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Of course not. Near impossible, that.
I don't know... too close, too soon... I really don't know.
Ok.
I watched his Goldeneye re-watch and said nothing but positives for the man. Most-- that's most, not all-- things I've said about PB has been complimentary.
However, I don't buy most of his performances. In most of his films.
It's just my personal taste @Murdock and @Beast_Daniel_Craig ... No intent to insult.
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That being said, it seems they decided to knock the dial to 10 instead of scaling things back. This film is either going to be really good or really bad. I hope the former.
Also, Maddie being a 00 agent suddenly makes a lot of sense (if true). The scene where Bond looks at her at MI6 makes complete sense now.
The 25th Film. Will change. Everything.
Yep.
I like it.
That's cool, I can understand that and we all have opinions. I don't buy Craig's performance as Jason Bourne either.
When Eon try to do something different (like radically different) it never works - going down the CGI/digital route in DAD, brothergate in SP, I was worried when Naomie Harris said that there are things in NTTD that will shock people - that can only go 2 ways -either what they've done that is shocking will be brilliant and a stroke of genius or it will be horrendous. If it's the latter they've really messed up the end of the run of a really good Bond.
Yeah, it has literally never worked. Like that time they hired that pretty boy Daniel Craig to play James Bond! In a rebooted origin story! What on earth were they thinking? :)
I hope they do this right and it isn't the only YOLT novel element to make it. I'm hoping they also tackle the amnesiac Bond + suspected death to everyone else, but the audience knows he lives. I'd also love to see Bond strangle Safin to death the way he offs Blofeld in the YOLT novel. It would be very dramatic, gritty, and feel so full circle with Bond's first kill in CR. It's so unfortunate we have to keep waiting so long for NTTD, but my interest and hype remains!
I was thinking more of writing and plotting - casting Craig was a stroke of genius, unfortunately some of the writing hasn't been that good (some has) which has but a damper of his excellent run as Bond.
Under bridge.
Just sayin'. :))
I kinda love this dialogue...I hope something like this appears in the film.
CONS
Personally, I'm in two minds about Mathilde. On one side it feels a little soap-opera-esque. In fact it feels like a very Sam Mendes move. After all SF was about 'mothers', SP was about 'fathers', and it would make sense for that trilogy to end on the 'children.' You can make a strong argument this type of stuff doesn't belong in a traditional Bond film. But do we really want to see Bond save a child? I'm most fearful that this ending will just give way to platitudes and false emotion.
Also, what will the character of Mathilde be like? Precocious? Shy? I have zero idea what the personality of a 5 year-old is like. We aren't gonna have to watch some plucky kid save the day by pressing a button or something whilst her parents are in danger...
Essentially, there is a lot of room for such a storyline to go wrong.
PROS
But I'm not against it either. In fact, there are a lot of interesting dramatic possibilities. For one thing, it gives Lea Seydoux more to do. Another is that Daniel Craig will get to perform scenes as Bond we have never seen him in before. There is always a fear in Bond that the actors are essentially being forced to do the same scenes over again.
Plus, I think it's kinda funny and subversive having the Bond girl from a previous film turn up with child. It's not like Bond is a champion for monogamy. So this situation was bound to happen to him eventually...
Fukunaga also has a lot of experience working with child actors. All his projects deal with childhood trauma to some extent. So he is a very good pair of hands for this type of storyline, so I have faith he knows what he's doing.
Nonetheless, like I said this story gives both Seydoux and Craig more meat to chew on. Which is no bad thing....
Think it'll either work well or well be terrible - it'll all be in the execution - those lines have given me hope that it might just actually work. Just hope the 'secrets' in the PTS isn't just that Maddy is pregnant!
Obviously not. Bond will find out they have a kid way into the film. Right before leaving to Norway I'd say.
Or is she talking about Safins connection to her?
~X( 8-> X_X :-SS :-O
Bond 25 no time to clone X_X ~X( :-t
SF whether you liked it or not changed the pieces on the board and they aren't going back anytime soon.
I think it is incredibly ballsy to dig in on the ideas of a very divisive film to not just the fan base (I hate it personally) then pull out of it which to my eyes and what I'm seeing is something exciting, compelling and is going to be one emotional roller coaster ride.
Bond needs to appeal to a wide selection of people not just us fans and if it means riling some of you or getting some of you to bail, well I'm afraid there is going to be some casualties along the way.
This is now looking like a definitive full stop but don't think for one minute the ideas and concepts introduced in this era are going to disappear and it will go back to Bond goes on a mission because although some fans just want this, the wider demographic will get board of it and making Bond more human has proven a huge success.