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Next Bond film will likely maintain a less serious tone

Skyfall is likely my favorite Bond movie, and I never thought it of it as a departure from the tone of the first two Craig entries. Besides, Mendes is directing again, and pretty much everything he does is dark, so if you're expecting some campy Mooresque Bond, that's just not going to happen.
 
Its about damn time... Bring back the lazy eyed psychos with space based lasers and world domination plans please!!

Last one like that was die another day 🙁 I miss that kinda stuff.
 
What the hell was Skyfall about? I was asleep for most of it.

Quantum of Solace, too. What happened to making movies that are memorable?


Licence to Kill with Timothy Dalton is my favorite.
 
I'm fine with a campy James Bond; I have a soft spot for some of the Roger Moore films, and they were absurd. But Daniel Craig is the wrong actor for it. He does serious Bond great; he'd be terrible at being campy.

Actually, now that I think about it, most Bond films rely on a bit of camp; the gadgets range from preposterous to idiotic, and not one of them is believable as a real piece of spy gear.
 
Skyfall was awesome. I loved how it tied the newer Bond with the latter(i.e. Moneypenny). I also liked how it put the controversy of Bond being an actual surname or code name to rest with the simple camera shot of his fathers grave stone.
 
I was rather turned off by both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Skyfall, though not perfect, was much better. So if they're going to quit being so dreary and spend some time on the cool/fun aspects of being a secret agent, that's fine by me.
 
I thought Casino Royale was by far the best Craig Bond movie. Only problem was it ended like 2-3 times, which was weird. I don't remember much from the other two movies, except one of them implied that Bond was possibly gay.
 
The recent Bond movies have been complete garbage, designed for the under 20 set used to X-Men movies. Little humor, over-the-top completely unbelievable "action" sequences, with wooden actors walking through their badly written parts.
 
Printer Bandit said:
What the hell was Skyfall about? I was asleep for most of it.

Quantum of Solace, too. What happened to making movies that are memorable?


Licence to Kill with Timothy Dalton is my favorite.
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skyfall was mediocre. the villain was nothing special, and the story was nothing special. ex MI6 agent wants revenge. as if that kind of plot hasn't ever been done before.

casino royale is by far the best of the daniel craig movies thus far. the plot is there, and the traditional bond elements are there, albeit with much darker overtones. i couldn't even follow quantum of solace - at the end of the movie i seriously had to read wikipedia to figure out what had happened.
 
Carson Dyle said:
The recent Bond movies have been complete garbage, designed for the under 20 set used to X-Men movies. Little humor, over-the-top completely unbelievable "action" sequences, with wooden actors walking through their badly written parts.
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Compared to the old Bond movies? You can't be serious.
 
Printer Bandit said:
What the hell was Skyfall about? I was asleep for most of it.

Quantum of Solace, too. What happened to making movies that are memorable?


Licence to Kill with Timothy Dalton is my favorite.
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I actually agree. The Dalton films were awesome and Skyfall was very dull. Craig is a complete dial tone, though Casino Royale is amazing despite him being in it.

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Skyfall was a bunch of other movie plots in a Bond movie, and bad one's at that.

But, I don't know... maybe the CIA does send unencrypted lists of all their deep cover spies to Europe, guarded by two people. (ahem Mission Impossible).

Or maybe super-criminals like having plans where they get caught as part of the plan. (ahem Dark Knight).

Seems to me they have ripped so many parts from other movies for Skyfall, that now they are going to rip parts from their own old Bond movies. Hollywood at it's finest.
 
Printer Bandit said:
What the hell was Skyfall about? I was asleep for most of it.

Quantum of Solace, too. What happened to making movies that are memorable?


Licence to Kill with Timothy Dalton is my favorite.
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Timothy Dalton ruins all of your credibility.

ViRGE said:
Moonraker is when Bond isn't serious enough. James Bond is a spy thriller series, not a Mel Brooks satire.
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Pretty much all of the Moore movies turned Bond into a cartoon. It all started with the slide whistle during the AMC Hornet car jump scene in Live or Let Die
 
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License to Kill was a fantastic movie for its time. How much more 80's can you get? It was like watching the other side of Scarface.

I prefer The Living Daylights though when its comes to the Dalton films.
 
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