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And Bond swimming with barracudas… :)
My favourite is the one in Octopussy where Roger, whilst sat down, half-heartedly turns the phone over to check the underside, then gives up :)
It's easy to forget that one, but yeah, I vaguely remember now. He probably realized he didn't have a device to scan it, so gave up.
For a bug scanner I could imagine a phone using AR and displaying where the bugs are in the room on the screen.
I've thought that earbuds could work somehow, like giving him little sonar beeps to tell him if a baddie is approaching from behind! :)
Maybe you could've answered the question in the Odd One Out thread, since you've already read the book?
I understand that the idea of a smartphone that erases or transfers data might be a bit too Mission Impossible, and I think a better way to go would be just to update the sort of technology that Bond had to have in the very early films that is practically useful for his spying (so something like a device that detects bugs in his hotel room, perhaps some sort of electronic lock pick etc.) Or you could give him devices which look modern (ie. a smartphone) but actually have rather simple purposes (perhaps the smartphone is a dud/an explosive or flash-bang grenade or something).
MI6 must've wiped millennial Bond's drunken Myspace photos from the Eton ball before he joined the service.
If we get a Bond born in the mid 90s he'd likely have to explain away some sort of meme page on Tumblr as well during the MI6 background check.
Thank God they didn't go with Boyle's idea and put Bond back in space
Return of the X-ray glasses. This improved version is able to locate any transmitters in the room.
Just have a thought (watching some videos that featured some funny moments of people talking at their Siris and Alexas 😅, and imagine having one for Bond be like:)
Then comes Fukunaga and it’s more quasi-futuristic gadgetry, for both Bond and villains starting with the magnetic vests.
That's something I loved about NTTD: seeing him get a shower, fish, make breakfast, relax at a bar, eating on the way to his car, etc.
I agree. I'd like to see a Bond between missions, minding his own business, when he stumbles into something unexpected, perhaps not unlike the opening of OHMSS but without the love complications. Or something along the lines of The 39 Steps and North by Northwest that presents. The villain who cheats at cards or whatever and encounters Bond several times before the inevitable take down has worn thin. I'd like to see some mystery and spying.
I feel Bond 26 needs to reinvigorate the series. A scenario in which Bond doesn't have access to technology might prove exciting. This may diverge from the Bond and series as we know it, but so what? Since its inception, the series hasn't been especially faithful to Fleming's Bond.
I'd like to see a return to a villain who's fun to watch, like GF. Enough of these boring villains like Waltz's Blofeld and Safin. (Two Oscar winners who managed to be utterly uninteresting.)
I liked Craig as Bond, and I consider CR as one of the two best Bond films, but his series of films didn't live up to his first film. SP and NTTD are good films; they're just not among the best in the entire Bond series.
At this point it seems we are years away from a new Bond. Whatever names were tossed around when NTTD finished filming in 2019 will be considerably older by the time filming commences on Bond 26.
I wonder if the wait will be worth it. This long gap between films is not building my enthusiasm for the next Bond film. It might be doing just the opposite.
We'd all like it to be brilliant, but I'm pretty sure they were actually trying to make great villains with those two. There was nothing wrong with their aims.
Probably the best part of NTTD for me.
Yes, for me as well. Still angry that we didn’t get to see Bond feed that cat and light up that cigar.
I generally like the 'two locations' way of doing Bond though, with a third added one for the PTS.