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There are a few interesting "what ifs" with SPECTRE and I think this kind of exercise only works if you have some intention of retaining as much as possible and still making a satisfying and entertaining film. A few thoughts on both a script and pro…
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One of the best Bond films ever has him captured by the villain for much of the second half. Just playing devils advocate, I think Boyle was at long odds to deliver a satisfying genre film.
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Torgeirtrap wrote: » Re. film starting date and the script status: could the PTS for example be the sequence they're rehearsing? That could be a separate element from the plot – as with most Bond films. 3/24 isn't quite most. And even in Go…
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Take the time and get it right.
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All for a tribute to Moore before the gunbarrel. And maybe give Craig flared trousers for the gunbarrel. Was honestly a bit hurt that John Barry didn't get a tribute in Skyfall. But then, I guess Binder, Saltzman and Maibaum missed out too.
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FoxRox wrote: » I’ve never understood the complaint that Craig’s Bond films “don’t feel like Bond films.” Yes, they’re a little less standalone, more personal, and a little darker, but they still have all the classic Bond tropes and ideas all over…
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Always thought Death to Spies would make a good title, and drawing from the past in the spirit of TWINE
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Group 1: This is the part I really like. OHMSS SF FRWL CR GF TLD TSWLM LTK GE FYEO DN Group 2: You've suddenly become tiresome, Mr. Bond YOLT AVTAK OP MR (NSNA) TB LALD SP TND QOS TWINE DAF TMWTGG DAD (CR 68)
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DAD's first act is salvageable and then it becomes progressively more brutal from the introduction of The Clash onwards, until we reach the embarrassing nadir of Emperor Robocop Maggie Smith Jr doing his thing. SP is anaemic and also a chore and …
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DoctorNo wrote: » I agree this is one of the problems with the action. It’s interesting that the PTS which many consider great, I thought was okay, but dragged... anyway the Day of the Dead festival is going on and it’s only a visual to have a hel…
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matt_u wrote: » FourDot wrote: » Funnily enough Mendes has written his first screenplay now, however I believe he has had the control to shape some of the material he has had to his wants and needs. Definitely. He’s ideas and inputs are…
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Funnily enough Mendes has written his first screenplay now, however I believe he has had the control to shape some of the material he has had to his wants and needs.
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Tamahori had exposed his failure to deliver genre fare with his three films prior to DAD. Forster's one thriller (Stay) misfired as well. Fukunaga is kinda halfway between Mendes and Forster I guess.
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They also fit in with Mendes' canon of films about family units. But then no other Bond director has had unifying thematic material across their other films so this isn't surprising.
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Weirdly I think a lot of the problems with Spectre's action sequences comes back to much of them seemingly existing in a vacuum. There's nobody else about for the Rome (excepting comedy Fiat man) or Austria or London sequences - for Mexico they are …
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Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » These guys and gals seem to hang out at a lot of parties together. Makes me suspect there might be something to his casting. The guy just looks like a Bond villain. I could see him as SPECTRE agent number 2. Perhaps he is runn…
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I don't know what's so hard to grasp about the idea that the market has changed. Of course the 60s films could be the trend setters: Broccoli and Saltzman had established their own market for a certain kind of blockbuster that wasn't just a star veh…
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MooreFun wrote: » “Everyone else does it, so Bond must follow suit” rings hollow. It's what keeps him alive.
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DAD's first act suggest something a little more psychological and inquisitive than the banal nonsense that it becomes. The suggestion that it knew what it was going for is ludicrous. Nothing about Bond being tortured and potentially out of step with…
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A legend. What a boon for his last appearance to have been a fun role in a Bond film. His turns in The Dresser and Under the Volcano are staggering.
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Both have good ideas kicking about. Spectre is anemic and cumbersome but it keeps the faint heartbeat of those ideas alive even through its snoozer of a second half. Die Another Day starts to bleed as soon as we hit the clinic on the island and then…
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matt_u wrote: » FourDot wrote: » He doesn't have to be unhinged but it would be nice if he were intelligent. In the current context I find it hard to believe that Greene White or Silva would answer to him when each of them are more intelligent…
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Ludovico wrote: » I think people who complain about Bond movies taking a personal term since the Craig era have a very short memory. It has been the case since LTK. Talking of personal elements, TND would have strongly benefitted of abandoning …
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He doesn't have to be unhinged but it would be nice if he were intelligent. In the current context I find it hard to believe that Greene White or Silva would answer to him when each of them are more intelligent, diabolical and monstrous.
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Denbigh wrote: » Shardlake wrote: » it's Dan's Goldfinger and unless Bond 25 does something truly remarkable I don't see that changing, it was a phenomenon. And this perfectly sums up some of my reasoning for why I'd prefer Bond 25 to be …
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The idea of Skyfall's capital declining and QoS's increasing is fantasy land stuff.
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Worth remembering that during much of the Cubby years you didn't have the films at your fingertips and could only revisit in the theatres or on tv.
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Blaming Mendes is curious given the script is really what scuppers Waltz. The decision to try and build up to him and replicate Skyfall's format is a critical error (along with the Brofeld impact that ultimately doesn't impact the story). If you've …
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DAF is more of a sequel to YOLT if anything, not OHMSS. The entire premise of FRWL is deployed as a punitive response to the events of Dr No though.
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dramaticscenesofQOS wrote: » @FourDot I respect your difference of opinion, however, it's ironic that by not having David Arnold back in lieu of a composer who can bring something fresh would be someone who did a Barry-influenced score. I get w…
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