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Yeah, Sean never beds Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds, does he?
And on the 50th anniversary, quite fitting. ;)
Greene: You promised that you'd...
Bond: Let you go?
Greene: I answered your questions. I told you what you wanted to know about...
(uncomfortable pause)
Bond: About what?
Greene: You know. About that.
Bond: No, I don't know. What do you mean?
Greene: You know. That thing we talked about.
Bond: What, the weather?
Greene: No, the other thing.
Bond: Oooh... that. Yes, you did, and your friends would know that... whatever it's called.
(Just kidding, I too wish they had never used the name Quantum, and after they did, I wish they had explicitly stated in the next film that it was a branch of Spectre).
If NTTD becomes a big financial hit, the subversion is only going to get worse. At this point, the only director I can envision standing up to it is Nolan.
oh please...
I think Nolan is brilliant, and he certainly has the clout to stand his ground vis-a-vis producers, but I am not sure he would stand up to it. One might say his films did to Batman what the DC!Bond films did to Bond, so Nolan's Bond could be very much in the same vein, albeit more detached. And as people were saying in another thread, if Tenet is his idea of a spy action film, a Nolan Bond could be a struggle to watch. That said, I'd love to be proven wrong on it, and would 100 % watch it if it happened.
Well also in CR he only sleeps with one woman right
And QOS with Strawberry Fields.
I did think it was odd that they had Craig not sleep with Solange. Could have easily showed them after the deed and that’s when she gives him the info on her husband that he’s trying to find out about. Oh well.
The Mendes films are the only entries that Craig Bond gets to have multiple women.
Also, was OHMSS the only novel Fleming had Bond sleep with multiple women?
I have a curmudgeon friend who loves classic Bond, so I was expecting him to rip it...instead he is singing praises and went back to see it 2x
But what subversion? Yes, there are some elements that were turned on its head a little bit, but over the course of DC's five films, we still had...
gun barrels
theme songs
martinis
"Bond, James Bond"
girls
cars
some gadgets
some humor
henchmen
brilliant locales
fight scenes
car chases
stunts
mystery
intrigue
In some cases, these Bondian elements were twisted, to great effect. The "Do I look like I give a damn?" line in CR. Or the implied ordering of a martini in SF. Or the manner in which "Bond, James Bond" is delivered in NTTD.
Sam Mendes said that the trick to doing a Bond film is knowing there are certain pieces of furniture that must remain in the room and that you have to rearrange them in a way that they remain fresh. I agree.
EON can't keep producing carbon copies of the same film or of the same narrative. I can't fault them for wanting to break the mold a little bit, even when that fails (as in SP).
I'd like to imagine they had a quickie before he leaves...
If they had given me another Spectre-light Bond film and tried to have a dramatic but upbeat ending that would please majority of fans, I would have been slightly disappointed but enjoyed it. With NTTD, I was given so much more than that; which was a very welcome surprise for me.
In this movie, I am given what I consider to be the most fitting end for this truly great, and different, more realistic Bond we have that is Craig's Bond ... and NTTD is meaningful, moving, so thoughtfully done. I appreciate them going all out for NTTD - a difficult but worthy script, superb acting, stunning cinematography and great, memorable action scenes - all wrapping up in a story that moves with splendid pacing, editing, and inspired direction. AND a story that moves us in our minds and hearts. I think NTTD is overwhelmingly successful as a Bond film, and the right ending for this particular Bond. Whatever flaws it has remain minor to me (I have seen it 3 times) and I am thankful to have this one as the bookend for Daniel Craig's Bond. What a fantastic, unforgettable set of movies he gave us. B-)
Count me as one of those 'six 😁
And me! Love QOS, i plan to do a "Bond Comments as you watch" on Sunday on it!
The subversion is less about gun barrels and martinis and more about altering Bond as a character: making him Blofeld’s foster brother, a family man, a father and, ultimately, a tragic figure. Bond had his issues in pre-Craig films, but the only time he was ever tragic before was for a minute or so at the end of OHMSS. This is like filling a cake with baked beans and insisting it is still a cake because it has icing on top.
Mathilde is too long a name. She will be called Mata Bond.
The way every single Craig movie spends its runtime deconstructing Craig's Bond and then reconstructing him for the final scene only, promising audiences a proper Bond movie next time out. It worked with CR, but they repeated it for another 3 movies, and now with NTTD they've completed the deconstruction of Craig's Bond by blowing him up.
In a way, the CraigNotBond trolls from way back in 2006- people I hated back then- have been proven right because of NTTD. Craig wasn't really Bond, he was the guy who tried to be Bond and then died. NTTD's ending renders the whole point of the CR reboot pointless. It started off by stating, "This is how Bond became Bond," but now it's, "Here's why this particular version of Bond is tragic and has to sacrifice himself for family."
Yeah, this. The Craig era has all the trappings of Bond, all the superificial stuff that Mendes was obsessed with (Goldfinger Aston Martin since he had a toy one as a kid), but in my opinion there's a big, empty hole in the center of the Craig era, and that's Craig's Bond himself. It's partially his own fault but it's more due to the producers not having a clear idea of what to do with his character after CR.
Excellent review from my pov.
Exactly.
I've been on the fence on Craig's Bond from the outset as IMO he is convincing as a blunt instrument with a conscience, but lacks charisma for the role. Skyfall won me over, but it turned out to be the high point.
That's an excellent ad. Thanks for posting. I'm really starting to like BE's song, which I realize fits the movie really well. Before the movie it didn't do much for me, but now....wow.
If you have any more ads hope you'll post them.
That’s the point the we expected him to bed her but he already had the info and no patients to f*ck around. So he leaves.
There is a lot to admire about this film but the ending is a real downer.It doesn’t leave you with the happy feeling a Bond film should.True,the same could be said of OHMSS ( which NTTD rips off shamelessly and needlessly) but it was the only way that particular story could end and left Bond free to carry on in subsequent adventures.
After such a promising start in CR,the Craig era went downhill very fast in the awful QOS and it didn’t really improve from there.I hope the next era brings the fun ( and stand-alone adventures) back to the series.