Avatar

Reporting For Duty

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

dalton

About

Username
dalton
Joined
Visits
4,784
Last Active
Roles
Member
Favourite Fleming Novel
Casino Royale
Favourite Bond Film
Licence To Kill
Favourite Bond Actor
Timothy Dalton
Posts
1,631

Comments

  • For whatever reason, it works in Skyfall, although I'll give you the casino scene as a spot where they might have gone a bit too far with it. But everything else in that film looks superb. It's almost as though they were trying to copy the Skyfa…
  • Never want to see the yellow haze again. It ruins what could have at least been some fantastic visuals in Spectre. The scene at the clinic and the subsequent chase should have been some of the strongest visuals in the franchise, but instead the col…
  • suavejmf wrote: » I'd be more than happy with Hiddlestone after seeing The Night Manager. I wouldn't be happy with Turner, a boring (and Irish) casting choice. I'm pretty much the same. I can live with Hiddleston, even though he's far from…
  • Creasy47 wrote: » chrisisall wrote: » 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » The only thing that still bugs me is that torture scene. If they'd have shown Bond visibly struggling afterwards, with Madeleine having to step in and pick up his slack w…
  • Creasy47 wrote: » 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » Chiwetel reminds me of Yaphet Kotto in a lot of ways, all of them good. Totally agreed. Agreed as well. I kind of wish that they had kept the original version of Blofeld intact f…
  • thelivingroyale wrote: » My problem with QoS is that it tries to do all the stuff that @Brady mentioned but because of the short runtime there's a lack of focus and it doesn't really commit and do any of it very well. The CIA subplot for example g…
  • dominicgreene wrote: » Ludovico wrote: » Brosnan was the one and only Bond that was plebiscited. I don't even think Roger Moore had it that easy when he was cast. And Moore didn't have to audition! I think Craig truly changed our perspective r…
  • The article doesn't mention anything about Turner's schedule being accommodated if he lands the part. That bit of the summary kind of implies something that's not really in the article. The only real takeaway here is that Barbara Broccoli is searc…
  • They probably also made that statement about starting in the spring when they thought the distributor deal would be done in February.
  • Creasy47 wrote: » Tuck91 wrote: » Bond was still troubled by Vesper in SP. the interrogation tape brought it up. Not necessarily. Just because Bond stumbled across the video and was momentarily taken aback by it doesn't mean he's still …
  • SonofSean wrote: » There's a lot of uncertainty about the future of Bond. 1. We have no idea WHEN Bond 25 will be released 2. We don't know who will distribute. 3. We don't if a script is being written or by whom. 4. We don't know who will direct.…
  • It'll be remembered as the era that started off with such great promise before going out with the biggest whimper the franchise has ever seen.
  • Walecs wrote: » Risico007 wrote: » I feel Eon lets the media run wild because it's all free press and keeps the James Bond name in the media. With no new film or video game or even novel (seriously all we have is a comic book really!!!!!) J…
  • bondjames wrote: » QoS is increasingly appreciated by many, myself included. It wasn't quite so at the time of its release, when I can safely say it was seen as a disappointment compared to CR by many. I rank CR very highly as a Bond film, but …
  • QoS is far from a pointless film (the opposite, in fact, since a good portion of the SP retcon refers back to it), but even if such a hypothesis had any truth behind it, the film still runs circles around SP in pretty much every imaginable way.
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » dalton wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » dalton wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » I think I'll be waiting for the next week, but not with high expectations. Just to see if there's anything that will actually happen. Yo…
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » dalton wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » I think I'll be waiting for the next week, but not with high expectations. Just to see if there's anything that will actually happen. You never know. Like @Mendes4Lyfe said once, "A…
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » I think I'll be waiting for the next week, but not with high expectations. Just to see if there's anything that will actually happen. You never know. Like @Mendes4Lyfe said once, "A broken clock is right twice a day". Let's se…
  • If it is him, I'd imagine that he'd be contractually obligated to deny that he's been in talks. The actors that are brought in for testing or who are involved in "advanced" talks for the role aren't going to be able to talk about it to the press.
  • I can't really put any stock in their reactions to question, to be honest. Clive Owen gave some very cryptic answers that made a lot of people think that he had either met with EON or been offered the role back in 2005, but obviously nothing came o…
  • thelivingroyale wrote: » Jackman was considered tbf wasn't he? But BB decided he was "too fey" or something like that. I'm sure I've heard that before anyway. Pretty much every British actor (and Australian, and so on) in their 20s and 30s …
  • jake24 wrote: » I wouldn't trust this most recent news from Metro, the same people responsible for this: http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/04/man-chops-off-friends-penis-with-axe-after-row-over-the-size-of-their-members-5923742/?ito=twitter The…
  • It would only be tied for the closest. The same bookie (William Hill) gave Hugh Jackman 2/1 odds to replace Brosnan back in 2005.
  • I understand how it happened, but I just find it impossible to believe that it happened in the form of Donald Trump. Everyone pretty much knew he was a con artist and all around despicable human being before he ran for office.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » dalton wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » vzok wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » Chaps, let's not rush to judgment. We'll just have to wait and see, without setting our expectations high. Just go with the flow.…
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » vzok wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » Chaps, let's not rush to judgment. We'll just have to wait and see, without setting our expectations high. Just go with the flow. I don't think @Mendes4Lyfe is doing anything harmful,…
  • jobo wrote: » @bondjames Trump might be a rebel and not the Republican elite's dream scenario, but I don't share your hopes that whatever changes he'll implement will be for the benefit of "the little man". On the contrary... Whatever …
  • Birdleson wrote: » A bid negative for me is that it is the dullest of Bond films. I was drifting off on my very first viewing, which is ridiculous for s Bond film. Couldn't agree more. It's the dullest by a incredibly wide margin. I just…
  • The biggest part of this article, and the most telling, is something that I don't think anyone's mentioned yet (and if someone has, my apologies), and it's right at the top of the article: Metro wrote: The actor who’ll be playing the next James…
  • I think they've pretty much mined most of the usable Fleming titles. None of the short story titles that are left really work for me as film titles. There are a few things from the novels that could work ("The Death Collector" and "A Whisper of Ha…