No Time To Die - A James Bond Movie

[Agent Z]

[Robotech Master]

I approve of Blofeld as Hannibal Lector resource.

[Malvolio]

I liked the way Bond said that one word: "CONTROL." It made think for just a second, "Wait, are they folding Get Smart continuity into the Bond universe?" I mean, why not? They sort of folded Austin Powers in by making Blofeld Bond's adopted brother.

[Nate Grey]

Now just need to know who's doing the title/primary song. "Writing's On The Wall" is pretty good, if its as good as that I'll be happy.

[ChrisIII]

Looks like Madeline has a larger role in the story than I thought-some assumed she'd be quickly written out.

Maybe Bond was a bit too quick to trust her entirely, considering who her father was. There's a rumor that this connection deals with her story about a man coming to her house to kill her father mentioned in SPECTRE.

Looks like Rami Malek's villain has some kind of medical condition, hence the mask.

[Emperor-of-Dragons]

I'mma be honest with y'all. Most bond films are boring to me. I mean yeah they got cool gadgets, cool villains. But plot wise I just don't give a **** most of the time. It's supposed to be a spy thriller, but there's no intrigue. Or none that interests me. I think of all the films I only ever liked Licence to Kill. But then again I was a tween when I saw that one, and only liked it for its edginess. I mean Winter Soldier had more intrigue that almost all of the Bond films. Plot wise, bond films just aren't doing it for me.

[ChrisIII]

You might find the Ian Fleming books a little more to your liking. Dalton was pretty much the book Bond almost perfectly and they're less cliched than the movies (There's practically no gadgets either). Craig kind of started that way but he's kind of lightened up in pretty much every film.


BTW this seems to add some more fuel to the bad guy is meant to be a modern Dr.No theory in a few ways. Bond's insult to him is very similar to what Connery's Bond said to No towards the end of the film, the lair looks a bit similar (One shot of Malek seems to be shadowing water-maybe like No's fish tank?), and perhaps the broken blood vessels on his face are from some form of radiation sickness? Yeah, the name's different but that's what they did with Blofeld. Although it'd be kind of dumb for them to have similar twists twice in a row, although Bond films aren't exactly always that original (You Only Live Twice, Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and Tomorrow Never Dies have the same basic plot when you think about it).

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

I'mma be honest with y'all. Most bond films are boring to me. I mean yeah they got cool gadgets, cool villains. But plot wise I just don't give a **** most of the time. It's supposed to be a spy thriller, but there's no intrigue. Or none that interests me. I think of all the films I only ever liked Licence to Kill. But then again I was a tween when I saw that one, and only liked it for its edginess. I mean Winter Soldier had more intrigue that almost all of the Bond films. Plot wise, bond films just aren't doing it for me.

Bond is more of a superhero power fantasy type thing than an actual spy. Fleming did incorporate elements he knew about spies to make it feel authentic. But mostly Bond is a vehicle for Fleming to show all these luxurious and exotic locations around the world while his main hero goes on an Indiana Jones style adventure meeting beautiful women and facing off against colorful enemys. The books are a bit more character driven in that you really get into the mind of this neurotic and depressed man who drinks himself to death and constantly ponders his existence as a hired assassin. The movies more focus it as an outlet for the audience to live vicariously through him.

They are more pulp adventure with the backdrop of being a spy. Sort of like how Batman does some detective work, but it's really just a backdrop for a cool superhero story. In fact the Batman stories that were designed to be Bond like were actually the Adams/O'Neil stories where he traveled around the world fighting Ra's. That's more what it is.

The film series just set a lot of the tropes of what a spy movie is.