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Every Bond movie could have been better in some way or other. Even the amazing LTK could have been better with a Barry score.... ;)
In NTTD Cary had a greater grasp and understanding of this relationship and he was better at setting obstacles for Bond, each one bigger and progressed the story forward to “that ending” that, to me, was justified and fully earned (especially when looking at it over a five film arc).
Kudos to Cary et al. It was a huge film and they pulled it off with aplomb….
Absolutely, so…. I believed in their romance within the first seconds of NTTD. The same can’t be said with the entirety of Sp…
And the magic of what Fukunaga pulled off was somehow giving relevancy to such a flawed predecessor while creating a new story that in the end threaded together conclusions for all plots of the four previous films.
And having it literally blow up in his face.
Few things get under Bond’s skin, and THAT just flat out triggers him.
Progress.... =D>
After this latest film I can now say I actually like the ending of SP. By comparison to NTTD, I now firmly believe the climactic ending of NSNA is a masterpiece.
LOL, yeah... wink & all.
That’s my only issue with NTTD, we didn’t see Bond as a corpse just to hammer in how utterly dead he is.
In that case, Pierce Brosnan didn't make a single Bond film ;)
In all seriousness, I think SPECTRE would have been the best entry to end Craig's run. I think it's the most cinematically classic of his films that gets better every time I pop it in.
TND is my 3rd favourite Bond. But if they don't exist for you, that's fine.
NTTD & MR don't exist for me.
We all have our own likes & dislikes here. ;)
Oh yes, they sure exist for me, just like all the other Bond films I don't particularly love.
ALL the others?
You're nit picking on one word here.
ALL the Bond films "exist" for me. I am less enamored of some (MR, DAD, SP) than of others. But NTTD seems to be tweaking some fans REALLY strongly; others are perhaps going a bit too far in their defense of the film. Let's all scale it back, okay gang? There will be another fellow coming along in a while; this sort of thing will never happen to him... ;)
Lol what corpse? Bond got vaporised to the nth degree.
No more soap opera, no years for prep & then seat of the pants film-making.
Tim Dalton, de-aged will star, Campbell will direct, Arnold will score.
Arnold Schwarzenegger?
And BTW, there's a script making the rounds in Hollywood with several classical composers featured as action heroes. Arnold quite likes the script; he's already called the producers and told them, "I'll be Bach."
Actually, your scenario still requires a scriptwriter. I suppose Richard Maibaum is coming back from the dead along with Bond himself?
No, I'll be the writer.
Don't ask, I won't tell..
If I read a novel, and a character dies, then the next novel in the series, the character is back without explanation, I'd think that was a poor show, and I'd feel cheated. I can't see how films should be any different. Especially films made by the same studio and team. I'm well aware CR was an 'origin story', but by the end of SF everything was in so obviously put in place to make him the same Bond as the original series. Just different actors in the roles of Q, M, Moneypenny and Bond.
As I keep saying, to invest any emotion in a fictional character, the story-teller has a responsibility to keep to a cohesive narrative. Killing off a main character and resurrecting them in the next episode of the series without explanation doesn't make sense, so therefore the reader/viewer feels cheated. And I can't understand why you don't.
Could you please write the gunbarrel in the beginning with the proper dots, blood, etc?
Because I understand that Craig’s films were always conceptually in a separate bubble from the previous films. Just like how other iterations of fictional characters function in their own worlds. What I didn’t know was that Craig Bond would have a definite end rather than carry over with another actor.