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  • Thunderfinger wrote: » He has the look of a Bulgarian hotel musician. That killed me.
  • patb wrote: » All good points. Cruise has not become a better actor since MI2. It takes a decent script and director to create the right pace and feel and get the best from their actors. This never happened in MI2 despite Cruise giving it his b…
  • Tom Cruise, to me, is the opposite of cool - as is Hunt. Too squeaky clean. As for the films, I’d define the more recent entries as ‘slick’, rather than ‘elegant’, where SF and SP are exceptionally elegant pictures. They are two different beasts,…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » RC7 wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » RC7 wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » PanchitoPistoles wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » where they dramatically misjudge what the audience is asking for. The audience is …
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » RC7 wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » PanchitoPistoles wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » where they dramatically misjudge what the audience is asking for. The audience is asking for horse manure. The very last thi…
  • M Torgeirtrap wrote: » RC7 wrote: » Torgeirtrap wrote: » The Venice part is where I start looking at my watch, usually. I remember when watching CR at the cinema that people around me began to lose interest at that point, as well. …
  • Torgeirtrap wrote: » The Venice part is where I start looking at my watch, usually. I remember when watching CR at the cinema that people around me began to lose interest at that point, as well. Boring people.
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » Watching Desolation of Smaug on ITV currently. Anyone doubting Aidan Turner as Bond should watch this as he displays more personality in his small part than most do in starring roles. If Bond doesn't snap him up, some other fr…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » RichardTheBruce wrote: » My point would be how to present Bond reading the letter and showing anger. The letter on screen for the audience to read--static camera, or it pans down timed for reading. Or Vesper's voice-ov…
  • RichardTheBruce wrote: » The Casino Royale book is my favorite Fleming Bond novel, but I immediately felt the film improved on the ending. Confronting Bond with Vesper's death firsthand (and isolating them underwater after he's eliminated the c…
  • RichardTheBruce wrote: » I'm seeing expression here of A LOT more acceptance for the general approach M:I used (Scooby gang, parallel action, story arc, increased personal involvement, plus overt/accidental recreation of famous Bond moments as hom…
  • CR Parkour - Classic. Superb on every level. Miami - Excellent. Brilliantly paced. Venice - Underrated. Brilliantly choreographed sequence that in the hands of a lesser director would be a right royal mess. The cinematography (particularly …
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » PanchitoPistoles wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » where they dramatically misjudge what the audience is asking for. The audience is asking for horse manure. The very last thing EON should care about is what the audi…
  • Moving from Craig to Cavill is like Ferguson to Moyes. Count me as one of the few who thinks acting ability is actually reasonably important.
  • jobo wrote: » j_w_pepper wrote: » Thunderfinger wrote: » Jean-Marie LePen would have made a great French president. How are the Nazis doing in Norway these days? Thankfully there are very few of them. However right wing pop…
  • CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » I agree, @bondjames - the competition is healthy, and Bond has proven time and time again that it can bounce back when people start to doubt it or a fellow franchise makes strides towards creative peaks like Bourne did and…
  • CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » SharkBait wrote: » Who is Bourne anyway? Look, I like the og trilogy., but that has been played out. Nothing new. Whereas every new MI brings in something new and exciting. Okat, maybe that Hunt has been disowned has b…
  • Do you remember the excitement when Sam Mendes took over the Bond series? No, me neither. Stopped reading there.
  • I needed a good laugh.
  • DCisared wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » Craig's muscles were never an obstacle for me. They were shown once or twice but that's it. Yeah, very firm. Mine are more or less the same, they’re just fractionally more flaccid. Apart from that, I…
  • Creasy47 wrote: » RC7 wrote: » DoctorKaufmann wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » Why not just fast forward to the release date? Just saying. ;) Nah, I'd be 49 by then, and I don't fancy that idea. But it's true, it was not until Crai…
  • DoctorKaufmann wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » Why not just fast forward to the release date? Just saying. ;) Nah, I'd be 49 by then, and I don't fancy that idea. But it's true, it was not until Craig made CR, that audiences noted the phy…
  • boldfinger wrote: » BT3366 wrote: » But CR signaled a reboot, so why is it hard to accept a Bond who is in that type of shape? I don't think he looks like a bodybuilder or Stallone or Schwarzenegger, just an agent who is in really good shape. …
  • patb wrote: » I think it's interesting that , in mainstream media, MI is being openly compaired to Bond as a big, adverture franchise. Irrespective of individual opinion, the fact that there is a debate , in itself, shows how far MI has come. A…
  • fjdinardo wrote: » echo wrote: » fanbond123 wrote: » Competition is good for Bond, don't ya think? I reckon so. Keeps EON from getting too complacent. Daniel Craig isn't as crazy as Tom Cruise so I don't expect him to do all of his stun…
  • patb wrote: » https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/30/mission-impossible-tom-cruise-reliable-franchise Interesting line she throws out at the top - ‘an unlikely 22-year phenomenon that shows no signs of tiring’. I think it’s very clear…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » LeChiffre wrote: » Mission Impossible will be the one to beat. I agree. MI is now what the Bourne films were in the 2000's. And we know what happened there.
  • JamesBondKenya wrote: » Benny wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » talos7 wrote: » With 4 months to go, he's right on track. He's going to come in fit and ready. Yikes! If many of us looked as in shape when we're 50, I'm sur…
  • QBranch wrote: » RC7 wrote: » QBranch wrote: » Jeez, if those crows feet get any longer they'll touch. Damn right. I think they should just fire him and be done with it. I was talking about the young fit guy, not Craig. …
  • QBranch wrote: » Jeez, if those crows feet get any longer they'll touch. Damn right. I think they should just fire him and be done with it.