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Laughable to say the least. Andrew Scott is a terrible actor.
If they actually filmed that scene as written I would spunk my wad in the cinema.
Never going to happen of course because people don't understand the mechanics of bridge.
Thank the monkey god!
I don't think he is bad, just overrated (by his fans especially) and rather one note. He plays adequately slimy characters. I was never impressed by his Moriarty, far too exuberant to show either menace or gravitas.
I would love to see scenes of M & Bond playing bridge or Bond & Tanner playing golf. Give them more screen time like that, but keep them the hell out of the field with Bond.
Agreed, they need time to build up the relationships and contrast with the action, give the characters room to breath.
My guess: Only if a buyer were to decide to plow under the property for condos. Pinewood is doing pretty well financially (it has expanded into the US and Canada). I would guess any buyer would want Pinewood to stay in the studio business. On occasions when studio property got torn down, the studio in question wasn't do very well financially, i.e. MGM in the early 1970s.
This is what I've been saying for years but it just never happens. The characters were given a little time to breath in CR and SF but not enough. I saw The Saint (1997) with Val Kilmer (nice soundtrack by the way) and this is a solid action thriller, not just an action film, and it has an admirable amount of character movement. The same goes for The Assignment which is from the same year. I remember Tomorrow Never Dies which came out the same year and this movie had practically no character development.
I digress but classic westerns were really good at this (much of The Mag Seven is just guys talking), using these scenes for the audience to get insight into the characters plus it ratchets up the tension in anticipation of the action that will always come. And I really do think that audiences respond to these scenes.
IMHO Bond needs some quality screen time with M and Fiennes needs some quality screen time with Craig (their acting abilities are not properly shown during action sequences), if not, it will go down as another missed opportunity.
1. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
2. Captain America The Winter Soldier (which spectre stole from but meh)
3. Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
4. Non- Stop
5. The Bourne Legacy
and honestly I would probably put these five films above Spectre and Skyfall (however Quantum of solace and Casino Royale would be above these)... I love that mendes an Oscar winner is a huge bond fan and I love the talent he brought in with these films names like Javiar Bardem and Christoph Waltz again very happy the issue is the films above have more interesting villains better plots better action and for the most part are largely non personal (not really delving into the back story of the main character but focusing on the tension of the situation) Hell Winter Soldier did Spectre better then Spectre. I sit back and think is it Purvis and Wade surely everyone hits their peak at some point And maybe they did with Royale and Solace... but then I read Logan's nearly oked draft and think nope... is it the producers? Well to be fair Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman also made a lot of bone headed films and got complacent at times (You Only Live Twice Diamonds are forever and The Man with the golden gun for starters hell I would probably through Goldfinger in the list of complacency films but I would be burned and tortured for ever mentioning that) so even if it is Michael and Babs surely they will "bounce back"... Really the only common thread I can find that might be the reason the last two were as poor as they were was Mendes. True Spectre was a bit better then Skyfall (Again the fact that there was so much color and warm tones through out the film was amazing after Grayfall I mean Skyfall) but over all the film just felt ok and middle of the road same with Skyfall (which is starting to make me sadly glad Dalton only did two because had he done 3 or 4 or 5 maybe he too would of suffered mediocre films). Do I think Bond 25 will be horrible no honestly I don't because I have been following films with a keen eye on the development cycle since 2000 (god 16 years where does the time go) and I have seen ideas go from fruition to film that I thought were going to be stupid and complete bombs (Iron man and Rocky Balboa honestly) that were amazing movies and I have seen films I thought were gonna be brilliant (The Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall to be honest) that wound up being poor or ok in my opinion. So it depends on where the muses go I suppose Do I have hopes for the future of the series of course (two more from Craig 1 more dealing with the end of Spectre and Blofeld and then Craig's Man with the Golden Gun dealing with 007 and an unrelated mission and then maybe a trilogy from Nolan or Gilroy with Hiddleston as 007 taking on a reformed Smersh after which Hiddleston stays for 2 more films)
What is interesting is I am dealing with a lot of doom and gloom over another famous agent's next project MacGyver. With talks of both a tv show and film you think MacGyver fans would be rejoicing but nope all complaints and fear without so much as a casting notice or hell a trailer. I feel the same about Bond 25 it could become an amazing bond film righting the "wrongs of spectre" or it could be worse... we shall see but it's way to early to complain about the film as honestly we know more about the new MacGyver tv show then we do about Bond 25 (all we know is producers and certain cast will return outside of that we have no writers no director no location nothing)
You could focus on a lot of great themes in that location, especially from their rich mythology. Bond could be the piece's representation of the powerful Cuchulain, who, like in one of the ancient tales, is pleaded to by his government and king (Mallory?) to reign himself in after Blofeld takes things too far post SP. And obviously, having the quintessential Englishman tearing around Dublin causing havoc would awaken all kinds of odd imagery of the past colonial nature of the British Empire that EON have injected into their scripts so much recently. It'd be an interesting continuation of a lot of themes that've already been set in motion.
They're no less dangerous than they were 30 years ago. They've just split into so many factions that have gone in different directions that the effect has been diluted to the public.
Comparing them to the Freemasons is a bit misjudged.
However, I agree. I don't think they would work as Bond villains. The scale is too small.
Some very intense scenes from both 'Jack Ryan' film with Harrison Ford - especially the convoy attack in 'Clear and Present Danger' that took 20 years to equal ('Captain America: Winter Soldier'). Damn you @bondjames, now I want to rewatch 'Hunt for Red October/Patriot Games/Clear and Present Danger'. ;)
I cant see it being international enough for Bond, he needs to work at a global level and the younger audience would not understand the context.