Indeed.
Skyfall was a close second for me.
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Wait, Swordfish wasn’t a Bond Universe spin-off? 
That would work so well. Since there are numerous Dread Pirate Roberts, there can be numerous James Bonds who are descendants of different Dread Pirate Roberts!
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Or, the movies have always been about the 007 character, who happend to be named James Bond. If this is true, we are keeping the cinematic universe alive and with the 26th film be seeing a new lead/character as 007.
Disagree. Bond is entirely different beast from, for example, the MCU.
Yes, there are common elements (M, Q, etc) and occasional vague references to previous movies (“I was married once…”), but there isn’t really do much worrying about telling a single story. I mean “all connected”, I don’t think so. Dr. No was set in 1962, so if it was all connected then bond would be in his 80s. They just “soft-reboot” every few movies if they even bother with strict continuity at all.
Bond is really more like Batman (specifically thinking of the comics). There’s common elements, but it’s not meant to be taken as one complete story.
And yes, spin-offs have been considered in the past, but they wisely haven’t followed through.
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Disagree all you want, but the truth is there.
- The first three Bonds were the same character.
A. George had numerous references to Sean’s exploits
B. Sean came back after George to avenge his wife’s death
C. Blofeld was the same person (undergoing plastic surgery) in all those films
D. Roger referenced Teresa’s death (and Blofeld in FYEO) - The continuity and connections have always been there. It was only Timothy and Pierce who got soft reboots but kept many of the facts from the character.
- I could list many many more examples of these connections.
(And Craig’s run is even the MOST connected/continous Bond series. Every single one is directly connected to the previous it seems)
“Bond is really more like Batman (specifically thinking of the comics)”
When was the last time you read a Batman comic? DC comics run from the Crisis in 86 to the New 52 were supposed to be one fluid continuity.
Have the Bond films been as interconnected and detailed as the MCU? No, no film series really ever has. However, one can’t deny the facts that they have been a connected continuous story since day 1.
Many of the female leads do come to a bad end in Bond movies … so yeah, she could die.
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The Bond (007?) movies are sequels. They’re (loosely) connected in a serialized or linear fashion. The thing that sets the MCU or DCEU apart is that you have multiple separate storylines that can occur simultaneously without expressly following other films. Iron Man 2 is a sequel to Iron Man but not to Thor.
However, perhaps quality has a quality of its own. When you hit 25 films in a series, there’s so much that has happened that you approach universe. This might actually be a preferable way to start a cinematic universe. We know very little about M, but enough to make a movie about him/her/them intriguing.
At the same time, do we really need to know how Han Solo got his dice? The little details are more tantalizing when unelaborated. I’d rather imagine the Clone Wars or the extermination of the Jedi than watch the prequels.
Sshhhhhh!
Lots of poisonous toads hidden in Caveman Bond’s sundial.
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I beg to differ:
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There’s always been some very loose continuity between the films - more winks and nods than anything. The Daniel Craig films by comparison are one huge four film story arc.
I am finding that many people have a much different definition of “loose” than I do. I do not consider the connection between the Bond films (especially the first three bonds) to be loose at all.
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all james bond trailers in order - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL99MRiUUZtD-yQwueRLMTvpGtaT84I47H
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Lashana Lynch: Who’s your mama now, man babies? *silver bullet in their octobutts
The legend goes… Ian Fleming attended a Canadian Forces Training Base and across the street from the base was a Presbyterian church called St. James Bond St. James-Bond Church - Wikipedia.
Similar changing actors to represent Doctor Who spoiled it when Tom Baker took a stage left exit.
Thats an interesting legend, but its just that. James Bond was named after an orinthologist (Bird Note had a piece on this today!)
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I don’t know about you all but I’m still awaiting the revival of James Pond.
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When Ian Fleming visiting Camp-X during the summer of 1942, the camp was at capacity and there was no room for visitors. The camp commandant encouraged visitors, J. Edgar Hoover, Wild Bill Donovan, and others to stay at local hotels such as the Blue Swallow and the Genosha in Oshawa. In Fleming’s case, he had friends who lived on Avenue Road in Toronto and elected to stay with them.
Each morning Fleming would sit on the porch with a cup of tea while waiting for a staff car from the camp to pick him up. What did he stare at every morning while waiting for his lift, St. James Bond United Church, directly across the street!
Like I said, nice legend. I am going to go with the factual one thanks. (hell, they even made a joke about this fact in one of the movies)
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