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It may be a Bond cliche, but I want to see JB shacked up in the end. I was fine with the ending of both CR and QOS without the girl as it made sense and was original in thought. I was not happy though that he was not with Severine at the end of SF, nor how they wrote her character off. The next film needs to have more good cliches like the girl and the gun barrel back at the beginning, these are things that separate Bond from the others and are a timeless tradition that should be gotten back to.
It's not bad but it's predictable. But I'm sure it will come back for Bond 24.
I hope so, because I am getting weary of all this tinkering to no purpose.
Let's not kid ourselves, some of the love scene endings of the franchise have been cringeworthy in the extreme. Berry and Brosnan, Roberts and Moore, Chiles and Moore, Blackman and Connery for example. Maybe with that in mind, it's best we don't see them again for a while longer, or it could simply be a thing of the past even ?
This is just another crutch/comfort blanket for some to feel they are watching a Bond film. As has been said before quite a few of these scenes have been crow barred in to appease the fan wanking male audience. Besides wasn’t Severine a high a class call girl and Silva’s leavings, so wouldn’t there be more winging if the happy ending was Bond with a prostitute than him receiving his next assignment.
If it fits the story line by all means yes, but not because the scene wasn’t in the last three films and as been noted quite a few preceding films weren’t enhanced any when included.
Tinkering to no purpose has allowed the franchise to brake some of the shackles and explore other ways of making a film and we get something like Skyfall as opposed to stale bread a la DAD.
But I do agree with @hisqos, some people use little elements of a film as a crutch. The only thing you need to know your watching a Bond film is Eon, a title sequence, and James Bond thrown in somewhere.
I do not see a girl in the end as a crutch or comforter, but rather as tradition. This didn't bother me in CR, where it was obvious to a blind man with a glass eye that Vesper's death was a key element of the story that could never be glossed over with a gratuitous conquest. Nor did it bother me much in QOS, as Fields was dead and the relationship between Bond and Camille grew way past flirtation and a possible tryst due to the emotional state of both and their focus in obtaining a "quantum of solace".
Skyfall though was a different story. Because Severine was a child prostitute, she's not good enough to be a Bond girl in the end? She had reformed in case anyone hadn't noticed, but was now relegated to servicing Silva, no doubt among his reasons for killing her much like Scaramanga killed Miss Anders, as a mistress cannot serve two masters. I am firmly in the ranks of nearly everyone here who feels her screen time was too short and that she deserved to be with Bond in the end. Her death was not necessary to get Silva over any more than he already was. She was nearly a perfect damsel in distress that Bond always manages to save, and unlike Richards and Berry with Brosnan, they had a chemistry going right from the moment where they lock eyes, her hair blowing in the breeze. In this case, needless tinkering.
That said, part of Bond movies is wish fullfillment. We want to see 007 hook up with amazingly beautiful women. So far, every girl Bond has touched has died. (With the exception of a characterless fling while Bond is "enjoying death", the beautiful Camille than Bond barely gives a peck on the lips, and Eve, who I maintain Bond did not consumate a relationship with). We don't need to end with the camera fading to black and the girl moaning "Oh, James" right as the credit rolls. But Bond should have a girl he's romanced make it through the mission in one piece, if only because even though not all of Ian Fleming's novels ended with Bond getting the girl, many of them did.
What would you define as Skyfallesque? Because
No, maybe he meant the real ending,
Who cares if Christmas Jones was a terrible character, it's Pierce at his sexiest hehe and the last scene with the diamonds in Die another day looked just fine with me.
Well im not gonna lie any love Scene with Pierce Brosnan or Sean are more than fine with me, at the beginning, the end or middle of the film.
*raises hand* totally ruined. Those scenes are awful and not at all sexy, ruined by horrible puns.
Now, give me shoulder biting Pierce Brosnan in TND, and now you're talking.
Ohh yes that scene was hot as well, i also liked very mcuh the love scene the scene with Elektra after they come back from Valentine's Casino.