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Gervasius posted:
They should do something really unique and have Bond be assigned a mission and actually do it without going rogue or anything. No poorly written attempts at serialization or anything, just a standalone adventure with pulpy action sequences.
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Dec 9, 2019 08:10
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Go even darker. Give it to Ken Loach, Brendan Gleeson as an old, dying Bond driving an uber to make ends meet.
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Well, three cars would just be implausible. I'm glad they course corrected there.
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May 16, 2020 09:35
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I like the A-Ha song. The Bonding podcast seems down on it but they have a lot of bad takes.
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Oct 6, 2020 16:59
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Moonraker and Golden Gun are the most entertaining Moore movies, don't @ me
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Oct 15, 2020 21:24
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RIP to an absolute legend. The once and future man, now dog.
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Oct 31, 2020 22:15
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1941 isn't bad, from what I recall.
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Nov 2, 2020 00:17
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Is the reason in Goldeneye that women are starting to talk back to him?
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Nov 12, 2020 18:14
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One thing I like about the Living Daylights is the fact that it actually uses the Cold War setting for it's plot. Most of the films try to avoid real world politics, so it's nice to see a film that opens with a Berlin Wall defection, deals with the Soviet "Death to Spies" program, the war in Afghanistan, etc.
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Nov 13, 2020 17:44
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Time to turn it into a giant bowl for a kickass skatepark.
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Nov 19, 2020 18:03
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Next you have to watch Operation Double 007 starring Neil Connery and Never Say Never Again to complete the faux Bond trilogy. Bonus points if you watch The Dragon Lives Again, where James Bond is one of the rulers of Hell that Bruce Lee has to fight with his buddy Popeye.
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May 26, 2021 18:03
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Heavy Metal posted:Here's a question for the Bond thread. Any other fav spy or 007 adventure feeling movies you're a fan of? Or anything in that ballpark? I'm gonna guess that saying the Mission Impossible is cheating? That recent Man From UNCLE movie was good. Too bad we'll never get a sequel since Armie Hammer turned out to be a sicko. The long running comic Modesty Blaise kind of has a similar vibe.
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Jun 2, 2021 05:59
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Which is why it's so insulting that they put the damned thing in the background of like, half the scenes of this movie.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:14
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Drink-Mix Man posted:I'll die on the hill that DaD is Brosnan's second best performance as Bond. He couldn't even be bothered to hide his Irish accent.
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Oct 10, 2021 06:37
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Payndz posted:Wait, a Purvis and Wade Bond film is badly written? Say it ain't so! Another 20 years of this and then their jobs will really be in jeopardy.
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Oct 10, 2021 09:07
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What if I want creepy horniness?
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Oct 11, 2021 01:08
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well why not posted:You're in luck! The Man From Uncle has a two male protagonists, one of which is now insanely frightening due to revelations about the actor. Oh right, I quite like that one. Like a Kingsmen that isn't written by an edgelord. Too bad about the cannibalism.
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Oct 11, 2021 02:47
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They really should get Adele to come back for one of these.
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Oct 11, 2021 10:11
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Conservatives completely dominate the UKs/US politics and the left has been purged after it's short resurgence, is stunt casting really the only carthasis people can imagine?
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Oct 12, 2021 22:40
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The franchise has always been reactive to popular trends in cinema, for better and for worst. This film definitely feels inspired by Logan. I feel like there are some other recent movies where a protagonist cares for a surprise daughter before dying but that's the only one I can remember.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:13
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I don't think any of the Craig movies have ended that way.
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Oct 13, 2021 21:41
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He had his eye on my watch. Turns out, his time was up.
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Oct 15, 2021 05:15
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"Bond, we're running out of time. I get it, something happened involving the watch I gave you and now a man is dead, but right now we need you to focus on the mission. You've been riffing for 5 minutes now" "He thought he was an alpha until he met my Omega." "goddamnit just launch the missiles."
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Oct 15, 2021 06:19
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Nanobots are different enough from regular electronics that that didn't bother me, even if I thought about it. You do have to wonder how his earpiece survived, tjough. E: as for your 2nd point, that whole thing feels like another Dr. No reference they stuck in but the explanation was lost in a draft somewhere.
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Oct 17, 2021 21:32
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:We Have All the Time in the World to Die ...Another Day
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Oct 18, 2021 00:55
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Honesty Trailers is hit or miss but I enjoyed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyrp3aR-ytE
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Oct 19, 2021 19:00
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it needed more scenes of race horse intrigue.
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Aug 1, 2022 02:59
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I think there's a difference between pulp and camp. I want pulp, I want heightened reality, I want something a little more expressionist rather than drab and "realistic". I want episodic adventure films again. I don't really want another multi film exploration of Bond's character, because he doesn't have one.
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Aug 10, 2022 09:45
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I don't really like the Radiohead song but anything is better than that Sam Smith song.
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Jun 30, 2023 10:32
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Human Tornada posted:My hot James Bond take is that Pierce Brosnan is not a very good actor. He coasts pretty far on his looks and natural presence but he just can't act. You don't need to be a good actor to play James Bond. Like good looks and natural presence are 90% of the character. Plus, he got atrocious scripts
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Aug 5, 2023 09:34
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I didn't say that good acting couldn't elevate the role or that Connery wasn't a better actor, I said it's not a necessity. Roger Moore couldn't act at all but he filled the role.
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Aug 6, 2023 00:12
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Human Tornada posted:Batman Begins > Casino Royale i like casino royale more than batman begins
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Nov 27, 2024 03:15
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He's also an orphan, which raises further questions
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It all goes back to Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond in Casino Royale
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I thought the bionic eye fell on the right side of camp without being obvious pastiche or tongue in cheek. Actually the whole Spectre party in Cuba section was great, Ana De Armas was a good Bond girl. And the opening was well done too. And I liked the action scene in the woods. Hell I think I might just straight up be a NTTD Liker. 3rd best Craig film after Casino and Skyfall. e: I'm currently rewatching the entire franchise with my buddy and we just made it past Diamonds Are Forever. He hasn't seen NTTD yet and I don't think he knows about the ending, so that should be fun seeing his reaction.
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Well like I said we just finished Diamonds so last week we watch OHMSS. I'm one of the people who likes it while he always remembered disliking it. I think we reach synthesis and agreed that it's simply too long and a lot of the best bits are in the back half. But I'll let you know how it goes when we get there. We're not binging them, just watching one or two a week when we have the opportunity to hang out.
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Dec 9, 2024 03:41
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It was already a thing before Casino with the Bourne movies. Quantum has it bad because they tried to make the movie in editing. The opening car chase would be great if they didn't randomly decide to get rid of one the cars they filmed.
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Dec 10, 2024 03:23
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Diamonds is pretty entertaining. Just rewatched it a week ago.
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Dec 10, 2024 19:39
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Barudak posted:Scaramanga is close to what Im thinking, I should rewatch that as it was my first non-Brosnan film and see howI feel. I rewatched it last night as part of my ongoing full series rewatch with a friend. It's fun!
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Made it up to Dalton in my series rewatch, watched The Living Daylights yesterday. Still a great film, I'd say it's up there with From Russia With Love in terms of taking advantage of the Cold War to create an interesting spy caper, rather than just the standard 'villain in a lair' plot. It kind of suffers at the end with Joe Don Baker becoming the main villain, but otherwise it's a film with a great cold open, a great song, a great Bond car, a great henchman, and some great action set pieces. My friend and I got a lot of laughs out of the mujahadeen stuff, especially when they say they had 'trouble at the airport' hahahaha. Honestly in an era where movie stars are getting older and older all the time Roger Moore wasn't even that bad looking in his last outing, he was only 60. You can't really do the normal Bond stuff at that point maybe but you could probably write a good film around an older spy like that. e: also as far as Golden Gun goes it's one of my favorite Moore films. I like the sort of sleazy 70s Asia aesthetic, love the villain and his henchman, I even love the song even though it's dumb as hell. Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Jan 1, 2025 |
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