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I want an emotional, thrilling and epic ride with James Bond at the nerve centre of it all and from the looks of things I am going to get that.
The technical merits, the cast, everything is top drawer here.
Sorry to all those that can't experience this, like I've said before I kind of know how you feel 1995 - 2002 was very unexciting time for me and who knows maybe I'll get some karma visited on me with the next era being nowhere the thrill ride this one has been.
I guess we'll see whenever Barbara and company contemplates the next step in the series.
But I am a wee bit concerned over this running time, 166 mins? I'm all for more Bond, but this just seems a bit much!
I hope the film isn't woke garbage either I worry about it too.
@007Blofeld same but as i said many times. Reserve the judgement for April. Still i can't wait to see it in imax @-)
I think it was around the time the cast referred to them as “Bond ladies”, and that feels more classy and fitting for actresses.
If you think that makes me a “cuck”, go back to kissing your cousin you redneck pimple.
As for NTTD, getting closer to the release, has only heightened my concerns, the appalling title song hasn't helped either. People love it, good for you, but I dislike it.
That's true. I hate one and I like the other. But the intrusion of one when I hear the other is quite bothersome.
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Really though, of all the songs it's the only one I didn't like on first listen and just got worse over time. I didn't like WOTW, but that grew from bad to tolerable over time.
It is the worst thing he has done, although I can listen to it but TWOTW, it's like listening to nails down a blackboard.
Jack White has shown time and time again he can write and produce great songs, whereas Sam Smith has a sell by date and it is most likely close to expiring.
I am Jack White fan but then again I am a fan of music not torture.
But then again I'm not really a Jack White fan. Could never take to his weird vocals that sound like it went through a ton of processing in the mixing.
It might on that song but White is back to basics man, mostly analogue, the man can play many instruments and produces most of his own work as well as others.
Sam Smith is mere footnote in music in comparison and that falsetto is painful.
He's not exactly Jeff Buckley at the end of the day.
But I get it, old Bond songs of the past used to be pretty non-related to the film for the most part so that allowed the songs to be very different from each other. I love "A View to a Kill", but I have no idea how the lyrics are supposed be related to the actual plot of the film, whereas songs like "Goldfinger" and "Skyfall" have a ton of relevance to the plot and characters.
I think it can go either way, listening to what BE and Finneas wrote it sounds like they cut to something very much vital to the story.
My argument with Smith was he couldn't find an in and rather than possibly going something to do with Bond and Blofeld, he wrote some tenuous thing about Bond falling in love and leaving.
Radiohead's SPECTRE song was much more ambiguous and mysterious, definitely more in keeping with the film.
The element that Smith used and the title just doesn't ring true.
So having the song be not really about anything just a play on the title is fine. Though if you are going to reference an element of the story because you aren't able to make the title work, make sure what your lyrics are depicting really rings true with the film and the character.
I'm afraid Sam Smith didn't do this regardless of the first UK no. 1 and 2nd title song Oscar of the series.
Adele and Epworth at least got this right.
@Resurrection I hope I wrong bit I just don't feel that excited or enthusiastic for some reason.
We will find out soon enough.
I feel sorry for you. Couldn’t be more excited for a new Bond after waiting 5 years.
This is a tremendous challenge for any script writer. Plus the "comings and goings" re the writers perhaps indicates that no one write came up with a superb concept that ticked all of the boxes.
I grew up on GF, TB, YOLT and OHMSS................ all which had more spectacular elements at the end than the PTS. This just what I'm used to.
I just think most pre-title sequences are always more memorable than the finale and I think that's always their aim with these openings, and I don't think it unbalances it, because most finales aren't boring either, and the pre-titles have always been considered a whole James Bond movie in 10 to 15 minutes, even if they're connected to the grander plot, so it makes sense that they would be more elaborate to some degree.