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Couldn't have said it better.
At an earlier part of the series, yes.
He'd make a great M.
Fiennes is great but Dalton is well...Dalton.
I dont do them either, at least not entirety. I do have my favorites in terms of preferences, but I can live with only owning the series and be satisfied.
Indeed!
Hahah! He's great in that film :))
Yes. Probably why I feel Connery as Kincaid, for instance, would have taken the audience out of the film.
Yes. That was one of the infamous ideas of good old Tamahori back in the day. Thank god someone had the sense to stop it!
The writers needed a 'connection' between Bond and Blofeld in SP, but the connection to White was already enough.
Rather than StepbrotherGate, they could simply have fleshed out the White-Blofeld connection, and then the Bond-Swann connection too. Then, it's compelling because Bond is battling the man who killed his lover's father, Swann adds to the situation by knowing how evil and dangerous Blofeld is, and we cut out the shoehorned Oberhauser thing.
The link via Mr. White was already enough!
That is not controversial at all I think. I agree wholeheartedly!
#Metoo! Or am I using the hashtag wrong now?
That is quite good. Even without any history between the two, the fact that Blofeld was head of SPECTRE and Bond had thwarted the organisation's plans in the past should have been enough to create an antagonism. Heck, even the "author of all your pain" line still makes sense in this context!
This upsets me alot
Ugh. 20 minutes in.
This guy is a humourless twit who so obviously dislikes James Bond and found every argument he could against the fictitious character.
We could all do the same about any character, or historic figure. Take everything they say and destroy them (from Obama to Churchill, it's an easy task)
Looking at the bigger scope of pop culture (the majority), and what Ian Fleming was creating, I will take a risk here in saying this guy is full of hot air, mixed with some very interesting history and fact.
If his goal is to make Bond fans feel guilty for our appreciation for this fictitious character, then he missed the mark and, so far, comes off as a pompous douche.
Ugh.
Does it get worse I only go 2 minutes does he say something about sexual assault I see that from the comments part
I got to 30 minutes. And to say it belittles all who like this character (including @Germanlady , or any other female), is an understatement.
I find this nonsense despicable.
I was nauseated by the 30 minute mark and turned it off.
If I believed even 10% of this shit, my Dad, my kids, my friends, people on this site, are anti-intellectual misogynists and closet cave-man rapists.
Such a hateful piece of nonsense where this guy stood on his pulpit and preached. He was very good at blocking any debate.
That 30 minutes was quite a waste of my time.
I honestly like to hear all sides, but this was quite offensive to a general audience. I listened more to see if he had a point (other than calling Bond and his fans neanderthals). When that wasn't coming, I shut it down.
I only got upset-- well, more frustrated-- because I took the time to listen.
In the end, I turned it off because I didn't care, and I felt his hateful preaching didn't depict reality of pop-films, and pop/pulp lit.
yeah, the guy was a smart jerk. But a jerk, nonetheless.
I tried watching the video but bailed out early on, finding it as persecutory to the subject as it was patronizing to the audience. I wasn't particularity worked up over it, since none of its accusations were new or convincing, but I'd be worried if that video proved successful in spreading its view of Bond. At the moment it has more than 39,000 views, so I'm not very worried. And most of the comments are along the lines of "I've never liked Bond to begin with, thanks for showing why." Still, what this video represents is a presentist strain of thought--call-out culture with intellectual pretensions--that seems to be growing.
So it's a political radical jab hopefully it gets alot of dislikes
The video guy says, "He doesn't think; he acts. And when he does think, it's about sex" or ways to ward off bad guys. Wrong. He thinks about a helluva lot more than that. And he got married once. Not sure what DC's wife Rachel thinks of the Bond character in private, but in a recent Telegraph article, she says Ian Fleming "devoted an awful lot of time to writing this particular character, who is particularly male and relates in a particular way to women". A woman in her 50s who was my previous supervisor had a photo of Craig up on the wall in the office and liked Bond. A February 5 story says "A new poll of 3,000 moviegoers, conducted by Meerkat Movies, shows that 75% of people asked want James Bond to remain a male character." This says something about the character's nature too I think. I found it hard just now to find a poll of women on what they think about Bond, so that must not be a big deal. I don't care what anyone says--I'll love watching Bond movies till the day I die.
Why women love James Bond (written by a woman):
https://thegoodguide.com.au/brisbane/blog/the-birds-word/item/why-women-love-james-bond
Check out this article for the great and hilarious comments at the end, which are all pro-Bond:
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/910375/James-Bond-sexist-racist-Sean-Connery-Roger-Moore-millennials
And a few years ago there were lots of Bond fans on Netflix:
I’d rank the Arnold scores thusly:
1. TWINE
2. QOS
3. DAD
4. TND
5. CR
I don't believe in listening to soundtracks individualy and not in relation to the film. Film scores are not album tracks or symphonies. They should always be evaluated in context to the film.