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  • Oh awesome! Have fun!
  • So you’re saying you didn’t defend every aspect of the performance? :D MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » echo wrote: » But...but...but...@peter, you're overlooking that Barbara Broccoli is a complete ditz! She was so enamored with Crai…
  • Any thoughts what might pop up, if anything? My guess is a trailer for Road to a Million s2.
  • MaxCasino wrote: » mtm wrote: » MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » Scaramanga1974 wrote: » EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present. Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at …
  • MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » Scaramanga1974 wrote: » EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present. Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment. None of us here know thei…
  • A great little video showing how Another Way To Die was integrated into the score to Quantum of Solace: https://twitter.com/tomsmason91/status/1840813868853182675
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » Why else would people say one of their highlights (if not THE highlight) of B25 The highlight of what?
  • SIS_HQ wrote: » Correct me if I'm wrong, but is Felix Leiter meant only to be Bond's contact whenever he goes to America, so he would only team up with Bond if his mission is in America, that's why Bond have some contacts in different countries: P…
  • I don't think you're quite following: no one is saying she wasn't great, but it's a very brief supporting character. It's almost like saying that the double-taking drinking man was a fun highlight of the Moore films therefore all the characters shou…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I wouldn’t really call Paloma a ‘typical’ Bond girl for a few reasons. Firstly because there’s a wide range of Bond girls, and it’s not unheard of for them to have tragic backstories or elements to them -…
  • Yeah, I think the most we can say is that she's a relative fresh take on a Bond woman character, and more of those would be good. Not done in the same way, just more fresh takes. I guess also some fun, light characters which don't jar with the the …
  • SIS_HQ wrote: » And yes, I can't name a Bond Girl whose as colorful, vibrant, has a sense of humor, and happy as Paloma herself or maybe Agent Fields, maybe Mary Goodnight or Wai Lin? Yep, those three. Paloma basically is Goodnight done ri…
  • Very good analysis- if Paloma had been onscreen more she couldn't just have stayed the comedic relief and kept doing the same gags over and over again for the next two hours- we'd need a bit more depth or at the very least a progression of her chara…
  • I’ve been to Victoria, very pleasant city. I guess you probably need to buy these things from Amazon there. I must admit it’s Firewalker which still interest me the most, still can’t find it.
  • Although there are quite a few more Bond films than Potter flicks! :D
  • I don't know if I could rank his performances, I think he's always ace. I guess I prefer the Hamilton version slightly less, but then Roger is still superb in them. I find it hard to imagine anyone else owning the role so immediately as he does in …
  • Oh maybe, yeah. I guess those bits would divide up a bit more naturally. Here's how it's defined a bit further into that: 1-4 The Vamp - 2 repeated bars 5-10 Guitar riff -2 bars repeated twice 11-12 last two bars of riff- striking semitone d…
  • Yeah he's definitely human in there too, especially once Honey appears. I think it's mainly his initial investigations in Jamaica, especially around the embassy, where I found myself not liking him very much; not even in an anti-hero, vicarious guil…
  • bcalou wrote: » mtm wrote: » Yeah I think the court judgement for the Barry vs Norman case breaks the parts down quite well; I can't quite remember all of them, but I remember: Vamp - the four-note tune, usually played on strings, which lie…
  • I don't think I knew there were two, what's the other like?
  • We know what dick means, Bond is a bit of one in Dr No. He is mean, aloof, short, terse, rather full of himself, an idiot at times (see: getting Quarrel killed), and not very likeable - these are the qualities of a dick. Hence why I used the phrase …
  • So back on Prime, but I can't find the new bonus content it mentions. Anyone know what it is? https://twitter.com/007/status/1841123403429736815 EDIT: here we go: https://www.amazon.co.uk/salp/jamesbond?pd_rd_w=ZJlhf&content-id=amzn1.…
  • Yeah I think the court judgement for the Barry vs Norman case breaks the parts down quite well; I can't quite remember all of them, but I remember: Vamp - the four-note tune, usually played on strings, which lies beneath pretty much the whole the…
  • Thank you for the link and update; not a big shock of course but nice to have it confirmed! And exclusive to the 007 Store to start with, so it's clear they were driving its release for the 60th. Must admit the lack of new material probably lesse…
  • CrabKey wrote: » I quite like Connery in DN. He is cold, distant, rough, assured, sensual, and compelling. He is not a dick. That's an inarticulate term that does not describe his character. There’s nothing inarticulate about describing a c…
  • Yes, I’m still sort of amazed how well they do Bond in CR: he’s still the swaggery Bond despite making mistakes and being in over his head (and those should kind of contradict each other) and he’s even a touch arrogant at times as you say, and yet s…
  • Burgess wrote: » A lot has changed since WWII in how espionage and covert operations are executed. The Bond of Fleming’s novels exists in an era where pedigree and ingenuity mattered more than expertise and specialization. That’s not to say that…
  • 007HallY wrote: » mtm wrote: » Yes I think that's absolutely him, compared to someone like Ethan Hunt, whose whole thing (because it's the setup to Mission Impossible itself) is that he'll go into a situation with a plan. Bond will stroll in j…
  • 007HallY wrote: » I've found myself saying 'that's not Bond' very occasionally during some of the movies. But even then it's probably very much my preference on certain things. I'll also be the first to admit it's a fine line, and there's so much …