bjmdds wrote:Scott Mendelson:With word that Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs, etc.) may helm the next 007 movie, we must ask whether that’s a good thing. The very idea of an esteemed and award-winning director playing in the James Bond sandbox is a relatively new one. But with the admittedly limited available evidence, you might argue that the most popular 007 flicks are the ones that come from the straightforward genre filmmakers.
This is pretty much what I've been saying since Mendes laid the egg we refer to as Skyfall.
bjmdds wrote: History shows that news of Danny Boyle directing a 007 flick
should be more exciting to Danny Boyle fans than to 007 fans.
That's pretty much what I'm thinking at this point.
Kristatos wrote:But whatever you think of Danny Boyle's previous films, boring and pompous are not adjectives that spring to mind when describing them.
Maybe not to you Kris but they certainly come to my mind and I am probably certain to be in the minority on this. I'm by no means a Danny Boyle expert or maybe I'm not even qualified to give an opinion since the only film of his I saw all the way through was Trainspotting and I absolutely hated it. Sure the soundtrack was loud and fast but the film wasn't, I bored to tears and found the characters unlikable with no investment in them. By the time I was half way through I was praying they would hurry up and overdose on china white! As for pompous, to be fair to Danny that emotion was more influenced by the friend who talked me into watching it claiming it was such a great film.