The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[John P. Drake]

Die Another Day is non Cannonical for me, it was just too cheap and videogamy *and this is coming from a near life long gamer, ive been alive 26 years, been gaming 20 of them. The script was awfull, the CGI looked bad even when new and is worse now (was it me or did they use Quake II engine despite Quake III engine being out?) hally berry makes me want to tear my own eyes out!, its so pro 'murica it makes even Rambo II (one of my favourite films BTW) look politically unbiased!, and half the cast acted like they just couldnt be bothered..

for me, the Last James Bond Film Is Tommorow Never Dies.

Why TND? well i am afraid that Even with bruce feirstein re-writing a lot of the script, The World Is Not Enough is still utterly awfull for me due to denise richards cardboard cutout performance, and elektra king being completly and totally unsufferable, a woman controlling the most dangerous terrorist on earth at the time? ....DONT MAKE ME LAUGH! the elektra/renard realtionship should have been the other way around, typical perv and waste surrendering to the insane will of the drakenvoman brocolli!. although i do accept it was the fault of bruce feirstein that we got these femynazi "equal" bond girls thanks to natalya in goldeneye, its a trend that went well past its sell by date in that very film. by TWINE, it was smelling distinctly putrid, but then, when you have a rampanlty sociopathic femenyst behind the wheel.... you cant expect anything else. ( i do NOT like tough, indipendant women, ok, so maybe that makes me a chavaunist, a genus of the porcine variety, and worst of all, male! but, thats just me, they make me feel rather nauseus!)

the Last Bond Adventure, for me, is Everything Or Nothing on Ps2, Bond died on his way back from moscow when his plane was bounced by a Russian Mig.


oh, on Star Trek, i personally, just cannot get on with the reboot, i quess that, for me, no one can replace Shatner and Nimoy as Kirk and Spock. they should have given us a new, Post Voyager Era, cannon continuation , possibly Riker's tenure as captain of the USS Enterprise G (Columbia Class), or the oft Mooted Captain Worf spin-off with Micheal Dorn and Tony Todd, not a non cannonical "alt universe" version of TOS. I quess its my aspergers talking there though in my inability to accept the new cast as the legendary crew. its like casting Stallone as Picard...it just does not compute!

for me, Expendables III is my next "must see" film. good old fashioned 1980s popcorn movie cheese.

I also agree on every word Glorious England said, the old chap knows his onions. TND was the last Bond film for me, as well. Why TND? Glorious England said that above.

[carl stromberg]

Happy St. George's Day

There are lots of people who hate the Craig era and Die Another Day which means there has not been a new Bond film for them to enjoy for about 40 years.

[John P. Drake]

Happy St. George's Day

There are lots of people who hate the Craig era and Die Another Day which means there has not been a new Bond film for them to enjoy for about 40 years.

Precisely, however, the video games were spawned from the movies and instead of DAD, we have Agent Under Fire, Nightfire, and Everything or Nothing, that's how I look at the movie canon.

[James]

I think this black Bond story is something that Babs pays lip service to for PC purposes but would never actually do. Her way of compensating was to make Leiter and Moneypenny black instead. Still, she did cast a Derek Deadman lookalike as the current James Bond so all bets might still be off.

[bjmdds]

http://www.debka.com/article/22914/The- ... error-trap Interesting cover up by the US government if true.

[bjmdds]

TNT's hit drama Dallas closed out its second season with back-to-back episodes last Monday, the latter of which earned the show's highest Live+3 demo deliveries of the year, including 1.9 million adults 25-54 and 1.5 million adults 18-49. The combined average for the two episodes grew significantly over the prior week, with an audience of 3.8 million viewers (+26%), 1.8 million adults 25-54 (+38%) and 1.4 million adults 18-49 (+24%).

[Dr. No]

http://www.debka.com/article/22914/The- ... error-trap Interesting cover up by the US government if true.

I have a hard time believing anything like this it true (and because it the plot to a very stupid movie the Siege) . If only because our government seemed soo oblivious to most dangers like this and it follows a pattern to other jihadist attacks.

[carl stromberg]

I think this black Bond story is something that Babs pays lip service to for PC purposes but would never actually do. Her way of compensating was to make Leiter and Moneypenny black instead. Still, she did cast a Derek Deadman lookalike as the current James Bond so all bets might still be off.

I still shocked at the new M.

[John P. Drake]

Olga Kurylenko jumps on aboard with Pierce Brosnan in an action/spy flick called November Man

[bjmdds]

FBF, you've waited for this film since 2002 It's almost here. Get ready to buy up tickets.

[John P. Drake]

FBF, you've waited for this film since 2002 It's almost here. Get ready to buy up tickets.

Better make that two.

[bjmdds]

See, Pierce will be back

[bjmdds]

On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton begins what will likely be the most lucrative part of her life – so far – as she gives her first paid speech in Dallas, Texas. She’s expected, like her ex-president husband, to command a whopping $200,000-plus for each appearance.

[bjmdds]

Assuming that Marvel continues producing movies at its current pace, there will likely come a point where the Iron Man character gets a break for a few years, and then comes back -- with a brand new actor in the role. Our guess is that the "Iron Man" series won't be rebooted; in other words, we won't see a whole retelling of how Stark got into the armor. For one thing, the Marvel movies all interconnect, so one unique facet of them is that it would be hard to, say, remake the original "Iron Man" while the rest of the films continue moving forward.

No, our guess is that Iron Man will be like James Bond -- another actor will simply step into the role (Marvel President of Production Kevin Feige more or less told Badass Digest last year that that's the way he sees it going too). Of course, that's easier to write than do, simply because Downey has invested so much of himself in the part -- more than any of the six James Bonds ever did. Downey and Stark seem like extensions of each other; it is perhaps more difficult to imagine anyone else in this particular role than any other modern franchise character (we like Chris Evans, for example, but he doesn't seem much like Captain America in real life).

[Barry Niven]

Olga Kurylenko jumps on aboard with Pierce Brosnan in an action/spy flick called November Man

Good. Then the lovely Olga Kurylenko will actually stand a chance of looking smoking HOT onscreen unlike that PC-infected, fake-"Bond" bull$#!+ known as Quantus of Solemn that did her no favors, since those "filmmakers" thought that kind of eye candy was beneath their "modern", "enlightened" artistic standards. And for the last real movie Bond to remind everyone how it's really done.

[kater23]

I thought Bond fans could be crazy...fans of the BBC Sherlock with Benedict have them beat.

[bjmdds]

Who will be the first topless Bond girl? Who will be the first male that Bond kisses? You know Broccoli is headed in this die-rection with the franchise.

[Kristatos]

Who will be the first topless Bond girl?

That was supposedly going to be Rosamund Pike, according to rumours at the time. Sadly, the rumour turned out to be untrue.

[kater23]

It's either language or nudity that determines what ratings a movie gets(I believe it's language but I may be wrong.. though Spyfail had a f bomb and it was PG 13 ) The lack of boobs may have something to do with wanting to be "family friendly" but with bad language it doesn't really qualify so much.(mind you, I'm no prude.)

[Kristatos]

It's either language or nudity that determines what ratings a movie gets(I believe it's language but I may be wrong.. though Spyfail had a f bomb and it was PG 13 ) The lack of boobs may have something to do with wanting to be "family friendly" but with bad language it doesn't really qualify so much.(mind you, I'm no prude.)

The MPAA's rating process is famously opaque. The BBFC is a lot more transparent, providing detailed explanations for their decisions. Because of growing dependency on international audiences, the attitude towards sex scenes in movies is getting more conservative, in order not to offend people in places like India and China, where attitudes towards sex and nudity are more puritanical. I think the last time boobies featured in a big-budget, PG-13 rated movie was Titanic, over 15 years ago.