The Captain
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@martin clark I totally agree Martin. I'd go further & say the best Bond was an Australian.. & as a cricket lover that's pretty tough to say. In the best Bond film too.
The thing that irks me about the new ones, which just don't feel like Bond movies at all to me but pseudo knock-offs even worse than Never Say Never Again, is they're too dense, too fast, too eager to pile your plate with so much bondfodder which in Mendes' eyes = a good Bond meal. It doesn't. Early & the best bond films were so much simpler, more time for the character of Bond to emerge, you relish the action more with time building up to it. Now it's bosh-bosh-bosh, more bish, more bosh, stuffed down your throat, until you feel like a force-fed goose. I'm not a goose. I refuse to be force-fed & then expected to find it acceptable. And the plots.. are sometimes so ludicrously complicated, you can't quite keep up: this fad got worse & worse in the late 80's into the 90's. My last gripe is the casting of Judy Dench. Omg. A diminutive, ever-so-polite thespian.. trying to portray a big head honcho & Bond's boss, is pathetic casting.
You're quite correct to say we need a -complete- overhaul, back to the drawing board. Read the original books. Calm down & stop being so silly.
Capt
The thing that irks me about the new ones, which just don't feel like Bond movies at all to me but pseudo knock-offs even worse than Never Say Never Again, is they're too dense, too fast, too eager to pile your plate with so much bondfodder which in Mendes' eyes = a good Bond meal. It doesn't. Early & the best bond films were so much simpler, more time for the character of Bond to emerge, you relish the action more with time building up to it. Now it's bosh-bosh-bosh, more bish, more bosh, stuffed down your throat, until you feel like a force-fed goose. I'm not a goose. I refuse to be force-fed & then expected to find it acceptable. And the plots.. are sometimes so ludicrously complicated, you can't quite keep up: this fad got worse & worse in the late 80's into the 90's. My last gripe is the casting of Judy Dench. Omg. A diminutive, ever-so-polite thespian.. trying to portray a big head honcho & Bond's boss, is pathetic casting.
You're quite correct to say we need a -complete- overhaul, back to the drawing board. Read the original books. Calm down & stop being so silly.
Capt