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Look, I believed the propaganda machinery myself back then, that the Soviets had just invaded the country for expansionist reasons or whatever. Like I have said before, the communist party won the Afghan election, and we can t have that, can we? They abolished sharia law, and made the country a secular one, with equal rights for women.
This was just too much for Kamran and friends, so they started an armed rebellion. Consequently Kabul asked Moscow for military aid, which they then legally got.
The west using jihadi savages to topple regimes that stand in their way still goes on.
I can get on board with this. His haircut in SF is terrible and whilst that is better in SP the terrible lycra suits he has been wearing in the last two films are an abomination.
In terms of looking the part probably QOS is his best.
I’m not arguing with this, I just pointed out that not all Mujahideen warriors became Taliban. That’s even factually impossible considering there was a civil war when the communists left. A civil war needs at least two sides to get going you know. Who would the Taliban have fought against if they had all joined that group?
Furthermore, if you look up a certain Ahmad Shah Massoud, you’ll find that he also fought against the Soviets and later opposed the Taliban because he believed their ideals to be far too fundamentalistic. Subsequently, he was assassinated by them in 2001. I’m not claiming he wanted to be our best buddy but he definitely was not planning to start some sort of religious war either. He even went on record proclaiming he was a moderate Muslim.
Claiming 007 helped the Taliban in TLD and dismissing the film for that reason alone is jumping to conclusions a bit too easily for my taste.
I agree.
I didn t call them Taliban, and I don t dismiss the film.
I would be a stalwart defender of QOS but I do think Craig looked his best in CR particularly in the tux!
I agree. Don't think that's controversial. I like Le Chiffre more, he's more effective, there's just something about him.
“What’s this? Caviar? That’s peasant food for us, but with champagne it’s ok.”
“Real reason: new directives.” (While pointing with his shoe)
This guy cracks me up.
Wonderful show, Jeroen!
Bloody Hell! That looked painful! The silly bugger!
Remember, TLD's script was written prior to Dalton taking the role officially so Maibaum and Wilson didn't necessarily have Dalton Bond in mind when writing it. This aspect would of course be corrected when they came up with Sanchez(arguably the darkest villain up to that point in the series) to oppose Dalton's Bond in LTK. And later, Michael France GE's script was written with Dalton Bond in mind initially hence Alec Trevelyan was written more seriously than Koskov also.
Me too! Three in fact, as I like Necros as well!
I understand that, but still don't like the approach to the character. Little changes on shooting would have been sufficient to make Koskov far more menacing.
I hope you don t mean that the way I hope you don t ?
Campbell appears to have been a serious breath of fresh air in 1995. I have hope that Boyle can be the same for 2019 after the Mendes run of films.
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Perish the thought!