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If it gives us a YOLT Bond dropping into the sea, amnesia ridden cliff hanger, then I will be singing from the rooftops. I have been hankering for this novel to be adapted for years.
This sets up Bond 26 nicely with a new actor to return to Britain one year later, brainwashed and ready to kill M, from TMWTGG.
Now that would be a great way to kick off the new Bond actor.
If this leaves the ending ambiguous (YOLT style) then I'm all for that. It ties in very nicely with Fleming.
Must say that right now I feel the same.
+1 exactly
I wish I was there too. Right now my expectations could not be any lower (which may not be a bad thing).
You'll watch it. You'll give in. ;)
Give into what exactly?
As a fan, I just can't imagine turning down any chance to watch it on the big screen. That's just me.
I didn't say I wouldn't watch it. I'm just not seeing it at the theater. Hence waiting for it to hit redbox.
It’s a shame you feel this way, but I understand and respect that. I know some fans have not been happy or excited lately, especially because of SP. I am a little cautious but I’m still going to let myself get excited.
But I was always there on opening night (and could always find something I liked about it-- even with DAD, I recently discovered; the opening credits are pretty terrific (considering).
It's too bad, but, in the end, personal tastes... Hopefully the next guy will do the trick for the disenchanted.
I'm in a blissful state. Reading CF's own words about the theme song on IG this morning, and how he bit back at negativity (in a supremely calm and intelligent manner); to listen to the song and with each turn, it gives me something a little bit more (as our @Shardlake said to me earlier this evening: she gets under Bond's skin); to hear Broccoli state with confidence that Craig has never been better; to watch the trailers and TV spots and see the magnificent imagery; to see Craig return to form and look engaged and Malek looking composed and terribly unsettling... Just seems like everyone has some skin in the game.
This will be a monster of a movie. No niggles. Just more confidence with each little reveal they have given us (the same couldn't exactly be said for SP-- I was concerned with a Hinx-type character in the Craig-verse, and any talk I heard of Roger Moore and the lighter films gave me a premonition I tried to ignore. In the end, it caught up to me).
Are some people thinking they are cool and edgy and impressing the rebels with this kind of rubbish, get over yourself.
Seriously Zimmer doing the score is not the end of the world.
I *might* end up doing the same. When the production kicked off I was interested and cautiously optimistic, but for each reveal, I've become less invested in it all – the opposite of how I should feel at this point. If I'm out with friends, then I'll definitely watch it at the cinema, but I'm unlikely to go on my own to watch it on the big screen.
This is probably the best describe how I feel. TWINE's your least favorite Bond film, yes? How I feel is basically. You having to sit through 3 TWINE's only to wait almost 5 years for another TWINE doubling down on the things you dislike about it. That's the position I'm in right now and I just can't bare anymore of it.
But that's just how I feel.
I guess I just underestimated your disdain for Craig's run. Didn't realize it was THAT bad.
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That is pretty much were I am now. I became really reinvigorated when CR was released, as I had been waiting since 1989 to have another Bond film that followed Fleming, and I was not disappointed in the slightest.
But as Craig's tenure draws to a close, I feel nearly as disenchanted as I was before DAD came out, as I knew that film would be dreadful before going in to the cinema, and sadly I was proved 100% right, to the point when I wanted to walk out of the cinema during Brozza's final outing. Talk of invisible cars and `throwing the kitchen sink at this one' made me fear the worst.
Thankfully I'm not nearly as low now as I was back then in my expectations of a new Bond film, but this does feel like it will be more of the same that we saw in SP. I really, really hope I'm proved wrong, but with the trailer and now the new song, I don't see anything to make me feel it will be much different.
Connery's, Moore's and Brosnan's final outings were all pretty sub-standard (in the case of AVTAK and DAD, absolutely rock bottom). I just hope Craig's final outing doesn't go the same way.
However I think everyone involved in the production knows SP missed the mark, Craig could have easily walked after that but he came back, everyone will want to make sure he goes out on a high.