https://youtu.be/1v7T943f0Ck?t=132 (with time stamp)
...this is a very climactic moment, are you sure we should interject some humor here?
Sure sounds like it. From what I hear there are going to be a lot of jokes about how women are getting the better of bond, I even heard there was going to be a woman cycle joke.
shareIf the media rumours are to believed (they have been right about every single rumour regarding this production so far, so yes they are to be belived), then this script is going to contain "trademark feminist humour" which Waller-Bridge is an expert in writing, and she was specifically hired for this reason.
SF and Spectre also contained a lot of random campy 'humour' that was poorly done and just doesn't work with Daniel Craig. Connery, Lazenby, Moore, and Dalton were all great because they balanced the elements. Those films could transition from a super serious moment to a parody on a dime and somehow it just worked. Craig is not able to transition between these different tones. For example, that Rome car chase in Spectre with the silly music, the Italian guy driving a smartcar at a turtle's pace, and the non-functioning gadgets is pure cringe, but similar scenes in the Connery, Moore, and Dalton eras work very well and are iconic (e.g. FYEO car chase down the mountain in the mini car; TLD car chase and escape to the Austrian border).
The problem is that Bond films should be funny in places. Very specific places. However, the current writers are too stupid/opinionated/inexperienced in film making to pull it off. I'm not holding out much hope for this. Anyone who thinks that "feminist humour" has any place in a Bond film needs to fuck right off.
shareThis movie is gonna be 2 + hours of me cringing in my seat in disgust.
shareThe trend these days is to put some weird cringey humour at completely random parts of every film. I try not to watch any new films, but some examples I've seen are in the new Star Wars trilogy. In the last one there was some awkward joke every 1-2 minutes. For example, there was a really weird scene where Kylo and Rey were talking through the force and Kylo wasn't wearing a shirt for some reason, and Rey says something like "won't you put a shirt on?!" while trying not to look directly at him. Just a weird out of place moment that makes you question your sanity for a minute, confirming with yourself that that did actually just happen and you're not hallucinating. I've seen a few clips of Marvel movies and it's the same thing. They will be in the middle of some fight or whatever, and then it randomly zooms in to a close-up shot of a character's face and they will say some totally random and nonsensical joke like "we're still friends, right?" I don't know what the hell is going on in film studios these days, but audiences deserve the bad films that they keep paying for.
Craig has never ever been able to pull off humour in his Bond films. Maybe a few small parts of CR were okay like when he runs straight through the drywall because it's so unexpected, but I can't really recall any other genuinely funny moments in the Craig era.
In CR Craig was like "thats because you know what I can do with my little finger." Was I supposed to laugh at this? Was this some sort of sexual innuendo? Probably, but Craig has zero delivery skills or charm. When he said after being poisoned "that last hand, it nearly killed me" got a laugh out of me. I'm sure there are a couple others but they are few and far between.
Speaking of cringe, how about the gay scene in Skyfall with Bond and Javier? "Who says you would be my first?"
I've always been bothered by that little finger line, and the entire film after the torture scene and Le Chiffre's death which centres around the romance between Bond and Vespyr is cringey to me. The romance is not believable to me. Connery or Dalton probably could have pulled off the little finger joke without the cringe.
shareI re watched The Thing the other night. It makes me sad we'll most likely never get films like that ever again. A film with no women or overtly gay characters? Heaven forbid.
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