It would’ve helped if the director could’ve held a scene for more than five seconds.
How about a Boss Hogg wannabe and wacky sound effects over the stunt scenes?
Jesus, what a snarky, pretentious, snide fucking article that is. It’s so obvious that the writer hates the James Bond franchise.
Some of my ideas for the next Bond movie:
Craig should wear a beard, or at least a mustache. Bond has been clean-shaven for so long; they might as well experiment with some facial hair at this point. It doesn’t mean he needs to look that way for the entire movie, but maybe he could at least grow a nice bushy mustache as a disguise.
There should be more scenes/plots taking place in the US. All the recent Bond movies have been totally focused on European and Latin American locales. It would be cool if, for whatever reason, Bond had to travel to somewhere in the United States and do his thing there - somewhere like rural Kentucky, the Carolina coast, Alaska, the Rocky Mountains…
Some suggestions for possible artists to sing the theme song?
I’ll start with Fiona Apple, who I have thought should do a Bond song ever since I heard the album Extraordinary Machine - several of the songs on that album sound like they could easily be Bond songs, with some minor lyrical adjustments.
I really hope nobody says Adele (my least favorite female singer of the past 10 years.)
I know they’re not inclined to go with names that aren’t immediately recognizable, but I’d love to see Portishead do the theme.
Didn’t Bond spend part of Die Another Day with a beard? That was only 10 years and 3 movies ago.
Massive Attack and Zero Seven could do it well, so could Lamb if they were still around, which I don’t think they are.
Has to be Denis Waterman doesn’t it. He can write the theme tune and sing the theme tune.
James is a secret agent, doh da-doh doh da,
He’s licensed to kill doh da-doh doh da
What?
:D:D:p
Sorry couldn’t resist, just “who’s going to sign the theme tune” called him to mind
Sam Mendes? Christ, taking a poseur director is what killed Quantum of Solace. Why the fuck dont they rehire Martin Campbell ASAP? He was one of the reasons Casino Royale rocked.
I’d like to see Michael Mann direct. Agree Sam Mendes is really not the right choice.
I love Mann, but seeing as how he shitted himself over the adaptation of his own work (Miami Vice), I think Bond needs a solid filmmaker but not one out to absolutely “show” himself.
In some ways, this a far rarer breed than poseur directors. I think you need to be able to master action scenes before you focus on smart dialogues or characterization. QoS is one of the worst Bond movies mostly because of that.
I think Matthew Modine could pull it off. Watch If, Dog, Rabbit if you don’t believe me. He’s a solid filmmaker and he’s certainly not out to “show” himself.
If he kept out the monsters (and I’m sure he could), I think Guillermo del Toro could do a kickass job.
That is the first time I’ve heard that song and it is absolutely hilarious and absolutely TRUE! It takes all of the criticisms I’ve made of the Craig era Bond and sums them up perfectly.
*Sometimes I wish Roger Moore would come back
with an underwater car or some kind of jetpack
or a hover-gondola and a Union Jack
Forget it, mate, it’s not the '80s!
He’d rather kick you in the face!
We’ve got a new Bond for the noughties
because the world’s a TERRIBLE place!*
Frankenheimer. Ronin.
Locations?
I want to see Bond fighting someone on the roof of Sydney Opera house and later at Ayers Rock.
That could be cool. Australia wasn’t mentioned as a likely shooting location, though, was it?
“He is called Le Chiffre. That’s French for The Chiffre!”
Sorry, a pal of mine whispered this to us while we were watching Casino Royale and it just killed us. Anyway I’m excited about this. Hopefully they give Colin Salmon something more to do- he’s an underrated actor.
I didn’t think it was any kind of martial art. It looked more like intermediate-level gymnastics, with Connery in the middle or at the end of the flight-path.:dubious:
EEK! Has it been that long already?:eek:
Huh? MI-2 scenes redone? Might be better than Rain-Man’s brother doing them. 
I gotta say I liked the Roger Moore set. They were all actors with tons of charisma, but Moore and Brosnan were characters who seemed to rely more on their wits to beat the villains. Connery, Lazenby, and the one Craig I saw (I didn’t bother with Dalton) seemed to be brute force operatives and brute force only goes so far.
—G!
“When you were young and your heart
Was an open book
You used to say, ‘Live and Let Live…’
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in
Makes you give it a try…”
. —Paul McCartney
. [C’mon, you know the title!]