Where does Bond go after Craig?

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    talos7 wrote: »
    It's funny how the appearance of a well known actor in a cameo can be distracting. For me, when Ted Danson appeared in "Saving Private Ryan it pulled me right out of the film.

    What was his character's name in that film ? I can't remember it, either. Gotta go someplace else to be where everybody knows your name.
  • When does the Uncharted film come out? Not seen any marketing. Dodgy reviews so far
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    You should be able to find the Trailer for Uncharted on IMDB and/or You Tube, at the least. By the trailer it looks like great fun. Wouldn't be the first fun movie to exceed review-based expectations...nor the first to be just as bad as reviewed. We'll see !
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    When does the Uncharted film come out? Not seen any marketing. Dodgy reviews so far

    Its rubbish, I wouldnt bother if I were you!
  • ImpertinentGoonImpertinentGoon Everybody needs a hobby.
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    Film should be out already.

    A quick look at Rotten Tomatoes shows that the reaction is mainly critics saying "It's a standard adventure flick. 2/5" and audiences saying "IT'S A STANDARD ADVENTURE FLICK! 5/5", which goes to show you that not everything needs to be classy prestige fare that re-invents it's genre to make a buck (or 140 million bucks in the case of Uncharted...).
  • DenbighDenbigh UK
    edited February 2022 Posts: 5,970
    I can't help but feel Uncharted has just benefited from No Way Home's success.
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    Venutius wrote: »
    Yes, Connery pretty much owns the screen no matter what he's in - or for how long he's in it. The man had that innate presence and charisma that you just can't learn or fake.

    Having been in a room when Connery entered, he has that presence in person as well. Electric. You don't have to see him to know that he's there.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
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    Denbigh wrote: »
    I can't help but feel Uncharted has just benefited from No Way Home's success.

    Yeah, this is a very fair assessment to make I would say.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Sean Connery in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves!

    He was distracting then too. And even for a few seconds, stressed how lightweight and unheroic Kevin Costner is in that film.

    Yes it was still Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, as you said. But then with Connery.

  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited February 2022 Posts: 3,152
    delfloria wrote: »
    Venutius wrote: »
    Yes, Connery pretty much owns the screen no matter what he's in - or for how long he's in it. The man had that innate presence and charisma that you just can't learn or fake.

    Having been in a room when Connery entered, he has that presence in person as well. Electric. You don't have to see him to know that he's there.

    I totally believe it. One of the greats.
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Sean Connery in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves!

    He was distracting then too. And even for a few seconds, stressed how lightweight and unheroic Kevin Costner is in that film.

    Yes it was still Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, as you said. But then with Connery.

    Boy I dislike that film. Kevin Costner as an unheroic, borderline cowardly Robin Hood. No class, no charisma, no panache. It took the BBC series to find a worse take on the legend.
  • I love Prince of Thieves. Alan Rickman owns that film.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited February 2022 Posts: 3,152
    I know Michael Praed could be a bit of a thigh-slapping panto ham, but if you were the right age in the UK at the right time, chances are there's only one Robin Hood for you, man! Well, apart from that bloke in Robin and Marian, obvs...
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    I love Prince of Thieves. Alan Rickman owns that film.

    He's a large ham. Can't say I'm a big fan of the approach, but at least he acted. Although i alwats find it questionable when the villain in a Robin Hood movie has more peesence and charisma than your hero. With the BBC series it was even worse: Richard Armitage was better looking and more manly than Jonas Armstrong! And even taking into account that a Hollywood production can take liberties with history, the amount of inaccuracies in POT is downright embarrassing.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Venutius wrote: »
    I know Michael Praed could be a bit of a thigh-slapping panto ham, but if you were the right age in the UK at the right time, chances are there's only one Robin Hood for you, man! Well, apart from that bloke in Robin and Marian, obvs...

    I'd like Bond to go to Moldavia in Bond 26.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited February 2022 Posts: 3,152
    A princely idea... ;)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I'm curious when the rumor mill will start up again. They said they'd begin the search this year, I wonder if we'll have to wait until next year (or even longer) to find out who they select.
  • GadgetManGadgetMan Lagos, Nigeria
    edited February 2022 Posts: 4,247
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    I'm curious when the rumor mill will start up again. They said they'd begin the search this year, I wonder if we'll have to wait until next year (or even longer) to find out who they select.

    Yeah, but maybe something connected with Bond 26 might be announced on James Bond day or even sooner.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    GadgetMan wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    I'm curious when the rumor mill will start up again. They said they'd begin the search this year, I wonder if we'll have to wait until next year (or even longer) to find out who they select.

    Yeah, but maybe something connected with Bond 26 might be announced on James Bond day or even sooner.

    No better time for any sort of announcement for the future, that's for sure.
  • GadgetManGadgetMan Lagos, Nigeria
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    GadgetMan wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    I'm curious when the rumor mill will start up again. They said they'd begin the search this year, I wonder if we'll have to wait until next year (or even longer) to find out who they select.

    Yeah, but maybe something connected with Bond 26 might be announced on James Bond day or even sooner.

    No better time for any sort of announcement for the future, that's for sure.

    Exactly.
  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
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    mtm wrote: »
    Venutius wrote: »
    In SP, M identifies himself to the anti-terrorist copper on Westminster Bridge as 'Mallory, 00 Section' - is that because the MI5-MI6 merger has reduced his role to that by that point or is it because the cops on the ground don't need to know his full status as head of MI6?

    Interesting, good spot. I did notice in NTTD that he introduces himself to the captain of the HMS Dragon as simply 'M', which suggests that he's got serious clout even to slightly lower members of the military.

    I mean, my headcanon for the Craig era is basically what I described above. There is no way the Head of MI6 hangs around outside a Russian apartment complex or has personal talks with an agent after their girlfriend died and there is no way all of MI6 fits into those bunkers in Slyfall. So to me Olivia Mansfield and Gareth Mallory where in charge of the 00 section which includes Q and that’s about it.

    The strange part about the designation at the end of SP is that a policeman would know what MI6 is (they are standing right in front of their former HQ) and possibly who leads it (the merger would have been in the news, it’s the biggest shake-up of British intelligence since the war), but how would he ever know what a 00 section is? And wasn’t that abolished by C?
    So while it fits my personal theory that Mallory is Head of 00, not Head of the SIS, it is very strange.

    Edit: And now you’ve made me think of that scene in SP again, which makes me angry.
    „Alright boys. Shots have been fired on or around one of the Thames bridges and a helicopter had crashed. What we’ll do is seal off the bridge but not advance towards the helicopter. Whatever is going on there, we’ll let play out. Even if you see guns drawn or anything, don’t intervene under any circumstances. And if the soon to be deposed Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service comes round, let him through. Chap called Mallory.“
    Mallory should have said he’s Vallance from the Special Branch or whatever.

    Well, yeah, a helicopter crashes at Westminster Bridge, and only some pöolicemen show up? Okay, there not many people live there, but such a spectacular and noisy crash? But then, Rome by night is also completely silent, and no one is on the road aparttrt fro,m the opera listening old man in his Fiat. And that random garbage sweeper witnessing Bond's landing with the parachute. And that train going into nowhere, with that train stop in the the middle of nowhere. And is this Blofeld's private train station? I mean, I would like to have my private train station in the middle of nowhere. Not that I would need one, but it would be so cool.
  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
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    Denbigh wrote: »
    After listening to this track from The Batman soundtrack, I'd love for Michael Giacchino to score Bond 26.


    "Water Tower" and "The Riddler" are also great. Sure, Giacchino could write a great Bond score.

    But did anyone notice the running time? 175 Minutes... That move should have a nice pace...
  • Bond has to take on the Russians in Bond 26 seeing as they are now world enemy number 1. Plus Putin is a dead ringer for Kristen!
  • slide_99slide_99 USA
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    Bond movies shouldn't be too topical. That's how you get TLD, where yesterday's heroes are today's villains, and the whole movie suffers as a result.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Putin seems like Orlov crossed wtih Ouromov.
  • slide_99 wrote: »
    Bond movies shouldn't be too topical. That's how you get TLD, where yesterday's heroes are today's villains, and the whole movie suffers as a result.

    Who are today's villains in TLD?
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    Who are today's villains in TLD?

    A-ha

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    slide_99 wrote: »
    Bond movies shouldn't be too topical. That's how you get TLD, where yesterday's heroes are today's villains, and the whole movie suffers as a result.

    Who are today's villains in TLD?

    That was referring to the Mujahidin as freedom fighters against the Soviets in the 80s. Rambo III did it, too.

    Seen differently through 21st Century specs.

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  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    Aside from corrupt generals, the Russians have never been portrayed as anything other than rivals. Adversarial more than villainous. That’s why we always got Orlov, Koskov, Orumov. That’s why SPECTRE replaced SMERSH. Even the North Koreans got the same treatment in DAD.

    EON will never villainize governments/countries.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Aside from corrupt generals, the Russians have never been portrayed as anything other than rivals. Adversarial more than villainous. That’s why we always got Orlov, Koskov, Orumov. That’s why SPECTRE replaced SMERSH. Even the North Koreans got the same treatment in DAD.

    EON will never villainize governments/countries.

    Although they tend to make the American police force look like buffoons. I’m namely looking at you, Guy Hamilton and Tom Mankiewicz.
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