Posted on 12/08/2019 7:46:48 AM PST by L.A.Justice
I am looking forward to it performing poorly.
You said it; it’s either Connery or nothing, although I thought George Lazenby was great in OHMSS.
The best Bond flicks belong to another time, when there was no PC, no social messages, nothing but entertainment well done. There comes a time when producers of a sure thing start to run out of ideas then come up with things like gender & race fluid superspies.
My souvenir of those earlier times of Goldfinger & Thunderball is a 7.65mm Walther PPK which I bought in lieu of an Aston-Martin. Unlike me, it never gets old.
;^)
#1 I think he will be in the kitchen wearing an apron with the new wife baking cookies.
Bond would work, and would get cheering audiences, if he was taking down Islamic terror groups. But that would be too politically incorrect for Hollywood to contemplate.
I was over them when Connery left!
Me, too. Roger More (sp) and the others were not as good.
Maybe like “Mission Impossible”.
I liked NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983).
I liked the theme song. Barbara Carrera was great...
OCTOPUSSY (1983) was fine also...Roger Moore was in that “official” Bond film. An excellent pretitle sequence in that film...
She was the best part of that movie.
Lashana Lynch; the ‘new’ 007, looks like Michelle Obama with
a crewcut and an attitude.
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I liked Halle Berry in DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002)...She played the CIA agent Jinx. She ended up in bed with 007 at the end of the movie.
Agent 007 has worked with female agents in previous movies...
Bond would work, and would get cheering audiences, if he was taking down Islamic terror groups. But that would be too politically incorrect for Hollywood to contemplate.
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From the beginning, Bond films tried to avoid controversial villains.
SPECTRE was the main villain in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE...Not Soviet Union...
The main villain, for THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, is an industrialist who is obsessed with the sea.
You said it; it’s either Connery or nothing, although I thought George Lazenby was great in OHMSS.
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Lazenby was fine...He lacked experience...But, he was not too bad.
Are these even based on books anymore? Some like Moonraker had a book written to come out with the film. But since Skyfall some films have no book that it is based on or published anything. The series started out beinc based on book by Ian Fleming since then many authors have take the books over and many stories were not made inti film. Though all Ian’s book were made into movies.
Are these even based on books anymore? Some like Moonraker had a book written to come out with the film. But since Skyfall some films have no book that it is based on or published anything. The series started out being based on books by Ian Fleming and since then many authors have taken the books over and many stories published were not made into a film. Though all of Ian’s books were made into movies.
Are these even based on books anymore? Some like Moonraker had a book written to come out with the film. But since Skyfall some films have no book that it is based on or published anything. The series started out being based on books by Ian Fleming and since then many authors have taken the books over and many stories published were not made into a film. Though all of Ian’s books were made into movies.
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After THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987), Bond producers came up with movies not based on Fleming’s stories...There is one exception. Casino Royale (2006) is based on Fleming’s novel.
John Gardner, a British author, wrote several Bond novels during 1980s. I enjoyed reading many of his Bond novels.
Raymond Benson also wrote some Bond novels.
in the trailer they claim the film is Bond 25, but that’s inaccurate. The Broccoli family only counts their productions. Never Say Never starring Connery is not a Broccoli production and neither is the original farce Casino Royale. So this will actually be the 27th film.
How can you say Bond film with Connery is not a Bond film?
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