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benj clews 
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 Posted - 11/15/2006 : 08:50:34
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I really really like On Her Majesty's Secret Service despite the best efforts of Lazenby to ruin it.
If they were to go back and reinvent any more Bonds, this would definitely be top of my list, followed by the just plain awful Moonraker. |
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/20/2006 : 11:35:48
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LOS ANGELES - James Bond has met his match � not a fellow spy but a tap-dancing penguin. The Warner Bros. animated penguin romp "Happy Feet" debuted with $42.3 million, grabbing an edge for the weekend's No. 1 slot over Sony's Bond adventure "Casino Royale," which opened with $40.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/20/2006 : 12:52:20
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Originally posted by GHcool
GHcool's Top Five Favorite Bond Films
1. The World is Not Enough ("Denise, de-thighs, de-boobs, de-licious." - Rovark)
2. Goldfinger ("On gold & Bond." - tortoise)
3. Tomorrow Never Dies
4. The Man With the Golden Gun
5. For Your Eyes Only
Huh? TWINE is your favourite? But... that Denise is so unbelievable, she's so... DUMB! Bond: "What do I need to defuse a nuclear bomb?" Christmas: "Me." Oh, geeze! Would someone please bitchslap that woman. She totally ruined that movie for me.
And Michelle Yoh in Tomorrow Never Dies, well that's my kind of a Bond Girl. Beautiful, smart, tough and holds her own instead of being a swooning trinket holding onto Bond's coattails. I liked the script, too - a more original idea than they'd had in years. She set the bar far higher for Bond Girls, and I do hope that this one doesn't fail me there. Of course, I should mention that if it hadn't been for Halle Berry, Die Another Day would have been pretty blah.
But although I fell in love with Bond via Goldfinger (the first Bond film I saw), I'd have to say that my favourite is still From Russia With Love. Then Goldfinger and Dr. No tie for second place. I only wish that On Her Majesty's Secret Service had been done by Connery.
I liked Pierce Brosnan very much as Bond, and thought both Tomorrow Never Dies and Goldeneye were very good movies.
The only Roger Moore one I really liked was Live and Let Die.
Now, if I can find time this week to see the new Casino Royale, I'll add more to this thread.
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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 11/20/2006 : 15:57:16
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by GHcool
GHcool's Top Five Favorite Bond Films
1. The World is Not Enough ("Denise, de-thighs, de-boobs, de-licious." - Rovark)
2. Goldfinger ("On gold & Bond." - tortoise)
3. Tomorrow Never Dies
4. The Man With the Golden Gun
5. For Your Eyes Only
Huh? TWINE is your favourite? But... that Denise is so unbelievable, she's so... DUMB! Bond: "What do I need to defuse a nuclear bomb?" Christmas: "Me." Oh, geeze! Would someone please bitchslap that woman. She totally ruined that movie for me.
And Michelle Yoh in Tomorrow Never Dies, well that's my kind of a Bond Girl. Beautiful, smart, tough and holds her own instead of being a swooning trinket holding onto Bond's coattails. I liked the script, too - a more original idea than they'd had in years. She set the bar far higher for Bond Girls, and I do hope that this one doesn't fail me there. Of course, I should mention that if it hadn't been for Halle Berry, Die Another Day would have been pretty blah.
But although I fell in love with Bond via Goldfinger (the first Bond film I saw), I'd have to say that my favourite is still From Russia With Love. Then Goldfinger and Dr. No tie for second place. I only wish that On Her Majesty's Secret Service had been done by Connery.
I liked Pierce Brosnan very much as Bond, and thought both Tomorrow Never Dies and Goldeneye were very good movies.
The only Roger Moore one I really liked was Live and Let Die.
Now, if I can find time this week to see the new Casino Royale, I'll add more to this thread.
I wouldn't go so far as to say Richards (or anything else) ruined TWINE for me, but I'm equally confused as to how it makes the top of someone's list...even if you prefer the silliness of Brosnan's Bond, the pure eye-candy-ness of Denise Richards, and whatever else it is about TWINE that makes it entertaining (I don't dislike this film), everything about Goldeneye - and even TND - was infinitely better than TWINE. The only thing TWINE did that Goldeneye didn't do better is give an expanded role to M, which I found to be a nice touch, but hardly something that puts this film over the top. It's kind of like The Search for Spock: an entertaining entry into the series, but there's really nothing about it that puts it ahead of the other films. However, I'm very curious to know what makes it GH's favorite.
Other comments:
I don't think TND is original at all. It's really just a variation of YOLT: a megalomaniacal madman playing two superpowers against each other, neither of them having any clue, until Bond uncovers what's really going on and prevents a full-scale war. The only real difference is that in YOLT, it was the Americans that were being played, not the British (actually that's an original twist: usually it's the Americans that don't have a clue, and it's the level-headedness and pragmatism of the British that prevents disaster). Nonetheless Yeoh is one of my favorite Bond girls and this is one of my favorite Bond film...I don't look for originality in a Bond movie.
DAD: absolute garbage. Halle Berry didn't save it...she was the final nail in the coffin. I've put up with a lot of crap from a lot of Bond girls, but she did the unforgiveable: she looked bored. I don't know if it's her incredible success recently including the Oscar and the big paychecks, but never did she look like she actually cared. It wouldn't have mattered anyway, because the film would have sucked anyway. At least Miranda Frost was interesting (continuing the tradition of the villainess being the sexiest of the Bond girls), and the coldness of M was a nice touch (she clearly showed her personal respect for Bond but in no way let it influence her decision to leave at the mercy of the N. Koreans), but I can't point to anything else about this film that was "cool."
Goldfinger and FRWL: classics, of course. Goldfinger is established as a textbook Bond film early on, when he's cheating at cards even though he's so rich it doesn't matter. FRWL might have been better if someone sexy played Klebb, although that would have changed the film quite a bit to some degree.
OHMSS: I have very mixed feelings about this film. Telly Savalas was probably the best Blofeld ever. Lazenby - although I like every Bond - ranks at the bottom of the list. I liked the story, but the film is about 30 minutes too long and quite dull at times. I've tried so hard to like this movie more than I do, because so many rank it as the Best Bond Film Ever. But I just can't do it. But the instumental theme is one of the top Bond theme of all time.
LALD: My least favorite of the entire series. I hate this movie even more than DAD. Maybe it's because Bond isn't even in the opening scene. Maybe it's the rubber snakes. Maybe it's how annoying Mr. Big/Katanga is. Maybe it's because Jane Seymour looks like she's about to slip into a coma. Maybe it's because I've never figured out why this mission is Bond's responsibility or even the British Secret Service at all. I don't know...I just don't like it.
Goldeneye is actually my favorite of all time. |
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silly
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 11/20/2006 : 17:56:29
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I had one thought frequently while watching the new movie (which, as it turns out, I watched twice over the weekend)
"Brilliant."
I can't wait for the next one (and it's been a loooong time since I've said that about a Bond movie) |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/21/2006 : 10:23:37
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Originally posted by Downtown
Goldeneye is actually my favorite of all time.
The only thing I was disappointed in was the Bond Girl in Goldeneye. While she was smart and tried to be a bit tough, she wasn't kick-ass enough for my taste. That's why I tend to edge TND just a tad higher than Goldeneye, since Yeoh was a superb Bond Girl. And as for Silly's comment - well, I felt that way after both Goldeneye and TND but wasn't pleased with TWINE or DND.
But you know, when one thinks of Bond movies, there are many different ways to rank them. There's the Bonds themselves, the stories (most are pretty lame, but they vary in lameness), the scripts (wit and good quotes), the action scenes, the special effects and/or stunts, the villans (both male and female), the thugs, the gadgets, the MI6 people and other 'good guys', the music (yes, that too), and last, but not least, the Bond Girls.
The problem is, some of these things improve naturally as film technology gets better (except for that damned 'surfing' scene near the end of DND which had such bad CGI you can see the outline around Bond's body where the background wasn't properly blended). Some of them tend to evolve with the era they're being filmed in (a female M would never have flown in the 60s, and neither would a Bond Girl like Yeoh) which can also include present day politics (for instance, today, Cold War is out, global terrorism is in). When we look back on the older movies, we tend to judge them (sometimes) by today's standards, so its almost like comparing apples and oranges.
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 11/21/2006 : 14:06:23
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| Yeah Natalya was forgetable but Xenia Onatopp was HOT!!! |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 11/21/2006 : 14:34:28
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Originally posted by Se�n
LOS ANGELES - James Bond has met his match � not a fellow spy but a tap-dancing penguin. The Warner Bros. animated penguin romp "Happy Feet" debuted with $42.3 million, grabbing an edge for the weekend's No. 1 slot over Sony's Bond adventure "Casino Royale," which opened with $40.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Now we know Bond's next mission... |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/21/2006 : 15:19:15
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
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Originally posted by Se�n
LOS ANGELES - James Bond has met his match � not a fellow spy but a tap-dancing penguin. The Warner Bros. animated penguin romp "Happy Feet" debuted with $42.3 million, grabbing an edge for the weekend's No. 1 slot over Sony's Bond adventure "Casino Royale," which opened with $40.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Now we know Bond's next mission...
Um... he's going to save the penguins of the world, or rid the world of vicious, money-grubbing penguin movies?
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/21/2006 : 20:59:32
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
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Originally posted by Se�n
LOS ANGELES - James Bond has met his match � not a fellow spy but a tap-dancing penguin. The Warner Bros. animated penguin romp "Happy Feet" debuted with $42.3 million, grabbing an edge for the weekend's No. 1 slot over Sony's Bond adventure "Casino Royale," which opened with $40.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Now we know Bond's next mission...
That one looks familiar...
http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?ID=14047 |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 11/22/2006 : 04:32:11
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| Craig is Bond. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/22/2006 : 04:51:57
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This one's in the IMDb Top 250. I'd say that makes it (so far) the highest scoring Bond flick.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing this one now. Perhaps I won't wait for the DVD... |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 11/22/2006 : 05:01:20
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| Don't wait. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/22/2006 : 09:19:23
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
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Originally posted by Se�n
LOS ANGELES - James Bond has met his match � not a fellow spy but a tap-dancing penguin. The Warner Bros. animated penguin romp "Happy Feet" debuted with $42.3 million, grabbing an edge for the weekend's No. 1 slot over Sony's Bond adventure "Casino Royale," which opened with $40.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Now we know Bond's next mission...
That one looks familiar...
http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?ID=14047
Or perhaps the villan from this film is back!
http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?ID=95
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 11/22/2006 : 13:01:45
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| Looks like this film is much closer to the novels than the previous ones. I read all the novels when I was young and was pleasantly surprised to find them more dramatic and less glib than the films. |
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