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Dragonpol

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Dragonpol
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https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Moonraker
Favourite Bond Film
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Favourite Bond Actor
Timothy Dalton
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  • 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » mtm wrote: » Last time I watched it I was surprised how distant and somewhat unlikeable Bond is in Dr No. He’s such a bastard in that film. Remember when he tells Quarrel to “fetch his shoes”? Fleming n…
  • Venutius wrote: » Fess up, didn't you sometimes want Cleese to fawn and scrape around M like Fawlty did with Sybil and get exasperated with Brosnan like Basil did with his guests? Or give him one last chance and then find a branch and give Brozza …
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » It's only sexual harassment if a man does it to a woman. It doesn't apply the other way around. Welcome to the modern law of equality though as ever some people are more equal than others. George Orwell wouldn't be s…
  • AgentM72 wrote: » Dr. Zorin! Ha! Yes, a nice little detail/Easter Egg we probably weren't meant to see but it's great that we did. It's funny as when I hear the name Safin I think of Zorin as they follow a similar name pattern. So, having a…
  • matt_u wrote: » That’s cool! I was wondering what that article on the newspaper stated about their poisoning. Safin being 16 makes sense. The attention to detail is crazy, the only big error they made was Blofeld’s date of birth on Q’s monitor (1…
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » QBranch wrote: » @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 You're late! Where the bloody hell have you been? Lucky you turned up when you did, or 0BradyM0Bondfanatic8 would'…
  • mtm wrote: » As I remember Gardner did age him ever so slightly, although he didn't really get any older over the period he was writing them; and then Benson just put Pierce Brosnan in his. Yes, that's right. Gardner did age him slightly. H…
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » https://ia601809.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/13/items/spirit-400714-mr.-midnight/Spirit 400707 'The Black Queen's Army'_jp2.zip&file=Spirit 400707 'The Black Queen's Army'_jp2/Spirit 400707 'The B…
  • mattjoes wrote: » Crazy LTK TV spot: Can you get anything more late 1980s than that? :))
  • muzz100 wrote: » This is the first thread about KA I’ve found so apologies if it’s been mentioned elsewhere. Amis was of course a massive Bond fan. I was lucky enough to have access to some of his personal papers in a library a few years ago now. …
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » QBranch wrote: » @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 You're late! Where the bloody hell have you been? Lucky you turned up when you did, or 0BradyM0Bondfanatic8 would've replaced you! That'd be fine. It's just a number…
  • NickTwentyTwo wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » MaxCasino wrote: » Venutius wrote: » They'll probably throw half a dozen 00s into the book, see which ones are the most popular and feature those in the remaining two books. Sounds like the fir…
  • MaxCasino wrote: » Venutius wrote: » They'll probably throw half a dozen 00s into the book, see which ones are the most popular and feature those in the remaining two books. Sounds like the first one's market research! I still wouldn’t …
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » I wish they had censored the end of OHMSS, and just replaced it with a caption that said: "And they lived happily forever after." Believe it or not I've heard that one of Dennis Wheatley's novels ends with those words…
  • Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: » Thunderfinger wrote: » Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: » Thunderfinger wrote: » I wish they had censored the end of OHMSS, and just replaced it with a caption that said: "And they lived happily forever after." …
  • More from the Guardian on the new Double O novel series: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/05/the-names-not-bond-where-next-for-007-no-time-to-die-kim-sherwood?fbclid=IwAR29Z0I9PRzJugQXTl71FbFs5vLEq0DTVuqMPmIwSA9wfAwrK7Kd_1N-Ux0
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » Ana de Armas nude would be nice. I'd buy that for a dollar. ;)
  • mtm wrote: » I don't think I've ever really got that gag! :D It's sexual innuendo. Biting and passionate kisses come to mind for me. But then again maybe I've watched too many Brosnan Bond films...
  • Welcome aboard @007dean.
  • mattjoes wrote: » Apologies in advance, but this had to happen. I'm having way too much fun. Not as much as Farrel, though. No doubt that's his ID card for the morgue. ;)
  • QBranch wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » A Rubik's cube inside a glass jar?! Is there no end to your talents, @QBranch? It's on Q's desk, but sadly, probably didn't make it into the frame. Ah, I see. I'm glad the jelly snakes did, thoug…
  • QBranch wrote: » A Rubik's cube inside a glass jar?! Is there no end to your talents, @QBranch?
  • A warm welcome back to @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7! You've certainly been missed! I always held out hope that you'd one day return here and I'm delighted that you have. I always enjoyed the in-depth analysis and knowledge that you brought to the table …
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » Woke or not, I doubt we’ll ever have Bond express his opinion of Koreans being lower than apes. That's why that sort of time-set character (almost in amber) can't be easily transported to the 2020s without major cha…
  • What a Columbo reboot might look like?!:
  • mtm wrote: » I thought that was gone too! Reading up on it just now the BBC were going to scrap it too in January 2020 but after complaints they decided to suspend their decision, literally at the eleventh hour. I'm a Teletext/Ceefax fan so…
  • mtm wrote: » Venutius wrote: » BBC teletext are quoting Sherwood as saying the book will have a 'feminist perspective'. So why tie it to Fleming's world at all? Ah, readymade audience, I see. Think I'll pass, tbh. Teletext?! I wa…
  • Venutius wrote: » BBC teletext are quoting Sherwood as saying the book will have a 'feminist perspective'. So why tie it to Fleming's world at all? Ah, readymade audience, I see. Think I'll pass, tbh. I suppose they're trying to tie the lit…
  • AceHole wrote: » I believe in a reasonable rate of return... Very sensible man.
  • DavidWebb wrote: » Calipso... sounds like it could be something nefarious Bond has to take down. I like it. Sounds very Dr. No (the novel version). The words "the calypsos throb" are even mentioned on the back of the very first '60s Pan pap…