Classic Bond Forum

That's it? Very weak. It felt like a soap opera, like a sneak peek of next season's Days Of Our Lives or whatever soap opera is in vogue these days. No action sequences shown, which suggests they want to emphasize that this is sooooo character driven in all of the emoism of Craig's Bond and his lit...

None. I find them all terrible. Especially "Die Another Day" on the sheer principle that I don't like Madonna and never have. Sheryl Crow's TND is also awful. Though I'm not a fan of k.d. Lang, even I could tell her song "Surrender" was the better choice, which would've gotten my vote had it qualifi...

If only there were an option to pick 3 Directors to dislike instead of only 2, Forster definitely would've made the cut for the completely FRUITY QoS. I've already covered most of the transgressions committed on that cinematic abomination elsewhere , so I'll just add one more I was amazed to have no...

Octopussy, because it's just plain fun (and hasn't gotten the consideration I feel it deserves). And The Living Daylights as a superb introduction of Timothy Dalton's (all-too brief) reign as James Bond.

Difficult to say. The cons of TB is that it moves too slowly and takes forever to get to where it's going, and I can't stand that drippy Domino whose BIG Moment of spearing Largo in the back is somehow meant to *atone* for her overall useless, clueless, helpless, accident-prone idiocy (it doesn't). ...

Neither. I find them both terrible. TND's only advantages were the Dr. Kaufman scene (how freakin' COOL was that to actually see Vincent Schiavelli of all people as a Bond Villain, and have it work?) and its comparatively simple-to-follow plot, which was only an accident based on the behind-the-scen...

Another lowlight of the Fruity Quantum of Solace that still galls as yet another example of the current regime's inability to avoid flip-flopping on the characterization of this new "James Bond" of theirs. Namely, the moment where our allegedly heroic duo of "Bond" and "Camille" prepare to attack th...

He looks like a complete and utter tool. A generic rent-a-thug with a stupid pout to match. NOT James Bond, Agent 007 of Her Majesty's Secret Service. AT ALL.

He should have grabbed the chance instead of having a nothing career. These guys all think they are better than Bond yet it's ONLY Bond they are remembered for and Pierce embraced it. You know, I've kept quiet about this - ahem - statement of yours for quite a long time, not only to defer to your s...

Babsy will NEVER relinquish control. If there's one other thing I'm certain of, its that her territorial control-freak issues didn't happen in a vacuum, but were INGRAINED into her by her Father's own difficulties, compromises and conflicts with "others" that left its mark of paranoid bitterness bef...

I was tempted to pick Forster for his obvious flouncy arthouse bull$#!+ of QoS, but in the end I stuck with Campbell because I despise the smug, self-righteous, over-serious melodrama that GE dipped its toe into under his watch, then plunged straight into the deep end with his return for CR'06. Spec...

That was easy. Campbell for his holier-than-thou attitude in playing the "savior" with GE, dropping out for not wanting to be "tied down" (or whatever bull$#!+ excuse was used) which doomed the rest of Brosnan's run to erratic one-shot directors-for-hire, then coming back for CR'06 to boost his flag...

Re. Count Lippe's observation of the Brosnan films (as well as your junk food analogy, dirtybenny ) I'm stunned to admit that I completely agree, because despite how much I wanted to like those Modern Bond movies from Goldeneye to Die Another Day , I never did. And I think I understand why. As far a...

Yep, that sounds about right. Since they still didn't have the SPECTRE Movie Rights as of QoS, they gave the yet-unamed "Organization" of CR the fruity moniker of *Quantum* in a clever-than-thou attempt to make the title mean more than just Craggy's brooding inner-torment over his lost wuv :cry: . A...

Oh Christ, not this bull$#!+ again about Adrian Pall. After skimming through the other various 007-related discussion boards of yesteryears all hyping up this STIFF as the Next Big Thing who SHOULD be Bond, I bailed on all of them just to avoid the urge to vomit all over myself. First of all, the gu...

Thunderball was made a whopping 2 years after Goldfinger and is still the highest selling Bond film in terms of ticket admissions. The three previous films had been released one year after another. Nope, you lost me there. As everyone should know just by their dates of release on record, Thunderbal...

I don't like your "videos", Count_Lippe. I find them a smug, self-satisfied Cop-out to actually posting any written responses or insights about ANYTHING on this Board. I also wasn't certain before, but I am now: I don't like you either. And that's all I have to say to (and about) you.

Bond 24 screenwriter John Logan has suggested that the Skyfall follow-up may re-introduce the Quantum crime organization from Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Logan was asked if Bond 24 would be as big as Skyfall, to which he replied, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” Pffft.. That fits in with thei...

Actually, Lee Van Cleef's "Angel Eyes" in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is meant to be a completely different character, much like Gian Maria Volonte's rifle-wielding Rojos brother in A Fistful of Dollars (where he was credited as "John Wels") was not magically resurrected to be the infamous Indio of...

I have just a couple of things you forgot to mention in your QOS summary. Although if you really did forget them, then I envy you, for these Low Points I speak of are so utterly baffling and frustrating in their inconsistent, self-righteous sloppiness that it only makes me hate the filmmakers more f...