No Time to Die **Spoilers from post #1449 onward**

That was indeed the reason Boyle walked away.

Craig is maintaining that it was his idea from the outset.

"When I started as Bond on Casino Royale, one of the early discussions I had with [producers] Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [G Wilson] was that I would like to be killed off when I am finished," he revealed .

I liked Craig earlier in his career but he seems to have gotten far too big for his boots, he is a hired hand he shouldn't be making creative decisions especially when they are detrimental to the character.

That movie was a skunk !!!! and it was almost 3 hours long !!! 3 hours of being sprayed by a skunk !!!!

I wasted a nights alcohol consumption on it !!! And it’s wasn’t cheap wine either !!! It was the good stuff !!!

Yeah, the first 90 minutes was fairly decent but it did indeed did fall apart towards the end. And the way the killed him off was as awful as the CGI. Also, it needed so much more Ana De Armas.

I obviously picked up on the Danny Boyle/Bond dying story wrong. I thought he walked away because he wanted to kill him off in his version and Wilson/Broccoli were not having it.

I liked some of the nods to previous movies. The framed picture of Robert Brown's M on the wall was a nice touch. But most of the the use of the best Bond movie soundtrack(and best movie), On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I was only listening to it recently thinking it would be nice if they inserted it into one of the new ones.

Can we all agree that the real hero was Ana De Armas dress

First thing they need to do is get the casting right. But it will be very interesting to see where they go from here as they've never been in this position with the character. Another reset I'd say, maybe starting at an even earlier point in Bonds life. That doesn't necessarily mean they'll go with another continuous arc over several movies.

The breaks, albeit small ones that they have had in the past certainly did the quality of the movies they returned with no harm. Goldeneye and Casino Royale being two of the best. The break between Die Another Day and Casino Royale feels longer than 4 years because the movies are so different in style, tone and quality.

Agree with you on why they should give it a few years before coming back.

I think everyone experiences this movie to slow representation,

As a James Bond fan, this one is not blockbuster than others from them.

Finished it last night. Ah, good in places and boring in others. Rami Malek is a good actor but he's character wasn't used that much. A villian for the sake of having a villian.

The nanobot virus appears to have been lifted from the video game Metal Gear Solid - in which a weapon is also dna targeted to kill specific people. The game uses "nanomachines" while this movie uses "nanobots" :p

But having Craig's bond die pretty much confims that it's going to be a clean slate reboot for all the characters. Wouldn't make sense to have Namoi Harris for one example playing Moneypenny alongside a new Bond. To her version of the character Bond is dead.

Which leads in to Lashana Lynch 007 character. I don't think she will get her own spin off movie. They are going clean slate. She might get a spinoff tv show to air on amazon prime (since amazon owns mgm now)

I would love to see the next bond be a coma patient who can only communicate sporadically through tapping his finger in morse code but somehow manages to take down a super villain.

Killing Bond was wreckless, who signed off on that? It never happened before, what gave them the right to do it now?

Paloma should have played a far larger part.

Remi's charachter was the weakest Bond villian in history, and rehashing Blofeld was desperate.

As someone previous quite rightly stated, when Vesper died, force feeding us his love with Madeleine didnt fit Bond's profile. Eva made Casino one of the best bond movies, I think Lea Seydoux detracts from them.

I loved Daniel Craig as Bond, a very good fit for the type of man Bond is meant to be. While I'm sad to see him go, I fear he had too much say in the script here, he really got too self indulgent.

rented NTTD on Sky over the weekend and was pretty disappointed in it. It starts alright but by about halfway through I was getting seriously bored. I'm still not clear what Freddie Mercury's dastardly plan involved and why he was doing it, though he did have a good villainous lair (but what were all the henchmen pool-cleaners doing?).

Malek was chewing the scenery in every scene he was in, but his character was so underwritten there wasn't much else for him to do. The sequence where Bond is trying to break into the tower to open the missile doors was basically 10 minutes of first-person-shooter game footage (maybe that was deliberate?). Also Lashana Lynch's character was a straight rehash of Jinx from DAD.

They've gone too far with trying to make Bond into a rounded character with relationships and feelings - Skyfall found a reasonable medium, and had some of the old humour, but Spectre and NTTD were both overlong and tedious. And I really didn't like the ending - I know there's an implication that Craig's movies are a reboot or a different timeline, but killing him at the end sets a terrible precedent. Are they going to do that every time they change actor?

I thought it was pretty good. Not the biggest Bond fan. Of Craig's I enjoyed Casino Royale and Skyfall.

Thought Ana De Armas was fun (Wouldn't be surprised if her scenes were Phoebe Waller Bridge's involvement). Thought her whole thing was great and very enjoyable. From the initial display of nerves which were soon abandoned when needed. "Two weeks?" "More or less". Plus, that back.

I thought Noni was fantastic. I thought it was funny to see her doing all the typical Bondian-type stuff: Casually stepping off her plane and waving to Bond. Driving the Astin Martin. Throwing out the quips and killing everyone in sight before he even gets a chance to. And there was no doubt that she was a bad-ass agent. I'm sure even the people rolling their eyes the most at the thoughts of a female 007 had to admit she was plenty powerful enough (Almost too bad-ass).

I thought Malik was very underwritten though. For a film as long as it was, he didn't really have much of an impact. I mean he had all the bad-guy tropes: The ridiculous evil name, the secret lair, the obligatory physical deformity, the accent. But he was just.... there. He wasn't as much of a non-entity as the one in Quantum of Solace but he wasn't exactly Javier Bardim.... Heck, he wasn't even Rupert Murdoch am.... Yer man from Tomorrow Never Dies.

So does this lend credence to the whole fan theory of "James Bond" also being a Code Name? I know in Skyfall they refer to his family being Bond but this could all be simply because we are seeing it from his POV (In the same way that, in Mister Robot, the main company is referred to as "Evil Corp"). (Almost like even the movie was redacted/encrypted for security)

I can't find a link but there was the theory that they are all actually different people:

Connery just got too old.

Lazenby just broke down and couldn't go on.

Moore: Too old

Dalton: Went/stayed rogue

Brosnan: too old

Craig dead

The only way for Bond to go is back in time imo: set in the 60's as a period piece.