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

Starkers said:
That's really good and I agree OHMSS is a great soundtrack.

My only two slight niggles are with the sniffiness about TSWLM and GE soundtracks. I think The Spy Who Loves Me is great, and Goldeneye, while not perfect, isn't as bad as is made out.
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For me, most of my nostalgia about the GoldenEye soundtrack stems directly from its use in the N64 game. The movie music by itself isn't bad at all, but with my endless hours playing the N64 game and listening to the music pulsating in the background I largely hear the game when I listen to the movie soundtrack.
 
Starkers said:
And even to my limited knowledge 9mm has way more stopping power than 7.65mm
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I wouldn't want to get hit with either but, yeah, 9mm has a velocity of about 1140 feet per second (fps) while .32 Auto/7.65mm rounds travel at a velocity of 960 fps and 9mm's muzzle energy averages out to 360 ft-lb, while a .32 Auto/7.65mm Browning round averages out to only about 140 ft-lb.
 
I was at the theatre to see Superman today, during the "pre-show," that thing where they show interview clips from upcoming movies as well as trivia questions and facts about actors, they had question which actor played James Bond the longest, with the options being Daniel Craig, Roger Moore or Sean Connery. I naturally assumed it was Moore, but the actual answer provided at the end was Craig. I just did some checking online, and yeah, though Moore did the more movies, they were released over a twelve year period while Craig's were released over a fifteen year period.

Also, while I was Googling this matter, the top Bond news right now is that Sydney Sweeney is rumored to be the Bond Girl in the new movie. I didn't look into the matter any further, as I'm not sure anything will come of this, I'm sure between now and when the movie's cast is officially announced nearly all of the most popular actresses at the moment will be rumored to be the new movie's Bond Girl(s).
 
The Wormhole said:
I naturally assumed it was Moore, but the actual answer provided at the end was Craig. I just did some checking online, and yeah, though Moore did the more movies, they were released over a twelve year period while Craig's were released over a fifteen year period.
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It would have been a lot closer if NTTD had made its originally planned release date!
 
The Wormhole said:
I was at the theatre to see Superman today, during the "pre-show," that thing where they show interview clips from upcoming movies as well as trivia questions and facts about actors, they had question which actor played James Bond the longest, with the options being Daniel Craig, Roger Moore or Sean Connery. I naturally assumed it was Moore, but the actual answer provided at the end was Craig. I just did some checking online, and yeah, though Moore did the more movies, they were released over a twelve year period while Craig's were released over a fifteen year period.

Also, while I was Googling this matter, the top Bond news right now is that Sydney Sweeney is rumored to be the Bond Girl in the new movie. I didn't look into the matter any further, as I'm not sure anything will come of this, I'm sure between now and when the movie's cast is officially announced nearly all of the most popular actresses at the moment will be rumored to be the new movie's Bond Girl(s).
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Sweeney is a better actor than people give her credit for, but I always think (relatively) unknown European actresses work better as Bond girls than famous American ones.

Give me a Tracy, Kara, Natalya, Vesper, or Madeline over a Christmas, Stacey, Jinx, or Paris any day!
 
Rewatched A View to a Kill, really bad, Moore was still, at least at times, fairly likeable but he just sadly was no longer believable or impressive in the action, Walken was disappointing, just decent in just 2 or 3 scenes and lacking in the rest, Moore and Walken felt like they just did it out of obligation and Roberts was terrible. Walken came off as too American when the character probably was a little anti-American and probably should have been more so. It was a little amusing how EMP was made big deal of early on, seem like it would be a big part and knowing that it then actually was later in GoldenEye.

And the title song had good beginning, some good moments but overall felt way too choppy.
 
There are a couple of people on YouTube making their way through the Bond series and one has just arrived at FYEO.

It's funny to think that I am now older than Moore was when he made that movie and will be the same age as he was when he made Octopussy.

Moore still looked in reasonable shape/age when he made FYEO and Octopussy, but he was definitely looking long in the tooth by the time of AVTAK.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
There are a couple of people on YouTube making their way through the Bond series and one has just arrived at FYEO.

It's funny to think that I am now older than Moore was when he made that movie and will be the same age as he was when he made Octopussy.

Moore still looked in reasonable shape/age when he made FYEO and Octopussy, but he was definitely looking long in the tooth by the time of AVTAK.
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I often think that if he’d done LALD, TMWTGG, TSWLM and then, if they had followed that up with FYEO instead of Moonraker, which was the original plan, he’d have had 3 bangers out of 4 movies. Had he retired then, he’d have gotten out before he looked too old and his tenure would probably be a lot more fondly remembered.
 
That brings up an interesting question.
Captaindemotion said:
I often think that if he’d done LALD, TMWTGG, TSWLM and then, if they had followed that up with FYEO instead of Moonraker, which was the original plan, he’d have had 3 bangers out of 4 movies. Had he retired then, he’d have gotten out before he looked too old and his tenure would probably be a lot more fondly remembered.
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That brings up an interesting question.
Let's say the films follow the schedule you just posted and Moore leaves the series after FYEO in 1979.

The means the eighties starts with a new Bond in the role as well as a new M, since Bernard Lee was absent during the filming of FYEO and passed away shortly after filming was completed.

What short story do they try to develop into a movie, and who is available to take over the role of Bond and M?

I can't think of any actors at that time who could take over the Bond.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
That brings up an interesting question.


That brings up an interesting question.
Let's say the films follow the schedule you just posted and Moore leaves the series after FYEO in 1979.

The means the eighties starts with a new Bond in the role as well as a new M, since Bernard Lee was absent during the filming of FYEO and passed away shortly after filming was completed.

What short story do they try to develop into a movie, and who is available to take over the role of Bond and M?

I can't think of any actors at that time who could take over the Bond.
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why not Dalton? He had after all been lined up for the role before Moore was.
 
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