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007HallY

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007HallY
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  • I'm actually a fan of Elba as M. The appeal to me is that you have someone who is such a big screen presence (an 'alpha male' as has been said here) who could literally have been Bond in some alternate universe. It makes sense that a younger Bond wo…
  • Maybe Aidan Turner would make a good villain if that's what they're thinking about at the moment. I'm not even joking.
  • Sunday Vote Dr. No: 26 From Russia With Love: 22 Goldfinger: 17 Thunderball: 18 You Only Live Twice: 26 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: 31 Live and Let Die: 1 (-2) The Man With the Golden Gun: 14 The Spy Who Loved Me: 22 Moonraker: 20 …
  • mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Even by foster brother standards it's pretty thin. Wasn't the whole point that they only spent two years together? Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but it wasn't like they grew up together. Just goes to show how…
  • Even by foster brother standards it's pretty thin. Wasn't the whole point that they only spent two years together? Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but it wasn't like they grew up together. Just goes to show how stupid the idea and execution was. E…
  • NickTwentyTwo wrote: » mtm wrote: » In LALD Baron Samedi is called The Man Who Cannot Die ... does that work as a title? Or, after the Beatles tracknames, how about a spin on a Bowie title- The Man Who Killed The World I don’t know wh…
  • I think there's an unfortunate tendency to assume that character arcs, especially with a character like Bond, always have something to do with families, our hero's past, some sort of deep seated emotional trauma etc. There's literally hundreds of th…
  • This thread's taken an odd turn... I love SF for what it's worth. It can be weirdly divisive amongst Bond fans though. I would say though, that much like GF or FRWL, I suspect SF is one of those Bond films that a lot of new Bond directors and wri…
  • Saturday Vote Dr. No: 26 From Russia With Love: 22 Goldfinger: 16 Thunderball: 18 You Only Live Twice: 25 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: 29 Live and Let Die: 10 The Man With the Golden Gun: 16 The Spy Who Loved Me: 21 Moonraker: 20 Fo…
  • ProfJoeButcher wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » To each their own. An issue I have with OHMSS is that I feel Bond as a character gets a bit lost when we get to the Piz Gloria scenes. It doesn't help that Lazenby was dubbed, but it feels strangely …
  • Venutius wrote: » I never saw the end of that film - as soon as I sussed that it was a twist on those Wham lyrics, I switched it off! Not even kidding. I can't be watching tripe like that, man! Based on what I did see, I'd say that Golding's too l…
  • mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » If anything what's more interesting is thinking about what ideas they'll adapt from previous villains in the 'modern era' of Bond going forward. I mean, we've had Safin and Silva who were both lone psychopaths ou…
  • ProfJoeButcher wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » But arguably that sort of stuff is easy because it requires the actor to convey only a single emotion. Lazenby's acting falls flat when, for instance, he's posing as Sir Hillary in the helicopter and…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Agent_Zero_One wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I'll always say that OHMSS suffers from the fact that Lazenby's Bond isn't a bit older/more cynical as he is …
  • sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Agent_Zero_One wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I'll always say that OHMSS suffers from the fact that Lazenby's Bond isn't a bit older/more cynical as he is in the novel (it definitely makes his weird r…
  • If anything what's more interesting is thinking about what ideas they'll adapt from previous villains in the 'modern era' of Bond going forward. I mean, we've had Safin and Silva who were both lone psychopaths out for revenge. In a sense this idea w…
  • MaxCasino wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » 007InAction wrote: » James Bond Producers Are Focused on Figuring Out a Villain Before Casting the Next 007 Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, just presented with the 2022 Pioneer of the Year Aw…
  • 007InAction wrote: » James Bond Producers Are Focused on Figuring Out a Villain Before Casting the Next 007 Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, just presented with the 2022 Pioneer of the Year Award, talk MGM's future, moving on after Danie…
  • JamesStock wrote: » I guess my point was to differentiate using CGI for an object (or face) with using it for composing an entire scene. Granted the parasailing scene in DAD was only a small part of the film, but it don't see why it isn't fair ga…
  • Agent_Zero_One wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I'll always say that OHMSS suffers from the fact that Lazenby's Bond isn't a bit older/more cynical as he is in the novel (it definitely makes his weird resignation scene in the film make more sense) b…
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » @007HallY, I think more and more about Bond and Mallory's dynamic as time goes on. It's kind of fascinating, really. In SF you can feel the tension between them, Bond skeptical of this new guy on the scene that has …
  • sandbagger1 wrote: » I saw Snake Eyes the other night. Henry Golding is handsome, athletic, and I think has a certain amount of star quality, but I think he'll need a better vehicle than this to catch Eon's eye. I'd like to see him in something wi…
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » I think M finds an unlikely sort of partner in Bond, someone she can understand because he understands her. It was sweet to see how close they grew from CR to SF, from the barbed talk they have as Bond breaks into he…
  • echo wrote: » Agreed. Everyone always points to GF as being the film that improves on the novel, but OHMSS does so too, by dovetailing the Tracy and Blofeld plots. The more faithful early Bond scripts are underrated in how they adapted the…
  • They could have played up the whole 'Quantum becoming SPECTRE' thing in a more convincing, hell even elaborate way, yes. There might even have been more dramatic potential in this idea of warring fractions of this one organisation, Blofeld being thi…
  • Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: » JamesStock wrote: » Can't believe I'm the first to knock points off of DAD...I mean, the CGI is part of the cinematography, right? I guess technically anything in the frame is part of the cinematography. But D…
  • mtm wrote: » I don't think it would have put him out of the running, he was very much a supporting character in that. Pierce did way more ersatz Bond stuff than he ever did! I think there's a chance that he wouldn't have been up for it- his caree…
  • Issacs even looks a bit like a modern version of a young Hoagey Carmichael in The Tuxedo. Definitely very much in the realm of 'quintessential Bond', and can see him in the place of Fleming's Bond with a scar and a comma of hair over his brow. Th…
  • Maybe a way to go with the next Bond isn't to necessarily have a few 'high tech' gadgets (or at least ones significant to the plot) that are given to him by Q, but are already on his person that we see him using throughout the film. They'd be pretty…
  • I've always said it, I find Villeneuve's films a bit boring with the exception of Prisoners. He's an incredibly skilled, meticulous and cerebral director but perhaps it's not quite the right fit for a Bond film. It's also worth noting that if true i…