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JustJames

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JustJames
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Live And Let Die
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The Living Daylights
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  • Benson. Not only were they better in my opinion (and had something of a ‘sliding timeline’ like the films) but they were very much written in line with the films in terms of style. The Gardners are even more of their time, whereas the Benson ones …
    in Would you rather have Turkish coffee with Kerim Bey OR Sake with Tiger? Comment by JustJames October 12
  • sandbagger1 wrote: » As someone who didn’t go to film school, can anyone tell me how I judge what to attribute to the director, and what to attribute to the cinematographer (or even sometimes set-designer) when I see a film with great visuals? …
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames October 11
  • Colonel_Venus wrote: » I used to love this guy but I am so happy now that he is gone... https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/img_1205-1-1229x1536.jpg It’s his rebellion stage. Distancing himself from his Bond curate…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames September 29
  • AmericanBondFan1994 wrote: » https://variety.com/2024/film/news/amazon-mgm-studios-netflix-film-chief-scott-stuber-united-artists-1236086388/# Looks like bond films will continue using the united artists banner. Odd how Variety of all publ…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames July 28
  • Erm. Pierce is wearing a leather coat. Craig is wearing a waxed cotton Barbour ‘jacket’. (Though both are long, therefore both are coats) In those pictures anyway. I think Craig wears a leather jacket earlier in SF though. So am too confused. …
    in Would you rather have Turkish coffee with Kerim Bey OR Sake with Tiger? Comment by JustJames July 23
  • There is a *ton* of Moore in the Craig era. Which shouldn’t remotely be surprising, as that would pretty much be the actual Bond he grew up watching.
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames July 19
  • mtm wrote: » I love the NTTD watch, but it costs over £8k so I can't really justify buying one, however this week I tickled the itch by getting this homage watch from Watchdives: it's a (cheekily!) close homage to the original, complete with grade…
    in OMEGA appreciation thread (formerly Reliable Omega replica watches?) Comment by JustJames July 8
  • Kara and it’s not even close.
    in Would you rather have Turkish coffee with Kerim Bey OR Sake with Tiger? Comment by JustJames July 2
  • Vis a vis Bourne, fairs fair — the Bourne books started as essentially Bond fan-fiction by Ludlum. The first one you can even kind-of sort-of read as follow up to amnesiac Bond in the Fleming novels. There’s a reason the initials are the same. The …
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames June 27
  • mtm wrote: » Yes there’s a bit towards the beginning where he’s supposed to be romancing a lady on a balcony and gets a Bond-style cheesy quip to deliver, and he kills it stone dead. SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » As soon as I saw Cavill's ha…
    in ARGYLLE - Matthew Vaughn/Henry Cavill spy movie series Comment by JustJames May 8
  • See, ‘I showed them your watch…’ is actually perfect, because it also demonstrates his relationship with Q in that moment, and who is literally the only person ‘with’ Bond throughout his final moments. The fact it’s not even an issued watch, but lit…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames April 29
  • Media shakedown. If it’s not ATJ maybe they can get EON to say who it really is, and if it is him, then it is a scoop. Either way they get column inches for a couple of days — including printing the denial (that wasn’t a denial, when you look at wha…
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by JustJames March 20
  • Dragonpol wrote: » RichardTheBruce wrote: » Scaramanga1974 wrote: » "I'm just James"starring Ryan Gosling as Bond. Yeah I could see that. I'm sure @JustJames will approve of that title. :) It would make me ah…
    in Bond 26 Title Comment by JustJames March 13
  • Bond is SIS, not Five. The problem with Bond in Britain is that it isn’t where he is supposed to be working — to all intents, in SF and SP he (and others) are rogue operators. But then, arguably, Fleming (and the MI6 of the films) was always writing…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames March 7
  • The Craig era, for good or ill, is where Bond almost always *lost*. CR — lost QOS — win, and no score draw on the ongoing stuff SF — outright loss. Doesn’t matter that baddie died, he had one goal, and he achieves that SP — a win. Completed only…
    in Was SPECTRE a disappointment? Comment by JustJames March 4
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » I’m not really a fan of this new direction taken since AFTERLIFE, with the Ghostbusters being revered as if they’re mythic superheroes while being dogpiled with memberberries. I blame the fans for letting this happen. G…
    in Ghostbusters (1984 - Present) Comment by JustJames March 1
  • CrabKey wrote: » Having done three spy(ish) films already, HC probably shouldn't be the next Bond. Perhaps an actor we haven't seen previously as a Bond-like character, but can play the part. By that logic, Roger Moore would never have been…
    in ARGYLLE - Matthew Vaughn/Henry Cavill spy movie series Comment by JustJames February 27
  • It’s easy enough to write a way in for him to have survived. And even a way to deal with Heracles, and *even do it in a way that makes for an exciting story hook*. But — I doubt Craig wants another rodeo.
    in Can the Craig Bond survive the bomb? Comment by JustJames February 9
  • Everything about the film — the joke with the soup, the way Safin was growing and harvesting Heracles (whose name applies to so many bits of the film it’s funny) basically screams ‘Programmable Virus’ rather than *just* nano machines (which is basic…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames February 8
  • mtm wrote: » JustJames wrote: » Louisa is also no longer Keeley Hawes, and the actress is great on the show. Is that how Herron describes her? Nope, but it’s how it reads, quite strongly, at first. In a good way. Like I said, it …
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames January 22
  • The thing to remember about Slow Horses, is that a *lot* of that comes from the books. (It starts like almost a Spooks fan-fic, with a hint of Ashes to Ashes) But the TV series has evened a lot of stuff out for the screen — including changing the Bo…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames January 22
  • mtm wrote: » JustJames wrote: » mtm wrote: » JustJames wrote: » The PWB character was pretty good, I thought — she’s Indy as he was in ToD, and she changes by the end. At no point does she actually undermine Indy either, and in the end…
    in Indiana Jones Comment by JustJames January 13
  • mtm wrote: » JustJames wrote: » The PWB character was pretty good, I thought — she’s Indy as he was in ToD, and she changes by the end. At no point does she actually undermine Indy either, and in the end it’s his influence on *her* that leads …
    in Indiana Jones Comment by JustJames January 13
  • The PWB character was pretty good, I thought — she’s Indy as he was in ToD, and she changes by the end. At no point does she actually undermine Indy either, and in the end it’s his influence on *her* that leads to her bringing him back. I do think t…
    in Indiana Jones Comment by JustJames January 13
  • AstonLotus wrote: » JustJames wrote: » Bet it makes it back eventually, and bet home video releases made more than expected (was easier to buy it on iTunes than find a cinema that still had showings…) even allowing for Hollywood accounting. …
    in Indiana Jones Comment by JustJames January 12
  • Eh. Ok. I’ll do it. Write the film, direct the film. Won’t sing the theme tune though. I’m cheap as well, so think of how much money will make it up on screen.
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames January 11
  • Bet it makes it back eventually, and bet home video releases made more than expected (was easier to buy it on iTunes than find a cinema that still had showings…) even allowing for Hollywood accounting.
    in Indiana Jones Comment by JustJames January 11
  • Of course, in the Seventies, no one wanted to watch James Bond starring The Saint…. Oh. None of the Bond actors, except Lazenby, have been complete unknowns. Oddly, Brosnan was closest — Remington Steele wasn’t exactly a big thing in the UK, in fa…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames January 6
  • Spy stuff is bigger than it’s been in years atm, Bond played a part in that. Plenty of kids will move from Young Bond and Alex Ryder onto big boy Bond. There’s a renaissance in the harder, Le Carre stuff — Night Manager, and now Slow Horses. There’s…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by JustJames January 4
  • They’ve had SF elements since Dr.No. Or at least would have more obviously if they had went with Honey having a problem with giant radioactive crabs.
    in NO TIME TO DIE (2021) - First Reactions vs. Current Reactions Comment by JustJames December 2023