James Bond Appreciation Thread

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Who is the best James bond

  • Daniel Craig

    Votes: 5 3.4%

  • Pierce Brosnon

    Votes: 31 21.2%

  • Timothy Dalton

    Votes: 26 17.8%

  • Sir Roger Moore

    Votes: 26 17.8%

  • George lazenby

    Votes: 4 2.7%

  • Sean Connery

    Votes: 54 37.0%
  • Total voters
    146
Goldeneye 007 for the N64 was so good, it makes everything else look like shit in comparison
 
Amazon are being cocksuckers again


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It would be fascinating to know what went on with that, but I bet we'll never know. My guess is there are internal guidelines for title cards and someone applied the "for everyone" approach when doing the Bond ones. Possible at the direction of someone not thinking. Some graphic designer being like, "but you literally said do this and your style guide says no guns."
 
Screamer_2 said:
It would be fascinating to know what went on with that, but I bet we'll never know. My guess is there are internal guidelines for title cards and someone applied the "for everyone" approach when doing the Bond ones. Possible at the direction of someone not thinking. Some graphic designer being like, "but you literally said do this and your style guide says no guns."
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Calvin Dyson seems to think it had more to do with giving all of the films keyart a unified look, and from all the stills they took for the films it was easier to remove guns than to add guns to the ones that didn't have them.

Of course, the fact they even removed it from the holster in Spectre makes me think this is wishful thinking.
 
Amazon has done a bang up job managing this IP. They badly want to subvert it but it’s too popular to fuck with, plus people still remember LAWD DEM RANGZ. Remember when Bezos said he was told by his son(?) not to fuck it up and welp, he fucked it up.
Screamer_2 said:
It would be fascinating to know what went on with that, but I bet we'll never know. My guess is there are internal guidelines for title cards and someone applied the "for everyone" approach when doing the Bond ones. Possible at the direction of someone not thinking. Some graphic designer being like, "but you literally said do this and your style guide says no guns."
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They’ve been trying to subvert the IP from day one. Remember when some cunt executive was saying that she didn’t think the Bond IP represented their (Amazon) values and wanted to make a show about Moneypenny?
 
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I finally saw No Time to Die on a whim.

I won't say it's terrible. It's even worse than that: it's horrendously mid. Dull as dishwater.

The only nice thing I will say about it is the actress playing Madeline Swann was good looking.

Also, am I insane for thinking the villain's name sounds suspiciously close to Lucifer Satan? Did they really do that?
 
I discover my blue-ray set of James Bond and decided to watch some classic bond films.
It is a sad state of cinema that a movie like the world is not enough, look way more impressive than modern slop,
TWINE is not the best Brosnan movie (Goldeneye is) but I don't consider it to be bad (Die another day is garbarge) .
Great action and acting all around.

Speaking about Goldeneye, I know that a lot of Bond fans dislike Eric Serra score in it, but I love it.
I love how metalic it sound.
Martin Campell was a great pick for a director. No fucking around.
 
Serra's score is okay in bits and pieces and fits the scenes nicely (for the most part). His song over the end credits is pure dog shit, though, and might be one of the worst songs to ever appear in a feature film. He also got the guy who rescored part of the movie blacklisted, so fuck him.

 
Serra's music is indefensible; it's total dogshit.

The film should have been re-scored, from the first frame to the ending credits; nothing is salvageable from this turd.

When I first watched Goldeneye, I stopped the film when Bond is chasing Onatopp because I thought I had torrented the wrong movie; it sounded like a cheap porno. Disgusting shit.

I actually searched the scene on YouTube right after because I couldn't believe it was so bad. With the confirmation the music was indeed worse than from an 80s direct-to-video stinker, I resumed the film and even enjoyed it, especially because some other nigger actually was involved in the soundtrack and these scenes just shine. What a fucking difference.
 
There are some bits of the synth music that sounds cool but there's a reason they got John Altman in to rescore the tank scene. The Craig films suffered from getting rid of David Arnold.


This score is terrible.

It is like the first Transporter film where the dumb French music is out of place.


Although dumb French music can work in car chases given the right context.

 
Foltest said:
In sad bond news, the director behind die another day, Lee Tamohori has passed away at the age of 75z
Die another day is shit, but I wonder how much of it was his faults.
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He bares a fair amount of responsibility but so do the producers who let him do it.

The writers Pervis and Wade have placed some blame of Tamahori for how he interpreted and translated their script and ideas to the screen. Amplifying everything to ridiculous levels. They never intended the car to actually be invisible. It was meant to be a grounded and realistic.

Tamahori had taken responsibility for the kite surfing sequence as it was his idea. He wanted heavy CGI to modernise Bond with Matrix-style spectacle. I assume it's reasonable to extrapolate that thinking across the film.

He also was someone who didn't understand that James Bond was a character and believed in the code name theory. So place whatever one's knowledge on Bond must be to think that when they're directing a Bond film.

Also of note for trivia, originally the final act with the plane and space laser was meant to happen over New York but space lasers destroying NYC was scrapped after 9/11. These films get written and through production for all sorts of reason get changes. I'm pretty sure the action scenes and various parts are left fairly blank in detail to allow stunt teams and coordinators to do whatever they want. "Bond escapes in an exciting chase sequence."
 
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