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  • peter wrote: » bondjames wrote: » peter wrote: » bondjames wrote: » peter wrote: » bondjames wrote: » peter wrote: » Apologies to all Hiddleston fans. He's an actor I find very hard to like, admittedly, so putting him in th…
  • Doesn't MGM have a streaming service it's trying to build out? EPIX? Or is that subscription cable? I'd imagine Bond films as exclusive content would be a compelling way to bring in viewers to a subscription. Disney is doing something similar with D…
  • peter wrote: » bondjames wrote: » peter wrote: » bondjames wrote: » peter wrote: » Apologies to all Hiddleston fans. He's an actor I find very hard to like, admittedly, so putting him in the same sentence with Roger Moore, hurts my…
  • peter wrote: » bondjames wrote: » peter wrote: » Apologies to all Hiddleston fans. He's an actor I find very hard to like, admittedly, so putting him in the same sentence with Roger Moore, hurts my eyes and my brain when I process any remo…
  • jake24 wrote: » Torgeirtrap wrote: » February really is an odd month for blockbusters. It can be very clever releasing Bond 25 then, but it could also be a gamble. I guess the audiences that usually go to watch the Bond films whenever they are…
  • peter wrote: » Apologies to all Hiddleston fans. He's an actor I find very hard to like, admittedly, so putting him in the same sentence with Roger Moore, hurts my eyes and my brain when I process any remote comparisons between these two actors. …
  • That was pretty amusing I have to say. I actually recall wondering if the Boyle departure was an April Fool's joke on the day as well. The photo gave it away though.
  • Torgeirtrap wrote: » bondjames wrote: » Pierce2Daniel wrote: » Very interesting article concerning the box office prospects of Glass which is opening in Jan 2019: https://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/glass-box-office-opening-weekend-m…
  • Torgeirtrap wrote: » bondjames wrote: » In terms of a Moore type successor, I think Davenport would have been closest in the past, and these days it's probably Hiddleston. I think you're right about this. For example, I think both Daven…
  • CommanderRoss wrote: » bondjames wrote: » Mathis1 wrote: » bondjames wrote: » Roadphill wrote: » I can't understand why they never brought back Bruce Ferstein or Michael France. Those two seemed to really be able to mould Bond in t…
  • Pierce2Daniel wrote: » Very interesting article concerning the box office prospects of Glass which is opening in Jan 2019: https://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/glass-box-office-opening-weekend-m-night-shyamalan-1203095882/ It's early estim…
  • @Ludovico it's more his look and his build than anything else. I'll admit he was very smooth in Evil Under The Sun. In terms of a Moore type successor, I think Davenport would have been closest in the past, and these days it's probably Hiddleston.
  • Torgeirtrap wrote: » bondjames wrote: » Torgeirtrap wrote: » bondjames wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » Davenport played an exaggerated Bond pastiche in the first Kingsman, so that’d immediately disqualify him. Today, they don’t “type…
  • Torgeirtrap wrote: » bondjames wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » Davenport played an exaggerated Bond pastiche in the first Kingsman, so that’d immediately disqualify him. Today, they don’t “typecast”. If he were to have been cast, it wou…
  • Bardem was instrumental to SF's success in my view. He received a lot of attention at the film's release, and rightly so. Silva is a tremendous villain - a bit larger than life but also down to earth. A great blend of the exaggerated ones from the p…
  • Ludovico wrote: » @bondjames Nicholas Clay thuggish? I thought he looked and acted very gentlemanly. I've been a fan of Excalibur since childhood, so maybe I imagine his hypothetical Bond a bit like he played Lancelot. It's just his look @Lud…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » bondjames wrote: » Roadphill wrote: » I can't understand why they never brought back Bruce Ferstein or Michael France. Those two seemed to really be able to mould Bond in the modern world to the classic sensebilities of th…
  • Someone please shoot me if that's the case. Please make it quick.
  • M_Balje wrote: » I know, but Highlight the high points i think Bond should bring back because partly it lost this. I dislike the cold pacing of Skyfall. The end of spectre (at mi6) is not realy something great. The helicoper scenes in Sp i am mi…
  • Roadphill wrote: » I can't understand why they never brought back Bruce Ferstein or Michael France. Those two seemed to really be able to mould Bond in the modern world to the classic sensebilities of the series. I am far more disappointed th…
  • Torgeirtrap wrote: » Watching the recent adaptation of Ordeal by Innocence over the past couple of evenings, I've kept looking at Matthew Goode thinking that he could have been a good choice for a period set Bond film. He's 40 now, with some lines…
  • M_Balje wrote: » I hope the producers, writers, directer, art department and stunt people take look to World War Z. Two great Helicopter scenes (with a bit of Goldeneye feeling and very good ally scene (think Bond meet Mathis or Felix) with secon…
  • You gents need to give me the name of your oculist. I thought Craig looked rather lousy in SP. Almost as if he had done some work. This was particularly noticeable in the PTS when he takes his mask off, when he's chasing Sciarra (when they close up …
  • Getafix wrote: » bondjames wrote: » I don't mind Craig as an actor, but I'm pretty much done with his Bond. It's all the baggage around it that has become a bit overwhelming and burdensome for me and which I can't erase. Those hanging photos a…
  • Univex wrote: » For now, I'm happy Craig's doing just one more. It really doesn't bother me that much. Although I Know I'd be over the roof with the prospect of having a new Bond under the helm of CJF out next year. The possibilities would ac…
  • I don't mind Craig as an actor, but I'm pretty much done with his Bond. It's all the baggage around it that has become a bit overwhelming and burdensome for me and which I can't erase. Those hanging photos at the end of SP sum it up perfectly. They …
  • I agree. Keep it broad so one doesn't box oneself in and then have to extricate why a closure story next time.
  • doubleoego wrote: » Tuxedo wrote: » Still so much buzz about Boyle. I don't get it. He's out. Simple as that. Exactly. Once KJF's Bond 25 comes out and presuming it turns out great, nobody's going to really give a toss about whatever Bo…
  • Getafix wrote: » bondsum wrote: » Tuxedo wrote: » Still so much buzz about Boyle. I don't get it. He's out. Simple as that. Very much agreed. But some folk here like to continually bring it up because they have nothing much else going…
  • PanchitoPistoles wrote: » Tuxedo wrote: » Still so much buzz about Boyle. I don't get it. He's out. Simple as that. No, it's not that simple. We do not know whether his movie gold idea is out or not. It could have just been marketing…