Future Bond Endings: Bond with the Girl vs. Bond Receives His Next Mission

I really liked SKYFALL's ending. I prefer Bond walking into Mi6 and having an envelope marked 'For Your Eyes Only' being pushed in front of him.

This might work well for the next couple of films, too, as they're going to be connected (supposedly).

What type of ending do you prefer?

"Bond and the girl making out" is long overdue. I also wouldn't mind a Guy Hamilton ending with the henchman surviving and having one last fight with Bond.

A mix-em up ending...I liked how Skyfall ended too, but don't want Bond 24 to end the same way...he could go bone his Bondgirl instead...B25 can have something different but memorable too if it's Craig's last film...

Yeah, definitely need Bond banging the girl at the end. If only because Bond hasn't had a leading lady at the end. Not that I'm suggesting M and him should have shagged before she died but you know. His Bond girls:

Vesper: Dead
Solange: Dead
Fields: Dead
Camille: Ran Away
Eve: Did they shag? Personally, I don't think so... And then they don't shag at the end.
Severine: Dead

Bond getting a folder from M would get old pretty quickly. At least with the classic "Oh James" ending there's a variety of girls and locations (or shag spots as they should be known).

Largo's Shark wrote:

"Bond and the girl making out" is long overdue. I also wouldn't mind a Guy Hamilton ending with the henchman surviving and having one last fight with Bond.

Yeah, at least Craig's Bond should get this kind of ending.

SKYFALL's ending worked because of the nature of the film. It was really the end product of every scene that came before that. You can't just tack that onto every film and expect it to be equally-effective every single time, and you certainly don't want to waste such an effective ending.

In fact, I don't think there's any one ending that I would like to see more than any other. For all the criticisms that have been variously levelled at them, I think that the endings of CASINO ROYALE, QUANTUM OF SOLACE and now SKYFALL have all been very effective.

Bond 24: Camile if she return in Bond 24 and not die, Mr White end from QOS or Felix
Bond 25: Camile if she don't return in Bond 24 and not die, unknown girl or Mi6

If Camile return in Bond 24 and don't die i like to see he end with her.

In my fanart of Bond 24 Bond is far from New York, mabey already back in London when a twist happen in New York where Bond return from and Felix be with empty hands. End with a wide shot above the city include the back of the lady and you see her chorch in her right hand.

I doubt we'll see the return of Camille. Helga's all tied up now.

I'd like to see how the series handles a cliffhanger ending. A proper cliffhanger, mind you; I know CASINO ROYALE was intended as the first half of a two-part film, and as much as I love the ending, QUANTUM OF SOLACE was not written alongside it (and arguably suffered because of this).

It might be a little tricky to do, because the first film couldn't end with Bond's fate in the balance. We all know Bond will survive, so there's no point to leave him in an impossible situation like that. Similarly, there would have to be reason to believe a) that everything has been resolved for the time being, but at the same time b) that there is a direction for the second half to take. If there is too much that has been left unresolved, it feels cheap, like the studio is only trying to milk audiences for all they are worth by forcing them to come back and watch the second installment. But if there is no clear direction for the story to take, a second film might feel like it is forcing the issue by bringing back characters and events for the sake of it.

I imagine that the first half of this two-part film would end with Bond stopping the threat posed by the villain for the time being, only for the villain to escape. The second half would start with Bond having the knowledge that the villain is still out there, and that he has a window of opportunity to catch up with him and stop him for good this time. It could also be a good way to close off the Quantum storyline, possibly with the villain being the head of Quantum and assassinated by a reimagined Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who announces that "we're under new management".

^ Exactly what I was going to post.

Largo's Shark wrote:

"Bond and the girl making out" is long overdue. I also wouldn't mind a Guy Hamilton ending with the henchman surviving and having one last fight with Bond.

Yes. And make sure it's on water.

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

SKYFALL's ending worked because of the nature of the film. It was really the end product of every scene that came before that. You can't just tack that onto every film and expect it to be equally-effective every single time, and you certainly don't want to waste such an effective ending.

In fact, I don't think there's any one ending that I would like to see more than any other. For all the criticisms that have been variously levelled at them, I think that the endings of CASINO ROYALE, QUANTUM OF SOLACE and now SKYFALL have all been very effective.

Agreed, 100%.

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

I'd like to see how the series handles a cliffhanger ending. A proper cliffhanger, mind you...

BOND 24 should end with a 19-23 year old Eurasian male approaching Bond and saying: "My name is James Suzuki. I think you may be my father."

Then James and, er, James Bond Jr., have to team up together in BOND 25 (directed by Christopher Nolan) to save the world (kind of like John and Jack McClane in DIE HARD 5).

At the end of BOND-25, we see over the shoulder of 007 as he accepts a folder from M with his new assignment. When 007 turns around, it's James Suzuki, not James Bond, accepting the folder (which has the title of the next Bond movie on it: ICEBREAKER). The implication is clear: the baton, or torch, has been handed from Daniel Craig's Bond to his son, who has now become a 00-agent himself. The series lives, and moves, on.

I offer this advice free to EON. I expect no credit at the end of the film or monetary reward.

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

SKYFALL's ending worked because of the nature of the film. It was really the end product of every scene that came before that. You can't just tack that onto every film and expect it to be equally-effective...

Yeah you could.

Control wrote:

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

SKYFALL's ending worked because of the nature of the film. It was really the end product of every scene that came before that. You can't just tack that onto every film and expect it to be equally-effective...

Yeah you could.

Well, you could, but you would probably be disappointed by it.

Yes I will like to see the Daniel Craig for the first kiss his actual Bond girl in the end no matter in Bed or anywhere. Casino Royaleafter his lending lady was killed he was continuing in Quantum of Solace where he left off. Skyfall was all different will one of the Bond girls who was secretly to reviving Miss Moneypenny by Naomi Harris. It will be more great in Bond 24.

It would be nice to class things up a bit and get back to M and Q interrupting/spying on 007 while he's making love. We haven't had that in a while.

Maybe have Q using a drone to spy on Bond while he's shagging, or Bond and Girl accidentally having their love-making broadcast on the Jumbo-tron in Times Square. You know, something classy and sophisticated.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

It would be nice to class things up a bit and get back to M and Q interrupting/spying on 007 while he's making love. We haven't had that in a while.

Or the double entendres, which worked great in Moore films like Moonraker.

But if the Craig film is moody and serious it's hard to work that in.

bitchcraft wrote:

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

It would be nice to class things up a bit and get back to M and Q interrupting/spying on 007 while he's making love. We haven't had that in a while.

Or the double entendres, which worked great in Moore films like Moonraker.

But if the Craig film is moody and serious it's hard to work that in.

Truthfully, my favorite endings are the romantic ones. My favorite is TLD, but Octopussy and License Revoked are worth honorable mention. Goldeneye would've ranked higher, but it had a very awkward transition into a very awkward closing song, and I remember everyone in the theater looking at each other and saying "Is that it?". We weren't sure the movie was over until the credits started rolling. And the ending to TOMORROW NEVER LIES seemed like something rushed and made up on the spot, as if Bond and Wai Lin were so horny that they would sacrifice safety and a personal rescue in order to have sex on a piece of burning wreckage in the South China Sea.

Conversely, Brosnan had the worst endings of any actor in the series because the double entendres were so not clever or subtle; things like "I thought Christmas came only once a year" and "Oooh, leave it in James. Don't pull it out. It's so big" sound like they were written by a 13 year old boy. Not a single "Just keeping the British end up" among the Brosnan offerings, and while "I think he's attempting re-entry, Sir" got a lot of laughs, Gilbert had to really work hard to set up the joke; it didn't flow as naturally in the scene as, perhaps, TSWLM did, or even "Just cleaning up a few details" in AVTAK.

I love GE's ending… The chemistry between Brosnan and Scoropcu is so genuine. Of the other PTS mentioned GS:
LTK: Not the biggest fan, probably because I hoped Bond picked Lupe.
TLD: Big fan of this one.
AVTAK: Great way for Moore to end his reign.
MR: Classic
TWINE: Think this is much more subtle than MR, to be honest.
TND: I like it, but know, I like TND.
TSWLM: Classic
OP: Yeah, it works.
DAD: So, so crass, but Berry's body is hot...

FieldsMan wrote:

I love GE's ending… The chemistry between Brosnan and Scoropcu is so genuine.

That's astonishing.

First time I saw Brosnan I reckoned he was the insidious product of a Guardian-funded laboratory. Bland, unthreatening and completely unconvincing when it came to women.

Erica Ambler wrote:

FieldsMan wrote:

I love GE's ending… The chemistry between Brosnan and Scoropcu is so genuine.

That's astonishing.

First time I saw Brosnan I reckoned he was the insidious product of a Guardian-funded laboratory. Bland, unthreatening and completely unconvincing when it came to women.

I disagree. This is probably (if not one of) the most genuine moment in the franchise.

https://youtu.be/Vq_I7ys1R64?t=2m15s

Oscar-winning stuff.

If you wanted to illustrate the fall of civilisation then putting Connery and Bronsan side by side would do it.

As cool as Connery is, and as watchable as he is, the moment where I found him to be the most genuine was when he tells Domino her brother's dead.