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Well he did!
I'm not sure why but I just think her and Brosnan had a bit more chemistry. They just "fitted" better IMO - the little smiles they gave one another is a bit of a tell to me. Maybe it was a bit of a motherly thing, Pierce (far inferior to Dench acting-wise) looked up to her and Dench showed him the ropes whereas with Craig it was more of a level playing field. Who knows.
this is not a female or male problem, but a problem of imposing authority figure, something that Dench fails utterly and completly at. I'd have much less problem with Craig's adolescent antics if M wasn't so soft and sweet like Dench. I don't think Connery would have listened even 1 minute to Dench's psychobabble. Male or female M for Dench's replacement, but a more imposing figure please.
Fiennes would be great IMO.
<font color=blue size=7><b>The unsure fate of Blofeld at the end of DAF was a screenwriting flaw.</b></font>
Disagree. As Tom Mankiewicz said on the Superman II:The Donner Cut DVD commentary, he thought Blofeld in Bond was like Lex Luthor in Superman, i.e., one could never really kill him off. EON had no idea in 1971 that Kevin McClory would pull the stunt he later did during TSWLM pre-production when Blofeld was supposed to be the primary villain instead of Stromberg.
Agreed. Although we at least got some kind of closure with FYEO's PTS.
Right, I think the flaw was actually in the FYEO PTS. The ending of DAF, seems to suggest that the return of Blofeld in future Bond films was a possibility. However, as @RogueAgent mentions, such an iconic figure is merely dumped down a chimney in FYEO and that's that, which really demeans the whole iconic history of the character and retroactively tarnishes the ending the DAF (no fault of DAF). Damn you FYEO PTS!
Absolutely? Although i know nothing of the reasoning behind that PTS? And regardless of the propaganda at the time between McClory and EON....etc? That just smells of sour grapes and EON made a mistake in doing it IMHO. Surely at somepoint someone must have thought? Perhaps we could buy the rights in the future like they did with CR?
Why on earth they did it i will never know? But it's all there to see? Tracey Bonds grave, Pleasance style Blofeld and the White Persian cat! I always have a heavy heart when i see that PTS. It show neither side in a positive light!
Well, at any rate it was somewhat disappointing. If you pretend OHMSS never happened the way to keep the arch villain would have been to just leave him - YOLT style - without the fuss of having him dangling. For a revenge end the fight - what fight there was - wasn't anywhere exciting enough. The way it is DAF's treatment of Blofeld is neither fish nor fowl.
It should of been made clear that he was alive then. If they wanted an unknown fate, they didn't succeed. So I agree with this thesis
The movies stopped caring about continuity with YOLT, so I don't mind that they were planning to reuse Blofeld later on, instead of killing him in DAF, which would have been a proper revenge for Tracy, really. I actually think TSWLM would have been better with Blofeld, which was the original plan, before Kevin McClory stepped in.
But they did succeed. You really didn't know if Blofeld was dead for sure. It didn't show him blowing up along with the oil rig or something.
I can't see Blofeld as the main villain in any of the 80's Bond films. I can see him as the main villain in TSWLM and/or MR, however.
<font color=blue size=7><b>GE wouldn't have been as good without Serra composing the score.</b></font>
Strongly disagree. GE(as it stands) has never been one of my favorites but would've benefited greatly from John Barry scoring it instead(and Dalton playing Bond but that's for another debate).
Well, bit of a cop out there, isn't it? Which film wouldn't benefit from a Barry score?
My tuppence: I liked Serra's effort a lot and to me it's definitely one of the more charming elements of GE. Which isn't to say it couldn't have been better.
How is it a "cop out"? From what I read, Barry was originally offered the opportunity to score GE but MGM/UA couldn't meet his price. Even if Barry had never scored any Bond film, I still am not a fan of Serra's score.