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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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  • cooperman2 wrote: » I don't understand why people think Nolan wouldn't just deliver a proper Bond film. His Batman films are very much Batman films, with all the tropes you would expect all in place. Why wouldn't he just do the same with a series …
  • I’ve just never bought this: x-film franchise does Bond better than Bond thing the media does every few years. Bond is Bond and rises are falls based off the expectations of 60 years of adventures where they’ve been able to recreate, regenerate a…
  • Red_Snow wrote: » I don't know if the new Bond will have to deliver all of the iconic lines in his first outing, but if he does, you think they'd go with a director whose dialogue is audible. 💯 💯 💯… I’m sure EoN are aware of his shortcom…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » Thanks for the review, @peter. It mostly mirrors my own feelings and experience, and I'm glad you're on the side of us who enjoyed the film. Thank you, @j_w_pepper ! It was such a fun ride. I can't believe the frenzied,f…
  • You're choosing two shows, that I can't comment on as I've never watched the shows, nor have I read the interviews. But the studios hired the showrunner to execute their vision, @AstonLotus ! That is what happens: the studios have an IP. They hav…
  • AstonLotus wrote: » If writers behind the likes of terrible dreck like Rings Of Power,She-Hulk,and Willow are going to be replaced by A.I. Maybe that’s a good thing. @AstonLotus , you do realize that these writers didn't write those script…
  • There’s indeed a lot of sickness in the studio system. My theory is, it’s always been this way, but as life, outside the studio system, pulled into a more modern, inclusive and diverse world, with the potentials and opportunities of equality for …
  • mtm wrote: » peter wrote: » CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » Excellent review @peter - delighted that you enjoyed it so much. Thanks @CraigMooreOHMSS …. My desire to rewatch it remains too strong (although my wife would give me a kick in my…
  • CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » Excellent review @peter - delighted that you enjoyed it so much. Thanks @CraigMooreOHMSS …. My desire to rewatch it remains too strong (although my wife would give me a kick in my rear… Knowing me, I will break by …
  • Benny wrote: » It’s a sad group of people the generation we live in have created. Since the world now revolves around being online all the time, we have to contend with what is often referred to as ‘keyboard warriors’ I prefer ‘Keyboard Cowards’,…
  • Thanks @Benny and @chrisisall … It’s a real shame that it felt like there was a concerted effort to destroy the film by people who hadn’t yet seen the film (and I’m guessing most of the people have some twisted perception of a person they know not a…
  • https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sag-aftra-duncan-crabtree-ireland-end-of-actors-writers-strikes-1235585902/ Not good.
  • https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sag-aftra-duncan-crabtree-ireland-end-of-actors-writers-strikes-1235585902/
  • Thanks @CraigMooreOHMSS ... Well, it's a shame I didn't see DoD sooner (the summer got away from me), but I'm genuinely pleased with the film we watched; Within minutes into it, my wife pointed out that I was smiling, and that smile really didn't…
  • @j_w_pepper and @mtm ...Just about to feed the dog, and then we will sit down to watch! Thank you very much, and I'm very much looking forward to it!
  • Whether a kid on YouTube with a silly name likes a film or not is a moot point. And you're right, this IS a discussion forum, so posting these YouTube rants actually does the opposite -- especially since most don't bother watching what you keep p…
  • I’ll finally be watching DoD tonight, so I can’t comment on the actual film, but I think posting non-stop YouTube videos is becoming a gas-lighting tactic by now. It’s obvious most aren’t watching these, but they’re posted too often. Bottom line,…
  • Yes, @Gerard … what a talent, and so beautiful.
  • Venutius wrote: » Realistically, aren't EON more likely to go the full-on blockbuster route to get the new guy firmly established, rather than do anything low-key or experimental for the new Bond's first outing? Would that influence whether or not…
  • I empathize with @Risico007 ’s statement above. But in the end, just as Brosnan may not have been the most creative casting decision, it was the best choice for the James Bond business. I’d have rather seen a Dalton film, or give the role to Ralph F…
  • Film is very much a director’s medium. It makes sense that Broccoli would go after Nolan, but I wouldn’t discount names like Villeneuve (who again stated as recently as April ‘23 (no, I’m not mixing my years again), that he’d love to do a Bond pictu…
  • So he finished it in May 2022? And did post for over a year? (Edit: I blame my confusion of years due to half-zeimer’s) Sorry, my point still stands that if Nolan shared an idea, they’d have to pay him (and I imagine attach him as director …
  • Venutius wrote: » 'Nolan had been developing the story with Bond writers Purvis and Wade, who were tasked to write the new film while Nolan was finishing “Oppenheimer”.' Nolan was developing a Bond script with P & W? Others on here know way m…
  • MajorDSmythe wrote: » Dwayne wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » One of my favorite Bond films! I adore these pictures. I adore them as well @DarthDimi. In some, better, alt-universe there is a world in which we ‘yanks” took to Dalton’s portr…
  • buddyoldchap wrote: » Gentlemen, things are... unfolding: https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/9/7/mi8wysplfielbboojrpgho116hkkp0 The article confuses several details. We were never close to Nolan directing a Bond film before. Perhaps t…
  • I would probably like to see Sean Connery as Bond in TMWTGG. Connery vs Lee? Yes, yes I'd love to see that actually (and that's not to take anything away from Moore, but the script, as is, feels like they were trying a little more Connery anyways, s…
  • CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » Ian Fleming's James Bond in... The Hand Of God I actually like that title, but I love where you got it from more, lol!! Well done!!
  • As soon as I heard about Queer, I was happy that Craig is returning to tough and meaty material. After seeing him rip up the stage in MacBeth, I mentioned to my wife that he has to take that same passion and throw it into darker, stranger charact…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » SIS_HQ wrote: » Why not both? Have Brosnan do his fifth film (though preferred it to be a semi adaptation of a Fleming novel, because he had no Fleming material to worked with in his tenure, almost all of his films were …
  • DoctorClatterhand wrote: » Univex wrote: » Yeah, any recent news on that?… or prognostics of any sort? When do we think things will clear up? No indicator of some time stamp, no goal, no limit? I think there'll be bits going on; similar…