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Post by Jan El Señor on Oct 26, 2021 17:39:23 GMT 1
I dug it.
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Oct 31, 2021 1:06:07 GMT 1
About to walk into No Time To Die! Look forward to discussing Craig’s last outing.
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Oct 31, 2021 5:31:55 GMT 1
ArArRated - 7 Double OHs
WOW. That was an epic finale to the Craig saga. I’m not even going try to express everything here but what a sprawling drama. And I knew something big was afoot when they kept cueing up Oh Her Majesty’s Secret Service references. The score, some of the scene staging. It kept making me think about that film and there was a reason. If you’ve never seen Majesty, you owe it to yourself. It’s the one Lazenby film and Bond aficionados will tell you it deserves mention as one of the very very best. But enough about that, this was entirely appropriate. The settings were gorgeous, the shot tracking was on point, the threat and the themes were palpable, and overall it left me wondering heavily about the future and the Craig Quintet’s place within the Bond franchise. In some ways, I knew from the moment Casino was a reboot that it would have to come to this. And now that we’re here, I’m glad it did.
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Nov 2, 2021 17:20:22 GMT 1
The Craig era now has a special place in the franchise. I don’t want to spoil anything by it’s entirely self contained and I’m very curious where they go from here.
If we can talk spoilers here let me know, because there were some big moments that they never dared to take this character. And I’m glad they did. It really summed up the Craig run for me. Loved it.
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Post by Grandmaster on Nov 2, 2021 20:48:42 GMT 1
Spoilers are allowed now. Movie has been out for a month or more. Should be ok.
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Nov 2, 2021 21:42:20 GMT 1
Spoilers are allowed now. Movie has been out for a month or more. Should be ok. HE DIED!!!! They killed James Bond!!!! And that makes the Craig run it’s own little mini adventure. Which is exciting if you ask me. It makes me wonder if they’ll pick up on the ongoing adventures of the previous Bond, or if they’ll start another completely independent series. It’s funny because when it was clear that Quantum was a direct sequel, my first comment was, “well then this series has to eventually come to an end”. And so it has. I really love that Craig has his own independent 5 film adventure, that starts and ends his run as a 00. It’s unique. Bond has never had an origin or a conclusion and this is just a wonderful little run.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2021 5:22:49 GMT 1
Spoilers are allowed now. Movie has been out for a month or more. Should be ok. HE DIED!!!! They killed James Bond!!!! And that makes the Craig run it’s own little mini adventure. Which is exciting if you ask me. It makes me wonder if they’ll pick up on the ongoing adventures of the previous Bond, or if they’ll start another completely independent series. It’s funny because when it was clear that Quantum was a direct sequel, my first comment was, “well then this series has to eventually come to an end”. And so it has. I really love that Craig has his own independent 5 film adventure, that starts and ends his run as a 00. It’s unique. Bond has never had an origin or a conclusion and this is just a wonderful little run. THOSE MANIACS! THEY BLEW HIM UP! DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Nov 22, 2021 5:05:33 GMT 1
I saw this on Saturday—finally.
So, to say this upfront, I enjoyed it a lot. I’ve lately been watching just one lousy movie after another, and when I saw that opening scene—which, as a short film all its own, is a masterpiece—I thought, Wow. This is everything I love about Bond. Craig gives a magnificent performance, on par with his performance in Casino Royale.
The movie has one amazing set piece after another; the plot dares to go goofy and fun and crazy (as if the producers are saying, “It’s been 20 years since the last Austin Powers. We can do the Bond tropes again”); the real-life locations are breathtaking; the script has one good line after another (“More children?” is hilarious); the visuals are often stunning, and CGI seems little-to-none; the girls are beautiful; M, Moneypenny, and Q are in their old roles (though Naomi Harris’s Moneypenny, whom I adore, is criminally underused, just as Lois Maxwell always was); the tributes to the originals were nice and nicely underplayed; and, walking out of the theater, I just loved the movie.
The more I think about it, alas, the more that love ebbs.
The plot is such a mess, and the villain is so boring, and—putting aside that I don’t think the Bond character should die, period (he’s one of the immortals, like Superman and Santa Claus)—this adventure just doesn’t seem for the right one for Bond to go out on. (It comes off as kinda a minor mission.) Nor for Felix Leiter and Ernst Stavro Blofeld, for that matter. Godalmighty, bring Jeffrey Wright’s Felix—the only Felix with any kind of character—back, just to kill him? Ditto with Christoph Waltz, who gives a far better performance in his five minutes of screen time than in the entirety of Spectre? Ditto, now that I think of it, with the whole SPECTRE organization! And once I started thinking like that, sadly the whole thing started falling apart for me.
And yet I can say I just enjoyed it far more than Skyfall and Spectre. So I don’t know, I really don’t know. It’s an extremely fun movie that cannot support the thematic weight put on its shoulders and poisons its own plot as it goes along. Case in point: Ana de Armas, at her most adorable and funny and astonishingly gorgeous, has great chemistry with Craig, gets one of the best scenes in the movie, and is written out in 10 mins. This is messiness to the point of madness—but it is fun messiness.
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Post by Indiana Jones on Feb 5, 2022 3:38:55 GMT 1
Finally saw it and really enjoyed it. It's probably my third favorite in the Daniel Craig series after Skyfall and Casino Royale. It feels like the movie that Spectre wanted to be. I will admit that I did not care much for the villain (Rami Malek looks ugly but he's kind of boring). His two henchmen (the guy with the bionic eye and the cowardly mad scientist) are more interesting. I didn't care for Bond's continued romance with Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux). I thought he had way better chemistry with the new girl Paloma (Ana de Armas is a delight in this).
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