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sandbagger1

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sandbagger1
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Moonraker
Favourite Bond Film
Goldfinger
Favourite Bond Actor
Sean Connery
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  • One thing Bond fans are brutally aware of is that, like it or not, jokes will happen.
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 June 2020
  • NickTwentyTwo wrote: » I guess it's because I've only seen him in Fury Road and X Men, but I have a really hard time seeing what others do in Hoult, for Bond. He's an even worse fit than Dornan, IMO. I think it's because we can see from loo…
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 June 2020
  • I like Hiddleston, but I got the feeling he was out of the running for Bond.
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020
  • As an adaptation of the source it's inferior to the BBC production, imo. Hardy's Ricki Tarr is so far removed the le Carre character he's a totally different person.
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020
  • Well, just to add another name or two for the sake of variety... On another forum someone mentioned Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who starred in the recent Invisible Man film, and was in The Haunting of Hill House miniseries. I'm not sold on him as he ha…
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020
  • Denbigh wrote: » Anyway, I do agree though that his time has passed for the role, and that he'll no longer be considered, only because for me, they need to go in a fresher direction for the next 007. By 'fresher', do you mean younger, or le…
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020
  • Denbigh wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » Denbigh wrote: » peter wrote: » Like Craig, he has more of a character-actor career than just being plunked into one archetype. That's exactly the reason my second choice is Aaron Taylor-Johns…
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020
  • Denbigh wrote: » peter wrote: » Like Craig, he has more of a character-actor career than just being plunked into one archetype. That's exactly the reason my second choice is Aaron Taylor-Johnson. I think he falls into the same category. …
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020
  • That does seem plausible. Everyone on Ozark is/was top-notch, him included. He was also on the DC Comics show Titans as Deathstroke, and predictably had much more screen presence than anyone else there. Still, we know Hoult was a finalist for Bat…
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020
  • peter wrote: » @sandbagger1 -- welcome man! Nice reviews of your picks. As an aside-- I heard Hoult is no longer in the next M:I films. "Scheduling" concerns... Wow, hadn't heard that. I guess there will be a fair amount of this kind of …
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020
  • Apologies on making my first post here on such a heated topic, but it's the one that interests me at the moment, and I've already bored people at the other forums I'm a part of with my opinion on the subject. I've come around to thinking that Hen…
    in Who should/could be a Bond actor? Comment by sandbagger1 May 2020