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Boy looks good. Has potential
Agreed. It reached obscene levels in TDKRises - the amount of exposition was just unpalatable.
But as Mendes4Life pointed out - CR suffered from quite a bit of this too... especially the poker scenes... YUK.
He could do a good job, IMO.
I think it was awful in both TDK and TDKRises. I don't recall any ham handed dialogue at the poker game though. Unless you mean the Casino guy spelling out the rules for poker?
Memento is a masterpiece and Nolan's best film if only SPECTRE was that good. One of the most audacious and original thrillers in decades. That being said I think really Nolan doing Bond is a boat that sailed long ago.
Mendes films were influenced by him and although I loved SF, that brother nonsense was Logan and Sam taking pages from DK trilogy.
I think Warners is likely if MGM go for another partner, I'm not sure they'd break up the Craig Mendes partnership if both were willing to return.
I think SPECTRE is begging to be followed up and the new studio will know that.
Actually TDK is his best :D
I think from his blockbuster films yes, love TDK but Memento is just ingeniously conceived, the whole device of using the tatoo's and backward storytelling. All the performances are superb, Pearce has never been better and Pantaliano is fantastic. It drives to a truly twisted and disturbing ending.
Nolan and his brother at their most original and creative, I'd actually put The Prestige as my no.2 with TDK at no. 3 with Rises and Interstellar right at the bottom.
The fact that they now want to remake such a classic fills me with dread to what contemporary spin they'll bring to it I phones etc it's truly chilling thought.
Out of the big leagues now in North America. Thanks Mendes, Babs, and Logan.
Maybe good in the long run except now B25 has to follow trite rehash of boring old themes to finish the story.
SP successfully succeeded in tarnishing Craig's previous and hampered those to come.
Memento is one of those critically praised films I just didn't care for that much. Prestige is a favorite though, and I love all 3 Dark Knight films. Still haven't seen Interstellar.
Nah.
Nolan would likely go further down the road Mendes started and develop all kinds of story outside of Bond. Dark Knight Rises had too little Batman being Batman. As well as slowing down the pacing to a crawl.
Spielberg would probably deliver a Crystal Skull version of Bond at this point and that's unwanted too. He needs to continue making history movies at this stage of his career.
I want a great action director with taste and class, who's capable with character scenes. If they spend money and time to develop a great script, then they need someone who can create great action sequences within the movie. With a tone that pulls back from SP and tailors more to CR (there is nothing wrong with the poker scenes).
Watching CR last night, I was reminded of how many great action scenes there were and how compelling they were because they focused on Bond being physical. It's better to have hand to hand combat on cars (or planes) or in stairwells, rather than just cars or planes chasing each other. I really liked SP but the movie would be better if it had a couple more train fight like sequences... I think the Austrian plane sequence was pretty meh and that feeds into a lot of people's perception about the film being meh.
Nolan would likely go further down the road Mendes started and develop all kinds of story outside of Bond. Dark Knight Rises had too little Batman being Batman. As well as slowing down the pacing to a crawl.
Spielberg would probably deliver a Crystal Skull version of Bond at this point and that's unwanted too. He needs to continue making history movies at this stage of his career.
I want a great action director with taste and class, who's capable with character scenes. If they spend money and time to develop a great script, then they need someone who can create great action sequences within the movie. With a tone that pulls back from SP and tailors more to CR (there is nothing wrong with the poker scenes).
Watching CR last night, I was reminded of how many great action scenes there were and how compelling they were because they focused on Bond being physical. It's better to have hand to hand combat on cars (or planes) or in stairwells, rather than just cars or planes chasing each other. I really liked SP but the movie would be better if it had a couple more train fight like sequences... I think the Austrian plane sequence was pretty meh and that feeds into a lot of people's perception about the film being meh.
Nonsense. I've never heard of people talking about Bond more than now.
Hope you're right.
Aren't they three of the people who put Bond IN the 'big leagues'...?
Yup ...so did P&W.
Excellent post. I agree about Nolan on all counts. Too little Batman being Batman in TDKR was exactly what was wrong for me also. It was also my problem with SF, too little Bond being Bond. I especially like your points about how the director for 25 (hopefully not Mendes) has to be good at integrating character scenes with the kind of action scenes that focus on Bond and not action sequences like the plane scene in SP and the train scene in SF that mostly use Bond as an incidental prop. Great action scenes like the stairwell fight in CR and the train fight scene in SP prove you don't have to bloat up the budget for great action scenes.
I think they should beg for Martin Campbell to return. While Mendes has done a pretty good job with Bond, I think Campbell is the best man for Bond.
I would love for Tom Hardy to play Bond if Craig leaves. Eon probably consider him too famous though.
"I want a great action director with taste and class, who's capable with character scenes. If they spend money and time to develop a great script, then they need someone who can create great action sequences within the movie. With a tone that pulls back from SP and tailors more to CR (there is nothing wrong with the poker scenes)."
@DoctorNo Agreed.
Wrong, I read this interview in Premiere magazine where the writers clearly say QOS is Haggis script and there's nothing left of their. CR is 95% PW, QOS is 0% them.
Back on to Bond 25 personally my short list of directors is simply
Chris Mcquarrie
Tony Gilroy
Luc Besson
Steven Spielberg
And that's about it I think in February we should be getting the announcement of who is writing the script.