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Well they couldn't really have him continue into the next actor's tenure. I know there was a 19-year age gap between Dalton and David Hedison but I think the characters work better when they're a similar age. Plus the next film will be a reboot so they might as well do a bit of a clear out.
Love their channel, glad to see them compile a little Bond video!
The action is so exciting in NTTD but I just feel slightly detached from it because it's over before it's begun
One of my issues with the film, particularly when compared to the long runtime. A lot of these action sequences and setpieces needed another few minutes, like the Ash fight or the sequence in the woods in Norway. For how much they sold that entire chase in the marketing, I felt like most of it was shown in trailers (including the Ash reveal) and left a lot to be desired.
That second part is really it for me. I just watched the trailers too often and spent too much time thinking about what other awesome things could top the stuff we saw in the trailers and then there just wasn't all that much more in some of the sequences. As awesome as the Norway slope jump was in the trailer, I think it would have been way cooler seeing it in the film for the first time and it would have upgraded the entire sequence in my eyes, because that and the two instances of cars flipping (which also were both in trailers) are really the big beats in that sequence and we'd seen them before.
Compare that to Cuba and the stairwell fight, of which we - I think - didn't see that much apart from Paloma kicking dudes and the granades dropping down the stairwell and those worked way better for me.
I said that right at the start after my first viewing, and it probably sullied my view of the action sequences, and like @Creasy47 said, most of the highpoints were shown in the trailers! But I've got over that, and I now love the action set pieces, brief and all that they are!
Absolutely mate. Completely agree with you and @Creasy47 I love the action sequences, they're tense and exciting, I just wish they lasted longer.
I'd say I'd seen the trailers too much but I only saw the initial trailer a handful of times, purposely so I didn't feel overly familiar
The one shot I wished I hadn't seen was in the woods, when Ash drives at Bond and flips over! It was a cool moment, bit ruined since I knew it was coming!
That's why I gave the first trailer one watch and then avoided all the others. So it was a long gap between the trailer and seeing the film.
So glad I did. Most of the film was a surprise to me.
You're stronger than I am. I'll definitely be doing that with the next one, definitely. Definitely. Probably. Maybe. Hopefully, anyway.
It makes me wonder what novel-reading Bond fans in the '60s thought, especially with YOLT: "This is...not what is in the novel!"
For NTTD, I watched all the trailers, but did not parse them obsessively. I'm here regularly but I tried not to click on the spoiler tags in the forum--of course there was the occasional halfwit who didn't use spoiler tags.
And then, since I am in the US, I stayed off the forum before the UK premiere until I saw the film.
That seemed to work. I was surprised by most of the big twists (except for Mathilde) and even mildly surprised by Bond's death (except to the extent it's foreshadowed in the film).
When you said "huge review", I thought it was going to be 30-45 minutes. The video is 2:16 hours!! That's longer than most Bond films!
Hahaha I know right. I've listened to it in two halves today driving to and from work, needless to say Calvin leaves no stone unturned
Listening to Calvin this afternoon made me think, I do wish we'd explored Bond having a child differently. The actress playing Mathilde was fantastic, but the child felt like a prop rather than a character or development to the plot.
Regardless of the intent, I think the "she's not yours" aspect of the script was somewhat misguided
Yeah I watched that last night.Despite the length it’s a great review.He gives the film its due but suitably trashes it where it deserves it ( Safins unclear motivations,and Bonds death for example ).
This short is amusing, though I must warn you it's a bit gruesome. Not too bloody but it could make you wince.
I will say I wasn't as averse to the idea of Bond dying as he and a lot of others seemed to be. The Craig era represents two bookends, the beginning and end of Bond's 00 career. So ending with Bond dying actually feels very appropriate to me and I certainly wouldn't change it if I was charged with rewriting it. I just can't see Bond growing old and living a languid existence until his vices get the better of him, as it did with Fleming. He's a man of action so him sacrificing himself and dying on a mission is exactly the way I always imagined the character (not just the Craig version) would meet his end.
That being said, I completely agree with his view that the moment is unearned and contrived, and the fact that Safin; one of the weakest villains in the entire series, is the one to achieve it just makes it feel especially hollow.
He was clearly bleeding out and dying from what looked like VERY fatal gunshot wounds.
There are clear shots of him bleeding and one in particular of his blood dripping on the ground,he barely managed to climb the ladder to the top of the facility.He was dying.
So the fatal gunshots did happen, but they couldn't get in the way of the final stance and smile. Bond there suffering and bleeding and bent over like a staple wasn't the death they wanted. But the bullets were needed to get to that point of no return I think.