Posted on 04/08/2017 3:41:07 PM PDT by RummyChick
Night Manager looks like he will go bald early in the front. No other Bald Man is going to beat Sean Connery for 007
I though Craig did a fine job, but the only screenplay worth its/his while was Casino Royale.
Ditto Dalton and Living Daylights.
As in the play ‘Hamilton’, I simply do not understand why minorities need to try to change history by pretending they were relevant in certain historic events. It smacks of revisionist history to inject race or ethnicity into roles/people that, if portrayed historically correct, were WHITE MEN. Period.
It’s not that Craig is better than Connery. It’s that Connery was stuck in the campy 60’s movie style. It got even worse through the years and actors that followed. The scripts got weaker and the stunts more rediculous. At least Connery had the luxury of reaping the best of Flemming’s original titles.
The reboot with Craig changed up the formula, a necessity because of movies like Bourne that added real tension and grit to the screen. The franchise had to come up to at least that standard or it was going to lose big audience. My own take is that it was a good move. I think Craig fit and played the part well, and as much as I’ve heard people complain about the stories since Casino Royale, I think they have been original, and generally good film. I hope Craig does two more as was rumored last year, a double set against Spectre that leaves you in suspense after the first one.
Elba is way cool.
So would this mean Moneypenny will be white again?
That’s funnier than the headline.
Yes, but she’ll be played by Rachel Dolezal.
Be still my heart.......
Even a tranny Bond would be a lesser evil.
A theory ruined by a moment played for a cheap laugh in, I think, live and let die where Rodger Moore tells a cop he is James Bond and the cop scoffs and says something like "yeah sure, and I'm Santa Clause." The implication is that James Bond is a very famous, even legendary, name. If so, it would be quickly retired. Even if it was always just one guy and that was his real name, frankly. That scene defined the Rodger Moore era for me. Nothing serious about it, just goofy. Which is why I find most of his Bond films unwatchable today.
For me it was his Tarzan yodel in Octopussy as he swung from a chandelier.
Tony Osoba
Unfortunately he's now 70
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