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Textbook masochist.
Saw CS twice in the cinema and thirty plus times on dvd.Easily the best IMO.
Some people just enjoy seeing one movie a lot more than others. I'm not sure why that's a bogus thought.
I've seen it four times, and I'll be seeing it a fifth this weekend, possibly a sixth, seventh, and/or eighth by the end of the year. I throw as much money as I can at Bond when he makes his rounds at the local theaters.
Obviously, I already know to much about the film, so I can tell it's going to be epic. What's also highly exciting is the fact that I'm seeing it with my flatmate, who has somehow managed to avoid all things Skyfall-related, and over the past year I've really struggled not to reveal anything about the film to them. So, I can't wait to see their reaction to the film. No doubt I'll see it a second time on the big screen. Bring it on, I say!
I don't like rewatching films at the cinema, I get bored. I normally see it once, twice if I really enjoyed it, then I just wait for the DVD.
Why do I keep watching it over and over? Because I absolutely love it. Simple as that. I can think of no better reason.
I've given SF it's three requisite viewings. I found it dragging by the 3rd viewing.
It's an excellent film in many ways. Quite interesting thematically but it doesn't grab me as re-watchable must-see again-and-again Bond adventure.
Now its back to regularly scheduled re-watches of the Guy Hamilton classics, the other golden era Connery/Laz epics and the post-Hamilton Rog and Dalts adventures.
I'll even do the odd Brozzathon, but I can't be motivated to watch the re-boot films. They just sit on the shelf. They aren't as much fun.
For me, seeing a movie I love again and again about twice a year is completely normal and I love that: I have seen Octopussy (my favourite) about 50 or 60 times since 1983, A View to a Kill (second best) about 50 times, and so on. And even so, there are plenty of tiny details to discover each and every time...
The 'reboot' of the series was very disturbing for me, because I felt it was unnecessary and extremely deleterious; moreover, I think D. Craig is NOT Bond at all (as some have already said, he would have been a tremendous baddie, such as Grant in FRWL, but as Bond I say it: NO!!!).
I thought CR was the worst Bondfilm ever made: not bad, but really mediocre (9/20); it was the only time in the series I was disappointed seeing a Bondfilm (beforehand, I thought Dr. No was the 'less good' Bondfilm: 13/20, and Dr. No is not disappointing).
I wanted not to go and see CR, but I went to see it and... So I did not go and see QoS (which I discovered on DVD and considered as an average Bondfilm, despite the presence of Craig, much more acceptable in such a fast-paced and stressed movie...).
In such circomstances, I will NOT go and see Skyfall, because I hate to go to the pictures and be disappointed: loss of time, loss of money, and the feeling to have been deceived... I've read to many negative reviews on the IMDB, so I will wait. Of course, I will see it one day... Will I consider it a master-piece? a piece of crap? Of course, I cannot say. And it is very disturbing after 35 years being a Bond fan...
2 and 3 were good, and 4 was fun (the less said about 5, the better), but I think Balboa was the first Rocky film to actually come close to matching the original.
One thing about this new fangled digital presentation: the film is in as pristine condition now as the first time I saw it. In the old celluloid days as the weeks went by the print would get more and more scratched and dirty. There would sometimes even be a jump where the film had broken and the projectionist had just chopped out the damaged section and spliced the two halves back together again.
The negative reviews about SF many times mention things that are completely new: especially that it is not a Bond movie (!!!).
About Octopussy and A View to a Kill: of course there are negative reviews, but:
- At the time, it was impossible for me to be disappointed by a Bond movie - no matter the negative reviews: in the 80s the Bond movies were so exquisitely made;
- None of those reviews said these movies were not Bond movies or things like that; things have changed, because the series has undergone so many changes that it is barely recognisable (FUBAR, see what I mean?). And THAT is new. Sadly new...
If you don't go watch a Bond film you can't consider yourself a Bond fan, it's as simple as that.
AVTAK, I can't really stick up for that much. Walken was great though and Moore was good outside of the action scenes.
1. "If you don't go watch a Bond film you can't consider yourself a Bond fan, it's as simple as that."
2. "I'm sorry to disappoint you but based on what you wrote so far, in my opinion, you don't have a clue about what makes a Bond film a Bond film."
3. "Let me get this straight... You are saying the Craig era is so far away from anything Bond films (yet they have Fleming elements) are, yet you stick up for films like OP and AVTAK which have the absolute opposite of who James Bond is with no dimensions to him to the point of parody? Ok..."
Things cannot be that simple.
1. The fact that SF is presented as a Bond movie does not make it a Bond movie (I felt that many times while watching CR). Since the 'reboot' of the series, I have the disturbing and puzzling feeling that the producers absolutely want to keep making money with the franchise they own, without respecting the spirit and tone of the previous movies. When I read that B. Broccoli thought her father would have loved Craig, I immediately reacted the opposite way - poor Cubby, he must be turning in his grave...
So, maybe I'm not a Bond fan any more - I mean, a fan of the new pseudo-Bond...
2. To me, authentic Bond movies were made in the 60s, 70s and 80s: when I see these movies, I feel the bondian atmosphere in them, that they are part of the cinematic Bond world, no doubt about that. Then came the 90s: the best aspect of the Brosnan movies was... Brosnan himself; as for the rest, the movies were good and enjoyable, rather bondian, but sometimes, such as in GoldenEye, it seemed I was watching rather a copy of a Bond movie, not a genuine Bond movie. To me it is no coincidence: the new films were made after Cubby Broccoli left the series because of his illness: the new producers then took over, but they were unable to be as good as Cubby ever was - I consider Cubby Broccoli was a genius, a hell of a producer.
3. The fact of putting Fleming elements in a movie does not make it a Bond movie: these elements, combined with new ones (created by the scriptwriters) have to be used properly, like in FYEO, OP or TLD (among the best Bond movies).
OP and AVTAK develop exactly what the cinematic Bond character should be: a perfect mixture of seriousness and fantasy, a middle-aged man with great experience, able to face any danger and escape unharmed, a character able to create a unique sense of intelligence and danger and smartness and adventure and action... With Craig, Bond has been turned into some kind of a rogue agent, a killing machine with no brains (kill first, think after), who even seems to enjoy himself when killing someone (the CR pre-title sequence, the weakest of them all, was almost shocking because of its gratuitous nonsensical violence). Nothing like what James Bond should be.
There seems to be several definitions of James Bond and good Bond movies among people...
I suggest you forget the Bond franchise now and become a fan of something else. The new Bond is here to stay, and this is the best era I've ever known to be a Bond fan (having being a fan for over 35 years too.....)