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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Honestly, sometimes I wish Roger Moore would come back, with an underwater car or some kind of jetpack. Can he still run on some alligators?
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Honestly, sometimes I wish Roger Moore would come back, with an underwater car or some kind of jetpack.
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Sep 4, 2019 14:44
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I don't know if it's stupider than Diamonds Are Forever, which is unfairly forgotten when people talk about bad Bond films. Diamonds is very stupid but it also doesn’t end with literal ninjas, complete with swords and throwing stars, assaulting a secret volcano crater rocket launch base while Sean Connery does Bond things in yellowface.
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Sep 4, 2019 14:45
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Kibayasu posted:Diamonds is very stupid but it also doesn’t end with literal ninjas, complete with swords and throwing stars, assaulting a secret volcano crater rocket launch base while Sean Connery does Bond things in yellowface. The last two words are the only problem there.
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Sep 4, 2019 14:47
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The wonderful thing about James Bond is that there are actually loads of really good films where he's undercover and never lets on, like Zardoz, Indiana Jones and the last crusade and highlander 2.
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Sep 4, 2019 14:51
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Yardbomb posted:Yeah like, it's not being a white guy that's the character of James Bond's problem, if he was black, hispanic, asian, polynesian or whatever, he's mainly a gross character aside of any of that and if you're gonna wholly transform him, why not just make a cool new dude instead then, rather than keep all this rapey etc. baggage of the character BUT NOW HE'S [X]? the funniest part of Austin Powers as a parody is that despite the movies always playing up how much he's an obnoxious sex pest he's 1000x more respectful to women than james bond ever was
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Sep 4, 2019 14:51
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Darth Walrus posted:The Let's Read thread on the Bond novels is pretty amazing. Turns out that Bond was actually a dim-witted, racist, sexist thug who gets repeatedly owned by extremely badass women (and then learns nothing from the experience). Archer isn't a parody, it's a continuation. Any choice excerpts? This sounds hilarious.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The last two words are the only problem there. Live Twice is the kind of movie that thinks it’s not being racist while being very racist.
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Sep 4, 2019 15:03
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Darth Walrus posted:The Let's Read thread on the Bond novels is pretty amazing. Turns out that Bond was actually a dim-witted, racist, sexist thug who gets repeatedly owned by extremely badass women (and then learns nothing from the experience). Archer isn't a parody, it's a continuation. Sounds very Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
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Sep 4, 2019 15:12
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CYBEReris posted:the funniest part of Austin Powers as a parody is that despite the movies always playing up how much he's an obnoxious sex pest he's 1000x more respectful to women than james bond ever was 
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Sep 4, 2019 15:13
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CYBEReris posted:the funniest part of Austin Powers as a parody is that despite the movies always playing up how much he's an obnoxious sex pest he's 1000x more respectful to women than james bond ever was Austin Powers (the first one) is literally a better Bond movie than any of the Craig Bonds, there I said it.
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Sep 4, 2019 15:15
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Kibayasu posted:Live Twice is the kind of movie that thinks it’s not being racist while being very racist. Yeah that's a really accurate summary.
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Sep 4, 2019 15:26
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Honestly, sometimes I wish Roger Moore would come back, with an underwater car or some kind of jetpack. Forget it, mate, it's not the eighties. He'd rather kick you in the face.
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Sep 4, 2019 15:39
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Spatula City posted:Bond is, to me, a zombie franchise continuing on because the people that own the rights think they can still make money off of it. but the zombie is handsy, and fully a third of the women it touches die. a very bad zombie. kill it. I'm not even going to see the new Craig Bond movie because Spectre was terrible and I'm convinced that Bond movies won't be good anymore until they replace Daniel Craig. I've got nothing against Daniel Craig's portrayal of Bond, but my reading on the history of the franchise suggests to me that the franchise keeps running on fumes until they replace the actor, at which point it briefly gets watchable again (except in the case of Live and Let Die).
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Sep 4, 2019 15:50
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Arcsquad12 posted:Forget it, mate, it's not the eighties. He'd rather kick you in the face. Thank you, I was worried for a second. But also, reference aside, I'd completely unironically love to see JB do big schlocky bullshit like that again.
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Sep 4, 2019 16:16
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I read something somewhere that said that Goldeneye was the only movie in the series that answered the question, "How does the James Bond franchise deal with the all the outdated themes that look bad in retrospect?" Its answer was "who cares, poo poo goes boom," which in the grand scheme of things is still an answer. James Bond is a dinosaur of a series and it's time to put it to rest, but at its best it's cheesy, dumb as poo poo fun.
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Sep 4, 2019 16:24
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Die Another Day is a bad movie, but it's also a hilariously bad movie and has a ton of ridiculous setpieces that are a blast to watch.
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get that OUT of my face posted:I read something somewhere that said that Goldeneye was the only movie in the series that answered the question, "How does the James Bond franchise deal with the all the outdated themes that look bad in retrospect?" Its answer was "who cares, poo poo goes boom," which in the grand scheme of things is still an answer. Bond movies are basically more of an aesthetic anyway. The Craig ones trying to turn the entire thing into some character study about him is what really drags those movies down. It culminates in the terrible Spectre, but Skyfall and Casino Royal had shades of this as well.
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Sep 4, 2019 16:57
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get that OUT of my face posted:I read something somewhere that said that Goldeneye was the only movie in the series that answered the question, "How does the James Bond franchise deal with the all the outdated themes that look bad in retrospect?" Its answer was "who cares, poo poo goes boom," which in the grand scheme of things is still an answer. yeah. they are fun bad movies ranging from good bad to bad bad. like i watched goldfinger with a friend and we riffed it the whole. its hosed up and bad on many levels but its a fun movie to just laugh. i thought only the first craig movie was good, the rest were either meh, overated as gently caress or bad. i feel like if you have make a new bond movie, you have to make to weird and retro, like it doesn't work in the whole "modern day ripped from headlines world". i mean gently caress it barely works at all.
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Sep 4, 2019 17:03
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Sorry, the best bond is A View To A Kill. Why else did I watch it more than four times  ?It's because I suck
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Sep 4, 2019 17:51
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AstroWhale posted:Sorry, the best bond is A View To A Kill. Why else did I watch it more than four times It definitely has the best title drop.
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Sep 4, 2019 17:56
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Tomorrow Never Dies introduced me to Michelle Yeoh so it had that going for it.
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Sep 4, 2019 18:08
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Speaking of titles, I think we can all agree on the best Bond theme.
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Sep 4, 2019 18:30
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TheMaestroso posted:Speaking of titles, I think we can all agree on the best Bond theme. no, this is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7hyTd0zRcw
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Sep 4, 2019 18:40
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The actual best part of any of the old Bond movies was the themes, cause Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever etc. are some good rear end songs. And if we're talking about best. MEN ARE MERE MORTALS WHO - ARE NOT WORTH GOING TO - YOUR GRAAAAVE FOR~! is such a killer line. Yardbomb fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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Sep 4, 2019 18:46
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TheMaestroso posted:Speaking of titles, I think we can all agree on the best Bond theme. the only good post in this whole James Bond convo
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Sep 4, 2019 18:50
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If I were being actually serious, I would always pick Snake Eater.
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TheMaestroso posted:If I were being actually serious, I would always pick Snake Eater. i am too. i prefer snake, 47, or fisher to james bond any day, but than again i grew up with those characters.
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Sep 4, 2019 19:01
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The best Bond songs are the Metal Gear vocal songs.
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Sep 4, 2019 19:05
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Snake Eater is such a bop.
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Sep 4, 2019 19:18
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TheMaestroso posted:Speaking of titles, I think we can all agree on the best Bond theme. My second favorite is this one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrdCwcdf34g this one is underrated.
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Sep 4, 2019 19:31
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I mean, there's only one true good Bond theme and I think we all know what it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlbaJA7aO9M
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Sep 4, 2019 19:34
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FlamingLiberal posted:I mean, there's only one true good Bond theme and I think we all know what it is that movie was loving weird and not even in a good way. if we are going genuin james bond intros i like these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4gdhsVKTcs even though i though the movie itself was over rated. also this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzgdBAKyJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn8alMYSu44 its good song at least. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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Sep 4, 2019 19:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht1ZChKF4Ek The quintessential bond song.
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Not a Bond guy myself, though I really liked Goldeneye. I just want to say that No Time To Die sounds like a spy parody movie title. Also, for themes, I am partial to View to a Kill. Mostly because I love 80s poo poo, though I hear the actual movie was dire.
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Sep 4, 2019 21:43
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To get back on topic, Lindsay is getting a book of hers published next year https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1169264142114414592
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FlamingLiberal posted:To get back on topic, Lindsay is getting a book of hers published next year https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1169357754743394304
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FlamingLiberal posted:To get back on topic, Lindsay is getting a book of hers published next year Congrats to her! Just being able to complete a novel is an achievement in itself, but actually getting it published is amazing. Especially considering that she did it while working on her videos, which has to be a full-time job in itself. Very impressive.
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