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Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

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St. Clown said:
I have a hard time watching the old Bond movies when they try showing off these guys using "future tech" that's just so far off the mark it's not even laughable, just cringe worthy. Goldeneye was fun, nothing great, but it spawned perhaps the greatest first-person shooter I've ever played. So that gets it points.
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Goldeneye the game is easily of the GOATs. At least Top 25.
 
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Goldeneye was great. And Brosnan was my Bond. Had the look, the style, the smoothness, the smarminess, it was great.

Small Crimes:

Ex-cop gets done serving a 6 year stint in prison. Tries to put his life back together, but his past creeps up on him. Decent, the ending didn't go the way I expected, but it's a worthwhile ending, I suppose. Worth a watch, I guess.
 
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Outside of Goldeneye Brosnan sucked as Bond...and the franchise truly jumped the shark when Denise Richards played a nuclear physicist. "Christmas comes twice a year..."
 
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Handyman said:
Outside of Goldeneye Brosnan sucked as Bond...and the franchise truly jumped the shark when Denise Richards played a nuclear physicist. "Christmas comes twice a year..."
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I agree on Denise. Oh, she has glasses! She's smart!
 
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Handyman said:
Outside of Goldeneye Brosnan sucked as Bond...and the franchise truly jumped the shark when Denise Richards played a nuclear physicist. "Christmas comes twice a year..."
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I liked "Tomorrow Never Dies" the best, but I've learned to accept I'm the only one.
 
French Rage said:
I liked "Tomorrow Never Dies" the best, but I've learned to accept I'm the only one.
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Brosnan's, IMO, go downhill in the order of his films. TND is almost as good as Goldeneye. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade ruined the last two Brosnan films by making the scripts just terrible one liners (See above: Christmas comes twice a year.)

The Daniel Craig films are falling into the same pattern as of late, but are doing okay despite Neal Purvis and Robert Wade thanks to Craig's more dark portrayal.
 
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Handyman said:
Outside of Goldeneye Brosnan sucked as Bond...and the franchise truly jumped the shark when Denise Richards played a nuclear physicist. "Christmas comes twice a year..."
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Brosnan wasn't at fault for the crappy movies; he was fine. He, like Moore, got stuck with some absolutely awful scripts. Connery couldn't have saved the steaming pile that was Die Another Day.
 
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Kepler said:
I get not liking the Dalton ones -- the scripts were rubbish. I get not liking the Moore ones -- they were camp. And the Connery redux is awful. But the original Connery ones? You crazy -- that's the motherlode right there. Connery in From Russia with Love and Goldfinger IS the essence of Bond.

Plus the most recent ones have been no great shakes. Sky Fall was infantile; Quantum of Solace was a mess that didn't work; Spectre was a mess that kinda sorta worked. The first 3/4s of Craig's Casino Royale were great but the end was ridiculous. Craig has not yet delievered a truly great Bond movie even though I'd say he is the second best Bond after Sean.
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Quantum of Solace was a Bourne movie with Bond as the lead. Casino Royale, which is a great Bond movie regardless, should've ended with Bond turning in his resignation, and the entire sequence in Venice should've been the pre-credit opening for QoS.

Skyfall was also a good Bond movie. Spectre was meh.
 
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Casino Royale and Skyfall are my two favorites. I loved Craig's Bond. I hope they continue this darker version of Bond with high production value and not the campy garbage they put out before.
 
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unofan said:
Quantum of Solace was a Bourne movie with Bond as the lead. Casino Royale, which is a great Bond movie regardless, should've ended with Bond turning in his resignation, and the entire sequence in Venice should've been the pre-credit opening for QoS.
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This is exactly right. Well done.
 
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Handyman said:
the franchise truly jumped the shark when Denise Richards played a nuclear physicist. "Christmas comes twice a year..."
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"I don't know any doctor jokes" was a very good line.

Bond is hardly alone is giving a supermodel glasses and calling her a PhD. It's standard fare in all TV and movies put out for adolescent boys (of all ages).
 
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Kepler said:
I get not liking the Dalton ones -- the scripts were rubbish. I get not liking the Moore ones -- they were camp. And the Connery redux is awful. But the original Connery ones? You crazy -- that's the motherlode right there. Connery in From Russia with Love and Goldfinger IS the essence of Bond.

Plus the most recent ones have been no great shakes. Sky Fall was infantile; Quantum of Solace was a mess that didn't work; Spectre was a mess that kinda sorta worked. The first 3/4s of Craig's Casino Royale were great but the end was ridiculous. Craig has not yet delievered a truly great Bond movie even though I'd say he is the second best Bond after Sean.
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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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Kepler said:
"I don't know any doctor jokes" was a very good line.

Bond is hardly alone is giving a supermodel glasses and calling her a PhD. It's standard fare in all TV and movies put out for adolescent boys (of all ages).
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No of course not...but even a blind man could tell this one was going to work.

Just because a trope is common doesnt mean it should be ;)
 
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When I think of Roger Moore, I think of The Saint. pretty sure I'm not the only one.
 
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unofan said:
Quantum of Solace was a Bourne movie with Bond as the lead.
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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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