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echo
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007 in New York
Favourite Fleming Novel
You Only Live Twice
Favourite Bond Film
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Favourite Bond Actor
Daniel Craig
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  • My aversion to the MI films is that Tom Cruise is always playing the character of Tom Cruise. There's no emotional core to them.
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by echo January 2021
  • FrankXavier wrote: » I just think there needs to be more focus on Bond's mission itself, make it really surprising and filled with interesting characters, and make the villain's scheme something you can find believable, and not related to or motiv…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by echo January 2021
  • Roadphill wrote: » suavejmf wrote: » Chriskarr wrote: » This is the "official" reason variety.com/1994/film/news/dalton-bails-out-as-bond-120067/amp/ Neeson may well have made a good Bond. I'm glad he didn't get it. I find h…
    in Reunion with Death - early third Dalton treatment? Comment by echo January 2021
  • I think adding May at this point would feel very dated, unless, perhaps, she's played by a minority actress. Who's cleaning flats in the UK these days? But of course the fanboys would be up in arms about that... Anyway, I think the near-empty, …
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by echo January 2021
  • MGM is a problem because they are perpetually cash-poor. That's not the case with Disney, Universal, or WB. I'd calculate, on balance, that most of the delays in the series have come from MGM, not Eon, starting with the long 1989-1995 stretch.
    in NTTD & Corona Comment by echo January 2021
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484 The author is just another Murdoch stooge. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464
    in Coronavirus Discussion Comment by echo January 2021
  • "They'll find an antidote." "Of course! If I give them enough time."
    in NTTD & Corona Comment by echo January 2021
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » ImpertinentGoon wrote: » battleshipgreygt wrote: » On the note of Fleming, for the next Bond I’d love to see Blades introduced. I think M having his ear to the pulse of London’s elite and powerful provides some interes…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by echo January 2021
  • For argument's sake... Gregg did screw up the plane chase in SP. Barbara did NOT screw up the tanker chase in LTK.
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by echo January 2021
  • royale65 wrote: » AstonLotus wrote: » ToTheRight wrote: » PDJamesBond wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » Thanks, guys. She deserves it. For years now, I've been told that AVTAK is an awesome film suffering from a terrible actress as the B…
    in R.I.P. A Final Farewell To Members Of The James Bond Family Comment by echo January 2021
  • antovolk wrote: » Bax has chimed in: "expect it to shift again". https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9123811/amp/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Hamiltons-nemesis-Leslie-Odom-Jr-Cookes-storm-soul-legend-Sam.html?__twitter_impression=true With the talk o…
    in NTTD & Corona Comment by echo January 2021
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » M_Balje wrote: » What if there do that Facts of Death thing with bring Colin Salmon back as Charles and Samantha Bond as Moneypenny and the party celebrate 15 years of there are married. The two infite there Daughter …
    in Any Non-Fleming Material You Would Like To See Adapted? Comment by echo January 2021
  • I had no idea Carson/McMahon treated her so poorly. Shame on them. She seemed like a very nice, shy person. RIP. The good thing is that every Bond movie conveys a sort of immortality to its stars. The films will be watched forever.
    in R.I.P. A Final Farewell To Members Of The James Bond Family Comment by echo January 2021
  • GeneralGogol wrote: » This discussion got me thinking... has there ever been a scandal-free and smoothly-run Bond production? Likely nothing in the Craig era would qualify, and it's fascinating to read all these stories about Hunt that shed light …
    in Peter Hunt - An Appreciation (the former Peter Hunt Auteur thread) Comment by echo January 2021
  • RogerJonMoorePertwee wrote: » In the current world waiting one or two years for a film to come out it’s not a big deal It is when you consider the waiting that we had already gone through before the March 2020 delay, it was barely a month …
    in NTTD & Corona Comment by echo January 2021
  • Yes, but TND is reheated Bond leftovers. Easily digestible but doesn't taste all that great. The runtime is dependent on the story. OHMSS and CR justified their longer runs, both epic and personal--for Bond. SP definitely not. SF is arguable-…
    in Should there be a 2 hour limit on Bond movie runtimes? Comment by echo January 2021
  • 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » Should probably rename the thread “The Peter Hunt appreciation thread” :)) :)) :)) BT3366 wrote: » ringfire211 wrote: » I don’t understand why they had to rush the film into theaters by Christmas 1965. Why no…
    in Peter Hunt - An Appreciation (the former Peter Hunt Auteur thread) Comment by echo January 2021
  • I'm saying Tenet and WW are test cases.
    in NTTD & Corona Comment by echo January 2021
  • km16 wrote: » echo wrote: » Satorious wrote: » I can feel the pain both as a fan and for the marketing team (I run a film festival and I'm in a similar boat). That said - can't see any point of moving to Nov 2021 personally - especially if…
    in NTTD & Corona Comment by echo January 2021
  • matt_u wrote: » As long as he keeps making his “pioneer” stuff far away from Bond then I’m fine with Nolan. Anyway, he desperately needs a writer. Desperately. +1
    in Christopher Nolan - Appreciation Thread Comment by echo January 2021
  • Satorious wrote: » I can feel the pain both as a fan and for the marketing team (I run a film festival and I'm in a similar boat). That said - can't see any point of moving to Nov 2021 personally - especially if they are looking to capitalize on t…
    in NTTD & Corona Comment by echo January 2021
  • No. DAD smacked of desperation from frame one. James Bond should never surf.
    in DIE ANOTHER DAY: First 30 minutes perfect? Comment by echo December 2020
  • 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » jobo wrote: » DaltonFan wrote: » When I was younger there were a lot of theaters who ran Thunderball and You Only Live Twice would be run as a double feature. And say what you want about this film, even Bond fans…
    in YOLT: All style and no substance? Comment by echo December 2020
  • I enjoyed your take as well. I don't know why people want the return to formula. We already have enough formulaic films in the franchise from DN through DAD, with the exceptions of OHMSS and arguably LTK. The films should be about the character…
    in Where does Bond go after Craig? Comment by echo December 2020
  • RichardTheBruce wrote: » Thunderfinger wrote: » If it doesn t [discriminate], why do some people die while others don t even notice they have it? I take your point. The virus targets old over young, and those with pre-existing conditions…
    in Coronavirus Discussion Comment by echo December 2020
  • I remember as a kid reading one of the Bond books and thinking, "What's a lorry?"
    in Bond Book Butchery Comment by echo December 2020
  • It is interesting that Eon shies away from the continuation novels. It's almost as if they see them as damaged goods (and don't want to pay for the rights). (Except for Amis of course, but he is in different literary class from the others...)
    in Any Non-Fleming Material You Would Like To See Adapted? Comment by echo December 2020
  • ringfire211 wrote: » Yep it’s not just the sped-up thing but also the fact that what we’re seeing is all over the place. There’s no logic. Largo steers left, boat goes right. First you see a strip of land outside the window, then it disappears, th…
    in Peter Hunt - An Appreciation (the former Peter Hunt Auteur thread) Comment by echo December 2020
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » Hunt was definitely ahead of his time the way OHMSS was shot and edited. When Hunt was on form he was brilliant. If you look at the way the FRWL train fight is edited together, it stands up today against modern filmmaking. …
    in Peter Hunt - An Appreciation (the former Peter Hunt Auteur thread) Comment by echo December 2020
  • 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » mtm wrote: » 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » mtm wrote: » 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » This thread has really got me thinking; What happens when they DO exhaust every bit of Fleming Material from the books. It w…
    in Is Moonraker the most used novel of Fleming? Comment by echo December 2020