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The pace has to make sense, however. I'm not in favour of slow parts of a film that go nowhere.
-Drinking
-Gambling
-Rooting
-Male 'M'
-Bond being the right-wing arsehole he was always meant to be
- Larger than life villain and villainy
If it makes sense, it's something I'd like to see. Less of the "one man army" version of Bond.
It has been a few years since Bourne now, and the times have changed. If Bond is to survive on the silver screen, he must establish an identity of his own again and break from comparisons to other action movie characters. I think a return to the spiritual roots of cinematic Bond will help preserve his legacy best at this point, and hopefully the powers that be realize as much.
Time will tell, of course.
I recognize that our view of things here as the die-hard fans may be a bit different, but I think it is fair to presume that people have their eyes on the franchise at the moment; there's been a bit of a break now... what will Bond do?
So while I agree that Bond has to have it's own identity in that I don't want it to ever become a series that provides carbon copies of whatever action film is popular at the time (which admittedly has happened a few times in the history of the franchise *cough* Moonraker and Star Wars *cough*) by the same token I think trying to lock all future Bond films into the style and approach of the early Bonds is just as much of a mistake and will only result in the franchise heavily limiting it's new fanbase and possibly losing many of the fanbase that fell in love with the other interpretations of what a Bond film could be.
Less politics.
:O (o)(o)
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She was great in "Quantem of Solstice".
I do agree that the distinctive flavor of each Bond film and respective era has been a large of what keeps Bond alive in as a cinematic force. It's not the specific style or approach of the older Bond films that I am speaking of here though... rather something more ethereal and hard for me to define. The spirit of the Bond films, that is, whatever element it is that turns base materials to gold and gives Bond his identity on the silver screen. Whenever we put in a James Bond movie it registers on some level and we have certain expectations regardless of the actor or era; I enjoy the latest outings and have few complaints, but nonetheless it seems that we are going in a strange new direction... and while I would even go so far as to applaud the change in direction for those films, Bond mustn't stray to far from what makes the movies special to us, the fans.
That certain special formula must be captured again. Where is the gunbarrel? The prominent theme music? The witty one liners and the beautiful women at every turn? These have appeard in the latest outings but their presence is limited; Bond must paradoxically forge new ground and push the right buttons of nostalgia to succeed.
-Searching the hotel room.
-Bond's flat
-Climactic military raid
-Traditional Moneypenny->M briefing->Q lab chronology.
-Baccarat
-Smoking
-A liquor besides Vodka (Bond drank bourbons a lot in the early years)
-Freakish henchmen
-Small scale gadgets that made logical sense
-Bond doing any "detecting"
-Bond doing any "spying"
-Bond doing anything that doesn't directly or indirectly involve explosions, gunfire, hand to hand combat, or sparks.
dish, probably preparing to advance when Bond destroyed the facility.
OK, but they were never "called in", as part of a big battle. Just showed up when Bond and Natalya were trying to have some private time :) Even then, they just flew off after Bond had destroyed the facility...
I know they are (perhaps) not quite the character Fleming envisioned but hey...I don't care. They made me love James Bond.