New James Bond = Daniel Craig.

Connery was fairly rough and weathered looking - in comparison to yer Roger Moores and Pierce Brosnans I mean

i can't tell ANY of the films apart, they are just one giant amorphous BLOB O' BOND in my head...

x-post, yes, I read the books religiously as a child.

Roger Moore - obviously drunk, yet drank the least onscreen.

George Lazenby - fell victim to Connery's accent.

Pierce Brosnan - Over-the-top stunts with hot cars and hotter women.

Timothy Dalton - a Shakesperian actor in an MI6 body

Sean Connery - Run along, now. Man Talk.

http://www.waguet.net/bond/Roger%20Moore.jpg

But anyway, I'm still getting my head around the new Bond's blondness (I know, I fancy blond men, but James Bond is so not blond) and found this apologia for Roger Moore which made me laff like a drain:

"TOO BLONDE?"

This one always gets me. Some folks seem genuinely upset that Roger Moore has blond hair, presumably because James Bond does not. Well, so what? I don't see a scar on Sean Connery's cheek. I didn't notice baracuda tooth-marks on Timothy Dalton's shoulder. None of the actors looks exactly like Fleming's Bond, and it's likely none ever will.

If it bothers you that much, turn down the brightness button on your TV set until Roger becomes a brunette.

not a bond film ;)

http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/photos/20050406.OBS3738.jpg http://chbastin.free.fr/dossiers/collection/film_le-mans_steve-mcqueen.jpg

I think I approve.

Who, Robbie Coltrane?

I cannot for the life of me remember who the other one was. He was kind of chubby, had longish blond hair and a pointy nose. Surprise, surprise there. He had a boat, too. Possibly also a girlfriend who was a ballerina? Or am I mixing up several bond villains here?

Well it's not Alan Cummings. Dunno who it could be, Sean Bean perhaps?

Carlyle was the Russian who couldn't feel pain, easily confused with Big Robbie ;-)

I have a picture pinned to my wall of Sean Connery, dressed to the nines in tux/white tie, shimmying through Fort Knox with a gun which is just about the sexist thing I've seen in my life - which contradicts all of that. But still.

x-post

Again, i don't think this ever applied to Sean Connery

more importantly worthington should not be in movies ever

Broccoli, daughter of long-time Bond producer Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, is known to have purchased the film rights to A Steady Rain, the Broadway play Craig appeared in with X-Men star Hugh Jackman last year.

If made, the film would be the first non-Bond film made by the Eon production company since Bob Hope comedy Call Me Bwana in 1963.

I smell reboot...wait.

Kinda lol, mostly lol

craig should be bond for a long time.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:13 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

more importantly worthington should not be in movies ever

― conrad, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:15 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark
Agreed!

i thought i just read yesterday that bond was on indefinite hold while the studio figures out if it's bankrupt or not. anyway I don't know why they now feel like they have to replace bond every three films.

maybe to keep the franchise in people's minds, retain its vitality, capitalize on daniel craig's availability to play bond, and so forth. all guesses, of course.

puurhaps the exp of sam mendes making a bond movie was so blindingly stupid to all involved that they called it off w/ the "oh studio's bankrupt maybe" as pretext. could be.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/12/bond-23-daniel-craig-mgm 50 years since the first Bond film!
I hope this one isn't.. influenced by Inception or something.

Some talk here:

Thread Title TBC: Bond #23

SMH for Mendes, I wish someone else was directing.

McG. Oh wait.

Even he would be an improvement!

I'd be intrigued to watch QT's mooted Bond film. It would almost certainly be more a Tarantino movie than a Bond movie though.

Actually dream director for the next bond would be Cuaron.

SMH for Mendes, I wish someone else was directing.

http://www.reallymeansounds.com/forum/attachments/motor-movies/26073-fast-furious-5-sexy_eva_mendes.jpg

best part was how bond goes from getting his onions peeled with a bell ringer rope to being healthy enough to sex up eva 5 minutes later

he is James Bond, you know; that was probably foreplay for him

casino royale was such a great movie, the tone was so excellent and craig had the perfect humor and devil may care attitude and even when it got "serious" it wasn't stifling. then they had to go and fuck up the reboot and make it deadly serious. there's a perfect middle ground between "octopussy" and "it is i james, the author of all your pain" or whatever and i think CR was it.

That's a big problem when the reboot of a series gets it right first time: the writers can't leave well enough alone and mess it up. QoS particularly is such a joyless movie, a bit of humour wouldn't have made it a great film, but at least it would have been a bit more watchable. Moore's run has the same basic problem: first movie gets it right, but then the attempts at humour make it worse, until they try and make the films serious around FYEO but that didn't work out either.

Moore's first go has aged p badly (eg race)

the hillbilly sheriff from the moore era is the disco stu of the bond franchise

xp yeah it' o________O from start to finish. So is TMWTGG in the middle.

no love for live and let die then? I thought that was by far the best moore film

oh, live and let die WAS the first moore. my bad.

QoS is so good. Skyfall and Spectre are bottom tier Bonds but QoS is one of my favorites. A stumped, dumb Bond staggering around killing people, no interest in the girl, she's got no interest in him. I think there's some humour there. And it's so zippy, neat, lean. Villain with a mundane, realistic plan but quite entertainingly portrayed. Nice real world locales. The opposite of the two disasters that followed basically.

i feel a little better about QoS now after the last pair of Bonds bc its minor ambitions to be a bourne ripoff are more charming and more in keeping with the bond series kind of following action movie trends.

I saw no glaring qualitative difference between the last four James Bond movies. All serviceably entertaining, moderately dumb action movies featuring fan service that I at least half understood due to the cultural ubiquity of the 468 Bond movies which I haven't seen.

I just rewatched Casino Royale after reading the book, and also because I needed cheering up after Spectre. Nomar OTM -- it's a really good film, and the action scenes are tight -- I can't believe Sam Mendes saw them and thought "What Bond movies *really* need are worse action scenes and better cinematography."

What I didn't remember is just how cheesey it is, at least for the first hour: the old mobile phones, the chintzy Miami hotel scenes, the dorky jokes. Very nineties. It's like a Brosnan Bond done right.

Also, Eva Green is really fun - a definite improvement on Vesper in the book, and just miles and miles better than any ot the other subsequent female leads (not counting M).

thinking over it again, dave bautista might be the best part of this recent one

the plane chase down the mountain was tight, enjoyed the really sterile clinic before it, too

the idea that james bond is more comfortable in a shack or rat's nest drinking booze than in anything nice and modern is a good touch, the character should only seem at home in a sleek modern building if it's on fire

"What Bond movies *really* need are worse action scenes and better cinematography."

Now Sam Mendes is otm.

this is about Bond, not whether Sam Mendes has ever had salient ideas

casino royale was such a great movie, the tone was so excellent and craig had the perfect humor and devil may care attitude and even when it got "serious" it wasn't stifling. then they had to go and fuck up the reboot and make it deadly serious

otm

nah come on Léa Seydoux rocked.

CR is great until car crash. After that is Mendez shit.