It's been so long since NTTD, and years of speculation over who's next, that I no longer care who. It'll be an Amazon prime series anyway probably.
They have 100% committed to a full theatrical release. They've signed Denis Villeneuve to direct and Steven Wright to write the screenplay. Amazon is treating this like a tentpole prestige movie, which they should. They are not treating it like slop to throw into the streaming pig sty.
It doesn't guarantee it will be good--but it does show they are treating the franchise with the respect it deserves. Which is not something I can say about Broccoli and Wilson with the NTTD abomination.
They have 100% committed to a full theatrical release. They've signed Denis Villeneuve to direct and Steven Wright to write the screenplay. Amazon is treating this like a tentpole prestige movie, which they should. They are not treating it like slop to throw into the streaming pig sty.
It doesn't guarantee it will be good--but it does show they are treating the franchise with the respect it deserves. Which is not something I can say about Broccoli and Wilson with the NTTD abomination.
They have 100% committed to a full theatrical release. They've signed Denis Villeneuve to direct and Steven Wright to write the screenplay. Amazon is treating this like a tentpole prestige movie, which they should. They are not treating it like slop to throw into the streaming pig sty.
It doesn't guarantee it will be good--but it does show they are treating the franchise with the respect it deserves. Which is not something I can say about Broccoli and Wilson with the NTTD abomination.
Broccoli and co were hit and miss on their movies. Just so happens that NTTD was in the not very good pile.
I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere on the internet until missiles rain down from the sky, but the problem (*as I see it) with NTTD and the Craig era in general is Spectre. That's not fair to Spectre though, it did just fine being awful completely on its own, so perhaps NTTD's problem is that someone thought Spectre was a good idea in the first place and wanted to continue those ideas into NTTD the way they did.
But,
I have no idea just how involved Broccoli and Wilson were with the writing of that film, but I have to think a lot of mistakes came together all at once. AFAIAA, weren't B&W involved since Goldeneye? Brosnan has two good movies, one that's ok, and then one that started off great and then went completely off the rails plot wise (DAD, imnsho).
Spectre was terrible. Everyone likes to hate on QoS as being bad but that movie is actually re-watchable compared to Spectre.
This how I rank DC's Bond movies
Good- Skyfall and CR
Okay- QoS
Bad- NTTD
Garbage- Spectre
Skyfall
I'll give you a quarter for each plot point that you can argue makes sense and another quarter for each of these that you can make coherent within the existing story
I'll give you a quarter for each plot point that you can argue makes sense and another quarter for each of these that you can make coherent within the existing story
I have no idea just how involved Broccoli and Wilson were with the writing of that film, but I have to think a lot of mistakes came together all at once.
The DC movies were just ok for me. But they aren't rewatchable like the earlier ones.
Those two agreed to Craig's demand that Bond be killed in return for him coming back for movie #5. Someone who respected the franchise would have said no. That should have been a non-negotiable.
NTTD is rated my #25 of 25 Bond movies. I watched it in the theater. Then I watched it again when it was released on physical media to see if my opinion would change. It didn't. I will never watch it again even though I own it.
Books on the other hand much better. Moonraker very good and completely different from film.
I enjoyed them all and felt CR needed to be made as the character was falling behind Bourne ect.
Felt all DC films has a good arc & always enjoy Waltz on screen.
Compared to all the Bond films before, the only other ones I’d happily watch, are Goldeneye, Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Daltons first. The rest are too cheesy, and haven’t aged well.
Books on the other hand much better. Moonraker very good and completely different from film.
Each to their own, and I’m not going to change your opinion. Usually it comes down to what Bond you grew up watching. But I thoroughly enjoyed NTTD throwbacks
I enjoyed them all and felt CR needed to be made as the character was falling behind Bourne ect.
Felt all DC films has a good arc & always enjoy Waltz on screen.
Compared to all the Bond films before, the only other ones I’d happily watch, are Goldeneye, Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Daltons first. The rest are too cheesy, and haven’t aged well.
Books on the other hand much better. Moonraker very good and completely different from film.
Each to their own, and I’m not going to change your opinion. Usually it comes down to what Bond you grew up watching. But I thoroughly enjoyed NTTD throwbacks
Books on the other hand much better. Moonraker very good and completely different from film.
Those two agreed to Craig's demand that Bond be killed in return for him coming back for movie #5. Someone who respected the franchise would have said no. That should have been a non-negotiable.
NTTD is rated my #25 of 25 Bond movies. I watched it in the theater. Then I watched it again when it was released on physical media to see if my opinion would change. It didn't. I will never watch it again even though I own it.
Usually it comes down to what Bond you grew up watching.
