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bigladiesman wrote: » I still prefer NSNA over TB: I feel like it's faster-paced, more humourous (in spite of Nigel Small. Guess Rowan Atkinson must hate the part, too) and has an 80s B-movie air that I love (I know: it was actually quite an expen…
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Just watched the one with William Shatner as the egotistical actor, and it reminded me how good he is in this kind of role.
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » Some people just overthink things. If Bond is played by a black actor, white actor, Asian actor… so what? What does that do TO YOU? And everyone forgets about John Gavin.
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mtm wrote: » I'd totally forgotten about the alternating-films thing. If that pattern is correct then it's hard not to think Harry was actually getting a higher hit rate! Until TSWLM came along of course. It was news to me last year when I …
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I don't know at what point Broccoli and Saltzman started trading off films, definitely LALD and TMWTGG. Was OHMSS the last time everyone got along? Saltzman's difficulties appear to have started in 1969 when he borrowed money from a Swiss bank t…
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Colonel_Venus wrote: » The answer to the question "Who would Chris Nolan cast as the next Bond?" and the answer to the question "Who will be the next James Bond?" are one and the same. I wouldn't go banco on that.
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I love Dalton in the role, but here in the US, he was always seen as the runner-up to Brosnan. He just never caught on with audiences. I don't know who bungled the Brosnan/TLD announcement/contractual negotiations, but poor Dalton was the collat…
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Okay, let's say Lazenby didn't quit after OHMSS (which was not an unreasonable choice in 1969, as much as it looks dumb now). Dalton in TLD was much better received than Lazenby, and Dalton lasted only two films. (Finances also derailed Dalton, …
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Agreed. The Amazon deal has to close first, before any of this.
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mtm wrote: » 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » MakeshiftPython wrote: » GL’s exit a “tragedy”? That’s a laugh. The series would have crashed and burned if he stuck around. I seriously doubt that, considering the series nearly crashed an…
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peter wrote: » As I told a couple of our members: buy me a brand new hat coz if there is an announcement after the Oscar’s— from this year— I will take that hat, pour all kinds of tasty sauce on it and I will eat it. Not happening. Agree…
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I'm sure they took the last shooting script and scrubbed out everything that didn't make the final film. That's very Eon.
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That's basically GE but with the navy instead of a 00.
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mtm wrote: » I know the previous posts about May were in jest, but I really have no interest in seeing her. I really wish P&W had found a place for May in NTTD. She could have been in the Garden of Death, tied to the train tracks in th…
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What if Dench came back...as May? Heads would explode.
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Denbigh wrote: » I think it would be a smart idea for them to go with a James Bond about two or three years into being a 00, and have him face a villain connected to his origin. This way they can have a classic mission with 007 but also examine th…
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I think the water plot, which was a smart, forward-thinking one, would have been more clearly developed had the writers' strike not intervened, and more drafts written. It seems pretty obvious to me that Haggis had already worked out the Vesper a…
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LucknFate wrote: » The issue I have with regard to the regular cast of characters in Craig's later films is that it doesn't seem like a real place with real people. As mentioned already above, Bond is just one agent and these people would not all …
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I could see a setup where M has Bond go "off book" because of warring forces in the government. They seemed like they might go there with a Guy Haines-type who is close to the PM. They kind of tried to go there with C in SP, but he frankly did n…
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What QoS lacked was a scene linking Bolivia to Quantum's larger plans...not far off from Stacey Sutton's (!) realization in AVTAK that "They'll kill millions." Was Bolivia a test run for controlling all of South America? So much--too much--was l…
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I think Felix the character works better as a black man...it's probably the best creative decision of NSNA after Connery's return. If Eon ever tries to revisit the problematic LALD story, a black Felix might be interesting...
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A couple of observations on my fourth viewing: "James, I have something to tell you." Madeleine was going to tell him about the pregnancy, not about Safin (so it's misdirection). She doesn't really have a chance to tell him in the car after tha…
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I think it's time. Hire a strong director and cast confidently.
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While I think the new M, Q, and Moneypenny worked out nicely in the end, I am ready for a clean slate the likes we have not seen since CR. And maybe this time there'll be a long-term plan. Eon might want to ask Waller-Bridge and/or Fukunaga to b…
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Risico007 wrote: » I have said before and I will say again go back to Fleming…. Honestly The man with the golden gun and from Russia with love should be the blueprint for a trilogy of bond films First film bond is brainwashed and has to figu…
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ColonelAdamski wrote: » The same character played by a different actor, yes. But by killing him off, we're forced to accept an alternate Bond universe, which a small, stupid minority of people (like me) are unhappy with, and find a narrative decei…
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Birdleson wrote: » As I brought top in the trivia thread, DN>FRWL LTK>GE SF>SP SP>NTTD These are the only instances where a Bond film's title is spoken in the following installment. I'm surprised they didn't work in the…
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Stamper wrote: » I told you before, not killing Nomi was a major mistake. Either Valdo Obruchev should have killed her, and met his fate by Bond, or Dr. No would have, making Bond killing him much better. The only reason they didn't kill her…
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » This is why even though the film version of OHMSS was faithful, Hunt was smart enough to change things by having Blofeld find out Bond's identity so that we could have that honest moment between the two. It would have been…
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CrzChris4 wrote: » Having watched NTTD on a flight home from vacation, two things in particular jumped out at me. 1. Blofeld was such a wasted character in the Craig era. I like Waltz more here, something really sinister in his performance this…
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