I just don't find it to really be any better than Dr. No, FRWL, GF, TB, TSWLM, FYEO, TLD, LTK, GE, TND, or even TWINE - just a little different (in a good way).
CR has definitely pointed the series in the right direction - the direction I wanted it to go in following LTK! As I stated in my review this is a near-perfect way to restart the series. I had some gripes about the movie, but they were relatively minor. Craig was very good... but just not Bond, James Bond - and with good reason. He was Bond, Becoming Bond. The next movie will tell the tale as to whether or not Daniel Craig is a Bond for the ages, or just another guy giving his take on the role.
I want the serious, Fleming-esque style, but I also want a little more fun that we got in CR. I WANT the one-liners on occasion. Not to the extent that we saw in the Roger Moore era, and not quite as much as we saw during the Pierce Brosnan era, but more than we got in CR. And certainly not as cheesy as in DAD - cheesy one liners are death! But SEMI-cheesy one liners are fun. Connery's one-liners were perfect ("He got the point."), and that's the kind of thing I'd like to see thrown in just a little in the nest movie.
This is a series with a 44+ year history, and a character that has been around for 54 years, and CR is just one part of that history. A good part, a highlight, but not the kind of thing that wipes out that history.
Hell, I didn't like Sean Connery's Bond movies back in the early and mid 80's when I was a teenager and a (very) young adult. It wasn't until about 1987 or so that I started to warm up to Connery - and over time I realized just why a majority of Bond fans preferred Connery to Moore.
My opinion of Moore's Bond has diminished over time as my esteem for Connery and Dalton rose. I still like Moore, and his Bond movies, but Connery and Dalton's performances, and the films they were in, just work better for me than Moore's do.
I think you are mixing two issues here..on one hand you state tat CR is a good film, on the other hand you state it may be overrated because it's missing some of the Bond typical formula, and that doesn't make sense.
by saying that CR is no better than TND or TWINE( which I disagree with strongly), you seem to miss the old tired cliche of Bond films, and that's why you are saying that CR is overrated, while in fact CR is the closest to Flemming and the real Bond we got since OHMSS, so it is good film in your opinion but because it doesn't have "enough" one liners(I thought they had plenty of smart, witty one liners), it is overrated
CR is not overrated as a good , well made film. and it's definitely not over praised as a great Bond film that is up there with the best of the series.
and I have to say that CR was way better than the 4 Brosnan films and LTK, it's on par with FRWL, OHMSS, and GF.
P.S
i was a lurker on this forum long time before the release of CR, and people here never thought that DAD was a great film, so I don't know where you get that argument
That's part of the reason why I think CR is a little overrated - CR just doesn't seem to be a James Bond movie in the sense that all 20 previous movies were James Bond movies.
are you saying that DAD, MR, OP, TWINE were more of a Bond movies than CR?
Edited by annita, 10 January 2007 - 05:26 AM.