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I don't want to watch the trailer: it's FIVE MONTHS TILL THE FILM COMES OUT AND THEY HAVEN'T FINISHED IT YET. Dear Skyfall people: go away and finish making the movie rather than trying to sell it to me by giving all the best bits away. Come back when you've got an actual completed film to show me, and then show me that.
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May 21, 2012 - 3:55 AM
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Mike_J
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I fully appreciate I am very biased because I really hate Daniel Craig's interpretation as Bond, and am also none too keen on the direction the Bond flicks have gone since he took the role.
But I have to say I am not at all impressed by that trailer. I watched it on BBC news this morning and have since seen it a couple of times and it just strikes me as being.... average. Bond is about action and the action shots shown in this trailer really dont look very good at all. And that tube train crash looks very fake.
Now I fully accept this is just a teaser trailer and there will be much more to come. But as of now I still have just a little more than zero interest in this film. Sam Mendes is a terrific director of character movies but has very little experiance with action. And whilst obviously the 2nd unit will take care of the action scenes it is up to the director to design them and intergrate them into the film and I think the jury is very much out on Mendes' ability to do this, certainly on the strength of this underwhelming trwiler.
I think what worries me most though is something I read recently which said that, in this movie, Bond starts out being bored in his job. That means lots of scenes of Craig acting glum which, sorry, is just going to be dull. I don't want to watch a depressed Bond contemplating his navel and considering becoming a flipping bank clerk or something.
And since I am being so negative I might as well go the whole hog and say that the teaser poster released last week is probably the most bland Bond poster ever.
Now if you'll excuse me I'll go and watch The Spy Who Loved Me again. Good ol' Rog, that beautiful tricked-out Esprit, the ski jump, a crazy plan to rule the world, a baddie with steel teeth, Barbara Bach's breasts..... ah, now THAT is a Bond movie!!!!!
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Is James Bond going to be in this one finally? The last two had that same little guy in them. 
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But I have to say I am not at all impressed by that trailer. I watched it on BBC news this morning and have since seen it a couple of times and it just strikes me as being.... average. Bond is about action and the action shots shown in this trailer really dont look very good at all. And that tube train crash looks very fake.
Thanks for that.
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Well, I like it, I'll watch it. What little dialogue there is seems more interesting than QOS's script, and the cinematography is big step up from Marc Forster's film. (Which you'd expect, given it's Roger Deakins.)
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May 21, 2012 - 5:42 AM
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MusicMad
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Now if you'll excuse me I'll go and watch The Spy Who Loved Me again. Good ol' Rog, that beautiful tricked-out Esprit, the ski jump, a crazy plan to rule the world, a baddie with steel teeth, Barbara Bach's breasts..... ah, now THAT is a Bond movie!!!!!
I don't care what everyone says about him, I love Roger Moore and The Spy Who Loved Me is his epic best. I think I'll follow your example Mike.
And the third of the three worst is, IMHO, .... yes, you've guessed it.
I'm watching each and all of the 22 films in series prior to the new film (yes, I'm a JB007 nut) - something I've never done before - and after watching The Spy Who Loved Me I decided that this is the first of the series which, if I never watched it again, it wouldn't bother me.
It was the really low point in the series, for me, until Die Another Day ...
... there, I've said something good about Die Another Day!
But back to this new film/teaser: why oh why are they sticking with the downbeat, Jason Bourne style? Have they not learned anything? Do we really want to see Bond being pyscho-analysed?
Mitch
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May 21, 2012 - 6:06 AM
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Just thought I'd reply to this, stir things up a little.
First of all, I quite like the Daniel Craig Bond, I prefer gritty and more realistic to campy and over-the-top, and this trailer looks more like my type of thing.
However, there are good things to be said of all the actors who've played JB, probably even George Lazenby, though I can't think what that might be at the moment 
Each Bond has been a product of his era, taking on aspects of popular public taste at the time. I don't think a Connery style Bond would sell that well today, nor a Moore or a Brosnan. Arguably, Craig is a Bond more in the Dalton LTK mode, though as Mike says, perhaps without enough humour.
I liken this whole 'who's the best Bond' thing to 'who's the best Dr Who' - everyone has their favourite and passionately defends them. In the case of DW though, I feel my preferred Dr hasn't yet happened - I prefer a darker characterization, more long the lines of the Richard E Grant in webcast 'Scream of the Shalka'. But I also realize that's about as enticing to most DW fans (both new and old) as a hole in the head.
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