AndrewGilkison
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I don't think he had a great experience on Spectre, so no **** that he doesn't want to come back.
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That may be butBond has a ceiling in the US (only two films have earned $200m or more), and the last two entries have earned less than the last one (both domestically and internationally), despite the budgets increasing. I also don't think it's a reach to say Bond's audience is older than most other modern franchises, and the time between releases isn't doing the brand any favors.
Maybe keep the cool creepy serial killer mask for more than 10 minutes.And to be honest, I'm not mad about it. Kinda used to it by now with the long waits between movies during the Craig tenure but at the same time I'm not exactly chomping at the bit for a reboot either. Let them take as much time as they need. Looking back, the first outing for a new Bond actor has never really disappointed so they don't need to rush it and mess up that streak.
Speaking of, that also got me thinking. By default and I'd also say arguably, the worst first Bond movie for any of the actors was Live and Let Die and even that's one of Moore's better ones.
This is why the franchise is dying, they aren't doing enough to create new generations of fans. It's been nearly 20 years since Craig was cast and they still haven't announced his replacement.
I'm all for taking time to make something great, but the time that was put into No Time to Die didn't exactly result in a flawless product.
I tend to ignore the Silva/Spectre connection whenever I rewatch Skyfall just to preserve the "standalone" aspect of it. It sounds silly because even without that there are some pretty important events that happen in it between the changing of the guard with M and the introduction of Q and Moneypenny but even with all of that it's really the only Craig movie that feels like a standalone Bond adventure. I guess Casino Royale does too but the way that movie ends definitely leaves you wanting more (and then we got QoSI kind of liked how they tried to tell a more serialized and less episodic narrative with Bond in the Craig films but they messed that up with SPECTRE, trying to directly tie in the actions of Silva. Like, fine, I can accept that Le Chiffe from CR and Tiny Screaming Man from QoS were part of it since they were part of Quantum, which I guess was just the surface-level version of SPECTRE or whatever. But looping Silva in too just so Blofeld could be all “I’ve been the architect of all your problems forever” was just lazy. Not EVERYTHING has to be connected.
Tale as old as time for the franchise. It's really his own fault for not killing Bond as a captive when he had multiple opportunities, and that also goes for most, if not all of the other villains too. It's like that Austin Powers joke.It also makes Blofeld look really incompetent that the same secret agent keeps messing up all his plans.
Kim Possible?It also makes Blofeld look really incompetent that the same secret agent keeps messing up all his plans.
I stuck on a random playlist yesterday and heard this song by Noel Gallagher (of Oasis fame). I’d never heard it before as it was a bonus track from what I gather and not on an album. Not sure if it was intentional or not but it has a bit of a Bond song thing going, the classic 3-note Bond riff is definitely there in the verses