Bond poll

[seemore 66]

We have had a bond-athon over the past couple of weeks and really they are all shite.

 

They are bad the best thing to come out of Bond films was Goldeneye on Nintendo

[grungy-gonads 54]

....and Die Another Day, of course, seemore. Surely!

[seemore 66]

I just enjoyed some of it I don't know why I picked that one but I think it was the 1st one I took my wife to see and she didn't mind it.

I will reserve my judgement until wednesday when the Bond-athon gets there but the 1st Daniel Craig love interest put me off. He is meant to be a whoreut but he got upset cause his partner died that stinks of SNAG to me.

[grungy-gonads 54]

Do you actually know ANYTHING about the character James Bond?

 

Do you realize where and how Casino Royale fits in with everything?

The importance and significance of that relationship?

 

It appears not.

 

Why are you even bothering in this thread?

[seemore 66]

The question was which was your favorite Bond Film I answered and was shot down in flames.

 

No I don't understand the significance of that relationship nor do I give a rats.

 

I pay to go to the movies to be entertained if I fidget and check my watch during a movie I am not engrossed in the movie.

 

Sorry if I offended you by participating in this thread please let me know in the future which threads I can partake in

[grungy-gonads 54]

Don't be such a dickwad.

 

And if you don't give a rats arse, and dont like them, why on earth are you watching them all?

Or are you just an arsehole?

 

But please do continue to review movies so I know which to watch and which to avoid. Save me some cash and time.

 

[seemore 66]

I watch films for entertainment value I don't know how to explan it in anymore detail.

 

Sorry for upsetting you by not following the ongoing plot line of Bond films !!!!!!!!!!!

 

By the way what is a dickwad??????????????????

[grungy-gonads 54]

Something similar to dickhead.

 

You're right about one thing, though I am extremely inconsolably upset, it will very likely take me a few weeks to calm down such is my outrage. I certainly won't be able to sleep tonight.

[seemore 66]

I will let you get over it then and won't post in this thread for few weeks.

 

P.S. Bond is a load of SHITE

[grungy-gonads 54]

Cripes, that's really upsetting.

 

[klingon 10]

Loved Skyfall, looking forward to getting the BluRay.

[seemore 66]

I would say that maybe I should give it another chance but I said I wouldnt contribute to this thread for a few weeks

[big-will 7]

Will be interesting to see how the next one turns out.

 

A stand alone, non-revenge, non-personal, mission perhaps. Sort of hinted at at the end of Skyfall.

 

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

I am also holding out for Craig. CS was very good and there are good signs that Skyfall might be good as well. Fingers crossed.

 

You should see The Living Daylights. It's a really good Bond film.

 

Licence to Kill less so, they were verging on the "getting serious with no humour" thing again there unfortunately.

 

Had the chance to see The Living Daylights recently, and have to agree it is really good, one of the best post-Connery Bond films made, up there with Craig's Casino Royale. (Outside the historically-embarrassing "Bond aids the Taliban" sub-plot.)

 

Also enjoyed "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Have to agree it is a shame Lazenby did not continue. Less Moore, more Lazenby would have been a good thing. Minor quibble though: when being chased on skis by machine-gun-firing henchmen, who wastes their time carving? It would be 直下降 for me. But maybe that's why I have never been tapped for spy duty.

 

Also finally got to see Skyfall. It was...ok...but less of the "This time, it's personal," and more actual spy action next time, please.

[grungy-gonads 54]

Most certainly.

 

The 'this time it's personal' has already been overdone by Bond.

 

Stand alone thrilling story, bit lighter, sharks with lasers, etc.

[grungy-gonads 54]

This is interesting news.

He doesn't have to stroke a pussy, but I would love to see the return of Blofeld done well.

Even though it would be very difficult to get right. What with Dr Evil, too serious, etc etc

 

The James Bond film series is free to incorporate classic elements such as the villain Blofeld and nefarious organisation SPECTRE once again after settling a long-running legal case with the estate of 007 co-creator Kevin McClory.

 

A dispute over rights to the suave British spy has been ongoing since 1959, when writer McClory suggested a Bond film set in the Bahamas to Ian Fleming. The idea eventually came to form the basis of the novel Thunderball, as well as its 1965 film adaptation. Fleming and McClory collaborated on the third Bond film, which introduced both Blofeld and SPECTRE, but courts later ruled that the Dublin-born writer owned significant elements of the 007 mythos, and he was able to produce the "unofficial" 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again, which restored Sean Connery to the role.

 

Now McClory's family has sold any remaining stake in 007 to Danjaq, maker of the Bond films via its better known subsidiary Eon, and distributor MGM. In later years McClory, who died in 2006, had found himself legally prohibited from making new Bond films, but the move does mean rights to characters introduced in Thunderball are once more ripe for inclusion in future instalments.

 

"Danjaq, LLC, the producer of the James Bond films, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the longtime distributor of the Bond films, along with the estate and family of the late Kevin McClory, announced today that Danjaq and MGM have acquired all of the estate's and family's rights and interests relating to James Bond, thus bringing to an amicable conclusion the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically for over 50 years," said the parties in a statement.

 

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is perhaps the iconic Bond villain, variously portrayed on the big screen by Donald Pleasance, Charles Gray, Telly Savalas and Max Von Sydow, as well as inspiring the character of Dr Evil in Mike Myers' Austin Powers films. SPECTRE is an acronym for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, a villainous apolitical organisation which has formed the template for various similar groups in the Bond films and similar efforts.

 

While the Bond films have moved away from the series' more cartoonish roots in the last decade, recent 007 entry Skyfall did reintroduce such classic characters as gadget man Q and M's flirtatious secretary, Moneypenny. The 2006 adaptation of Fleming's novel Casino Royale also introduced a Spectre-like organisation, Quantum, to take on Bond.

 

The deal with McClory's estate also paves the way for Never Say Never Again to be included in official collections. The latter film is considered by many to be a superior movie to 1983's "official" Roger Moore-headed Bond film, Octopussy.

[grungy-gonads 54]

for anyone interested in the story, there's a book called i recall 'the battle for bond' which made for interesting reading.

[pie-eater 207]

The deal with McClory's estate also paves the way for Never Say Never Again to be included in official collections.

 

I doubt it.

 

The latter film is considered by many to be a superior movie to 1983's "official" Roger Moore-headed Bond film, Octopussy.

 

No, it isn't. I just asked (nearly) everyone. It's considered to be a dodgy remake of Thunderball with an old fat wigged out Sean pooing on his legacy. And quite possible the worse theme tune ever. Even worse than Die Another Day. And Quantum of Shite or whatever it was called.

[Alexander L 80]

Skyfall.

[grungy-gonads 54]

Quantum of Skyfall?

 

You like Skyfall, thurs?

 

Wish they'd get making the next one.

[joshnii 2]

Living Daylights was on the other night.

I enjoyed it.

[grungy-gonads 54]

Die Another Day is on now.

They're in the Eden Project at the moment.

Seriously, what a bloody awful mess of a film it is.

Cheesy was fun in the earlier Bonds, it's just smelly in this.

[pie-eater 207]

Very smelly.

 

Even if the film were good, Halle Berry being it it would annoy.