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Would you rather Bond26 feature fanciful gadgets OR realistic gadgets?

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  • TroyTroy
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    echo wrote: »
    I'll go further and say I'd like to see a Bond film where the woman is smarter than Bond, either as a straight-up genius-level ally, or as the main villain and mastermind.

    Why? Johnny English has that scenario covered
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    Excellent choices made. I especially found myself agreeing with @CommanderRoss very well thought out answer.

    Bond has engaged in quite a few activities. Some are popular, some are rather niche.

    I do wonder

    Would you rather ski OR scuba?

    Two things that have appeared more than a few times in the film series. Which one would you rather do?

    Skiing offers views and the thrills of speed on a winters day. Scuba offers the sights of beauty under the sea.

    Which activity would you rather engage in?
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
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    Skiing. I suck at swimming.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    My heart says scuba, I would love to see Bond in a beautiful turquoise ocean , but my brain says Skiing would be more exciting. The solution, do both!
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    What an evil question! ;-) I love skiing, but have a fear of hights which makes it very difficut to do so, and I love the underwater world, but due to pressure problems have never been able to dive deep. SO I'll go for waterskiing ;-)
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    I tried scuba diving when I was in my early 20s, and not being a confident enough swimmer, panicked just below the surface. Haven't skied before - or even seen snow so gotta choose that. But only if I can wear a bright yellow suit and red beanie.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    Nice job with that one!

    Lets jump over to the TV specials that featured our man in a clip package. They were dressed up with either comments from stars of the day or had a host that was somehow connected to the series.

    Would you rather watch Happy Anniversary double-o-7 OR The World of 007

    Happy Anniversary double-o-7 we have the meta experience of Roger Moore hosting the show and playing Bond between the bumpers of clips. The special was a vehicle to hype audiences for the new picture starring Timothy Dalton and was released in 1987. The joy of seeing Roger play Bond again is quite a scene and makes the special even more enjoyable. It was an extra on the DVD for The Living Daylights.

    OR

    The World of 007! Hosted by Elizabeth Hurley, this special was meant to hype Goldeneye. Hurley is the hostess with the mostess and plays up the glamour and beauty of the film series. The clips are fast and furious and show some of the best scenes of the series to date while also giving a small taste of what was to come with GE. This is found on the DVD special features for GE.

    Which one are you watching if given a choice?
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    The World of Double Oh Sexy- I mean Seven. Double Ooh Seven.
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    Happy Anniversary Double-O-7

    Man, I love this:
    We have the meta experience of Roger Moore hosting the show and playing Bond between the bumpers of clips. The special was a vehicle to hype audiences for the new picture starring Timothy Dalton and was released in 1987. The joy of seeing Roger play Bond again is quite a scene and makes the special even more enjoyable. It was an extra on the DVD for The Living Daylights.

    One of the great gifts that a Bond fan could receive, so this.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Even though I do love seeing Roger presenting, or rather, guiding us through the series, I find it a bit.. missing a bit of depth. The World of 007! is more of a documentary, which I prefer. And of course, Elizabeth doesn't do it harm.. at all....
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
    edited April 1 Posts: 5,691
    Good stuff, I enjoy both specials. The one with Roger is a slightly ahead for me as I love the part where he is in the library and they play the DAF clip and he asks for information on diamonds. Wonderful stuff. Amazing how much has changed, libraries aren't as vital to research as they once were.

    On to our next one submitted by @TheSkyfallen06

    Would you rather Bond 26 feature fanciful gadgets OR realistic ones?

    Been a while since we had mini-rebreathers, pills that can lock in locations, and watches that could deflect bullets with magnetic force. Might be fun to embrace that world again.

    On the other hand, the Craig era showed us gadgets that seemed to be real-life and not too fanciful. So perhaps we should stay on this tack.

    What you would rather see in Bond 26?
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Realistic gadgets and use them sparingly.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    What did everyone think of the NTTD gadgets? Did they seem pretty realistic in design and function? I like what they did in NTTD - instead of giving Bond countless gadgets for every situation he pretty much just got one for the mission proper (EMP watch), while the rest of the gadgetry was dispersed to nearly every other supporting character: Paloma with the lipstick tube earpieces (which gives off classic 20th century espionage vibes), Ash with the trawler limpet mine, and (stretching it here but) even young Madeleine with the Tamagotchi.

    I guess I'll go fanciful gadgets this time around and for just one film because it's been a while, but ideally a bit of both alternating from film to film. The Craig era managed to keep them pretty grounded throughout the entire run.

    What I'd like to see is the gadgets having a bit more variation in colour though. I get bored of everything looking matte black. That's why Q's smart blood injector gun from NTTD was a favourite for me as it had the blue and white livery on chrome - looked a little toy-like but very smart too.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    I liked that it looked like the gun from the 007 logo.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    QBranch wrote: »
    What did everyone think of the NTTD gadgets? Did they seem pretty realistic in design and function? I like what they did in NTTD - instead of giving Bond countless gadgets for every situation he pretty much just got one for the mission proper (EMP watch), while the rest of the gadgetry was dispersed to nearly every other supporting character: Paloma with the lipstick tube earpieces (which gives off classic 20th century espionage vibes), Ash with the trawler limpet mine, and (stretching it here but) even young Madeleine with the Tamagotchi.

    I guess I'll go fanciful gadgets this time around and for just one film because it's been a while, but ideally a bit of both alternating from film to film. The Craig era managed to keep them pretty grounded throughout the entire run.

    What I'd like to see is the gadgets having a bit more variation in colour though. I get bored of everything looking matte black. That's why Q's smart blood injector gun from NTTD was a favourite for me as it had the blue and white livery on chrome - looked a little toy-like but very smart too.

    That's just because you're so good at making those props!

    For me, only realistic gadgets, and preferably some handed over that are not used at all or used completely different from intended. The attache case from FRWL is legendary because it's standard equipment. They don't need to be able to be real (like the small rebreather wasn't), but it feels feasable (hell, even the SAS fell for it).
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited 9:15am Posts: 17,616
    My favourite gadgets are ones which play on the design of the original object: for example with the watches I love the LALD watch because the circular bezel becomes a circular buzzsaw and even to turn into a magnet the indices turn red- they take the design elements of the original and play with them in inventive ways. Whereas the Moonraker watch for example is less interesting because it's just got a bomb inside it- it's not really a witty design. I didn't mind the Spectre watch as, although it's a bomb which is pretty unoriginal, the seconds hand ticked down, which makes sense for a watch and tied its design to its function; the NTTD one on the other hand just had a gadget attached to it- there was no connection to it being a watch.
    The GE pen could just have been a boring bomb, but the three clicks thing made it interesting and relevant to being a pen; the key ring finder could have been a boring bomb, but was set off by whistling etc.

    I don't need fanciful gadgets (well, they're all fanciful really: I think it's very debatable which are fanciful and which are 'realistic') but I do want some wit to them and their design/functionality which is relevant to their original design, and ideally they should do something we haven't seen before. Don't just make a phone which explodes by pressing a button.
    Maybe you do a phone which explodes by facial recognition when the targeted victim looks at it, y'know; you do a joke based on how we know them to work.

    What's everyone's favourites/least favourites? The Octopussy pen is always a bit of a miss for me; even though it's dual purpose it just doesn't really do anything cool. Funny how both '83 Bond films had gadget fountain pens.
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