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peter

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peter
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Moonraker
Favourite Bond Film
No Time To Die
Favourite Bond Actor
Daniel Craig
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  • mtm wrote: » It makes me want to watch NTTD again actually! I'm not in love with the score, but it does give the whole film an effective, dangerous mood. I agree 💯 with this. It was very effective in layering that dangerous mood on top of t…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » My understanding is that the recent Bond films weren't going to simply add love scenes for the sake of having them. Not unless they were meaningful, would there be any. I prefer that to cheap and meaning…
  • Colonel_Venus wrote: » Peter, please don't scare us! That future scenario you painted is absolutely horrifying. If Othello is that important to BB, then why didn't she make it in the past 3 years? It takes a while to put an Indie film toget…
  • Very cool @MaxCasino !! I had no idea and that pretty damn cool
  • AgentM72 wrote: » MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » @MaxCasino I'm hoping you can verify something for me: a friend who is in production swears to me that Superman's dog, Krypto will be explored in…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » peter wrote: » I'd personally love Chazelle. I'm sick of a couple names and Chazelle is a very strong director, and he shoots beautiful films. I admire his work even when he has a so-called flop. I'd also bet this is…
  • MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » @MaxCasino I'm hoping you can verify something for me: a friend who is in production swears to me that Superman's dog, Krypto will be explored in this new film. He …
  • I'd personally love Chazelle. I'm sick of a couple names and Chazelle is a very strong director, and he shoots beautiful films. I admire his work even when he has a so-called flop. I'd also bet this isn't happening. I wish it to be true, an…
  • 007HallY wrote: » I too am awaiting the next zany and upbeat version of The Batman Part 2 (based of course on 'Gen Z' demand for some reason, presumably because the first one is two years old and this is the trend now, despite the previous film's …
  • MaxCasino wrote: » peter wrote: » @MaxCasino I'm hoping you can verify something for me: a friend who is in production swears to me that Superman's dog, Krypto will be explored in this new film. He swears he's not kidding. Last time I lo…
  • echo wrote: » NicNac wrote: » echo wrote: » NicNac wrote: » For sure if my days were numbered and I was unsure if I could manage to fit them all in I would chose an order which would roughly be: 1. All of the 60s films Felt a bit…
  • @MaxCasino I'm hoping you can verify something for me: a friend who is in production swears to me that Superman's dog, Krypto will be explored in this new film. He swears he's not kidding. Last time I looked at the date it's not April 1st. …
  • MaxCasino wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » Why isn't Marvel republishing the Indiana Jones comics? Exactly. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/sep/17/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-video-game-film-machinegames This is good, L…
  • Barbara Broccoli will start principal photography on Othello in 2025 taking her to the end of that year (edit and locking of film). I think it’s safe to say that casting begins in earnest in 2026. New Bond announcement later that year (autumn). P…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » peter wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » I'm really starting to get nervous Nolan is the man, because a lot of the big names are busy and we still don't know what his next film is... :-SS Edgar Wright - busy Denis Ville…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » I'm really starting to get nervous Nolan is the man, because a lot of the big names are busy and we still don't know what his next film is... :-SS Edgar Wright - busy Denis Villeneuve - busy Mark Mylodd - busy Not that…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » Benny wrote: » What does the Mickey 17 (Which looks like a lot of fun btw) trailer have to do with B26? Also agree with @DarthDimi calling NTTD B25 all the time is childish. I think its illustrative of the fact t…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » peter wrote: » or throwing in extra elements automatically makes something better, when in actual fact often times the opposite can be true. Like assuring there are Gen Z elements? Something Skyfall failed to do?…
  • or throwing in extra elements automatically makes something better, when in actual fact often times the opposite can be true. Like assuring there are Gen Z elements? Something Skyfall failed to do? (A few days ago you were very hung up about …
  • George_Kaplan wrote: » Any except NSNA. It's so dreary I'd be worried it would only hasten things. Very funny!! 😄 😆 😁!! Genuine laugh out loud!!
  • Burgess wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » I just don't understand why every Bond film now needs a prestige filmmaker at the helm nowadays. Sam Mendes, then Danny Boyle was intended for B25, now Chazelle? It just seems strange for a series about a …
  • talos7 wrote: » Well, if they’re going for a really younger audience… 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
  • Aha! I always knew you were a man of fine tastes! 😂 @007ClassicBondFan you are as well, it seems, and @FoxRox !! 😂
  • mtm wrote: » Yes, that's nice thinking. I've always disliked the TMWTGG brainwashing plot as it's a bit too silly and 60s for me, but I guess it did work for Jason Bourne to be introduced like that, and you perhaps wouldn't have to go the whole br…
  • mtm wrote: » echo wrote: » I want personal stakes in a Bond film but I'd like to see a new angle, somehow. Same here; and yes I can't think of a way either! Unless they do do a proper 'life of Bond' thing, starting earlier than CR did.…
  • Reflsin2bourbons wrote: » SIS_HQ wrote: » A question I've just realized, is Bond left handed or right handed? I mean in every things that he does? It's been a while since I've read the novels, but I don't remember if Fleming stated this, an…
  • I love Frank, Bennet, Fitzgerald, Armstrong, Prima, and many of their peers, and I love The Beatles, Zeppelin, Elvis, The Stones, Hendrix, et al, all of these coming before my birth. But I can also , and I do, love Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Bil…
  • George_Kaplan wrote: » I'm quite certain you could've had this discussion any time since Connery left. Will the next Bond be a dope smoking pacifist to satisfy the burgeoning Baby Boomers? Will he be a nihilistic slacker to win favour with Generat…
  • Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
  • echo wrote: » peter wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » Colonel_Venus wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » Skyfall seems extremely dated to me now. There isn't even an ounce of Gen Z in that film. Its a terminally millenial treatise. Hopef…