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This is worrying because it's a sign of bad management or bad decisions or bad luck? I've never heard of Annapurna before they did the deal with Bond 25. Now I know why! They're not very good at what they do or have had massive bad luck. I think MI6's point about Universal taking sole control is excellent.
One example: At one point I think it was Richard Maibaum who starts talking about Fleming and refers to him as a snob. You’d think it’s not a big deal, but that’s just one of many things EON didn’t like hearing. Unflattering remarks was a big no no.
I believe the three commentary tracks can be found online if you look for them. I originally had MP3 copies of them a decade ago before I would finally acquire the discs myself.
I’ll have to relisten to them sometime, then I’ll start a thread about it.
My concern now has shifted to the constant rumours of this absolutely crap title .
And why is Craig getting the power to decide this again.
At least that would check it off the list of future titles for later films.
LOL! Annapurna produced some of the best movies of the last 10 years. Do you watch only big-studios blockbusters? Among them: HER, THE MASTER, PHANTOM THREAD, ZERO DARK THIRTY, DETROIT, VICE, FOXCATCHER, AMERICAN HUSTLE, THE GRANDMASTER and a lot more.
Correct. If anything, Annapurna doing Bond is kind of an outlier for them. While they’ve produced a ton of flicks they’re mostly of the indie/drama variety. They’ve never done a film close to a blockbuster like Bond. That’s why Universal is factored in.
Right, but the point is Annapurna is not producing Bond. They only made a US distribution deal, which is even more strange.
These CGI action bonanzas have long been mindless fodder for the great unwashed and the sooner we stop this sofa bouncing fiasco and see a return to Fleming’s Bond the better.
The Pussy is firmly of the opinion that the only Bond movies truly worth their salt was the Terence Young trilogy. Bond has been on movie hiatus ever since
So Goldfinger is not worth watching???
00Agent poses the most difficult of questions.
The Pussy thinks it had some good elements. Not least of all the fact that it follows one of Fleming’s best books closely.
That said, ultimately two things let it down.
Firstly Lazenby’s performance. Although PussyNoMore thought he could have become a good Bond. His initial and, as it turned out, only performance was quite wooden.
Secondly the action sequences. It was an action heavy movie and the speeded up sequences didn’t really work - even back in the day.
Don’t misunderstand Pussy is an optimist. He lives in hope of eon getting it right and always goes to see these things but invariably comes away disappointed. Terence Young was the Bond movie God and had a completely unique touch. That man had real style.
While i'm not as much of a purist when it comes to the movies, and I don't even think that Connery captured Flemings Bond that well, i definitly do agree with everythin you said on Terence Young. That guy was a master, and as much responisble for creating The Bond Movie phenomenon as Connery. Impecable style and instincts. I don't even care as much for Connery's other films. Terence Young set the bar too high.
I feel resigned to the possibility that I'll find the score indifferent as well as the title song. My hopes aren't high for either. You never know. Romer's effort may end up a masterpiece as Bondian in it's own way as George Martin's.
Also I expect an effed up Craig gun-barrel scene to appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.
Other than those little tit bits I think NTTD may be great!
Well said. I have a hunch that, like SF this may be a Bond film without a main Bond girl for Craig to unite with at the end. Just a gut feeling I hope is wrong.
I think GF and OHMSS stand firmly alongside the 3 Young films. I also think outside of that, LTK was a return to the spirit of Fleming 20 years later.
And I also think CR gave us a modern interpretation of the Fleming Bond (if you can get beyond the Madagascar and Miami airport mindless fodder action set pieces).
I do worry about the return of Madeline Swann, even though I had no problem with her in SP. I just think he should have a new Bond girl. Maybe if Swann is like the new Sylvia Trench or dies a little ways into the film, that would be very interesting. I dunno.
By the end of Spectre I did not believe for a second that Bond would give up his life as a spy for her and the entire “conflict” of whether or not Bond wanted to continue to lead the life he did and Madeleine’s role in that decisions amounted to a few throwaway lines sprinkled between sequences of Bond generally enjoying himself for the most part. There was none of he contemplativeness or internal conflict of CR’s Bond and it was desperately needed in order to make the Bond-Madeleine subplot believable.
I think the addition of a writer like Phoebe Walker Bridge can not only flesh out Madeleine’s character, but along with a writer/director like Cary Fukunaga, can reintroduce she and Bond’s relationship in a much more credible way with much improved writing and far more developed character development and handling of where Bond is at in his professional/personal life.
I always enjoy returning characters and my only concerns would that they go overly tropey or try to overconnect things like they did in SP. Even still I enjoyed SP, but would prefer that the film stand out on it's own a little more, while keeping the Bond elements we know and love.