Avatar

Reporting For Duty

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

noSolaceleft

About

Banned
Username
noSolaceleft
Joined
Visits
4,892
Last Active
Roles
Member
Posts
1,162

Comments

  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » Germanlady wrote: » @solace, it was DCs sole decision to bulk up. Nobody requested it from him. This is a known fact. The quote "I wanted him to look like he could kill someone" is used by many.…
  • GBF wrote: » I mean, can you imagine Craig voluntarily going to a classical concert? True, but neither would Flemings Bond, who was far cry from the sophisticated know all 007 from the movies.
  • peter wrote: » controversial opinion: DC's performance had less bite once Mendes took the helm because, Mendes, as director, had more interest in attempting to create iconic imagery of Bond, than he was allowing Bond to be Bond; and therefore, Cra…
  • Germanlady wrote: » @solace, it was DCs sole decision to bulk up. Nobody requested it from him. This is a known fact. The quote "I wanted him to look like he could kill someone" is used by many. Often by D.C. Now who said it first? Whenev…
  • thelivingroyale wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » bondjames wrote: » Keep in mind that Craig wasn't the first one to bulk up for a major role. Bale did it for BB in the prior year. Damon did it for Bourne. Willis did it for DH. etc. etc. Look…
  • BT3366 wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » BT3366 wrote: » [quote="noSolaceleft;799300 No he didn't. Campbell it is famously quoted with "I wanted him to look like someone who could kill" Brosnan by the way is still the actor who comes phy…
  • RichardTheBruce wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » I'm always astonished how easy people use the phrase "true to Fleming". Some of you may suffer a stroke but actually there's no actor that was less true to Fleming than Craig. Well, that's n…
  • bondjames wrote: » Keep in mind that Craig wasn't the first one to bulk up for a major role. Bale did it for BB in the prior year. Damon did it for Bourne. Willis did it for DH. etc. etc. Look at Affleck these days (he's blasting out of his shirts…
  • BT3366 wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » thelivingroyale wrote: » bondjames wrote: » thelivingroyale wrote: » Might be getting ahead of myself but could we be looking at the first actor playing James Bond to get a Oscar nom? @the…
  • thelivingroyale wrote: » bondjames wrote: » thelivingroyale wrote: » Might be getting ahead of myself but could we be looking at the first actor playing James Bond to get a Oscar nom? @thelivingroyale, I certainly hope they don't even…
  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » Germanlady wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » CASINOROYALE …
  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » Germanlady wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » CASINOROYALE wrote: » Personally, Moore’s style fit the 70s but …
  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » Germanlady wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » CASINOROYALE wrote: » Personally, Moore’s style fit the 70s but …
  • Germanlady wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » CASINOROYALE wrote: » Personally, Moore’s style fit the 70s but not the current years.. It would feel like a parody. …
  • barryt007 wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » If Waltz returns for Bond 25 what do you choose happens: A. Escape during transport to the CIA where they intend to give him the death penalty. (But you risk repeating what…
  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » SirHilaryBray wrote: » CASINOROYALE wrote: » Personally, Moore’s style fit the 70s but not the current years.. It would feel like a parody. I’m fine with them doing a 60s style Bond film cop…
  • Germanlady wrote: » noSolaceleft wrote: » Germanlady wrote: » I Wonder why anybody stracks Pistols for Not allowing other opinions, when Nobody does it worse then Solace. I love you too. Thank you very much. Go Stick that Lov…
  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » If Waltz returns for Bond 25 what do you choose happens: A. Escape during transport to the CIA where they intend to give him the death penalty. (But you risk repeating what Nolan did with Bane) B. Steal the concept for…
  • Germanlady wrote: » I Wonder why anybody stracks Pistols for Not allowing other opinions, when Nobody does it worse then Solace. I love you too.
  • Germanlady wrote: » Thanks for that infno. What would we do without you? Probably just watching Craig aging.
  • TheWizardOfIce wrote: » Murdock wrote: » You'll have to forgive me. I'm not English. Not being English is indeed something to be truly sorry for! Only if you adhere to sunburn.
  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » CASINOROYALE wrote: » Personally, Moore’s style fit the 70s but not the current years.. It would feel like a parody. I’m fine with them doing a 60s style Bond film copying the style of Connery’s films. Or better yet just…
  • PanchitoPistoles wrote: » @Murdock People certainly shouldn't care about ClarkDevlin's Bond related opinions from now on. For a Bond fan to say that Skyfall is godawful is like for an art historian to say that the Arnolfini Portrait is a bad paint…
  • SirHilaryBray wrote: » ToTheRight wrote: » Considering shooting is still a year away he'd probably have time to grow a full Michael Bolton 1991 style mullet. I imagine his B25 look will probably be somewhere between his CR look and his SF look…
  • barryt007 wrote: » It was the fact that the Magnificent Seven theme played alongside Cowboy Bond that does push it into parody for me tbh. It wasn't necessary. So how do you feel about the Lawrence from Arabia score in TSWLM?
  • suavejmf wrote: » bondjames wrote: » GoldenGun wrote: » Milovy wrote: » Well, I think CR pretty much nails everything I want from Bond. Maybe a bit more espionage would have been nice (and more Bond theme, lol). Not in my book. …
  • ColonelSun wrote: » bondjames wrote: » I agree @ClarkDevlin . The reboot was totally unecessary. Having said that, they pulled it off very well. However, as you suggested, they could have easily continued without it as they had done in the pas…
  • ClarkDevlin wrote: » bondjames wrote: » So just because the current leadership reached a dead end doesn't mean there were not other ways to handle things. We will never know what could have been, but I am of the belief that the route they chos…
  • barryt007 wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » I personally did miss them, and still do miss them. The …
  • ColonelSun wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » ClarkDevlin wrote: » I personally did miss them, and still do miss them. The original M, Q and Moneypenny. M: invites Bond to brief him the mission, rant a little should t…