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James Bond

Ryan Reynolds ( Deadpool, Green Lantern ) put on Twitter that since he is Canadian he wants to play the new James Bond.

Since he is a multiple owner of different business, he said if he is selected as James Bond, the character Bond has to drink his company”s gin Aviation Brand in the movie.

I don’t think you can take Ryan Reynolds as being serious ?
 
charliebrown said:
Ryan Reynolds ( Deadpool, Green Lantern ) put on Twitter that since he is Canadian he wants to play the new James Bond.

Since he is a multiple owner of different business, he said if he is selected as James Bond, the character Bond has to drink his company”s gin Aviation Brand in the movie.

I don’t think you can take Ryan Reynolds as being serious ?
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He's just using it as an advertising hook.
 
charliebrown said:
Ryan Reynolds ( Deadpool, Green Lantern ) put on Twitter that since he is Canadian he wants to play the new James Bond.

Since he is a multiple owner of different business, he said if he is selected as James Bond, the character Bond has to drink his company”s gin Aviation Brand in the movie.

I don’t think you can take Ryan Reynolds as being serious ?
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I don't think it's physically possible for Ryan Reynolds to be serious.
 
The Man With the Golden Gun is on ITV4 right now.
Just watched the big opening Kung-fu sequence and, oh boy, isn't it cringeworthy?
Makes WWF look convincing.
The way that all the Roger Moore Bond films were basically comedies ruined the franchise for me until Daniel Craig salvaged it with his gritty reality.
 
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blessmycottonsocks said:
The Man With the Golden Gun is on ITV4 right now.
Just watched the big opening Kung-fu sequence and, oh boy, isn't it cringeworthy?
Makes WWF look convincing.
The way that all the Roger Moore Bond films were basically comedies ruined the franchise for me until Daniel Craig salvaged it with his gritty reality.
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As much as I loved Roger Moore, his fight scenes were just rubbish.
Craig's fight scenes all look convincing and he can actually act. Shame he got old and had to leave the franchise.
 
blessmycottonsocks said:
The Man With the Golden Gun is on ITV4 right now.
Just watched the big opening Kung-fu sequence and, oh boy, isn't it cringeworthy?
Makes WWF look convincing.
The way that all the Roger Moore Bond films were basically comedies ruined the franchise for me until Daniel Craig salvaged it with his gritty reality.
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All that you say is very true about the Moore movies. My wife and I are watching our way through the series at the moment.
Brosnan however, is 007 for me. The determined, ruthless shot he takes in his opening gun barrel sequence nailed that for me. Also after having read all of Fleming's books in my youth, Brosnan has the look of Bond about him in my mind.
As a little aside, I once had a beer at the 'Bottoms Up' bar in Hong Kong featured in the 'Man With the Golden Gun'.
 
Lord Lucan said:
All that you say is very true about the Moore movies. My wife and I are watching our way through the series at the moment.
Brosnan however, is 007 for me. The determined, ruthless shot he takes in his opening gun barrel sequence nailed that for me. Also after having read all of Fleming's books in my youth, Brosnan has the look of Bond about him in my mind.
As a little aside, I once had a beer at the 'Bottoms Up' bar in Hong Kong featured in the 'Man With the Golden Gun'.
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Yes but Brosnan was unfortunate with the scripts he was given - apart from GoldenEye. (MWTGG - worst Bond film of them all).
 
One of my favourite scenes is in Goldfinger where Bond is being given a massage by a woman in a bikini. Felix Leiter turns up and Bond slaps the woman on her arse and says "go away now love, 'man talk' is about to take place".
I wish to replicate this scene with Scargy or Frides. I reckon it would be worth a kick in the balls. ( I think Swifty should play the part of Leiter).
 
Lord Lucan said:
Also after having read all of Fleming's books in my youth, Brosnan has the look of Bond about him in my mind.
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Given that Fleming described Bond as looking like Hoagy Carmichael, strictly speaking Timothy Dalton came closest in terms of resemblance.
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I quite liked Dalton's Bond, but he too fell prey to bad scripts and poor direction. None of them were really bad Bonds - there are just some really bad Bond films.
 
What Tyler said:
Ha!- Dare I mention “Casino Royale” the 1967 masterpiece? Thought David Niven was pretty good as Bond... ( digs foxhole and hides)....
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I didn't even mind Lazenby's single appearance, although he did have Dianna Rigg & Telly Savalas to prop him up.
I have an autographed 007 promo pic of him but as we're in the process of moving, it's been packed away.
 
I haven't watched a bond film for years but if he died in 2021 why are the publicizing a search for a successor to Craig?
 
JAMES BOND WILL RETURN

And make a few more million for the shareholders.
 
It’s free on amazon so I have watched No Time To Die.
Well. It’s a fucking mess. You know when you see those SAS guys doing a precarious wirewalk 200 feet up across a ravine? Well this is the situation this film has got itself into.
It wobbles about on a diversity and culturally aware precarious path where Bond is now a mum looking after his daughter. When he presents himself, I found myself ovedubbing with ‘The name’s Capp. Andy Capp’. He gets blown up, exploded but not enough to progress through this shitfest where no-one in the movie seems grounded or knows what they’re doing. Bond works his way through a film which is a desperately incoherent set of scenes designed to get rid of the old guard for a makeover and at his ‘leaving do’ they each raise one glass of brown stuff, don’t even bother drinking it and clink the glass of the absent 007. I’m not even a superspy who’s saved the world several times over and I’d expect more a bit more than that.

Audio bad. I couldn’t make out anything Rami Malik was saying and Waltz was totally wasted.

I’m not sure the bad guy was meant to be Popeye but that’s how it came across to me. A ludicrous henchman.
Another point on lighting. They added a distracting blue lens flare streak continuously throughout the movie. Even in places where the source and light temperature and general location of light source didn‘t need it.
I also hate to say this but Bond’s farewell saw the black girl 007 stuck in a poorly lit corner of a black room. So she was wearing bright blue big trousers in an effort to stand out. It almost worked. We saw the trousers.

Music occasionally drifted into OHMSS motifs which I found odd as this is No, yes?

Annoyingly, it’s a situation Bond has got himself out of so many times before but this time, he just gave up. And I know how he felt. I’ve given up on this too.
 
Just noticed that all the Bond movies have been added to Prime - from Dr No all the way through to No TIme To Die.

Never Say Never Again is there too.
 
I enjoyed NTTD, but having seen it at the flicks this may make a crucial difference, namely:
Analogue Boy said:
Audio bad. I couldn’t make out anything Rami Malik was saying and Waltz was totally wasted.
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In the cinema you could hear every word, however I agree Waltz was wasted, but Malik even moreso. The almost Zen-like calm and quiet villains may mean to come over as creepy but in a Bond film they need some oomph, especially against one so physical as Craig. Jonathan Pryce suffered the same malaise in Tomorrow Never Dies - a fabulous actor who sadly came over like Michael Howard in a Nehru jacket. There's an argument to be made that had they been villains in a Harry Palmer flick they'd have been far more believable.
 
Analogue Boy said:
Annoyingly, it’s a situation Bond has got himself out of so many times before but this time, he just gave up. And I know how he felt. I’ve given up on this too.
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I think this is what got me about it. Bond is the ultimate guy who never gives up, yet he completely did in NTTD. Instead of living and fighting to ensure that the virus technology got a cure to keep his family and the world safe, he just takes everybody's word for it and decides to suck a bomb blast, defeatest style, leaving the possibility that the technological knowhow to make more is still out there. If the filmmakers had him die while strugglying with villians to stop further carnage, I would have been OK with that, but Bond shouldn't give up, ever. I even thought of a solution during the action (exposure to an EMP) that would seem sure to knock out a nanobot, and I'm not even a scientist. There are good moments in this film, but it's at the rock bottom of the entire Bond film franchise to me.
 
I was never a huge fan of Bond as a kid. My parents couldn't afford the DB5 toy car (I think I remember Prince Andrew on the news getting the pedal car in '66), Sean Connery was too hairy and although I loved the Saint, Roger Moore just wasn't a good action hero in my eyes. But years ago at a car boot I picked up a montage of Connery stills as he tried to find a good gun pose (Dr No ?). This has steadily grown on me and I think I'm a fan again, maybe time to read one of the books.

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I watched 'A view to a Kill' last night and was waiting for the bit where Grace Jones' character comes out of the mine on the trolley, as it's a really badly done (ie hilarious) scene using an obvious dummy (which always struck me as bizzare for such a high-budget film franchise) - and yet it didn't happen. She came out, but she looked real this time. Was the terrible bit with the dummy cut? Wtf?
 
Floyd1 said:
I watched 'A view to a Kill' last night and was waiting for the bit where Grace Jones' character comes out of the mine on the trolley, as it's a really badly done (ie hilarious) scene using an obvious dummy (which always struck me as bizzare for such a high-budget film franchise) - and yet it didn't happen. She came out, but she looked real this time. Was the terrible bit with the dummy cut? Wtf?
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Was she wearing braces?
 
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