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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
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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I caught a live Q/A with Tamahori a few years ago a local independent theatre,

He got asked that question and his response everyone including himself was to blame.
 
Chickenpolar said:
That is the only Halle Berry movie I've seen and she's so wooden in it I can't believe she was a big name actress.

Fun concept for a villain but not executed at all.
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The only movie where it is a plot point that a villain changed his race.
It is so damn stupid.
 
In "really stupid entertainment" news:
EXCLUSIVE: James Bond Writers Reveal Twist That Has Left New Creators With 'Huge Headache' When It Comes to Resurrecting the Super-Spy for Amazon

I mean, just move on and make a new one with a new actor - there was no continuity between the Bond played by different actors, Craig's Bond never got into a fight on a space station, Brosnan's Bond never dropped a thinly-veiled Blofeld down a smokestack. To quote Lazenby: "This never happened to the other fella."

Amazon not knowing how to reboot James Bond without "breaking the lore” is a direct byproduct of the MCU-ification of genre media, and should be taken as a bad sign of where the Amazon Bond project's priorities will be.
 
I remember watching On Her Majesty's Secret Service as a kid and wondering why my mom said that Lazenby was considered bad. The ending was legitimately a top moment in the Bond series.

 
Watching from Russia with love now.
What a classic movie.
there is a reason why it is considered to be the best movie in the series.
 
Commander X said:
In "really stupid entertainment" news:
EXCLUSIVE: James Bond Writers Reveal Twist That Has Left New Creators With 'Huge Headache' When It Comes to Resurrecting the Super-Spy for Amazon

I mean, just move on and make a new one with a new actor - there was no continuity between the Bond played by different actors, Craig's Bond never got into a fight on a space station, Brosnan's Bond never dropped a thinly-veiled Blofeld down a smokestack. To quote Lazenby: "This never happened to the other fella."

Amazon not knowing how to reboot James Bond without "breaking the lore” is a direct byproduct of the MCU-ification of genre media, and should be taken as a bad sign of where the Amazon Bond project's priorities will be.
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The closest they get to continuity is the implication in a few films that each new Bond is assuming the title of 007 from prior Bonds who either died or retired.
 
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Here's how you solve it:
Somehow, James Bond returned...
 
Commander X said:
Amazon not knowing how to reboot James Bond without "breaking the lore” is a direct byproduct of the MCU-ification of genre media, and should be taken as a bad sign of where the Amazon Bond project's priorities will be.
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I think back to the article where some cunt at Amazon made it a point to proudly say that Bond’s values don’t align with Amazon’s and the freshest idea they could come up with was a show about Moneypenny. You know, the same subversive slop that has been done to death the last 10-15 years. I think Amazon is a bit gun shy especially since Lawd Dem Rangz fell flat.

I hope they do nothing with it. Leave it alone.
 
X Prime said:
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?
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INDEED said:
It bothered me that Madeline had zero chemistry with James, or much of a personality at all really, compared with Tracy or Vesper.
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I will give credit that she is A: conventionally attractive. B: Has realistic physical strength for a woman. Both of these things are increasingly rare in portrayals of females these days. But a minor ding for unnecessarily being a hotshot scientist/doctor. Why do women have to be Xena or if not they have to be some supergenius scientist/doctor? Bring back the pure eyecandy please.

Whats that? Can't make a good story with a woman who is pure and simple eyecandy? Sure you can. You just aren't trying hard enough. If anything making her into some roid commando or brain is just a lazy cheat.
 
The Hardest R said:
I think back to the article where some cunt at Amazon made it a point to proudly say that Bond’s values don’t align with Amazon’s and the freshest idea they could come up with was a show about Moneypenny. You know, the same subversive slop that has been done to death the last 10-15 years. I think Amazon is a bit gun shy especially since Lawd Dem Rangz fell flat.

I hope they do nothing with it. Leave it alone.
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A Moneypenny show sound horrible.
her scenes in Skyfall was there to show that she is not field agent material (which her character acknowledge) so what can they do with her?
Make it a workplace comedy show or what?
 
Foltest said:
A Moneypenny show sound horrible.
her scenes in Skyfall was there to show that she is not field agent material (which her character acknowledge) so what can they do with her?
Make it a workplace comedy show or what?
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I guarantee you that you put more thought into the idea than Amazon. They just wanted a way to subvert the Bond IP but thankfully the idea went nowhere…for now.
 
Watching that Transporter clipped reminded me why Europe is not a serious continent and why you can't have decent action scenes there with all those gay-ass tiny baby roads and infant man-child cars suitable only for driving your wife to her black lover's house Rekieta-style.
Commander X said:
I mean, just move on and make a new one with a new actor - there was no continuity between the Bond played by different actors, Craig's Bond never got into a fight on a space station, Brosnan's
Bond never dropped a thinly-veiled Blofeld down a smokestack. To quote Lazenby: "This never happened to the other fella."
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There's never been anything to say he didn't experience those things. The five Bonds were all supposed to be the same guy who took Tracy to poundtown, so it only stands to reason that he went to space at some point.

My fear is all the new Bonds from now on will be in self-contained universes so the artiste film directors can do whatever they want with the continuity because lol it'll just be rebooted in a decade.
 
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