Damn... Now I can say that I would love to see Bond using a VAIO again, but SONY announced today that it's going to sell the brand, along with the BRAVIA business.
As an owner of the SZ series from Casino Royale and the latest SONY VAIO Pro this really made me sad.
I'm not sure where I should post this, but I'll try here. I saw an interesting program on TV last night where Tom Hardy went to Africa and learnt about the problem of poaching wild animals in Africa. Did you know rhinoceros horns cost more by the pound on the illegal market than gold?And that Illegal hunting finances illagal arms trade and terrorism?
It would be great to see Bond in Africa, somehow touching upon illegal poaching. I'm not saying the next villan should try to corner the illegal elephant and rhinoceros horn market. It should be an aspect of the plot like horse racing was in AVTAK, not the main ambition of the villan. A beautiful female preservationist and tracker (Charlize Theron) could be involved. This is a dangerous trade, just look at the men hunting poachers:
I watched a newsnight reporton the poaching of Rhino horn, and it was bloody disgusting.
One poor animal had its horn and most of it face cut off and left to die. Poachers should be
shot on the spot. They're Scum !
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
If I ever win the lottery (or make millions playing poker) I will start a travel agency called Poach the Poacher. It will specialize in all inclusive trips where you can help shoot the bastards. The slogan will be 'Anyone game'?
What I would like in Bond 24 is a themesong that is also used as a que during the movie. I was watching Moonraker last night and it amazed me how well the themesong was used during the movie. This is true of most older Bond movies but something that has been lacking since LTK.
I want non-silly, belivable gadgets like a non-metallic pistol, or his PKK hidden in a metal hip flask as seen in the LTK cut scenes. Perhaps micro- drones (perhaps attached to his car to fly off and give 007 a birds-eye view of the situation)
There are some scenes from the novels that could be used. Quite a few from CR didn't make it to the movie (like the accidental bombing with the camera cases). Another scene that I think could be played very well by Craig is the breaking of the pinkie from LALD.
I would love to see the Plot of the Moonraker Novel get turned into a Film. Since the Moore Adaptation was a complete Re-write, save for a couple of Names like Hugo Drax. They would have to chance the Name obviously, and put in a few more Locations to spruce it up a bit (As the whole Novel was set in England)
1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
1. A scene of Bond in his leisure/down time. In the novels, he was actually bored with his job a lot because he spent most of it behind his desk reading intel docs and research on things like toxins. A brief scene showing him in flat getting a call from M or Tanner while he's practicing his card playing and or exercising; at the golf course (on the greens or in the locker rooms) with Tanner, who gets a call from M that stops them from having a round; with Tanner on the greens and they get attacked by a miniature drone (Bond shoots it out of the air).
2. Bond out testing his new personal car somewhere in the English countryside (not going to play into what type here) and get's attacked (again by a drone or some other method).
3. Bond at the Service's training HQ (would be a place like the estate in TLD) getting in his hand to hand monthly training/testing and his trainer is killed then the killer substitutes himself telling Bond he's filling in and tries to do Bond in during the training (Bond realizes turns the tables obviously) - would be a nod to the scenes from YOLT and NSNA but more brutal.
4. Have another scene some place in the British Isles. Could not get enough of it in Skyfall.
5. Yes, it would be nice to have Craig skiing or scuba diving (as long as he was really doing it).
6. Have part of the film in Canada (could have the skiing there?).
7. Have the chalk cliff explosion scene from Moonraker.
8. Show Craig in his Naval uniform at a funeral of a colleague or friend who's getting full military honors.
9. Have Craig putting a limpet mine on the villains boat (LALD) that kills the villain after he thinks he has beat Bond and escaped (along with perhaps some device he was going to use against the Western powers).
10. With drones now becoming the choice weapon of war and surveillance, the villain could be some mastermind who has assembled an arsenal of them (from large to miniature) that he plans on unleashing in some all out assault on Britain. This could be perhaps the updating of Moonraker, where the rocket is substituted by the drones. Bond changes the programming of one drone which is sent out to destroy a major British landmark (or military target) as an example of the villians threat but it returns to blow up the villain and his HQ and the remaining fleet of drones.
11. Have Q give Bond a smartphone that is a stun gun. It would only work once but it's plausible enough to get him out of a tight situation.
Could even be a flashbang grenade - still plausible.
12. A smartphone that turns into a flying drone...plausible? Not?
What I DON'T want in Bond 24:
1. Another female sacrificial lamb. Why not a man if they want to do this?
2. Craig dealing with some emotional turmoil through the whole plot. We've done this. Let's have him just do a job and enjoy some female company at the finish as in the old days. Not that they can't stay real and show him get angry or get wounded or feel bad because a colleague gets hurt or killed. Just so they don't use it as a revenge motive or a major plot point.
3. Another theme song with non-sense lyrics (you know what I mean Madonna) or singers trying to sing out of their range or overly romantic ballad/torch songs (you know what I mean Rita C.). Keep in line with GF, TB, TWINE, etc. They can even do a non lyrical number ala OHMSS if they can match it's quality....no, wait, forget I said that. I don't think anyone could do it now (oh Barry, I miss you). Even a haunting ballad (SF) is fine, but get Adele or Lang, etc. Hell, get Tony Bennett. The man can still work a song!
4. No armored Aston. If they want to use the Aston in the scene, have Bond release a surveillance drone from it and view it while following it along some beautiful scenery (aka GF).
5. No ridiculous gadgets that obviously could not work in real life (you know who I'm talking to, super magnetic watch).
6. No female villains. Not for a few films. They're cliches now.
7. No over the top villains of any kind. Keep them real. They can have a disfigurement or perverse hobby or be a drug addict, but they don't want to take over the world/create a new one or off Bond because he did them wrong in the past. They should never outdo Silva in the bizarre behaviour department.
8. The villain cannot have some out of this world or futuristic gadget or weapon anymore than Q can have.
9. No white cats. They weren't in the novels to begin with.
10. No scenes showing Craig in his Naval uniform where as a 00 he would not be wearing one to begin with (I'm talking to you Roger and Pierce).
11. No one from HQ (I'm talking to you M/Q/Moneypenny) yaks at Bond through an earpiece while he's spying. He's a responsible, seasoned spy, not a trainee or a SWAT/SAS officer on a call.
12. Bond gets shot at with hundreds of rounds out in the open and never gets hit. It can't happen..just don't even write such a scene. If they do this type of scene, it has to be at the end and he does get wounded (but the bad chaps still die).
1. A scene of Bond in his leisure/down time. In the novels, he was actually bored with his job a lot because he spent most of it behind his desk reading intel docs and research on things like toxins. A brief scene showing him in flat getting a call from M or Tanner while he's practicing his card playing and or exercising; at the golf course (on the greens or in the locker rooms) with Tanner, who gets a call from M that stops them from having a round; with Tanner on the greens and they get attacked by a miniature drone (Bond shoots it out of the air).
2. Bond out testing his new personal car somewhere in the English countryside (not going to play into what type here) and get's attacked (again by a drone or some other method).
3. Bond at the Service's training HQ (would be a place like the estate in TLD) getting in his hand to hand monthly training/testing and his trainer is killed then the killer substitutes himself telling Bond he's filling in and tries to do Bond in during the training (Bond realizes turns the tables obviously) - would be a nod to the scenes from YOLT and NSNA but more brutal.
4. Have another scene some place in the British Isles. Could not get enough of it in Skyfall.
5. Yes, it would be nice to have Craig skiing or scuba diving (as long as he was really doing it).
6. Have part of the film in Canada (could have the skiing there?).
7. Have the chalk cliff explosion scene from Moonraker.
8. Show Craig in his Naval uniform at a funeral of a colleague or friend who's getting full military honors.
9. Have Craig putting a limpet mine on the villains boat (LALD) that kills the villain after he thinks he has beat Bond and escaped (along with perhaps some device he was going to use against the Western powers).
10. With drones now become the choice weapon of war and surveillance, the villain could be some mastermind who has assembled an arsenal of them (from large to miniature) that he plans on unleashing in some all out assault on Britain. This could be perhaps the updating of Moonraker, where the rocket is substituted by the drones. Bond changes the programming of one drone which is sent out to destroy a major British landmark (or military target) as an example of the villians threat but it returns to blow up the villain and his HQ and the remaining fleet of drones.
11. Have Q give Bond a smartphone that is a stun gun. It would only work once but it's plausible enough to get him out of a tight situation.
Could even be a flashbang grenade - still plausible.
12. A smartphone that turns into a flying drone...plausible? Not?
What I DON'T want in Bond 24:
1. Another female sacrificial lamb. Why not a man if they want to do this?
2. Craig dealing with some emotional turmoil through the whole plot. We've done this. Let's have him just do a job and enjoy some female company at the finish as in the old days. Not that they can't stay real and show him get angry or get wounded or feel bad because a colleague gets hurt or killed. Just so they don't use it as a revenge motive or a major plot point.
3. Another theme song with non-sense lyrics (you know what I mean Madonna) or singers trying to sing out of their range or overly romantic ballad/torch songs (you know what I mean Rita C.). Keep in line with GF, TB, TWINE, etc. They can even do a non lyrical number ala OHMSS if they can match it's quality....no, wait, forget I said that. I don't think anyone could do it now (oh Barry, I miss you). Even a haunting ballad (SF) is fine, but get Adele or Land, etc.
4. No armored Aston. If they want to use the Aston in the scene, have Bond release a surveillance drone from it and view it while following it along some beautiful scenery (aka GF).
5. No ridiculous gadgets that obviously could not work in real life (you know who I'm talking to, super magnetic watch).
6. No female villains. Not for a few films. They're cliches now.
7. No over the top villains of any kind. Keep them real. They can have a disfigurement or perverse hobby or be a drug addict, but they don't want to take over the world/create a new one or off Bond because he did them wrong in the past. They should never outdo Silva in the bizarre behaviour department.
8. The villain cannot have some out of this world or futuristic gadget or weapon anymore than Q can have.
9. No white cats. They weren't in the novels to begin with.
10. No scenes showing Craig in his Naval uniform in a scene where as a 00 he would be wearing one to begin with (I'm talking to you Roger and Pierce).
11. No one from HQ (I'm talking to you M/Q/Moneypenny) yaks at Bond through an earpiece while he's spying. He's a responsible, seasoned spy, not a trainee or a SWAT/SAS officer on a call.
12. Bond gets shot at with hundreds of rounds out in the open and never gets hit. It can't happen..just don't even write such a scene. If they do this type of scene, it has to be at the end and he does get wounded (but the bad chaps still die).
So pretty much you just want a bunch of drones!? )
1. A scene of Bond in his leisure/down time. In the novels, he was actually bored with his job a lot because he spent most of it behind his desk reading intel docs and research on things like toxins. A brief scene showing him in flat getting a call from M or Tanner while he's practicing his card playing and or exercising; at the golf course (on the greens or in the locker rooms) with Tanner, who gets a call from M that stops them from having a round; with Tanner on the greens and they get attacked by a miniature drone (Bond shoots it out of the air).
2. Bond out testing his new personal car somewhere in the English countryside (not going to play into what type here) and get's attacked (again by a drone or some other method).
3. Bond at the Service's training HQ (would be a place like the estate in TLD) getting in his hand to hand monthly training/testing and his trainer is killed then the killer substitutes himself telling Bond he's filling in and tries to do Bond in during the training (Bond realizes turns the tables obviously) - would be a nod to the scenes from YOLT and NSNA but more brutal.
4. Have another scene some place in the British Isles. Could not get enough of it in Skyfall.
5. Yes, it would be nice to have Craig skiing or scuba diving (as long as he was really doing it).
6. Have part of the film in Canada (could have the skiing there?).
7. Have the chalk cliff explosion scene from Moonraker.
8. Show Craig in his Naval uniform at a funeral of a colleague or friend who's getting full military honors.
9. Have Craig putting a limpet mine on the villains boat (LALD) that kills the villain after he thinks he has beat Bond and escaped (along with perhaps some device he was going to use against the Western powers).
10. With drones now become the choice weapon of war and surveillance, the villain could be some mastermind who has assembled an arsenal of them (from large to miniature) that he plans on unleashing in some all out assault on Britain. This could be perhaps the updating of Moonraker, where the rocket is substituted by the drones. Bond changes the programming of one drone which is sent out to destroy a major British landmark (or military target) as an example of the villians threat but it returns to blow up the villain and his HQ and the remaining fleet of drones.
11. Have Q give Bond a smartphone that is a stun gun. It would only work once but it's plausible enough to get him out of a tight situation.
Could even be a flashbang grenade - still plausible.
12. A smartphone that turns into a flying drone...plausible? Not?
What I DON'T want in Bond 24:
1. Another female sacrificial lamb. Why not a man if they want to do this?
2. Craig dealing with some emotional turmoil through the whole plot. We've done this. Let's have him just do a job and enjoy some female company at the finish as in the old days. Not that they can't stay real and show him get angry or get wounded or feel bad because a colleague gets hurt or killed. Just so they don't use it as a revenge motive or a major plot point.
3. Another theme song with non-sense lyrics (you know what I mean Madonna) or singers trying to sing out of their range or overly romantic ballad/torch songs (you know what I mean Rita C.). Keep in line with GF, TB, TWINE, etc. They can even do a non lyrical number ala OHMSS if they can match it's quality....no, wait, forget I said that. I don't think anyone could do it now (oh Barry, I miss you). Even a haunting ballad (SF) is fine, but get Adele or Land, etc.
4. No armored Aston. If they want to use the Aston in the scene, have Bond release a surveillance drone from it and view it while following it along some beautiful scenery (aka GF).
5. No ridiculous gadgets that obviously could not work in real life (you know who I'm talking to, super magnetic watch).
6. No female villains. Not for a few films. They're cliches now.
7. No over the top villains of any kind. Keep them real. They can have a disfigurement or perverse hobby or be a drug addict, but they don't want to take over the world/create a new one or off Bond because he did them wrong in the past. They should never outdo Silva in the bizarre behaviour department.
8. The villain cannot have some out of this world or futuristic gadget or weapon anymore than Q can have.
9. No white cats. They weren't in the novels to begin with.
10. No scenes showing Craig in his Naval uniform in a scene where as a 00 he would be wearing one to begin with (I'm talking to you Roger and Pierce).
11. No one from HQ (I'm talking to you M/Q/Moneypenny) yaks at Bond through an earpiece while he's spying. He's a responsible, seasoned spy, not a trainee or a SWAT/SAS officer on a call.
12. Bond gets shot at with hundreds of rounds out in the open and never gets hit. It can't happen..just don't even write such a scene. If they do this type of scene, it has to be at the end and he does get wounded (but the bad chaps still die).
So pretty much you just want a bunch of drones!? )
Didn't want to seem like I'm repeating myself, but they should be covered in some way. They are absolutely the cutting edge of warfare/intel gathering and the average chap on the street is just beginning to learn of how pervasive they are going to become.
1. A scene of Bond in his leisure/down time. In the novels, he was actually bored with his job a lot because he spent most of it behind his desk reading intel docs and research on things like toxins. A brief scene showing him in flat getting a call from M or Tanner while he's practicing his card playing and or exercising; at the golf course (on the greens or in the locker rooms) with Tanner, who gets a call from M that stops them from having a round; with Tanner on the greens and they get attacked by a miniature drone (Bond shoots it out of the air).
2. Bond out testing his new personal car somewhere in the English countryside (not going to play into what type here) and get's attacked (again by a drone or some other method).
3. Bond at the Service's training HQ (would be a place like the estate in TLD) getting in his hand to hand monthly training/testing and his trainer is killed then the killer substitutes himself telling Bond he's filling in and tries to do Bond in during the training (Bond realizes turns the tables obviously) - would be a nod to the scenes from YOLT and NSNA but more brutal.
4. Have another scene some place in the British Isles. Could not get enough of it in Skyfall.
5. Yes, it would be nice to have Craig skiing or scuba diving (as long as he was really doing it).
6. Have part of the film in Canada (could have the skiing there?).
7. Have the chalk cliff explosion scene from Moonraker.
8. Show Craig in his Naval uniform at a funeral of a colleague or friend who's getting full military honors.
9. Have Craig putting a limpet mine on the villains boat (LALD) that kills the villain after he thinks he has beat Bond and escaped (along with perhaps some device he was going to use against the Western powers).
10. With drones now becoming the choice weapon of war and surveillance, the villain could be some mastermind who has assembled an arsenal of them (from large to miniature) that he plans on unleashing in some all out assault on Britain. This could be perhaps the updating of Moonraker, where the rocket is substituted by the drones. Bond changes the programming of one drone which is sent out to destroy a major British landmark (or military target) as an example of the villians threat but it returns to blow up the villain and his HQ and the remaining fleet of drones.
11. Have Q give Bond a smartphone that is a stun gun. It would only work once but it's plausible enough to get him out of a tight situation.
Could even be a flashbang grenade - still plausible.
12. A smartphone that turns into a flying drone...plausible? Not?
What I DON'T want in Bond 24:
1. Another female sacrificial lamb. Why not a man if they want to do this?
2. Craig dealing with some emotional turmoil through the whole plot. We've done this. Let's have him just do a job and enjoy some female company at the finish as in the old days. Not that they can't stay real and show him get angry or get wounded or feel bad because a colleague gets hurt or killed. Just so they don't use it as a revenge motive or a major plot point.
3. Another theme song with non-sense lyrics (you know what I mean Madonna) or singers trying to sing out of their range or overly romantic ballad/torch songs (you know what I mean Rita C.). Keep in line with GF, TB, TWINE, etc. They can even do a non lyrical number ala OHMSS if they can match it's quality....no, wait, forget I said that. I don't think anyone could do it now (oh Barry, I miss you). Even a haunting ballad (SF) is fine, but get Adele or Lang, etc. Hell, get Tony Bennett. The man can still work a song!
4. No armored Aston. If they want to use the Aston in the scene, have Bond release a surveillance drone from it and view it while following it along some beautiful scenery (aka GF).
5. No ridiculous gadgets that obviously could not work in real life (you know who I'm talking to, super magnetic watch).
6. No female villains. Not for a few films. They're cliches now.
7. No over the top villains of any kind. Keep them real. They can have a disfigurement or perverse hobby or be a drug addict, but they don't want to take over the world/create a new one or off Bond because he did them wrong in the past. They should never outdo Silva in the bizarre behaviour department.
8. The villain cannot have some out of this world or futuristic gadget or weapon anymore than Q can have.
9. No white cats. They weren't in the novels to begin with.
10. No scenes showing Craig in his Naval uniform in a scene where as a 00 he would be wearing one to begin with (I'm talking to you Roger and Pierce).
11. No one from HQ (I'm talking to you M/Q/Moneypenny) yaks at Bond through an earpiece while he's spying. He's a responsible, seasoned spy, not a trainee or a SWAT/SAS officer on a call.
12. Bond gets shot at with hundreds of rounds out in the open and never gets hit. It can't happen..just don't even write such a scene. If they do this type of scene, it has to be at the end and he does get wounded (but the bad chaps still die).
I'd quite like to see Bond deal with something he can't stab or shoot, like a villain who is releasing some kind of genetically altered disease while attempting to extort money (lets have a villain with a basic motivation).
Bond can team up with Dr Smutty Innuendo from the Health Protection Agency, or the CDC and then they can solve the whole thing.
Or pirates, Somali pirates hijack a shipment of XYZ, Bond has to recover it, but the twist is that Baddie McEvil has killed all the pirates and is selling it himself.
I agree with almost everything, nice list! I like the gritty and realism but i do however want a world domination plot, it may be bigger than life. I want a surprising lair of the villain.. volcano or Atlantis-esque.
1. A scene of Bond in his leisure/down time. In the novels, he was actually bored with his job a lot because he spent most of it behind his desk reading intel docs and research on things like toxins. A brief scene showing him in flat getting a call from M or Tanner while he's practicing his card playing and or exercising; at the golf course (on the greens or in the locker rooms) with Tanner, who gets a call from M that stops them from having a round; with Tanner on the greens and they get attacked by a miniature drone (Bond shoots it out of the air).
2. Bond out testing his new personal car somewhere in the English countryside (not going to play into what type here) and get's attacked (again by a drone or some other method).
3. Bond at the Service's training HQ (would be a place like the estate in TLD) getting in his hand to hand monthly training/testing and his trainer is killed then the killer substitutes himself telling Bond he's filling in and tries to do Bond in during the training (Bond realizes turns the tables obviously) - would be a nod to the scenes from YOLT and NSNA but more brutal.
4. Have another scene some place in the British Isles. Could not get enough of it in Skyfall.
5. Yes, it would be nice to have Craig skiing or scuba diving (as long as he was really doing it).
6. Have part of the film in Canada (could have the skiing there?).
7. Have the chalk cliff explosion scene from Moonraker.
8. Show Craig in his Naval uniform at a funeral of a colleague or friend who's getting full military honors.
9. Have Craig putting a limpet mine on the villains boat (LALD) that kills the villain after he thinks he has beat Bond and escaped (along with perhaps some device he was going to use against the Western powers).
10. With drones now becoming the choice weapon of war and surveillance, the villain could be some mastermind who has assembled an arsenal of them (from large to miniature) that he plans on unleashing in some all out assault on Britain. This could be perhaps the updating of Moonraker, where the rocket is substituted by the drones. Bond changes the programming of one drone which is sent out to destroy a major British landmark (or military target) as an example of the villians threat but it returns to blow up the villain and his HQ and the remaining fleet of drones.
11. Have Q give Bond a smartphone that is a stun gun. It would only work once but it's plausible enough to get him out of a tight situation.
Could even be a flashbang grenade - still plausible.
12. A smartphone that turns into a flying drone...plausible? Not?
What I DON'T want in Bond 24:
1. Another female sacrificial lamb. Why not a man if they want to do this?
2. Craig dealing with some emotional turmoil through the whole plot. We've done this. Let's have him just do a job and enjoy some female company at the finish as in the old days. Not that they can't stay real and show him get angry or get wounded or feel bad because a colleague gets hurt or killed. Just so they don't use it as a revenge motive or a major plot point.
3. Another theme song with non-sense lyrics (you know what I mean Madonna) or singers trying to sing out of their range or overly romantic ballad/torch songs (you know what I mean Rita C.). Keep in line with GF, TB, TWINE, etc. They can even do a non lyrical number ala OHMSS if they can match it's quality....no, wait, forget I said that. I don't think anyone could do it now (oh Barry, I miss you). Even a haunting ballad (SF) is fine, but get Adele or Lang, etc. Hell, get Tony Bennett. The man can still work a song!
4. No armored Aston. If they want to use the Aston in the scene, have Bond release a surveillance drone from it and view it while following it along some beautiful scenery (aka GF).
5. No ridiculous gadgets that obviously could not work in real life (you know who I'm talking to, super magnetic watch).
6. No female villains. Not for a few films. They're cliches now.
7. No over the top villains of any kind. Keep them real. They can have a disfigurement or perverse hobby or be a drug addict, but they don't want to take over the world/create a new one or off Bond because he did them wrong in the past. They should never outdo Silva in the bizarre behaviour department.
8. The villain cannot have some out of this world or futuristic gadget or weapon anymore than Q can have.
9. No white cats. They weren't in the novels to begin with.
10. No scenes showing Craig in his Naval uniform where as a 00 he would not be wearing one to begin with (I'm talking to you Roger and Pierce).
11. No one from HQ (I'm talking to you M/Q/Moneypenny) yaks at Bond through an earpiece while he's spying. He's a responsible, seasoned spy, not a trainee or a SWAT/SAS officer on a call.
12. Bond gets shot at with hundreds of rounds out in the open and never gets hit. It can't happen..just don't even write such a scene. If they do this type of scene, it has to be at the end and he does get wounded (but the bad chaps still die).
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#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
As an owner of the SZ series from Casino Royale and the latest SONY VAIO Pro this really made me sad.
It would be great to see Bond in Africa, somehow touching upon illegal poaching. I'm not saying the next villan should try to corner the illegal elephant and rhinoceros horn market. It should be an aspect of the plot like horse racing was in AVTAK, not the main ambition of the villan. A beautiful female preservationist and tracker (Charlize Theron) could be involved. This is a dangerous trade, just look at the men hunting poachers:
One poor animal had its horn and most of it face cut off and left to die. Poachers should be
shot on the spot. They're Scum !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQwb4p09wE
Although Bond had a jag in one of the Benson books that had a drone built in, which Bond
could control.
1. A scene of Bond in his leisure/down time. In the novels, he was actually bored with his job a lot because he spent most of it behind his desk reading intel docs and research on things like toxins. A brief scene showing him in flat getting a call from M or Tanner while he's practicing his card playing and or exercising; at the golf course (on the greens or in the locker rooms) with Tanner, who gets a call from M that stops them from having a round; with Tanner on the greens and they get attacked by a miniature drone (Bond shoots it out of the air).
2. Bond out testing his new personal car somewhere in the English countryside (not going to play into what type here) and get's attacked (again by a drone or some other method).
3. Bond at the Service's training HQ (would be a place like the estate in TLD) getting in his hand to hand monthly training/testing and his trainer is killed then the killer substitutes himself telling Bond he's filling in and tries to do Bond in during the training (Bond realizes turns the tables obviously) - would be a nod to the scenes from YOLT and NSNA but more brutal.
4. Have another scene some place in the British Isles. Could not get enough of it in Skyfall.
5. Yes, it would be nice to have Craig skiing or scuba diving (as long as he was really doing it).
6. Have part of the film in Canada (could have the skiing there?).
7. Have the chalk cliff explosion scene from Moonraker.
8. Show Craig in his Naval uniform at a funeral of a colleague or friend who's getting full military honors.
9. Have Craig putting a limpet mine on the villains boat (LALD) that kills the villain after he thinks he has beat Bond and escaped (along with perhaps some device he was going to use against the Western powers).
10. With drones now becoming the choice weapon of war and surveillance, the villain could be some mastermind who has assembled an arsenal of them (from large to miniature) that he plans on unleashing in some all out assault on Britain. This could be perhaps the updating of Moonraker, where the rocket is substituted by the drones. Bond changes the programming of one drone which is sent out to destroy a major British landmark (or military target) as an example of the villians threat but it returns to blow up the villain and his HQ and the remaining fleet of drones.
11. Have Q give Bond a smartphone that is a stun gun. It would only work once but it's plausible enough to get him out of a tight situation.
Could even be a flashbang grenade - still plausible.
12. A smartphone that turns into a flying drone...plausible? Not?
What I DON'T want in Bond 24:
1. Another female sacrificial lamb. Why not a man if they want to do this?
2. Craig dealing with some emotional turmoil through the whole plot. We've done this. Let's have him just do a job and enjoy some female company at the finish as in the old days. Not that they can't stay real and show him get angry or get wounded or feel bad because a colleague gets hurt or killed. Just so they don't use it as a revenge motive or a major plot point.
3. Another theme song with non-sense lyrics (you know what I mean Madonna) or singers trying to sing out of their range or overly romantic ballad/torch songs (you know what I mean Rita C.). Keep in line with GF, TB, TWINE, etc. They can even do a non lyrical number ala OHMSS if they can match it's quality....no, wait, forget I said that. I don't think anyone could do it now (oh Barry, I miss you). Even a haunting ballad (SF) is fine, but get Adele or Lang, etc. Hell, get Tony Bennett. The man can still work a song!
4. No armored Aston. If they want to use the Aston in the scene, have Bond release a surveillance drone from it and view it while following it along some beautiful scenery (aka GF).
5. No ridiculous gadgets that obviously could not work in real life (you know who I'm talking to, super magnetic watch).
6. No female villains. Not for a few films. They're cliches now.
7. No over the top villains of any kind. Keep them real. They can have a disfigurement or perverse hobby or be a drug addict, but they don't want to take over the world/create a new one or off Bond because he did them wrong in the past. They should never outdo Silva in the bizarre behaviour department.
8. The villain cannot have some out of this world or futuristic gadget or weapon anymore than Q can have.
9. No white cats. They weren't in the novels to begin with.
10. No scenes showing Craig in his Naval uniform where as a 00 he would not be wearing one to begin with (I'm talking to you Roger and Pierce).
11. No one from HQ (I'm talking to you M/Q/Moneypenny) yaks at Bond through an earpiece while he's spying. He's a responsible, seasoned spy, not a trainee or a SWAT/SAS officer on a call.
12. Bond gets shot at with hundreds of rounds out in the open and never gets hit. It can't happen..just don't even write such a scene. If they do this type of scene, it has to be at the end and he does get wounded (but the bad chaps still die).
So pretty much you just want a bunch of drones!?
Didn't want to seem like I'm repeating myself, but they should be covered in some way. They are absolutely the cutting edge of warfare/intel gathering and the average chap on the street is just beginning to learn of how pervasive they are going to become.
BULLSEYE!
Bond can team up with Dr Smutty Innuendo from the Health Protection Agency, or the CDC and then they can solve the whole thing.
Or pirates, Somali pirates hijack a shipment of XYZ, Bond has to recover it, but the twist is that Baddie McEvil has killed all the pirates and is selling it himself.
love to see Bond back in New York.
I agree, the Series should return to Japan.
That would be great!
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Seeing Bond once again in the city where I was born and raised wouldn't bore this American. Bring it on!
Like Bond said, small world. -{
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I'd love to see Bond travel to where I was born and raised. Except that Birmingham is perhaps not that exotic or glamorous
They should have had a scene in Skyfall where he stopped off at Hopwood Services on the M42 for a cuppa and a bacon roll on the way to Scotland