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Here's another fantasy would you rather concerning the films.
Connery while the mold as the first Bond had some mis-steps. One that fans tend to harp on is NSNA. Connery did the film as an FU to Broccoli et al. He also did it as his career was getting stagnant and he needed a hit. The result is an uneven film. Critics were not kind and neither is the Bond community when it comes to this film.
Craig was seen as THE Bond with strong performances in all his films. Famously, mis-quoted, saying after SP "I'd rather slit my wrists then return to the role." Daniel was indeed coerced back and to do one more film. NTTD is a film that has polarized the community. Some love it's take on the character and the death of Bond. Others view it as a woeful ending to a great run of films by Daniel.
Would you rather Connery had not done NSNA OR that Craig had not done NTTD?
Would you prefer to live in a world where the last time Connery played Bond was in 1971 in DAF? Or would you prefer to live in a world where Daniel drives off in the Aston in SP?
I'd rather see Craig's last as how we've seen it in SF, him telling M that he's going to do missions with pleasure, and that picture of him standing at the rooftop looking at the Union Jack.
No step brother (I'm jealous of my step brother) angle, no Madeleine Swann, no interconnected storylines, no deep familial connections.
Would definitely keep NTTD as a top flight Bond film that's important to the franchise.
Just proposed an interesting topic to discuss in this thread.
Thank you 😊
This is also what I'd say. Connery also had a pretty satisfying fairwell at the end of NSNA too.
If we had someone else than Craig in NTTD, the film might have turned out much differently, which I wouldn't mind.
EON doesn't care about Fleming's Bond. We should already know this.
Is that why Barbara Broccoli had the head creatives, including the director of NTTD, read YOLT?
You may not like EoN, but your statement is quite presumptuous.
Why? 50 years of movies prove that.
Really? So why are you here? To educate us on why the last fifty of sixty years of EoN Bond films are horrible and we’re made out of a dislike for the character?
Could you explain that to us in English for those of us who don't speak spy?
And I mean 'done one' in the Liverpudlian way.
I have a soft spot for NSNA as that and OP cemented my Bond fandom.
I hate to face this, but NTTD has kind of steered me away from Bond. It's a shame, because I still love the film regardless.
They killed Bond like they Killed M. They wanted another Skyfall. That's how It works.
No, it doesnt
If this is your elaborate way of telling me that EON has a habit of re-using storylines, than that's correct only in the snese that they like to use the original material, and, since a few years, elements of the continuation novel(s) (in this case, SP used the torture scene from Col. Sun).
But by no menas does it imply they just want to repeat things. That is something completely different.