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delfloria wrote: » Call me old fashioned but the less we know about Bond personally the better. Just send him on an assignment and let us enjoy the ride as he get's closer to his target and finally vanquishes his latest larger-than-life foe. …
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No one is obligated to like The Beatles. If you don't, you don't. But not liking them, their music, that they are overrated, or whatever, doesn't change their talent, their cultural impact on the times, or history. They have fierce advocates. So …
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@SIS_HQ - There is no greatest band or singer. There can't be because music evolves continually and each generation likes what is current. For me, a boomer, The Beatles are gods. But let's put that in perspective. Why boomers rave on about the sixti…
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@echo -- I'd like to see another version of any film from the Moore era.
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Since we're getting a new Bond (someday), let's go with a slate of new, unfamiliar actors. There's no question there's many familiar actors who could step into these roles, but roll the dice. Let's have actors we don't know well from previous roles.
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. mtm wrote: » Yeah I can't see a way in which Higson's Bond wasn't just the Bond we've always known but in the modern day. I think it's slightly confused and contradictory to say that he should be unconcerned by what's in vogue and yet wear fash…
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Using Connery as an example, his style of dress was quite different in DAF. Though fashionable then, caught me off guard. Never was a fan of the pink shirts and ties, white belts, and plaids. It seemed odd then and certainly outdated now. Bond alway…
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I most certainly cannot agree that Moore was an expressive actor and showed fear the best among Bonds. He simply did not have the range of other actors. He was Roger Moore as Bond and Roger Moore in most of his other roles. Moore was a good Bond …
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I like action scenes that create tension. A lot of times Bond doesn't really seem to be in peril. The Matero car scene could have been so much better if a seething Bond was really worried about the attack. No matter what weapon the bad guys pulled o…
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Bond is a character at home in any time without necessarily being of that time. He doesn't need to do anything that panders to whatever characterizes the current generation. There's nothing unique about Bond using current technology. He's always don…
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@MaxCasino - TWINE arguably walked so SF could run. I have no idea what this means.
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As a Bond fan since 1962, I don't need any of that, nor do I see the need for it. Spin offs are nothing more than proximity to the real thing. I prefer the real thing. Without their associations to James Bond, would any of the spinoff characters be …
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Of the Moore films, LALD is my favorite. But none of his films fall into the classic category for me. Primarily, he never convinced me he was Bond and I agree about YOLT and DAF. For me the Connery era ended with TB. By the time Moore era rolled aro…
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I absolutely see that. It's great when you can move beyond a film looking old and dated. NxNW and Vertigo I can watch over and over. Once you're no longer bothered by effects and things like that but can focus on the acting and the story, that's wha…
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SIS_HQ wrote: » The best is subjective, some of the fans in here ranked the film at middle and not number 1, some prefer Skyfall to it, or Goldeneye (latter, is in my case). True. We like what we like. I wonder how many base their opin…
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So, a faithful adaptation can't be done. Bond novels are too out of date for today's audiences. Those stories can't even be updated because they are so old fashioned. But taking bits and pieces from MR and using them over and over is always new and …
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For me there is nothing unique about today that would prevent a Bond novel, any Bond novel, from being updated to make for a cracking good story for modern audiences. Bond stories have always been updated. However, far too many have been lousy adapt…
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On the one hand here we praise the brilliance of screen writers who can conjure up all sorts of imaginative stories, but trying to tell the story of a supposedly patriotic billionaire who builds a rocket to be used on his own country, sorry, nothing…
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Yeah, who wants to see a story about a nut job who wants to blow up London with a rocket. We need more visually exciting stories about nano-bots and stolen computer chips with the names of every MI6 agent in the world. It's not as if computer techno…
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Paladin A Life Worth Taking The Seventh Syn The Golden Mile Don't Look Twice No Kiss, No Mercy For King and Country The Enemy You Know Coffinmaker Angels Do Not Care The Way the World Ends Seeing is Believing All Bets are Off Don't Coun…
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Adapt a Fleming novel as closely as one can or keep writing 100% original screenplays. In name only stories don't work for me, nor do screenplays that sample bit and pieces of previous films and novels as if that somehow legitimizes new works. The …
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Does snatching a couple of scenes and songs from an earlier work really count as an adaptation? The original films were barely adaptations. Were the YOLT references in NTTD supposed to give it some authenticity? To me it was a reminder that there's …
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Daltonforyou wrote: » The 9 year-old schoolboy in me still wants The Undertakers' Wind. or Zographos The Undertaker's Wind - In this explosive reboot vaguely reminiscent of DN, a fuming M (because M is always fuming at this best agent…
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Why do we like some talented writers more than we like other talented writers? Because we do. I don't think P&W are untalented hacks. But I'd like to see others take a crack at Bond. As far as knowing Bond, they know their Bond, their versi…
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If Nolan started tomorrow, we could have a film by December 2025. Whatever the reason we're not hearing anything, I don't think it has anything to do with so much is going on.
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Heightened reality, a mixture of tongue in cheek humor, and genuine tension and spectacle are not unique to EON. No shortage of films do this. What EON has going for it is they own the Bond elements: gun barrel sequence, the music, the Bond name and…
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Given the hundreds of titles suggested on this thread, it will be surprising if the producers manage to come up with something that hasn't been pitched here. But there are words I believe they will avoid in the first film of the new series. De…
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Green was spectacular as Vesper, so I don't want to imagine who else could have played the role. But Lara Pulver, yes! There are so many other Bond women she could have played. It's baffling how a series that prides itself on the concept of the Bond…
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If Green was miscast, then it was a wonderful mistake. And she certainly does not look child-like. But I do agree the set up before meeting her didn't meet expectations. This is a series that has little regard for continuity and details. Her nati…
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