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Thanks, friend! :-)
This is so, so, so good... I could watch three hours of it.
And it even has a @barryt007 tribute at 1:07.
This was fantastic.
A follow up question: In NTTD, did Bond have a fling with Q? Because Q is likely gay, seeing as he was expecting a male companion for dinner, and wanted to look his best for him. And M says he knows Bond has been staying with Q. If Bond is gay, and Q is gay, and they stayed together... well, maybe.
Now that you point it out, it all seems pretty obvious. That s what you get for having women involved as producers and scriptwriters, I suppose. Plus an actor with a Napoleon complex, and a director who is more engaged with video games and little girls than doing his job. Now I do hope these cut scenes make it to the 60th anniversary special edition.
I see things so clearly now! Whoa.... 😂
I don’t know that I've repeatedly laughed that hard at a video in a long, long time.
I concur. It's so strange that, with their 25th film, the creative team finally had the opportunity to present us with the first truly sympathetic villain of the franchise, but instead opted to retreat back into megalomania-cliches. This is the sort of cold-feet cowardice emblematic of the Brosnan-era; I expected better from the thematically-rich and courageous Craig run. (For a glimpse into what-could-have-been, note the trace of pity Bond extends to Safin in the early part of their first exchange. He doesn't want to hate this man; rather, it's almost as if he's trying to talk the poor loon out of whatever he's plotting.)
In a sense, I wish NTTD had been a mere "bad" movie, like its predecessor SPECTRE. But it's worse: half-parts brilliance, half-parts bungled. The elegant direction and finely-tuned performances are trapped alongside a needlessly convoluted narrative, warring tonalities, and videogame-styled bombast. It's impossible for me to reconcile the good with the bad.
All I can say is thank you so much for posting this @CraterGuns. I'm going to share this at work first thing on Monday!!!!! ^:)^
They could even call it Dalton & Craig, as the phrase sounds so catchy. Timothy Dalton would play Detective Sergeant Peter Craig, and Daniel Craig would play Detective Sergeant David Dalton, often referred to as DeeDee, a nickname he doesn't care for.
Tagline: They will have to develop a bond if they ever hope to catch the bad guys!
Hahaha. Great! I really think the film would be a hit.
Watching The Hero die and leave behind a fatherless family felt like a slap in the face and the print it left has only just stopped stinging.
OHMSS ends in outright tragedy. NTTD ends in triumph with Bond protecting the ones he loves. If anything the film reclaims it as a love song.
That depends on whether you feel it wasn't still a love song after OHMSS. It never lost that vibe for me. I found it's use in NTTD far more melancholic than in OHMSS, as I'm more attached to Bond than I am to Tracey as a character.
An interesting idea, but it just didn't really work for me.
It's still a love song to me in both cases. Specific to Bond, I'm seeing him as having an unusually long career as a 00. Then 5 years after retirement he's caught up in events where he's shown a sliver of family experience and something that will endure, something he might never have had at all. To a glorious end in sacrifice to loved ones.
Also very Flemingesque to me. Retirement would equate to the boredom of the office MI6, and the death watch beetle of the soul comments. That's not what Bond aspired to in the books or films. So he overcame that as well.
The one thing I would not describe NTTD having is the perfect ending. Far from it.
As for the use of the song, that felt more like a slap in the face. How dare they tie in a Bond classic like OHMSS and lump it with this trash. Even the phrase - WHATTITW, should only be applied to that one film.
Again, retconning it, trying to attach that meaning from when Bond says it to Tracey should have stayed there. It didn't belong anywhere else, other than in reference to Tracey. Trying to give it a new meaning with this garbage was just wrong, and symbolic of everything that went wrong in the Craig era. I know it was well intentioned, but it didn't work (for me, anyway).
True, the same for me, it's unearned and undeserved, like what I've said, I didn't even bought the Bond-Madeleine relationship.
Wished they just crafted a new theme for them, not reusing a theme from another relationship.
You don't say.
In the words of Stan Laurel - `I certainly do'.
Yes.....