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Because of this he indulges his passions for fast cars, beautiful women, wine, cuisine and travel.
It takes more than fiddling with cuff links to do this.
Sounds like the last 24 Bond movies.
Because of this he indulges his passions for fast cars, beautiful women, wine, cuisine and travel.
It takes more than fiddling with cuff links to do this.
So every Bond film then.
The first half of the film I mostly found compelling. It had a sense of fun and also put a darker spin on the "villains meeting". However, I wasn't so fond of the films final act. It seemed to almost run out of steam and the attempts to channel Bond of old felt more and more obvious.
Absolutely agree!!
And SF will be seen as the endless bore it is.
Although I have friends who name SF as their #1 Bond film, Mendes placing the gunbarrel at the end automatically excludes it from being one of my favorites. If I want to watch a Bond film that doesn't have the opening GB, I'm far more happy to pop in NSNA.....as it should have remained the ONLY Bond without it IMO.
This is my issue with the term "classic Bond". It's far too vague and subjective.
Spectre showed how CR, QOS and SF can never be called classic Bond, too many of the beloved traits were missing. With CR, as a one-off Bond Begins film it was ok, but with QOS and especially dreary SF it was a crime of gigantic proportions.
Luckily QOS is highly entertaining, it more or less saved the Craig-era from being an endless bore between CR and SP.
And they try way too hard to make Bond be a "bad boy." It's gotten to the point where it's clichéd (and some have the nerve to say classic Bond was clichéd). I'm surprised they haven't completed it by giving Bond a leather jacket and a Harley-Davidson.
If Fleming's Bond was alive today, he would wear a leather jacket on his off time at least.
As for this thread, I wish Bond was a bit more cultured and picky like Fleming's Bond was: knowing his wine, food, etc.
How about a backward cap and a skateboard?
For me, there are only a handful of classic Bond films that are actually great. The majority, however, are mediocre to kind of bad. As far as I'm concerned we'd be blessed if we got more films like CR; a film that obviously has its flaws but it still feels like a legit thriller that subverts classic tropes and delivers something fresh and authentic.
SP maybe the closest to "Classic Bond" of the Craig era but I see it as the weakest and the laziest attempt at making a Bond film in a very long time. Any more Bond films made like this and I'll soon be disillusioned.
People have issues with QoS but I regard it as the second best of the Craig era and you know what it's biggest flaw is? Not the writer's strike, nor the editing and not even the state of the screenplay. It's biggest flaw was the budget. QoS is the Bond film that is the biggest departure from classic Bond and is creatively the most experimental. However, when being so artistically liberal that's when the budget needs to plummet. QoS had that free artistic license and had to deal with the various handixaps that plagued preproduction and it turned out better than it probably should have. I'd definitely take QoS over many of the so called classic Bond films and I'm sure I'm in a very small minority group with this perspective.
I agree but actually think SP fits that description. I put TSWLM, GE and SP in the same boat: they're formula driven but are (for their time) modern, well written and just have a sense of fun and energy to them that makes them feel fresh and not generic in the least.
What would he wear then? In the winter I can imagine him wearing a top coat, overcoat, peacoat... but I don't see why Bond would scoff at a nice leather jacket.
Fair enough I suppose. What other outfits didn't you like?
Agreed. His hair is always wrong too.
He can be the playground bully.
Couldn't agree more. Perfectly said.
This is spot on. I don't get people on here sometimes. Spectre gets so much flak on here for being derivative and relying on references to other Bonds and now everyone wants a box-ticking 'classic'. If the series goes down that road it will become boring, stale, cliche and full of self-parody as it progressively did in the Brosnan era.