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I don't really feel this is about family ties. To me B.B. doesn't seem to have such a coherent idea and vision of the way James Bond should be and develop.
After all Bond became blond,more average looking and tougher when two other blond,rather average looking guys were seriously kicking arse leaving the classic take on Bond look a bit sedated. And if you look how jumpy the direction of the different Bonds was in this century, well that's quite the opposite way her old man did it ( not that I would claim he was faultless - just the opposite in fact).
to me, the character of Bond and the stories in this Craig era have stayed fairly consistent...
the real issue Babs and MGW had was taking over from their dad in the 90s with Pierce - those movies felt so drastically different in tonality between one another, that it seemed they never knew what direction they wanted to go...
they finally got their act together with CR which was fantastic.. QOS was a bit of a misstep due to the writer's strike, but it still made really good money.. and SF (despite your opinion) was a critical and box office smash... so whatever they are doing now, they are doing right..
We'll have interesting, complex characters but some of the stories here just come down to conspiracy and sounds quite frankly ridiculous.
No, only Michael has a son, who is already working for them.
I think how SF will go into Bond fandom history will depend a lot of Spectre. If it has a good story, then I think SF's weird logic will be a contrast, and SF may become the "nonsensical villain plot" one. Even if Spectre only makes 750 M$ worldwide, because of SW VII, change rate and many other boring factors not related to the movie itself.
And then we'll remember with a smile all those who insisted on praising SF's airtight plot that other dumb fans could not understand. It's a bit like calling FYEO the "serious one" in Moore movies, despite the 2CV or the hockey scene. But it was after Moonraker :)
Personally, I hope Spectre will become the "Craig's Bond has some fun" one :)
Someone mentioned Erst Stavro Blofeld might be an anagram for 'something Oberhausen', but we're missing an h and a u. :P
Still all they did with CR was to jump on the 24/Bourne train. In QoS (which I regulary defend) they allowed Forster to cut out a 100 Millions worth of scenery and to bring cutting to a new extreme and Mendes was allowed to almost completely alter the script especially after Bond comes to Shanghai (thus rendering the movie a logical disaster) and blow the new timeline with the GF DB5. I haven't even dwelled on DADs 180 turn in the middle of the movie which probably also director induced ( just as the Vanish). To me this doesn't look like a strong and coherent vision of their product.
1. It was modified by Q Branch so Bond could stop destroying DBS's
2. Alexander Demitrios already had it decked out with weapons and gadgets seeing as he's an arms smuggling criminal.
I'll admit that a lot of the reason for the success for the reboot is Daniel Craig. He almost single handedly held together QoS with his steely, determined, focused performance. Almost unanimously, folks have said Craig was very solid in QoS, despite that movies flaws (which were mainly editing related - it was pretty coherent plot wise).
So you have a point. Once Craig is gone, there are risks to the franchise.
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OK, OK.
I'll just enjoy the basics by myself: Lea, Waltz and the DB10.
My point re Babs is that she is not going to allow anything crazy radical to go down, like Mi6 stalwarts such as very traditional M or Fleming mainstay Bill Tanner be revealed as Blofeld. Nuts. Down the road, though, who knows.
The silly bits of FYEO were remnants of the silliness of the last four films. I think we should/will compare Skyfall and SPECTRE the way we can compare GF and TB.
I'd rather share the same opinion but... there is no way that anyone can write "there is no way" about movie plots :)
And some should re-read Colonel Sun's last posts before the photo call, btw, if you trust him a bit :)
I know he played Moriarty but... can you see him looking threatening towards Craig, Waltz, Fiennes?
It would Toby Stephens all over again.
Which is why they need to keep him on for as long as possible. Thank God he looks great and astonishingly younger than he did in 2012. If Cruise at 51/52 is still credibly jumping off buildings and hanging off choppers then Craig after his contracted 5 movies has at least another 1 or 2 movies in him. I think Craig can have a 6 to 7 movie run.
The Force Awakens opening in December 2015 is exactly why i dont feel like SP will reach the 1 billion mark.. it may come close - maybe around the $900mil mark is more realistic... it opens up Nov 6 here in the US, and Star Wars isn't until the Dec 18 - so that is a good month and a half for Bond to chew up some good box office revenue (provided that there aren't any other huge openings around that time) which in that time span, could put this film right around the $600mil-$700mil mark world wide... but once Star Wars opens, all bets are off...
Oh god no. Please!
Counterargument: Ralph Fiennes. Second counterargument: Waltz has won two Oscars as best supporting actor.
Good post. The refreshing thing about the title is that they are not hiding SPECTRE.
Hence I don't think it will be Scott.
isn't the second hunger games opening in November as well? also when does the MI5 movie open? december? i am bit nervous for SP, hope it stands out and makes over $1.5 billion!
just checked IMDB, hunger games part 2 - Nov 20 and MI5 is Dec 25th. Wow, MI5 is brave to go up against SW:TFA! so that gives SP a good week and a half to do damage at the box office!
Directors are usually fairly hands on with altering the script to suit their vision - it's part of filmmaking Campbell did it, Forster had to do it out of necessity, and Mendes did it... for better or worse, it is what it is...
christ i could go on and on with this - especially considering how flippantly you want to compare SF to DAD..... but my mom always told me to not feed the trolls... so i shall refrain..... good day sir..
I don't think we need to worry about Bond's BO.
Bond is unusual in that it makes so much more money overseas than it does in the US. Therefore even if it has a reduced US BO take due to all the competition (and I'll admit it's scary), it could make it up overseas with staggered release dates. Bond is huge globally so we're ok.
Having said that, it may not surpass SF, and in a way I hope it doesn't, but still does well.
If it beats SF, then we're stuck with trying to 'up' it each time, and I don't personally like that. I'd prefer the producers and directors to focus on quality and not necessarily Box office success, but if it tops SF, the pressure would be formidable.
yeah i just had to check myself.... the Hunger Games movie will no doubt eat into SP's box office for sure.. taking that into considering i am actually lowering my predicted box office total from $900mil, to $800mil.
Possibly inspired by a movie he once saw called GF? ;)
Sorry, I don't find any of these theories even close to convincing.
Why?