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Smoking looks cool. Terrible for your body, but still looks cool, as DN and OHMSS show.
I like Bond having vices, within reason. Drugs never, obviously, that would be completely wrong and would probably turn me off Bond as a whole. But a vodka martini with a one-off cigarette or a whiskey with a cigar. As Sean and George can attest, very suave. Fleming's Bond loved smoking, I think it should come back, but to an extent. Not a cigarette in every scene, but something similar to Brosnan's habits as Bond.
True, but in fairness we've only had 2 films since 2002. Maybe he'll light up in SF ;)
As a non-smoker I'm personally not too bothered Bond doesn't smoke. As long as he gets to do other things like drink, shag and drive fast cars I'm fine :)
Fleming wrote Bond at a time when smoking WAS cool. Now it isn't.
Forget it mate - not going to happen. And the only reason they got away with it in DAD was because he was in Cuba so its sort of like the being a tourist - its the thing you do.
I still cringe at the end titles of LTK with its painfully PC drivel about smoking. But I would be happy for the end credits to have this on every time if it meant Bond could have a fag. I think Dalton got the balance right in TLD - not in every scene but looked cool lighting up in the debriefing scene with M and Koskov.
Indeed he did ! He was very cool in that scene. I wish Craig could have a similar scene... with Fiennes as M of course !!
I can live with that. I don't smoke anyway. (please don't crucify me).
I don't smoke either and I can't stand it when Bond doesn't smoke !!!
I find that the legacy of Fleming is still very intact with James Bond 007 still walking around and having many exciting adventures. If Fleming where still alive he wouldn't have minded his creation stop smoking. As it was really normal to do so in the '60's and less nowadays when the dangers are well known. And a professional like 007 would not be smoking these days.
Absolutely
Rog didn't smoke in most of his films DC and yet you love him ;)
A non-smoking Bond is certainly not the character Ian Fleming wrote. I would be surprised if the average real life womanizing assassin would refuse to smoke.
Even for Sir Rog, it was wrong. Bond should smoke atleast once in each outing.
How about in TMWTGG, outside of Bottoms Up? Or when Hip is standing on Bond´s shoulders outside Hai Fat´s garden? Those and the handgliding are cool.
Another awesome Dalton moment.
068- I don't really care if he smokes or not, but I don't see why he shouldn't. I used to smoke but that's because I chose to, not because I saw somebody in a film do it. So I doubt if James Bond smoked then people would say "wow, James Bond is smoking, I have to smoke now too!!!"
Barely anyone is that stupid, and since it's something the character has always done, I don't see why he has to stop now.
Smoking didn't add anything to the character in the first place, thus it has taken nothing away. Perhaps it was Craig's choice not to involve it, but its one of those things that isn't always necessary in a script.
Bond drinks enough to make up for what the smoke would do :)
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Sean Connery was most bored playing Bond in YOLT.
I will agree, BUT, upon a more recent viewing we certainly wasn't sleepwalking by any means. It was not a tenth as bad as I remembered and YOLT even went up a few notches on my ranking!
Make no mistake, Sean was getting sick of the same old routine-- and if they had gone with OHMSS in 1967 and given Sean new things to try he may have been more enthusiastic about hanging around. Of course that's just a guess though. I think that regardless what film came after Thunderball, Sean was itching for a break.
But yes, while he still wasn't bad, Sean was definitely the most bored in YOLT.
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The LTK revenge plot would never have been played off successfully by Roger Moore.
I know I poked a bit of fun on ol' Rog in the Parodies thread (shots of the serious parts of TLD & LTK, but with Rog photoshopped in with extra ridiculous one-liners) but here are my serious thoughts on it.
Alright, age is an issue now. If he played his age (learned from AVTAK) then I could see it, definitely. It would be exciting to see Roger tackle some new stuff: real revenge, going rogue, etc. It would have made a fantastic final movie when I think about it!
I'll just come out and say it- I'd have loved to see how Rog would have handled this movie! And this is coming from a hardcore Dalton fan!
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Bond's recent non-smoking phase puts a stain on Fleming's legacy.
I don't think smoking makes or breaks Bond-- it's annoying when people try to make Bond 'politically correct'. They tried something different in TLD with Bond just settling down with one woman, and after that movie Bond was back to his usual self. I have a feeling we'll see Bond smoke again soon enough.