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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 12, 2019 16:58:09 GMT -5
ps There is the James Bond Jr cartoon series; but, the less said the better.
Jonny Quest will always be the best cartoon spy series.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2019 17:49:59 GMT -5
Thanks for your input here and I do like to see a Modesty Blaise series of films with right actors of course. That OSS 117 film looks good and might see it someday.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2019 17:50:50 GMT -5
Jonny Quest will always be the best cartoon spy series. Total agreement here. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 13, 2019 23:22:28 GMT -5
Haven't watched either of the OSS 117 movies yet but another very good and very funny French spy comedy is the tv series A Very Secret Service, which also set in the 60s and mines a lot of first rate comedy gold out of the changes in attitude between that era and our present-day. And possibly the very best spy drama I've ever seen is another French series called The Bureau, which I can't recommend highly enough to anyone at all interested in the genre or just in great tv, period. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 14, 2019 0:38:05 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Sept 24, 2019 1:59:12 GMT -5
The Skyfall one's pretty good, from what I remember of the movie. Some of it (like the train thing) would apply to almost any Bond or over the top action movie in general, but the more specific stuff was well done.
Started to watch the Spectre video but then thought, no, if I ever do see the actual movie I'd like to give it an honest chance, which for me means trying to go into it with as little foreknowledge as possible in this day and age.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 7, 2020 14:25:06 GMT -5
Just watched this and The Spy Who Loved Me over the weekend, as they were the only two Moore Bonds that I'd never watched all the way through (previously I'd seen the last part of TSWLM a few times). Anyway, I have to say, they really cemented my view that Moore probably never should have been cast as Bond. I honestly don't think he was ever suited to play the character, and his advancing age was already apparent in both of these. As a result, the scenes where he's engaged in some kind of fight or other derring-do come off as very unconvincing. Also, I couldn't get past the skeeve factor of watching him make the moves on actresses young enough to be his daughters, particularly in For Your Eyes Only. I remember that problem only got worse in the next two movies. (On the other hand, his flirting with Moneypenny looks completely natural - Moore and the actress who played her, Lois Maxwell, actually make a nice couple.)
If I get a chance, I intend to watch Live and Let Die again, as that's the only Moore film I really liked - but the last time I watched it was some time in the 1990s. I'm wondering if it will hold up for me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 21:46:22 GMT -5
I'm losing interest in No Time To Die, because I think the plan is to keep that lady as the new 007 and James Bond is now, just James Bond.
Messing with the 007 might have been ok for the story but to make it permanent? Too radical, I don't like it.
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Post by berkley on Dec 8, 2020 22:09:43 GMT -5
I'm losing interest in No Time To Die, because I think the plan is to keep that lady as the new 007 and James Bond is now, just James Bond.
Messing with the 007 might have been ok for the story but to make it permanent? Too radical, I don't like it.
Which lady is that?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 22:12:14 GMT -5
The lady who is 007 in No Time To Die.
Apparently she will remain that and Bond just becomes Bond.
Not. Pleased. At. All
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Post by berkley on Dec 8, 2020 23:44:38 GMT -5
Oh, thanks, this is the first I've heard about it. So Bond will be a private operator of some kind, not a British secret service agent, is that the idea? Or perhaps still an agent but not one of the double-0s, I suppose would be possible.
I haven't held high expectations for the Bond films for many a year, so nothing would shock me at this point. I still haven't seen Spectre, but I'll try to get to it before the new one comes out, if it ever does.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 23:51:37 GMT -5
I won't spoil Spectre for you....but No Time To Die continues the story.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 9, 2020 9:47:22 GMT -5
Oh, thanks, this is the first I've heard about it. So Bond will be a private operator of some kind, not a British secret service agent, is that the idea? Or perhaps still an agent but not one of the double-0s, I suppose would be possible. Yep, from what I understand after watching the trailers, Bond has retired in between Spectre and No Time to Die and been succeeded by a new 007, which much to the chagrin of a vocal minority on the internet is a black woman. Because it's important to get upset at such trivialities!!! Who cares who might replace Bond if he quits his job? It's not as if they were going to replace him as the main character. He's still the one taking names and kicking ass, and ordering Martinis shaken, not stirred! As Rags pointed out, No Time to Die is a direct sequel to Spectre. I'm not sure the second part would make a lot of sense on its own, especially as there's a major retcon in Spectre.As a film, Spectre suffers a lot, in my opinion, of the tendency to link everything in works of fiction. I sort of enjoyed it, more than Quantum of Solace, say, but it's not one of my favourites. |
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Post by brutalis on Dec 9, 2020 12:24:02 GMT -5
The problem is Spectre is the 1st movie in Craig's series of films that looks/feels like classic Bond. His others are more like him learning on the job with Spectre having him come into his own as THE 00agent. Now he is retired already? I would find that more believable with a few more adventures under his belt but it seems too soon in the context if you only consider Craig as Bond.
If they say ALL the Bonds are the same man and Craig is 1st and the REST of the movies are true and display his career, then I might suspend disbelief for his retirement.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2020 12:59:31 GMT -5
Yep, from what I understand after watching the trailers, Bond has retired in between Spectre and No Time to Die and been succeeded by a new 007, which much to the chagrin of a vocal minority on the internet is a black woman.
I'd have the same chagrin if it was ANY woman and the move was permanent.
The rumour is, she will continue to be 007 when Craig leaves.
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