This Week - Welcome back Mr Bond!
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Well, this friday, Bond is back... at least if you live in the UK 
This time 2 years ago, I waited with both excitement and trepidation for Daniel Craig's debut, and it didn't fail to deliver.
This time, I'm filled with a similar sensation - the negativity from the dark corners of the press left me slightly perturbed. However, their reasons suggest to me that they simply don't understand what this film is trying to be, and I'm delighted to see some more glowing reviews popping up.
Come friday, I think we may have another OHMSS or LTK on our hands - a controversial entry that may split Bond fandom right down the middle.
So bring it on!
:007) :007) :007)
This time 2 years ago, I waited with both excitement and trepidation for Daniel Craig's debut, and it didn't fail to deliver.
This time, I'm filled with a similar sensation - the negativity from the dark corners of the press left me slightly perturbed. However, their reasons suggest to me that they simply don't understand what this film is trying to be, and I'm delighted to see some more glowing reviews popping up.
Come friday, I think we may have another OHMSS or LTK on our hands - a controversial entry that may split Bond fandom right down the middle.
So bring it on!
:007) :007) :007)
Comments
Absolutely right---whatever else might be going wrong in the world/politics/economy, we've got a new Bond coming out {[] Thank God.
I'm with you, IEU2D---though I'd say that we got another OHMSS in '06, and now seem set to get a modern metaphor for LTK in '08---and the sense of polarity looks to be equally pronounced this time round.
Frankly, I tend to buy (film unseen!) the basic growing consensus that QoS won't rise to the level of CR, which was (to my mind) a Modern Bond Classic. This doesn't bug me in the slightest; nor do the scattered grumblings about a lack of humour (again), since in the "Meeting Agent Fields" clip alone I've seen evidence that the smart, subtle character-based humour is in play once again. Of course, the fact that we have a henchman with a cereal-bowl haircut---named Elvis---ought to convince anyone that we're looking at some pretty sombre goings-on, here
On my favourites list, I rank three films ahead of CR: FRWL, DN and GF. How in the world could I reasonably expect QoS to vault into that exalted territory? Unseen, I fully expect QoS to trump the entirety of the Moore and Dalton eras...and possibly the Brosnan one as well---on the strength of Craig's interpretation of 007.
To do that, it would have to come in ahead of my current #9, which is GE...will it go that high? Maybe, maybe not. But if---as the departed Benskelly loved to assert---Bond #22 is a referendum on Daniel Craig...even the most hostile early notices confirm that he owns the role :v
:007)
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM