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Spectre wastes talent, it’s what it does. The London-set Bond adventure is an interesting idea. I liked the old The Avengers episode where Steed and an enemy spy are trapped in a deserted London and are hunted by a rogue team of soldiers (they re…
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I think that if that joke was your biggest problem with Spectre then you are a lucky man.
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Pretty much everyone is on our radar, though.
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“C” is the head of SIS in the real world. I honestly don’t remember Spectre we’ll enough to recall what Denbigh’s actual title was. The proposed merging of 5 and 6 and ‘C8 being in the mix reminded me of the 80’s British spy series The Sandbagger…
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It was actually Chiwetel Ejiofor that was originally sought for the role, iirc.
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Univex wrote: » talos7 wrote: » Univex wrote: » Daniel Craig set an unrepeatable standart, an interesting paradox, I’d say. There is simply no actor n hos 20s or 30s, nowdays, with that level of charisma and experience. He steals the room,…
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talos7 wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » He’s good looking and everything, but he’s only done 3 projects. I think Eon won’t pick someone with so little experience for Bond (but what do I know - back in the day they hired the inexperienced Lazenby …
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He’s good looking and everything, but he’s only done 3 projects. I think Eon won’t pick someone with so little experience for Bond (but what do I know - back in the day they hired the inexperienced Lazenby after all).
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Creasy47 wrote: » @sandbagger1, off topic from me but I always have to give props when I see Kiss Me Deadly mentioned. What a film. I picked up the Criterion Collection Blu-ray a few months ago. The film is as hard-hitting as I remembered i…
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NoTimeToLive wrote: » jetsetwilly wrote: » NoTimeToLive wrote: » Anyone who thinks NTTD is a good Bond movie shouldn't be allowed to write a Bond book. Ever. I corrected your post so it makes a bit more sense to Planet Earth in gene…
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My totally uninformed opinion is that BB as the public face of Eon will skew towards a Bond of colour, whilst those looking at the bottom line will be more conservative and want to play safe with a white actor, preferably one who is well known. I th…
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mtm wrote: » Jordo007 wrote: » The problem with Sope is his filmography isn't really that large, would EON risk the future of the series on a great actor who's unknown? When Daniel got the role in 2005, he wasn't unknown, as much as he was …
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I’m not sure how much character growth you can have, bearing in mind classic Bond is not something the audience wants to change too much. I think in SF he doesn’t so much have character growth as overcomes a hurdle that was placed in his path at …
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I do think it’s one of the best Bond films, and as 007HallY says it does manage to give you a nice upbeat ending despite the death of M. I think Casino Royale did something similar with the ‘Bond, James Bond’ at the end, again despite the betrayal a…
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mtm wrote: » I don't know what that means, sorry. Do you mean they should have done the Sp ending again? I would have rather that they didn’t do any ‘special ending’ that put Craig’s tenure dramatically apart from the general Bond run.
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mtm wrote: » So what ending would have been acceptable then? Bearing in mind he had already decided to leave the service at the end of Spectre. For me? Oh I’d have liked them to completely forget about Spectre the way I’d been trying to …
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I didn’t see the need for any abnormal ending myself. As is often the case with these things I was left unmoved by the actual ending, and going off to retirement would have been equally as toothless for me when I knew that they were planning to keep…
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I think he just gave you two examples. Whether you find them clichéd or not I don’t know, but I believe that is what he was doing.
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For me all the Bonds have been the same man with loose continuity until Craig, and even then I could make it work until Spectre brought in Brofeld. Continuous reboots with alternate Bonds with alternate histories is not appealing to me. I got goi…
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mtm wrote: » Yeah I don't think Brosnan would have gone for it as he'd have liked to keep playing Bond forever! Did Roger ever die in a movie? He died twice in The Man Who Haunted Himself!
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echo wrote: » mattjoes wrote: » JustJames wrote: » mattjoes wrote: » JustJames wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » MakeshiftPython wrote: » I remember when NTTD first came out there were fans were claiming t…
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JustJames wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » MakeshiftPython wrote: » I remember when NTTD first came out there were fans were claiming the script didn’t work because it was developed with the ending already set in mind, t…
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007HallY wrote: » MakeshiftPython wrote: » I remember when NTTD first came out there were fans were claiming the script didn’t work because it was developed with the ending already set in mind, therefore that’s somehow bad writing. It really h…
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007HallY wrote: » . I do wonder what some on here think of Toby Stephen’s take on Fleming’s Bond in the various BBC Radio 4 adaptations (if anyone here has listened to then)? Not saying that performance is right for a portrayal of the cinematic…
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SonofSean wrote: » Anyone watching Citadel on Amazon? Richard Madden is practically begging Barbara Broccoli to give him his Licence to kill! It is a blatant audition, but its a very, VERY good one. It looks gorgeous, with a whooping $250 millio…
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You wouldn’t really want Bond going hand to hand against a woman, but I think what would work well is the two facing off as snipers. It would be tense, it would play into Bond being an assassin, and I don’t think it is something we’ve had in the fra…
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007HallY wrote: » MajorDSmythe wrote: » He does reassess the situation based on him being an experienced agent, and both times Bond was proved to be correct. And in the case of Kara, that comes from the short story, almost word for word, so is…
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mtm wrote: » I think it works: it hasn't felt repetitive to me- no more repetitive than all of the other repetitions. She suspended him for a minute in QoS, then he got grounded at the beginning of Sp... that's it isn't it? He’s suspended in …
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Venutius wrote: » Mescal's Irish. Would BB drop the 'he should be British' stipulation for the right candidate? Cubby had no such qualms, obvs! I don’t see why not, Aidan Turner's name has been bandied about for the part without anyone sugges…
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mtm wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » To be fair he does disobey orders quite a bit in TLD. Especially when it comes to choosing not to kill people (ie. Karla, Pushkin). I suppose it falls under the banner…
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