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  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited November 2015 Posts: 23,883
    doubleoego wrote: »
    CR

    A superior Bond movie that effortlessly executes compelling story telling with great action that conveys class, sophistication and elegance without forced pretentiousness. This film is a classic new age gold standard.

    LOL! I feel as you do. I feel that Casino Royale is the best depiction of a modern 007! It's a modern classic! :D
    Agreed. In my pre-SP Bondathon this film was one of the few to really stand out for me. Given it was made less than 10 yrs ago it is a testament to how exceptional it is....because it easily holds its own with the classic benchmark Bond films of yore.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    bondjames wrote: »
    TMWTGG & TSWLM are my favourite Moore performances, in that order, followed closely by LALD.

    He is such a bastard in TMWTGG.....but looks so cool doing it too. Love it.

    Definitely he is playing Bond not himself!
  • Thunderball007Thunderball007 United States
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    Watched The Living Daylights last night.

    I Love this film!!! Everything about it is so pleasant an entertaining! :D
  • edited December 2015 Posts: 32
    Guess what, go to Georgia's (nation south of Russia) website http://www.imovies.ge and type in any Bond movie title and even Bond actor's non-Bond movies with English letters and watch it for FREE! There's also a language menu on the video screen and click ENG for English. Watch it before it's taken down. But no Spectre yet in that website.

    NOTE: Not all Bond movies have an English language option, some of them are either in Russian or Georgian.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    I did a double bill of DN and CR tonight. I've reviewed these 2 outings several times this year already. But, this is the first time I ever see Connery's and Craig's debut in one go. And Sean Connery is a god damn monster. No matter how much Craig is excellent in CR, no matter how intense he is in the action scenes, no matter how much meatier his role is in the film, Connery makes him look bad. Not a complaint about Craig, but Connery in DN (and FRWL) is a force you have to witness to believe he really existed.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Connery in DN (and FRWL) is a force you have to witness to believe he really existed.
    I agree completely. Connery in those two films is criminally brilliant. Defined spy films for a generation and set the bar probably impossibly high for anyone anywhere to surpass.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Connery in DN (and FRWL) is a force you have to witness to believe he really existed.
    That's quite a good way to put it. He was a bit 'untamed' at that point, and it totally worked FOR that characterization.

    (still like Dalton best!) \m/
  • TubesTubes The Hebrew Hammer
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    THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

    Insulting. Tarnished M's character for the sake of the script. Played like it was some world changing Bond film while throwing together poorly staged and overlong action sequences. A film with no clue what it wants to be and no balls to really be a dramatically different film without leaned on the old Brosnan era crutches. Everything this film strives to be will be done significantly better 13 years after it was released.

    DIE ANOTHER DAY

    Here is a film of two halves, where the latter half completely invalidates the first. We see Bond tortured and held prisoner for over a year, accused of treason and stripped of rank, out on the run from MI6 and on his own with no support. I'm interested. I'm digging this! Lets see where this goes!

    Oh, Bond is back in the service. With an invisible car. And the pretty boy has a space death ray and a VR suit that shoots electricity. Oh look, there's a poorly done CGI stunt double. Well, that went south fast.

    I get the vibe that the first half of DAD is the Bond film Brosnan wanted to make, while the second half is the film he was contractually obligated to do. Shame, we could have had something really special here.

    1. LICENCE TO KILL
    2. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
    3. GOLDFINGER
    4. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
    5 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
    6. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
    7. THUNDERBALL
    8. OCTOPUSSY
    9. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
    10. GOLDENEYE
    11. TOMORROW NEVER DIES
    12. MOONRAKER
    13. LIVE AND LET DIE
    14. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
    15. DR. NO
    16. A VIEW TO A KILL
    17. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
    18. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
    19. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
    20. DIE ANOTHER DAY
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Yes, @DaltonCraig007 , Connery in DR. NO is the ultimate cinematic interpretation of the character (to date).

    This is because cinematic Bond wasn t invented yet. They had to rely more on the original fleming material, and it pays off.
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    Just got my blue ray collection, and started with DN.The movie looked amazing I'm very impressed with the restoration job.Another interesting thing is some of the extra features show scenes in black and white, kind of interesting to see bond in black and white for the first time ever.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Just got my blue ray collection, and started with DN.The movie looked amazing I'm very impressed with the restoration job.Another interesting thing is some of the extra features show scenes in black and white, kind of interesting to see bond in black and white for the first time ever.

    Technically not the fist; Barry Nelson. But I get what you're saying.

    And it s a shame he never watched the first Craig film. Missed the pts because he was busy buying popcorn and soda, perhaps. Then walked in front of people trying to get into the film. perhaps talking on his phone while doing it, God what a nuisance those people are.
  • Posts: 9,847
    I have decided for 2016 every weekend my wife is at work (she works every other weekend) I will be watching the bond movies in order and all of them except 67's casino Royale (and maybe Sean Connery's house Payment or as its better known Never Say Never Again) and I plan on doing one a weekend and discussing it here starting with 1954's Casino Royale
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    I did a double bill of DN and CR tonight. I've reviewed these 2 outings several times this year already. But, this is the first time I ever see Connery's and Craig's debut in one go. And Sean Connery is a god damn monster. No matter how much Craig is excellent in CR, no matter how intense he is in the action scenes, no matter how much meatier his role is in the film, Connery makes him look bad. Not a complaint about Craig, but Connery in DN (and FRWL) is a force you have to witness to believe he really existed.

    Succinctly put.

  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    Birdleson wrote: »
    Yes, @DaltonCraig007 , Connery in DR. NO is the ultimate cinematic interpretation of the character (to date).

    This is because cinematic Bond wasn t invented yet. They had to rely more on the original fleming material, and it pays off.

    Yes but in lesser hands it could have been ballsed up completely. Connery really was that damn good.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Oh absolutely. He did a half Nelson on Nelson.
  • Watching Goldfinger for the 6th or 7th time. Two details:

    1. Jill's murder and the subsequent scenes contain some of the best lead acting in all the series. Connery reflects perfectly in all his gestures and voice intonation how Bond is quite in a contained rage towards himself out of guilt and remorse, Goldfinger for his cruel and disproportionate revenge and even M for his cold reaction. Thinks like that are what made Connery the quintaessential Bond, and Dalton and Craig adopted this style for their respective Bonds.

    2. The laser scene: at first, when I was a teenager, I thought Bond was saved by pure chance and Goldfinger was a stupid. However, a Bond scholar from my country said the movie has a very clear structure: Bond oustmarts Goldfinger twice, they have a draw and Goldfinger outsmarts Bond for the rest of the film. The so-called draw is the laser scene. What a memorable battle of wits! Bond uses his gambit wisely and plays with Mr. Ling's insecurity. "What if they found out about OGS?" And Goldfinger, who knows perfectly Bond has nothing to use against him, decides to use 007 as a pawn both to calm down Mr. Ling and to fool the MI6 (MI5?) and the CIA. A brilliant plan that only Bond's magical penis was able to thwart. IMHO, in its own way, Goldfinger's plan in the movie was even more fail-safe than the novel's: it included an escape plan that in the novel was reduced to a mere retreat.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    I don't think most of us feel comfortable having illegal streaming/downloading sites promoted on here. (Though I could be wrong and the rest of you don't care)

    With you on that one. Don't like piracy at all. Anyone who thinks it's okay is just lying to themselves.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    So my girlfriend (we're are really supposed to be broken up, but you know how that goes) finally saw SPECTRE today. All she had heard from me was that I was disappointed, no details on why or how. She's not a big lifelong fan, but over the last few years we've watched them all together an she's gotten pretty into the whole world of 007. She didn't think it was too great (she thought it was slow). She particularly cited out the drill scene and the blowing up of the installation as the weakest segment.

    I am proud that she was able to pick out a few references to past Bond films!

    I most certainly know how that goes, as unfortunate as it is. Very cool of her to have gone out of her way to see it, though, and well done on introducing her to all of the films! What past references did she notice, any in particular?
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    She thought the couch was a call back to the silliness of the Moore Era (she is kind of correct, I didn't bother pointing out the scene in YOLT), she thought that the scene where Bond and Swan arrive at the lair was reminiscent of Honey and Bond in DN.

    I had the same thoughts about the latter scene. Arriving at the lair, being kindly escorted to the room (or in SP's case, separate rooms), dressed up (Swann's dress had me immediately think of Honey's outfit at the end of DN), and sent off to meet the villain.
  • Birdleson wrote: »
    I think the off camera voice of Blofeld when they were looking at the meteorite was definitely supposed to evoke Dr. No's "One Million dollars."

    They even did the change of outfits, hotel rooms, and the nehru jacket. What was the YOLT reference with the couch, by the way?
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Where Bond is led over the trick floor by Aki, he slides down that Shute and lands in a couch.
    Nothing miss do you!
  • Ah, thank you, @Birdleson.

    I watched Spectre again over Thanksgiving break with my dad and brother. I liked it a little bit better this time, as some of the jokes were a bit better, and the stuff that bothered me the first time around didn't bother me quite so viscerally. The third act is still a mess and the evil plot horribly uninspired. The romance worked pretty well if it's just a regular Bond girl fling, but if we're to believe that she's a Tracy/Vesper type, they've gone mad.
  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
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    Just caught Moonraker on TV a few nights ago. Good for laughs, good for entertainment, but not a very good movie by objective standards, of course.
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    I like MR but it is, without question, Bond at his most superficial.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    The sad thing is that when they wanted to do a more proper adaptation of Moonraker, we got DAD.
  • SzonanaSzonana Mexico
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    Casino Royale and I forgot how good it was.
    It lacked some action but was compensated by great visulas like the beach scene with Vesper, the scene at the Casino where Eva Green is wearing the purple dress and when Solange Appears for the first time with the horse.

  • quantumofsolacequantumofsolace England
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    My home cinema viewing took a considerably more cinematic turn this evening when I fired up my new Optoma HD141X projector for the very first time. What was my début flick? Well, it simply had to be CR, didn't it. I have to say I was very impressed by the whopping ten foot wide picture. A cinch to set up too (good news for a technophobe like me!): plug it in, turn it on, connect to my Blu-Ray player with a HDMI cable... and there was Sir Daniel doing what he does best. CR truly is one humdinger of a Bond classic.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Good choice, and sounds an impressive system. :)
  • Posts: 3,336
    CR is indeed a modern classic
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    CR is indeed a modern classic
    So why no more director duties for Campbell???

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