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The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)
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It was 2008. There was a global economic crisis. We all suffered. I apologize for nothing.
I do like Dave Bautista. He was a henchman who should have returned later in Craig's run as 007. It's nowhere near as dumb as Spectre, but it's similarly lifeless and just unmotivating as a story.
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If I've sung this particular song before, I apologize. Hazard of the thread.
I LOVE THE OPENING OF QoS. The car chase that you (intentionally) can't see that ends with the reveal that this is MINUTES after the end of Casino Royale.
And David Arnold is chugging away saying "You all think I lean on the John Barry themes too much? Well LISTEN TO THIS! NO Barry themes!" (Until the very end.) I love this score so much.
But that super shaky "Borne Cam" that works so well in that opening just sinks so many potentially great action scenes in the rest of the film.
Have I told you of Mendes of Sam, he of the locked off camera?
I do love that the movie ends on the first "true" Craig gunbarrel, though it quite frankly should have been at the very beginning before the car chase.
I think it's fine where it is. That's the point. We got there. He's Bond now.
But that means that Skyfall should have gone back to it. IMHO.
Fair enough. Yeah, Skyfall is great in my eyes but waiting until the very end to show the gunbarrel is one of the visceral flaws of the movie.
When QoS was announced as the title, I remember the parody song that was written for it. Someone went and synced the song to the opening credits of the movie.
Hey I remember this! It had its own video with clips from the trailer and the wrong titles he comes up with.
I've always maintained that QoS isn't so bad if you watch it immediately after Casino Royale as a part one/part two deal. It doesn't stand up on its own.
Update from Amazon about the search for the new 007:
variety.com
Amazon MGM’s Search for New James Bond Actor: ‘We’re Taking the Time to Do This With Care and Deep Respect’
Amazon MGM executive Courtenay Valenti gives update on the James Bond actor search:: 'We're taking the time to do this with care and deep respect.'
variety.com
I'm confused...wasn't Bautista in Spectre?
Update from Amazon about the search for the new 007:
Amazon MGM’s Search for New James Bond Actor: ‘We’re Taking the Time to Do This With Care and Deep Respect’
Amazon MGM executive Courtenay Valenti gives update on the James Bond actor search:: 'We're taking the time to do this with care and deep respect.'
I think it's good they're taking their time. It feels measured and proportionate, now like Broccoli and Wilson who you couldn't shake the feeling were just procrastinating because they'd lost their taste for it.
Yes that confused me as well.
Bautista in Spectre was such a waste, to take a man with great comic timing and good vocal skills and make him a mute henchman was such a disappointment!
Even less reason to like QoS. Now he's not even in it.
For the record, Spectre blows, too.
Yeah, that really bummed me out. He has proven that he has great comedic and dramatic chops in a variety of films (and not just the Guardians trilogy) and I agree making his character was a baffling choice.
That's similar to how I felt when Scott Glenn played Umpeenth Man on Phone in one of the endless BOURNE sequels. Still, Dave is quite ubitiquous in lots of franchises at least: DUNE, Bond, Blade Runner, Riddick, Marvel, New Zoo Revue, La Cage Aux Folles....
and he didn't even get to use his invisibility power!
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