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2. A better score
3. Better production design.
4. Gadgets. "What where you expecting - an exploding pen?". Yes, actually I was.
5. A couple of memorable one-liners.
Can't argue with that. Why the annoying scene with Q making a big fuss about the exploding pen, when they then included the DB5 complete with machine guns and ejector seat. It was as if Mendes and co were 'too cool' for naff gadgets, but then included the most iconic of them all by riffing on past glories - hypocritical and lazy.
Agree - and whats the point of reintroducing Q if you dont have gadgets? I really dont want to see Bond umbilically tethered to HQ with his earpiece all the time and Q's only function being to direct him around via Google maps.
The earpiece and constant cutting to Bond's handlers at HQ drives me up the wall. He might as well be a drone being controlled from the other side of the world. Hope Mendes cuts Bond free from all that cr*p in B24 and lets him go under the high tech surveillance radar for a bit.
But he then destroys it if you remember ;)
CR and QOS were bad enough when Bond is constantly on the blower to M to justify Judi Dench's fee but SF just turned it up to 11.
The opening act of the next Bond film should go - GB, massive stunt laden PTS, title sequence, Bond says hello to Moneypenny (2 minute scene), gets his mission from M (5 minute scene), gets the odd gadget from Q (5 minute scene) then goes out in the field. At his first contact with the villain he is stripped down and all his phones and homers are found and smashed to buggery and after that HE IS ON HIS OWN.
Its really not that difficult.
Not going to happen of course. Fiennes, Wishaw, Harris and Kinnear arent going to come cheap and EON will want to get more than a sum total of 12 mins screen time out of them.
I very rarely say so,but I agree with each and every word and conclusion in this post of yours!
1. A story that is at least remotely plausible
2. No Bond/M trust/parental issues
3. No callbacks/tributes/homages/etc. to the 23 films that precede it.
4. Actually film in the locations rather than using studio backlot to fill in for just about everything.
5. If there are going to be one-liners, make them funny this time around. If they're not funny, then let's just not have them.
You spot on. Its not rocket science and its not a brain tumor. Yes, I can see EON wanting to expand the roles and give more screen time to Fiennes, Harris, and even Whishaw.
I love Fiennes and Harris and Whishaw is so interesting that EON might see it as a waste of their talents. M and Moneypenny both have some backstory that we were treated to and I care about them.
I guess the days of cardboard M, Moneypenny, Q are behind us now.
I would be more than happy if this happened, but I don't see it happening, either. Like you said, they won't come cheap to star in the film for just a few minutes.
Which, when worded like that, is a terrible, terrible idea.
And you know this how exactly?
As someone already said, they're not paying for people of Dench and Fiennes' stature and not give them anything to do. We saw M become far more involved once Dench took over the reigns to the point that she did become a co-star to Bond in the films, especially the last 3. There's no reason to believe that it won't continue with Fiennes, given that it's EON's belief that if you have an actor of that caliber, then you should find something for them to do.
On a slightly different note I do find it interesting that some people are worried about such screen times yet, particularly in the case of M, many people here were wishing we'd visit Ireland for Bond24 to delve into M's back story with the whole IRA business. Surely, such a scenario would result in doing precisely what people are saying now what they don't want and that's too much screen time from supporting cast members.
But even in the novels, M played a larger role than in the movies. He was not merely giving Bond's missions: he was the Mycroft to his Sherlock, being able to see what Bond and others couldn't. In MR he is the first one suspecting there is something not quite right with Drax, in TB he is the one deducing Blofeld's plan, etc. I have no problem with a M being involved like this. Especially of played by Fiennes!
I agree that Fiennes will have a big role to play, more so than Bernard Lee or Robert Brown ever did.
But that does not necessarily mean M will be a "co-star" alongside Bond nor that the series is morphing into some kind of Mission Impossible.
Agreed. See my post above.
The series has already done a good deal of morphing towards becoming something like M:I. All of the points that @Creasy47 makes in his post above shows how Skyfall is the realization of the changes that began once Dench took over as M in GoldenEye.
Bond couldn't do anything in Skyfall without being in contact, or in the presence of, someone on the MI6 team. Moneypenny's in the field with him quite a bit, Q and M are constant presences in his earpiece. Yes, Bond's still the main star of it all, but I think gone are the days when Bond is a lone wolf sent by his superiors to solve a problem and is then left alone to do his job.
True. I was just making the point that the change began once Dench took over. She has a small role in GoldenEye, which then grew into something more substantial in Tomorrow Never Dies, as you pointed out, and then it continued to grow until she became arguably the primary "Bond girl" in Skyfall.
Fiennes is a quality character actor and at one time was considered to replace Dalton. He will most certainly get his hands "dirty" like he did in SF.
I think the comments about the "post 24" world is spot on. Bond films are constantly evolving . Craig will continue to play a more realistic agent and he will have a supporting cast who remains proactive from now on. Ala Jack Bauer.
Don't vergot now Dench M is gone, the higher boss of Bond and New M:
Foreign Secretary (Tim Pigott-Smith) and Clair Dowar (Helen McCrory) or people who work for them take over the control.
I fear we will get more of the same in B24. That said, I willl be much happier watching Fiennes, who is an excellent actor, than Dench, who is okay but was massively overrated as M.