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  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Anyways, I may be delusional, but did I recall reading somewhere that Javier Bardem was once considered to play the role of Renard?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    jake24 wrote: »
    Iceland looked spectacular in Walter Mitty. It's on my bucket list for sure.

    I am thinking of going there next summer.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    jake24 wrote: »
    Iceland looked spectacular in Walter Mitty. It's on my bucket list for sure.

    I am thinking of going there next summer.
    Can you bring me one of those CGI ice buckets from the CGI ice palace?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Sure, no problem.
  • josiahjosiah
    edited November 2016 Posts: 1,386
    When I saw SPECTRE in the theatre the guard's line to Bond "Ciao Mickey Mouse" got a big laugh from the audience. Bond had previously introduced himself to the guard outside the SPECTRE meeting as Mickey Mouse. Does anyone know why this is funny?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    josiah wrote: »
    When I saw SPECTRE in the theatre the guard's line to Bond "Ciao Mickey Mouse" got a big laugh from the audience. Bond had previously introduced himself to the guard outside the SPECTRE meeting as Mickey Mouse. Does anyone know why this is funny?

    It must simply be comedic recall I think as Bond had used it as a means of introduction earlier.
  • SirHilaryBraySirHilaryBray Scotland
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    Last_Rat_Standing wrote: »
    Does Iceland really look like how it's portrayed in DAD?

    Yes. It is a baron landscape. I was shocked, I was like where is the grass and the trees, why are the houses made out of metal sheeting??. Fascinating place, the people are quite dry. I put that down to it being their 6 months of darkness on the 4 occasions I have been there.
  • GettlerGettler
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    Watching Dr. No last night, I wondered who leaked Bond's arrival to Jamaica. Maybe they answered this in the film and i didn't pay attention as I was only playing it in the background if other activities.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    edited November 2016 Posts: 16,331
    Ms. Taro of course.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited November 2016 Posts: 17,809
    Murdock wrote: »
    Ms. Taro of course.

    That's what I thought. She was Dr. No's spy in Pleydell-Smith's office and would therefore have known of Bond's arrival in Jamaica and of his purpose in going there.
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
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    Big question!

    "Vodka martini ordering"

    I have heard ordering a Vodka martini "Shaken..Not stirred", is a big no no and you'll get laughed at. I suppose the fact that I am 22 ordering that at a bar would make sense. I have been reading online and this one guy claims "NO ONE" orders a martini shaken and never ever say shaken not stirred...
    The guy also claims "Bond only ordered it because he was trying to fake his way in high society type parties."

    Is this true?? Has anyone ever actually ordered one? I normally drink beer or me and my friends would goto the store and buy vodka, versus going out to a bar. I can totally see how a bunch of college kids going into a bar and ordering a vodka martini shaken not stirred would look. I'd imagine it would get a ton of laughs. Maybe in the right environment you could but not sure?
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    I have ordered one a couple of times - funnily enough the first time I was around your age - 21 or 22. It was at a flasher waterfront bar/restaurant - nicer than a typical bar - the vodka martini bit didn't raise a laugh - but when I said 'shaken not stirred' it garnered eye rolls from the bartender. I think a couple of people at the bar laughed.
  • SirHilaryBraySirHilaryBray Scotland
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    CASINOROYALE wrote: »
    Big question!

    "Vodka martini ordering"

    I have heard ordering a Vodka martini "Shaken..Not stirred", is a big no no and you'll get laughed at. I suppose the fact that I am 22 ordering that at a bar would make sense. I have been reading online and this one guy claims "NO ONE" orders a martini shaken and never ever say shaken not stirred...
    The guy also claims "Bond only ordered it because he was trying to fake his way in high society type parties."

    Is this true?? Has anyone ever actually ordered one? I normally drink beer or me and my friends would goto the store and buy vodka, versus going out to a bar. I can totally see how a bunch of college kids going into a bar and ordering a vodka martini shaken not stirred would look. I'd imagine it would get a ton of laughs. Maybe in the right environment you could but not sure?

    Play safe order vodkatini or kangaroo cocktail. Same thing without the embarrassment.
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    Now where's the fun in that?! I'm not that much of a fan of actual vodka martinis - so it's really all in the ordering of it. Dress in a tux, go to an expensive bar and say 'vodka martini' there's a good chance they'll ask 'shaken or stirred?' And then you can say 'do I look like I give a damn?'.
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    All this shaking of Vodka Martinis started with the quality of the vodka and from what it was made of either Grain or potato .
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    All this shaking of Vodka Martinis started with the quality of the vodka and from what it was made of either Grain or potato .

    Yes, Fleming covers that in Casino Royale.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Is QoS in shortest Bond film in terms of time past? The whole film takes place over the course of around 72 hours. Maybe Thunderball?
  • IncompetentHenchmanIncompetentHenchman
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    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    Is QoS in shortest Bond film in terms of time past? The whole film takes place over the course of around 72 hours. Maybe Thunderball?

    Most of TND is covered in 48 hours, but I'm not certain about the PTS.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    Question that has always bothered me. In YOLT the ally astronauts and Bond take out the SPECTRE astronauts before lift off. Then Bond gets caught and taken off the rocket. When Bond blows up the rocket I am pretty sure the Allied astronauts are on that SPECTRE rocket. It's always bothered me that an innocent(s) died in the end. AM I making the wrong conclusion?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    thedove wrote: »
    Question that has always bothered me. In YOLT the ally astronauts and Bond take out the SPECTRE astronauts before lift off. Then Bond gets caught and taken off the rocket. When Bond blows up the rocket I am pretty sure the Allied astronauts are on that SPECTRE rocket. It's always bothered me that an innocent(s) died in the end. AM I making the wrong conclusion?

    Yes, you are. Bond is the only one of the Allies to put on the spacesuit. The others simply dress him. The other astronauts are Japanese SPECTRE employees.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Yep..spot on @dragonpol ,matey.....
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited November 2016 Posts: 5,979
    Why did Leiter have to be in the DEA in LTK? Surely the CIA would also have jurisdiction in pursuing an international criminal.
  • barryt007barryt007
    edited November 2016 Posts: 19,339
    echo wrote: »
    Why did Leiter have to be in the DEA in LTK? Surely the CIA would also have jurisdiction in pursuing an international criminal.

    The DEA would take the lead in the operation ,it was a major drug dealer,you don't belong to one department i believe,so he was 'on loan' from the CIA.

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited November 2016 Posts: 17,809
    echo wrote: »
    Why did Leiter have to be in the DEA in LTK? Surely the CIA would also have jurisdiction in pursuing an international criminal.

    I always thought that it was a rather late echo of him joining Pinkerton's Detective Agency in the literary Bond series (the DAF novel specifically) after being invalided out of the CIA after the shark mauling he received in LALD. He later returned to the CIA of course.

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    echo wrote: »
    Why did Leiter have to be in the DEA in LTK? Surely the CIA would also have jurisdiction in pursuing an international criminal.

    It's not uncommon for the alphabet soup of American government agencies to work together and share resources on a particular job that is pressing. Sanchez's organization and its massive funneling of drugs would certainly fit the bill of a job that needed a lot of oversight and involvement from many groups, no doubt including the FBI and ATF.

  • barryt007barryt007
    edited November 2016 Posts: 19,339
    I already said that you young git....but you are American so you just concur what i theorised.. ;)
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    I already said that you young git....but you are American so you just concur what i theorised.. ;)

    You posted before I commented and refreshed my page, old man. ;)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Damn Yanks always come in late! :))
  • barryt007barryt007
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    I already said that you young git....but you are American so you just concur what i theorised.. ;)

    You posted before I commented and refreshed my page, old man. ;)

    Hahahaha touche Brady touche.. ;)

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Damn Yanks always come in late! :))

    Serve dessert and then say that of us!
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