The James Bond Thread

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droopsnoot said:

Scabutz said:

Europa1 said:

Wrong film, I think.

Tomorrow Never Dies I think. When he it banging the Dutch or swedish professor at oxford with the DB 5 parked outside.

Goldeneye, wasn't it? And Danish.

Definitely Tomorrow Never Dies.

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Crossflow Kid said:

Try Googling “Breaking the fourth wall”
;-)
Inclusion of vehicles from earlier episodes in the franchise is nothing more than a nod to the origin of the species and a little talking point for the audience. It’s a shame that in Skyfall they script didn’t go along the lines of:
M: “And where did you get that?”
Bond: “I bought it off a chap who was in movies or something”
....but that’d probably be a gag too far for the Craig era.
Trying to fit anything in a Bond movie in to any kind of chronological order is utterly futile and a bit pointless.
Take it for what it is. A bit of fun.

Lazenby did a line of "Breaking the fourth wall" in OHMSS, but that's the only time they've done it in the series

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Clockwork Cupcake said:

"This never happened to the other guy"

Which launched a whole conspiracy theory that "James Bond" is a code name not a person.

Yes, not that I buy into that conspiracy.

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Crossflow Kid said:

Why not?
It’s about the most sensible idea (and that’s not saying much) in the history of the franchise.

Personally, I believe that the history is that it is intended to be one man who was born as James Bond, went into the Navy, then became a secret agent as 007 and went on some missions. As per Ian Fleming's books.

The film series, much like any film series, has kept up with the times by keeping the films sends in somewhat of a "modern" era just to keep them popular, and replacing the actors as they get a bit older. There's some continuity between them, sometimes its part of the story, sometimes its a bit of fun, sometimes it is shoe-horned in clumsily.

Specifically in the Craig run of films we've had direct reference to his childhood and his parents being Mr and Mrs Bond, more so than I can remember in any of the earlier films.

At the time many of the earlier films were made, I'm not so sure that the producers were fully aware of the longevity of the series and the canon that they would have to maintain the whole way through for 60 years.

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I'm excited.

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"Machine gun headlights. How did I miss those, baby?"

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Watchman said:

I very much enjoyed that. Lots to enjoy.

I wonder if Amazon sells those headlights to fit my car.

Nah.. Alibaba probably for that kind of thing?

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Evercross said:

Very good (although no-one under the age of 40 will get it).

I got it... you just have to have seen the movie. Nothing to do with age!

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ajprice said:

And the winner is... Billie Eilish https://variety.com/2020/film/news/billie-eilish-j...

well I am glad not to have put any money on that.

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Evercross said:

I can't take it seriously since my (at the time) 5-year-old daughter misinterpreted the lyrics as "Let the Skyfall, apple crumble....".

Edited by Evercross on Wednesday 15th January 13:55

That's bloody brilliant!

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Cold said:

Because a square and the pocket is on the other side of the jacket. The final edit seems to have decided that the scene would display better if he ran across screen the other direction from which it was originally filmed.

Or he's running in front of a mirror?

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I believe this is being released on 2nd April, but some places are saying 3rd April?

If I recall rightly, Spectre was released on the same evening that they had the Royal premiere, so unlike with Star wars/Avengers there was no "midnight screening" but they instead started showing it at something like 8.05pm with the RP starting at 8pm, so they got to see it first?

Or maybe I'm wrong, But I really hope its the 2nd otherwise I have no time to see no time to die before about the 9th, and I'm not sure I can wait that long

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Crossflow Kid said:

Saw somewhere that the vehicles in that were “standard except for roll cages and a strengthened belly pan”
Not very good airbags then if it can be driven away after turning turtle.

That's in 595Heaven's "reader's cars" thread. Perhaps there are some other subtle mods to the cars for the purposes of the stunt?

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Crossflow Kid said:

S1KRR said:

But why are they smashing the content out now, a good 8 weeks before release?

It’s due out on April 2nd.
As of this weekend that’s a month away.
Normal PR/marketing time line.
Expect telly adverts and posters on buses next...

That isn't a very good 8 weeks at all then!

I am very keen to see this. Local cinema haven't been given the nod from their distributors yet as to when they can start advertising it or taking bookings though

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One month to go and tickets are on sale at most cinemas now.

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AJB88 said:

Found Goldfinger DVD in an old DVD player last night, Goldfinger is one of my favourites, made the missus 7 year old lad watch it and he enjoyed it.

Dr No tonight it is then.

He's the perfect age for it - that's about when I first watched Bond as I am sure I mentioned in my opening post, and Goldfinger was what I watched!

You've done well!