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I need it fast - can't afford more theater trips XD and yes, it'll be fun to watch from the comfort of my home and have it join the others as a familiar title!
Its spot on my shelf is already empty and waiting! I’d just rent it but I’m a cheap ass and would rather wait a few weeks, save the money on the rental, and then have the experience feel even more fresh since I’ll have waited so long since my last viewing.
As much as I love the cinema experience and everything that comes with it, I have also come to appreciate the pristine color beauty, clarity and sharpness my TV has to offer. In truth, I can't wait for another round of NTTD on that particular medium either.
I relate 100% X) I do want to take the plunge and get a new collection with all of them though for the sake of completeness, with this era having ended. I never upgraded to 4K - content with DVDs/Blu-Rays myself - but I'm sure it will look fantastic. I can't wait to be able to see it at home multiple times though and have the fun of catching tons of things on countless rewatches like I have the other Bond films I have watched so many times.
The opening scene in Norway was odd, for lack of a better term. It didn't scream Bond at all, but I guess that's what they were going for. However, it was very suspenseful and really picked up after Madeline shoots Safin.
Matera- Excellent. Probably my favorite PTS of the Craig era, if not the series. I loved how they dragged it out. Leaving Madeline on the train as the dots started moving. One of my favourite anticipation of Bond films is the transition from the PTS to the credits.
Jamaica/Cuba- Again, great stuff. I was smiling the entire Cuba sequence from when he meets Paloma to stealing the plane. That whole sequence just screamed classic Bond to me. Not a fan of how Felix died, but it is what it is.
London- Good to see them back together. Meeting with Q at his house was a great touch.
Blofeld/Norway- This is when it starts to get weird for me. I definitely liked Waltz performance this time as Blofeld. However, Bond kinda goes off the rails here. I didn't mind that Bond discovers he has a child. A part of me, in my head, would just end the film here when he makes Mathilde breakfast, but I would miss out on the pretty good chase/stalk through the woods, as well as how Ash is disposed of.
Safins Lair- Great action and tension and good dialogue between Safin and Bond.
With that being said, I felt gutted that Bond ends up dying. I dont know if I was more upset that he dies or the creative decision for him to die. That alone was enough, at the time, to not want to see it again. I've watched bootleg YouTube clips of his final scenes to make future viewings more bearable. My wife asked me as we were leaving the theater if I wanted a picture in front of the giant cardboard cutout. I rejected, thinking it was like taking a picture in front of a gravestone. If there was literally any other ending that didn't involve him dying, then it would have been a perfect 10/10 for me as a whole. I'll rate it a 7/10 since I can make up for the ending with everything great that came before it.
When I say I was depressed after seeing NTTD, I don't mean it was because Bond died- it was because I had just seen a Bond film I would never watch again. And it hammered home something for me: all through Craig's tenure I was trying to enjoy his movies. QOS was the only movie I had only slight issues with, all the others had stuff I had to accept to like them, just because it's all the new Bond we've been getting.
My favourite Bond movies I merely enjoy. I don't have to try. Well, okay, I have to 'try' a little with AVTAK...
Anyway NTTD makes more angry than anything else.
This.
The melodrama in the DC era has always felt forced to me (apart from Vespers demise, well handled), though I've always looked past the whole shenanigan and have found other things that I do genuinely enjoy about his films.
It's the poor way the death was constructed that I found disappointing, not the actual outcome...
But today I want to say again that I enjoy the whole film, and I still - after much thought and having seen it 3 times in the cinema - find the fitting heroic, noble, moving, truly fitting and appropriate for Craig's Bond. And I am very glad this was done the way it was. So well delivered, in my opinion. It need never be done again, but having the full story arc with Craig's Bond is a real gift for me. I'm actually happy EON chose to be this brave, do it once and do it right, with this particular director, cinematographer, and actors. All superb. All memorable - and for me, that means memorable in a good way. I still rank this film very highly. It won't change much for me over the years.
I love Daniel Craig's Bond movies. He will be missed greatly by many. At the same time, I am so satisfied with the ending of NTTD and that story arc, that I feel excited about the next film. It will be different, something fresh, and that is great to look forward to.
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I need a Bond Marathon....
There I'm on record saying that. That would mean announcement of new Bond actor by summer and new director by fall. A bit hasty? Perhaps.. B-)
Like I've said before, just get Dalton & de-age-y him. Martin Campbell is still in action. There. See? I'm a problem eliminator.
I can completely get that.
In March (or was it April) 2020 I had a lovely day out planned for me and my girlfriend for the first day of NTTD; Imax cinema, meal first, drinks afterwards and a swanky hotel room booked. Lockdown ruined that, and now I'm glad it did, because I'd have come out the cinema with a mood like someone had keyed my DB5*
And that's not to say people that liked the ending are wrong, it's just that the ending was wrong for me. But it wasn't wrong like the para-surfing was wrong, or the pigeon was wrong, it was wronger on a deeper level. It felt disrespectful to the whole cinematic James Bond deal.
I wouldn't have wanted my photo taken with the cardboard cutout either. Not after I watched them kill him off.
*I don't have a DB5, of course. But I do have a girlfriend.
I definitely want Cary back as my first choice. With Linus.
My concern as well, which makes me sad, because historically he's been so strong.
I line up with all of that. I'm back and forth on Fukunaga.
I was surprised that they didn't have the slightest problem with the ending. They thought it worked very well this way (and they haven't been spoilered before).
All my five (male) colleagues that watched it with me liked or even loved NTTD. The only one who didn't enjoy it was my wife ;)
While the first hour of the movie is close to perfection, the rest is still very good, imo. I couldn't sleep much after my first screening, but the more I watch it the more I'm convinced that the ending is fitting and doesn't drag the movie at all. A great Bond movie with the chance to enter my top ten. I'm still not sure if I prefer it to SF (my #10) or not. Time to watch SF soon...
Yes, indeed. Two brief scenes with all characters that were close Bond and that's it. More would have been too much. Imagine a funeral where they are standing at his grave while it is raining? Good that they didn't go such a cliché route.
Seconded, especially the bolded part. Now that would have been soap opera-ish.
One thing I noticed is that the person that clinks his glass is Tanner. Even though we never saw them do much beyond work, it was nice to see that gesture from Tanner.
I've brought it up a couple of times, but Tanner actually looks the most torn up about Bond's death as it happens. Q has tears let loose, but if you look at the shot of M in profile, Tanner is out of focus in the background but he looks like he's in complete agony.
I actually remembered you saying that and had a look out for it on my last viewing (rental at home); it didn't quite seem so dramatic to me, but maybe I just saw it differently.