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Given the exception of TWINE I agree with you. There isn't a Roger Moore Bond film I don't like, and Octopussy is my favourite of them. They may be far fetched to some but it makes for enjoyable viewing as much as, for example FRWL does, just sometimes in a different way.
I would never say Austin Powers ruined Bond, but I have to admit I miss the gadgets.
Austin Powers never used gadgets though. All I remember him using was a mini camera while taking pictures. Other than that just a tube a tooth paste to blind a guard and Magnifying Glasses.
Didn't his mini go underwater ala Spy in one of them?
I think getting rid of the gadgets was all part of the more realistic tone, and Austin Powers was one of the main reasons for them taking that direction.
I think Daniel Craig said in an interview that when making the new films, there was always a worry that something would seem "too Austin Powers"
I want to express I genuinely don't see myself as being a racist, I have never had any issue with someone of another race I just can't see my favourite character changing his skin and really don't mean to be hurtful in saying this and I hope you can forgive me if I have. I just want to express my opinion.
I don't really understand why changing his skin colour would be any worse than the countless other changes though, or why anyone would stop watching the films because of it.
Mate, it's fine. I know you're not racist, don't get all worried about it ;)
Also I don't count cars as Gadgets. They can have gadgets but I don't count a spy car as a gadget.
But he was written as much more than that. I don't understand why adding things like the gadgets and changing his entire personality is fine, but a black Bond isn't Bond anymore?
I agree, except I feel the same way about his skin colour too.
No because it strays way to far from the source material and changes the character completely.
I think they did that a long, long time ago.
How is Roger Moore's Bond not changing the character completely? His skin colour is the same sure but he's nothing like Flemings Bond. Same goes for Brosnan and even Connery.
Making him black is only changing his appearance. You could get a black Bond and make the movies closer to the source material than ever if you got the right story and if he played a Fleming type Bond.
Roger still looked enough like Fleming's Bond. Middle Aged white male. Even if a Black actor could pull off a Flemingesque performance it wouldn't be James Bond. Like @SirHenry said, If they want a Black spy, create a new Franchise. Hollywood needs some new tentpole franchises anyway.
Guy Hamilton is the worst Bond director before Tamahori.
You can say that a black Bond is not Bond, but if that's the case, you're obliged to say that Roger Moore wasn't Bond either. I'd much rather see, say, Idris Elba do a Daltonesque or Craigesque Bond than see someone like Moore go in and take a dump all over Fleming's creation.
I could not see Fleming-Bond disobeying an order and refusing to go to Turkey.
Fleming's Bond didn't look at his missions objectively and would question his orders. He would also take revenge if his best friend was mutilated and his wife raped and murdered.
Based on what?
Yes but the key difference is that Fleming's Bond got his revenge for Felix and Tracy while he was on a mission. The very people he sought for revenge were the people that he was sent on a mission to stop in the first place. LTK puts quite a different spin on things.
How do you square this with your belief that the only really good Bond movies were in the 60's?
I liked the different look the MI6 offices have in Quantum of Solace, and I'm kind of regretful they didn't keep it, even though I definitely prefer the new Universal Exports layout.
I can agree with this. The Bourne movies were good fun, but QoS is leagues better.
There's no way in hell QoS was better than Identity.
Then again, it's my opinion. No facts here.