Bond #25: NO TIME TO DIE

back on topic: the logo for Bond #25 looks like a 70s action movie, possibly starring Charles Bronson or George Peppard.

i don’t like NSNA? - maybe bc I didnt see it until much later in life

idk

xpost yes! i like it too for tbat reason

also excited that we may get GUNFIGHTING IN THE SNOW - my fave

tbf Craig is now the second-oldest Broccoli Bond, and only two years younger than Never Say Never Again Connery

poss could have phrased this less distractingly by saying “ten years older than Connery was when he quit for the second time”

imo you will not be disappointed

ha ha yes

hopefully now that he is free of Bond he can start cracking out a Benoit Blanc mystery every three years

if Rian Johnson has to quit his trilogy of Star Warses to meet this pace, oh well

Amazing there will have been 3 Star Wars films and 2 spin offs since the last Bond.

that's one word for it, aye

all the grace and vigor of Ernest Borgnine in The Wild Bunch

― omar little, Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:03 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is such a Morbsian comment I had to check it twice!

regarding the trailer: stop ruining movies, andrew lloyd webber

hoping that craig dies at the end and lashana lynch is the new 007 tbh

^^^ her character is the only reason I might even bother seeing this movie.

― just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:02 (one month ago)

I'm going to go further than this and say that I hope Craig's Bond dies in the gun barrel sequence. Like Bond fumbles getting his gun out and gets shot by person whose POV we've been seeing all these years. Then the pre-titles scene is Ralph Fiennes' M walking into a conference room like Alan Sugar on The Apprentice. He sits down, points at an unseen figure across the table, and says "I want you to be my business partner the next 007!". And then the camera cuts to another angle and it's revealed to be Lashana Lynch's character. BOOM! roll Maurice Binder inspired title sequence.

Bond #25? No, time to die!

This song reminds me of this spiritual i sang in choir called "Ain't Got Time to Die"

Hm!

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51112742

I'm going to go further than this and say that I hope Craig's Bond dies in the gun barrel sequence.

So... everything we've seen in the trailer would be part of the pre-credit sequence?

wait I just read Ned's link, what

I'm just going to assume, given that it's Billie Eilish, that entire song is about being too busy to kill yourself

I was kinda hoping for Michael Kiwanuka tbh

opening credits is just Rami Malek dancing to Bad Guy in a bunch of locations as Daniel Craig chases after him in the background

Best Bond yet.

I don't have time to die
And that's ok
And here's why

Should be noted that the actual score itself is by...

pic.twitter.com/6QseVK3iUL

— Hans Zimmer (@HansZimmer) January 14, 2020

thrilled that no sam mendes always means no thomas newman

Yeah Thomas Newman was a complete misfit

I was thinking through the last couple and it's dawned on me that the intense, brooding gravity given to family and legacy that Mendes seemed to revel in suffocated any hint of the playfulness that peeked through. The parodic goofiness of many of the Moore and latter era Connery films has been something the franchise has recoiled from, but it was an over-correction.

There's hardly anyone in Mendes's Bond movies who isn't a spy, master criminal, or family member of the above. Civilians appear fleetingly in crowd shots, if at all.

Fingers crossed that Fukunaga does better

Hopefully. Unfortunately Waltz' shitty Blofeld's still in it, as apparent in the trailer.

I thought that character had potential, in that they kept hinting at him being not only ominous but truly weird, but the weird part of his torture chair hijinks ("I'm going to selectively destroy parts of Bond's brain!") fell short and it just seemed like normal villain torture, they gave the cat no real acknowledgment, and the entire "I believe we're meant to be impressed" thing about the museum room with the meteor fragment fell flat. Mendes seemed to get that the villains should be eccentric but was too *serious* to lean into it to the point of being dismissive.

Let Blofeld get mocked for being a weirdo obsessed with his daddy loving Bond more. Is the cat his best friend? Does he sit around admiring his rock in a room? He's out there killing entire classes of people through Spectre -- give him some shit for doing all that only to sit alone with a cat in the middle of the desert!

Dunno - I miss Telly Savalas

i saw the torture bit of spectre while channel-hopping over the holidays and it's still weird and hilarious to me that blofeld threatens to use a drill to destroy the part of bond's brain that recognises faces, then fuckin' does it, and it's never entirely clear whether bond spends the rest of the movie suffering complete face blindness or not

at a minimum the rest of spectre takes place in bond's dreams during his post-op coma -- ideally he has not yet woken up for the entirety of the upcoming film and it ends with his death without ever waking up and everyone else too

There should have been a post-credits scene where Bond wakes up and he's actually Archer reviving from his coma

xp James' Ladder

Actually, now that I think about it, that would be a cool concept for a film, the dying dream of a super-spy

at long last the bond franchise is good thanks to me its arch-h8ter

Actually, now that I think about it, that would be a cool concept for a film, the dying dream of a super-spy

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs),

An adaptation of Joe Haldeman's All My Sins Remembered would fit that bill iirc. (It's a shame that Haldeman's work hasn't been adapted widely.)

There were a couple of excellent episodes of The Leftovers which had that kind of vibe.

Saw the new trailer at IMAX ahead of 1917 last night and it got me more stoked than I would have anticipated for this film. It came straight after one for the woeful looking Birds of Prey, mind you.

Birds of Prey looks dope, too

hoping some of the smart decisions around this (craig bringing in pwb, billie eilish being tapped for the theme) really reflect the quality of the movie

Actually, now that I think about it, that would be a cool concept for a film, the dying dream of a super-spy

Change "super-spy" to "unstoppable criminal force of nature" and you've got Point Blank, the film that introduced the cockpunch to Hollywood.

After seeing the Daniel Craig/Ana de Armas duo in Knives Out, I'm really hoping them give them some good dialogue!

the funniest theory about the new movie, which... it's Bond, so it could be true

Rami Malek is playing a rebooted Dr. No

the title is horrible wordplay: "No, time to die!"

i’m okay with it as long as craig gets threatened with having his dick and balls lasered off

I'm okay with that as long as it actually happens

we've never been fully informed as to the state of his balls post-Casino Royale and that rope trick

it's the "origin story" for Bond, and there's a reason why there's never been a paternity suit subplot in any of the flix

No Time To Die refers to his dick and balls, which are canonically already dead, you see

No time to piss

#NoTimeToDie is currently listed at 163 minutes, which would make it the longest #JamesBond movie ever.https://t.co/aY1eGxr7Wa pic.twitter.com/ZD06lE9kQf

— Screen Rant (@screenrant) February 26, 2020

uuuuuugh

jesus god

In either case, Craig can lay claim to starring in both the longest and the shortest Bond films ever, with Quantum holding the latter title at 106 minutes.