Chen G. 3,949 Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 18 hours ago, Disco Stu said: I hate dour Bond. I don't. The only reason I occasionally watch films that aren't serious, is if they are comedies or as the occasional palette cleanser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 As long as it's entertaining, it's valid. I love Quantum and that one is basically about a depressed violent drunk Bond murdering people without just cause. All because of some broad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 On 11/11/2017 at 5:11 AM, Chen G. said: I don't. The only reason I occasionally watch films that aren't serious, is if they are comedies or as the occasional palette cleanser. MikeH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Say what you like about the film (and a lot has been said about it) but Michel Lonsdale is a class act. "May I press you to a cucumber sandwich?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 It's a really fun Bond movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 5 hours ago, Richard said: Say what you like about the film (and a lot has been said about it) but Michel Lonsdale is a class act. "May I press you to a cucumber sandwich?" He is, yes. Thing about MR is that for every 'good' (Lonsdale, how Moore plays the aftermath of the centrifuge sequence/the scene at the bird-shoot, 'I think he's attempting re-entry') there's a 'bad' (Jaws trying to 'fly' when he accidentally destroys the parachute ripcords, Drax having been able to build a huge space-station apparently unnoticed, that bloody double-taking pigeon ... ) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said: that bloody double-taking pigeon ... heh heh heh A crowning achievement of the franchise if you ask me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Damn you! I'll have you strapped to Goldfinger's laser-table, and mentioning Operation Grand-Slam won't save you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Do you you expect Stu to talk? Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 No, no, no. No more foreplay. Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 The Nolan rumors are making the rounds again. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I still say it's a mistake to hire "name" directors for Bond movies. These are producers movies. I bet Stephen Sommers would make a great Bond movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,352 Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 Brett Ratner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just now, Jay said: Brett Ratner! A joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,352 Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just naming another guy without a lot of his own personal style that has experience directing big budget Hollywood films Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Dude's kind of toxic from a PR standpoint though...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 As well as from a filmmaking standpoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just now, Cerebral Cortex said: As well as from a filmmaking standpoint. Yeah..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothless 963 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 If Nolan ever directs a Bond movie, I'd rather he does so with a new actor for Bond as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,352 Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Nolan's a 'complete control' kind of director, though. Not sure EON are so keen on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 EON would have to give him final cut rights. I don't see that happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothless 963 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Miguel Sapochnik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Gesundheit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 3 hours ago, Disco Stu said: I still say it's a mistake to hire "name" directors for Bond movies. These are producers movies. I bet Stephen Sommers would make a great Bond movie. Sam Mendes is a name director and he made the best Bond movie since The Spy Who Loved Me. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just now, Nick1066 said: Sam Mendes is a name director and he made the best Bond movie since The Spy Who Loved Me. A fluke! Also I disagree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Mendes seemed to have a lot of creative control with Newman and Deakins being on board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 On 05/12/2017 at 10:05 PM, Nick1066 said: Sam Mendes is a name director and he made the best Bond movie since The Spy Who Loved Me. HALF a good Bond movie. But that second half: Home Alone with bad guy winning because Q is an idiot of the extreme kind...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 For me, Skyfall is the best Bond since Goldeneye, easily Craig's best Bond of his 4 and one of the series' finest entries overall. Koray Savas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 8 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: For me, Skyfall is the best Bond since Goldeneye, easily Craig's best Bond of his 4 and one of the series' finest entries overall. Brother! Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 It has ... Bond hitting rock-bottom but coming back with characteristic swagger and humour, a villain who is both old-school grandiose in the series tradition (he takes over a whole island) but also very modern (he's a bisexual cyber-terrorist), 21st-century-appropriate reintroductions of Moneypenny and Q and the re-establishment (again with a modern spin) of Bond's 'bantering' relationship with them both, some absolutely gorgeous cinematography, fine action (in particular the pre-credits sequence and everything at and around Skyfall itself), a Bond girl who is in it just to give Bond info about the bad guy, sleep with him and then get killed (something I'm quite surprised they did in an era where they like to present the love interest as Bond's 'equal' in some way), several extremely pleasing 50th-anniversary nods to the series history, and a very moving close to M and Bond's 'surrogate mother/son' relationship. Plus it's patriotic,but not in a dickish UKIP way. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,352 Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 Danny Boyle High on MGM’s List to Direct Bond 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 I'm glad that Boyle is in the frame, and that Nolan is, now, not. I'll explain: it's not that I don't like Nolan, because I do. I think THE PRESTIGE, and MEMENTO are great, and that INSOMNIA, and INSTELLAR are good. I only have a problem with that trilogy... I digress. What the Bond films want - need - are journeyman directors, people who will produce a competently-made film, but whose personal technique will remain invisible. The minute that Nolan becomes involved, it ceases to be a Bond film, and becomes a Nolan film. The man wouldn't be able to help putting his stamp on the film. Above all, Nolan is, to his credit, a director who wants you to think about what is presented to you. All that the producers of the Bond films want you to do is to sit in a movie theater with your nachos, and your Milk Duds, and your Baby Ruth, and your hot dog, and your popcorn, and your overpriced, watered-down Mountain Dew, and have a good time. Thyat not what Nolan is about. Of course, he could easily tone down the personal, and up the commercial, but I'm not sure if he'd be prepared to do that. If Boyle takes the gig, then I wish him well. I hope that he makes the best Bond film he can make. We'll find out, in about 18 months... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 In other news, Daniel Craig looks like shit lately. https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5412361/amp/BAFTAs-2018-Daniel-Craig-leaves-fans-baffled-face.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Probably just some bad lighting. He looked fine on Colbert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 It looks like an attempt on his life has left him scarred and deformed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Did he play the frog man in Shape of Water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Edit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,352 Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 Danny Boyle Confirms He’s Working on ‘Bond 25’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 If anything I'm interested in the fact that Purvis & Wade aren't working on the script this time. After the last few films, it's good to get some new blood on the series, so I approve of it. Hopefully Arnold returns to score too. It's almost criminal that he hasn't scored a film in years. leeallen01 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,352 Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 It's pretty impressive the same guys have been involved with the writing of every James Bond film made after Tomorrow Never Dies. They must be filthy rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I think EON just has a routine, and relies on the usual same people for each film, especially when it comes to writing. It's no different then when say Richard Maibaum was co-writing or writing most of the Bond scripts back in the old days. It's basically like a team effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeallen01 2,136 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I should be able to ask Arnold directly considering he's at this years Krakow Film Music Festival and I'll be attending, and I can hope for any sort of answer to whether he's interested in the first place and whether he's heard anything at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 EON does like to work with people that it feels comfortable with (the Lamonts, the Courbolds), and it is nothing if not loyal. My dream choices for Bond 25 would be Lamont Jr (since dad's not doing it, anymore), Phil Meheux, and Stuart Baird, and...oh, yeah...some guy called David Arnold! Purves and Wade were often hit-and-miss, but when they hit, they were great. No Logan? No Butterworth? That's probably a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I'd be happy with a other Tommy Newman score. Some parts of SPECTRE are really funky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Well, just to be safe I want everyone in the emergency bunker until Mr. Arnold returns and the whole score's up and running again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 7 hours ago, Margo Channing said: I'd be happy with a other Tommy Newman score. Some parts of SPECTRE are really funky. I like both Newman scores. It's good - sometimes great - music, but I don't think that it's Bond music. It takes more that just a few brass hits, to make a Bond score. Arnold understands Bond music, at an almost sub-atomic level; something that a lot of other Bond composers fail to do. The Mendes/Newman team worked well, but let's have Arnold back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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