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This. To utilize so many nods, just to wrap up the entire film with a line from OHMSS would've been way too much.
Precisely.
Bit of half news from moneypenny
On screen product placement?
Not to mention that it would have essentially been saying, "In the next movie Blofeld's going to kill Swann and then Bond is going to get revenge." It would be guaranteeing that the next film would be the story that everyone can see coming from a mile away. A story that I hope we don't get.
Precisely. Bond should move forward and shouldn't be limited to living in the shadow of or constantly referring back to the 60s. The essence of Bond is more than a drink, a car, and a gun, but if you reduce him to such, as we've seen over the past couple films, you make hollow the idea of the character and no amount of forced backstory or navel-gazing will conceal that.
Work within established and much loved elements of the formula, like the opening gunbarrel, the PTS, the main titles, receiving gadgets from Q, exotic locations, colorful villains, all the finer things in life. But from there, let creativity reign. That is what will give the Bond films the life they need.
As livingroyale mentioned, Moore insisted on drinking bourbon and smoking cigars in L&LD so as to differentiate his Bond from Connery's, and tananka pointed out that Brosnan switched from the traditional PPK to the P99 for his last three films. Good moves both. Why does Bond need to drink a vodka martini, shaken not stirred, every film? It's really not even a particularly good drink, and Fleming's Bond consumed at least as much bourbon and gin as he did vodka. Make Bond a gin man for a few films, or bring him back to bourbon. The important thing is that he's a snob and he likes his drinks prepared a very particular way. He establishes himself as someone who knows what he wants and knows how to get it—not someone who hasn't branched out from the same bad cocktail he's been consuming for over 50 years.
Just saying; prepare yourselves for another Spectre.
I know, what a mistake! I know what you mean.
It will grow on you in time,believe me.
Exactly.