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Yea. His Thunderball rug was the worst. DAF was his best.
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That's very interesting, Revelator. There are letters from Fleming in the back of the new book, under 'archives', (a nice touch). I think, if there was indeed a letter from Fleming saying he preferred the edits, they'd have included it to bolster th…
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I thought Kinkade's 'Emma' came from a miss-hearing of Bond saying 'M'.
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If the next Bond film doesn't start with a bad bastard villain doing something diabolical, then Tanner saying to M ..."there's only one man who can help, we need him back, sir"... ...then I'm not watching it.
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Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: » That said, it is right to question and be skeptical, without our own access to the documents upon which this edition is based. I still look at this as a unique opportunity, however, and will take it for what it is. …
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PussyNoMore wrote: » [quote="Some_Kind_Of_Hero;807817 PussyNoMore’s blood boils! Do you talk like that in real life? Anyway, I'd always assumed these were the 'American versions'... I've got a set of these, and they're printed in…
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I just compared my new LALD with the Centenary edition, and it looks like they've deleted three whole pages. It goes from where Leiter says "sitting in a comfortable bar drinking good whisky" straight to 'they finished their drinks'. Three pages of …
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Casino Royale and Live and Let Die arrived today, and they're lovely. Very pleased. I see chapter five of Live and Let Die has been re-named, but I don't think it's the first time that's been done.
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dominicgreene wrote: » shamanimal wrote: » Getafix wrote: » What's obvious though is that people get wound up by radically different things. I agree with you that compared to a lot of the garbage EON has served up over the past 25 years SP…
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Getafix wrote: » What's obvious though is that people get wound up by radically different things. I agree with you that compared to a lot of the garbage EON has served up over the past 25 years SP is actually a moderately decent entry, but there a…
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When I'm visiting these pages, I'm often amazed at how opinions have changed over the years. Back in the eighties, Moonraker was seen as the anti-Bond. The exact nadir of the whole franchise, and the point where 'it all went wrong'. If we'd have had…
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Spectre was a great title. It's a shame they didn't bother to tell the audience what it actually stood for. Perhaps we'll get a SMERSH next? Or even a Smeirt Spionem (if I've spelt that right I'll eat my steel-rimmed hat).
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A title like Sparrow's Tears (a Fleming chapter title) could work well if there was something pivotal to the plot called 'sparrows tears', in the way that the Rabbit's Foot was a plot object in one of the Mission Impossible films. The Skyfall title …
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When was he last in disguise? (instead of just pretending to be someone else). I don't think we can call him a real spy till he's a Zorro, too.
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I'm surprised he's gone for the CR prequel idea. It seems somehow a bit, I dunno, presumptuous to write a novel in the original timeline that usurps CR's introduction to Bond. Or am I overthinking it? I'm sure I'll enjoy it anyway. I loved Trigger …
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They need to show the villain doing something shockingly bad, at the start of the film. It's not enough for the villain to say "it was all me, I'm a rotter!" And the villain needs a good plan for Bond to thwart. Not computer-related, or internet st…
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Minion wrote: » shamanimal wrote: » He's a great actor but if I'm honest, it stretches believability for me that he's supposed to be the same character as the previous Bonds, because he looks so different. But he's... not? They make it …
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He's a great actor but if I'm honest, it stretches believability for me that he's supposed to be the same character as the previous Bonds, because he looks so different.
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Okay, I'll probably end up finishing Goldfinger first, it's got me hooked. Oh yea, one thing that struck me while I read it, I didn't think the book Bond's different from the film Bond, character-wise, as much as I used to. There's no secret why,…
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I haven't joined that thread because I tried to read the Fleming novels back-to-back a few years ago, and found the stories bleeding into each other in my mind. I was waiting for characters in previous novels to re-appear in the current book. To put…
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I had a pm warning from the mods saying I'd said something racist (I used a slang term for Chinese people). I think, if you're going to tell people off, it'd be better saying "your post included something that some would consider racist". Rather tha…
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I'd like a none-action last act. I know audiences like a big explosion/demolition event at the end, but I'd like them to think up something that's suspenseful without being 'big'.
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TheWizardOfIce wrote: » SP is a good Bond film. Very good actually. If we'd been given this after DAD we'd all be ecstatic. Or 'A View to a Kill'. People forget those years. I haven't!
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I watched Spectre again last night, and it impresses me more every time. The way the attempted assignation of the widow is filmed is so inventive and classy. I think they did a great job on it. I heard there was a scene cut where Bond has a meal wi…
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Creasy47 wrote: » Would be great to have a non-Bond PTS that showcases a villain enacting an early part of his plan, causing some level of deaths/destruction, which causes M to require Bond and have him return post-PTS. One of the problems …
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I wonder how they'll handle the 'Bond leaving the service' angle, more than whether they'll bring Swan back. Will they jump straight into another Bond adventure and assume he never left the service, or will we get something villainous happening, an…
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FoxRox wrote: » I still think it's not a total requirement for Madeleine to come back though; they could briefly explain it didn't work out between them. Or not bother explaining at all. That's the Bond way of old!
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I have to ask .. why is everyone talking about Madelaine Swan coming back? In almost all the other Bond films he ends up with a girl, who is gone by the next movie without explanation. Why couldn't the happen in the next one?
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TheWizardOfIce wrote: » If they had done it well with Blofeld explaining it all in detail over dinner then it might have been ok but I'm afraid merely 'Quantum, Greene, Silva it was all me James' was just lamentable. I remember reading Devi…
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I took it that the vicar knew Bond, and was blessing him because he knew or suspected he had a dangerous job.
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