"No Time To Die"

[chuckmiller]

The 25th Bond film set to release in the year 2020 and Craig's last of 5 on his contract. They need to get this virus thing over with and open the theaters!!!

[Strela167]

Pretty sure he'll do another , and agree, this mess needs sorting quickly

[chuckmiller]

Craig has been a great Bond. He is not only fit but very athletic, which may be why his series of films seem to focus on action far more than Bond being a playboy. Moore did 7 films, Connery did 6, so its possible that Craig is done or may get 1 more. I remember hearing one of the other Bond actors saying he declined doing more because of the physical demands of the part and his age.

[Raza]

I’m halfway excited about this. Craig is a great Bond and this far has delivered three great movies out of four. Yes, I’m including Spectre, even though it wasn’t as good as Skyfall or Casino Royale.

I think Phoebe Waller-Bridge is excellent—Fleabag is nothing short of literature, but Killing Eve is horrendously bad. There’s been this push to modernize Bond with regards to gender considerations, which is good, but I do think things can go overboard. If you look at movies like Birds of Prey and Captain Marvel, one did “girl power” very well and in an accessible and “show, don’t tell” kind of way, and then the other beat you over the head with the message until even the most “woke” could feel a bit turned off. So I’m hoping we get Birds of Prey here and not Captain Marvel.

Regardless, it should have some flash and action and be relatively good fun. I’m not super confident in Rami Malek as the villain, though.

[tribe125]

... but Killing Eve is horrendously bad.

Graham Greene used to divide his books into novels and entertainments. Killing Eve is an entertainment - and Jodie Comer’s performance is great lickable fun on a stick.

[Strela167]

I’m halfway excited about this. Craig is a great Bond and this far has delivered three great movies out of four. Yes, I’m including Spectre, even though it wasn’t as good as Skyfall or Casino Royale.

I think Phoebe Waller-Bridge is excellent—Fleabag is nothing short of literature, but Killing Eve is horrendously bad. There’s been this push to modernize Bond with regards to gender considerations, which is good, but I do think things can go overboard. If you look at movies like Birds of Prey and Captain Marvel, one did “girl power” very well and in an accessible and “show, don’t tell” kind of way, and then the other beat you over the head with the message until even the most “woke” could feel a bit turned off. So I’m hoping we get Birds of Prey here and not Captain Marvel.

Regardless, it should have some flash and action and be relatively good fun. I’m not super confident in Rami Malek as the villain, though.

Wasn't sure about Spectre myself , still think Moriarty wrecked it.
Not bad in

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4560008/

but , in fleabag. Wonder why got the roll.

First time saw Jodie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...teen-episode-5

Could tell she'd go far , brill
Blancmange with boots ,ace ....

[Raza]

Graham Greene used to divide his books into novels and entertainments. Killing Eve is an entertainment - and Jodie Comer’s performance is great lickable fun on a stick.

See, I’m finding myself in the shocking minority of people who don’t find annoying, childish psychopaths to be good fun.

[Dan R]

So to weigh in on Bond. I am too old. When I was a kid, I found Goldfinger to be entrancing as Oddjob's use of the killing hat and the cool car with the machine guns and bullet proof read screen. Then on You Only Live Twice, the sight of the Gemini astronaut having his airline cut left me chilled to the bones. Nothing against Craig, but the current stuff is far too CGI'ish.

[chuckmiller]

No argument there Dan. CGI is a main player in nearly every action movie produced today. I want to see more Bond gadgets, not more hand to hand combat.

Besides a pretty good story line its the gadgets that draw me to the Mission Impossible series.

[Raza]

No argument there Dan. CGI is a main player in nearly every action movie produced today. I want to see more Bond gadgets, not more hand to hand combat.

Besides a pretty good story line its the gadgets that draw me to the Mission Impossible series.

Mission: Impossible manages to be far more grounded than Bond, even though it goes heavier in the high tech gadgets than Bond does these days. They weren’t all winners (MI2 was terrible, MI4 was just okay), but overall it’s a great series.