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Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

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French Rage said:
The problem with QoS is that the villain's plan sucked so hard.

OK, we've got an organized and very deep international cabal. What are they planning to steal? Gold? Diamonds? No, water. OK, well, maybe water doesn't have the cachet of something more flashy but hey, you need it to live, I guess that's more of a cerebral plan. OK, so, like, with all their planning and resources, whose water are they going to steal? Europe's? USA's? China's? Man, think of the money they'll get if they hold those countries' water hostage. No, Bolivia. What the **** are they expecting to get paid in? Alpacas and pan flutes? OK, I'll be fair, stealing any country's water is a lot of work, doing it for a huge country would be all the more impossible. Gotta start small, gotta start somewhere. So they got all of the water, right? What, only 60%? All that organization and planning and killing and the end result is 60% of Bolivia's water? Great ****ing plan.
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SJHovey said:
One think I've always thought is interesting about Roger Moore is that of all the actors who played Bond, he's probably the only (at this point) for whom the role is essentially their career defining role. When you think of Roger Moore, you think of his Bond movies, even though he has a lot of other work. That's the lead in the obituary. You can't say the same about Connery or Brosnan or any of the rest (other than maybe Lazenby, who most people have never heard of). I don't know if that's because of the number of movies or what, but I could also see that potentially happening to Craig.
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Sean Connery is James Bond. Everything else he did was either ridiculous (Zardoz, Extraordinary Gentlemen) or a victory lap (Untouchables, Highlander).

I think of Moore as a debonair icon who took the role late as icing. A sort of: what if David Niven had played Bond straight? I was disappointed that his movies were so silly. But he was way too old for the role anyway. Like others, he's The Saint. Bond was a way to pay checks.
 
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French Rage said:
The problem with QoS is that the villain's plan sucked so hard.

OK, we've got an organized and very deep international cabal. What are they planning to steal? Gold? Diamonds? No, water. OK, well, maybe water doesn't have the cachet of something more flashy but hey, you need it to live, I guess that's more of a cerebral plan. OK, so, like, with all their planning and resources, whose water are they going to steal? Europe's? USA's? China's? Man, think of the money they'll get if they hold those countries' water hostage. No, Bolivia. What the **** are they expecting to get paid in? Alpacas and pan flutes? OK, I'll be fair, stealing any country's water is a lot of work, doing it for a huge country would be all the more impossible. Gotta start small, gotta start somewhere. So they got all of the water, right? What, only 60%? All that organization and planning and killing and the end result is 60% of Bolivia's water? Great ****ing plan.
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Just think of all the baths you could draw and soup you could make that has an international flare since it's Bolivian water. Just sayin'... :cool:
 
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I went to the sneak preview of Wonder Woman last night...it is quite good. Scooby I predict you are going to enjoy the hell out of it :)
 
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Kepler said:
I enjoyed Brosnan's Bonds.
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I read somewhere that they wanted Brosnan right after Moore, but he could not get released from his contract with Remington Steele. Now, that younger Brosnan would have made a great Bond.
 
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FreshFish said:
I read somewhere that they wanted Brosnan right after Moore, but he could not get released from his contract with Remington Steele. Now, that younger Brosnan would have made a great Bond.
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Yep, I had a female college friend who was very disappointed they didn't get Brosnan in his prime. But I picture Bond as Forever 40. Moore was Decrepit Bond. Dalton, who I love in his theater work, was also badly miscast as Sensitive Bond.
 
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Dalton simply had zero charisma in that role. Brosnan had all of it.

I remember the Remington Steele issue although I suspect if enough money had been tossed about they could have found a way to film both roles given network TV doesn't require that much time throughout the year.

If he's not too old I've always thought Jude Law would make a fine edition. If hair color isn't a nonplus I'd vote Cumberbatch although at first glance I know I'd be in the minority on that.

Speaking of which, I know part of the allure of the Bond character is that we know next to nothing about his younger life, but I wouldn't hate the idea of "prequels" that cover perhaps his entry into the MI6 program etc.
 
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The network wasnt going to allow him to do both they only wanted him doing RS. I have seen him interviewed about it.
 
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Handyman said:
The network wasnt going to allow him to do both they only wanted him doing RS. I have seen him interviewed about it.
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I think you're correct on that irrc. You'd think it would have only boosted the show but...
 
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Slap Shot said:
I think you're correct on that irrc. You'd think it would have only boosted the show but...
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It has been a while, but iirc the show was actually about to be cancelled (which is why he signed to be Bond) but then at literally the last second it was renewed again and they didnt want him splitting time or risk him jumping ship.
 
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Every time I see Pierce Brosnan in anything I have to fight the urge to body slam him and break his glasses. I don't know what it is about him, maybe he seems like a shallow and unlikable person who played lacrosse in high school because all the cool kids were playing lacrosse. But he kind of ruined the Bond character for me.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Dalton simply had zero charisma in that role. Brosnan had all of it.
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If you want to see Dalton with charisma watch The Lion in Winter. In a movie that has Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole AND Anthony Hopkins, it's Dalton and (the incomparably* beautiful) Jane Merrow who steal the show.

* Well. Nearly.
 
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SJHovey said:
(other than maybe Lazenby, who most people have never heard of)..
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George did get Diana Rigg as his bond girl, so he's the luckiest. then 2nd place would be dalton who had Carey Lowell AND Talisa Soto in the same movie... which just isn't fair!!!! :D

there was a twitter story about a guy meeting roger moore in an airport when he was 7 that is so good it is almost made up.

and mookie can't think of roger moore without saying his name like the commercial director in lost in translation. that scene with bill murray being told to 'do' james bond makes him laugh out loud.
 
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I plan to watch Wonder Woman, although not in theaters. I can wait. Curious to see how they do it.

Silicon Cowboys:
Documentary on the meteoric rise of Compaq computers in the 1980's, and how they basically took on 3M. Really informative, rather entertaining. They really didn't know exactly what they were doing at first, which makes their success even more amazing.

The Guard:
An FBI agent travels to Ireland, chasing international drug dealers, runs into a small-town cop, who does his best to needle the FBI agent so the cop can get on with his life. A low-key buddy-cop movie, compared to what the US puts out, but very good. Some very funny lines in there.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Silicon Cowboys:
Documentary on the meteoric rise of Compaq computers in the 1980's, and how they basically took on 3M. Really informative, rather entertaining. They really didn't know exactly what they were doing at first, which makes their success even more amazing.
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Still, the biggest losers in the PC/GUI world are Xerox and IBM. Adapt to the mantra of "a computer in every home", with a GUI, and they would've likely ruled the world through 2000-2005.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Still, the biggest losers in the PC/GUI world are Xerox and IBM. Adapt to the mantra of "a computer in every home", with a GUI, and they would've likely ruled the world through 2000-2005.
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No idea what GUI is. But IBM did act arrogantly, and it was their downfall in the PC market. Compaq, well, it's just like every "Behind The Music" ep one might have seen, although not as controversial. They could not keep the magic that made them special.
 
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Brenthoven said:
No idea what GUI is. But IBM did act arrogantly, and it was their downfall in the PC market. Compaq, well, it's just like every "Behind The Music" ep one might have seen, although not as controversial. They could not keep the magic that made them special.
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Graphical User Interface. The 'windows' you click around on to open, close, save, etc.

Before the GUI, Brent, it was DOS or other similar stuff - command lines/nerdery needed to operate computers.

Thanks to contract terms negotiated by Jobs, Apple indirectly ripped the GUI concept from Xerox right around 1980 - predominately by stealing subject matter experts. The rest is history.
 
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