Amph 60+ Years of James Bond 007

I would not mind a gritter series as far as action and spycraft goes.

 

I wouldn't want it too real-world; for me, Bond has to feel real and in jeopardy, but there has to be that element of... I don't want to say fantasy, but something eye-catching and epic, something you wouldn't see in a Bourne film. Difficult to balance those two aspects out, I know.

 

can we all agree to just leave the gun barrel at the first?

 

Darn right we can (well, I can... shouldn't speak for others).

And while they're at it, teach whoever gets the gig to actually hide their gun whilst walking, please and thank you. I was so excited to see SPECTRE open with a gunbarrel again, but then Bond sauntered on waiving his sidearm around like he was drying a wet sock.

 

Forget trying to do "modern" Bond. Embrace the ****ing retro 50s/60s spy vibe.

 

yes please.

don't touch jaws to priceless.
make a new henchmen.
how about someone called, 'Dune'?
a guy who wears one of those swimmers nose plugs all the time.?

this i like but i wouldn't care if they completely left spectre out of the picture all together.

 

I was hoping Batista would survive Spectre and be a repeat villain in the vein of Jaws. But alas.

 

Adhere to the character-driven, mordant, dangerous and lavish qualities of the Craig era, but with more emphasis on tension than spectacle. Try harder to offer up truly diabolical, memorable villains. Above all else, resist any temptation to revert back to silliness and splash. (It didn't work for Brosnan.)

 

I think they should drop the personal stuff for bond. Kept it minor no need to visit his house, findout more about his family and the like. Imo.

 

I just wish they'd get on with it !!

 

• Bond is less severe. He can smile, laugh, and enjoy some of the amazing experiences he's permitted to have, even when his duties are grim.
• Bond fails. First mission...he blows it. Maybe have some kind of moral victory, but the sting of losing gives the young 007 a determination to not fail again.
• MI-6 is one step ahead of Bond for once. They are ready with something he needs before he needs it. The cavalry comes charging in at the perfect time, etc. Build a sense of the capability and prestige to the organization Bond is joining. Then in future films, as Bond becomes more capable, we get to see him surpass even the very powerful organization he serves.
• Less brawling. The Craig era stuff was intense...but it took a lot of flak for being "Bourne-esque". I'm ready for Bond to do more out-thinking than putting henchmen through tables.
• Don't bring in Spectre right away, but give us a truly great Blofeld in the first film, on his own. Spectre can develop in tandem with Bond in subsequent films.
• I think we can dust off some of those cold war tropes now.
• Have locations have some kind of connection. Not just "we've never had Bond go here before".

 

I agree with a previous comment no more modern Bond, its time to go back to the beginning and set it back in the 60s, basically 007 is a codename and Connery was one of many 007s back in the 60s , so we can follow another 007 on his missions, see new villians, locations etc.

 

The 'code-name theory' is one thing that would guarantee me not seeing a Bond film. It is horrible, imo.

 

Well, 007 can pass from one agent to another, but James Bond isn't a code name and shouldn't. No Time to Die showed there can be another 007 after Bond's retirement, and the classic series implied at least two different 006s (one I think was mentioned in From Russia with Love and of course, Goldeneye).

 

When I say more realistic I use The Day Of The Jackal as a reference.

 

Yes, I assumed that Dr Silva was going with the full 'James Bond is a code-name' idea, which is a non-starter for me. It seemed that way in the context of his post, but now I'm not sure. Perhaps he could clarify his idea?

 

I'd be happy to see the gadgets return. They just need to be good ideas.

 

I love seeing Bond in his Commander uniform or I guess its a Navy uniform? When does he do that again?

You only live twice
roger moore is in uniform but i'm having trouble recalling when. isn't he? The Spy who loved me?
tomorrow never dies

Also I say Q from the Daniel Craig era returns. Ben Wishnaw I think it is.

note to self: find 'day of the jackal'. i wonder if its like 'the jackal'.

 

Correct answer.

Also, if I'm recalling rightly, the codename theory (that the agent's full codename is "James Bond, Double-Oh Seven" and not just the number) was something that was knocking around during development of Die Another Day, when a sincere attempt was made to get Sean Connery a celebratory cameo (some tabloids erroneously reported this as Connery being cast to play Bond's father).

I think director Lee Tamahori even discussed it in several interviews, in which he agreed with it as a way of explaining the movies as a single continuity, but it's pretty clear that it wasn't popular, given how Casino Royale came along and strongly contradicted the whole possibility.

 

watching the day of the jackal*

the commissioner is the mr drax from moonraker!

 

you should watch any movie shot in the UK in the 70's , it's a feast of character actors .

 

Because every franchise needs to vanish up its own ass talking about itself these days, they should embrace the inherent contradictions of the franchise established by everything about Judi Dench’s M and have Bond be literally reborn in the 1960s as he then has to spend an entire movie coming to grips with living in an impossible continuity knot and a Möbius strip of existence. Hire an arch-surrealist to helm it and try to lose at least fifty million dollars at the box office to establish bona fides.

 

Or they could follow Alan Moore's interpretation (arguably faithful to the original novels) and make him the ****ing villain.

 

Obviously the revelation that he is living an impossible loop existence drives him to villainy because it undermines his ability to take anything he does seriously. There’s no point in serving a cause when causality has failed.