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Lol, you make dying sound about as consequential as Bond choosing to wear a different coloured tie!
I know that is what is going to happen, and we will all deal with it and move on
But IMO it's still a "Crank - High Voltage" level crazy idea
Very good review! Think its pretty much on the money! Whats good is very good, but its weighed down by a lot of bad stuff!
I presume that's Primo you are talking about, re henchman. I couldnt agree more, think he had zero screen presence, lousy bad guy!
That is an EPIC comment. Thank you. I'm sure you're right, too.
I agree. To my eyes the film did not give any indication of a female Bond, code name theory, etc...
I think a lot of the comments might be from casual fans misinterpreting the ending and recalling that initial press about the female 007. From personal experience, I still have friends tell me that Tom Hardy or Idris Elba are going to be the next Bond - insisting it as a hard fact because they read it somewhere.
I do think most of us know it simply ended the Craig story and we will no doubt just reboot again in a few years time.
Yeah, moreover, whatever you do, @Luds, don't go away again ok? You have no idea how you're needed again around here ;)
Nomi's not going to be the one. The announcement is that "James Bond will be back", not "007".
Yeah, Primo. It’s weird they gave him the eyeball gimmick and then didn’t do anything with it besides his death. His two fights with Bond were so brief as well.
Yes the public are largely clueless.
In a few years time they won’t even remember he’s dead. “Did he die in the last one? Or was that Harrison Ford? I can’t remember now.”
I’m absolutely baffled by it. It’s like they’ve never before seen a film that completely disregards its predecessor in a series.
IMO B26 will make no reference to Madeleine or Craig’s death. It will have Bond on a mission, there will be a woman and a villain, there will be M and a gadget or two and a big theme song and a PTS.
A few fans will argue about “eh what continuity timeline is this?” but Eon will ignore them and just continue to bank all the money
100% agree
Not to mention - Bond has done it before, and can do so again.
In the case of this Bond, they have made such a big thing about Bond dying, taking it so seriously and milking it in the film for all it's worth, I think there are a lot of people that can't believe that the same production team would just turn around and start a new Bond sequence almost immediately. It kind of cheapens the death.
Safin's motivation seems quite muddy at best. Perhaps with the benefit of future captions/subtitles it will be clearer to me, but I tend to think not. That speech about "free will" made little sense, at least to me, but then maybe I missed something.
Nevertheless, it almost doesn't matter. The mere fact that Safin was in possession of such a weapon, while near the moment of disseminating it to unnamed others, both amidst what was becoming a full-blown international incident, was reason enough for the urgency in blowing up his island.
I'm glad you enjoy the film too. A lot of people were praising the film as we were walking out of the cinema tonight.
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That's a good point; what did his eye actually do apart from work as a camera? That's not hugely evil in itself, it's like a baddie having a quirk of a hearing aid.
Yes it's bonkers. It's like: do you remember how Tobey Maguire was Spider Man and then Andrew Garfield was? Or how Christian Bale was Batman, faked his death and stopped being Batman, but then Ben Affleck was Batman? It's that.
Yes I would say it's his strongest performance. If CR was Bafta-nom worthy, I would say this is.
Pardon?
Exactly so ...
... there's been a semi-realistic sense of deathward trajectory from CR onwards, including Vesper herself and Bond's line about 00s having a short life expectancy, of course. It's even hinted at in the Matera scene, in the car, when Madeleine has to beg him to do something. And Bond responds, barely able to mutter the word, and absolutely devastated by her supposed betrayal, "OK" ... as if for a single moment he contemplated doing nothing.
It's in this concern with mortality (and the consequences of one's actions) that the ending of NTTD makes both emotional & thematic sense, and where we might find the consistency so lacking in some of the plot points over the arc of Craig films.
Ah, the usual fandom menace pricks. I can guess what’s in it without clicking the video and giving it a hit. Let me guess, it’s “woke” because Bond only has sex with one woman (funnily this has already happened before NTTD) and that it features a black woman with the 007 designation.
OH NOES!
Aston, you appear to at least have a semblance of intelligence so it’s kind of sad that you fall for this incel crap.
It's not like we'll be getting a new Bond film first thing next year or anything, so I disagree that it cheapens anything. We're likely several years away from the next Bond/Bond film. As such, his death will remain exclusive to the arc of Daniel Craig's five films whether the public remembers that or not. Okay, it's unlike anything else previously in the series, but this was the first time a Bond actor has had all his films be so intricately connected.
Ultimately, whether you liked NTTD or not, we certainly all know that the character is going to return. Craig's version of Bond is dead, but I don't think moving in a different direction with a new actor cheapens anything.
The true tragedy of the film. I like to think that maybe, just maybe, Mathilde later found it floating in the water somewhere.