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As fans we all enjoy them in our own way and either point of view will mean some will love NTTD, some will hate it and some will be in the middle and we'll all just move on to Bond 26 eventually.
For what it's worth I've compiled my own film order and fan fiction continuity. It doesn't really make a lick of sense if you think too hard but if I squint and use my imagination I can knock it into shape. It makes my next marathon a bit more interesting and also puts the DC era including NTTD into a place that works for me.
It's easier to imagine that, than to accept the he's dead, but he'll be alive again in another timeline sci-fi silliness.
Thinking in terms of “timelines” was your first mistake then. These are movies made by several thousand different hands over six decades just making stuff up as they go, not documentaries about a historical figure. The crux of your entire complaint doesn’t matter. It’s unimportant to how these films function.
Edit: Based on your comment of "sci-fi nonsense", I think when we say "timelines" you're approaching this too much in Doctor Who terms, @ColonelAdamski. We're not saying that Sean Connery to Roger Moore is like going from Tom Baker to Peter Davison, or saying that the RTD era starting with Christopher Eccleston is kind of a reboot following Sylvester McCoy ala Dalton to Brosnan, we just mean this isn't a long running concurrent continuity unless you choose to believe they are. That line went out the door with Connery.
If Brosnan was in FRWL, he would have sniffed Klebb s hair after she was shot, then kissed her, then sniffed her shoe, and finally her other shoe.
Let's just say that he stopped consuming all that alcohol and ceased using Fleming's recipe for scrambled eggs... that, my friend, is a suspension of disbelief far in excess of anything required by Marvel Comics.
Honestly I found myself crying at the end. Not because he died, but because of the choice he made and the heart break that he never found true peace/happiness. Such is life sometimes. I watched the film and understood why I loved this man/character so much, what he stands for and why he has stayed the test of time. There are so many things in Craig's Bond I find I can relate to. Someone who is not always pretty. But has a good heart and helps others.
You win! ROFL.
I'm going to try and get another viewing in before it leaves cinema
Another month?
Basically how I feel - I don't really have any interest in seeing another origin or death movie for Bond. I say leave that stuff, along with close continuity, behind in Craig's era and do random, standalone adventures in Bond's prime like before to more easily keep the longevity.
Once is happenstance...
As I wrote earlier, if the series is still around 60 years from now fans will be comparing Bond's death scenes the way they compare his cars. If the next Bond actor proves propular and sticks around as long as Craig, he has a good chance of getting his own death.
And the idea that we just get a younger actor to take over for Craig’s run just because it was done in older films is even more daft. If Craig’a films were stand-alone adventures where the status quo never changed, it could have worked. But that’s not the case, and that’s why I’m open to the idea that Craig’s iteration has a definitive end because the precedent was set with films not only addressing continuity but that Craig’s Bond was actually aging.
I don’t think simply jumping back into the old timeline would work unless you make them period films. Brosnan and his predecessors were clearly active in the Cold War, and it wouldn’t be convincing to have a 35 year old actor today and pass him off as having the same history where Bond fought Soviet Russians.
Unless they go period, I think it’s best to just keep Bond contemporary but acknowledge that the new Bond already has a history. I doubt they’ll play up Bond Begins.
I think many fans hoped that CR as a reboot would just be an anomaly, and that Craig’s following films would simply continue on in the same Cubby formula of changing actors along the way. But that’s not where it went, and I’m okay with that.
Just because we never saw Bond die in previous iterations doesn’t make it some unwritten rule. I APPRECIATE it when the films try doing new things.
"the first was the best, when the blonde guy got bombed on the island"
"Nah, I liked the third one, where he smothered the bomb to save his wife and pet dog"
"No! His fifth death was the best one, where he rescued his grandkids from Dr Yes"
"The seventh was the best for me, blown up by his own exploding pen because he stuck it behind his ear like a chippie*"
*English for carpenter.
I think EON will be wise to hold off killing Bond for a long time.
It would be clever if they make a deal with an actor where he secretly only signed on for two films, and that he dies in that second. No one would see that coming, because they all expect him to continue on like Connery, Moore, Brosnan and Craig for 4-7 films.
Or you could say it's eternal 😉
Cheers @matt_u I'll hopefully be able to catch it again before it finishes. There's something magical about seeing Bond on the big screen
I've seen it 3 times, each time enjoyed it more. It's a powerhouse of a Bond film, with great style, superb action, gorgeous locations, and a Bond I have enjoyed thoroughly.
But still, it's remarkable that so few did, myself included. It might be interesting to learn just exactly how the ending was kept so secret? I can only think that the very title of the film, especially given how late it was arrived at, worked as a deflection of any rumors to the contrary - that for Bond there very much would be a 'time to die.'
Quite a contrast to SPECTRE and the Sony leaks.
He could be like Kenny from South Park. Gets killed in every film, but just returns in the next one as if nothing has happened....
Space Dandy
I'd love to see that =))
Can’t see it myself. I think there’s another half a century before they go there again. If at all.
:))