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Yeah, and if he were to do it once more in future, and pull it off again, I'd be inclined to call him the best Bond director ever, personally. I mean, Young is almost unbeatable, but at least he benefited from a ever growing momentum behind Bond at the time. The sheer improbably of getting a franchise back on it's feet 3 times, separated by over 2 decades would just be insane.
If he did it again, yes, he'd be the greatest. No question.
I don't think he'll get the chance, however.
Yeah, unlikely, but stranger things have happened.
I would never rule it out.
Many other directors had Bond source material and did worse with it. Plus, you can't prove a negative.
Campbell's role in rescuing the Bond character from post-Cold War irrelevance in 1995 and again from parody in 2006 cannot be overstated.
The "rescue" from parody is a natural process in Bond history.
Also in CR it's worked into the story.
This is controversial but in later years Q/Desmond was boarderline parody.
Yes they re-use the falling over routine (last seen in FYEO with the skiers) but I prefer that to the "checking the bottle" schtuck that they flogged to death in Moore's era.
With Craig, they introduced a Bond that had nothing to do with the old Bond, despite all the source material, yet Craig nevertheless completely made the role his own. The DB5 is totally awkward as a reminder. Not to mention that in the other new films, the DB5 is nothing but nostalgia. Campbell didn´t do it for purely nostalgic reasons, but he opened the doors wide for it.
Every Bond film has filler. See, for example, the helicopter and boat chases at the end of FRWL. It's an understandable result of Broccoli wanting to put all of the money spent up on screen.
It's good when Bond does something new (like ski off a mountain); otherwise we're stuck in formula. Whether or not you agree that Brosnan made the right choice is a different matter.
You get stuck in formula if you don´t keep it alive. If you apply it well, it doesn´t get stale. See for instance Blade Runner and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: same formula, yet two entirely fresh films.
That's a cool moment, although I suspect if they were to do something similar today it might touch a nerve with the public.
Brosnan became Bond for me with the jump in the PTS.
I agree. It's farsical in LTK and really he should probably have been retired around then.
That is controversial. It's obvious by GE that Desmond is using cue cards but c'mon by that point he was all that was left of the classic Bond era.
He says "pay attention 007" in TLD, LTK and GE as well as "this I'm particularly proud of" in GE and TND.