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  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    A couple times I've mentioned the Bond film 'Licence to Kill', people reply "Oh the one with Brosnan right?" Not sure why.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited March 2014 Posts: 13,355
    People, I find, have not heard of The Living Daylights or Licence To Kill, so that may be why.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,127
    Samuel001 wrote:
    People, I find, have not heard of The Living Daylights or Licence To Kill, so that may be why.
    But this is a false perception, not a theory. It's easy to prove them wrong.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    pachazo wrote:
    It has been so long since I have even thought about The Rock that I had forgotten all about this particular theory. They were obviously just trying to entertain the audience in any way possible.

    I think they were rather cynically trying to cash in Bond's fame. Interestingly enough, this is also a bastard child of the codename theory.
  • AstonLotusAstonLotus
    Posts: 1,394
    A girl at work this week said to me she thought '' Mission Impossible, thats James Bond too isnt it? ''.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    edited March 2014 Posts: 15,127
    AstonLotus wrote:
    A girl at work this week said to me she thought '' Mission Impossible, thats James Bond too isnt it? ''.

    My mother, when I was a child, about The Saint/Simon Templar, when I asked her who he was: "He's 007." Like the people who mix Star Wars and Star Trek.

    That said, these are misconceptions, not stupid theories.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    Posts: 1,009
    Now that I'be been watching YOLT, I remember another "fact" I read in a book from my country and nowhere else: The wedding scene was to be edited out, but Donald Pleasance of all people convinced Lewis Gilbert, Saltzman and Broccoli to keep it in its entirety.
  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    edited April 2014 Posts: 3,157
    When I first started watching the Bond movies, I always tried to explain why Bond never ages. Basically, they are all set in modern times, with like a 4 months gap between each.
    Therefore, Dr. No doesn't take place in 1962 but in early 90s, Moore era between 1995-2000, Dalton/Brosnan early 2000s, and Craig's movies in 2006 (Skyfall hadn't come out yet).

    Obviously, I understood this theory was really stupid and wouldn't be possible (soviets in the 2000s?) , therefore I abandoned it.
  • NapoleonPluralNapoleonPlural
    Posts: 512
    Some of the fans' explanations for plotholes are really quite tortuous. One CR fan on another site... when it was questioned how Bond caught the last flight to Miami, yet is tailing the guy to at the flesh fair and Miami airport and it should be by rights 3am, not evening as it appears, he said that really what's to say Bond wasn't tailing the guy all the next day, they just cut that out cos it was boring, so it has fast forwarded to the next evening. As if it is the same as cutting how someone going to the loo to take a dump.

    At the end when we see the silver cash case washed away, but then Mr White is seen walking off with it, well, same guy says that Quantum obviously transferred the cash to another identical silver case, so that explains that.
  • jobojobo
    Posts: 7,507
    NapoleonPlural wrote:
    Some of the fans' explanations for plotholes are really quite tortuous. One CR fan on another site... when it was questioned how Bond caught the last flight to Miami, yet is tailing the guy to at the flesh fair and Miami airport and it should be by rights 3am, not evening as it appears, he said that really what's to say Bond wasn't tailing the guy all the next day, they just cut that out cos it was boring, so it has fast forwarded to the next evening. As if it is the same as cutting how someone going to the loo to take a dump.

    At the end when we see the silver cash case washed away, but then Mr White is seen walking off with it, well, same guy says that Quantum obviously transferred the cash to another identical silver case, so that explains that.


    People raving about so called plot holes in every film they don't like, annoys me a LOT more than those who later try to explain/defend them...

    Every single Bond film has plot holes, but they only seem to matter in those these said critiques dislike.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    Every film in general has plot holes.
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