Best James Bond?

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Elite said:

Nigel Benn would make a great baddie as well, diamond thief with a religious edge.

Papa Shango for me. 

[Section_31]

19 minutes ago, skend04 said:

Read earlier that Bond is going to be a father in the movie to a 5 year old child. All that shagging around and only one kid? Check his sperm!

It's a film that shouldn't have been made to be honest. The last few films have all centred around him being past his best, old and an analogue man in a digital age. Yeah great, when I think of James Bond I think about him being slow, stupid, and having the piss taken out of him by women and computer nerds.

[Harry Squatter]

20 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Bond has long been lacking some Stallone - Over The Top trucks smashing through houses arm-wrestling action 

 

 

I could imagine Eubank doing some of this.

[Chairman Meow]

12 hours ago, skend04 said:

Read earlier that Bond is going to be a father in the movie to a 5 year old child. All that shagging around and only one kid? Check his sperm!

Most of the women he has sex with tend to die within about 30 minutes or so, which as contraceptives go is pretty extreme, however it's clearly very effective. 

[Section_31]

2 hours ago, Chairman Meow said:

Most of the women he has sex with tend to die within about 30 minutes or so, which as contraceptives go is pretty extreme, however it's clearly very effective. 

Nah not these days. The last scene will be him telling his wife to put the toast on and she'll reply 'do it yourself' then leave the house to go to a high powered job. He'll just say out loud "she knows which way her bread's buttered." Then go back to bed.

 

Blogs the world over will talk about how great the scene was and how 'totally badass' his Mrs is.

[Harry Squatter]

2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Nah not these days. The last scene will be him telling his wife to put the toast on and she'll reply 'do it yourself' then leave the house to go to a high powered job. He'll just say out loud "she knows which way her bread's buttered." Then go back to bed.

 

Blogs the world over will talk about how great the scene was and how 'totally badass' his Mrs is.

Or he will marry an ethnic minority lady who will do that and she will become a spy while he stays home, stops drinking, becomes a Vegan upcycling lifestyle YouTube blogger whilst doing the housework and shopping because the concept of Bond is outdated. 

[Tony Moanero]

1. Connery

2. Moore

3. Dalton

 

1 and 2 are interchangeable depending on mood. Brosnan looked and felt like Bond but with maybe the exception of Goldeneye, the films are pretty shit. Craig, for me, just isn’t James Bond and the films just feel like run-of-the-mill action films.

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

1. Connery

2. Moore

3. Dalton

 

1 and 2 are interchangeable depending on mood. Brosnan looked and felt like Bond but with maybe the exception of Goldeneye, the films are pretty shit. Craig, for me, just isn’t James Bond and the films just feel like run-of-the-mill action films.

Skyfall is a superb bond, Casino Royale (Craig one) is brilliant as well. 

[Section_31]

3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Skyfall is a superb bond, Casino Royale (Craig one) is brilliant as well. 

I like skyfall but it is basically Home Alone.

[Tony Moanero]

6 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Skyfall is a superb bond, Casino Royale (Craig one) is brilliant as well. 

I like Casio Royale (2006) but don’t consider it to be up there with the best Bond films.

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I like skyfall but it is basically Home Alone.

hahaha 

[Guest]

45 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

I like Casio Royale (2006) but don’t consider it to be up there with the best Bond films.

When was the last time you watched Casino Royale? I started watching it and I really enjoyed the first 20 minutes or so. Then it turned into a one man war against an entire crime clan - I felt like I was watching Rambo rather than Bond!

 

I will continue watching but the last Bond that I truly enjoyed was GoldenEye.

[Bjornebye]

19 minutes ago, S.i.t.M aka The Boring One™ said:

When was the last time you watched Casino Royale? I started watching it and I really enjoyed the first 20 minutes or so. Then it turned into a one man war against an entire crime clan - I felt like I was watching Rambo rather than Bond!

 

I will continue watching but the last Bond that I truly enjoyed was GoldenEye.

Haha what the fuck? That doesn't reflect the film at all 

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Haha what the fuck? That doesn't reflect the film at all 

When was the last time you watched it?

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, S.i.t.M aka The Boring One™ said:

When was the last time you watched it?

A few months back 

[Section_31]

Yeah that deffo doesn't sound like Casino Royale, sounds more like Taken. Was he playing poker under the bed? 

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

A few months back 

I remember watching it when it first came out in the cinema and I loved it. Thinking back, it was the new Bond's first movie and it was highly anticipated. But I absolutely forgot everything about it except for remembering a tortue scene but even that is vague.

 

I started watching it again last night.

 

 

The opening is stunning and really subtle. Then he goes off on a mission and it goes wrong. Fair enough - but he should have died at least three times through ridiculous climbs and falls. Action packed though it is, entering and leaving the embassy was more like Rambo than Bond.

Then he takes on the bad guy in a card game. Bond knows he's playing the bad guy but so far the bad guy doesn't know Bond. So you would think it's best to stay low key. Nooooooo. He takes him on and wins all his money, wins his car and bangs his bird! Not sure that's way to maintain your cover. If that really happened, I would not be at all be surprised if this bad crime man would have arranged for Bond to have the shit kicked out of him, money and car returned etc.

 

Then the chase to the airport, he really needs backup at this point. There is a bomb going to go off. Nope, hangs up on the help. He finds the guy dead and climbs aboard the truck. Driver swerves the truck all over the place to get him off. Then jumps infront of another truck which just misses him and it looks like the other driver has decided to play chicken as there is SO MUCH SPACE to swerve away. It's a fucking RUNWAY!.

 

 

At this point I am thinking there is nothing that can kill this Bond. I plan to resume watching ASAP as it's enjoyable nonsense but it's not Bond-nonsense. It's Arnie/Stallone nonsense.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, S.i.t.M aka The Boring One™ said:

I remember watching it when it first came out in the cinema and I loved it. Thinking back, it was the new Bond's first movie and it was highly anticipated. But I absolutely forgot everything about it except for remembering a tortue scene but even that is vague.

 

I started watching it again last night.

 

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The opening is stunning and really subtle. Then he goes off on a mission and it goes wrong. Fair enough - but he should have died at least three times through ridiculous climbs and falls. Action packed though it is, entering and leaving the embassy was more like Rambo than Bond.

 

 

Then he takes on the bad guy in a card game. Bond knows he's playing the bad guy but so far the bad guy doesn't know Bond. So you would think it's best to stay low key. Nooooooo. He takes him on and wins all his money, wins his car and bangs his bird! Not sure that's way to maintain your cover. If that really happened, I would not be at all be surprised if this bad crime man would have arranged for Bond to have the shit kicked out of him, money and car returned etc.

 

Then the chase to the airport, he really needs backup at this point. There is a bomb going to go off. Nope, hangs up on the help. He finds the guy dead and climbs aboard the truck. Driver swerves the truck all over the place to get him off. Then jumps infront of another truck which just misses him and it looks like the other driver has decided to play chicken as there is SO MUCH SPACE to swerve away. It's a fucking RUNWAY!.

 

 

At this point I am thinking there is nothing that can kill this Bond. I plan to resume watching ASAP as it's enjoyable nonsense but it's not Bond-nonsense. It's Arnie/Stallone nonsense.

Hahahaha Casino Royale is a proper Bond film. The opening is subtle? Once he has knocked ten bells of shite out of someone in a toilet he's leaping across cranes 100 feet in the air chasing a fella into a local army barracks or something. Subtle my arse. 

[Guest]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

Hahahaha Casino Royale is a proper Bond film. The opening is subtle? Once he has knocked ten bells of shite out of someone in a toilet he's leaping across cranes 100 feet in the air chasing a fella into a local army barracks or something. Subtle my arse. 

I mean literally the opening scene. Very dark, guy walks into his office and sees the window open. Turns around and there's Bond. All the flashbacks obviously not subtle - but he needs to two kills to become 00 status. One dead - if you didn't see it happen and just heard the words he didn't die well and then the second kill is...bang. "Yes I know". Classic Bond.

 

It just becomes unbelievable from that point on.

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, S.i.t.M aka The Boring One™ said:

I mean literally the opening scene. Very dark, guy walks into his office and sees the window open. Turns around and there's Bond. All the flashbacks obviously not subtle - but he needs to two kills to become 00 status. One dead - if you didn't see it happen and just heard the words he didn't die well and then the second kill is...bang. "Yes I know". Classic Bond.

 

It just becomes unbelievable from that point on.

You said the first 20 minutes ! The most unbelievable thing about that particular Bond compared to the others is the Chris Cornell theme tune (which is a belter of a song by the way) being a bit too rock and roll for a bond theme. 

[Section_31]

The opening of Spectre is one of the best scenes I've ever seen in any film, breathtaking stuff. 

 

 

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

You said the first 20 minutes ! The most unbelievable thing about that particular Bond compared to the others is the Chris Cornell theme tune (which is a belter of a song by the way) being a bit too rock and roll for a bond theme. 

I said I enjoyed the first twenty minutes as it is an enjoyable film - the opening moments are so subtle like the Connery and Moore Bonds. To be fair, Dalton was also an action based Bond from what I can recall. GoldenEye with Brosnan was a good mix of Bond being subtle and cunning plus an action man.

 

An undercover agent should be using that asset as his key strength, Craig just goes in all guns blazing and expects to win. My point was it's more like Rambo than Bond and I stand by that comment. Rambo was enjoyable but Bond should not be going into that territory.

 

I also forgot to mention how he starts an international incident as a result of his actions, goes AWOL as he he knows he's in for a rollicking and then breaks into M's apartment! What does she do! "Don't ever break into my apartment again!" I think it's fair to say he did not go in there to steal some sugar or milk.

 

Classic Bond films have a style of their own. Craig's Bond is a proper tough guy, but that's all he seems to have. As an example, if Bond played cards with that guy to get an in, it would have made much more sense for him to just put his cards down on the table in a "you get me beat" gesture. Possibly the cards would have been seen by the dealer and they would have wondered "who is this guy". His opponent would not care as he's got his money back and his car.

 

Get yourself known but don't go throwing your weight around.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

The opening of Spectre is one of the best scenes I've ever seen in any film, breathtaking stuff. 

 

 

I'm not sure if I've seen Spectre, I heard mixed reports on it. I think I will finish Rambo and then perhaps have a go at Spectre. Is it pronounced Spectar or Spectra?

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

1. Connery

2. Moore

3. Dalton

 

1 and 2 are interchangeable depending on mood. Brosnan looked and felt like Bond but with maybe the exception of Goldeneye, the films are pretty shit. Craig, for me, just isn’t James Bond and the films just feel like run-of-the-mill action films.

Nail on head Mr Moanero. I'd probably go for Brosnan over Dalton but Connery and Moore were streets ahead.

[Evelyn Tentions]

2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

The opening of Spectre is one of the best scenes I've ever seen in any film, breathtaking stuff. 

 

 

Maybe I've been too long without the unmentionable, but as soon as I saw the guy in the white suit at the start I thought  "that's VvD"