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But I want DC more physical and challenged...
I like how DC plays offended when the person he just saved told him to go to hell...
When Maddy and and Bond approach L'American-- the music, scene, costumes are bang on
I don't know @Birdleson ... If Mendes continued, I'd agree... But I don't think Danny Boyle wants, or needs $250- 300 million budget...
'Night to all Bond nuts..
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U n me both... I hope that Boyle’s Bond is no frills and to the point...
She is great. In a way it's a pity her character didn't become the lead Bond girl in SF. I always felt SF was the only Bond film to lack this traditional element. I've heard many people say M was the actual lead Bond girl here, but I don't see it that way. IMO, Severine's wonderful character was a bit wasted.
When I first saw SF I actually missed that she had been killed. It was a press screening and so many critics, reporters with their annoying rattling papers, cell phones, getting up and down, walking the aisles, etc I think I turned my head and I missed that moment she is shot.
Happens fast and nothing is made of it later.
100% agreed. I might even go most shocking death period. I really felt it in a way that I'm unused to with the Bond films.
No wonder they get so much wrong. Add to that that they often leave before the film finishes to meet some deadline.
This is, not yet, a Bibi who wants to bed a man who wears his pants above his belly button...
L'American. Rat scene. Bond watches the rat run into the wall. And with an exhale, just before punching the wall, he figures something out-- and he lets us know with that frustrated exhale.
Acting, meet good; good, meet acting...
(and, for the "I never noticed that" thread: it appears like the wall the rat ran in through, was different to the one Bond knocks down.
Mendes copies his own rooftop-shot scene from earlier (Bond leaving his meeting with M; M and MP).
Then it goes into the most non-threatening conversation between M and C as two actors mumble and snarl at each other; MP is the cherry on the top as she give C "a really disapproving look".
But in this second story Blofeld obviously didn't remember getting shot from a little girl, and she didn't remember shooting this man either.
Plot, meet Hole (who the F was Maddy telling Bond about on the train? It mirrors Blofeld's later story about coming to Maddy's house...)
I couldn't agree more. It is now indubitably my worst Bond performance by an actor. Brosnan in TWINE is now second worst. If he attempts that shtick in B25 he may drop below Dalton and Laz to five in my ranking of Bond actors.
"A Man once came to our house to kill my father (if this was Blofeld, then this was some time ago, when Maddy was a child; yet in Bond-time, Mr White was working with Blofeld until quite recently (according to CR and QoS); and when Bond meets the dying Mr White, it sounds like their feud was quite recent, with White being turned off of his boss and then White's subsequent poisoning...)
"he didn't know I was upstairs playing in my bedroom, or that Papa kept a Beretta 9mm under the sink with the bleach. That's why I hate guns."
You're right @bondjames, I made the mistake that I always assumed this was her first kill, or at least first firing of a weapon, out of necessity, to save her father; and then I have always been confused when Blofeld says later, to Maddy, that they had met (when he came for a visit to their home); obviously these stories were related, so, I was always left wondering: what happened that night? Why was Blofeld trying to kill White? yet White continues to work for the man who attempted to kill him? Did Maddy stop the assassination?...
In the end, there's a cool backstory here, but not consistently developed...
@Birdleson and @bondjames , I have to admit, that, up until L'American, I have no problem with DC and think he's the only glue holding this film together... There are scenes I feel he doesn't present as well as he has done (the M scene at the beginning-- but I really found it was an error in shoddy pacing, not what the actors were doing); at the clinic talking about "the middle man"; screaming in the snow surfing plane (I chock this up to direction))... Otherwise, to me, he's the only thing worth watching in this film (I didn't like Waltz, nor Hinx; I'm guessing now I don't mind Maddy 50% of the time; loved Q in SF, and found him totally unnecessary in SP (he flies out to Austria-- the guy who doesn't like flying (according to SF), leaves his post and flies out to warn Bond and then leave to go back home????))...
DC seemed to be the only thing to make sense (along with Lucia) in this film.
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Re: L'Americain, I've often said that I think it's one of the better scenes in the film and I like Craig's acting approach there. He behaves more like how he did in the previous films and the scene with the mouse is quite amusing. Apart from that though I'm not impressed, although I can appreciate that you and others see positives in what he brought to the table in other scenes. I could go into what I find borderline offensive in the other scenes, but it will just be retreading old ground so I'll leave it be.
Re: Craig: I do find so much wrong with the script (see above backstory); M was weak, Q unnecessary, Hinx didn’t fit into the Craig era; Waltz/Blofeld was terrible... and DC had to play against all these things... he was the only consistent, and mostly enjoyable thing about this mess ( with Lucia).
Another mess of a film is Batman and Robin; clooney crappef the bed, along with the film; in context of Bond, DC was given an equally shite script in SP; he, to me, still delivered a semblance of his character, in a film that didn’t know what they wanted to do with his character
@Birdleson you have a great sense of humor!