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Two movies in 5 years.
QOS how much i liked it 3-3 have been better then the 2-4 we get. Spectre - Bond 26 can be 10 years if there release it in 2025. In 2025 the 4th 5 cardboard in Spectre is over if we count NTTD Feb or April 2020 release year. But if the take delay include then it wil be 2026. In both cases Bond 27 should be out in 2028. That speak against 2,5 or 3 years but we wait long enough.
Of course i stil hope on Bond 26 next year and Bond 27 in 2027. Rather see it happen we get news about Johnny English 4 later this year for release next year ^:)^ and delay of Mi8 to November 2024.
Nor is a quality film necessarily a good film.
Honestly I don't really think NTTD was worth a 6 year wait. My least favorite entry after a long gap.
In fact, I'd probably have enjoyed the film as is more had it been released in 2017. Then we could've had Aidan Turner's first film in 2019, his second in 2021, and we'd be eagerly awaiting his third to come out this November.
Okay that was just an excuse to annoyingly bring up Aidan Turner again. :D :D :D
Seriously, though I'd prefer a 2 year gap. I don't remotely believe quality suffers from only 2 years. I think it suffers when the films are procrastinated. You get rusty if too much time passes.
If you don't use it, you lose it.
A lot of the gaps in the Craig era were not Barbara and Michael's fault.
SF got delayed because of MGM/financing issues.
https://deadline.com/2010/01/exclusive-sam-mendes-about-to-be-hired-as-consultant-on-bond-23-21327/
NTTD got delayed because of Danny Boyle (okay that was partly their fault, hiring the wrong guy) and Covid (certainly not their fault).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/22/danny-boyle-james-bond-daniel-craig
QoS and SP were delivered more or less on time. Speed over quality?
It should have been:
CR 2006
QoS 2008
SF 2011
SP 2014
NTTD 2018
We waited a total of three extra years than Eon intended.
It's also important to note that as the Bond actor inevitably gets more famous, he becomes less available. This will happen again. Even Connery started slowing down toward the end of his run.
Excellent points. :)
As for future releases: every three years would be great.
I think that's pretty good by Eon, all factors considered.
Would I love for Eon to stockpile scripts and shoot them every two years? Sure but MGW often says they try to be true to whatever the current threat of the moment is (different from Cubby, who hewed toward fairly standard megalomaniac plots in the '70s and '80s), so I don't think we'll see them shooting films back-to-back. They don't want the films, or the product-placement technology in them, to feel dated.
In the future, I think there will be a two-year gap between the first two, to capitalize on the new actor, then maybe 3 years, with maybe a 4-year gap in there.
I don’t think MGW will be in charge much longer. He’s had his fair share of health problems, it seems recently. Also, Amazon probably wants movies faster if they have a true say in production. Bond does print money, honestly. I’d say 2-3 years is likely more and more.
Sounds about right, I'd say.
Okay how about this one next:
Would you rather take a train ride with Solitaire or Anya Amasova?
Solitaire, no contest.
We could play Gin, I could lose, I could use an old adage. Unlucky at cards!
;) ;) :x
She is very beautiful.
Tee Hee is easier to beat than Jaws...
and she isn't very angry when you stow her with the folding bed...
And again: she is extremely beautiful
Anya, again, like what I've said before in here when she's compared to Pam Bouvier, she's not that friendly, she's cold and distant and likely to be more impatient, we would've likely to get in more heated arguments than friendly conversations, I just seeing Anya not being a nice person, plus she's not to be trusted.
Solitaire would've likely to be fun to hang out with, I could play with her at cards, tell me my fortune (I would accept it even if it wasn't real), and we would talk a lot of things for a very long time, laugh together, and probably being ended up being a genuine friend of mine.
Both are damsels, but Solitaire was more understandable and she's not a fighter, so in a good way, with Anya, she's damsel in a bad way that she's made out to be a tough, well trained agent, but ended up a damsel in distress in a 'not-so-understandable' situations.
So Solitaire by a mile, well, in short, I would prefer every (and other) Bond Girls than Anya Amasova (maybe except Mary Goodnight and Stacey Sutton).
Many Bond girls are a delight to behold. Many are gorgeous; stunningly beautiful; absolutely, insanely, ridiculously alluring.
But the one that gets my number one vote is Solitaire.
A train ride with this angel? Where do I sign up, please?
Oh. Muh. Lawd.
Lets move to the literary side of Bond!
Would you rather read a John Gardner continuation novel or a Raymond Benson continuation novel?
You can pick whatever book that your preferred author wrote!
I liked John Gardner, and I think he wrote some good books, I kinda liked Scorpius and its concept, and I think he wrote a great and genuine love interest in Flicka Von Grusse, she's one of the best Bond Girls for me along with Vesper Lynd, Tiffany Case, Honeychile Ryder, Domino Vitali and Gala Brand (or Vivienne Michel), she's a fully realized, competent, no-nonsense, rounded Bond Girl, and there's a genuine romance between her and Bond, and most convincing for that matter, it's very easy to buy Bond falling in love with her.
And I liked how he explored Bond's character more further (Making him visit EuroDisney, Promoting him to a Captain), his exploration of the Bond character was interesting.
Some parts were cheesy, but some characters are interesting like Nena Blofeld and Cedar Leiter.
One thing I liked about Raymond Benson is his Union Trilogy, I liked how he gave such characters of Draco, Bunt, Kissy Suzuki and even their child, James Jr a resolution.
With probably the exception of Mathis, as I'm not a fan of his treatment of Mathis, but the rest old characters, I liked how he gave closure at.
The sex scenes may also a bit uncomfortable and some weren't necessary to the narrative, but the plots in his books are great too.
It's hard for me to choose, as both have sides that I liked.