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@boldfinger Well it does rather suggest that people are being entertained. Are you suggested that they weren't really?
Yikes! A bullet dodged!
It’s a great point @Benny and something I’ve thought about. I think you’d have to go classic and work it into the story. Although there are ways to make it work, even if it’s modern high-end vehicles that aren’t AM, or even the more obscure everyday vehicles. It wouldn’t have worked in the context of the SP chase, but having Craig in the Fiat 500 would certainly be distinctive.
I asked him to and he certainly didn't! :)
He still does occasionally. In Quantum of Solace alone I think he drives a Volvo, a Range Rover, a Ford Edge. Skyfall he drives the Jag of course, whatever he tails the baddie in Shanghai in etc.
I attend a lot of screenings in Belgium, on average one or two every week, and I have rarely experienced applause. A few notable exceptions:
Also had applause at a Skyfall screening (at exactly that moment), but also a short one at the midnight screening of Spectre when Bond takes off his mask. But then again, Kinepolis Ghent was packed to the brim with Bond fans who hadn't had a new film in three years. So we were giddy.
A Merc.
Yes. It's stupid since none of the people who worked on the film can hear you and annoying for those who want to enjoy the film but yes, such people exist.
When I watched SW 7 at the movie theatre people clapped all the time; when the Millennium Falcon was first shown, when Han Solo showed up on screen, etc.
I think this taps into what @Benny was saying about them all being reasonably generic, though. Stick him in a red E-Type that he casually steals, or on the opposite end of the scale, smashing up a Ford Transit as his only means to get away - now we’re talking.
I have one, as well, @Univex . It is basically Dimitios's key chain.
Or maybe us Norwegians for not cheering…?
Interesting. I've been to some of those other films too, but on every occasion…nothing. If someone started cheering at any point during the films, someone would no doubt have told them to shut the f*** up, haha!
Cultural differences, perhaps.
Incredible. This would never happen here.
From that standpoint, why cheer during a sporting event, if you're in the pub? The players can't hear you.
Some of my most memorable sports moments occurred in a bar, with the energy of fans, going crazy. It's about a collective outpouring of emotion. Same thing happens in theaters. This is why collective laughter makes something funnier; why collective shrieking makes something scarier.
I didn't experience any applause for the DB5 in SF. But I did during the gun barrel in SP, and that got me so pumped.
+1.
I don't really follow. I don't think a Volvo S40 looks like a Range Rover or a big Mercedes S Class.
You get my point. You’re being pedantic.
Didn't Dimitrios have a DB9?
We, on the other hand, are much classier people ;) aren't we?
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@RC7 That's unnecessary. I don't get your point: a big luxury 4x4 doesn't look like a small saloon car. The bright yellow 2CV was different to other cars and that's the role it played, but I'm not convinced most cinema goers could really tell the Alfa GTV6 from any other then-current car more than those of ten years ago could tell a Mercedes limo from an off-roader.
That's your opinion ;)
I think I'm ready for a really inventive gadget too. A watch that's a bomb, a shoe with an emergency radio, or a car with machine guns in it... yeah, that's good and everything; but I want a watch that turns into a buzzsaw and a super magnet! Something.. unexpected.
When I’m imagining my reign as Bond I always imagine me sat down with Babs, Michael and Aston boss Andy Palmer, having a conversation about how I want my Bond to be known for Green Aston’s or perhaps Blue. I’ve always thought they could’ve come away from silver and grey. I get the argument that silver is probably the most inconspicuous for a spy but then an effing Aston is one of the biggest head turners there is so it’s a redundant argument imo.
There we go, you're just trying to insult me because of my opinion. You finally admitted it.
That's what I wonder too.
If Bond had been in the S40 for an epic chase, yeah, I’m all for that. He wasn’t, so it isn’t comparable.