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James Bond & Skyfall

JaxUrJaxUr Posts: 547
edited October 2012 in Off Topic - The Everything Else Room
As James Bond celebrates his 50th anniversary on the big screen & Skyfall approaches, here is the upcoming film's theme song:

http://youtu.be/7HKoqNJtMTQ

Personally, I'd love to hear the CGS crew's thoughts on Bond (films, novels, comics, etc). I'd be interested to know what people think is the best movie, theme, novel, villain. If I had to choose just one, it would be Goldfinger. I still love just about everything in that movie. Connery is the top 007 and I hate to say it but Brosnan was better as Remington Steele.
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  • MikeGallagherMikeGallagher Posts: 547
    I'm a huge bond fan! I'm looking forward to skyfall. You know they got the 'bad' one out of the way with quantum.
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  • hauberkhauberk Posts: 1,511
    MikeGallagher said:

    I'm a huge bond fan! I'm looking forward to skyfall. You know they got the 'bad' one out of the way with quantum.

    Even so, I'd take Quantum over any of the Brosnan movies, which I'd put barely above A View to a Kill and well below the much wrongly maligned Dalton films.

    I will say that I've felt like both Casino and Quantum suffered a bit from some decompression. Casino was at least 20-30 minutes too long.

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  • MikeGallagherMikeGallagher Posts: 547
    To me, license to kill is the worst bond film. Then quantum, view,to a kill, and the last two brosnans.

    My favorite is from Russia with love. Then in order, on her majesty's secret service, live and let die, living daylights, gold finger,
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  • EarthGBillyEarthGBilly Posts: 362
    I've always thought that each Bond actor should have at least one "great" film.


    Poor Timothy Dalton.
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  • dubbat138dubbat138 Posts: 3,200
    MikeGallagher said:

    To me, license to kill is the worst bond film. Then quantum, view,to a kill, and the last two brosnans.

    My favorite is from Russia with love. Then in order, on her majesty's secret service, live and let die, living daylights, gold finger,


    On her majesty's secret service is the only Bond film I like. Never been a big fan of Sean Connery. But loved Lazenby as Bond. Plus that one has Diana Rigg as as Bond's wife. I wish we had gotten at least one more film with Lazenby as Bond.
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  • John_SteedJohn_Steed Posts: 2,087

    My favs are as follows:

    My Top 5 Movies
    005 - Thunderball
    004 - The Man with the Golden Gun
    003 - Live and Let Die
    002 - Goldfinger
    001 - Casino Royale / Quantum of Solace (it's ONE movie to me)

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    My Top 5 Bonds
    005 - George Lazenby (could have been great with a good production team)
    004 - Roger Moore (the goofy Bond, I grew up in the Moore era, therefore...)
    003 - Timothy Dalton (the right actor in the wrong movies, could have been awesome)
    002 - Sean Connery (the original macho version)
    001 - Daniel Craig (just perfect for this role)

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    My Top 5 Bond Girls
    005 - Sophie Marceau (as Elektra King, I've got a crush on Marceau since 1980)
    004 - Ursula Andress (as Honey Ryder, Swiss power....)
    003 - Honor Blackman (as Pussy Galore, The Avengers...)
    002 - Diana Rigg (as Teresa di Vicenzo, The Avengers...)
    001 - Eva Green (as Vesper Lynd, saw her in a play - she can act... and is damn sexy)

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    My Top 5 Bond Villains
    005 - Christopher Lee (as Francisco Scaramanga, he really loved his gun....)
    004 - Curt Jürgens (as Karl Stromberg, Germans are good in being evil.....)
    003 - Robert Carlyle (as Renard, way over the top - good fun to watch)
    002 - Mathieu Amalric (as Dominic Greene, sublime)
    001 - Gert Fröbe (as Goldfinger, legendary German actor - awesome in over 100 movies)

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  • John_SteedJohn_Steed Posts: 2,087
    My Top 5 Bond Henchmen
    005 - Lotte Lenya (as Rosa Klebb, I'll never forget those poisonous shoe-spikes)
    004 - Kabir Bedi (as Gobinda, Bedi was Sandokan!)
    003 - Anatole Taubman (as Elvis, what a weasel...and he's a Swiss actor...)
    002 - Richard Kiel (as Jaws, nice bite but turned good later...what a shame)
    001 - Harold Sakata (as Oddjob, artist of the lethal hat!)

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    Favorite Bond Vehicle :

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    My Favorite Bond Theme:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7wSQ0rvdig




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  • SigurdJarlsonSigurdJarlson Posts: 84
    I haven't watched many bond films all the way through, does Spike still do their marathon around Cheistmas? If so ill be definatley watching a few
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  • GregGreg Posts: 1,946
    MikeGallagher said:

    My favorite is from Russia with love. Then in order, on her majesty's secret service, live and let die, living daylights, gold finger,

    I like the way you think Mike. Those are my go to Bond flicks.
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  • Chuck_MelvilleChuck_Melville Posts: 3,003
    I think I've seen one...
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  • tommysheroestommysheroes Posts: 174
    Any Bond novel fans? I have always enjoyed the films but the novels are really on another level.

    As for the films, I know people will disagree but I put Casino and Quantum at the top. I grew up with the Connery and Moore films but once the Craig movies came out those just seemed cartoony and in a class below. Craig is definitely my Bond.
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  • CalibanCaliban Posts: 1,358
    I'm working my way through the Bond novels

    http://eamonn1961.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/James Bond
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  • MarathonMarathon Posts: 308
    What do you all think about the 'code-name' theory about Bond?
    The idea is that 'James Bond' is just a code name given to a particular agent. Therefore Sean Connery, Roger Moore etc. are all actually playing different people.
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  • CalibanCaliban Posts: 1,358
    Alan Moore has just gone with that theory in the latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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  • John_SteedJohn_Steed Posts: 2,087
    tommysheroes said:

    Any Bond novel fans? I have always enjoyed the films but the novels are really on another level.

    As for the films, I know people will disagree but I put Casino and Quantum at the top. I grew up with the Connery and Moore films but once the Craig movies came out those just seemed cartoony and in a class below. Craig is definitely my Bond.

    Haven't read a Bond novel yet. Matter of little time and too much to read. If I'd only read one - which one should it be ?

    I agree on Craig.



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  • tommysheroestommysheroes Posts: 174
    John_Steed said:

    tommysheroes said:

    Any Bond novel fans? I have always enjoyed the films but the novels are really on another level.

    As for the films, I know people will disagree but I put Casino and Quantum at the top. I grew up with the Connery and Moore films but once the Craig movies came out those just seemed cartoony and in a class below. Craig is definitely my Bond.

    Haven't read a Bond novel yet. Matter of little time and too much to read. If I'd only read one - which one should it be ?

    I agree on Craig.



    They are very quick reads, my two favorites are "Casino Royale" and "Moonraker" (nothing at all like the film).
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  • nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,750
    I'm with Mike at least as far as the top two. From Russia with Love is my favorite and has my favorite fight scene (you know the one) of pretty much any movie ever made. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a close second. After that it's probably Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Casino Royale, though not necessarily in that order. Depending on how I'm feeling, The Man with the Golden Gun might slip in there.
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  • fredzillafredzilla Posts: 2,131
    iTunes just had a sale on Bond films. I picked up five for $5 each. I've never seen early Bond (Connery) and so I'm excited to get into these. I did finally watch Goldfinger the other day and man, that was fun! Is it wrong to think that the Bond girls were sexier back then?
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  • LibraryBoyLibraryBoy Posts: 1,803
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service is my favorite Bond movie, no question. Lazenby is underrated, and Diana Rigg was just all kinds of perfect for the part. After that, my favorites are probably Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Tomorrow Never Dies.

    Yes, really on the last one. I don't mind my Bond films gadgety, and Michelle Yeoh kicks ass. And I liked Brosnan as Bond. The World Is Not Enough was pretty painful, but I liked the other ones pretty well (though I suspect a lot of my appreciation for Die Another Day is tied up in the chick with the sword).
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  • matchkitJOHNmatchkitJOHN Posts: 1,030
    I remember as a kid watching Bond movies on ABC on Sunday night. That was an event. Haven't watched an early ones for awhile now. Nice to see the franchise still chugging along.
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  • SolitaireRoseSolitaireRose Posts: 1,445
    My favorite Bond novels are the Blofeld trilogy: On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice and Man With The Golden Gun. Just great adventure novels, and a nice way of using the character.

    As for the movies...let me put it this way: I find the Moore movies unwatchable and any of the movies that actually adapt one of the Fleming novels is always going to be head a shoulders above any others.

    And I watch On Her Majesty's Secret Service every couple of years. Just a great, under-rated movie.
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  • MikeGallagherMikeGallagher Posts: 547
    matchkitJOHN said:

    I remember as a kid watching Bond movies on ABC on Sunday night. That was an event. Haven't watched an early ones for awhile now. Nice to see the franchise still chugging along.

    Yes!!! Me too! I never got to finish one as they were on past my bedtime. Soi would try to sneak out of bed to at least hear what was going on.
    My dad took me to every bond film upon release from 1974 to 1997. I miss that.
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  • mguy1977mguy1977 Posts: 801
    edited October 2012
    Top 6 Bonds

    6. Craig -- The wrong hair color Bond aka faux Bond
    5. Lazenby -- The Romantic Bond
    4. Moore -- The Funny Bond
    3. Dalton -- The Perfect Bond in my lifetime
    2. Bosnan -- The "no more foreplay" Bond
    1. Connery -- The original Bond

    Matthew
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  • kfreemankfreeman Posts: 314
    edited October 2012
    Brosnan could have been the perfect Bond, and he usually had pretty strong supporting casts. But he was the victim of horrible screenplays, IMHO. Die Another Day is nearly unwatchable for me, even though I liked the villain and Rosamund Pike.

    My top five:

    1. Goldfinger
    2. From Russia with Love
    3. The Spy Who Loved Me
    4. Casino Royale
    5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    My bottom five:

    1. A View to a Kill (can't stand Tanya Roberts--would have been much better without her)
    2. Moonraker (poor Bond girl and over the top)
    3. Die Another Day (couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy it)
    4. The World is Not Enough (Denise Richards is terrible)
    5. Diamonds are Forever (far and away the worse Connory flick)
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  • Chuck_MelvilleChuck_Melville Posts: 3,003
    mguy1977 said:

    Top 6 Bonds

    6. Craig -- The wrong hair color Bond aka faux Bond
    5. Lazenby -- The Romantic Bond
    4. Moore -- The Funny Bond
    3. Dalton -- The Perfect Bond in my lifetime
    2. Bosnan -- The "no more foreplay" Bond
    1. Connery -- The original Bond

    Matthew

    Technically, the first Bond would have been Barry Nelson in a 1954 television production of Casino Royale. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_%28Climax!%29
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  • PlaneisPlaneis Posts: 980
    hauberk said:

    MikeGallagher said:

    I'm a huge bond fan! I'm looking forward to skyfall. You know they got the 'bad' one out of the way with quantum.


    Even so, I'd take Quantum over any of the Brosnan movies, which I'd put barely above A View to a Kill and well below the much wrongly maligned Dalton films.

    I will say that I've felt like both Casino and Quantum suffered a bit from some decompression. Casino was at least 20-30 minutes too long.

    I think Craig is great, and I didn't mind the story of Quantum, but the way the movie is directed makes it almost un-watchable for me. The action scenes are almost incomprehensible, totally wasted.
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  • shroud68shroud68 Posts: 457
    I could go on and on with Bond lists and opinions but sticking to the thread title, Skyfall premiere is going to be like a National holiday in shroud68's house. Going to see it on opening day first showing with the kids and Tuesday afternoon with my parents. Admitedly I would see it the same if it did not look good but as it were Skyfall looks AWESOME!!!!!!
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  • nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,750
    MikeGallagher said:

    matchkitJOHN said:

    I remember as a kid watching Bond movies on ABC on Sunday night. That was an event. Haven't watched an early ones for awhile now. Nice to see the franchise still chugging along.

    Yes!!! Me too! I never got to finish one as they were on past my bedtime. Soi would try to sneak out of bed to at least hear what was going on.
    My dad took me to every bond film upon release from 1974 to 1997. I miss that.
    That was also my introduction to the Bond films. But my dad made a rare exception and let me stay up past my bedtime to watch them. The first one I saw in the theater was Moonraker—certainly not the best, but a lot of fun for a nine-year-old.
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  • PlaneisPlaneis Posts: 980
    hauberk said:

    MikeGallagher said:

    I'm a huge bond fan! I'm looking forward to skyfall. You know they got the 'bad' one out of the way with quantum.


    Even so, I'd take Quantum over any of the Brosnan movies, which I'd put barely above A View to a Kill and well below the much wrongly maligned Dalton films.

    I will say that I've felt like both Casino and Quantum suffered a bit from some decompression. Casino was at least 20-30 minutes too long.

    I think Craig is great, and I didn't mind the story of Quantum, but the way the movie is directed makes it almost un-watchable for me. The action scenes are almost incomprehensible, totally wasted.
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  • DoctorDoomDoctorDoom Posts: 2,586
    Looking forward to it. Daniel Craig is my favorite bond.

    And pretty sure my girlfriend hopes he's stripped naked again.
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