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Post by gloriana on Dec 4, 2007 18:43:44 GMT
m'sieu Anderson, aren't you going to even hazard a guess? Perhaps I should start a new thread...!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2007 21:07:02 GMT
Personally, I think it should just be one of life's mysteries.
So, James Bond, eh?
-Ralph
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Post by Dave on Dec 5, 2007 10:21:17 GMT
He was an ornithologist.
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Post by gloriana on Dec 5, 2007 17:03:41 GMT
and got a double first in oriental languages ....
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Post by panderson on Dec 5, 2007 17:48:27 GMT
m'sieu Anderson, aren't you going to even hazard a guess? Perhaps I should start a new thread...! I'm getting confused - I think this is already being discussed in another thread - that and cold is making my head hurt |
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Post by gloriana on Dec 5, 2007 18:08:13 GMT
Mr. Anderson, it's forgetable now. It's not that important really. I was being a fraction OTT. Back to Bond?
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Post by panderson on Dec 5, 2007 22:44:35 GMT
lol - no worries - hope that shaken for all my stirring
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Post by gloriana on Dec 2, 2007 18:32:34 GMT
The Living Daylights. Long story but I have a love/hate relationship with Vienna and a thing for Timothy Dalton. It's purely a girl thing...
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Post by legios on Dec 2, 2007 19:17:47 GMT
"OHMSS" for me. I don't know why it works for me, it just does. I think it is perhaps because for once Bond gets involved with a woman who is in her own way every bit as capable as him, has a villian who manages to straddle the divide between international criminal and bonkers supervillian, and ends with a reminder that Bond's world simply doesn't allow him the luxury of attachment. It doesn't feature the best Bonds (plural carefully used due to the production history of the film) but it just works for me.
(What, you expected me to say "Thunderball"? "Thunderball" is good, but "OHMSS" has the edge on it).
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2007 19:59:52 GMT
Goldfinger is not on this list! Outrageous!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 2, 2007 21:07:16 GMT
****! Well if you like Goldfinger then say so. Or do you want me to dothe poll again from scratch ?
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 3, 2007 5:42:49 GMT
Going with Casino Royale because I did a brief stint of work experience at the company that did the effects during production. Without those two weeks I probably wouldn't have my current job so I have an attachment to that film.
Also it and Golden Eye are the only two whose titles I can ever easily recall. The second primarily because of my total addiction to the N64 game of the same name.
Oh and the third reason, it is a very good film.
Andy
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Post by Dave on Dec 4, 2007 10:16:55 GMT
My first thought is... why is the Niven Casino Royale listed first, when the other films are listed in release date order?
My second thought is... Ralph's right, he HAS missed off Goldfinger.
Third thought... I actually don't know what my favourite Bond film is.
I'm trying to think but it's too difficult. I really like the first three Connery's and I also really like the first (or only in the case of Lazenby) film each Bond has done and then there's a few others scattered about as well. Casino Royale (Niven) is the only Bond film I haven't liked, so I know that's my least-favourite. Perhaps I should just have a Bond marathon to help me decide.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 5, 2007 22:44:48 GMT
GoldenEye for me. Though generally almost every actor's first Bond is usually one of their strongest.
Andy
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 6, 2007 6:48:32 GMT
Goldfinger for moi. Just, from start to finish, the perfect Bond movie. Great villian, great girls, great action, GREAT Bond, and it's aged in a cute way.
(my speed-typing is so bad! Initially I typed Godfinder! WTH?)
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Feb 7, 2008 13:23:37 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 7, 2008 15:32:38 GMT
That looks like the gun he used at the tail end of Casino Royale. Poster looks sufficiently moody. The name is still a bit poo.
Andy
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Post by legios on Feb 7, 2008 15:41:24 GMT
Yep, It does look a lot like the same model H&K Bond was using at the end of "Casino Royale". I do like that poster actually. Like most "teaser" stuff it doesn't really tell you very much of anything, but it does work quite nicely to pique the interest.
Karl
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2008 18:42:39 GMT
What gets me about this new Bond film is why have they chosen the title 'A Quantum of Solace'? The short story of the same name was featured in the 'For Your Eyes Only' novel and the plot is just basically Bond sitting in a bar being told a story by some other bloke about a man who married a golddigger who tried to ruin him but wound up being on the receiving end herself. Surely the film plot will have absolutetly nothing to do with the original story just like another short story featured in the For Your Eyes Only novel - A View To A Kill.
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Post by Nigel on Feb 7, 2008 22:11:16 GMT
That's not a gun, it's a crocodile puppet. He's taken up Punch and Judy. That's the way to do it!
I've not read the story, so I don't know if there's any resemblance in plot. But themes...?
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Post by legios on Feb 7, 2008 22:26:32 GMT
If I recall correctly the short story "The Spy who loved me" is another one that Bond is barely in. I think they have long since run through most of the actual Fleming Bond material and were magpieing bits and pieces for a while.
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Post by Hero on Feb 11, 2008 9:16:27 GMT
The only thing to me that defines this as a Bond poster is the logo at the bottom. Take that logo away and its a shadow of some dude holding a gun. If the gun was the Walther I might have considered it more Bond-like. Casino Royale I did'nt enjoy and I don't have high hopes for this movie either. Man With The Golden Gun is still my fave Bond movie ever  . ===KEN |
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Post by grahamthomson on Feb 11, 2008 10:58:34 GMT
Is... is he pitching a tent??
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2008 11:08:08 GMT
I just can't get excited about a non-descript poster. Except I've just written a sentence about it on an internet message board. Damn.
If Bond does pitch a tent though, it could be the most exciting film of ALL TIME.
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Post by Hero on Feb 11, 2008 16:28:03 GMT
At least the Quantum of Solace title has got people talking and is noticeable.  ===KEN |
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 24, 2008 0:59:51 GMT
Sorry if the chronological order isn't quie right. From memory you know.
I finally saw Casino Royale the other night. Freakin' loved it! Fantastic Bond, fantastic action, fantastic story. 10 outa 10! The poisoning scene had me on the edge of my seat! But is it my favourate Bond film ever?
No. Damn close up there, but Goldfinger is my all time fave. Quintessential Bond, quinessential villian, quintessential plot. Marvelous!
Ian.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 24, 2008 2:11:09 GMT
Just thought, should I have included Never Say Never Again?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 24, 2008 8:37:35 GMT
You Only Live Twice is, for me, more quintessentially Bond than Goldfinger:
Donald Pleasence as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with cat and shark pool with trapdoor for lackeys who fail to perform.
Giant volcano crater base.
Little Nelly the auto-gyro.
Car chase ended with bad guy being picked up by helicopter with magnet and dropped in lake.
Giant blond baddie henchman.
Plus, ninjas and Japanese Bond girls.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 24, 2008 13:11:52 GMT
It's a three-way toss-up between Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice and Goldeneye for me. Though if made to make a choice while a laser beam inches its way towards my man-bits, I'd have to plump for Goldfinger.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2008 17:15:34 GMT
Just thought, should I have included Never Say Never Again? If it comes to that maybe you should have also included the original mind-numbing Casino Royale film starring Peter Sellers and David Niven. For me the best Bond has to be For Your Eyes Only. It shows Bond having to outwit the enemy using his own skills rather than having to rely upon one of Q's gadgets. The film also has the classic opening sequence of Bond chucking Blofeld (or at least someone who looks like him) down a smokestack and a brilliant theme tune where Sheena Easton becomes the first singer to appear on screen during the opening credits. |
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