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I am watching every Bond movie: please kill me (1 Viewer)

Surely it's been discussed, but how many STD's must Bond have? Guy bangs everything he can. He's been hit by the herpes bus a dozen or so times or must carry around a Costco size wallet of condoms. And how many ******* kids must he have littered across the globe? None of these women come after him for child support?
I think at this point any STDs have nuked each other in a circular firing squad.

 
Received this as a birthday present. Watching one a week. I'll keep you updated! :thumbup:

1. Goldfinger

2. From Russia with Love

3. Dr. No.

 
1. Goldfinger

2. Thunderball

3. Diamonds are Forever

4. From Russia with Love

5. You Only Live Twice

6. Dr. No

99. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 
I've never seen a KarmaPolice movie.
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You'll be into four digits by the end of the Roger Bond era
Hell, no. I love Roger.

1. Goldfinger

2. Thunderball

3. Diamonds are Forever

4. From Russia with Love

5. You Only Live Twice

6. Live and Let Die

7. Dr. No

99. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 
You'll be into four digits by the end of the Roger Bond era
Blasphemous. Roger Moore had a way and some of his films were fun. FYEO, Octakitty, View 2 a Kill, they have their moments. The Voodoo one in New Orleans, You Only Live Twice, Jaws on Moonraker. Brosnan is the one who disappoints. The last one with Catwoman was a complete abortion. 

 
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Blasphemous. Roger Moore had a way and some of his films were fun. FYEO, Octakitty, View 2 a Kill, they have their moments. The Voodoo one in New Orleans, You Only Live Twice, Jaws on Moonraker. Brosnan is the one who disappoints. The last one with Catwoman was a complete abortion. 
I may be picking nits, but Brosnan is much better than Dalton.

 
Bronsan sucked big time. Goldeneye is decent. Everything else.....crap.

Dalton played him fine. But the source material was not much to work with. 

Connery and Craig are the best. Moore had his high moments and some really low ones too. Connery's last two Bond films were crappy though (Diamonds and the ill fated Thunderball reboot). 

 
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Blasphemous. Roger Moore had a way and some of his films were fun. FYEO, Octakitty, View 2 a Kill, they have their moments. The Voodoo one in New Orleans, You Only Live Twice, Jaws on Moonraker. Brosnan is the one who disappoints. The last one with Catwoman was a complete abortion. 
I've defended Moore a lot in this thread.  His Bond was suitable for the era he worked in and the scripts that were written.  Craig's portrayal wouldn't have made sense in 1978.  But A View to a Kill is at least an order of magnitude worse than On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

 
I've defended Moore a lot in this thread.  His Bond was suitable for the era he worked in and the scripts that were written.  Craig's portrayal wouldn't have made sense in 1978.  But A View to a Kill is at least an order of magnitude worse than On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Sounds about right. Moore had a lighthearted air that played well in some of his Bond films.

 
Finally got around to Spectre last week.  Eck, what a disappointment.  So much potential squandered.

As much as I like Craig's Bond, Casino Royale ended up being the only legitimately good installment on his watch (assuming this is it for him -- I know there may potentially be one more).  I can't help but feel like they wasted a really good actor on a really poorly-conceived reboot attempt.  

 
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Finally got around to Spectre last week.  Eck, what a disappointment.  So much potential squandered.

As much as I like Craig's Bond, Casino Royale ended up being the only legitimately good installment on his watch (assuming this is it for him -- I know there may potentially be one more).  I can't help but feel like they wasted a really good actor on a really poorly-conceived reboot attempt.  
I never needed up seeing it in the theatre. I am awaiting Starz/HBO/Showtime run. I did hear a lot of mixed reviews. I happened to really enjoy Skyfall. Casino Royale is a classic to me. Quantum Of Solace a complete bomb.

 
I never needed up seeing it in the theatre. I am awaiting Starz/HBO/Showtime run. I did hear a lot of mixed reviews. I happened to really enjoy Skyfall. Casino Royale is a classic to me. Quantum Of Solace a complete bomb.
I pretty much agree with this and with IK that Spectre was just about nothing but unfulfilled potential and a massive disappointment.

 
I really enjoyed spectre, my only complaint was that it took too long to get to the main villain and it could have really been 15 minutes shorter with better pacing. Oh and the theme blew.
I remember sitting in the theater thinking that might have been the worst Bond theme ever.  And it won an Oscar last night?  WTF?

 
And Casino Royale suffers through that whole "rules of poker" setup
knowing a lot about poker really took something away from Casino Royale for me.

That film was made during the poker craze, although was released pretty much at the tail end of it (iifc)

But the absurdity of the final hand   straight flush over boat over boat over flush over something else I think..  was just too much..   I think I let out an audible "sigh" and "you've got to be effing kidding me"   in the theater that night...     the guys who wrote in the JUICED cards algorithm on pokerstars couldn't have written a script that horrible.

 
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I remember sitting in the theater thinking that might have been the worst Bond theme ever.  And it won an Oscar last night?  WTF?
The theme shouldn't matter.. but a better song and having someone good like Adele or Ellie Goulding sing it sure would've beat the pants off that garbage.

Some of the choices they are making for the theme singers...  like Chris Cornell for Casino Royale,  Jack White for Quantum of Solace..and then Sam Smith?   Utter garbage.

 
My problem with Craig's Bond (whether it's him or the writing, I'm not sure) is that it's swung way too far into gritty intensity with not enough fun. Craig's Bond seems miserably unhappy all the time, his quips and innuendos fall flat. They got the balance right with the initial set of Connery films. Lasenby's film was o.k. in that regard. They went too far into fun/camp with Moore. They went pretty heavy on the gritty intensity with Dalton. The Brosnon Bonds just had really bad plots, writing and special effects that somehow hold up worse than the effects from the 1st 3 Bond decades.

 
1. Goldfinger

2. Thunderball

3. The Spy Who Loved Me

4. Diamonds are Forever

5. From Russia with Love

6. The Man with the Golden Gun

7. You Only Live Twice

8. Live and Let Die

9. Dr. No

99. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 
1. Goldfinger

2. Thunderball

3. The Spy Who Loved Me

4. Diamonds are Forever

5. From Russia with Love

6. The Man with the Golden Gun

7. You Only Live Twice

8. Live and Let Die

9. Dr. No

99. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
I find it funny how OHMSS is so love hate.  I think it was the BEST plot/storyline, loved Diana Rigg, loved Draco as father in law.  I'm a huge Bond fan, and have this movie near the top.

I didn't love Lazenby, but he was better than others.   Surprisingly to me, Brosnan is near the bottom. 

 
Epix is showing a 'marathon' of Bond movies in March. I am not sure on the date yet. Will post it when I find out what it is.

 
RIP Sir Ken Adam who died yesterday at age 95.

Adam was the Production Designer for seven of the Connery/Moore films and his set designs helped to set the style for the series.

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1. Goldfinger

2. Thunderball

3. The Spy Who Loved Me

4. Diamonds are Forever

5. From Russia with Love

6. For Your Eyes Only

7. The Man with the Golden Gun

8. You Only Live Twice

9. Live and Let Die

10. Dr. No

99. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 
Two more with Daniel Craig?

Are Sony Crazy To Offer Daniel Craig $150m For Two More Bond Movies?


Not for the first time in its 54-year history, the James Bond franchise appears to be at a crossroads. While Skyfall was an enormous critical and commercial hit, the perfect storm of Bond's 50th birthday on screen and Daniel Craig's total commitment to getting under the skin of the super-spy, last year's Spectre fell flat. Although still a big hit, long-time fans of the franchise were divided, and more damningly, Craig himself started smack-talking Bond. When rumors earlier this year suggested studios Sony and MGM would begin the hunt for their seventh 007, it wasn't exactly a surprise.

A new report from Radar, though, suggests Sony is willing to splash out $150m to keep Craig on board for two more Bond movies. Not only would that make him the highest-paid actor in Hollywood by quite an epic distance, it also suggests that Bond won't be getting the major re-invention some have said the franchise needs — if there's any truth to this rumor. With that in mind, let's ask the question: Should Daniel Craig return, or is his reign over?

Why He Should Stay: Bond DNA
Of the six actors to step into James Bond's impeccable tux, few (if any) have hit the balance between machismo, charm, athleticism and torment quite like Craig. Sure, Sean Connery was the ultimate ladies' man, not to mention a brute when necessary (Bond would never get away with slapping a woman today), but he was almost too composed. The childhood trauma of losing his parents never registered in his performance. Roger Moore had the charm (and a rogue eyebrow that wouldn't be tamed), but he wasn't convincingly tough. Pierce Brosnan brought more balance, but the movies were rarely as good as his performance (GoldenEye aside).

Craig, though, has the Bond DNA, the most compelling aspect of his 007 being the ability to show layers of emotion and vulnerability without sacrificing his immense physical ability. You believe this is a man who could ride across the rooftops of the Grand Bazaar and survive a hundred-foot fall from a train (kind of) — and when he sheds a tear for M, the closest thing a grown Bond ever had to a mother, you feel his pain. Finding another actor who is such an all-rounded seems like a fairly epic challenge.

Why He Should Go: New Blood
Still, that doesn't mean the actor isn't out there, somewhere. Few would have said Craig was a great fit either, until Casino Royale silenced every critic. If Craig truly is over playing Bond, wooing him with money is futile. Jennifer Lawrence appears to have no more interest in Mystique, and watching X-Men: Apocalypse, it showed. Ultimately, no actor is more important than the character itself.

Then again, Craig just signed up for the lead role of Andreas Wolf in Showtime's 20-part TV series, Purity, due to begin in 2017 — there's every chance that taking the time away to play a fresh character will re-energize the Englishman should he return to Bond. He's also doing comedy in Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky, looking unrecognizable and frankly quite terrifying.

If he does agree to another two Bonds, Craig will be at least 50 when his fifth movie comes out (not before 2018), and potentially 53 or 54 when the sixth hits. Clearly he's still got a phenomenal body, but that's pushing on a bit. Roger Moore wasn't much older than that in A View To A Kill, a movie he should never have made.

There's also the fact that $150m is a truly insane amount of money, and for a quarter of that they could cast somebody new and save a whole lot of dollar. But hey, I'm no accountant.

The Final Word
Ultimately, there will be a Bond number seven — it's a matter of when, not if. Everything hinges on how Craig really feels about being Bond again. If his feelings have changed since the notorious "wrist-slitting" comments, he should stay on board for at least one more movie, but the writing team has to do a better job than they did on Spectre. If Craig really wants out, raiding the savings account is pointless.

They'd still make some $$$!
 

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