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Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Casino Royale
Favourite Bond Film
From Russia With Love
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Sean Connery
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  • I don't think that except for a few hardline GE fans anyone out there cares for a Trevelyan prequel. The same, by the way, goes for the childhood days of Red Grant and the tribulations of young Ernst Stavro Blofeld. I might be more interested in a …
    in Trevelyan prequel Comment by j_w_pepper February 16
  • Wow, do we need to solve those problems 55 years after movie audiences failed to do so...? Ok, ok, it's fun...
    in The theories of Bond films! Why is Dr. Goodhead antagonistic to Bond for most of MR? Comment by j_w_pepper February 16
  • DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » I think the Craig formula dried up. That's all. In my opinion the best are CR and SF and I think he will be remembered for these films. Well, if I look at my own choices...two out of three ain't bad. We just seem to dif…
    in The Craig era - sullied for some? Comment by j_w_pepper February 16
  • bondywondy wrote: » I think it's quite common to assume well known older people have died. You watch an old film and you think the actor is still alive and you discover online the actor has died or vice versa. You assume an actor has died because …
    in Dolly did wear braces. Photo and video evidence reveals truth! Comment by j_w_pepper February 16
  • I've just come to the conclusion that, whatever the facts are, I'm definitely a victim of the "Mandela effect". It has also been my firm belief that Dolly had braces. But if that was restricted to the original theatrical version, I could not have …
    in Dolly did wear braces. Photo and video evidence reveals truth! Comment by j_w_pepper February 16
  • I think that NTTD is a terrific movie, and together with CR and SF it is now (for the time being) among my top five of the franchise (the other two being FRWL and GF). So I definitely find no reason to think it sullied my feelings for the other Cra…
    in The Craig era - sullied for some? Comment by j_w_pepper February 15
  • I just checked out the "Möbelscheune" (Furniture Barn) in our next bigger town. It is run by the Landkreis (county, district or whatever you would call it) and mostly sells used furniture that was donated rather than discarded, and quite cheaply. B…
    in The General Music Thread Comment by j_w_pepper February 13
  • I like spy films. But really...are Bond movies "spy films"? Contrary to conventional wisdom, I don't think he is a spy. The guys in Tinker Tailor... and other works by John Le Carré are spies. So are probably the Mossad agents in Munich and some…
    in Rank your favourite spy films along side Bond Comment by j_w_pepper February 10
  • Both duos are probably rather dangerous, and you can't trust either of them. But under the circumstances, I'd rather spend my time in female company.
    in Would you rather we visit 1960's Japan OR 1970's Brazil? Comment by j_w_pepper February 8
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » Mathis1 wrote: » YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968) This morning I had an enjoyable viewing of this animated film of The Beatles songs! Quite a psychedelic pop art out there movie! It has some wild sequences, and some very …
    in Last Movie you Watched? Comment by j_w_pepper February 7
  • I want an absolutely clean slate. All roles performed by different actors, as much as I liked the past ones. As much as I liked Judi Dench, keeping her as M when the 007 actor switched from Brosnan to Craig was a major irritation, since everything…
    in Would you rather we visit 1960's Japan OR 1970's Brazil? Comment by j_w_pepper February 3
  • OK, let me be part of the crowd congratulating you, @ToTheRight ! I've now been married to my wife for 33 years and a few months and wouldn't want to be without her (among other aspects, we can have entire conversations in Bond quotes together - in…
    in Going away or coming back? Comment by j_w_pepper January 31
  • Marianne Faithfull died at the age of 78 in London. While she became best known as one of the numerous girlfriends of Mick Jagger in the sixties, she also built her own career as a singer (and also actor), starting with the Rolling Stones song As T…
    in Rest In Peace, show your respects to those who have passed away. Comment by j_w_pepper January 30
  • I'm not that much of a Batman fan. AFAIR, we never had the TV series in Germany (at least not during my youth), and I may have read a few comics...though I always preferred the funny ones, like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse and a few others (side re…
    in Controversial opinions about other movies Comment by j_w_pepper January 29
  • Dragonpol wrote: » I thought this recent article retrieved from my Times subscription might be suitable for inclusion here: (deleted complete quote) Thanks for sharing. I found this very interesting...let's see how it will turn out. I'm…
    in Is this the end of spy movies? Comment by j_w_pepper January 28
  • For lack of a better-fitting thread: I just tried out DeepSeek...had never heard of it until a couple of days ago when it seemed to evaporate hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. company stocks. I told it that I wanted to write a screenplay for…
    in Chat Thread - Free Discussion Comment by j_w_pepper January 28
  • Ludovico wrote: » I don't think the Craig era lacked humour either. I actually find the overall humour in his Bond films genuinely funnier than what we had between circa 1980 to 2002. 👍
    in Is this the end of spy movies? Comment by j_w_pepper January 27
  • @thedove - you forgot to delete the word "travel" from the thread title. I think I have a knack for writing when I feel like it, but don't have any idea on how to write a screenplay (except copying the structure of those that I have available). …
    in Would you rather we visit 1960's Japan OR 1970's Brazil? Comment by j_w_pepper January 27
  • Thanks, @zebrafish and @CommanderRoss! My nerves regarding this decision are quite ok... And yes, I did quite some research (online) before deciding on this one. And Hyundai managed to basically comply with every criticism of the first model wh…
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 27
  • Bond survived the Nazis (at least the original literary figure did), the Soviets, Margaret Thatcher and so far Vladimir Putin. Bond will be around after Trump as well.
    in Is this the end of spy movies? Comment by j_w_pepper January 26
  • muzz100 wrote: » What a thread. I post as an unreconstructed holdout in urban London with a 350Z parked in the street, just marked her 21st birthday, on her 4th life at least, 2 write offs thanks, no sat nav, let’s do it the old fashioned way, sir…
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 25
  • GoldenGun wrote: » zebrafish wrote: » @GoldenGun Have fun with your new toy! From Fiat to Stelvio, that must feel like you skipped a few upgrades in between! Thanks mate! It does feel like quite an upgrade, even though the Fiat was a go…
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 25
  • I hate to be a spoilsport on a "petrol..." thread, but my wife and I have just decided to order a Hyundai Ioniq 5, fully electric, to replace our 2016 model Jeep Grand Cherokee. The latter just doesn't fit our amount of driving any more...only abou…
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 25
  • Garth Hudson, multi-instrumentalist and (up to now) last surviving member of the legendary rock group The Band, passed away in Upstate New York at the age of 87.
    in Rest In Peace, show your respects to those who have passed away. Comment by j_w_pepper January 21
  • Seems to me as if this thread doesn't alert you to new postings. It's just suddenly at the top of the list. We've had this before elsewhere.
    in I've never noticed that before... Comment by j_w_pepper January 19
  • On WhatsApp, I would now send a thumbs-up emoji, but I don't find one here.
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 19
  • "Very good, Mr. Gun. You've been to Germany?"
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 19
  • There are other cities mentioned (Munich and Augsburg in the OHMSS novel, Augsburg also in the movie) or shown (Berlin galore - even as a Bavarian village - in OP, Hamburg in TND) that play a bigger role than Stuttgart. Oh yes, and Frankfurt Airpor…
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 19
  • Yes, of course. The only mention of Stuttgart in the Bond franchise.
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 19
  • 6th biggest German city by population. Capital of the state/province of Baden-Württemberg. Nice location and countryside surroundings, probably very livable, lots of "culture", traditionally a solid industrial base (Mercedes-Benz aka "Daimler", Pors…
    in The Petrolhead Lounge Comment by j_w_pepper January 18