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The OCD in me is livid. Could definitely be a continuity thing, but Harris in that straitjacket is rocking quite the beard.
With no Bond film on the horizon this is my go to spy franchise at present.
I've enjoyed all the film in this series, but from GP onwards, they've really upped the ante in my opinion. Love GP and RN, and with the same team back for MI6 I'm hoping for great things. If its anything like the last two, I think they'll deliver.
Light the fuse....
Agreed. It's my go to franchise at the moment as well, and I'm very confident Cruise will deliver. The best thing I read in the above post was that he and Kirby have great chemistry. That's an essential ingredient for a top notch MI film. If they can combine the larger than life feel of the 4th one with the superb character interplay and performances of the 5th one, they will have a sure fire killer film on their hands.
So yes, I hope that EON will be focused on account of MI6. They are the major competitor these days - not Bourne. The fact that many life long Bond fans (myself most certainly included) were far more impressed with MI-RN than SP should give them pause.
I was relieved that they didn't choose to one-up MI-GP with SF (there's no way they could have, because nobody does the stunts like Cruise - no disrespect to Craig), but rather, went down the personal character thriller route. I hope they do that again, if Craig is back. Play to your lead actor's strengths, and not his weaknesses.
Like others have noted, I'd really like him to step back and do a Phelps or Hunley thing going forward rather than leave the franchise, with some deliberate field work (perhaps one really kick 'a' action scene) at some point during a future film. Like Ali (or any other great boxer or athlete) during his later days, he will still be capable of action brilliance in spurts, even if he can't do it throughout the whole film. He is a good enough actor that he can deliver in a mainly behind the desk role as well.
We saw indications of that in MI-RN when he was instructing Benji in Austria before the Opera sequence.
We sometimes forget that he is a superb and acclaimed actor, and not just an action star. I can see him easily gravitating into more mature character roles when the time is right, but I believe he knows he has to give it his all while he still has the physicality. In fact, I'd like to see him tackle a romantic comedy (Grant style) while he still has his looks. I think he could really nail it.
Ok, I'll say it, Rogue Nation was better than SPECTRE! :D
Sadly, the MI series has delivered more than the Bonds have recently. Forget trying to compete with Bourne, MI is setting the pace in the action/spy genre as far as I'm concerned.
This is how I feel about the Craig Bond films.
Yes, and franchises like Mission Impossible learned to adapt. After MI3, the tone of the films changed dramatically to accommodate the new times. That's why Tom Cruise is a great leading man. He could adapt as the times changed, and the films have only grown more popular as a result.
With Craig, we're stuck in 2006.
I didn't say he changed character, or grown. He adapted to the scripts, and that's a far more subtle skill. Cruise has a lot of durability in that sense.
Seconded. It's not even a contest, really.
I like your idea of him becoming a mentor type, overseeing the operations. Then, at a point in the mission where everything is going wrong, he can perform some vital stunt which saves it. I think that way they could make another trilogy after VI.
Actually, Dan Briggs (Steven Hill) was the original. And, there are a number of first-season episodes where Briggs gets the mission, participates in the briefing scene and isn't seen again.
That was because Hill, for religious reasons, would leave work at sundown on Friday. In real life, scripts were revised. Originally, Martin Landau's Rollin Hand was only going to be in a handful of episodes. Some of the revisions had Rollin in more episodes.
I would just add that I think Dan has adapted to the feel of each film. He could do light but cold in CR, morose and introspective in QoS, and a return to the mix of light and earnest in SF and SP in a more traditional Bondian tone. I can chart Bond's growth through his performance at every moment, and that's all down to Dan being conscious of how Bond is being written.
I like Cruise and MI, but Ethan is a rather empty character and because of that there's no sense of him progressing anywhere. They're fun films to watch, but I attach no heart to them. It's a shame too, as Tom could totally give him depth, even if it's just a little.