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I see, James Bond is happy in the background, too.
Good bye, and enjoy the movie.
lol, good one.
Yes.
Considerably.
After 24 movies I like this Nomi idea. I think EoN found a smart way to throw a bone to all the "black Bond / Elba / female Bond" annoying narrative without destroying what makes Bond, Bond to most of the people. Nomi looks like a cool, tough character and honestly, after Bond quitted in SP, makes perfect sense to replace him with someone else at MI6. I think this brand new dynamic could create exciting good situations throughout the film. So I'm fine and excited to see what this groundbreaking event of Bond not being 007 in the film will bring, keeping in mind that obviously James Bond will be the main protagonist and the hero of NTTD. Something that throughout the web some people tend to forget.
The only thing that I worry a little is related to the finale. Will Bond die / supposedly die / quit again and the Craig era will wrap up with someone else, aka Nomi, as 007? That's something I don't like, on paper, especially in this era filled with the anxiety of "world building" franchise, but I obviously want to see the final product before making any statement.
Well Billy is the only actor in the film who had previously worked with Cary, he stars in Maniac.
I can't disagree with any of this @PanchitoPistoles
QOS is great but the editing is terrible. SP is lifeless, and very boring. It's as if no-one lives in Rome. No-one on the roads late at night.
From the footage we've seen of NTTD, it's hopeful that the car chase is Craig's best.
I lived in Rome and I can assure you that at after midnight - when the chase takes place - the historical center is really almost that empty. At least 5 years ago. It's like wandering in an open air museum. Everything is closed. No cars. I often walked around Vatican, I believe was 1 AM, and it was surreal.
And now the reasoning behind all the complaints will change from "too unrealistic" to "too realistic" . Thanks for pointing out the truth.
Foot chase? :-D
Yep, my Roman friends confirmed this.
;)
Never been a super fan of that chase, but I like the metaphysical quality that nighty Rome has in those scenes.
If that is indeed true then maybe I need to revise my take on the chase by criticizing it for being unrealistic.
Though again this is a Bond film when all said and done and realism isn't top of my list with what to expect.
Bond is preposterous nonsense at the best of times and it is one of the reasons we love it.
Though that chase was championed as being something very special, possibly the authorities objecting to something more punishing on ancient Rome played into this but there is no reason it couldn't have been recreated in Pinewood and all the potentially damning moments shot there.
Also, Matera is a Unesco site, as someone who has seen first hand and I've said this before it's one extraordinary experience to witness like I'm sure you @matt_u and our NTTD on set reporter @slyfox can testify to?
Yet is seems from what we've seen they aren't actually going light on things, we are seeing footage akin to Ronin.
I'm not going to count my chickens before they hatch but Bond has never really had a car/bike chase that would rank it up with the greats but maybe just maybe this Matera sequence will change that.
All being said and done the SPECTRE Rome chase like most of the action sequences in the film bar the PTS is just souless and plain dull.
Does not surprise me......London is the same, in fact.
I've missed my last train and had to walk around at like 3pm/4pm and central London on a weekend and it's a ghost town. It's such an odd feeling being alone on Oxford Street. Feels like you're on another planet.
In fact, the city of London (which is alive during the working week) is dead quiet during the weekends. Even in the morning and afternoons. They close all the shops and everything - you'll struggle to find an open Sainsburys. It's like 28 Days Later.
If the Rome chase is supposed to take place at like 2-3am during a weekday, then it makes sense for it to be that derelict.
Either way, it still makes it a dull chase.
Yeah it's nothing special.
My understanding is that they’re throwing everything at this. I still think there will be complaints as this will blend the rough and tumble of QoS with a dash of the fanciful, but based on what I heard a while back, and from what I’ve seen, this feels like it could be something special and up there with the best.
You know what people are like.
My confidence that things would turn out well was descimated when they revealed the title, and I still haven't gotten over that (still call it Bond 25). For me there are too many bizarre decisions being made, and the inclusion of DB5 again is very eye-rolling. Its appearing in every film now, and for me indicates a servere lack of creativity. The same problem that the title IMO. How many times do we need "die" in the title?
And like a silent fart...
For some people @RC7 the title will determine the overall outcome of NTTD.
It's why DAD was such a failure. ;)
And now, back to reality. 8-}
You should go for a drink with Sani!
I was just in Rome and noticed this too late into the night/very early morning. Streets were completely empty. I actually thought of the Spectre car chase.
Well, i live in Rome and i can confirm that, except for the weekend, it is like that late at night, both in the centre and in the part of the city that is featured in the first leg of the chase.
EDIT: I cannot tell you how much I hate what they have done with the DB5 in the Craig era!! First he wins it in the Bahamas. Great! Bond won a DB5! It's his personal car! Then in SF the wheel is suddenly on the other side and the car has been outfitted with weapons from the 1960s!! WTF?! Okay, the car blows up, it's a big scene that's supposed to have weight. But no, the car is back in SP without any scratch. Q completely fixing the car entirely undermines the impact of that scene in SF when the car blows up. Not only that, Q is reprimanding Bond for destroying the car?!?! It's Bond's personal car, you obnoxious nerd!! It is not MI6 property!!
People like you probably are part of the neo-orthodox branch of the Bond-fandom that were basically grilling Lashana Lynch, p*&%#ng over her head, because they thought they had the 'truth' in their hands about Bond. I tell you this: there's no need to mention in here that you have found your moment where you break ranks and stop being a fan. Do it silently. As perhaps you never were a real Bond fan after all.