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While CR is my favourite of this era, SF is undoubtedly my 2nd and in my top 5 so I very much echo your thoughts here my friend, I just mentioned I'm very much looking forward to catching this for the first time in over 4 years when I go to see Skyfall in concert, in the NTTD score thread.
Yes it does have its narrative flaws but it's such a blast of a film, the PTS is top drawer and I don't think it lets up from there on in.
DC is to my eyes still the Bond we know from CR & QOS just older, wiser and more comfortable in his skin. I seriously can't wait.
Yep, you mirror, once again, the exact same way I'm feeling today after watching SF. It's just filled with iconic imagery and that cinematography really is a feast to the eyes. And Bond is the Bond that would make narrative sense if we put some years of field work between CR and SF. The character just acts and reacts as it should. It's not the QOS automaton nor the SP pastiche. It's Craig's Bond. And I love it.
Bond in Istambul
Komodo dragons in Macau
DB5 escape to Scotland
M rescued by future M
...
they're just too many to count. Brilliant, brilliant scenes.
Well Naomie Harris has said recently that we're in for some shocks with NTTD ...
But to be fair, even though I don't think of it as highly as I did when it first came out, I still think it's a really special film for getting that first reaction. That's why I don't get why so many members on here, who were raving and saying it was top five or even the very best one, have since turned on it so aggressively. I agree that it doesn't hold up as well on rewatches, but I think it's underrated in how nobody really acknowledges that first reaction anymore. The buzz it created. Basically: you might not think it's one of the best anymore, but it still deserves credit for making you think it was at the time.
Same with me @Univex .... I told @Shardlake recently that I've been going back to SF more and more and more-- and loving it.
@Shardlake is in for a real treat as he's holding off his next viewing of the film until he sees it live in concert (lucky bugger).
Yes I certainly am my friend, I'm sure you'll get the relevance of my new avatar.
It has. It's called Bloodstone and it's awesome.
Might not be the same thing but it's still a great transitioning piece from QoS to SF in my opinion, with a good story and performance by Craig.
Well what a shame that there was not a couple of big screen entries for the film series .
Hear hear !!
They had plenty of opportunities.
Yep...and all under one giant storyline ....yawn .
That's one of the things that bug me,the last time we had an actual 'mission' from the start would be TWINE or you could argue CR but even that wasn't directly a mission.
DAD : ROGUE (But at least stand-alone).
CR : Unsure with this one,but definitely not a direct mission from the off.
QOS : ROGUE
SF : OUT OF RETIREMENT
SP : ROGUE
NTTD : OUT OF RETIREMENT.
What we really need is Bond on a true standalone adventure again, in the 21st century.
He is working under orders in SF. It is M who’s gone rogue.
His sense of 'cool' mystery is terrific - makes Naomie look a little amateur
Though, looking at it now, how could he not have gone for that lol?
Wonderful. Simply wonderful. I love SF, love that scene, love Naomie...I mean, who could possibly NOT love Naomie after seeing this?
The guy is effortless, his natural charisma, the way he moves, there hasn't been an actor so comfortable in his own skin since Connery from the get go like Daniel.
I hope the next guy can come out the gate like Craig, even Roger took 2 films to cement his take on Bond, from the moment Craig say "yes considerably" I was convinced.
Never seen that. Lovely. She comes across as such a nice person. And some of the little things she told us, better than much of the audio commentary stuff you get from directors and stars.
Same. Walking out of the theater in 2006, I was more than convinced; I was certain that this was the best Bond movie since OHMSS if not TB and that Daniel Craig was the greatest Bond since Connery. Still feel that way. As much as I love Lazenby, Moore, Dalton and Brosnan, they all mastered in certain traits of Bond, whether it was charm, humor, intensity or physicality. But Connery and Craig... they each have all of it in one package.
I can’t tell you how much I’m gonna miss him. I imagine it’ll be like how Bond fans were sad to see Connery go for good in 1971. Connery made the series for me originally. Craig revitalized it, brought me back in a big way, to stay.
Some time after NTTD comes out, I’d love to try to thank him in some way, via Twitter or something... I don’t know.