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#1 Waycos

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Posted 08 October 2008 - 07:30 AM

I, personally, am not a fan of the direction the Bond films have gone in for years. Going from espionage, class, and style. A ladies man and a killer to more of a series where action and over the top stunts and explosions have replaced plot and suspense. But this really is sad. They're resorting to oddities:

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Posted 08 October 2008 - 08:53 AM

Well, she no longer has the 'oddities', so I don't see it as much of a publicity stunt. Any word yet on whether Daniel Craig is going to have a full-frontal scene?

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 09:17 AM

I'm hoping, DC.

Waycos, I'm happy that we've gotten away from the very gadgety Bond that Roger Moore started and that Pierce Brosnan partially continued. It is refreshing to see a Bond willing to kick ass, but I can also still see the suspense and espionage in it. Yeah, they've become more action oriented, but it's not like this is XXX or something like that.

Oh, and about her? Yeah, she kinda creeps me out. I don't like the Bond Girls this time around... I was very attached to Vesper.

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 11:00 AM

Of course there won't be a Daniel Craig frontal nudity scene? Have you never watched a Bond movie? They never have full frontal nudity. Or even bare breasts with visible nipples, when it comes to the women.

I liked the previous one, so I have good hopes for this one too.

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Posted 24 October 2008 - 02:11 PM

I like the new direction, a little darker like the new batman, relatively of course.

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Posted 31 October 2008 - 07:25 AM

As much as I liked CR, Bond needs to retain some humor. And martinis.

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Posted 31 October 2008 - 07:43 AM

Yah, not really a fan of his switching drinks and card games. Poker is just to... common.

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Posted 04 November 2008 - 07:16 AM

Just watched Quantum of Solace last night. Not going to spoil anything, and I say that the movie is good. Not really the revolution that Casino Royale was, but it was enjoyable for what it is - an action flick.

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Posted 07 November 2008 - 09:47 AM

I too have been to see QoS. I enjoyed it. I think it's better than all the Brosnan films for one simple, yet somehow overlooked reason:

Ian Fleming wrote this. Or at least the short story upon which it was based.

Everything post "Living Daylights" has been someone else's stab at a scrennplay based on the concept of Bond. These two Daniel Craig films are based on actual Fleming novels and show the real gritty, edgy side of a Secret Agent finding his feet in a new world.

This is how Fleming wrote Bond. Yes, they have to pack in action now because of films like Triple-X and the like. I'll even forgive them for moving the location in Casino Royale from Monte Carlo to Montenegro. Sort of. But this is James Bond. The real James Bond.

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Posted 07 November 2008 - 09:54 AM

Although Fleming wrote a short story called "Quantum of Solace" it is not this movie. Bond only had a bit part in that short story in general. They even admit it they took the name and little else from that story. This is just a hired pens' continuation of CR.

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Posted 07 November 2008 - 10:18 AM

I feel the new Bond movies are great for non Bond fans.

I remember walking out of Casino Royale and said, if that wasn't a Bond movie, it would have been an average movie, but with the Bond name tagged to it, it's an atrocity.

I don't care about the action, but the character, he is not a Bond.

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Posted 07 November 2008 - 11:09 AM

I don't mind that he isn't, yet. But I hope within a couple movies we see him grow into the stylish Bond we all know and love. Otherwise then I agree with you completely.

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Posted 07 November 2008 - 07:15 PM

They should bring Sean Connery back for a geriatric James Bond adventure. Something like retired extremists taking control of a Florida retirement home. James Bond and his rocket launching wheelchair to the rescue!

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Posted 08 November 2008 - 12:32 AM

QUOTE (4MyMistress @ Nov 8 2008, 09:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

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I actually really like Craig as Bond. I dont think he's unstylish at all, and shows a lot of class, when he wants to. Its seems like a more real Bond, rather than the almost superhero-esque figure he reached towards the end of the pre-Craig era. And I dont even wanna think about the campy, bad-pun laden atrocities that the Roger Moore films were.

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Posted 08 November 2008 - 12:38 AM

QUOTE (4MyMistress @ Nov 7 2008, 07:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

BAHAHAHHA *wipes tear*
That's a good one. I would definitely see that! Can we also address that Sean Connery is still sexy?

I have never been a Bond person. I've seen one of the older ones but I really liked Casino Royal and I'm stoked for the new one. Isn't this the first time ever in the history of Bond movies that there has been a sequel to a storyline?

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Posted 09 November 2008 - 06:51 PM

That's NOT James Bond OR Pussy Galore.

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 06:29 PM

I plan on seeing it mainly for one reason...the new Star Trek trailer is going to premier before it on Friday !!!

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 08:07 PM

i just watched a trailer for it. I will see it. I really liked Casino Royale and this looks as good. Much much more enjoyable to watch Bond use his brains than watching the Roger Moore movies

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 08:44 PM

Wait... Roger Moore's Bond used his brains far more then Craigs. This version is more like XXX then a Bond film. A bunch of over the top action scenes linked loosely by a simple plot.

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Posted 03 December 2008 - 06:08 AM

QUOTE (Hailsky @ Nov 8 2008, 12:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have never been a Bond person. I've seen one of the older ones but I really liked Casino Royal and I'm stoked for the new one. Isn't this the first time ever in the history of Bond movies that there has been a sequel to a storyline?