The James Bond Thread

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FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
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What's wrong with Die another Day that annoys me.

1) Zao had diamonds explode in his face on the intro sequence, they have for some reason not been removed despite them looking like zits that anyone could pull off
2) We are supposed to believe that Colonel Moon and Gustav Graves are the same person after skin conditioning and facial surgery despite their differences in height.
3) Bad CGI
4) Zao is able to dodge a bullet he wouldn't know was coming (even when a real silenced gun would be louder than the one fired by Jinx from some distance away) when he's getting into the helicopter to escape the Cuban hospital. ---> https://youtu.be/H1wiN30jtcY?t=187
5) Mad Donna.
6) Parachuting in for a media event over Buck House and landing just outside. No, No, No. Only the Queen can do that.
7) Invisible Aston, oh for fks SAKE!

SpudLink

5,671 posts

191 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
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FourWheelDrift said:
What's wrong with Die another Day that annoys me.

1) Zao had diamonds explode in his face on the intro sequence, they have for some reason not been removed despite them looking like zits that anyone could pull off
2) We are supposed to believe that Colonel Moon and Gustav Graves are the same person after skin conditioning and facial surgery despite their differences in height.
3) Bad CGI
4) Zao is able to dodge a bullet he wouldn't know was coming (even when a real silenced gun would be louder than the one fired by Jinx from some distance away) when he's getting into the helicopter to escape the Cuban hospital. ---> https://youtu.be/H1wiN30jtcY?t=187
5) Mad Donna.
6) Parachuting in for a media event over Buck House and landing just outside. No, No, No. Only the Queen can do that.
7) Invisible Aston, oh for fks SAKE!
When I said it’s shortcomings were “too many to list”, I was obviously mistaken. smile

FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
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That's just the concise version that spewed out.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
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like the beetshot nitrate concentrate 3000 of a beetroot

AJB88

12,269 posts

170 months

Saturday 28th July 2018
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Finally got round to watching them all again, including Never Say Never Again. I watched them in a bit of a strange order, started with Craig, Brosnan, Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton.

Realised that despite me seeing them all before, some of them I had forgot.

Anyway my personal opinion now but I would put the actors in this order for playing the "character"

Connery
Craig
Dalton
Lazenby
Brosnan
Moore

Storylines and costumes didn't help Moore at all.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Saturday 28th July 2018
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YOu got something against safari suits, bub?!

SpudLink

5,671 posts

191 months

Saturday 28th July 2018
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Halb said:
YOu got something against safari suits, bub?!
AFAIK Sir Rog designed them himself.
I think his films weren’t so much ‘Bond, James Bond’, but ‘Roger Moore, international playboy’.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Saturday 28th July 2018
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SpudLink said:
AFAIK Sir Rog designed them himself.
I think his films weren’t so much ‘Bond, James Bond’, but ‘Roger Moore, international playboy’.
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well he was a clever bloke and a dab hand wit the needle too. He came up with the magnum! biggrin

I'm always intrigued by the towling romper suit SC has on at the start of Goldfinger.
Bond films are a great window into the times gone by.

wjb

5,100 posts

130 months

Saturday 28th July 2018
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The Spy Who Loved Me was the first bond film I saw, so I grew up with Sir Rodger.

I'll also never forget watching A View to a Kill in the cinema.

I do understand the fans who don't like the way he played the character, he may not be the best bond, but he's my favourite bow

SpudLink

5,671 posts

191 months

Saturday 28th July 2018
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wjb said:
The Spy Who Loved Me was the first bond film I saw, so I grew up with Sir Rodger.

I'll also never forget watching A View to a Kill in the cinema.

I do understand the fans who don't like the way he played the character, he may not be the best bond, but he's my favourite bow
Nobody does it. better.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 13th August 2018
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nods
all time high

Cold

15,207 posts

89 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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Danny Boyle has decided not to direct the next film. "Creative differences" apparently.

whoami

13,151 posts

239 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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Cold said:
Danny Boyle has decided not to direct the next film. "Creative differences" apparently.
I wonder what they were? scratchchin

tobinen

9,184 posts

144 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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Disappointing news. Please no more Mendes, give the job to Martin Campbell. Mind you, Christopher Nolan would be good.

r11co

6,244 posts

229 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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tobinen said:
Disappointing news. Please no more Mendes, give the job to Martin Campbell. Mind you, Christopher Nolan would be good.
Has to be Denis Villeneuve now. Make him an offer he can't refuse to park his 'Dune' project a little while longer.

whoami said:
I wonder what they were? scratchchin
He probably wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to take over the role of Bond.

cuprabob

14,421 posts

213 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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r11co said:
He probably wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to take over the role of Bond.
If it had been Martin Scorsese then I could believe it smile

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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He probably wanted it to be a decent film with a story, rather than a st filled explosion fest.

FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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David Fincher to do it, go very dark and R rated.
Michael Mann, go all psychological thriller with well executed set pieces.
Mel Gibson, Spectre is Jewish.
Mel Brooks. Why the hell not.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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At least if Nolan did it, we'd get Mike Caine in it, maybe as Q, that'd be so godsdamn cool.

Honest Trailers - Every Christopher Nolan Movie

https://youtu.be/IpN_wAlYZSs

henrycrun

2,448 posts

239 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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