jye4ever
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I hope the next movie is called Commander Bond.
I hope the next movie is called Commander Bond.
These last ones just riffed off the old villains. I'd like to see some really interesting new takes on villains. I did like the eye in NTTD. They could have done more with it.Why, you want to see his early years in the British Navy?
Its been 6 years since the last Bond. I really hope they move up their timetable. There's only so many choices out there for Bond. Let's go, make a decision, and find some new writers with a sense of fun, style and give these movies some energy, humor and some much better set pieces.
For the physical presence that Craig was, he never really fought any of his main villains -- Greene had an ax for a second (and chopped his own toe) and Safin scuffled with Bond like a girl. Hinx was the only challenge to Bond -- and that was a good fight. Craig needed more of those.
Still, the best action scene Craig ever had was his first one in Casino Royale at the construction sight chasing down the bomb maker. It's been downhill ever since.
Second best fight in CR was Bond's testicles vs rope.
Speaking of silly, why do classic Bond villains treat Bond like a guest at a hotel? They feed him, give him a nice tour of the lair, and in the case of Goldfinger, he flew Bond first class, gave him all his personal belongings so he could change and clean up, gave him a tour of the place, drinks included, explained his master plan, and finally, gave Bond his best girl (*****) to spend some "quality time " with her while Goldfinger took care of business. No wonder Blofeld said **** it, let's do a drive by.
TWINE maybe. I have a certain nostalgia for it, came out in my last year of school.What does everyone consider Brosnan’s second best movie after GE?
Never really liked it. As a follow up to GE it was very underwhelming.How about TND?
What does everyone consider Brosnan’s second best movie after GE?
We had such similar taste in bond movies and then you had to go and say that. Do you know what time it is Mr Clown Prince of Crime... Time to die haha.G Zeus, that's a tough one.
The thing is, they all have things I like in them, but things I don't care for too. Ii wish I could Frankenstein TND, TWINE, and DAD into one perfect Bond film.
I pick Die Another Day as the second best. It's got decent overall action and locations like Japan, Cuba, and the Ice Hotel, a prime Haley Berry, a formidable over the top main villain, a memorable looking henchman with the diamonds on his face, and a decent female henchwoman too. It's like a modern Roger Moore film with the over the top villains and gadgets...invisible car. It also has a pretty good intro with Madona's theme. Not a great song, but the visuals are cool.
There are things I like about TWINE, but I don't like the villains or the action scenes that much. The climax is in a submarine fighting a guy who's angry because he can't get a hard on. What a pathetic villain. I like that Valentin Zukovsky (Russian from Goldeneye) returned. He should have been the main villain. He could have been the best villain since Goldfinger. Instead, they kept him as a Bond allied and killed him off.
Never really liked it. As a follow up to GE it was very underwhelming.
As time goes on the threat of a media tycoon manipulating / making the news rather than reporting it seems to be more and more relevant but it wasn't executed in a very exciting way in TND. Perhaps they could re-do it for the modern era to cover the tech giants in silicone valley. I could get behind Bond punching out a Mark Zuckerberg / Jack Dorsey type villain.
Elliot Carver was kind of lame, he's no Alec Trevelyan. For a plot that was posing as a realistic threat it then went stupid by having Carver have a massive 'stealth' boat lol. Why would the media mogul put himself at risk and in the direct firing zone. Then you have Stamper who was almost a caricature of a henchmen, he had no intelligence and was just a brute. Again Lame. The bond girls also did very little for me. Terry Hatcher looked too old (I was young when I first saw this lol!) and think she was pregnant too whilst filming so they couldn't have her do much. Wai Lin just never appealed to me either, probably because subconsciously her character was always annoyingly lethal in bond games, being just too short to easily head shot and very accurate. The gadgets were a bit rubbish too, whoo Bond can remote control drive his car using his phone ... that's not aged well, we could probably all get an app for that now. The locations were all a bit rubbish, bland too other than the motorbike chase. I almost gave it credit for the q boat scene on the river Thames but that was from TWINE. There is barely anything memorable about it for me.
There isn't much to like here and bit of a dud which is only propped up by the awful depths that Die Another Day would plunge the franchise into later.
GE
DAD
TWINE
TND
Hold my beer while I drop the mic….We had such similar taste in bond movies and then you had to go and say that. Do you know what time it is Mr Clown Prince of Crime... Time to die haha.
Wow did not think anyone liked Die Another Day. I remember being really hyped about it and booking to see it day one and being really disappointed. Then within the same week my school surprised us by organising a trip to see the film as a reward for something. Unfortunately I had already qualified for the reward so had to go again. I can confirm that seeing DAD twice in the cinema within a week was akin to the Casino Royale rope to balls torture... it was excruciating.
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