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Will Craig get his OTT film?
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History has shown us that it usually takes about four movies into an actors tenure for them to get one really big, outlandish movie, after them having supposedly hit their stride with the third film (Moore with MR, Broz with DAD, and Connery with TB, although YOLT makes the former look quaint in comparison). I want to say that Craig's fourth will be more extravagent, but are the producers really past the days of YOLT-sytle films? We got one in 2002, after all. Or is SF as OTT as the Craig era will get? I'm personally looking forward for a film that is more humourous (ala SF, where I thought Craig nailed the funny bits) but that retains a serious story, kind of like TSWLM. And the gunbarrel MUST be at the start of the film!
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But I've been wrong before.
Definetly. But if they leave it as an afterthought again and get a decent opening shot they'll probably just stick it at the end again with the terrible QOS design.
I think it's a shame that a film like SF is lumbered with that terrible gunbarrel.
Camp is simply a matter of using far more resources than is necessary; it's not so much about revealing your hand or winking at the audience. But people have confused the former with the latter, as I think this poster has.
I would say, as an example, that From Russia with Love is a far campier (and more enjoyable) film than Die Another Day. It takes as its premise a Hitchcockian Cold War thriller and ladles on things you wouldn't expect, from gypsy fights to exploding briefcases. Whereas Die Another Day takes a far different template as its baseline (teen action film) and barely ramps above what's anticipated. It's essentially a cartoon, and cartoons can't be any more over-the-top than, for instance, opera.
As a result, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall are far campier than anything the Moore or Brosnan eras produced, because they know how to play with audience expectations. How can a movie like Moonraker be over-the-top when the assumption is that anything can happen? Invisible space stations make perfect "sense" within the logic of Christopher Wood/Lewis Gilbert flicks.
This is why I hope they stick with the current track. I laughed more at Strawberry Fields in her "undercover" thigh-high trenchcoat than I did at the hover-Bondola or invisible car. Fields was so preposterous in a film that played up (that's right, played up, not aped) current trends, and a perfect extension of Fleming's approach to humour.
Evil dead isn't Bond and after the satirical slaughtering Austin Powers propagated, not to mention 9/11 has changed the landscape of credibility and expectation from certain medias and genres, there's a reason why there's a reluctance to have Bond regress into campville.
Campy doesn't fit with what I envision Bond to be, especially when he parodies himself all through the 70s and former half of the 80s.
Unless you want him in space or escaping a laser shot from there or something....
I'd actually prefer that it get dialed back considerably (to a dark thriller) if he decides to stay on, or if another actor takes the role on next. I can get my OTT from Marvel these days (I almost felt I was in a Marvel film when he survived the building collapse without a scratch and when he shot all Blofeld's guards with pinpoint accuracy after enduring the torture......a far cry from getting his balls slapped in CR and then needing to take a month off to recuperate).
Judging from the way SP ended one could not help but get the feeling that this was Craig's Swan Song.
Similar to Christian Bale saying goodbye to Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
Compared to the rest of the franchise, no. Compared to the rest of Craig's films (particularly CR and QOS), yes.
Crater lair!
Biggest explosion ever!
Snowplane!
Mexico!
More OTT would be boarding a space shuttle or drive an invisible car.
SP is perfect, especially the finale which is a great sequence and contrast to the desert sequence.
Yes. We yearn for what we had with Moore and Connery, but without the actor you can't get it back. They tried it with Brosnan and it fell flat. You need to accept that things have to evolve and you hope for something new that matches the best of the past. I thought from a humour perspective SP was perhaps the best for a long time.
That's why they have to be 'original' with their interpretation and presentation of the character, within his notable confines. Connery is Connery. Moore is Moore. Craig is Craig......but on his recent outing it was getting close to recalling the originals.
It's a fine line. They crossed it with 'circle of life' imho, and thankfully didn't do that with SP.
if I were pressed I would say Craig had his OTT film: SF
Don't get me wrong, Ioved SF but with all the plot holes, and stretches of credibility (Bond being shot by Patrice and Eve , Silva's incredible plan... ) yea I would say this film qualifies as the closest to an OTT film.
Times have changed and the days of fluff like we saw in MR, the outrageousness of DAD and YOLT are gone. IMO
I love OTT :D. YOLT, TSWLM, SP, even MR. I wanna see a Lewis Gilbert style romp from Danny Boy!