The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)

[Kai "the spy"]

The closest was his wrist dart gun, which he got to fire twice.

Three times, actually. First the test shot at the portrait in M's office, then shutting down the centrifuge chamber, and finally the shot at Drax.

Moonraker: campy shenanigans one minute, then a woman getting hunted down in the woods and torn apart by vicious Dobermans the next.

Tell me about it. As I mentioned previously, Moonraker was the first Bond movie my mom showed to me, and I was maybe eight or nine years old. Young enough to not get flirting, because when Bond asks Corinne about that list from her mother, she responded with "I never learned to read", and i took that at face value, going "How did you learn to fly a helicopter without being able to read?". Moving right along to her death (though the camera did pan away, so there's that), which is how I learned that dogs can actually kill people.

Sidenote, i did get to meet Corinne Clery (as well as TSWLM's Caroline Munro) at the first Stuttgart Comic Con all the way back in 2016, and got to tell her that she was pretty much my first Bond Girl (not counting the femme fatale on the plane earlier in the movie).

 

[GhoulEddie74]

Three times, actually. First the test shot at the portrait in M's office, then shutting down the centrifuge chamber, and finally the shot at Drax.

Forgot the third one! Thank you!

 

[Tallguy]

In the Thursday Murder Club (We Love Pierce Brosnan) subsubtopic - in The Impossible Fortune:

Spoiler: not a spoiler per se as much as "this is a line from the book latest book"

Ron and another character discuss their favorite James Bond. Ron's favorite is... Pierce Brosnan. He is aghast that Ibrahim's is Timothy Dalton.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

In the Thursday Murder Club (We Love Pierce Brosnan) subsubtopic - in The Impossible Fortune:

Spoiler: not a spoiler per se as much as "this is a line from the book latest book"

Ron and another character discuss their favorite James Bond. Ron's favorite is... Pierce Brosnan. He is aghast that Ibrahim's is Timothy Dalton.

lol lol well in the netflix movie the out laws pierce brosnan mention how his future son in law thinks hes james bond and pierce brosnan on screen wife said oh ya which one and what does pierce brosnan say the 5th one

 

[Tallguy]

lol lol well in the netflix movie the out laws pierce brosnan mention how his future son in law thinks hes james bond and pierce brosnan on screen wife said oh ya which one and what does pierce brosnan say the 5th one

I didn't remember that. My daughter just told me that while she's reading the latest book she's hearing Brosnan when she reads Ron's parts. As it should be, I think.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

I didn't remember that. My daughter just told me that while she's reading the latest book she's hearing Brosnan when she reads Ron's parts. As it should be, I think.

it was in another netflix movie called the out laws

 

[GhoulEddie74]

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[oktay]

Amazon Paid Just $20 Million for Control of James Bond, But There’s Fine Print That Isn’t Public

A filing in the U.K. from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson's EON Productions disclosed the sale price Wednesday.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Captaindemotion]

Amazon Paid Just $20 Million for Control of James Bond, But There’s Fine Print That Isn’t Public

A filing in the U.K. from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson's EON Productions disclosed the sale price Wednesday.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Doctor Evil gif

 

[Judge Death]

Follow The Money

Reports of producers giving up creative control for $20m are way off the mark

www.mi6-hq.com

 

[tenmei]

Lana Del Rey reportedly lined up to sing the theme for First Light, which would be quite a catch.

 

[suarezguy]

I guess I get why Die Another Day is widely disdained, even though I think most of the films are pretty OTT and that's usually good, and was also pretty good there, but I really don't get why someone would dislike DAD but like a lot its predecessor TWINE, DAD was a little more OTT but really only a little more, there I think both the ambitions and the results were really similar yet I have seen a lot of praise/defenses of TWINE, not much for DAD. And in particular a lot of people really bash Halle Berry, she has some big flaws but compared to Denise Richards in that predecessor she was at least really OK.

 

[GhoulEddie74]

Oh, I'll take Christmas Jones over Jinx anyday. I like Halle Berry as an actress, but Jinx is a supremely mediocre character and the idea that MGM was even remotely thinking about spinning her off into her own film or even her own "expanded Bond universe" film series is baffling.

 

[Crewman Commander]

Dr. No looks fantastic on Prime Video. (Just started From Russia with Love.)

 

[The Realist]

Oh, I'll take Christmas Jones over Jinx anyday.

Yes.

 

[Crewman Commander]

Oh, I'll take Christmas Jones over Jinx anyday. I like Halle Berry as an actress, but Jinx is a supremely mediocre character and the idea that MGM was even remotely thinking about spinning her off into her own film or even her own "expanded Bond universe" film series is baffling.

Honestly, I thought they were both awful.

 

[Judge Death]

Honestly, I thought they were both awful.

It still irks me that TWINE has one of the better female characters in the franchise, but it's like having spent so much time giving Elektra character and agency they couldn't be arsed to give Christmas anything. I don't think Richards is awful, and she's gorgeous, but she has nothing to work with.

 

[GhoulEddie74]

Denise Richards is okay, but her performance in Starship Troopers left a far better impression on me.

 

[Tallguy]

I'll go back to Michael Wilson's quote "We always try to make From Russia with Love and we always end up making Thunderball."

Goldeneye was the most balanced movie that Brosnan got to make. TWINE is this "serious" Bond movie interspersed with BIG ACTION SCENES. TND is like this to a lesser extent but it never has the weight that the "spy" scenes in TWINE have. TBH both Carver and Renard are better on paper. ("They'll print anything these days.") Two actors who should have been the best Bond villains ever. Maybe my expectations were too high.

(You want to see Robert Carlyle be Bond villain? Watch Once Upon a Time.)

Then DAD comes along. Rather than flipping back and forth they have the "serious" (<- I can't not put that in quotes) part of the story almost entirely up front. Then you get to the ice palace and it becomes a very action packed Roger Moore film. It's the silliest film Brosnan made. But almost only in the back half.

 

[Etbj SMY]

I guess I get why Die Another Day is widely disdained, even though I think most of the films are pretty OTT and that's usually good, and was also pretty good there, but I really don't get why someone would dislike DAD but like a lot its predecessor TWINE, DAD was a little more OTT but really only a little more, there I think both the ambitions and the results were really similar yet I have seen a lot of praise/defenses of TWINE, not much for DAD.

Comma-lover. Still, how can one not love DAD for having Moneypenny virtually @#$% James Bond at long last?

Denise Richards is okay, but her performance in Starship Troopers left a far better impression on me.

Ohhhhhhhh, YEHHHHHHH (Bomp-Bomp)