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We should listen to @DaltonCraig007 , man knows what he's talking about.
:-bd
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pointless gypsy fight aside (not the gun fight, but the two women fighting each other), it is a top notch, simple straight forward thriller - the cat and mouse game with Grant stalking Bond is fantastic stuff... the last half of the film on the train is solid gold..
getting into the Bond films as a young kid during the broz years, I got this film on VHS for Christmas one year, and it has been my absolute favorite since the first time i saw it.
you're so good @TheWizardOfIce .... especially when you're baaaaaad.
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Because of the wonderful wit he is!
Okay, I'll try to be less repetitive in future, K?
:D
but in seriousness, it wasn't necessary, could've been axed and it wouldn't have made a difference.
Actually, Goldfinger. (Had you going). :))
It is particularly pointless because it isn't resolved, we don't even find out which one wins in the end!!!
But reflectively, many things in many Bond films are pointless, let's be honest.
I'm confused, but then I've learned British English...maybe that's why.
In that case it's definitely without the shadow of a doubt:
GOLDENEYE
Yes I was confused why people were choosing just one Bond film - stiff arsed Brit I am I guess
When people say period they sometimes mean '.' that is, they are trying to emphasise it. Therefore 'best bond film, period' might mean 'the definitively best bond film'.
Still Casino Royale, I think. FRWL is an incredibly close second.
CR is one of the 5 best at least, yes.
What I would like to know, does it not bother you that CR misses so many of the iconic and established items like Q, gun-barrel, Bond James Bond, Moneypenny, shaken not stirred, etc.
Personally if CR would have had all those things, it might be my No 1 Bond, it's really those missing things that keep it away from the top spot.
I may weigh those things too heavily. It's also something that keeps QOS away from a Top 10 spot, although it has gone up to No 11. I'll have to learn to get over it and enjoy the movies as they are :)
Sometimes I wonder though if the Craig-era had not been a reboot but a continuation as it always had been before, it would even have outdone the Connery-era.
I still feel, the reboot was a mistake.
I think some of us - perhaps a lot of us, felt that the series had exhausted itself. It was leaning on the formula so much that it literally bent over and broke the formula by DAD. That's why it needed to go without the standard Bond formula for the next one - it just had to be a very good movie, without attachments to most of those traditional Bond motifs.
I don't know who guessed it, but going realistic worked for Bond. In fairness, we can argue that it didn't necessarily "save" the franchise. We don't know where things would've gone if we had another DAD. DAD, after all, was a commercial success, and again, the reviews weren't so horrifying at the time.
But I think EoN correctly predicted that if they continued down the same path, Bond would end up being consigned to history. So they needed to reinvent Bond, to make sure it survived in the new millennium. The threat of rival franchises was stronger than ever - with MI, Jason Bourne, etc. Even parodies of Bond (the Austin Powers franchise especially) were now almost as popular as Bond itself. And EoN couldn't risk any of the "pretenders" being better than the original itself. And I know we shouldn't blame Brosnan for his films, but even though they led Bond into the blockbuster world, they were very clearly decreasing in quality. Austin Powers was gaining rapidly - in 1999, Austin Powers' worldwide gross came within $50 million of Bond's. That was the greatest a parody had ever gotten, and it really felt like Bond was exhausting itself as the millennium turned (and as Bond reached its 40th anniversary), which was not a good sign.
So they had to remake Bond, and so we got CR, and the rest of the Craig era (up to SP, at least), and I think it was ultimately the right decision. The franchise's got the greatest commercial and critical successes ever in its history, on par with the Connery years. So I think the reboot - the reinvention of Bond as a character and as a film franchise - was the right thing to do.
Seconded.
Yes, that's what Americans say.
Well there clearly was a winner. "......so decide!"
Generally speaking I think EON did EVERYTHING right, always. The franchise is as strong as it never has been before with Spectre practically repeating Skyfall's success.