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They'd throw the 'Young Bond' away and move onto proper Bond. With time, like us all, their opinions would change from the teenage and childhood years. Why say "We don't need the younger generation to grow into Bond this way"? Who cares how they get into Bond, any way is good as far as I'm concerned.
The novels are very good indeed and do evoke a sense of Fleming's work and the films, even For Your Eyes Only and Licence To Kill. Many do believe, as @Virage said, that the series betters the continuation author's books.
As you said @DarthDimi, I think your preconceived ideas have lead to misconceptions about these novels. They're the best Bond books next to Fleming's in my opinion and Higson is a great writer. Yes, the stories are far too "out there" but the style, pace, characters and all that, really are great.
You should read them, if only to find out how good they are.
TELL ME ABOUT IT! Ugggggggghhh... what was EON thinking during the entire production of DAD?! Were their brains swapped out with that of a highly reckless teenager under the influence of drugs?!
<font color=blue size=7> <b>CR67 should never have been made.</b></font>
CR67 is awful. It has a great cast, a great score, but the film is just terrible.
But the Bond series is where it should be now so no complaints from me
008- Haven't read them, my nephew had a comic version of one of them which he said was good though
009- I didn't find this funny at all. I LOVE austin powers, and like johnny english, but this is just crap. So yeah, it should never have been made.
Between CR67 and DAF, two Bond parodies with Bond in it are more than enough.
I'll be a renegade and disagree. It's hard to imagine the Bond cinema world now without this ultimate "Bizarro" Bond film. Without its existence, we'd probably not have the official EON CR '06 that exists now in reality and I enjoyed the fact that there was a Fleming novel not yet filmed by EON years after they ran out of official Fleming titles. If Broccoli and Saltzman had agreed to Charles Feldman's offer and coproduced it like they did with Kevin McClory on TB, it is interesting to ponder how the Bond series would've turned out differently since one change in the link affects every film that comes after it.
I wonder how it would have turned out though? CR in place of YOLT would give us a Sean who couldnt give a toss and a film that would have had to have been completely over the top to deliver on audience expectations of the day - which a climax at a card table certainly would not have satisfied.
Even if they had had the bottle to film it pretty much as written (unlikley in the climate of Bondmania, superspies with gadgets everywhere etc) would the audience have been happy with such a downbeat story and ending? Doubtful considering how George faired just two years later.
And this leads onto another problem - OHMSS would not exist until a lot later in the series. No way they could have the Bond girl killed off in the final reel for two films running. It would mean DAF for George (and probably pretty much in the same comedy vein it is now as light relief after Vespers death), LALD for Seans return (probably not much different). Could they start with OHMSS for Rogs first? Again I doubt it as it would still only be 2 films since Vesper and the endings are too similar. I imagine we would get TMWTGG, TSWLM and MR pretty much the same and then for a back to basics serious film we might get OHMSS instead of FYEO. Much as I love Rog I just cant see this turning out as well as OHMSS 69.
Another, very interesting, proposition would be if Cubby and Harry had done a deal with Feldman to make CR after YOLT. Then we would have got YOLT the same as it is now but a CR in 69 true to the book and with George and directed by Peter Hunt. I'm slavering with excitment at the very thought. But then of course we wouldnt have OHMSS 69 and would probably end up with OHMSS in the 80s with Rog .
On balance I think its best things turned out as they did as we get a faithful OHMSS in 69 and faithful CR in 06. Even if we had been blessed with a Hunt/Lazenby CR in 69 they would have used up OHMSS in the late Rog period (Maud Adams as Tracy anyone?) when they were running out of titles.
Unless of course they waited until 87..??
Hunt/Lazenby CR 69 and a Glen/Dalton OHMSS 87 (Glen not in the same league as Hunt but I've no problems with him here as TLD is a triumph and he directed most of the OHMSS ski scenes anyway) would certainly be tough to choose between the reality of OHMSS 69 and CR 06.
Those are intriguing ideas, TWOI. I have a feeling if OHMSS had been made in the 1970s with Sir Rog instead, it might not have been a faithful rendition of Fleming's novel.
Indeed. She would've made a terrific EON Bond girl back in her prime.
A good thing it got made before EON got all powerfull and got rights to everything we now have some disagreeing visions of which this one cracks me up more often than not.
After the Barry soundtracks this one comes easily second.
<font color=blue size=7> <b>Sending Bond into space was a mistake.</b></font>
Nope. It was a clever move on Broccoli's part for the time and raked in a lot of cash. Bond knockoff Derek Flint did the same thing 12 years earlier in In Like Flint. Plus, that final battle in outer space is one of my top 5 final battles in the series(along with TB, YOLT, OHMSS and TSWLM). I'm glad the screen 007 got to do the Luke Skywalker routine once in his career.
While a lot of fans seem to moan about the movie it fits well in with the times when I was a wee lad. It took me quite few years before I got the pun about dr. Goodhead. :\">
Bond went to space and nobody did it better. After all there have been quite a few threts from space and this time 007 got there up himself to take matter into his own hands.
I wouldn't say he failed. MR made buckets of money.