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BOND 19 -- On the Thames Today!
Well folks, can't help but to let you see this tidbit about filming on the Thames today, if pictures hit the papers in the UK tomorrow, we'd appreciate a looksee no? Here's the bird that prompted this posting...
It's a beautiful sunny day here in l'il ol' England and what better day
could there be for filming a James Bond boat chase down the Thames. My
office is between the Houses of Parliament and the MI6 offices.
Streaking down the Thames was a large white pleasure cruiser/power boat
followed (diving in and out of its wake, pulling tight turns, almost
disappearing beneath the water) by a little black boat with some kind of
weaponry attached.Damn my eyes, but I couldn't make out that much
detail. (eg where Bond was supposed to be, what the bad guys looked
like, any markings that may have been on the boat). I can tell you that
they were heading downstream while being filmed, and that's towards
Greenwich and the fabled Millenium Dome.
They were filming a couple of weeks ago as well, but they had to stop
(allegedly) because the politicians complained about the noise. Probably
woke them up.
It's bound to be in the papers tomorrow with pictures, but better hear
today than groan tomorrow.... or something.
My names Bird, Alasdair Bird.
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seeing how this is such boring news, lets just talk bond shall we? i think GOLDFINGER is my fave. it has the best villian (who also has the best line ever), the best henchman (odd-job), the best bond of course, the best bond girl (by that i mean the hottest, jill, the girl who gets painted in gold), the most strinking image (the girl painted in gold), the best car ("an ejector seat? youre joking!"..."I never joke about my work, 007."), the best opening song, the best name for a bond girl..etc etc. That girl who gets painted in gold is the hottest ever. Anyone disagree? The best line in any bond movie is spoken by Goldfinger himself.... Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger: "No Mr Bond! I expect you to die!" which reminds me! it also has the best death-machine...the laser table!! As for bond girl names, i also like Dr Goodhead from MOONRAKER, Xenia Onatop from GOLDENEYE, Penty O'Toole from DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, and Agent XXX from THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. oh yeah, the afla romao (sp?) kicks a BMW's ass any old day of the fucking week.
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Remember in Moonraker when Jaws falls off a roof or something and lands in a pile of refuse and is pulled out by some fourteen-year old Swiss Miss reject and he's suddenly in love. You leave the two of them looking lovingly in each other's eyes. Yikes! Give me James and a Russian spy of legal age anytime.
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Benny Hill! As kids we would all turn to our local independent station at 2 a.m. and get a dose of great humor and shots of T&A. MEMO TO COMEDY CENTRAL!!!BRING BACK THE RERUNS OF THE BENNY HILL SHOW!! As for Bond, I saw most of the films when I was 8, when my mother would not let me rent R rated films, go figure. I am 24, and I really can not recall any of them, but I have to say that I enjoyed that 18 days of Bond on TBS a while back. Greatest Bond song was Live and Let Die by Paul Mc Cartney, and I recently heard View to a Kill by Duran Duran on an all 80's station and it still sounds good. I will take flak for this but Roger Moore is the greatest Bond. On a final note, the last chase on the Thames River that was filmed, Spiceworld.
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Benny Hill! As kids we would all turn to our local independent station at 2 a.m. and get a dose of great humor and shots of T&A. MEMO TO COMEDY CENTRAL!!!BRING BACK THE RERUNS OF THE BENNY HILL SHOW!! As for Bond, I saw most of the films when I was 8, when my mother would not let me rent R rated films, go figure. I am 24, and I really can not recall any of them, but I have to say that I enjoyed that 18 days of Bond on TBS a while back. Greatest Bond song was Live and Let Die by Paul Mc Cartney, and I recently heard View to a Kill by Duran Duran on an all 80's station and it still sounds good. I will take flak for this but Roger Moore is the greatest Bond. On a final note, the last chase on the Thames River that was filmed, Spiceworld.
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Call me naive, call me stupid, but I just don't "get" any (if at all) double entendre behind Xenia Onatop. What gives?? Please someone explain it to me (I remember in the movie, when he simply repeated the name, I thought it might have meant something, but I never got it)
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that's a bad paraphase of one of my fav. lines from MY fav. bond flick, Diamonds are Forever...I think it becasue of that line(I'm from kansas) and because of Jill St. John in a bikini sunbathing on an oil rig...something about that...goldfinger is a close 2nd to fav. bond
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As a longtime Bond fan, Bond films were some of the first films to turn me on to the wonderful world of cinema and I will be forever grateful and hold a place in my heart for the man with the Vodka martinis, I am anxiously anticipating the new Bond opus. The idea of a chase on the Thames sounds uber-cool, but I am sad to hear of the retirement of my beloved Q. Who can possibly replace the gadget man? My suggestion:John Cleese. Think about it.
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I just have to say that i agree with the opinion that Goldfinger was the best Bond Film ever
but you forget the best thing about the movie (well almost the name Pussy Galore might be) Goldfingers plot to nuke the US gold was just genuis. -
Hey, Cleese Will be in The World is Not Enough, He will be playing R Q's sidekick. and he has mentioned that his charachter may return in the future. Just thought i would Pass that along
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Worst line in bond, My vote: "This never happened to the other fella..."
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Desmond Llewelyn (pronounciation?) and John Cleese as his sidekick - sounds funny. While the latest Bond movies have lost much of their coolness, the scenes with Q have always been highlights.
As for the car in Goldfinger, are you sure it was an Alfa Romeo, L'Auteur? Wasn't it an Aston Martin? Anyway, they both kick a BMW's ass... -
L'Auteur, while I have to agree with you that Goldfinger is the best bond movie ever (Sean Connery rocks) the car was defintely an Aston Martin not an Alfa Romeo. I remeber - I had the toy.
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I have to go with Dr. No as the best Bond film of all time. It seems to me that he started out as a total hardcase and got to be more of a pantywaist as time went on. The opening scene when he picks up the girl in the casino just oozes coolness. And the scene where he pours himself a drink and plays solitaire with his gun on the table and then waxes that guy is sweeeet! Then you've got Usula Andress, who is a goddess. She must be seven feet tall in that first scene she's in. She must be an Amazon or something. Then you have Dr. No himself who was extremely cool. So it gets my vote. I'm kinda weird in that my favorite bond girl is that greek girl from For Your Eyes Only. She's bad! It always seemed to me that Man with the Golden Gun Would have been the best bond movie if it had Sean Connery instead of Roger Moore. Back to my arch-nemesis being intellectual and physical equal theory. One thing about Pierce Brosnin, though. He's alright as bond. But (and this may sound weird) somebody has to take some clippers to the back of his hair. It looks kinda goofy to me.
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Definitely an Aston Martin. (they even used the more modern one in 'Living Daylights' with the laser and ski's) Have you seen the new BMW roadster thing though (prototype)? It looks really retro and VERY Bond. They used to have a picture at BMW.com.
As for best songs; Live and Let Die, View to a Kill (SHITE film), Diamonds are Forever/Goldfinger/Moonraker (can't beat Bassey), but the best theme (aside from the famous one)HAS to be;'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' poo film but INCREDIBLE theme. Up there with 'Mission:Impossible' for my money.
As for best films; Goldfinger (easy), Moore:Spy who loved me'.
As for the person that couldn't figure out the suacy name: 'Onatop' = 'on top'. Obscure sexual reference, see? It's that English double entendres (sp) thing. -
If John Cleese really is going to be in this then Bond 19 has just blown past Phantom Menace on my list of Must Sees. That rules! By the way, Goldfinger was the best Bond movie, but the best opening for a Bond flick was From Russia With Love. That was a cool flick. I know I'll probably get slammed for this, but I thought Tommorow Never Dies was one of the five best Bond flicks. Brosnan is the best Bond since Connery. Color me excited. Just picture Cleese saying "Grow up, 007". Too cool!!!
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OHMSS is in serious need of a re-rating, for me it is the best one of the lot (with Thunderball a close second). Abstracting from the truly awful openning line of "This never happened to the other fella", the fucking shite crdits sequence (despite the great theme) and the unbelievably misguided montage of Bond reminising about his career, this film has some really great moment and a superb story. (There is also a shot of a black girl in Blofeld's clinic eating bananas which crosses the line into outright offensiveness)
However. The safe cracking sequence builds genuine tension because the safe takes almost an hour to open rather than the 10 seconds of other safe-breaking Bond scenes. The protracted chase beginning with Bond escaping from Blofeld's lair and culminating in a powerfully shot avalache is great and maintains suspense all the way through. This film also has the best actress ever to play a Bond girl (Diana Rigg - someone cast her in a meaty role today and get her off the London stage where she cannot be widely admired!) and a sensitive and deep relationship between Bond and Tracy (a tear still rises when Mrs Bond is shot despite me having seen the flick at least 25 times). Finally George Lazenby can really act - ignore the crappy moments in the script and concentrate on his energy and the depth of his charcterisation (if I ever make a film I will make damn sure there is a 5 min cameo for George as a sinister crime boss or hardened police chief).
If you dismissed this one as not really a proper Bond film and haven't seen it for a while then go and rent it tonight, kick back, and rediscover - it you will not be disappointed. -
My favorite Bond films are (in no particular order) DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, GOLDFINGER, THUNDERBALL, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, OCTOPUSSY, LICENCE TO KILL, and GOLDENEYE. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE has gotten a lot of shit over the years as being an inferior film, but in actuality, it is the only one (aside from FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE) that is VERY close to Ian Fleming's original novel. This one is more of a "thinking-man's Bond," in which 007 doesn't rely on gadgets to get out of sticky situations. Unfortunately, George Lazenby opted not to appear in any other Bond film after this one. I think he could have really made a career for himself post-Bond, had he stuck with the role for a few more films. He could have been a worthy successor to Sean Connery. After Lazenby's film, the producers (before luring Connery back) actually signed up John Gavin (Sam Loomis in PSYCHO) to play the role in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. Can you imagine that??
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...Mr. Bond sure has little paperwork to fill out.
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