>This is supposed to be James Bond.

You have nothing better to do with your life, have you?

that thing on the right

I have to admit that Vesper's suicide is a better idea than her drowning in that meaningless sequence.

Thanks for the link anon, I didn't know that page and it looks very cool

It never follows up on how Bond becames a badass agent. Serious case of oneitis when it comes to its sequels that mamages to be both offensive and hypocritical.

Craig is a great fashion model. They were going for a Steve MaQueen type thing.

I remember seeing this post on FB and damn it fits. It made me nearly cry at how fricking miserable the world has gotten and how Bond ended up as a result.

FRICK you, Barbara. You talentless, worthless, mindless nepo baby woman. Desecrating the franchise your father foolishly entrusted to you by giving control to your new wannabe boyfriend which he tanked and ruined just for kicks. Frick you and him, Barbara. Women should not have rights or power over ANYTHING.

But this is ultimately right. Last movie where Bond had a circle of espionage around him--he had villains backstabbing each other while trying to kill him, and he had sub villains that lended him a hand at the last moment because frick it, he's James Bond, baby!

A Bond movie should in a certain sense almost be like an episode of Entourage. We see the gang, it's all good, until it's not, then things hit the shits, but we persevere, and then the villain gets one of several upper hands and things look dire.

But then Bond figure out how to reach the control box with his feet or Ari thinks of a way to restructure Venny's contract, and WE ARE SO BACK BABYYYYYY.

It's interesting to compare that bond to Craig in Royale. Craig ticked all the boxes in that movie except he was dour, and dour doesnt let you play around. He slept with a woman he met on the beach, but the movie treats it as an afterthought, as if you already know the drill here.

And yet that's half of the whole story. Basking in the radiance of your own success. And they cut it out. The movie celebrates masculinity, but only the wreskless elements. It opens with a black and white ode to old war spycraft. It continues with parcour. There is the bond body reveal as he walks on the beach resembling an SAS on holiday. He sleeps with a woman, but we don't show it because this happens all the time. He gets reprimanded by superiors, gets poisoned, stumbling around after what looks like a drunken bender, wins a poker game, wrecks his expensive car chasing the bad guy.

There is danger and the visuals work, but all it does is build up how 'tough' bond is. The biggest problem with the craig movies is bond never shows--his supporting cast 'tells'. Vesper talks about bond having disdain for his suit. His poker table orders his drinks. All bond's friends and associates tell him what he is thinking.

I think part of the issue is the movie wanting to be a reboot yet keep it's continuity. Judi Dench yells at bond like she's known him all her life, yet Casino is this Bond's first film. Yes, it's nice to see the actress again, definitely.

But the biggest issue with Craig Bonds are they turn him into a model first and foremost. Broding, vamping, walking murderously with an smg. The visuals are striking. He's like a knight on a revenge quest through a modernizing old europe.

His coworkers are lifeless though. You get the sense that this Bond is a Bourne type bloodhound. He's a bushido canadian mountie. So his associates are stuck reacting to his actions and painting his character, when the audience should be doing that themselves through his actions.

There is a cringeworthy scene in a later bond where one of bond's supposed old friends is talking with him about a woman and asks if she has 'melted his cold heart'. It's not the dialogue of a friend. It's the dialogue of a guy who has read some Bond books and was tasked with getting the 'new' bond 'over' as is said in the wrestling world: everything bond associates say is strictly bond pomo.

That same friend is later killed and someone else has to mention how cold bond is for throwing his body away. It's fashion week and WWE Promo all the way down. You expect JR and Lawler to yell out, Did you SEE what he DID? after certain scenes because of how it's written.

It's not all bad though. It's kind of cute in Casino when everyone order's Bond's same drink. And in that sense, I do think Craigs Bond's worked. Craig's bond is sort of salked by an image that he can handle but loathes. Craig looks like he feels trapped in the role at times, and so his bond carries that same energy.

These arent old Bond villains. They are the replicants. They are the remixes. Craig is playing a Batman Beyond sort of Bond where we have an idea of the beats and the turns of the villains, but even

Anyway, Craig was cool. Different than Brosnan, and his movies were too. Craigs movies sort of veered into Hitman territory, which isn't a bad idea, but they needed more advanced plotting.

There were tons of options to interweave the villains stories and abilities into multiple stories, so that by the time you actually saw them, all the pomp and circumstance around them was warranted. Instead, we get multiple movies where bond is told by some damsel in distress that 'he will come for you', and it happens so frequently that we begin to feel the nightmare Craig is living as he plays Bond. We are stuck in the role with him where things sort of just happen like a ride at universal studios.

I would have brought back henchmen instead of waves of nameless thugs. Batista could have been a modern Jaws, and it could have worked if he had been hinted at in earlier pictures.

Modern films do this thing where they dont want to show something on screen because it might not be taken seriously, but they keep chipping away at what made the original interesting in the first place. In the Nolan Batman Begins, Scarecrow is a fantastic compromise. Scientist, fear toxin, sack mask that's representational, but also literal because of the toxin's effects. But then you have The Dark Knight Rises and Bane is just a buff guy in a mask. No Venom. We're given a sad sack story, where Bruce Wayne gets his back broken and has to make a literal and metaphorical jump to prove his worth, but he already makes that same jump every fricking day when he wakes up every morning and decides not to blow his fricking brains out because he lives in a world where he saw his parents killed and there was nothing he could do about it. Frick Bane.

Craigs movies would have been better if they were written as a cohesive unit. Have multiple things happening in each movie that add to something collectively. Then give Bond some celebration here or there.

>tfw the director told her to get on with it when she's done nudity before in unknown movies nobody cares and won't agree for the role of her life
>Craig boycotts it because he's a poofer

Whether you like his '''Bond''' (sigh) you can admit he should be killed for that alone.