino Royale time is up'' and ''writing on the wall''.
Yo quiero que vuelva algo similar a "vive y deja morir"