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Chris Cornell talks 'Casino Royale' and Bond themes
The montage illustrates just how good Cornell's song is. Easily one of the very best Bond songs ever. Gets the blood pumping, unlike so much of the weaker fare.

Comment by CrabKey May 21 permalink
Skyfall improving like a fine wine
.......isnt Silvas plan a load of bollocks?' Are there any plans in a Bond film aren't?

Comment by CrabKey May 18 permalink
Is Charles Gray's Blofeld in DAF based on a parody of Ian Fleming?
DAF is little more than of a parody of a James Bond film. Yet another example of when the producers got it wrong, they really got it wrong. Gray's Blofeld belongs in the Chewing the Scenery Hall of Fame, along with Pleasance, and the wheelchair…

Comment by CrabKey May 18 permalink
The most disappointing Bond movie?
Most disappointing, not the worst, is Diamonds Are Forever. The return of Connery was a major let down. Clownish Blofeld coupled with Jimmy Dean's (yes of sausage fame) Howard Hughes impression was too much. After the vastly superior OHMSS, DAF…

Comment by CrabKey May 4 permalink
Solo: William Boyd's new Bond novel title revealed.
I believe it was Fleming who suggested the name Napoleon Solo to the producers of the Man from UNCLE series.

Comment by CrabKey April 16 permalink
If Blofeld were to return to the modern Bond films...who would play him well?
Willis has become a caricature of himself. He never seems new or fresh, just the same character with a different name. Hopkins has lost the subtley he had. His Hitchcock turn was cheesy. He'll alwlays be compared to Hannibal L. I'm sure th…

Comment by CrabKey April 5 permalink
How important is the score to your enjoyment of Bond films?
It's something I think even the producers haven't always appreciated. This new idea of not including the title track on the soundtrack album, and barely using any of the title track motif in subsequent tracks is not in keeping with the Bon…

Comment by CrabKey April 1 permalink
HUGE ARTICLE ABOUT THE BEST BOND SONGS AND HOW ADELE'S COMPARES!!
The best Bond themes are bombastic and powerful. The soft, slower songs don't exactly announce an exciting film ahead. Another factor for me is whether or not I can actually recall the song or even hum it. Can't do that with a single Brosn…

Comment by CrabKey April 1 permalink
Do you Think they will bring back Dame Judi Dench
.....all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those that loved me, and alone....... Time to move forward and not flash back.

Comment by CrabKey April 1 permalink
Could an American have played 007?
Of course he could be, be then he could also be played openly gay, transgendered, by a woman, Black, Mexican, Arab, handicapped, a midget, as a vampire, space alien, etc. But then none of those possibilities would actually feel like the character Fl…

Comment by CrabKey March 28 permalink
10 Flemingesque moments in Skyfall
Having seen the film when it first came out, I enjoyed it, but I wasn't enthusiastic about it. I wrote previously that the music was entirely forgettable. Now, having seen the film twice on DVD, my appreciation for this film and the music is gr…

Comment by CrabKey March 23 permalink
Should Dr.No be rescored with a John Barry type score?
For those of us who saw Dr. No when it was first released, everything works fine. It was thrilling, exciting, and original. The music was eerie and atmospheric. It's easy fifty years later to pick it apart. Let it be.

Comment by CrabKey March 14 permalink
Do you Think they will bring back Dame Judi Dench
She won't be back.

Comment by CrabKey February 25 permalink
Anyone else dissapointed about the Oscar's hommage to 50 years of James Bond?
Actually "Nobody Does it Better" was played when two of the presenters came on. Nonetheless, the Bond tribute was weak. It seemed more akin to a commercial you'd see on a Bond DVD announcing a Blu-Ray collection. Given how old Shirley…

Comment by CrabKey February 25 permalink
On Her Majesty's Secret Service- Very overrated?
How does one determine if something is overrated? By whom? Because many of us like it?

Comment by CrabKey January 28 permalink
Fleming wanted Hitchcock for the first Bond movie
What Hitchcock did very well was make Hitchock films. NxNW is often cited a precursor to the Bond films, but I disagree. As much as I like Hitchcock's films, especially Vertigo, he did far too much on soundstages and played too much too lightly…

Comment by CrabKey January 19 permalink
The name's 24. Bond 24.
Since each chapter in a Bond novel is titled, there ought to be no shortage of possibilities.

Comment by CrabKey December 2012 permalink
No more personal stories
The new Bond has lost his love (CR), a good friend (QoS), and his boss (S); time now for lots of gratuitous sex and violence, a great car chase, a great casino scene, ski chase, mountain climbing, underwater scenes, an outrageous, larger than life v…

Comment by CrabKey December 2012 permalink
The Score of Skyfall
The composer(s) and producers of the soundtrack had numerous opportunities to foul up the music for this film and seem to have taken advantage of every one. What a disappointment. I remember when getting the soundtrack for a Bond film was almost as…

Comment by CrabKey December 2012 permalink
How does it end for 007?
He walks into the mist, never to be seen or heard from again.

Comment by CrabKey November 2012 permalink
SKYFALL: FANS' REACTIONS - GUARANTEED SPOILERS
Liked the film, but was neither shaken nor stirred. It didn't have the thrill I felt in the old days when the gun barrel sequence played and a brassy Barry score blared through the opening credits. Maybe it's a function of age. It's a…

Comment by CrabKey November 2012 permalink
Bond 24 wish list
It has to be fresh and original with absolutely nothing that can be related to any other film ever made. That way I don't have read anymore "it was Bourne, it was M.I., it was this or that or something else" comments. If there is a …

Comment by CrabKey November 2012 permalink
Left on the editing room floor.
Jwestbrook: Great job on the QOS re-edit. For the first time that sequence looks coherent.

Comment by CrabKey October 2012 permalink
From Russia With Love Appreciation
The best Bonds in the series emphasize story rather than spectacle. No big set pieces here, but a great story in which Bond's relationship with a woman is better developed here than in most films. Which is why I like OHMSS and CR so much.

Comment by CrabKey September 2012 permalink
Sherlock (2010) BBC Series Discussion Thread
What a brilliant series. And here's the thing I like best, it can exist quite nicely along side the classical interpretations of Holmes. Always been a big fan of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, but also like Robert Downey Jr. I know Sherlock wo…

Comment by CrabKey August 2012 permalink
Your Favorite Rejected Bond theme
I'm really late to this party, but I just heard Forever (I Am All Yours)" by Eva Almer today. Far superior to AWTD. A lot of the rejected songs needed to be rejected, but not this.

Comment by CrabKey August 2012 permalink
Sean Connery vs. Roger Moore
I wonder how many here who were in their teens when Dr. No first came out believes Moore was a better Bond.

Comment by CrabKey August 2012 permalink
The James Bond Questions Thread
[quote="Baltimore_007"] when Bond turns Japanese in You Only Live Twice, and goes through all that nonsense, getting a wife, training as a ninja, goes fishing with the locals to blend in, has surgery done to alter his image even, in order …

Comment by CrabKey August 2012 permalink
Question about attitudes towards Michael G. Wilson
Throughout the series there has been a lot of weak writing, ill-conceived ideas, sloppy editing, and a penchant for imitating other films. Particularly egregious during the Moore years. True, the producers and their kin have brought the series along…

Comment by CrabKey August 2012 permalink
Was the invisible car that bad???
This is a series that has always had parallel story lines: the Bond story and the gadgets story. Early on the gadgets seemed plausible and complimentary, but then the series went further and further off the rails. It seemed as if producers would com…

Comment by CrabKey August 2012 permalink

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