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In case you haven't seen this, I post it as likely the most wholesome thing you'll read today.

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I hope the new film doesn't have that 'flash cutting' and 'shaky camera' stuff. The last two by Sam Mendes have been ok, so I hope it continues.
(Roger Moore didn't like Quantum of Solice for this reason).
 
JoBlo reviews No Time To Die. According to him, Bond is still a sociopath womanising dick so his character hasn't been toned down one bit. I might watch this one after all .. SPOILERS ..

 
JoBlo reviews No Time To Die. According to him, Bond is still a sociopath womanising dick so his character hasn't been toned down one bit. I might watch this one after all .. SPOILERS ..


No Swifty the Wokeists have emasculated Bond and we will all be castrated and in floral gowns by Christmas, which will be renamed "Lesbimas".

There are probably thousands of Youtube vids making similar arguments, most of which were made before the film came out.
 
No Swifty the Wokeists have emasculated Bond and we will all be castrated and in floral gowns by Christmas, which will be renamed "Lesbimas".

There are probably thousands of Youtube vids making similar arguments, most of which were made before the film came out.
But I'm already wearing a floral gown? .. that's shown them.
 
JoBlo reviews No Time To Die. According to him, Bond is still a sociopath womanising dick so his character hasn't been toned down one bit. I might watch this one after all .. SPOILERS ..

Me too. I prefered the original Bond from the books though, who smoked about 400 Chesterfields a day, drank like a fish and had more sex than Scargy. -At least it doesn't look like they've done the 'shaky camera' nonsense either.
 
Does he come out of the closet and say, "I only shagged all those women because I thought that's what spies are supposed to do."

He self IDs as a woman; it turns out that Moneypenny was just a figment of his imagination and the others just indulged him in his fantasies. He now becomes Moneypenny and settles down to a quiet life as M's secretary.
 
No Time To Die: A heart rending love story is told against the background of intrigue, mad poisoners and assassins; oh, there's a new female 007 (Lashana Lynch) as well, Bond had retired for a few years. Bond's love interest, Madeline (Lea Seydoux) has an origin story as interesting as Hanna when she battles with a killer in a flashback to 20 years before. This film's main villain is Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek) an enemy of SPECTRE as well as not liking the existing world order or humanity in general. Blofeld features again, this time in a M.I.6 secret prison but still controlling his minions who loot an M.I.6 bio-warfare lab.Will Bond save the world and get the girl again? He has his trusty Aston Martin to assist him, this time complete with grenades, rockets, smoke-bombs and mini-guns, it should get Co-Star billing. Much derring-do, shootouts, mighty leaps and car chases. This techno-thriller makes a fitting swansong for Daniel Craig's Bond. Directed & Co-written by Cary Joji Fukunaga. 8/10.
 
I saw NTTD tonight. I thought it was a good movie. It didn't "feel" like a Bond movie although none of Daniel Craig's ever did. They were too hardcore/Jason Bourne to be Bond. Casino Royale was probably the most Bond-like.

I enjoyed the whole thing up until the end, which was
a total WTF. That wasn't a fitting end for James Bond. I suppose the only way forward is to "reboot" the whole franchise showing us a younger Bond on missions during his career or his daughter grows up to be Mathilda Bond. Either way, I was shocked.
 
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I enjoyed the whole thing up until the end, which was
a total WTF. That wasn't a fitting end for James Bond. I suppose the only way forward is to "reboot" the whole franchise showing us a younger Bond on missions during his career or his daughter grows up to be Mathilda Bond. Either way, I was shocked.
OMG.
 
I saw Jimmy Bond 5: More Bondage, it was OK, I liked it when the splosions happened and when people got killed, I didn't like it when people were talking and whatever.

7.653/10
 
No Time To Die: A heart rending love story is told against the background of intrigue, mad poisoners and assassins; oh, there's a new female 007 (Lashana Lynch) as well, Bond had retired for a few years. Bond's love interest, Madeline (Lea Seydoux) has an origin story as interesting as Hanna when she battles with a killer in a flashback to 20 years before. This film's main villain is Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek) an enemy of SPECTRE as well as not liking the existing world order or humanity in general. Blofeld features again, this time in a M.I.6 secret prison but still controlling his minions who loot an M.I.6 bio-warfare lab.Will Bond save the world and get the girl again? He has his trusty Aston Martin to assist him, this time complete with grenades, rockets, smoke-bombs and mini-guns, it should get Co-Star billing. Much derring-do, shootouts, mighty leaps and car chases. This techno-thriller makes a fitting swansong for Daniel Craig's Bond. Directed & Co-written by Cary Joji Fukunaga. 8/10.
And hopefully none of the 'shaky camera/fast cutting' rubbish.
 

The mystery of Eric Clapton’s unreleased James Bond theme​

Tom Taylor

@TomTaylorFO
MON 25TH OCT 2021 18.00 BST

The James Bond theme has become fabled territory for all musicians and it would appear that Eric Clapton’s effort fulfils both senses of the word. From Linda and Paul McCartney combining for ‘Live and Let Die’ to Billie Eilish’s latest effort ‘No Time to Die’, the list of rousing tracks is ever-growing, but it would seem that Eric Clapton fatefully escaped the list much like the eponymous enigmatic escape artist himself, Bond, James Bond.
The 16th instalment of the franchise in 1989 saw Timothy Dalton infiltrate a nefarious drug gang who were inexplicably keen on pet Iguanas for the John Glen-directed all-action classic License to Kill. With Bond going rogue in a vengeance-seeking mission of his own design, it made sense to have a swaggering rock effort as the theme on this occasion. Thus, they turned towards Clapton and his arsenal of sauntering riffs to craft something befitting of Bond on the loose.
However, as keen Bond fans will have already noted, it was Gladys Knight who ultimately got the nod for the theme. As it happens, Knight’s last-minute replacement resides as one of the better Bond themes. Penned by Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen and Walter Afanasieff, the title of the song as well as of the film, probably originated from Bob Dylan’s 1983 song of the same name. Whilst the song might riff on Dylan’s effort, it proves starkly contrasting with the satire removed in favour of Knights full bludgeon of soul.
Gladys Knights ‘License to Kill’ proved successful both as a stand-alone single and as a suitable theme song, but why was Eric Clapton’s effort replaced in the first place? As it happens, long term Bond composer John Barry was forced to take medical leave shortly before the film was released with Michael Kamen coming in to replace him. Kamen enlisted the help of Vic Flick who had been a session musician on Barry’s original ‘James Bond Theme’ to help complement Clapton’s blues-rock style with something a bit more cinematically swinging.
As Flick told Permission to Kill back in 2009: “It was a call out of the blue. Michael Kamen wanted a dark guitar sound to compliment the melody and extemporization Eric Clapton was going to do on their composition. So, knowing of my penchant for low-string guitar playing, he called me for the sessions.”
Surprisingly, the collaboration went very well. As Flick continues: “It was good to see Eric again after many years, and it was wonderful to work with those two gifted musicians. Eric played some amazing guitar on the track, and Michael worked out a fine arrangement. I did my thing with a counter theme in the low register.”

Flick asserts confidently that the effort they crafted was very good. Why then wasn’t it used? “The following day we went to a loft in the wharf area of London to shoot the video,” Flick continues. “What little I saw of the video was great. The video was then submitted to the Bond producers who had commissioned the project. I waited, Michael waited, and Eric was off doing his thing somewhere in the world. After two weeks came the news that the Bond producers wanted a song as a theme and commissioned Gladys Knight and the Pips, and blew out the track that Michael, Eric and I submitted.”
Naturally, the next question is what happened to the theme and the video that Clapton and co crafted before producers opted for something a little bit more commercial and why has this story remained buried in the doldrums of Bond for so long. Firstly, part of the reason that the song remains obfuscated is that all parties were paid up amicably.
Secondly, the mystery theme is akin to a 007 mission in of itself. “That video is now the Holy Grail of Bond aficionados and he who finds it will see the golden light!” Flick remarks. “No one knows where the video is. The one person who I thought knew, Michael Kamen, has since passed away – so the secret has passed with him.”
With Bond, however, one final twist is always possible. Lingering in the depths of YouTube is a Clapton instrumental piece with a strong Bond feel to it. Adding a touch of credence to the case that it might be similar to the effort that the trio crafted is that Clapton later collaborated with Kamen for the soundtrack song ‘Edge of Darkness’ which has a similar structure to the mysterious recording. We’ve reached out to those who might know better, but whether anyone can remember it well enough to confirm that the video below is a demo for the theme all these years later is hard to know.
It is certainly an alluring piece of music regardless. Check it out below.

 
Just finished watching NTTD.

Quite enjoyed it, but it is certainly the grimmest and most dour movie of the Craig era and probably of the entire franchise.
At least we get some brilliant car action, featuring the classic and most recent Aston Martin and Bond is still the whisky drinking maverick with an eye for a beautiful woman that we all love.
There is a promise at the end "Bond will be back" but, without giving any spoilers, where the hell the franchise is going next is anyone's guess.
 
I haven't seen any of Craig's Bonds. I'm not a huge Bond fan really. But now that his tenure has ended, I intend to watch them all in order when I get a chance.
 
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