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And its not a trolling attempt either because I have never been enjoyed by that movie whenever I watch it. Nothing of interest happens in it. So it starts and old lady tries to look tough but it fails and she just seems ridiculous, then they're on a train and nothing happens... and then, nothing continues to happen.
I've been a heretic and a blasphemer my entire life. Believe it or not, my family actually refused to talk to me for an entire day when I said the Earth was round (not joking in the slightest).
1) Now, I like Brosnan (he was the Bond of my youth, along with TV re-runs of the other four), and he was stuck with bad storylines (put TWINE in there, too).
2) I can't agree on QoS, but please add Dane Cook as one of those "set on fire and erased from Time" things.
3) Craig, while good, is overrated (on here; in real life, whoever I talk to has such a love for Brosnan it's odd that they haven't proposed to him yet).
4) I completely agree.
5) Well, he did a great job with FYEO, TLD and LTK, but OP and AVTAK were kind of sub-par (Controversial opinion: I prefer AVTAK).
6) I agree with AVTAK. F*** NSNA, and I loved DAD when I saw it, but the "magic" (or the heroin) has died away.
7) We needed the reboot. For the same reason Marvel Comics created the "Ultimate" line, eventually, when there's too much continuity, it has to go by the wayside and a new continuity set up beside it. There's no reason people can't enjoy both continuities.
8) Would love it (so long as they put MI6 back in the London HQ, stop sending Bond there every twenty minutes, explain why the f*** Jaws is a bad guy again, and find a spot for Moneypenny) but it will never happen.
Well I do love DAD, but I wouldn't go as far as saying Madonna's song was better than Bassey's GF...... ;)
I've just never liked Bassey. I can't explain it at all, either.
And, like I said, I've been a heretic and a blasphemer all my life.
The best Bond is smoking cigars, not cigaretts. ;)
George Lazenby is underrated. So are Roger and Pierce.
Timothy Dalton is overrated by many fans, but is extremely underrated by the general public.
Forster, and up and coming director, was unexperienced to action. No doubt he would have looked to the majority of modern action films for some idea of how to capture scenes for Quantum. Also, the terrible writing, and overall theme of the film show how rough times were/are during its production and after.
Its not the best Bond movie, its more of a cheap rip off of Bond into a major action hero. But I still find it enjoyable, enough not to wipe it off the face of the Earth like some others. I feel like some of us have watched it once and over-thought it's elements.
Quoted for truth.
Too true.
Totally agree on Goodnight and Vesper.
Agreed. I can think of several good elements in QOS - something that always leave me thinking what QOS could have been without a writers strike.
2. Blofeld was a good villian.
3. Thunderball is on the same level as You Only Live Twice. Both are good and maye top ten in my book, but not as good as the first three.
4. The Jetpack from Thunderball wasn't that cool.
#1 None of the girls (women) from Goldfinger did anything for me, they were all pretty mundane
#2 Savalas was a good Blofeld, as was Donald Pleasance
#3 Thunderball is streets ahead of You Only Live Twice. Connery is a different man in each release. Neither can compare to the opening two releases
#4 No, it wasn't. It fact it looked damned stupid above all else
He should also use a Q-watch. That could be a laser, geiger counter or whatever.
He should also have a gadget-laden boat, like the one in MR or TWINE.
Unless you already are one, DaltonCraig007, I really think you should become a movie critic.
Nothing wrong with Craig having a Q watch, but some people insist laser watches are a thing of the past and have no place in a 21st century Bond epic
Gadgen laden boats, No I say. It worked for Brosnan one time but not sure about now.
And the Gondola in Moonraker was just a normal canal boat, it wasn't even a Q boat, where did all those fancy gadgets come from :-L
Not that I have a problem with it, but looking back, it seems like it was such a jump up from what went before
The talents of DC are well wasted in EON's hands, they chose action over acting, and making sense of story gets hidden in ridicolous editing.
Pierce Brosnan was denied a final outing by EON was a mistake.
Timothy Daltons 3rd Bond would have effectively sunk the franchise.
Roger Moore & Sean Connery are the two sides of the 007 coin, no actor has ever added anything these two did already put into the franchise.
AVTAK was a great spystory hat would have improved by a younger actor or a stronger role by Patrick MacNee, just using his STeed persona to make it a double topspy-story.
Sometimes when I watch LTK, I think that only 1 movie seperates it from the Moore era, which is astonishing, even though AVTAK was quite serious and more violent than previous outings.
The quip I was talking about before is "It looks like he came to a dead end" upon seing Heller´s corpse.
How and Why or what way even, was 'A View to a Kill' a violent episode of Bond history. Have I been watching a different version the last 26 years than everyone else?
Silly? , Yes. Inplausible? , Probably. Embarrassing? , most likely. Violent?, Er- No.
Also (License to Kill, Heller), I'm not sure it's feasibly possible to impale someone on a fort lift truck. Never seen it done in my defense, but still think a bit far fetched
Just as the dead end joke was good in QOS ("Slate was a dead end"). Craig should do alot of those, and use the gadgets I proposed earlier.
Zorin and Scarpine only shoot randomly about for less than a minute, and also I usually find myself laughing through it
Maybe View to a Kill went out with an intention to shock or something but only left this viewer with some moments of unintentional humor
Yes, but the homage in DAD just so poorly done.
Dalton did have a few good scenes:
"problem solver"
"more of a problem eliminator"
However IMO he was more "fun" in a film like Hot Fuzz. You could just see he was enjoying himself a bit more.
With Bond there was often an "actor" mentality but with HF he could just let go.
Just my view.
Hot Fuzz, along Johnny English Reborn and Cleanskin are masterpieces I can very much watch over and over again while waiting for the fun to return to Bond.