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Ironically he was wanted by the man who created Bond :p
There's a world of difference between David Niven & Daniel Craig. Niven might have made a fine official Bond, if he were a few years younger. I would even go as far as to say that he was one of the (few) good aspects of Casino Royale '67.
I was watching North By Northwest the other day. Same goes for James Mason in relation to a potential Bond. Smooth, charismatic but also has a sinister look in his eye. I can see why Fleming also thought of him. That said Dan has grown on me.
Well I thought it was things we missed, not just things that had a chance of returning. But if it's the 2nd option
1) A properly paced, well designed gunbarrel at the beginning of the movie. Speaks for itself and I have no idea why they keep ditching it. I don't give a toss if the opening shot is nice either, the GB comes first, end of imo.
2) The full on Bond theme, somewhere other than the credits for once. I don't want subtle hints or the opening notes, I want Bond to do something cool in an action scene while the theme kicks in (the bankers office in TWINE is a good example of what I'd like).
3) Bond smoking. Yes it's bad for him but so is drinking tons, having lots of (unless he brings condoms with him on every mission) unprotected sex, etc. If I had Bonds job I'd probably start smoking again (I quit a few years ago) because of the stress.
4) MI6 being there for the briefing then not being involved for the rest of the movie. Whether it's M tagging along for the whole film or Bond constantly talking to HQ through his stupidly obvious earpiece, I think we've seen way too much of them lately.
Yes true. I guess TND and CR were not plot related, or only indirectly. Still, since AVTAK the PTS have mostly been related to the plot. It would be nice to see a change.
I might be shot for this, but I love the new Q more then the old Q (which became very cliche after a while).
I don't miss a single thing from the old Bond films, I always feel Bond should be a serious adult driven character who's flawed and not an action hero like sadly Brosnan was in the 90's. Craig's Bond films is how i think Bond film's should be imo.
I love what we got between Bond and Q in Skyfall.
Oh, okay. Makes sense; sincere apologies, good sir.
2.John Barry's music score
3.Love scenes at the end of the Bond films
4.James Bond smoking his cigarette's (Last time we saw Bond smoking a cigarette was in the LTK)
5.James Bond wearing a hat
6.David Arnold's music score
7.Q gadgets
8.Enerst Stavro Blofeld
9.The SPECTRE days
10.Richard Maibaum
11.Ken Adam's cinematography
12.Opening Gun Barrel Sequence
Its rare I cant find fault with someones post on here but you appear to have achieved the impossible thelivingroyale so a hearty well done.
I would also like to add to your fine list a massive, epic stunt done entirely for real that blows you out of your seat. Much as I like seeing Dan doing so many of his own stunts it seems to me that they are more obsessed with showing us hes actually doing them which therefore means it cant be anything too dangerous. There is a time and a place for the stuntmen to take over and I feel that the crane jump in CR apart we havent really had that in the Craig era.
I'd love another one of those. Something along the lines of the ski BASE jump in Spy or (to a lesser extent) the mountain climbing in FYEO.
I don't think they'll ever top the TLD cargo net fight though. Actually thinking about it now I reckon the 80s had the best stunts of the entire series. Cargo net, rock climbing, plane fishing, tanker chase, etc. Tons of great stuntwork.
.MI6 staff PISSING OFF after the beginning of the film
.Very cool stunts
.Locations "Sigh QOS"
.Woman that survives
.And a suit that survives as well "Sigh QOS"
.An EVIL villain with a "Genius" plot "Sigh QOS"
.And a cool henchman "Sigh QOS"
MI6 staff surprised at the end of the film. Last time whas The World Is Not Enough.
I also agree if M and Moneypenny not get later sceentime in the movie with Bond. This already can have done with Skyfall. M: Where is Bond.
The plot of the villain in QOS was brilliant.
Please tell me you are joking?
I am serious. Unless you find Chinatown and Once Upon a Time in the West ridiculous, well, QOS's plot is indeed brilliant: taking over a vital resource, essential not only to economic life but also to the very survival of a population, subserving a whole government, thus allowing Quantum to gain massive revenue AND political influence, not only in Bolivia (which would be under Quantum's thumb) but in the whole region... Brilliant, I say? Yes, and diabolically so.
And QOS has its flaws, but it does get an unfair deal of criticism. The villain's scheme is maybe the best ''large scale'' one we have seen in ages. And, while it is not entirely new, it has rarely been seen in movies in the past, thus it is original enough, especially in a Bondian context.
I think QoS is a excellent Bond film, its flawed but damn its non stop Bond for me. I rather have it then half of the Bond films in the canon. Greene was a good villian that lacked a henchman that could have been Bond's equal.
I just hate when Bond fans want the same old Cliche B.S.
The Box Office and Reviews have shown that the Audience have moved on.
quit bringing up Daniel's height, that has nothing to do with his acting ability. not many people even care. I have never been more annoyed by a member on here
I'll never understand why some Bond fans are so attached to this. Those ending scenes always struck me as corny - in a somewhat charming way, yes, but very much of their time. They didn't belong in the '80s and '90s films, let alone today's.
I'm the type of guy who likes a story to remaining interesting and unpredictable up to the very last minute, and this has always been one of the biggest flaws of the Bond films for me. The last twenty minutes, and particularly the last scene, are so rote. I for one am glad that Daniel's films have managed to stay fresh and original right up the credits - much like Fleming's novels, which DID NOT all end the same way, thank-you-very-much.
Amen!
Disagree. I do love the look, and a part of me wishes it was still the style. But realistically speaking, the only people under 70 who wear hats these days are hipsters. Bond has to exist in the time he's in, and there's no reason for Daniel's Bond, born in 1968, to wear a hat. It would just make him seem like a weirdo.
And it's not like he's a dwarf either.
Or Lazenby's Philip Morris Commanders ;). They are just like a Marlboro Red only stronger and with an amped up flavor. I'd switched from Reds to Commanders before moving on to cigars and those were the best cigs I ever smoked. Does anyone know what brand Sean smoked in the early adventures?
For me-
1. John Barry. Arnold has generally done a really good job of keeping the sound alive but Barry is irreplaceable.
2. Opening gunbarrel. It's part of what separates a Bond movie opening from all the pretenders.
3. Bond bedding a girl in the end. Am I the only one who feels this is sorely lacking in the current films?
I don't think they should go back to using it in every film but we haven't had it for over 10 years now so it would be nice to end with Bond shagging the girl in Bond 24.
You must be new. ;))
- SF released the 2 Nov : Did half of the 600 millions of Roupies of the week's all movies. Top 1 spot with about 300M Rp.
- next week : no more SF in theaters. Only 80 M Rp for all the movies (= "no one" in movies that week).
- the week after : 2 mega-releases, almost 1 billion Roupies each...
So in the end SF did very well in its week of release, it actually did more than Life of Pi's entire career that had a more normal release soon after. Wrt to Hollymood movies, it was a hit. But still a lot under dozens of Indian movies that year, yes.
That's the thing I love about the internet age; people can research and find the truth so much more easily than on, say, talk radio years ago where people would always give their opinion (or wishes) as fact.
Even when Moore was involved in some outrageous humor during his tenure, at least it was plausible. The Saint Marks Square Venice sequence in Moonraker for example, is unmitigated nonsense, it's merely childish adolescent humor, but at least it's plausible or what Bond would be capable of. Fast forward to the most recent times, and it's all got so out of hand with ridiculous and implausible stunts and questionable situations, but the audience for the most part, won't seem to mind. All they do is sit in theaters with their sodas and popcorn and switch off the mind. Bond falls of a waterfall, survives freezing ice water for a significant time, gets shot of a fast moving train and falls, what seems the distance from the top of the Empire State Building etc. It's all about big action in Bond today and the bigger stunts the better, and most will go along with that, but it's nothing from how I remember Bond was (or should be)
James Bond does stunts and action sequences, OK. If they're elaborate and done well, it's not really a problem, but there's this certain point you shouldn't go beyond and I believe they've crossed it in one or two recent releases. Ok, the James Bond character can't feasibly die, as there would be no next release, but at least try to refrain from embarrassing yourselves (the film makers) with some quite absurd or ridiculous action pieces if you can help with it. My fear is, they'll instead take it to another level and Bond will only become more invincible or far fetched than it has already become
Having the Gun barrel at the absolute start, would be appreciated too, or back to how it was before (before 2006), would be a sure mention also