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echo
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Favourite Fleming Novel
You Only Live Twice
Favourite Bond Film
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Favourite Bond Actor
Daniel Craig
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  • James Bond films will always end that way. Even the last one.
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • I'm pretty sure that Cubby instilled in MGW and Babs the importance of getting an actor's second film out quickly...unfortunately, that doesn't always pan out, as TMWTGG and QoS show. It also makes me wonder why TND is so by-the-numbers, although p…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • Michael Praed of Dynasty? Interesting.
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • peter wrote: » I’m in the midst of it @Remington ... I love it; think it captures Fleming’s creation quite nicely. A very worthy companion piece to the original novels. Next time I will read this after reading all of Fleming in order... …
    in Which Bond novel are you currently reading? Comment by echo May 2018
  • I understand where they were going with Terry: younger Moneypenny, younger Leiter. But the casting didn't work. If it had worked, they could have had the same Leiter in LTK from the previous film. Shame, really. TLD makes few missteps in my …
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • TheWizardOfIce wrote: » thelivingroyale wrote: » I think if you put the music from the GF one over the GE-TWINE gunbarrel you've pretty much got the perfect one right there. Really isn't that hard. This. In sodding spades. To say it's not…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • octofinger wrote: » Torgeirtrap wrote: » My issue with AVTAK, other than the obvious things like the Moore facelift, Tanya's screaming, Beach Boys in the PTS, Q's robot, etc - is the way the film looks. The cinematography and the way the locat…
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • peter wrote: » echo wrote: » I want Craig for as long as we have him. The next Bond is going to have some big shoes to fill. Many on this thread think the hiatus between Sp and now (although out of EoN's hands) was wasted by laziness. …
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • I want Craig for as long as we have him. The next Bond is going to have some big shoes to fill.
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • Getafix wrote: » Totally agree. She's been disappointing in most of her English language films. Volver is the best performance I've seen from her. It feels like she really loses something when she's having to deliver lines in English. A talente…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • BAIN123 wrote: » That cry of “James” when she is on the hilltop is unintentionally funny. Does Stacey cry "James" more than any other Bond girl? It sure seems so.
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • Strog wrote: » Walecs wrote: » Cruz had been rumored to star in Bond 24 too, I think the rumors surfaced in early/mid-2013. Yeah, she's been rumored for a while. I believe that's what the article is referring to. I'd be up for it. She…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » bondsum wrote: » Well, nothing survives intact from Fleming's own short story about Bond investigating the murder of a motorcycle dispatch-rider and the theft of his top-secret documents by a motorcycle-riding assassin, …
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • Title Track: DN Title Credits: DN Main Villain: LTK Main Bond Girl: DN Henchman: LTK Overall Plot: LTK Dialogue: DN Score: LTK Settings: DN Action: LTK Humour: DN Cinematography: DN Benign Bizarre: DN Suspense: LTK Minor Characters: DN…
    in Dr. No versus the field: Skyfall Comment by echo May 2018
  • Sheena Easton, For Special Services
    in What do you want from Billie Eilish's NTTD's title song? Comment by echo May 2018
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » Spectre's problem was that it compressed two films into one. That was always the problem. It is obviously an arc for two films and needed more room to breathe. But, after the studio interfered and Craig didn't commit to two mo…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • One thing I would change is that I would tell Louis Jordan to drag out the name "Octopussy" even more. His intonation of her name always makes me chuckle.
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • Madeleine was better at the beginning, when she was prickly. But then she's suddenly helping Bond with Q. What?
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » Birdleson wrote: » Thunderfinger wrote: » Charlotte Rampling would have made a fine Octopussy. Yes. And since they referenced the backstory they should d have stuck to the specifics (a flashback would have be…
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • Birdleson wrote: » I like it as well. I've even come to accept the faux Beach Boys (I hated that in '81). The only part that I really dislike now is Kimberly Jones and the ice berg sub. Too goofy. How would you feel if Octopussy had been …
    in What is your favourite/least favourite Pre-Title-Sequence? Comment by echo May 2018
  • Bezant.
    in anyone have one of these? A Piz Gloria 007 snowglobe? Comment by echo May 2018
  • bondjames wrote: » Very good points @DaltonCraig007. I can only imagine that they decided to go back to the tropes because they'd heard that certain sections of the fanbase (or general public) wanted them back. After all, Craig has commented fr…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • antovolk wrote: » And as for the 'bad behaviour', herein is the crux. Bond isn't presented as an anti-hero unlike someone like Deadpool so obviously is. He is still presented as the standard to live up to, something which is reinforced in all the …
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • RC7 wrote: » PanchitoPistoles wrote: » As long as it turns out to be an excellent movie, the more traditionalists Bond 25 will piss off, the more I will love it. :)) What’s a traditionalist? Soneoneone who rates FRWL, or someone who rat…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • mattjoes wrote: » Thunderfinger wrote: » The clock is ticking and he spends time making his clown makeup absolutely perfect. That is a common complaint, it seems. I don't mind it myself. His makeup is intended to look perfect not because …
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • I'd like to go on the record as hating the Bond-mentors-younger-agent idea, unless the younger agent and the mentoring are a small part of the film.
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • OP is a sentimental favorite of mine, and not coincidentally, the first Bond I saw in the theater. The fixes I would make are relatively minor: get rid of the racist Indian jokes, sharpen the hunting scene (taking out the vines and the Tarzan yel…
    in 007: What would you have done differently? Comment by echo May 2018
  • boldfinger wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » I quite like that metaphor too. And it makes sense. But we should ask ourselves--and I'm a Craig fan, mind: if we had gotten, say, three more Craig Bonds, for a total of 7 or 8, wouldn't many people (not…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018
  • Boyle will be more energetic than Mendes. We won't get long ponderous shots. I feel that there's no way Boyle won't direct B25. It would be too embarrassing for all involved (and especially for Craig) for it to go any other way.
    in Controversial opinions about Bond films Comment by echo May 2018
  • FoxRox wrote: » Craig is the best since Connery. Even with the disappointing SP I stand by that. Agreed. Craig is the game-changing Bond. He made the series culturally relevant again. patb wrote: » Taking a step back, can anyone expl…
    in No Time To Die: Production Diary Comment by echo May 2018