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Purvis and Wade

PussfellaPussfella
edited December 2011 in Skyfall Posts: 56
Hello

Long time lurker - new member etc..

Thoughts - does anybody share my concern for Skyfall, Broc and Wilson have once again remained loyal to the (in my opinion) rubbish Pervis and Wade?

When they write the films on their own they're rubbish (TWINE, DAD) - just about passable with other good writers on new material (Quantum) and only ever good when presented with copper bottomed Fleming (Casino)

By this rationale - we are at best on course for another Quantum - am I the only one who finds this loyalty odd to two writers who only ever wrote a TV movie before getting signed up to Bond? (and have only written the likes of the awful Johnny English films)

"There's no point going off half cocked"

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  • GermanladyGermanlady
    Posts: 6,601
    Now lets see - P&W plus Haggis (doing very little) or P&W plus Logan (doing a lot more)
    plus no writers strike. that can piss on their parade anymore - there seem very litte similarities here to me.

    QOS was NOT the fault of P&W, it was the sad timeline, that didn't allow them to finish their script. I believe, even the least actor knows, starting a film with an unfinsidhed script, is a very bad thing - so now multilicate that to a monster like Bond. They were screwed..

    But in non favour of Forster - hadn't he cut the thing like a crazy man, it would have still been a worthwhile film. My humble two...
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    i enjoyed QOS but the problem was to follow on from CR as a direct sequel! Was there was great action but not enough drama! Craig is a great stage actor so i hope and believe that SF will have plenty of both as this guy can deliver both!
  • GermanladyGermanlady
    Posts: 6,601
    RogueAgent wrote:
    i enjoyed QOS but the problem was to follow on from CR as a direct sequel! Was there was great action but not enough drama! Craig is a great stage actor so i hope and believe that SF will have plenty of both as this guy can deliver both!

    But I believe, THIS was the probloem, they would have loved to have more drama, more playground for him to actually ACT, but the script wasn't given them a platform to do this, so they stuffed it with action ( great action even, but cut too fast). Just remember the roof top chase. This could have been a gem, but by cutting, they turned it into some ***(can't even thing of a name). On top - DC was even doing it himself and STILL they cut him off and showed just his legs at some point. Now how stupid and contraproductive is that? The guy was throwing himself into the action, getting severe injuries just to see his efforts end on the cutting floor.
    I admire, how he was still able to do a friendly "uncut Q&A "with this guy. (Forster)

  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    i agree totally, the editing did ruin the flow of the film. Can't help feel much more optimism for SF. Only concern i have is its so far away! :-( lol
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited December 2011 Posts: 13,356
    Why not try this? It was on the first page of the Skyfall board and covers the same subject: http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1998/time-to-get-rid-of-purvis-and-wade/
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited December 2011 Posts: 12,837
    TWINE was awesome, CR was great, DAD was the worst in the series and QOS had good action, but was a clusterf**k of a film. So I have to say its time they went
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Purvis and Wade do need to go i think. Having 2 different people come in to polish up your work on the last two movies must be a kick in the nuts? If we are to have a new person do the score for the movie? Why not new writers? Nobody has a divine right to the job! A bit like the actors roles really.
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