Re: Thoughts on where bond 25 will sit in the rankings.
You'veHadYourSix wrote:HowardB wrote:NTTD, IMO has three things going for it that give me hope / guarded optimism that it will be closer to CR and Skyfall than QOS and SPECTRE. Cary Fukunaga. He can write, he's one of the best at shooting suspenseful action and suspense in general (something Bond has been lacking since CR), and he's fresh to the series and might bring that sensibility to NTTD that was sorely missing from SPECTRE. The writers. Purvis and Wade seem to be very adept at coming up with good basic foundations for Bond films but really fall short with smart dialog and character development. Having outstanding screen writers Fukunaga, Scott Z. Burns, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge to re-write, complete and polish the script could have put things on a significantly higher level. And of course, last, but possibly the most important, having back a lean, fit, and reinvigorated Daniel Craig who appears at 51 to be determined to go out on a high note and not be the latest member of the "did one too many Bond club".
Finally someone being optimistic about bond 25.
I'm just gonna put this out there and I might get some heat for this I think Cary Fukunaga is a better director than Martin Cambell just saying everything is an opinion and that's mine.
If you can get past the very difficult pre-production and all the Tab slagging that went along with it, when you just look at the creative team EON ended up with: Fukunaga, the other writers, the DP, etc IMO, the film appears to be in very good hands. Regarding Fukunaga being a better director than Martin Campbell, it's really all relative. Campbell has a long career as a film director, primarily in the action genre and has done some good work, especially with his two Bond films, both of which are credited with breathing new life into and resurrecting the franchise. However, when judging Campbell by his entire resume, he is probably considered a very good "journeyman" director. Fukunaga, much younger and with a much smaller work sampling is considered one of the new hot outstanding young directorial talents and more of an auteur with screen writing credits and his work as a DP. IMO, I would have to say that Campbell is the better "Bond Director" as he has a proven track record with one very good to excellent Bond film (GE) and one truly classic Bond film (CR). Fukunaga, depending on how NTTD turns out has the potential to become part of the great Bond directors club, but we won't know that until April 2020. I for one, hope he can stand with Campbell, Terence Young, Guy Hamilton, Peter Hunt, and Sam Mendes as just not a good director, but a good director who made a great Bond film.
Interesting opinion there, yes both Goldeneye and Casino are brilliant and true he did breathe new life into bond.
How excited on a scale of 1-10 are you for "No Time To Die?
And on a scale of 1-10 how do you think it's going to fair? Giving it a rating I get it's not easy, but let's say hypertheically.
if say
Casino & Goldfinger were 8
Die Another Day Quantum of Solace are a 6.
Of course again all subjective.
Some of us might score Quantum higher just like we might score Licence or Majestys as time has been kind to them, I think more of us now appreciate them for not being the latest bond film, I feel an extra pressure goes with the latest entry.
Among other things like the rough bond of licence is present in our current bond.
Some of us have also come to realise Peter Hunt's directing of majestys is pretty spectacular also.
I think there's a chance, this might be the case with spectre when it's no long the latest and its cemented next to bond 25 nicely, and we no longer have to end it with Madeline and bond driving away.
Straight after we can pop "No Time To Die" on,
I think this might help us feel slightly less deflated at the prospect the ending was a little meh.
Don't get me wrong the John Glen ending is a nice call back
But I'm sure I'm not the only one who's quite excited at the prospect of the Db5 getting blown up it's been used alot.
I do look forward to seeing the Aston Martin v8 Vantage make an appear however.
Wonder if Tim Dalton might make a small cameo, could be cool.