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There are several incidents since the release of SP which have left me as a Bond fan with a bitter taste in the mouth, but the onus has been on EON to give me something to get excited about, and make the right decisions. If I liked the poster, or the title, I wouldn't hesitate to say so. But I had reservations before and this poster only strengthens them. It's like all the decision-making is last minute, and someone realised that there was no poster, so they threw this out there. And the Jamaica reveal was similarly slap dash, and the title feels like it was decided in an afternoon. Its not good signs from a lifelong fan who has expectations of the kind of high quality product that Bond should be.
Good catch. Add to that the fact that if you shuffle the letters in "Dan Romer" around, you get
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The campaign is to say Bond is back. Daniel Craig/Dinner Suit/007 logo. Done. Why should it tell you about ‘what it is’? It’s a Bond film. Are you in or not? If you’re not, jog on you boring bast...
I hate it too and I understand that a crap poster isn't really going to build excitement, but come on. It's in no way a sign of the quality of the actual film. SF and SP had boring posters and they turned out great. LTK, my favourite Bond film, had a really crap poster compared to TLD. Still a brilliant film.
Slag off the poster all you want, I'll happily join in, but lets not use it as an excuse for more of your doomsaying please. You're bound to hate the film if you go into it this close minded. You might like it, you might hate it. Wait and see and give it a fair chance.
That's all. Cheerio.
Exactly. He'll probably reply soon with "no it wasn't" even though, like a lot of members on here who now slag it off, he probably loved it at the time (why else would he have that username). But even if you hate all the examples we've given you @Mendes4Lyfe, google some films you do like. I'm sure you'll find a few with terrible posters. Most modern posters are crap anyway.
But I guess some people have already made up their minds, posters or no posters.
Totally agree. There hasn't been anything about Bond 25 that has excited me after Boyle decided he was leaving. The one thing thing I am holding out in hope for is Shatterhand/YOLT being the underlying base and focus of the story, due to the rumours of this being the potential title a while ago. Then I would be getting VERY excited for this film.
- the choice of composer hasn't thrilled me. If anything, its left me feeling we are in for another insipid Newman type score, due to Romer's previous work. Had Arnold been asked to return, that alone would be leaving me feeling excited.
- the title is totally devoid of imagination, and sounds like something dreamed up during the Brosnan era.
- the teaser poster is just AWFUL. There is no getting around it. Like I have said before, it looks like it has been knocked together by someone who doesn't yet know how to use Photoshop properly.
I really hope all my fears are put to bed when I watch the new film, but the only way it would please me is if the score sounded like John Barry, and most of the film borrows from unused Fleming material. Then I would be in double-0-seven-heaven.
Brilliant! =))
It's funny that you didn't bother to mention the amazing Jaimaica BTS footage or the Choice of director/Cinematographer/Screenwriter. We had seen some amazing footage from Italy recently. You weren't thrilled about Romer but the other choices aren't really important
The choice of director/cinematographer are secondary to me when it comes to Bond. First and foremost, the script has to rely HEAVILY on Ian Fleming. Maibaum was the only person who came closest to this, so I would only take an interest in the scriptwriter if he went on record to say the film will rely heavily on Fleming scenes. Then I would be getting excited.
And the director would only be of interest to me if he said he was planning on taking the film back to the Fleming novels. Then I would be getting excited.
We had some amazing footage in SP, and look how bad that turned out. The director is only as good as the script when it comes to Bond, and the script is only good if it goes directly back to Fleming.
Well no. CR is modern Bond, and EON got it right there.
Wrong again pal.
Funny enough, had you said this during the Brozza era, I would be in agreement with you, as the films strayed waaay far away from Fleming during that period (especially DAD).
Yet even QoS and SF, both films try to return to Fleming, only doing it not very well, so there is a willingness to still do this. It's just that EON don't seem capable to do it justice anymore, instead trying to do `Fleming re-imagined' rather than take scenes directly from the novels like Maibaum could expertly do (FYEO, TLD, LTK).
CR is now seen by many as DC's best film, so EON obviously got it right there.
Let's hope you are wrong, so I'll be loving the film instead, and I'll be seeing you on the hate train, as you so obviously despise Fleming.... ;)
I assume anyone can still hop aboard the Joy Train, but feel free to criticise the food they are serving on there if it's gone stale....?
If we are talking about how one fan is more of a true Bond fan than another, I probably own far more Bond memorabilia and merchandise than you do, having been a massive fan of the franchise for 40 odd years, but if you don't like hearing criticism on a Bond forum, maybe you need to stay in your cabin....
Oh, dear.