I'm prepared to be underwhelmed I don't mind admitting I thought QOS would blow the roof off and it would top CR but it seems we may have to wait for another entry. I do get the idea that Bond 23 may well be more traditional.
Daniel has said he likes the old moments as much as anyone but he needs to find a new way to do them. QOs looks to give us the end to the Vesper story, yes her effect won't totally go away but Craig's Bond may well start to become more suave and composed. He always said he was on a journey and we hadn't reached the moment where he's fully formed.
Yes Critics have pointed out that it doesn't feel like Bond, probably because they are looking for cinematic not Fleming Bond and those 2 if you compare to RM & PB's very popular Bond's are very different. I couldn't use that excuse for Kermode because you can see he's genuinely angry, he wanted to like it and I'm perfectly aware that he's very well informed, both his Exorcist & French Connection documentaries are 2 of the most informed and well put together DVD special features I've seen.
His comments about Lazenby were a little grating but he doesn't come across as he was slating it for the sake of it. Yes it seems this will be the controversial Bond film and it will split the board down the middle, Stamper's claim could well be true.
I'd be lying if I wasn't going in on Friday with a little worry about to what I was going to get, it the unknown which is a little scary but also exciting as well. The only opinion that matters is your own and yes it's nice to be endorsed by critics that your view was shared but many film have been misunderstood over the years but other generations have come to them at a later date and seen something that the critics of the time didn't see.
John Carpenter's The Thing for me is a perfect example, it was a flop and the critics gave it a royal pasting but now it's rightly rated as a classic and 2nd only to to Ridley's Alien ( well it is by me).
We were spoiled by CR it was glowing reviews across the board, QOS was never going to be that way but the worrying factor is fans have also rounded on it to. I guess it will need time to see where it will sit in the cannon.
I'm still on edge waiting for Friday, I'm going with my Dad, a kind of ritual that's been going since 1977 with the odd exception, yes I've been spolied by coming here too much reading spoilers and every review which appears which has been like a rollercoaster of ups and downs.
I don't know so I can't say and the others which have been defending this film which I have done without seeing it when those who've been lucky enough to see it already need to calm down myself included.
Wait til you've seen because you may well have egg all over your face and i'm not defending it if I feel I've been cheated out of the Bond film I wanted. We've all got the perfect Bond film in our head and for that reason alone there will never be a perfect entry.
I loved CR but some hate it, some love DAD, to me I can't comprehend that but we the Bond fan community make up a varied and conflicted bunch and we'll never see eye to eye.
I won't stop defending my prefered Bond and I wouldn't expect anyone else to, even though my behavior towards certain members has not been nice.
I'd like to apologise to those members CM007 & Stamper if anyone else I've insulted I'm sorry, I'm a 36 year old married man and at times I've acted like a kid, we're all here to appreciate Bond but our views are conflicted and I can't say I won't be drawn into another argument but I will try my best to conduct myself better than previously.
I enjoy coming here and catching up on the news and sharing our views and passions which can become very heated at times.
We might be divided in our opinions of what Bond we want but we are united in our love for Ian Fleming's secret agent and what a crazy, obsessed and varied bunch of people we are.
Edited by bond 16.05.72, 26 October 2008 - 02:44 PM.
