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BAIN123 wrote: Good question @Arsenal02071. I was thinking the same thing earlier. Althoght I like GF very much I'd probably only rank it #10 or even #11. Personally the reason Auric Goldfinger doesn't work for me as a villian is because he remind…
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BAIN123 wrote: DoubleOhhSeven wrote: Good question @Arsenal02071. I was thinking the same thing earlier. Althoght I like GF very much I'd probably only rank it #10 or even #11. Personally the reason Auric Goldfinger doesn't work for me as a vi…
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DarthDimi wrote: GF established many elements that we nowadays expect to see in a Bond film - well, mostly prior to 2006 ;-) - and in that sense it shaped the Bond formula. . It set the Bond formula but it did so in such a memorable way it …
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The Meteora - FYEO (whose locales are superb) The Sugarloaf, Rio - MR Iguacu Falls - MR Udaipur, the floating palace - OP The Bolivian desert (actually the Chlean) - QoS
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00Beast wrote: [ Thanks Dimi! I was reading some of the other posts that were ripping GE, and I knew it had to stop! Tut. Tut. No film of the franchise should be above criticism. No film should be a sacred cow. Even the mighty Goldfnger, u…
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Getafix wrote: BAIN123 wrote: Getafix wrote: Seems this forum is a refuge for that disappearing breed - the Brossa fan. Wish moderator/ Dr. Evil would kick me out. If that's your attitude then don't let the door hit you on the way o…
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BAIN123 wrote: 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: doubleoego wrote: Who cares if he swears, he's a regular guy who's job is to act. Just be thankful he isn't drink-driving and crashing into everything in sight. Exactly. We all swear somet…
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I am pretty much the same generation as Mr Craig and went through the Thatcherite eighties and am still scarred by it. Liverpool had it especially bad. The let down with Blair was astronomical especially on foreign policy. You realise you have swapp…
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DarthDimi wrote: Agent007391 wrote: BAIN123 wrote: Then there's DAD. The biggest problem of any era. It's just Connery's YOLT or Moore's MR. Perhaps the Craig era will face a similar project at one point. ;-) I am af…
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Getafix wrote: . the 90s and early 2000s were such a missed opportunity for bond. musically and stylistically there was the chance to do something amazing but what we got was dross. i feel with cr and qos we are now only just getting back to point…
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Getafix wrote: Personally I don't think any of them have felt like proper Bond movies since Dalton left. Up until then we evolution and since then it's been either devolution or revolution, if u know what I mean. ummm...I thought CR was v…
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Getafix wrote: I guess the films have to respond to a changeing demographic. It's not hard to imagine how those raised on Connery must have despised the innovations of the Moore era. Coming from the Dalton days myself, I have an appreciation for a…
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Getafix wrote: Very interesting that a younger generation has come to the movies through video games. Does this partly explain why DUD embraced CGI so enthusiastically? It is. It also explains why Goldeneye is so beloved of them. Myself? Sa…
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DoubleOhhSeven wrote: Judi Dench's M is a completely different character. For one thing she's a woman. I never had a problem with her cursing. Again her relationship with Craig's Bond has a totally different dynamic as opposed to Brosnan's Bond. …
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BAIN123 wrote: Actually I've just remembered Bond also used 'bitch' a few times in the books. Craig Bond famously used it in the films. "The bitch is dead now..."
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JBFan626 wrote: [ Yes, but we're talking Bond films here. These should be films with style. Sure realistically, Bond also needs to take a bathroom break, fill up the gas tank in the old Aston Martin, play some sudoku on his Sony Ericsen to pa…
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BAIN123 wrote: [ Perhaps but I still think Isabella is a bit sexier than Eva ;) Fair enough. I like you Bains you see both sides. Also, doesnt Dalton Bond swear in LTK "Turn off the bloody machine!"
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BAIN123 wrote: [. Fleming would just say something along the lines of "Bond let out a curse". There you are. He swore in the books.
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JBFan626 wrote: actonsteve wrote: You mean Robert Brown? I suspect they swore like troopers. Ex Naval men. Didnt M drink some fiery Moroccan wine. Yeah realistically they probably would. Well, there you go then....
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BAIN123 wrote: [ Hmm I think thats Tracy. Played by a better actress, the only Bond girl pre-Craig to tame Bond and who had a death that was IMO even more powerful than Vesper's. . But James Bond was already James Bond when he met Tracy. H…
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DaltonCraig007 wrote: actonsteve wrote: Possibly the most important Bond girl of the franchise. In the novel yes, but not in the film... In the film Vesper was a farce. Please explain why she is a farce?
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BAIN123 wrote: actonsteve wrote: BAIN123 wrote: actonsteve wrote: BAIN123 wrote: [ I just feel that in the pre-Craig era M was a bit more...dignified. Dignified? Is this the same character who tried to free herself from pri…
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BAIN123 wrote: . I know I'm probably in the minority but I'd take Natalya over Vesper easily. Natalya to me just has a gutsy attitude and a real survival instinct that we don't see that much of in Vesper. Also, Vesper doesn't come in until almost …
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BAIN123 wrote: actonsteve wrote: BAIN123 wrote: [ I just feel that in the pre-Craig era M was a bit more...dignified. Dignified? Is this the same character who tried to free herself from prison with a broom handle? Y…
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00Beast wrote: [I just think that GE's villains interact and go together better than any others. Plus, they are all really unique and contribute something different to Janus that makes them even more dangerous. Umm... I dont think they inte…
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BAIN123 wrote: [ I just feel that in the pre-Craig era M was a bit more...dignified. Dignified? Is this the same character who tried to free herself from prison with a broom handle?
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BAIN123 wrote: M should trust Bond though. She shouldn't treat him like a small child and Bond shouldn't act like one. Also, she says that she trusts him some time before the end in the hallway of the hotel. One mmute she has him suspended pending…
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BAIN123 wrote: [ In Royale it wasn't too bad but it became a little annoying in Quantum. In Quantum M has an even bigger character progression. She loses faith in Bond after he goes on that killing spree. She is not sure whether her first i…
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BAIN123 wrote: actonsteve wrote: BAIN123 wrote: "Please don't talk to me like I'm stoopid" ;) How else do you suggest they show it? Good dialogue and acting? Godfrey John does act it pretty well actually. I am proba…
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