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2. Skyfall
3. QoS
You just made me laugh! I don't have time for a long answer but I'll just pick one thing, the silliest one. You think you are so smart with all your continuity talk. See what I put in bold? There are things called mirrors, when people look at them things appear as... oh wait, a mirror image! The wound was always on the right shoulder >:)
I was just thinking the same @Sandy - it was the mirror shot. :-)
I was just thinking the same @Sandy - it was the mirror shot. :-)[/quote]
I see my coffee break was well spent. Back to work!
But cant see CR ever being topped.
Best credits,best music,best Bond,best girl,best fights,best ever foot chase on film,best villain,best script,best arrangement of Bond theme.No Q,no corny one liners,no Moneypenny,no gadgets(except the defib. in the car,the only false move in the film)
No bleedin women swimming in the credits.
CR and SK much closer to hero of the books.
SK? Wouldn't it be SF? And why don't you like women in the credits?
=))
1. Why the hell does M and the groundskeeper (GK) who you would think knows the grounds blindfolded need a flashlight to go as far away as possible in any direction and then is stupid enough to be waving it around like a search beacon...WTF?
2. How the hell does Bond make it through a drop in the water from what must have been over 150 feet and after floating around underwater miraculously show up in some tropical paradise with a hot chick as though it were a swim in the pool....unless the entire movie was Bond's comatose dream. WTF?
3. How the hell does Bond miraculously find a flare under ice cold lake in pitch dark conditions (The same conditions that required M and the GK to need a flashlight) and then escape back to shore like the man from atlantis....WTF?
4. Why the hell does a super genius eccentrically wealthy villain would show up in person with a gun in the middle of downtown London Parliament at a meeting designed to relieve M of her duties knowing that the wheels were already in motion for her dismissal thanks to a crafty cyber attack. Oh yeah...the villain is actually 'The Joker' (Oddly looking a lot like the one from the TV show) WTF?
5. Why did I waste good money on this film? Oh yeah I thought it was going to be a Bond film....not Home Alone meets The Dark Knight, meets a bad imitation of the Bourne Identity. WTF
I could go on and on....
Positives?...Q was cool, I liked Sévérine. Super hot and exotic. Everything a Bond chick should be. But what a waste to not have let that character develop. Or was it just a lift of the Maude Adams character from MWTGG? And I liked the entire 30 second reveal of the old DB5....and some real Bond music. Too bad they wasted the DB5 not letting it be used to full capability in a car vs chopper duel. As for the SF main title song....meh. This is way better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgvu-ZntUhU
Solutions? I suggest....they not only cast a NEW Bond that is less like Mark Walberg and more like Sean Connery, they go back to formula....GB at the beginning, more humor, exotic locales, Beautiful Women, Gadgets....and less stark dreary boredom. Enough with the derivative fodder. Of course this entire comment is pointless for those that actually think SF is "The best Bond film ever". IMO it's not even a Bond film. Nor is it worthy of being called one. Nuf said.
Well said good fellow...couldn't agree more indubitably.
@agent006
Welcome to the forums, sir. As you are a first time visitor, allow me please to inform you that we prefer not to find too many one-word posts in our threads. Also, @DrNo made his point very clear: he thinks of SF as an excellent Bond film. That's his opinion. You are of course allowed to try and counter that opinion with educated arguments but a 'Huh?' post usually indicates an end-of-the-line discussion. Thirdly, as double, triple, ... posts are considered spam, I have merged your double post into one. From here on, please avoid them. Thank you. :-)
Cheers good fellow....I'm afraid I'm still just wee perturbed at having been so disappointed at the bloody film that it appears my emotives are exuding somewhat extraneously. If you'll excuse me I'll try and curb my abrupt lack of exuberance for SF.
As for the one word post, that was an honest one as I didn't quite understand whether it meant Dr. No was going to re-evaluate based on my negation of SF, or re-evaluate in a positive manner having actually enjoyed SF. Were this the latter I was somewhat confused being it followed the negation I had just posted, and and logically to me Dr. No's post made no sense...unless of course he ignored my post. Hence my confusion. Nonetheless, rather than appear to be a spectre agent looking to disrupt the system....I'll try and post more resolutely and with a more complete aire of resonance.
"Shaken but not stirred"
I agree, no more homages...why not just make a new Bond film using the tried and proven formula. Exciting original opening sequence like ski parachuting off a cliff... (Not another motorcycle chase), and good Bond style music in the tradition of Barry, not Hans Zimmerish tones where they don't need to be. There's a reason the original Bonds were good...they made the films with class and logic. And more importantly, have a conclusion that involves a truly incredible demise for the arch villain. Is this really too much to ask for?
The fans of the early Bonds from 'earlier decades' allowed this franchise to still exist....so why ignore the formula that many would argue were redundant...Yes maybe they were cyclical but it was a familiar structure classic era Bond aficionados looked forward to continuing infinitum. At least I did. We're talking through the Connery and early to mid Moore era, ending with Lewis Gilbert's Moonraker as far as I'm concerned. After that IMO...the empire of epic excellence began to crumble...
Yet many would argue that was another time and place. Sure, so why does Mickey D endure? Why does the game of basketball endure? Because there are fewer changes rather than drastic. I have no problem with the changes...but I want the same game at the end of the day.
I want a GB at the beginning of the film, an unbelievably incredible opening teaser sequence that has some sense of plausibility, sexy nubile silhouetted women (Thankyou team SF for at least doing that in part), a powerful epic sounding opening theme song (Why not bring back Tom Jones?), excellent signature set design (What happened to the killer work of Ken Adam?), The overt use of puns, wit and humor (Why no more Sheriff J.W. Cullpepper types?), Insane gadgets, and flying or submersible cars etc...and most importantly a lair destruction with lots of goons and loons fighting with submachine guns and grenades etc...
Yes its a formula....but why remove the key ingredients? I believe the Bond films are a fantasy, yet why make them dreary and dull. Make them a vacation, not a depressing waste of money built around a massive marketing machine designed to draw in audiences based on a formula that is no longer there.
It's time to vote. :D
Now that I've seen Skyfall several times and I still think it's excellent, my vote definitely goes to Casino Royale. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt that any future Craig Bond film will top CR.