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(2022) ***** Okay, so a funny thing happened. In my review of Pearl , I referred to it as "a massive expansion of filmmaking scope ove...
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(2007) * First of all let me say that as far as I could tell there are absolutely no dead teenagers in this entire film. Every year just ...
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It's coming out this year? That's got to be the fasted Bond turnaround ever.
They'd better change that title.
In the future we'll just refer to it as "QOS".
Wait, that stinks too.
The new Bond Girls are hot. I just looked at the site and watched the little promo movie.
"The new Bond Girls are hot" would be a better title than QOS!
The whole "Bond Girl" concept can be really stupid or really great.
It's a separate question from the actual hotness of the actress. I mean, Denise Richards is hot like nobody's business but she can't really talk and they had her in that ridiculous outfit so the whole thing becomes silly. Plus, Brosnan (while obviously a good-looking man) has a blow-dried look to him that makes it all seem even less real.
With Roger Moore, it was just ridiculous, mainly because he was so old and boring and played Bond as this kind of smirking maitre d' who glided around holding his Walther up against the side of his head all the time, like he was always posing for the poster. Those Bond Girls were pretty but boring and plastic.
Connery's thuggish rapport with the women was pretty dated but he could handle the double entendres and the whole thing had a "swinging sixties" vibe to it (as Mike Meyers has hilariously exploited).
The Daniel Craig/"Bond Girl" vibe is the best yet, the best ever. His particular vibe, and the casting they've done, propel the whole "Bond Girl" schtick into a whole new realm, wherein it actually seems plausible -- you know; every so often there's a woman in some professional role somewhere who happens to be really, really pretty, and, for James Bond, this just "happens" to be the case an inordinate percentage of the time. I don't know. I'm rambling.
I couldn't get past Denise Richards wearing glasses in an effort to make her look "smart". Richards a scientist? Puhleeeeeese.
I always find the Bond women, good or bad, to be distracting. When he's bedding one of them I want to yett, "Do that on your own time, James, now go kill some bad guys!"
How about Jaws' girlfriend in Moonraker? Shudder.
Exactly, which is why both women in Casino Royale were so great.
I remember the Casino Royale trailer: rugged, bullet-headed Daniel Craig saying lines written by Paul Haggis & Co. ("You want me to be half-monk, half hit-man?") and then they cut to the babe in the swimsuit climbing onto the speedboat. It's like, "Don't forget this is a Bond movie, which mean's he'll 'happen to' encounter very hot women and sleep with them."
And, to your last point about "Do that on your own time, James," that's also handled so well in Casino Royale! Remember that he's got the first girl on the rug at his house, and then he suddenly leaves to go chase the bad guy. "Champagne for two?" "For one."
"Champagne for two?" "For one."
Yes!
I love the new direction of the Bond series, especially because it began to veer off course with silliness in the past few installments (although they were fun).
I just hope Carig doesn't age too quickly between installments.
"yell" not "yett"!
Coffee starting to kick in. . .now!
The last one was so bad, it had Madonna in it.
Let's not forget the number of times that Bond's seduction skills are the only thing that foils the bad guy's scheme. Goldfinger has Bond's number every step of the way, until Bond seduces Pussy Galore.
I think behind the pigtails and humongous glasses, Jaws's girlfriend from Moonraker was hot. This is just a theory, since I can't find any other pictures of her.
The darkness Craig brought to the movie seemed so more in keeping with what Fleming wrote about as well. Remember, the guy has A LICENSE TO KILL!! You would think that having your government’s approval to do so would mean you are a mean motherfucker. Moore needed a license to annoy, or perhaps a permit to engage physically...you know, as long as it didn't muss his hair.
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