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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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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.
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Bezos can cast himself as Blofeld.
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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.
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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.
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I can't imagine them ending the Boys on a satisfying note because of, you know, reality.
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Cacator posted:I can't imagine them ending the Boys on a satisfying note because of, you know, reality. (the last season was really really bad)
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You’re not gonna get quality anything from Amazon Films
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Patriot was amazing. So let's remake Patriot but with a really hosed up and sad PTSD Bond.
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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
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I think the bigger problem is that the show has maybe three solid characters left. So many bungled arcs.
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People like to memory hole stuff like Fallout and Conclave, presumably because they don't watch things.
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Fallout kicked rear end
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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?
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Midjack posted:Bezos can cast himself as Blofeld. Going to recut Tomorrow Never Dies to make Elliot Carver the good guy
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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 ![]()
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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feedmyleg posted:The movie will chase MCU humor and grey action slop the last 3 films just called!!!
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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.
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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. It’s not a big deal. Just don’t watch em
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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
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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
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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. 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.
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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.
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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
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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. Just watch the old Danger Man show, that's this.
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Looking forward to the Jaws: Origins movie starring Jacob Elordi
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Personally I cannot wait for the prestige drama about M doing war crimes in Northern Ireland
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Teenage Q will have fun, techy adventures throughout Dubrovnik, Toronto, and Atlanta as he battles -- and romances! -- the parents of iconic Bond villains.
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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!
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Oh sure, but you all loved it when it was called Metal Gear.
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Can't wait to see product placement for great Amazon brands such as DIOSFKOL, AWIEJKDIS and ZAEWOIWWKY
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An updated-to-the-present but otherwise story-accurate adaptation of 007 In New York, with Amazon links to every single featured product.
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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.
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Bond will be sent in to break up unions and make newspapers be nice to CEOs
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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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