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Wouldn't it?
All fixed!
They’ll just reboot like they always do because Bond 26 won’t be a sequel to NTTD is that so hard to understand? Jesus…
Easy enough, on my part.
But that line I mentioned would be so damn cool. And would rival Lazenby's :)
Just one way of looking at it. ;)
Glad I can look at it again! Honestly I think it's on par with the CR and SF titles, magnificent imagery and the Brittania iconography certainly comes into play later in the film.
Except that in Rises the villain is very charismatic. Is this the case here too ?
To paraphrase Daniel Craig's interview at the red carpet:
No, not at all.
Most people are saying they didn't see a glimpse of said feminist agenda in the film.
This is not a complicated issue. Hell, Judi Dench was carry over casting from Brosnan's era. But we accepted that she was a "new" M for a new Bond. Roll with the punches sometimes. I'm not saying we should have 3 or 4 different Bond iterations but we kinda do right now: Comics, novels and movies. Soon we'll have a different Bond for video games.
Craig's era was it's own self contained story. That's it. That's as complicated as it needs to be. He was Bond. Not part of the same "continuity" as his predecessors but still Bond. I mean, it's kind of absurd to think Timothy Dalton's Bond is the same exact one as Sir Roger Moore. They're the same character. There's only one 007. But (here's that "but" again) they're all really different interpretations of the same character.
Bond's death may actually raise the stakes in future films. Now, audiences don't know that Bond will always make it through. Or maybe he always will. All I know is that Bond's death in the Craig era fit a classic story cycle of "birth" and "death." It fit this Bond's journey.
That's not going to happen, which is one reason why Bond's death had to happen. He isn't a "Father" in that mold. It would have been odd if he lived. Bond's gift to his daughter was a chance at life. I think that's why the "Vesper had a daughter" idea was shot down in one of the QOS drafts. When Bond finds out about the daughter he can't just leave her. It's an interesting idea that makes for some awkward conclusions. If you're going the "Bond has a child" route then his sacrifice was the only way to make that work.
In a way I'm awfully glad they've used all of those (unused) ideias in this one. Done. Now they can move on with a clean slate and mind :)
Not particularly, but Blofeld imo is a fantastic presence this time around and that offsets the dysfunction around Malek's character (which are really more script issues than anything Malek himself gets wrong).
I would also contend that NTTD is kind of the opposite of TDKR in a lot of ways. TDKR is about Bruce needing to break his own cycle; NTTD is about Bond being doomed to its confines. It's a significantly meaner film than TDKR, and part of this is tied to the difference between Bruce Wayne and James Bond - one spends his life interrogating the trauma of his childhood and the other spends his life trying to drown it out.
Glad to hear you liked it!
I got spoiled but in the end I persevered and went to see it. I really was in a tizz about it when I heard yesterday so I thought I'd hate it. Maybe its a good thing I went in with low expectations.
Honestly.... its one of those you have to see to truly see how it fits together. It translates better than people just telling you the plot in text. It sounds barmy but its true.
Yeah me too...........I'm kind of thinking it sounds like the.......
You make valid points, however, this is a historic moment in the franchise - killing off the main character. Aside from future Bond film continuity issues (!) there is a moral dimension to this decision. Was it morally right to kill James Bond? Has Barbara Broccoli respected her father's legacy or dismissed it? Has she respected Ian Fleming's creation or disregarded it?
Is dismantling all that came before respectful or disrespectful?
Maybe in a few months time these questions should be addressed. Let people see and enjoy (or not enjoy) the film right now, but I guess what I'm saying is I don't think fans should automatically give Eon a free pass on this decision. Nearly all the paid pro film critics and fan YouTube reviewers praising NTTD are ignoring the fact the boss of the franchise killed off the most enduring pop culture hero of the 20th century. And yes, she has the 'get out of jail' card of "James Bond will return..." but she still did the unthinkable... killed off James Bond 007. The franchise can never be the same again and maybe that is a small tragedy.
Im very afraid the Jamaican scenes last very little as I suppose they’ll be my absolute favourites.
Craig was a reboot. It’s physically impossible for him to have been the same Bond as the others… He couldn’t have been galavanting with a Soviet agent in TSWLM as he’d have been a child at the time. This Commander Bond is post Cold War, became a new 00 post 9/11. The previous bonds are inseparable from their Cold War context.
Using the adage that "audiences are much more sophisticated about this type of stuff then they were 10 or 15 years ago" is rather lame, especially when there's no proof to back this up. Are you saying that the same audiences that accepted 6 different actors playing James Bond in the past are less sophisticated than those today? Or that audiences 15 years ago didn't accept a different actor playing Obi-Wan Kenobi, or a different actor playing Batman? Is this the same sophisticated audience that still prefers their foreign movies dubbed rather than subtitled, hence why Netflix has to release 2 seperate versions on their platform to attract viewers?
For me, there's nothing remotely wrong in asking the question how are the producers going to approach the next series of Bond movies after killing their protagonist, and where they intend on taking him now that his destinty seems already preset. But maybe I'm less sophisticated than your current moviegoer?
Why don’t you come down here and put your back into it?
Sorry, had to ;)
Ah, well done ;)
One of my favorite films!
I still don't like how the ending sounds but it seems like more and more folks are agreeing that you really have to see how it all unfolds and fits together to understand why it "works." I hope I feel the same way.
All I'll say is it's done quite.. uhm. Maybe tastefully isn't the word but something like that. I have more thoughts about some specific scenes when I get home.
I hope it impacts me greatly and somehow manages to make a big impression.