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I like what you have to say on this issue.
I respect your stance, but I can't help but feel like similar comments were hurled at a title like DAD when it came out. Now, 15 years later, more fans seem to be coming around around to it. Time is a funny beast that way. How the rest of DC's tenure goes will likely effect the standing of SP as well.
This didn't bother me as much, because it really set up (or tried to) the reason Bond doesn't kill Blofeld at the end.
There's plot and then there's dialogue. A lot of the dialogue has been pretty ropey for years. We get flashes of quality writing but generally it's not been great for a long time.
Maibaum defined the feel of the dialogue for two and a half decades. There were other writers periodically of course, but he set the bar high.
Purvis and Wade have sadly not lived up to his standards. They're dodgy Sunday afternoon British TV level writers at best.
Indeed there weren't. The opposite actually. When it came out it got great critics praising it as a great homage to its 19 predecessors. Also with the people I know. They didn't think there was too much wrong with it. Of course everybody laughed about the surfing scene, but apart from that ...
I also remember people arguing that the way the invisible car was explained was technically very feasible and not very far-fetched. By the way, if you want to get surprised just Google "Mercedes and invisible car". You and many others here on this forum will be in for quite some surprise. This is no fake. I've seen it on German news years ago, and our news tend to be quite conservative, meaning they don't fall very easily for hoaxes.
My SP theatre experience in 2015 was very similar to my opinion of TWINE in 1999. That film remains my 24 out of 24.
I can't see my opinion of it improving dramatically unless Craig is out. Then there will be some nostalgia for me that it wrapped up (even if very poorly) his generally stellar run.
To mention SP in the same breath as either of these Brosnan era abominations is utterly absurd.
I personally can't stand SF but even I can recognise it's still infinitely superior to any of the Brosnan films. Different league entirely.
There's a much needed dose of common sense and reality needed round here right now. Peoples minds are getting addled by all the frustration and waiting.
When people start claiming DAD is superior to SP you really know the world's gone mad.
I was loving the film, right up until meeting Jinx. Then it felt like everything derailed. I couldn't stand that silly climax, and the robo-cop suit, the one liners, the fight between Jinx and Miranda...
By the time I left the theater, I literally felt I had been punched in the gut.
Recently, inspired by the forum members, I ran my own Bondathon.
Everything was going swimmingly, until half way through TWINE. Depressed at how dull I found it, I skipped the rest of that film, and DAD, and went straight into the Craig films.
I find the sudden love for DAD very curious, and, although I fear my own reaction to it will probably remain the same as in the past, I am gearing up to give it another go.
@Getafix hear hear
I didn't say DAD was superior to SP either. I will say this: I enjoy it far more than I do SP. Additionally, some of the scenes in that film are first class technically, such as the opening surf and the Aston/Jag chase. As I said, I viewed it yesterday and still am very impressed with what EON were able to pull off in those sequences. Far better than anything in SP. It's a shame that it was let down by other now notorious sequences.
I just hope Craig doesn't humour the press with anything akin to the infamous slashing quote. The online rags would have a field day with that.
For me, this interview has 2 options:
Either Craig actually reveals that he will return and everyone will applaud on the set.
Or there will be no question because Colbert will have received instructions thereon.
One thing is certain, I see very bad craig announce on a tv show that it leaves James Bond, it would be weird. Either we will have positives answers on his return or he will say nothing.
I think you're right. And if Colbert doesn't mention Bond, then we can be pretty certain that, as you suggest, instructions have prevented such questions - and that means Eon etc. want the news to be officially revealed by them and by no one else.
Yes and I think this is clearly planning ahead and there is likely to be no questions on bond 25. Craig's news is so important for Bond 25 that I see it badly revealed on Colbert
How would Colbert even introduce Craig without mentioning Bond? SF and SP are the most recent films he's been in, anything else is far too long ago and likely not that well known in the US.
If Craig's interview is also pretaped, we might not get any news.