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sandbagger1

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sandbagger1
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Moonraker
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Goldfinger
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Sean Connery
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  • Colonel_Venus wrote: » @sandbagger1 There has been an Aaron-Taylor Johnson rumour every couple of months since last November yet he does not make your top 5 most likely candidates list? How come? I am asking that especially because most if not all…
  • Okay, it's been a while since we've said who we think the most likely candidates are for the short list (not necessarily the ones you'd like, but those actors you feel Eon will like). Sope Dirisu Nicholas Hoult Jack O'Connell Paul Mescal…
  • I'd like wit as opposed to jokes, and I'd like tension as opposed to angst and melodrama.
  • mtm wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » Again, I haven't watched Brosnan's films in an age. I have Goldeneye on DVD which I must watch again, but I find his other Bond films rather bland. Do you like the Connerys at least? We're running out o…
  • Again, I haven't watched Brosnan's films in an age. I have Goldeneye on DVD which I must watch again, but I find his other Bond films rather bland.
  • Fair enough, I guess the films just don't go for the big focus on Bond running like the Craig films do, having him pumping his arms up and down as he runs toward camera. I do remember Dalton getting that kind of shot at the beginning of TLD when he …
  • mtm wrote: » MaxCasino wrote: » mtm wrote: » Bond is an action hero. But a human spy at heart. Well he is now, but he's always been running around :) The idea that Moore and Connery's Bonds 'never had to run anywhere' feels …
  • George_Kaplan wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » I seem to remember Michael Madsen saying Brosnan had told him it was going to be some Australian (I think that was on Dark Horizons). That was at least a year before the announcement, though. …
  • I didn't hear Craig's name mentioned until he was announced (not that I was on sites like this which are totally dedicated to Bond). I seem to remember Michael Madsen saying Brosnan had told him it was going to be some Australian (I think that wa…
  • There's also the question of how much trouble the producers think the candidate would be day-in, day-out. They will want someone pretty reliable, and I think that will mean someone with a certain amount of experience. I don't think we'll get another…
  • The Daily Mail is not a credible source, afaic. I’ve nothing against ATJ, but I really don’t believe the rumours that he’s the top candidate. I think it will be Sope because he’s very much a black Daniel Craig, and I think that’s what BB will be loo…
  • I wonder if we might ever get a villain who throws one of those medieval reenactments where people joust in full armour - it would admittedly be very contrived, but I could see Bond and villain engaged in a 'friendly' joust. Might be a bit Pierce Br…
  • There are only 5 Indiana Jones films, he does this stuff less because there are fewer films, but improvising (‘I’m making this stuff up as I go along’, or words to that effect) is what he does. I’d argue that the more ridiculous stuff from the fi…
  • mtm wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » ‘Wingless plane skiing’ feels much more Indiana Jones than James Bond to me. I can't really see that: Indy doesn't do the sort of lateral thinking that Bond does in these action scenes, where he does w…
  • ‘Wingless plane skiing’ feels much more Indiana Jones than James Bond to me.
  • Kojak007 wrote: » CrabKey wrote: » It was that aspect of the Moore series I never liked. I never felt his Bond was really in danger What about the crocodile scenes in LALD and the climbing scenes in FYEO? What about when he was i…
  • peter wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » peter wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » peter wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » They should just take the ana de armas section of Bond 25 and use that as the blueprint for a whole story, much like th…
  • peter wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » peter wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » They should just take the ana de armas section of Bond 25 and use that as the blueprint for a whole story, much like the opening of DAD was built on for Casino Roy…
  • peter wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » They should just take the ana de armas section of Bond 25 and use that as the blueprint for a whole story, much like the opening of DAD was built on for Casino Royale. It's not rocket science. Yeah…
  • mtm wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » mtm wrote: » SIS_HQ wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » A Nolan Bond trilogy set in the late 50's sounds intriguing to me. Its not like every indiana jones or sherlock holmes story isn't from a different…
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » That’s the thing, Bond was never intended to be a period piece or throwback nostalgia jerkfest. Fleming always want to keep Bond in the present, dealing with the changing of his world. That’s why I have a hard time with ap…
  • mtm wrote: » SIS_HQ wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » A Nolan Bond trilogy set in the late 50's sounds intriguing to me. Its not like every indiana jones or sherlock holmes story isn't from a different era and I find those perfectly exciting a…
  • mtm wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » mtm wrote: » It's also a little fraught: looking at the performances of the likes of Indy 5 or Man From UNCLE, I could see why studio bosses could be nervous of a period action film. I'm trying to think o…
  • mtm wrote: » It's also a little fraught: looking at the performances of the likes of Indy 5 or Man From UNCLE, I could see why studio bosses could be nervous of a period action film. I'm trying to think of exceptions. I guess Captain America? Tha…
  • I could see them going for a female director. Is Sam-Taylor Johnson not high-profile enough?
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » Something tells me EON are waiting for 2027 and the 65th anniversary, so they can make it another event film like skyfall and hopefully release the 4K boxset as well. Yes, that would make sense to me. They really need t…
  • I would guess 2026, maybe 2027, no idea about summer or winter release dates for big films these days, though.
  • mtm wrote: » There's a story about this Nolan rumour on the main MI6HQ news page, and I think it's not really necessary to name the forum user who posted the rumour as James Page does in the article. I know the poster is quite upset that it's been…
  • Everyone agrees there are certain fundamentals which should not be discarded, it's just that fandom can't agree what they are.
  • Overhype tends to put expectations too high and bring out the contrarian in people. When I first watched Skyfall I thoroughly enjoyed it, but when I was asked by someone if it was the best Bond film like the papers were saying, I laughed and said 'n…