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Three really is the magic number.
Do I watch it again or wait for the inevitable super duper Mendes cut next year at the flicks? I'm going to wait, my memory of a fab Bond expereince must not be muddied with plot picking on a second view.
I to was a little bit disappointed with Skyfall. I've never been a Dench fan so for the story to be around her was just mad, Mendes missed a trick he should of killed her off at the start. I for one am glad she's gone and the new M will be fab. Bardems villain was weak to. I loved Craigs journey in this film from being on top form at the start to drunk and fighting back.. he is a great Bond, loved Q and all the nods to past Bonds, the step over the Dragon just as Moore did with the crocs and the scare on Craigs back just like Seans, so lots to love about this film but for me just a bit frustrating that I didn't love it all. CR is still his best Film
PS- Did someone REALLY say that Javier Bardem's villain was "weak"??? WTF?
AND CAN WE PLEASE PUT THE FRIGGING GUNBARREL BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILM !
(Ahem) Sorry for the shouty text but I do like a good gunbarrel, gets me right in the mood :)
I could understand having it at the end of QoS, because this was supposed to represent the proper rebirth of Bond (as in, he's now the "real thing") but why put it on the end here as well? I mean, it makes more sense having it at the end of this one but they've pulled that trick once, did they really need to do it again?
Having said it didn' feel like a Bond film, it's certainly up there with CR, OHMSS, LTK and FRWL. But now I have a contradiction in my head - how can it be up there with those films if it doesn't feel like a Bond film?
Oh dear, think I will have to see it again. And then probably again.....and again :)
2. CR
3. QOS
And how did SF not feel like a Bondmovie? We have all the classic characters back. Please don't tell me it's only because of the GB at the end...
Why didn't it feel like a Bond film? No idea. If it was a bad film, I could probably give you a list. But it was a bloody good film. So I have nothing to point to, other than how it struck me at point of viewing.
Which doesn't even make sense in MY head, so I don't expect anyone else to get it.
But it does mean I'm going to have to watch it several more times. Damn.
And, to be fair, we only get the classic characters back at the end of the film.
however go and see it twice and the second time it had a total feel of a bond film and i loved it more. i think a third time and it will equal CR for me and will stand the test of time as a stand alone bond film. i compared it to CR not QOS as although some good bits QOS was a poor follow up to CR, writers strike or not.
like sean in GF, DC seemed more comftable in this than he did in the previous 2 films and i feel we have possibly one of the best bond villians of all time in SF.
loved the locations and especially the way london was shot. and again for only the second time in 23 films more rain. it was gritty well written well paced annd very well acted.
going again on thursday for 3rd veiwing
But to each his/her own.
We had M, albeit a woman. I'm glad that we have the classic office and Fiennes, but I never understood the "hatred" Dench got.
Q appears a good time before the end.
So again, I don't see how this is such a big deal.
Rounding errors I'm sure. ;-)
I don't think SF has a good reason to put it at the end, Mendes said it was because it didn't work at the beginning. I just cant see the gunbarreln ruining the opening shot, for me the gunbarrel would have helped me in the beginning. It would, like 7777 said, get me in the mood. The opening shot didnt do it for me... it wasn't that amazing.
I had expected a classic Bond movie, which I felt SF wasn't. Still a great movie, but I felt unsure about it when I left the cinema. The characters were classic Bond (with a capital B, as Craig put it) but the movie itself was very special. I think it'll be a grower for me, a la OHMSS.
Me too...I have got years to live with it though, and it may well rise.
Yet no vote in the poll the least of the three?