Posting this because I could find nothing previous and I just can't fathom I am the only one who feels this way.
I vividly remember the Mrs and me going to the theater in 2006 to watch Casino Royale. I also remember us walking out in disgust at the end, saying over and over again that that was not a James Bond movie.
I haven't watched a JB movie since, but got me Quantum of Solace & Skyfall on DVD last week, basically just to say that my JB DVD's are up to date.
We watched Quantum last night and, once again, it was a horrible Bond movie. I am sincerely dreading to watch Skyfall.
Now don't get me wrong, the movies are great as movies, but IMO, they are NOT James Bond.
I vividly remember seeing The Spy who loved me at the cinema, and taking a week to pick my jaw off the ground thereafter. I was hooked on Bond for life, and all the other movies did not disappoint (except for Dalton :lol)
That's 30 years of Bond I'm talking about personally.
And in one fell swoop, somebody somewhere in 2006, decided to kill James Bond.
Bond has a character and a set number of variables have to happen for it to be Bond.
He has to be witty & charming. The villain has to be excessively evil with terrible, surreal, gadgets at his disposal to destroy the world :lol. Q has to give Bond gadgets to counter those :lol. Humour and quippy remarks are a must. And so on and so forth.
You know what I mean : ENTERTAINMENT, James Bond style.
You are supposed to sit back, have the story spoon-fed to you, oooh and aaah at the gadgets, gasp at the stunts (sometimes laugh at them because it's "as iiiiiiif !" - but still, VERY entertaining, albeit a tad corny at times.
Now, I had to struggle to understand the plot of Quantum. I didn't quite get who was who or what the heck was going on with the BASIC plot till 45 minutes into the film. The filming was confusing, too fast, and in general, dark. There was no Q. Not a single frakking sausage of a gadget - zero. Bond was acting like a paranoid terrorist rather than Bond. And I could go on and on and on.
In short, not far off from what I remember from Casino Royale.
Again, I am not saying anything about the movie. As an action film, it is fantastic - But it it NOT Bond.
What, the 'new' James Bond 'look & feel' ? Well, sorry mate, you can't re-invent Bond like that. It's like wanting to re-invent the wheel. Bond is Bond, is Bond. He was written that way. Period. Modernising ? Nope, the Bond movies with Brosnan did that VERY well. So its not that either I'm afraid.
Imagine Darth Vader portrayed as taking a kid to Disneyland and enjoying it.
That's the level of change I feel they did to Bond.
RIP Bond, I'll miss you :cry
/ end rant :lol
I vividly remember the Mrs and me going to the theater in 2006 to watch Casino Royale. I also remember us walking out in disgust at the end, saying over and over again that that was not a James Bond movie.
I haven't watched a JB movie since, but got me Quantum of Solace & Skyfall on DVD last week, basically just to say that my JB DVD's are up to date.
We watched Quantum last night and, once again, it was a horrible Bond movie. I am sincerely dreading to watch Skyfall.
Now don't get me wrong, the movies are great as movies, but IMO, they are NOT James Bond.
I vividly remember seeing The Spy who loved me at the cinema, and taking a week to pick my jaw off the ground thereafter. I was hooked on Bond for life, and all the other movies did not disappoint (except for Dalton :lol)
That's 30 years of Bond I'm talking about personally.
And in one fell swoop, somebody somewhere in 2006, decided to kill James Bond.
Bond has a character and a set number of variables have to happen for it to be Bond.
He has to be witty & charming. The villain has to be excessively evil with terrible, surreal, gadgets at his disposal to destroy the world :lol. Q has to give Bond gadgets to counter those :lol. Humour and quippy remarks are a must. And so on and so forth.
You know what I mean : ENTERTAINMENT, James Bond style.
You are supposed to sit back, have the story spoon-fed to you, oooh and aaah at the gadgets, gasp at the stunts (sometimes laugh at them because it's "as iiiiiiif !" - but still, VERY entertaining, albeit a tad corny at times.
Now, I had to struggle to understand the plot of Quantum. I didn't quite get who was who or what the heck was going on with the BASIC plot till 45 minutes into the film. The filming was confusing, too fast, and in general, dark. There was no Q. Not a single frakking sausage of a gadget - zero. Bond was acting like a paranoid terrorist rather than Bond. And I could go on and on and on.
In short, not far off from what I remember from Casino Royale.
Again, I am not saying anything about the movie. As an action film, it is fantastic - But it it NOT Bond.
What, the 'new' James Bond 'look & feel' ? Well, sorry mate, you can't re-invent Bond like that. It's like wanting to re-invent the wheel. Bond is Bond, is Bond. He was written that way. Period. Modernising ? Nope, the Bond movies with Brosnan did that VERY well. So its not that either I'm afraid.
Imagine Darth Vader portrayed as taking a kid to Disneyland and enjoying it.
That's the level of change I feel they did to Bond.
RIP Bond, I'll miss you :cry
/ end rant :lol
