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So was Dalton´s Bond, and even more so. But Fleming´s Bond not necessarily always translates easily onto the screen. Fleming himself said so and was happy that Broccoli and Salzman made the films as they did.
I'm surely he merely spun around wildly in his grave instead.
No doubt he would have thought DAD was a DUD as well as a waste of a good novel of his - MR!
Well let us take a look around the world today, blindingly obvious that we need some escapism more than ever with continuous state of uncertainty in the Middle East, the global IS threat, and not to forget Putin trying to take us back to a kind of Cold War throwback with the situation in Ukraine.
It works for GF too... In it, the DB5 has an iconic scene, but in the end he cannot escape because he can't kill an old lady with a machinegun, and he gets caught because he's fooled by a mirror. You've got gadgets galore that works fine, and yet he fails. Pure genius, IMO. After that, the gadgets seemed to always be some deux ex machina. You rarely saw Bond trying a gadget that didn't work (LALD crocodile scene for instance). Moore could play the superspy that way, all the others had quite some problem.
LTK used Bond-OTT in a meta manner (when Sanchez can't believe how Bond escaped), and this is in a John Glen movie, which are supposed to be very superficial and straightforward... It's hard to handle Bond-OTT.
What film were you were you watching, rape her in the shower?
This is utter bollocks, I've heard this comment about SF to the point of wondering at what point is this against her will? She all but asks him to come to her rescue and the attraction is evident from the moment they meet.
This sequence is nowhere as questionable as SC Bond in the stable with Pussy Galore. Now there is no question he forces himself on her. but hey it's King Connery the man who said some women just deserve a good slap now and then, we call Craig's Bond a thug, well maybe in the films but at least he doesn't it play it out in real life.
This article is totally pointless, that's right lets put out to pasture a series of films that after 50 years is still going strong and has hit the billion dollar mark recently and it's follow up is one of the most anticipated films of 2015.
What smug self satisfied pile of horse shite are these journalists writing and getting paid for these days?
Well said.
A fair enough summary! :))
"The writing team cannot touch real-world issues in espionage for fear of losing tax breaks, offending worldwide audiences, or failing to appeal to a key demographic."
By that logic, the very existence of SPECTRE as a main adversary, instead of the USSR or China, would prove the same of the early Bond period. I mean, honestly: why did Fleming sell out? The cover of From Russia With Love should have been Bond punching Khrushchev in the face!
"Despite the current tensions between Russia and the West, we can expect to see Bond praising the fine people of Mexico..."
Right, because FRWL didn't exaggerate the splendors of Turkey or TLD that of Afghanistan! The Bond films have always taken Bond down the prettiest alleys in developing nations. There are some slums in Brazil and India; the fact that MR and OP didn't show us any doesn't mean the series had taken a dive.
There's a good reason the post was published by "the Heckler": when do hecklers ever win? Never. The comics always put them to shame (unless your Michael Richards). I guess he can heckle all he wants - I'll be enjoying the show this November.
Well put. I think the article has to be read in the context you highlight. And not taken tooo seriously. It's designed to p*** off and provoke, in which it seems to have succeeded reasonably well.
In it, there's a part where we listen to fans talking about the new trilogy and an interesting view is how we can read that as
"now that everybody loves my object of love, I have to hate it to feel well or to feel different",
"that's not my real love, my real love was the old ones",
"this has nothing to do with the real ones, even if the creator is the same",
"I know more about that, even more than him"...
Maybe, there's something psychological there, about loving our youth and the moment we love these movies, and being unable to enjoy the new ones which are being loved by thousands of people everywhere...
Indeed, very impressive @ggl007!
It is obvious that anyone can like or dislike Daniel Craig, but when we have seen that, even before CR!, there was a movement of craignotbondians, I found that quite remarkable...
How can this apply to Star Wars ? It was big success from the beginning, and after that first trilogy, contrary to Bond, the SW Franchise still waits for his TSWLM or CR..
Now imagine EON toyed with the early Bonds, putting some CG so that the chase in DN looks less dated, how would you feel ? You don't need to have seen DN in the theater to fid this weird, no ?
Indeed here are legitimate reasons why people were disappointed in the new trilogy and Lucas' tampering of the original one.
Don't talk about this in the dubbing thread :)
Hahahahahahahaha. Oh mercy.
On a serious note, the article is drivel. However, whenever people criticise Man of Steel, Star Wars NT, Indiana Jones and TKOTCS, or any remake of a film from their childhood, they are essentially saying; 'This is not like the film(s) I was raised on, therefore it's wrong'.
I hear that all the time. People can't get over themselves long enough to realise films aren't made to satisfy their boring little nostalgia trips. It's pathetic to read grown adults say shit like,'Bond is all about gadgets, cars, shooting bad guys and shagging Women'.
What about the DB5 in Skyfall ? It's a bit harsh to say this was pathetic gastroenterological stuff. And I hope you're not too worried by SPECTRE, the other big Bond concept from 50 years ago.
After the first 4 yes, true.