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- Moonraker
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- No Time To Die
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- Daniel Craig
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Speaking of Fleming many wonderful side characters, is the man doing the word association in Skyfall Sir James Maloney? Because that's what I've always assumed and reading Dr No that's who I'm imagining but is it ever definitively stated that he is?
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Here's the first trailer for Legends of the Sea Devils. I have to say just from the trailer it's probably the most visual interesting of the Chibnall era which is a very low bar, but Haolu Wang is supposedly a rising star so I'm hoping she can fa…
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Yeah I'll be honest I don't what I was talking about there, that was a bit hyperbolic wasn't it? 😅 Having slept on it I think it's a really solid show, it's not remarkable but what it does it's doing very well. James Hawes is very workmanlike direc…
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Okay so I just watched the first episode Slow Horses which was amazing (and look Elliot Carver's in it) and in many ways I think could be the blueprint for Bond 26 but also Jack Lowden really impressed me. I'd never heard of him before but for me he…
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Safin would've had to have to have targeted Blofeld separately anyway because he's been locked away in Belmarsh for five years so just by sheer coincidence the only person Ernst regularly speaks to is the same girl he pulled out of the ice a couple …
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Venutius wrote: » I think she meant why didn't adult Madeleine shoot Safin at the shed in the woods? Ah yes that does make more sense, it is very 'blink and you'll miss it' Bond hears gunfire after dispatching Logan Ash and the next shot is…
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MI6HQ wrote: » This movie, The first time I've watched it I fell in love with it, and it became my favorite Bond film, Lazenby wasn't that bad, Diana Rigg is still my favorite bond girl up to this day, and yes! Because of this, she became one of m…
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No worries @MI6HQ, it's nice to spout off about NTTD. mtm wrote: » One question that I'd have to watch the film back to check: did M & Tanner realise that Bond had been covered in the Spectre-killing nanobots in Cuba before they let him in …
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1. He wasn't off the radar in Matera, he had retired. Spectre had already set up the bomb at Vesper's grave because there was a high likelihood that he would go it at some point, and it seems logical that Blofeld would be keeping tabs on James' wher…
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Hi, I'm another female Bond fan hence my username is one of my favourite Bond women. My first Bond film was Die Another Day but I grew up with Daniel Craig and No Time to Die really reignited my love of the series and I wanted to discuss it with lik…
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After listening to the Forever and a Day audiobook I've been imagining Matthew Goode, partly for consistency's sake but he does have the look and sound of a man from the 1950s. I watched The Living Daylights yesterday though so I finally get what ev…
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Contacts by Mark Watson. I've enjoyed Watson as contestant on Taskmaster and No More Jockeys was one of the bright spots of the pandemic but this book was such a slog to get through, I never connected with any of the characters and the premise was t…
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » I could be wrong, but I think you see her name in the guardian documents Bond recovered in SP. That's what I was referring to, it's definitely a blink and you'll miss it thing.
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I'm glad they're still resistant to doing spin-off series, there isn't anything I would want put on screen that couldn't be done through other extended media, especially if it's going to be under Amazon's purview and I feel like it would detract fro…
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A wee bit biased naturally I wouldn't say no to seeing Aunt Charmian in a greater capacity than as an Easter egg from Spectre's production designer. Skyfall Lodge does make for an amazing location and a great final act but I hate how in creating tha…
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@Agent_99 Well I'm glad you gave it a shot and enjoyed it. I totally get why the concept itself would be off-putting but I think Higson captures the spirit of Fleming's writing that sells it, and yeah obviously I'm a big fan of how he fleshes out Ch…
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Seconded @Peter. It's funny that Bond's death eclipses everything because Bond being a father truly is one of those ideas where you can only do for the first time once and I think No Time to Die is all the better for it.
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I managed to finish Hurricane Gold. It's funny reading it after No Time to Die because it takes the concept of Bond and the Bond girl having to protect a small child whilst escaping from danger. I'd say the book does it better if only because there'…
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Great writeup for Spectre @Quantum_of_Tomorrow, there are wonderful little moments throughout the film. It's a much funnier than I remember, I think Van Hoytema's homogenous colour grading not only looks unimpressive but it's actively working agains…
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Ah that's true, I get a little muddled up because my digital copy has the MGM logo which is a shame because I really liked the Universal logo morphing into the gun barrel. Either way I don't care as long as I don't have to see Amazon's all-consuming…
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I hope we still get Leo, the new Star Wars movies felt different for a lot of reasons but I think the most important one was not having the classic 20th Century Fox fanfare at the start.
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BMB007 wrote: » No Time to Die allows Bond to salvage his soul. Bingo. This is the key from the five films (the word "soul" is used or alluded to repeatedly throughout). He lost something to become 007, and the whole journey is him getting this…
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Jordo007 wrote: » I wish we got a traditional Moneypenny scene during Spectre or NTTD. Naomie was a great Moneypenny Yeah she's wonderful as Moneypenny. Its placement in the car chase was an odd choice but I loved the Moneypenny/James in…
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I'm glad that the deeper character exploration continued throughout the Craig era but I think what with QoS being a direct sequel to CR, with the shifting of tone in the latter three and the fact they feel dated to the late-2000s now it feels like t…
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Forgive me if this parallel has been mentioned before but I had only realised it from reading Priscilla Page's excellent article on the Craig era, she says: 'There is a beautiful symmetry to the beginning and the end of this Bond’s story: he’s initi…
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I decided to make this the year I finally read though the original Fleming novels. I read Casino Royale back when the film came out even though I was a little too young for it, it was still a great read. I read Live and Let Die in December and so I …
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