― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 14 October 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
i can't tell ANY of the films apart, they are just one giant amorphous BLOB O' BOND in my head...
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post, yes, I read the books religiously as a child.
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 14 October 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
not a bond film ;)
― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/photos/20050406.OBS3738.jpg http://chbastin.free.fr/dossiers/collection/film_le-mans_steve-mcqueen.jpg
― disco violence (disco violence), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
I think I approve.
― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Who, Robbie Coltrane?
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
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?
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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 ;-)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Again, i don't think this ever applied to Sean Connery
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
esp. with what they say about trying to be more true to the style/tone of the books
crosspost
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
You should see it. I HATE HATE HATE!!! Guy Ritchie but Alex (who loves Guy Ritchie) talked me into seeing it and it was really good.
― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bluematia.com/snap96j.jpg
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.hue.vnn.vn/dataimages/original/images68875_DanielCraig.jpg
And with ginger beard. Erm, nice!
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/04/07/craig_wideweb__430x279.jpg
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
WELCOME TO THE LAYER CAKE, SON
― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
I dropped it and it broke, a couple of years ago
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
In other photos he reminds me a bit more of Patrick McGoohan:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/archangel/images/photogallery/340x255/kelso.jpg
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually dream director for the next bond would be Cuaron.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― 乒乓, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
he is James Bond, you know; that was probably foreplay for him
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― an opportunity thick enough to taste (snoball), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
Moore's first go has aged p badly (eg race)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
the hillbilly sheriff from the moore era is the disco stu of the bond franchise
― nomar, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
xp yeah it' o________O from start to finish. So is TMWTGG in the middle.
― an opportunity thick enough to taste (snoball), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
no love for live and let die then? I thought that was by far the best moore film
― akm, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
oh, live and let die WAS the first moore. my bad.
― akm, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
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).
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
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
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
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
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
"What Bond movies *really* need are worse action scenes and better cinematography."
Now Sam Mendes is otm.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
this is about Bond, not whether Sam Mendes has ever had salient ideas
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
nah come on Léa Seydoux rocked.
― piscesx, Thursday, 7 April 2016 12:24 (eight years ago) link
CR is great until car crash. After that is Mendez shit.
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2016 12:35 (eight years ago) link