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  • Getafix wrote: » TheWizardOfIce wrote: » Mendes is all style and pretend substance that crumbles at the slightest scrutiny. With SF he pulls it off but with SP the whole artifice comes crashing down on his head. Give Glen Roger Deakins and …
  • barryt007 wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » PanchitoPistoles wrote: » TheWizardOfIce wrote: » PanchitoPistoles wrote: » I probably dislike Spectre more than anyone else here, but this Mendes hate has to stop. American Beauty, Road to …
  • PanchitoPistoles wrote: » TheWizardOfIce wrote: » PanchitoPistoles wrote: » I probably dislike Spectre more than anyone else here, but this Mendes hate has to stop. American Beauty, Road to Perdition, and Skyfall are truly sublime movies. …
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » boldfinger wrote: » JamesBondKenya wrote: » I would be very interested to see how Nolan would hastily integrate Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, and Tom Hardy into the bond film. Because he almost certainly would... To…
  • AlexanderWaverly wrote: » bondjames wrote: » SkyfallCraig wrote: » A few thoughts about what the deal means for b25 and Bond in general https://www.jborbisnonsufficit.com/2017/11/02/mgm-to-partner-with-annapurna-in-us-distribution/ I…
  • Getafix wrote: » TheWizardOfIce wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » bondjames wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » barryt007 wrote: » Its only logical that Nolan's name will be linked for the next few films. Honest opinion, why h…
  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » Actually retarded to think EON would sell Bond. Anyone who knows about the Franchise and Broccoli history would realise that it is pure fantasy. Commercialisation of the product leads to watering down, over exposure and comm…
  • Gustav_Graves wrote: » Murdock wrote: » Gustav_Graves wrote: » Murdock wrote: » Well freaking said. Keep Nolan away from Bond at all costs. I hope Nolan will become Bond director after Daniel Craig retires. Would be interesting …
  • ToTheRight wrote: » PanchitoPistoles wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » FoxRox wrote: » I have a feeling Bond 25 will be EON’s final Bond film... If that is true, then I'll be owing @PanchitoPistoles two pints. I think it's time t…
  • bondjames wrote: » I'll be fine with that, as long as he doesn't screw it up. He'd better bring his A game and not try to be what he's clearly not. But with what he is you don't get a GF or TSWLM.
  • ColonelSun wrote: » TheWizardOfIce wrote: » bondjames wrote: » Or more likely a new director just doesn't want to take on any of Mendes's baggage, which is what I assumed some time ago. Where I got it wrong was whether a new director would…
  • 001 wrote: » Bond needs a Buxom Babe like this. Yes, yes and yes! Better make it two or three of them.
  • Murdock wrote: » Nothing beats Korean colonel turning into British industrialist billionaire as worst plothole in the Bond franchise. ;) Actually this is not a plot hole. It's just laughable and impossible. The plot hole is that this "newbo…
  • TripAces wrote: » Milovy wrote: » Stop stop stop with the plot holes nonsense. This is BOND!!!! Every single film is choc full of not only gaping plot holes Stop stop stop with the plot holes nonsense. This is BOND!!!! Every single film…
  • peter wrote: » You do understand @noSolaceleft, Cubby was producing films starting in 1953 in THE RED BERET. Terence Young was his director. I already admitted my mistake one or two pages ago.
  • TheWizardOfIce wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » peter wrote: » I wouldn’t agree @noSolaceleft ; Cubby had plenty of talent as a producer. He and Harry kept the machine going, finding and hiring the talent to see their…
  • Jeffrey wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » From the beginning the forte of Broccoli was the money part. After all it was Salzman who had secured the rights on the Bond franchise for himself, but didn't have the money to do it alone. Cubby was kind…
  • ColonelSun wrote: » peter wrote: » I wouldn’t agree @noSolaceleft ; Cubby had plenty of talent as a producer. He and Harry kept the machine going, finding and hiring the talent to see their vision through, altering with the times (for better o…
  • Roadphill wrote: » Admittedly its a little trite, but there could be an easy explanation for a new actor as Blofeld, whilst writing out the 'foster brother' nonsense. Putting it simply, Waltz could have not been the real Blofeld from the start.…
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » bondjames wrote: » Don't even try Connery in TB or DAF. It will only result in failure imho. Connery could scale up and down the curve with considerable ease. Unbeatable. I personally don't agree with that. If the wri…
  • peter wrote: » Face it fellas, as much as you kick the shit out of Babs, Cubby made some seriously stupid decisions-- thank Dog that people walked him back off the ledge... He absolutely did. But isn't that just the basic problem of the fr…
  • shamanimal wrote: » They need to show the villain doing something shockingly bad, at the start of the film. It's not enough for the villain to say "it was all me, I'm a rotter!" And the villain needs a good plan for Bond to thwart. Not computer-r…
  • Tuck91 wrote: » I think this time Babs is making a film she wants to make & not necessarily a cookie cutter Bond film, I say this because if she dosent have a director yet then the vision put forth for the next one is constructed by her & …
  • bondjames wrote: » Creasy47 wrote: » Bentley007 wrote: » My question is, if there is no distribution deal or director how would Christoph even know if he was coming back? Either there is more decided than we are aware of or Waltz is unsur…
  • bondjames wrote: » Are we talking about the books or the films here. The films haven't been all that deep and meaningful to me, although I really like certain elements in them which appeal to me. The films have far outshone the novels in contem…
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » The Thomas Crown Affair is an absolute gem. I prefer it over the original. I really can't say I feel that way. The chess game in the original alone makes it stand head and shoulders above the remake.
  • TripAces wrote: » What makes Bond a peculiar case is that Ian Fleming had, at least to some degree, shown interest in the writings of Carl Jung. For me, it starts there. Knowingly or not (and it doesn't matter) he made Bond an archetypal warrior. …
  • Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: » M_Balje wrote: » The Daniel Craig era ask for it. Oh my god! Now that's a cover that really evokes the feeling and the atmosphere of the book. Wow!
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » @noSolaceleft, not that I'm surprised by this point that you've lost the plot, but did you even read my post beyond the opening? I went a long way towards…
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » @noSolaceleft, not that I'm surprised by this point that you've lost the plot, but did you even read my post beyond the opening? I went a long way towards arguing that there is no supremacy when it comes to film vi…