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But that has nothing to do with M - not sur, if you mean that or not. But what IS his comfort zone anyway?
Awesome!! Looks like you're a lucky lady!
Bond's comfort zone is knowing that MI6 and the UK are not about to collapse around his ears and that his boss believes in him whatever the circumstances and trusts his instincts. The trust should be mutual.
Thats's not really "interesting" enough in this day and age though. There needs to be more "character" study between Bond and M ;)
So you like Dench M/ DC Bond relationship, as it is certainly more interesting then the old lot. Which is excatly, what others don't like. Too much attention on those two, if I finally get that right.
I think for SF though it wouldn't hurt for M to take a back seat and for the focus to be back on Bond. M's had enough screen time in the last few films.
Sure doesn't look that way, but if she just is in London and Scotland it might not be that much after all. But its her story nevertheless, that keeps the whole plot going, as I understood it.
Who, Dustin?! If so that's awesome.
I know. I'm worried. The sooner Judi is pensionned-off the better IMO. Unfortunately, the British govt. keeps on increasing the retirement age. If only we were in France, Dench would have been off relaxing on the Mediterranean years ago.
Yeah, him before Tootsi. He was nice enough, somewhat distanced though - understandably. I have seen lots of celebs in my time there. And nevermind, how tall they actually are - they all are smaller then life, not bigger :)
You two found the Bond/Admiral Sir Miles Messervy employee/employer relationship in OHMSS and LTK "uninteresting"? I found those vastly more interesting than any of the M/Bond stuff that's existed in the Dame Judi era.
I'm sure in the years since then, more people have seen MR than "Kramer vs. Kramer".
Not necessarily...If the Bond character and the actor playing him has enough charisma, then he can carry the whole of the movie himself. Both Connery and Moore did this magnificently. Makes you wonder if the past two Bond actors weren't perceived to be 'interesting enough' to carry the films on their own, so they had to get prestigious actress Judi Dench to pull some weight. (Come to think of it, EON hired Diana Rigg for the very same reason!)
Looking at it another way, I would much rather have an interesting villain to complement Bond (basically every villain from Dr. No through Moonraker), than having some "character" study between M and Bond. Honestly the Bond/M storyline is a boring one.
Completely agree. Hugo Drax was the last proper villain. Or may be Chris Walken.
Understand this: LALD was my first movie, so it'll always hold some place for me, but parts of his performance were just... erh... As far as OP, everything before the latest rip off of "The Most Dangerous Game" is good, and every after that and before the clown scene, also good, and as soon as he drops the clown outfit, he's back to good again. FYEO, he was wasted. And MR...
Yes, out of this world, in a parallel pocket of space, comprised of anti-matter and filled with black holes, each the size of the ego that has to go into posting "both Moore and MR are out of this world".
No, no, no, no, no NO!
What must he think of Jane Seymour or Barbara Bach then.. :-/
I thought for a moment I was in the 'controversial opinions' thread, looked up, and lo and behold so I was... thought there was something funny going on here..
I kind of like Monty Norman's DN score....
Bingo.
Also, if we can omit the Saint Marks Square bit out of it, the gondola ride wasn't really necessary, it's all a bit silly, the knife thrower etc, guy on the bridge smoking as the coffin goes under, the two lovers in the boat cut in half as it sinks etc, only in a Moore release..
Georgi Koskov was an awful Bond adversary and totally unsuitable for a Dalton Bond picture
The Karate exhibition in Golden Gun was a blatant nod to Enter the Dragon, and shouldn't have been included
The whole second half of Tomorrow Never Dies is possibly the dullest half-Bond since Goldfinger and should be (add appropriate actions), I usually switch off when Brosnan leaves Hamburg, there's simply nothing much else worth watching after that. There's no sense in lying here
Trust 007...he is the best agent in the world. In Moonraker, when Drax allowed Bond to humiliate M and Defence Minister, M still has confidence in Bond to do the job, despite his orders to remove Bond from the case. In QOS, M gets cold feet about Bond after talking to the Foreign secretary and she just plays her MI6 agents off against 007 (to an extent). Time to pick up your P45 Judi's M I'm afraid
LTK is the defining Q/Bond film. It proves they care about each other as people.
Maybe hindsight this one but Benicio Del Toro is heavily underused in LTK and should have been given a bigger, menacing role.
Roger Moore kicking the car off the cliff in FYEO is the darkest moment in Bond history. In fact, Moore's films are littered with dark moments which are underrated and lost in the fun of his films.
Joe Don Baker's characters in TLD and GE/TND rank as the worst characters in the series
The director and producers shouldn't have dubbed Lazenby in OHMSS, regardless of how bad he was.
:-B...x
???? Franz Sanchez, to me, is the best Bond villian of all time. And Trevelayn was good too. Le Chiffre wasn't a bad villian either.
Excellent postings chaps. I agree wholeheartedly. Brosnan, like Craig, is a product of his time and should be viewed as such. Without the films of the 90's it can be easily argued that the DC years would never have happened. Brosnan's movies appealed to a wider demographic than any Bond films had done before, they updated themselves to suit the era of the large scale action blockbuster, and their popularity is shown in their BO takings.
But sadly the resulting films were utter dross. There arrives a point when the self-respect of the series over-rides BO. Fortunately EON realised this with DUD and has begun to slowly get things a bit more on track.
DAD was a black mark on the franchise, granted. I have lots of time for the previous three though, especially Goldeneye. Utter dross does not apply there. As for getting things back on track, well, Quantum of Solace really undid a lot of the work Casino Royale did so well. So back on track would be a phrase to be used cautiously, at least until Skyfall has come out.