acid wrote:Omega wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:55 am
Nu-Star Trek ruined their attempt to bring back Kahn. Bond has since QOS been trying to do the same thing bringing back Blowfeld, a lame attempt at Dr No would be the appropriate whimper for Craig’s era to go out on.
That's the trouble with remakes (or reboots reusing characters and scenes from the original) that your new movie will always be judged against the original, so you need to improve on the original for your movie not to look shoddy. So when they do it to such great and well-loved movies as Dr No or The Wrath of Khan, they're setting a really high standard that their movie needs to measure up against. More or less doomed to failure, I'd say, but I wish them luck with that.
Good point.
Mini rant/
Without the history of Bond the Craig experiment would have never found a audience. The bond but not bond selling point was good enough for the critics to finally enjoy a bond movie.
But his movies are about fitting in homages of real bond film to build up Craig’s gravitas as bond. Which he shouldn’t need those crutches if he’s the real deal.
It’s not a reboot, Babs promised after Cr that Craig was just prequels to Sean’s bond, I remember her making some point about not touching the third rail as filmmakers revisiting their original movies, but she couldn’t actually make Craig stand on his own and carry the role without concocting various callbacks to previous movies help Craig’s image as being bond and not a bond variant (see what I did there? Loki season two! Long live the goddess of mischief!)
Still in the bond world Craig is a variant alligator version in the kiddie pool, he never owned the role on his own. Connery is the role, Moore lazenby Dalton brosnan all understood that and eventually made it their own.
There is no way to work Craig’s bond in to the rest of the franchise. There never was a real strong chronology so you could try whatever and still have some room to explain it. After skyfall and spectre there’s no way to explain it away. It was a reboot that never got to the good stories and picked out the same story themes pretty much established in CR to play again and again.
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