James Bond In Skyfall - Part 6

[AnneFan]

Classy poster. It's a teaser and it does its job really well, imo.

Agreed. I think it does two things - celebrates the character himself (50th anniversary) and also advertises the new movie. We don't have long to wait for the trailer either.

 

[Two-Face]

When was the trailer May 21st?

 

[Gianakin_]

Yes.

 

[obin_gam]

When was the trailer May 21st?

yep! at 8am gmt!

 

[regwec]

Good to Great

1. Dr. No
2. From Russia With Love
3. Goldfinger
4. Thunderball
5. You Only Live Twice
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
7. The Spy Who Loved Me
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. Goldeneye
10. Casino Royale


Average

11. Live and Let Die
12. Octopussy
13. The Living Daylights
14. Licence to Kill
15. Tomorrow Never Dies
16. The World is Not Enough
17. Quantum of Solace


Bad

18. Diamonds Are Forever
19. The Man with the Golden Gun
20. Moonraker
21. Never Say Never Again (if included)
22. A View to a Kill
23. Die Another Day

It is notable that six of the ten best Bond films came from the 60s, and just four in the four decades since.

I agree with your list almost entirely, the exception being OHMSS.

I stopped by the Omega store today... His watch is only $7,000! The 50th Anniversary Bond Omega Watch is a little cheaper at $5,000.

Eh, what's $7k during a financial crisis? I think Swatch's 007 villains set is more fun for less money, anyway.

http://www.swatch.com/zz_en/watches/finder-detail.sku-SZS008.html

With OHMSS, I just love how different it was from the other Bond movies, and that it really was one of the Bond movies that tried to take the franchise in a difference direction nearly 40 years before Casino Royale. It starts out slow, and there are no big action set pieces for the first half of the movie. To me, a lot of the differences succeed.
And from what I read of OHMSS, it sticks pretty close to the novel, to the point in which it causes a few continuity errors, such as Blofeld not instantly spotting Bond, and the safe-cracking machine being some large thing when it was much smaller in You Only Live Twice.

While that's all very valid, I don't think that George Lazenby is an actor of sufficient merit to carry all of the surprising changes to the formula. It is an unfortunate that the most character-heavy Bond film is helmed by the poorest actor to play the part. For me, Lazenby turns what should have been interesting diversions from the Bond formula into irritations.

Maybe DC's last Bond movie should be a remake of OHMSS.

 

[Gianakin_]

Maybe DC's last Bond movie should be a remake of OHMSS.

That's for damn sure. And that'd be a good way to introduce an arch-nemesis type of villain, should they ever go that way again. But in that case it shouldn't be DC's last one.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

While that's all very valid, I don't think that George Lazenby is an actor of sufficient merit to carry all of the surprising changes to the formula. It is an unfortunate that the most character-heavy Bond film is helmed by the poorest actor to play the part. For me, Lazenby turns what should have been interesting diversions from the Bond formula into irritations.

Maybe DC's last Bond movie should be a remake of OHMSS.

I'm mixed about remaking old Bond movies. While I am against the idea of it, if there's any movie deserving of it being remade, it's OHMSS. I just think that Bond movie, EON could get lazy and you start to open Pandora's box and lead to other Bond movies getting remade, a nightmare situation that personally I think should be avoided.

As for OHMSS, Lazenby is definitely a weak point of the movie and the main reason why I don't have it higher, but I feel like that performances around him (specifically Diana Rigg and Telly Savlas) saves the movie, and I think they made Lazenby look better too. I don't think Lazenby's performance destroys the movie, but it does keep it from being the best.

I do believe that this OHMSS with Connery would have been the single greatest Bond movie ever. People doubt that, but I read in Sidney Lumet's Making Movies(an excellent book, by the way) that Connery would used to come on to sets early and study the script and the role he was in before they started shooting. Connery would have made the adjustment to the tone of OHMSS very well based off that information.

 

[Two-Face]

If EON were thinking doing remake of old films I hope it will be Diamonds Are Forever. I can't explain how bad the film was. OHSS is a decent film plus Diana Rigg was great imagine her and Connery's Bond.

 

[regwec]

The DAF novel was pretty weak as well, so I don't feel that it was as poorly served as OHMSS by the movie.

 

[Silvermoth]

OHSS is a decent film plus Diana Rigg was great imagine her and Connery's Bond.

 

[Ajendo]

No EoN produced Bond film should ever be remade. Lazenby wasn't perfect but he in no way ruined an otherwise excellent film. However, IF there was ever a Bond film to be remade my vote goes to moonraker. Make it more like the novel.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I would have said that, but they could probaly still do that without calling it Moonraker, like they have been doing by taking elements of Bond novels into movies, with mixed success.

 

[regwec]

Yep, that's probably a better approach.

 

[Roose Bolton]

That's what they should have done with QoS. Taken the revenge theme from the novel version of YOLT as well as actually incorporating the actual speech from the Quantum of Solace short story.
Considering they didn't have a real script I would have thought that they would of gone to the actual source for ideas.

 

[david el]

I tried to make the poster a bit more snazzy...

 

[Blue Sugar]

OHMSS is amazing, a remake would be so stupid and unnecessary.

 

[regwec]

It is very good, but marred by a feeble leading actor, which is why I think another go might be an interesting idea. As suggested, using some elements from the novel in a movie with a new title would be a more sensible approach than a straight remake.

 

[Mandalore464]

OHMSS is amazing, a remake would be so stupid and unnecessary.

It is also one of the finest films in the series. I mean that with a "cinephile" (that term always sounds so presomptuous) approach. The editing especially is the best in the whole series, Craig-era included. And they had the balls to take the character extremely far emotionally, something that really was never done again until Casino Royale.

Lazenby is a great guy and a good actor, it's too bad he arrived at a time when fans could only picture Connery as Bond, and Connery was not considered too old yet for fans to accept a new face. I'm sure his performance was hampered by the fact Connery had been there first, and he did not really know how to make his own thing with the character.

Connery and Craig are way up there on my Bond-scale, but I'd have been curious to see how Lazenby would have been received had he been the first Bond.

 

[Blue Sugar]

The editing, set-design, music and cinematography in OHMSS is the best in the series.

Lazenby isn't the greatest actor but he is good enough and compensates his lack of skills with charisma and intense action-scenes.

 

[The Englishman]

I tried to make the poster a bit more snazzy...

Has Bond died and gone to heaven or something?

 

[Octoberist]

That is damn tacky looking

 

[ChickenScratch]

Reminds me of the first Superman movie poster, you'll believed a man can fly. Works there for an alien/superhero, not so much for a guy no matter how highly trained he is.

 

[regwec]

I think david el included the clouds to play on the title, 'Skyfall'.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Has Bond died and gone to heaven or something?

I actually laughed out loud at that


Movie Announcer- This fall James Bond comes back from heaven for one final mission


Bond- Lucifer! Get your hands off that nuclear device!

 

[Tacit Ronin]

I think david el included the clouds to play on the title, 'Skyfall'.

How clever.