It’s easy to miss one of Elliot Carver’s sharper lines in Tomorrow Never Dies, largely because it is buried under his bizarre karate pantomime aimed at Wai Lin. The gag itself is classic Bond wordplay, neatly tying James Bond’s presumed watery grave to an position at Carver’s media empire. Instead, it barely registers because of Carver’s dorky theatrics that feel oddly out of character.
Regardless, kudos to Carver for this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it quip.
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Silva’s introduction and rat story in Skyfall is pretty epic. It’s an underrated sequence that unfortunately gets lost in some of the other distracting elements of their time in his compound, particularly the contrived William Tell apple shot sequence and Silva’s anticlimactic capture. Maybe a darker, nighttime affair during a rainstorm would’ve set a more…
I mean I get why they did it, and it was a great effect. But why not have it cut something more believable? How horrific if it caused a death!
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