The inimitable.
Posted on 01/24/2005 12:47:20 PM PST by r5boston
Women still love James Bond, or any other man who embodies the persona Ian Fleming portrayed so well in his work. The studio is making a mistake.
I like Domino, Bambi and Thumper.
My guess is that little Tanya has had too many dissappointing relationships... Perhaps she should stick to listening to Alaniss Morisette albums.
Rubbish.
Good riddance to the Movie Bonds. I read all of Ian Fleming's work long before I saw the movies. I saw two or maybe three of them before I never watched another...totally different character. In the books, Bond thinks and talks and works his way out of problems. In the movie, he just always has just the right gizmo from Q to create just the right big explosion.
I just hope Clive Owen gets to be the next Bond. Ewen MacKenobi seems to specialize in ruining franchises while Jude Law is just gay.
Part of the problem is that the mostly crappy Bond films that are made now bear almost no relation to the mostly excellent Bond films that were made in the early years. Compare the excellent spy thriller "From Russia with Love" to the idiotic "Die Another Day" and it's no wonder that the Bond franchise has hit an awful rough patch.
This is a big mistake. Last time I checked Bond movies still did very well. I recently that they wanted to make a gay Bond, in which the dumba$$es in the studio offices will kill off a profitable franchise if they do so, or let the PC types kill Bond off.
Sorry but there's really no deep explanation for why the Bond series has died. The truth is it died because they lost all the creativity. Bond adventures used to be unique, and most importantly so were their stunts. With the last 8 or 9 Bond movies when you watched the trailers you could rattle off which previous Bond movie that stunt was in, and the last few they started re-ripping off stunts they'd already rerun. At that point Bond was dead. Jackie Chan didn't help either, he's made a minor career of ripping off Bond stunts but doing them at a more exciting pace and with cheaper vehicles.
All things come to an end, and 20 movies is one hell of a run.
Gotta agree with you on Clive Owen.
Pierce Brosnan brought bond back and now MGM is going to kill him again.
James Bond was a parody of himself. Don't blame Austin Powers for making Bond more and more ridiculous. All you have to do is take a look at the names of his most famous female conquests (Electra, Honey, Christmas, Pussy and Octopussy) to see how ludicrous the whole enterprise is now.
Problem is Bond movies are expensive as hell, it takes a lot more money to do well when production and advertising costs almost 200 mil.
The inimitable.
Plenty.
Well, “Die Another Day” came out 2 years ago. It cost $180 million in production and marketing and raked in a worldwide $430 million. That’s pretty good. Better than “Alexander the Gay”.
There were Bond imitators and parodies right from the beginning - OUR MAN FLINT, the Matt Helm movies, MODESTY BLAISE, WHAT'S UP TIGER LILY, not to mention the Woody Allen version of CASINO ROYALE which was one big not-so-in joke on the whole series. The Austin Powers movies are just the latest in a long string, and there's a reason it's called the sincerest form of flattery. The Bond movies never took themselves seriously, at any rate - Bond was a smooth and ironic dude, not an idiot. But why bother arguing with a feminist? Just take out your Walther PPK and shoot her.
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