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~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Digital Jedi posted:

Can't wait to see all the villains that Bond killed just somehow still be alive

Hey, it worked for the licenced Bond films!

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gohuskies
Oct 23, 2010

I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

Gaius Marius posted:

I don't think the franchise is in any worse hands with Bezos instead of Broccoli. They haven't put out a good product in a while anyways and have spent the time since NTTD dragging their feet instead of shooting a loving film. God willing someone at Amazon takes it as a pet project and we get some quality films, otherwise I always have the YRF films.

Honest question, has Amazon Video made a single good original production? The Broccolis were slow but at least they could put out stuff like Skyfall. Amazon isn’t making anything good. There’s no reason to expect that what they do with Bond will be any better than their Lord of the Rings show or stuff like that.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Bezos can cast himself as Blofeld.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

gohuskies posted:

Honest question, has Amazon Video made a single good original production? The Broccolis were slow but at least they could put out stuff like Skyfall. Amazon isn’t making anything good. There’s no reason to expect that what they do with Bond will be any better than their Lord of the Rings show or stuff like that.

When they first started and were chasing awards they put out some bangers by rolling up to old ninties indie filmakers with a truck full of cash. It got us Lost City of Z by Grey, You Were Never Really Here by Ramsay, and Love and Friendship by Stillman all of which are good to great.

Xenomrph
Dec 9, 2005

AvP Nerd/Fanboy/Shill



gohuskies posted:

Honest question, has Amazon Video made a single good original production? The Broccolis were slow but at least they could put out stuff like Skyfall. Amazon isn’t making anything good. There’s no reason to expect that what they do with Bond will be any better than their Lord of the Rings show or stuff like that.

The Boys is so dissimilar to the source material as to essentially be an original production.

Cacator
Aug 6, 2005

You're quite good at turning me on.


I can't imagine them ending the Boys on a satisfying note because of, you know, reality.

Martman
Nov 20, 2006

Cacator posted:

I can't imagine them ending the Boys on a satisfying note because of, you know, reality.
I expect it to end in some extremely pathetic sequence of self-sacrifice "wiping the slate clean" and leading to a potential future where we can all get along if we focus on unity instead of division.

(the last season was really really bad)

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

You’re not gonna get quality anything from Amazon Films

Pingiivi
Mar 26, 2010

Straight into the iris!
Patriot was amazing. So let's remake Patriot but with a really hosed up and sad PTSD Bond.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Cacator posted:

I can't imagine them ending the Boys on a satisfying note because of, you know, reality.

It also got really bad but it was really good for a bit! Hopefully they can and should just ignore reality and tell a real story. Who gives a poo poo of the ending isn’t real. The boys isn’t a documentary lol

Open Source Idiom
Jan 4, 2013
I think the bigger problem is that the show has maybe three solid characters left. So many bungled arcs.

Szmitten
Apr 26, 2008
People like to memory hole stuff like Fallout and Conclave, presumably because they don't watch things.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Fallout kicked rear end

Salami Surgeon
Jan 21, 2001

Don't close. Don't close.


Nap Ghost

Midjack posted:

Bezos can cast himself as Blofeld.

Yes but Blofeld is actually the good guy, a cool and handsome billionaire that is trying to help humanity. But a secret society is trying to seize control of his labor force and siphon away all his money. Can Bond save Blofeld, and the world, from The Union?

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib

Midjack posted:

Bezos can cast himself as Blofeld.

Going to recut Tomorrow Never Dies to make Elliot Carver the good guy

AFewBricksShy
Jun 19, 2003

of a full load.



Gaius Marius posted:

I don't think the franchise is in any worse hands with Bezos instead of Broccoli. They haven't put out a good product in a while anyways and have spent the time since NTTD dragging their feet instead of shooting a loving film. God willing someone at Amazon takes it as a pet project and we get some quality films, otherwise I always have the YRF films.

I'm in the same frame of mind as this.

Reacher is dumb fun, Fallout was enjoyable, Mr. and Mrs. Smith was actually really good.

I didn't see it but I've heard Saltburn was very good, unfortunately that's the end of good movies that I've seen them make, but Spectre, No Time to Die, and even Skyfall were just okay, so I'm not going to assume it's going to be complete poo poo, but hoping that it's at least at the same level we're at already which isn't that high of a bar.

Give me a Bond movie set in the 50's, or a 00 series continuing Lashana Lynch's character, I'm at least tentatively in.

In fairness I thought the same about the Lord of the Rings getting bought by them and :lol: so I'm not holding my breath either.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Amazon now have either some or full control of two of the biggest media franchises on earth and they've totally squandered one and their biggest attempt at the other, that atrocious game-show thing, doesn't bode well for the second.

Cacator
Aug 6, 2005

You're quite good at turning me on.


Szmitten posted:

People like to memory hole stuff like Fallout and Conclave, presumably because they don't watch things.

I don't think Amazon was responsible for making Conclave though?

Fallout was better than anything else Bethesda is involved with but that's a low bar these days.

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
I worry Bond on Amazon will lead to a bunch of mediocre spin off shows and movies that aren’t good enough to be theatrical releases.

Would love to be wrong.

feedmyleg
Dec 25, 2004
We should be so lucky. With that approach one of them might actually be good. Instead, we'll get a bad TV show and a bad movie series that peters out after 2 flicks before being rebooted again. Bond will be an actor who was carefully calculated to provide as much buzz as possible even if they're not right for the job, which means that they'll look at fan casting and Tom Hiddleston's phone is about to ring. The movie will chase MCU humor and grey action slop, and the TV series will focus on MI6 as an organization and chase the NCIS audience. They will offer $500m to the Russos to spearhead both. Neither will feel anything like Bond, but they will look very handsome and expensive. Marketing will insist that they are going back to the source material to channel Flemming's vision, by which they actually mean that they want to remove all compelling aspects of the series that the Broccolis brought to the table.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

feedmyleg posted:

The movie will chase MCU humor and grey action slop

the last 3 films just called!!!

Open Source Idiom
Jan 4, 2013

AFewBricksShy posted:

I didn't see it but I've heard Saltburn was very good, unfortunately that's the end of good movies that I've seen them make,

IIRC this was a WB film that was redistributed to Amazon.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Spacebump posted:

I worry Bond on Amazon will lead to a bunch of mediocre spin off shows and movies that aren’t good enough to be theatrical releases.

Would love to be wrong.

It’s not a big deal. Just don’t watch em

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations

CelticPredator posted:

It’s not a big deal. Just don’t watch em

Might be hard to ignore them if they force too many connections with Amazon Bond.

This is the kind of series we need.
https://x.com/classicspychic/status/1892658932520227131?s=46

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Although an episodic bond show could be kinda badass. 2 episode arcs max. Just bond doing cool adventures for an hour. Some episodes are badass high octane save the world plots and others can just be Bond having a very cool conversation with a villain to the death.

I know it won’t be anything like that but I’d be into it

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

CelticPredator posted:

Although an episodic bond show could be kinda badass. 2 episode arcs max. Just bond doing cool adventures for an hour. Some episodes are badass high octane save the world plots and others can just be Bond having a very cool conversation with a villain to the death.

I know it won’t be anything like that but I’d be into it

The Dynamite comic book series is close to what I imagine a good Bond TV show could be. It runs the gamut from the expected high production value bombastic action set pieces to more focused character studies. Although it's not very serial, as each story is its own volume with a different creative team, and pretty much every show nowadays has to have overarching plots and development.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

It's going to be said when we get our first movie that's just called like Bond: Revelations, instead of having every movie given it's own unique, unbranded, title.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Mantis42 posted:

It's going to be said when we get our first movie that's just called like Bond: Revelations, instead of having every movie given it's own unique, unbranded, title.

Solo: A Bond Saga Story

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



CelticPredator posted:

Although an episodic bond show could be kinda badass. 2 episode arcs max. Just bond doing cool adventures for an hour. Some episodes are badass high octane save the world plots and others can just be Bond having a very cool conversation with a villain to the death.

I know it won’t be anything like that but I’d be into it

Just watch the old Danger Man show, that's this.

Colonel Whitey
May 22, 2004

This shit's about to go off.
Looking forward to the Jaws: Origins movie starring Jacob Elordi

Remulak
Jun 8, 2001
I can't count to four.
Yams Fan

Captain_Person
Apr 7, 2013

WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
Personally I cannot wait for the prestige drama about M doing war crimes in Northern Ireland

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Teenage Q will have fun, techy adventures throughout Dubrovnik, Toronto, and Atlanta as he battles -- and romances! -- the parents of iconic Bond villains.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



Goldfinger knows Locque, who once dated Mary Goodnight, who is also the estranged niece of Nick-Nack, third cousin to Quarrel.

As it turns out, everyone in the Bond universe is related to or knows everyone else. What a coincidence!

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Oh sure, but you all loved it when it was called Metal Gear.

Queering Wheel
Jun 18, 2011

[url=https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3876906]
Can't wait to see product placement for great Amazon brands such as DIOSFKOL, AWIEJKDIS and ZAEWOIWWKY

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!
An updated-to-the-present but otherwise story-accurate adaptation of 007 In New York, with Amazon links to every single featured product.

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

Small Strange Bird posted:

An updated-to-the-present but otherwise story-accurate adaptation of 007 In New York, with Amazon links to every single featured product.

Bond sips a martini and says “boy i sure do love PRODUCT and aren’t trillionaires great?” Then he chops someone in the throat.

Colonel Whitey
May 22, 2004

This shit's about to go off.
Bond will be sent in to break up unions and make newspapers be nice to CEOs

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LionArcher
Mar 29, 2010


gohuskies posted:

Honest question, has Amazon Video made a single good original production? The Broccolis were slow but at least they could put out stuff like Skyfall. Amazon isn’t making anything good. There’s no reason to expect that what they do with Bond will be any better than their Lord of the Rings show or stuff like that.

Fallout, Wheel of Time (season 1 is hurt because of Covid filming issues, Season 2 is fantastic, and season 3 looks great) Reacher of course, there's a few things. Mr. And Ms. Smith is not good though, and makes me like DG less, which is impressive considering he's great.

I also wonder if Amazon taking over will mean that Omega watches will be devalued. Bond was teetering on being not cool in the last ten years, and Amazon buying him instantly makes him less cool.

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