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Purvis and Wade return to "salvage" Bond 25 from socialism
- Thread starter NTGYK
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Bond hasn't been worth a shit for 10 years. Casino Royale was a neat tonal shift, Quantum was garbage, Skyfall was very pretty garbage, and Spectre was LOL
And frankly there's not a lot of the older movies I would look back on and think "yeah this still has value and isn't grossly misogynistic."
Era movie news threads have recently have become non-stop circles of posters reacting to The Sun and Daily Mail articles - which sprinkle in obvious truths (like Bond producers obviously going with the other Wade/Purvis angle since that was the other script in contention with Boyle's vision) before adding juicy click bait bullshit out of their ass like Socialist Bond and Boyle wanting Bond dead etc with no source whatsoever.
I sort of liked the idea of killing Bond in 25. It'd finally confirm the theory that 007 was a number and not a person.
Wait what? Where is the socialist bond stuff coming from?
Why is Jonathan Pryce talking about this? He's already been a past bond villain, what's he got to do with the new one?
Why is Jonathan Pryce talking about this? He's already been a past bond villain, what's he got to do with the new one?
Why would Johnathan Pryce know anything about this?
Is it like how they share the President's Daily Brief with ex-presidents? Ex-Bond villains are kept in the loop?
Is it like how they share the President's Daily Brief with ex-presidents? Ex-Bond villains are kept in the loop?
How the fuck have these 2 co wrote the Bonds films since World? And are these the guys who fucked up Spectre and Quantum?
Yup. The Craig era started in the stratosphere and crashed back to Earth with Quantum, and the following two were subpar at best.
I'm a Bond fan from childhood but part of being a Bond fan is acknowledging that about 85% of the series is awful, and best enjoyed as dated schlock much of the time. See also: Godzilla fandom.
I guess that it could have covered the rise of fascism in the west in some way? Though knowing the Daily Mail Bond might have just called a non-white British citizen English.
The Daily Mails "unnamed source" huh?
Gonna go ahead and assume it's complete bullshit. Especially with the anti-authoritarian slant throughout Craigs previous couple of bond films.
Unless by socialist they actually mean anti-Russian but don't wanna actually say it.
Gonna go ahead and assume it's complete bullshit. Especially with the anti-authoritarian slant throughout Craigs previous couple of bond films.
Unless by socialist they actually mean anti-Russian but don't wanna actually say it.
I've never seen a list make me so sad since Boss Attack rating the Star Wars movies
TIL about how broccoli came to be. Also, wtf @ some of these newsrags. What does socialist James Bond even mean.
There's really going to be 7+ years between movies with the same actor? Lmao. That's almost as long as Connery's entire run.
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the other half got taken by the government and redistributed. :(
LOL I know. I always noticed the name in the credits of Bond film intros. Like "that's a wild name, bet people teased him about it!" Never realizing that it's a family invention and one less than 100 years old at that! Amazing.
Reminds me of when I found out that corn as we know it today is a relatively recent man-made selective product, resulting from a religious rite where they would select for a certain flowering or whatever, that eventually made edible corn lol. Or how potatoes were thought of as garbage and not even eaten by French peasants until some rich dude scientist fanboy of potatoes waged a PR campaign that made them one of the most widely consumed foods in Europe from peasants to palaces. Or how Lobster was once literally trash food forced on prisoners and thought too horrible to sell. Food stories fascinate me.
If you couldn't stand Skyfall do you even like James Bond movies bro
Yep. Casino Royale was so fucking good. Everything since has been trash. Even if I don't like a movie, I can usually see why others do. Skyfall is the rare exception where I am just like "what the fuck do people see here that I am missing!?"
I thought the writers strike fucked up Quantum.
Spectre? I don't know what they were thinking.
I got that same feeling with both Skyfall and Spectre. I think it's also Sam Mendes' directing that puts me thoroughly to sleep as well.
There's nothing to confirm, because that isn't true. It never has been.
Casino > > > Skyfall > Quantum > Specter
Skyfall though made the cancerous decision to reintroduce Q, moneypeeny, and general 'cheese' back into the series and was overly long and kind of boring.
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They didn't write Goldeneye. Says right in the OP... they started with The World is Not Enough
Let me join the "why does anyone like Skyfall" club
I don't even have the home alone meme-y problem with it. I just found it incredibly lacking and such a waste of a decent concept. Bond "dies" and all you do with it is that he just shows back up as soon as plot happens? What was the point of even having that story element then?
What a mess, feels like Spectre all over again. This series needs new blood desperately.
2 out of 6 isn't a particularly great hit rate (and one of those two basically follows a Fleming template anyway).
