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1. A Fleming title
2. Gunbarrel at the start VERY IMPORTANT THING
3. Bond driving an Aston Martin during the mission and a Bentley Continental as his private car
4. Watching Bond house in Chelsea
5. A plot similar to The living daylights
6. Diving scenes
7. A happy end with Bond making love with a beatiful girl
Exactly. Some people have said they don't care about the gunbarrel and a few people have said they liked the opening shot of SF, but nobody has actually said that it's better at the end than at the start. On the other hand, loads of people are begging EON to please just put it back at the beginning.
I agree. If he honestly thought the opening shot was better than the gunbarrel fair enough but I think, since it was the 50th anniversary, he should've considered what the fans would want. I know we make up a very small amount of the box office gross and if you pandered to fans all the time then the film would turn out crap, but Mendes is apparently a big fan himself, and I'm sure everyone involved knew that the reaction to the QOS gunbarrel was negative. So it would've been nice for him to have taken our opinions into account and put it at the start for traditions sake since it was the 50th anniversary.
I'm probably in the minority here, but I actually prefer it at the end.
- A great main villian
- A Bond girl who lives to see the end, but maybe a secondary Bond girl is killed (I really don't mind seeing them die)
- A smart, realistic henchwoman who is bad throughout (I trust Logan with this one)
I'm begging Bond 24 has a femme fatale/ henchwoman in the movie as I personally believe we haven't been given an amazing female villain since Fiona Volpe, even Xenia Onatopp was a bit too cartoonish for my liking. In my eyes, she has to be like a villain version of Eve in Skyfall - she can kick ass and looks good doing it. I almost think if to make a female villain for Bond 24 they would need to mix Eve and Severine into one character. I think the result would be what I'd like to see in Bond 24.
- This is not what I want to see IN Bond 24 but what I want to see happen when Bond 24 is released.
That is an ultimately pleased audience. There's nothing worse than enjoying a film so much and then hearing that most of the audience didn't like it. Fingers-crossed that we all enjoy the next installment of the James Bond series.
Who doesn't want a great pre-title sequence and a great main villain?
Exactly, that's why it's on my wish list.
I've always wanted to see Tilda Swinton as a female Bond villain.
Because of the water story, maby some graving in emty desert or somethig like The Bunker from Twine. I think there should not be to much action with chases or so. If we see a short scene with Mr White Quantum and no Bond iam happy already. Insteed i like to see one more action scene then Skyfall somewhere in the middle/the end.
I like to see there hire screenplay writer to help john Logan. Bruce Feirstein of course wrote Tomorrow Never Dies in on his own but Skyfall story be weakest since DAD.
Flashbacks in the maintitle with highlights who be inportent for the story. Examples: M (Dench), Bond and Mr White when there asking Mr White quistions and Bond let Dominic Green alone in the desert and Camile Your prison been in there.
Barbara Broccoli cameo in the movie insteed of Michael G Wilson.
Cinematorapher should shine more, some one who can deal with the digital. Robert
Elswit or Roberto Schaefer return.
Skyfall has only Severine and the greek girl with a to short screentime. I whant see 3 or 4 Bond girls.. include Camile that mean 3 other one. QOS have Camile, Fields, the woman at the airport, the woman at Austria party and Mathis girlfriend. There not happend enough for me whyle Bond be on the run with M in Skyfall. In mis more in between scene's and it take to long before Eve return. Of course this be after enojoying death moment when Bond return to fast to Mi6 the second time there do almoost nothing with the fact there is no Bond.
I think you're getting confused, Skyfall's PTS was way longer than CR's.
I think he's confusing CR's Madagascar chase sequence with the actual PTS, Bond's murder of Fisher and Dryden.
Michael Owen would be a better Bond than Clive Owen! Daniel Craig is the best Bond ever. Simples!
I, for the record, want them to. When we look back at Craig's era, it would be a huge mistake not to give Quantum a resolution. Whether it's a PTS, or a film, some sort of tidying up need to be done before Craig is.
I'm holding out hope Logan has something with Quantum for Bond 24, and my biggest boost in morale is his 'no comment' when Empire asked him about the organization returning.
I know it could easily be a throwaway misdirection, but with Skyfall they were very clear in stating that Quantum would not feature in any way, and that SF would be a separate story. So why not be clear now?
2)Felix Leiter
3)Theme song that feels more or less different. I feel that Lykke Li should have a chance after playing her song Get Some along with the QoS opening. With her, we can have an indie style Bond Song.
Several homages to previous and even older Bond films:
4)Sylvia Trench
5)Car chase scene making full use of gadgets
6)Q acting irritated by Bond
7)Bond throwing his hat in front of Moneypenny
8)SPECTRE and Blofeld (or at least something that looks like it)
9)Reference to dead love interests like Tracy and Vesper
10)Red Grant (or a highly capable assassin)
11)Roger Moore style puns and jokes
12)More new and cool gadgets that Bond would use
13)More sex
14)Blind Bond girl???
15)Locations rarely or have never been before: New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Tibet, Australia etc.
16)More focus on the mission and the stunts
17)Sexy title sequence
18)Female assassin
Several more that I have forgotten for the moment...
20)The return of the 007 theme used in the Connery era and Moonraker. You know, the one that isn't the main Bond theme
21)Suspenseful stunts that if one step goes wrong everything would go nasty
22)Mi6 office moving to wherever Bond is. I chuckled whenever I see M and Moneypenny's office move to places like a submarine, Egypt, a sunken ship etc.
23)More adventurous mission that has sci.fi and modern elements in it
24)Grand Ken Adam style set pieces
25)Plot revolving world domination, or something close to a global threat
26)Deadly pets
27)Incorporating the theme song in the score
And while I'm in the thread and thinking about it - though I know I've said it before - I want to see Craig's Bond suit up in some kind of covert gear and infiltrate a place, like Bond's black outfit as he invades the facility in the beginning of GE, or even Dalton's (which is a lot like it) during the opening to TLD.
I would like to see 1 of Craig's films be YOLT-esque; I would love to see him in that type of adventure, and slightly more light-hearted than his first 3. I do really want Felix to come back too, and of course Quantum resolution.
I understand that. Dan's Bond has had quick one-liners that have made me laugh before but unlike Skyfall they never felt forced and were very much in the moment and well placed. In Skyfall all the one-liners came much too fast and delivered too close together, like the "bet it all on red"/"circle of life" deliveries that come right after the other. It comes off as messy and clunky, and like I said, I just don't think it's something Dan's Bond would say.
If we have to have moments of humor in the future Craig films I want it to be like that moment in QoS when the biker comes up to Bond in Haiti yelling at him for not killing Camille, to which Bond replies "I missed" and flips the guy off his bike, kicking him senseless on the pavement. That line managed to be humorous, yet didn't feel forced or like it was trying to be funny; it's like an accidental pun almost. It was very much in the moment and served as Bond's verbal reaction to the events around him that was heightened in hilarity by the physical action of 007 pummeling the guy into submission. That's what I want more of: lines that aren't trying too hard and that feel very reactionary and right, something Dan's Bond would actually say in that moment.
I'd have been happy if the "circle of life" line was just erased all together. I love the "bet it all on red" delivery but when Bond continues with the "circle of life" one-liner I sometimes wince at how out of place it sounds and feels, and it's like Bond is making fun of the man being torn apart by the komodo dragon, something I don't think he'd actually do. It just has never sat well with me from the first time I heard it at the theater.
Don't get me wrong, his Bond CAN handle humor, but it just needs to be tweaked in the sense of what we're talking about. Of course, he did have some funny lines in SF, such as his wide-eyed "Open...the door." line to the woman on the train, along with his health and safety quip. I also loved the banter between him and Q when he was down in the tunnels.
How about the Tarzen yell as he swings on a rope across a chasm, BUT, as he does it, the whistle from the 360 TMWTGG car jump blares in the background, and as soon as he lands, he turns and finds the pigeon from MR that does a triple take.