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I always find much of the early cinematic Bond's allure with women (ie. random receptionists swooning over him, him sleeping with several women per film in that carefree way) was more a result of the 'swinging 60s'. I think it was a conscious decisi…
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To be fair to QOS (and admittedly from what I remember) the editing during the action scenes isn't fundamentally awful. Most of the cuts are motivated and are designed to move the story along. They're just truncated to the point where pacing is an i…
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Revelator wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Revelator wrote: » In the third treatment Blofeld is killed by six white kittens that Bond has somehow learned to command and sic on their owner. What? :)) Indeed! Apparently Maibaum want…
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Revelator wrote: » In the third treatment Blofeld is killed by six white kittens that Bond has somehow learned to command and sic on their owner. What? :))
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slide_99 wrote: » RichardTheBruce wrote: » Jordo007 wrote: » 😂😂 It still looks alien to me to see Bond being the passenger, let alone getting on a bus To be fair, Bond got on a bus earlier in the same film. …
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CrabKey wrote: » TripAces wrote: » I still contend that EON needs to seriously consider placing Bond in the late 50s/early 60s Cold War and leaving him there for a while. Several reasons: * The retro look/feel is appealing. (See Mad Men, S…
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TheSkyfallen06 wrote: » 'Thunderfinger' A mix of TB and GF. Not to confuse with @Thunderfinger 'Gold-Ball' didn't make the cut then?
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I’ve gone back and forth on Lowden. At one point he was one of my main picks, but nowadays I’m not I’m sold on him for Bond. I think he’s a great actor though. On a similar note, I recently watched Aftersun with Paul Mescal. Not an actor I’ve tho…
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I suppose the question in that case becomes is Blofeld's inability to recognise Bond in OHMSS more a continuity issue or a case against the idea that Bond films can be more serialised in format? For what it's wor…
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MI6HQ wrote: » I actually have no problems with it, and I don't mind either, true @007HallY and this is the first time that Bond's in disguise (especially with his Clark Kent look and Dubbed Voice). Actually Blofeld's changing faces creates a l…
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I suppose the question in that case becomes is Blofeld's inability to recognise Bond in OHMSS more a continuity issue or a case against the idea that Bond films can be more serialised in format? For what it's worth I suppose strictly speaking it's a…
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talos7 wrote: » You have to admire his honesty ; I think Chris Hemsworth could be an outstanding Bond but I don’t know if he could tackle the accent. True. Worthington’s not my favourite actor but it is interesting to read. Similar to what …
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Venutius wrote: » Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Erhle do good English accents - but they're half-English, so they've got a head start, I guess! I guess it just comes down to the actor when it comes to accent. Apparently Sam Worthington, des…
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » You can argue the Bond series as a whole has always had an element of continuity to it. I mean, if you hadn’t watched OHMSS then things in the Moore era like the PTS to FYEO wouldn’t make sense. As mtm said the f…
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You can argue the Bond series as a whole has always had an element of continuity to it. I mean, if you hadn’t watched OHMSS then things in the Moore era like the PTS to FYEO wouldn’t make sense. As mtm said the first few Bond films had SPECTRE as a …
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Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: » While countless indispensable works of cinema have yet to make their way to Blu-ray or even DVD, film aficionados can relax knowing that the Man with the Golden Gun milk commercial has finally been restored in 4K along w…
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MI6HQ wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I suppose Solo had a main plot of Bond having to stop a Civil War in an African country (by assassinating a rebel leader from what I remember?) Only read it once but I do remember the whole thing feeling a bit …
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Didn’t Turner himself say that he wasn’t particularly interested in a high profile role like Bond though? That’s what I vaguely remember at least, and I suspect he’s probably said a few non-descript things on and…
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I suppose Solo had a main plot of Bond having to stop a Civil War in an African country (by assassinating a rebel leader from what I remember?) Only read it once but I do remember the whole thing feeling a bit un-Bondian and a bit too ‘down to earth…
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Didn’t Turner himself say that he wasn’t particularly interested in a high profile role like Bond though? That’s what I vaguely remember at least, and I suspect he’s probably said a few non-descript things on and off when asked about this role (he’s…
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ImpertinentGoon wrote: » I wrote this in another thread to no real reaction, so I'll try again: What are your thoughts about a Bond war film? The UK military is active in various conflicts across the globe and I strongly suspect MI6 officers are a…
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Being 40 won’t necessarily make a difference or rule anyone out. That’s still 10 or more years of being able to play the part. It’s the same as height - there’s a bit of leeway involved and doesn’t mean an actor has to be over 5’10 or whatever rando…
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slide_99 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I mean, Blofeld is essentially responsible for Vesper’s death in a sense. The movie said the same basic thing but I don't buy it. Bond only gets assigned to the LeChiffre mission because he's "the be…
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The thing about adapting the OP short story I feel is that it can be a bit thankless. The power of that short story comes from the fact that we are essentially given the point of view of Smythe, and in a weird way feel some sympathy for him when he …
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The strange thing is even if they’d ditched the idea of Blofeld and Bond knowing each other prior there’d still be plenty of potential drama between the two characters. I mean, Blofeld is essentially responsible for Vesper’s death in a sense. Not sa…
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mtm wrote: » I'm not ignoring you Benny, but I just wanted to quickly say before we move on: 007HallY wrote: » mtm wrote: » And yet also, all Bond villains are 'gangsters'- they're all just criminals, essentially. Maybe only Dr Kananga qu…
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mtm wrote: » And yet also, all Bond villains are 'gangsters'- they're all just criminals, essentially. Maybe only Dr Kananga qualifies as being slightly more political but even he is only after the cash; so I'm not really sure what asking for more…
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With a solid script Campbell is a safe pair of hands. Remember, GE and CR do have quite solid scripts, arguably the best of the modern Bond films. I’m not sure if he’s necessarily the type of director who can elevate an average script to something g…
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Denbigh wrote: » I have to admit I would be concerned with gangsters. While it's incredibly Fleming, I always get concerned that it'll shift the tone too much and the film will end up having an identity crisis like a little film which unfortunatel…
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MI6HQ wrote: » If they retaining the importance of Bond's background from the books, it should be May Maxwell or Charmian Bond, right? But why did they make him Kincaide? Why Bond's house had a name? Why they did this to the character? …
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