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Since when is the Bond villain not immediately apparent before the film comes out? I don't understand why all of a sudden it has to be a twist that they will just fail at. The Bond villain is such a trope BECAUSE you go in knowing. They usually make up for it by having the Bond villain just be soooo good. You have Waltz. You will get that.
Again, EON can pick and choose what elements to use. Anyway, the whole idea of Bond having a brother who is Blofeld is more of a retcon than a reboot. It would suck. Sorry. I'm still pissed about Quantum of Solace.
Anybody who thinks today's airports are gorgeous and high-tech looking is crazy; look at Saarinen's TWA terminal NY from the 60s, now that is awesome. Even that french one that looks like hamster habitrails from the late 70s has some style.
Modern doesn't constitute progress, at least not in a lot of design.
Two things ..Blofeld is not his brother. Second yeah adds a back story but doesn't ruin the series. I respect that some don't like Craig ...and I could do without the personal angle but if you really hate Craig that much don't see the movie. Everyone is now nagging that it looks retro... why? Because of the white tux ...or the Aston and Jag ..oh wait very modern.
I thought fans would be eating this up. The most popular Bond since Connery, the return of Spectre and retelling of that story for a new age etc...
MI:RN did it right ..we need to stick together ..SP may not hit all the buttons but we need to support it and wait for new adventures ..new faces ..new directors whatever.
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Sorry got out of hand ...kinda bad night
So much obviously wrong with this response, I don't even need to explain to anyone why.
To say it in Connery's words:
You must be joking! :-O
Nobody is saying you can't lens architecture from the 60's, 70's, 80's and so on, but the overall aesthetic should feel current. The amazingly brutalist, Barbican, looks great in QoS, but the film doesn't have to evoke the late 70's early 80's with the rest of its design. Bond films of the 60's didn't look like 40's films, they looked like 60's films. Bond films of the 2010's should be just that, like with all Bond films - a time capsule, covering areas as diverse as aesthetics to social commentary.
I'd find it pretty hard to argue that he isn't. In fact Craig has managed to pull in a fair number of people who previously had no interest in Bond whatsoever.
That would be in character.
But it's not what is implied in what we know of the plot. Bond does not have a brother.
I do find this idea of the Bond/Blofeld-brothers angle both interesting and worrying.
It would seem unusual and overly contrived to have Bond's arch-foe re-depicted as his brother. In many ways, it directly flies in the face of what had been previously established as canon and would seem to be a total affront to Fleming and Blofeld as a character.
However, who is Blofeld? I mean, really? Despite appearing in 5 or so films, he has never really been fleshed out ever. He's always been portrayed as the omniscient villain and aside a few very iconic gimmicks (the nehru suit, the scar, the cat) there is very little to him as a character. Even in the books, Blofeld hardly appears and in his three starring films each of the actors offer a wildly different interpretation, almost to the point that they could be seen as three separate characters.
I feel as long as Mendes maintains some of the key iconography of the character, the character of Blofeld is such a blank state that he can really do what he wants with it.
Oh no.....not the Bourne twist.
Or Craig simply can't act the scene
As Craig is a very capable and versatile actor that's highly unlikely.
You're confusing Craig with Brosnan...again.
Hardly, the short blonde grim looking one is very memorable, so is the tall, handsome, suave, debonair, charming one.
Just that the latter was able to pull of action, sorrow, love-scenes and humour in a believable way.
We'll see (maybe) if Craig finally convinces in a romantic scene or is capable of actually be funny or fun.
He's the master of running and fighting though, even Connery doesn't come near Craig in that department.
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. I simply meant that Bond does not seem to have a precise recollection of Franz Oberhauser. Which means I think that they were not so close.
Definite sarcasm..... No, I got your point.
I agree, if you simply would replace Craig with Brosnan, Brosnan would fail, respectively the movies wouldn't work.
But it works the other way around too.
Craig in Brosnan movies or even Moore movies would fail miserably as well.
Why do I fail to acknowledge subtlety and nuances?
Do any of the Craig defenders (I don't mean that term negatively) acknowledge the great acting of Brosnan in TWINE??
Was there no subtlety in Brosnan's acting in the Elektra sequence where he finally shoots her and then mourns her?
The tenor is always, Brosnan was bad, Craig is great. (I don't mean necessarily you).
That's one reason I will always defend Brosnan when he gets compared to Craig.
Funny he never gets compared to Moore, Dalton or Connery. Speaks volumes if you ask me.
Craig did more with that one look in the shower scene before he approaches sitting Vesper (admittedly beautifully filmed and set up) in CR than Brozz or Dalton did in all their movies combined, imho. He too can come across a little forced at times, but that's more how it's written than any problem with him, in my eyes anyway. His seduction of Solange is a classic in the series.....probably as cool as it gets.
Brosnan was good in certain areas, but his seductive abilities always seemed a little strained, but then I'm speaking as a man.
But then, again, this scene without Eva Green would fall apart too.