AND SHE WOULD DESERVE IT. I love her, but she got off kind of easy. I'd also have accepted her being the one to actually put Silva down in the course of being killed, by the way.
Yeah, Mendes reportedly wanted to/came close to walking away out of frustration with all of the delays relating to the studio's financial troubles.
Interesting. I think it raises a good point though. She doesn't have her hands clean, certainly, but I don't think that's possible for the job she's in. The US decided a while back that we weren't going to deal with "bad people" anymore (which I'm sure we totally stuck to 100% and stuff) but it made gathering human intelligence a problem. It's kind of hard to insert an agent into, say, a terrorist cell, when legally, we're not supposed to be dealing with terrorists. I think this was related to either the CIA in Afghanistan in the 80s or the School of the Americas (not, of course, that I'm suggesting that either of those were good things
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I like that this Bond is murky and I think the point about human intelligence was a good one.
It’s a large part of what makes these later Bond films so good. I should probably rewatch the older films before making this kind of characterization, but from what I remember of them, compared to the kinds of stories that the series has tried to tell lately, this Bond and these tales seem much more grown up.
I had trouble with Bond just dropping off the face of the earth, too. While I certainly understand his anger and resentment, etc, as you said, the NOC list was out there. And this is the same Bond who already quit once.
Heck yeah! It probably should have bothered me more, but I am such a sucker for the Bond/M dynamic, that I’m just settling for some grumbling about it.
Is it because of her abandonment of Bardem's character that you think she needs to be punished? I feel like I'd need to know more about the circumstances. He'd apparently already been off the reservation multiple times. Had he been warned about his behavior? If so, to
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I'm actually glad you said something, as I tend not to like surprises like that in films I see. (actually they upset me. A LOT.)
Ah, well good. That makes me feel better :)
Who on earth is going to be Bond's new CO, then? Dame Judi Dench was a freaking force of nature in those movies.
She was! Do you really want me to tell you? ;) The new M is introduced in the film, and you'll probably figure out who it is pretty quickly, as you know Judi Dench's M isn't long for the world. Also, to be on the safe side, don't read any of my other comments here as they are pretty spoilerrific :P
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I think M would be miserable in retirement.
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Yeah, Mendes reportedly wanted to/came close to walking away out of frustration with all of the delays relating to the studio's financial troubles.
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It’s a large part of what makes these later Bond films so good. I should probably rewatch the older films before making this kind of characterization, but from what I remember of them, compared to the kinds of stories that the series has tried to tell lately, this Bond and these tales seem much more grown up.
I had trouble with Bond just dropping off the face of the earth, too. While I certainly understand his anger and resentment, etc, as you said, the NOC list was out there. And this is the same Bond who already quit once.
Heck yeah! It probably should have bothered me more, but I am such a sucker for the Bond/M dynamic, that I’m just settling for some grumbling about it.
Is it because of her abandonment of Bardem's character that you think she needs to be punished? I feel like I'd need to know more about the circumstances. He'd apparently already been off the reservation multiple times. Had he been warned about his behavior? If so, to ( ... )
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;__; D-8) ALL THE SADFACES
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(Sorry, I hope you weren't avoiding spoilers! I suppose I could have done more to indicate there was a major spoiler under the cut.)
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Who on earth is going to be Bond's new CO, then? Dame Judi Dench was a freaking force of nature in those movies.
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Ah, well good. That makes me feel better :)
Who on earth is going to be Bond's new CO, then? Dame Judi Dench was a freaking force of nature in those movies.
She was! Do you really want me to tell you? ;) The new M is introduced in the film, and you'll probably figure out who it is pretty quickly, as you know Judi Dench's M isn't long for the world. Also, to be on the safe side, don't read any of my other comments here as they are pretty spoilerrific :P
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