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Gobble-gobble….
Meanwhile, what is being made:
Also agree with @DarthDimi calling NTTD B25 all the time is childish.
I think its illustrative of the fact that cinema has come a long way and it isn't the 2010's anymore. There's no reason why Bond 26 can't or shouldn't take bold swings into directions which might be considered zany or irreverent. In many ways, this is the way things are going.
The closest any Bond films come to that are MR and DAD, two of the most derided of all the Bond films. Generally amongst fans and the general audience.
It's not a compelling argument for where Bond 26 should go.
So The Batman will be zany too I guess?
You're comparing different genres.
And no one here has ever said that Bond shouldn't be bold, chef.
Gobble, gobble.
I'd say the fact that this trailer (for a film that has been delayed repeatedly due to the studio's lack of confidence in it and has now been dumped as a January release) has been relentlessly mocked online all day undermines your point somewhat.
Or why refusing to call NTTD by its name is such a bold and impressive act of defiance. I'm sure IP127something has his reasons.
Has it really? I saw it this morning and must admit I was a bit nonplussed by it (feels like a variation on ideas I’ve seen a few times before), I thought it would have gone down well though.
Remember the most recent Bond film is 5 years old in terms of when the cameras were actually rolling.
And?
All I can say is, thank the maker some of you weren't around for the hiatus from LTK to GE.
No internet to raise your anger over. Snippets of info in newspapers and magazines. But mostly zero Bond for six years, with no way of knowing when it would end and we'd see another Bond film.
Yet we survived.
I agree. I’m not really sure what this thread has done besides be a battleground for countless debates that aren’t worth anyone’s time. Nobody has any solid idea to the question this thread poses (least of all EON for now), and the conversation always seems to circle back around to the quality of the Craig films, particularly the last two. I can see why some members may avoid this thread (if I’m being frank I don’t blame them.)
More than anything else I’m just tired of all the pointless back and forth arguments surrounding Craig’s era. It’s time to move on.
Well, it is a thread entitled 'where does Bond go after Craig' to be completely fair. Don't disagree, for some fans maybe it's better looking forward as opposed to what they like or don't about films from 5+ years ago. But at the same time there's not much else we can do apart from discuss it in the relevant threads.
Yeah. I think so too. It's an active thread and so far everyone has behaved well with a healthy dose of etiquette, amid the high-octane discussions. I think the last time we experienced members really losing it, was the Covid/NTTD release problem. Some members lost their cool then and got kicked out.
For me it’s less that the conversations are being had but more the inability of certain people to move past the movies they don’t like and accept them for what they are, especially when they offer very little to almost no insight into what they would like out of the next guy’s era.
Each Bond film is a product of its time and the perceived success or failure of the previous film, and of course hindsight is 20/20! You can't retrofit or time-travel SP's tone in 2015 onto 1973 or 1977. It was a completely different marketplace.
Strange how everyone keeps forgetting that we also endured a once-in-a-century (I hope) pandemic that obviously delayed NTTD *and* Bond 26.
@Benny. So true. I was a teenager during the LTK-GE gap, and boy was it bleak! I would look in Variety in the library for the slightest snippet of information...basically, nothing for years and years. And to be honest, I was less interested in the series by the time GE came around (I was very invested in TLD and LTK, especially coming on the heels of AVTAK).
That being said, regardless of their merits or demerits, GE is one of the most important films for the franchise's longevity, along with TSWLM and DAF.
[sarcasm] We were tough kids in the '80s! I wonder if some of the younger members here could survive the 1989-1995 gap. [/sarcasm]
Everyone should relax. James Bond will return.
Sorry for the double post.
Oh, I get that @007ClassicBondFan I think the simple reason for repetition such as that is, there isn't any major Bond 26 update to discuss. But surely, once an announcement is made concerning Bond 26, that would be the centre of attention.
Why would you be kicked off the site? You're absolutely correct, @MaxCasino. While some are working hard to keep interesting albeit speculative conversation going, this is mostly where disgruntlement over the current hiatus and previous films has found yet another stage.
Makes sense 😅
I thought the series was dead and I don't think anyone cared too much. Even GE needed to justify its own existence.
Bad times, that's for sure.
What if the movie will bomb, though? Or you can see the future somehow (that'd be impressive for someone who doesn't even know the title of a Bond movie whose title was revealed five years ago)?
Pretty sure the series appealed to a younger demographic right from the start: otherwise that Corgi DB5 wouldn't have been the toy all the kids had. I don't think there's anything wrong with aiming a film at its audience.