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Do Three Little James Bond Updates Equal One Big One?

Good news by Bruce Thomas Wayne	Mar 9th, 2008 11:19:10 PM
Cant wait
begin the countdown by Horace Cox	Mar 9th, 2008 11:21:09 PM
The posts listing alternative names for the next Bond movie will begin in 3... 2... 1...
Quantum of wut? by UltraDynamo	Mar 9th, 2008 11:24:41 PM
Quantum of Solace = An Amount of Peace. Like, calm before the storm. Or, attack of the gay.
No. by thebearovingian	Mar 9th, 2008 11:44:22 PM
These aren't really updates. We all knew this already and knew that it was not cool news. Meh.
Quantum Leap. by JKrow21	Mar 10th, 2008 12:12:21 AM
Ziggy cheets on Scott Bakula and has a beer.
"Spy" was my first Bond as well by oneragga	Mar 10th, 2008 12:21:09 AM
...at a drive-in theatre on the water back home in Kingston, Jamaica. That's how I fell in love with the movies...Jaws terrifed my 7 year old ass for sure, but I can remember digging the Lotus chase sequence, and being blown away by Stromberg's aquabase emerging from the water....man, it was good to be a kid discovering Bond for the first time.
Michael Palin Fucking Owns by Proman1984	Mar 10th, 2008 12:41:27 AM
Love the guy!
GoldenEye was my first theatrical Bond by SpencerTrilby	Mar 10th, 2008 01:35:58 AM
but The Spy Who Loved Me was my first encounter with 007 ever, on the small screen. I love both of them, in my opinion they're the best episodes with their respective actors. Up there with From Russia With Love, On Her majesty's Secret Service and The Living Daylights as far as I'm concerned.
my first theatrical Bond was... by 69DUDE	Mar 10th, 2008 02:09:25 AM
A View To A Kill. That is all.
Trik_Ster by 69DUDE	Mar 10th, 2008 02:16:38 AM
Worse than 'Meet The Spartans'??
Quantum of Felix by skywalkerfamily	Mar 10th, 2008 02:23:07 AM
would be a better title.
shat hard? by troutpencil	Mar 10th, 2008 02:32:24 AM
What is that a reference to? Why is that painful?
first theater Bond-the living daylights (!) by prunkhaft	Mar 10th, 2008 02:54:42 AM
what a crappy way to experience Bond for the first time. Luckily I chanced upon For Your Eyes Only when I first got cable and the rest is history. I liked Casino Royale better than anything since Goldeneye, and I got some high hopes for Quantum of Solace, but that name is kinda stretching it.
which sucked by prunkhaft	Mar 10th, 2008 02:58:35 AM
because the Lost Boys was playing in the same theater but my date didnt want to see it. It's depressing how long ago that seems. fuck
2nd scoop has been around for ages now by alucardvsdracula	Mar 10th, 2008 03:29:20 AM

Octopussy was my first theatrical Bond by kafka07	Mar 10th, 2008 04:58:49 AM
Second was Never Say Never Again
There might have been a fist fight at the museum! by Henry Jones Sr	Mar 10th, 2008 05:00:29 AM
Michael Palin said in his Monty Python Diaries that he thought The Spy Who Loved Me was rubbish. Michael G Wilson should have offered him a bastard right there and then in front of all the guests. By the way, in summer 2006 I saw an old print of The Spy Who Loved Me on the truly gigantic Screen 1 of the Empire Leicester Square. Absolutely unforgettable.
prunkhaft by kwisatzhaderach	Mar 10th, 2008 05:01:02 AM
wtf are you talking about? Presumably you thought the Brosnan films were better than The Living Daylights?
Moonraker was my first theatrical Bond by kwisatzhaderach	Mar 10th, 2008 05:02:02 AM
nuff said
Moonraker was my first theatrical Bond by kwisatzhaderach	Mar 10th, 2008 05:02:03 AM
nuff said
My first time was Octopussy by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Mar 10th, 2008 05:32:29 AM
Man I loved his gator-suit.
prunkhaft, I'm with kwisatzhaderach by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Mar 10th, 2008 05:35:23 AM
Daltons two flicks outclass all of Brosnans and Moore's combined. He at least played it like a guy who kills people for a living.
1st time - Octopussy! by theBigE	Mar 10th, 2008 06:03:48 AM
What a great first Bond flick to see in the theatres with your Dad! Got to see Never Say Never Again right after that too, I believe. Dalton's Bond films weren't bad - better than Brosnan's final two, that's for sure.
NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks by kwisatzhaderach	Mar 10th, 2008 06:07:41 AM
Glad you agree, Dalton's performance, especially in Living Daylights, was sublime.
From Russia With Love by tom_joad	Mar 10th, 2008 06:50:21 AM
I am very lucky my first Bond movie is From Russian With Love, still the best Bond movie ever.
my first theatrical Bond... by vaudeville villain	Mar 10th, 2008 07:47:15 AM
...will be Quantum of Solace. hell, Casino Royale was the first Bond i've actually seen from start to finish (i remember a few scenes here and there from The Living Daylights when i was six or so).
I think Octopussy was my first 007 in a theater by Osmosis Jones	Mar 10th, 2008 08:04:01 AM
I would have been about nine. All I remember about that viewing is being really scared by the scene where the 00 agent in the clown suit gets the knife in his back, and is stumbling around before he dies.
I'm in the Moonraker club. by Henry Jones Sr	Mar 10th, 2008 08:23:22 AM
1979, four years old. My father tells me I was so excited by the experience that I fell asleep when the film started. I love Moonraker, and will defend till the day I die.
I USED to look forward to Bond by Sithdan	Mar 10th, 2008 08:35:29 AM
I used to enjoy all the Bond films, even the ones with Roger Moore. Then Casino Royale happened. I don't get people who say they're excited about 007 movies again thanks to the cinematic magnum opus that was Casino Roayle. It was TOO realistic. I much prefer the over-the-top Bond films with gadgets, dry British humor and scarred, cat-stroking villains bent on world domination. This latest incarnation of Bond seems just too "Bourneish" to me.
Spy was the 1st i saw, but not in theatre by filmcoyote	Mar 10th, 2008 08:45:58 AM
think that was fake Bond Never Say Never Again
It was "A View to a Kill" for me by Phimseto	Mar 10th, 2008 08:48:01 AM
Though it easily could have been "For Your Eyes Only" or "Octopussy". I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to one in the theaters. The first Bond film I ever saw was "Moonraker" when it first premiered on HBO ('79/'80). Haven't missed one in the theater since '85, though I try to forget the experience of seeing the lamentable "GoldenEye". I don't despise the film as much as I used to, but the painfully shoehorned-in PC was brutal to watch at the time.
I also agree... by Phimseto	Mar 10th, 2008 08:48:50 AM
...that "From Russia With Love" remains the gold standard for Bond films.
MOONRAKER for me as well by SpyGuy	Mar 10th, 2008 08:48:51 AM
The producers were smart to hype the space aspect after STAR WARS and ten-year-old SpyBoy was thought it was great. And by the time FOR YOUR EYES ONLY came around with the smoking hot Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, I was officially a Bond fan for life.
There are many sublime things about Moonraker... by Phimseto	Mar 10th, 2008 09:04:13 AM
One of them being at the end of "The Spy Who Loved Me" where it says "James Bond will return in 'For Your Eyes Only'" only to have "Star Wars" cause the producers to both backtrack off of what they announced and subsequently produce the silliest (sublimely so) of all Bond films. It also probably paved the way for us to get the great one-off Bill Conti score for "For Your Eyes Only". Hurray for Star Wars!
GoldenEye for me by sambrook	Mar 10th, 2008 09:04:18 AM
The high rating in the UK of License to Kill ruled that one out, and where I lived there was no chance of old films being screened at the cinema. I missed out on Tomorrow Never Dies so that makes it a paltry 4 I've seen theatrically, and only 2 1/2 were good. Still, I'm really looking forward to Quantum of Solace if only for another Daniel Craig performance.
I saw License to Kill at the flicks by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Mar 10th, 2008 09:29:12 AM
The manager knew me and let me into many M+ movies before I was 15. I also got to see Total Recall and Robocop 2 wayyyy too young.
I'm with Phimseto on GoldenEye. by Henry Jones Sr	Mar 10th, 2008 10:15:20 AM
As a lifelong Bond fan, I waited six long years for GoldenEye only to be slapped in the face by what turned out to be an astonishingly glum, gloomy and boring film. I was gutted. I'm all for change, but that film drowned all that was great about Bond like an unwanted kitten.
Henry Jones Sr and Phimseto by Series7	Mar 10th, 2008 10:27:51 AM
You guys are probably older then me. But I don't understand your negative comments about Goldeneye? That movie was awesome and as far as Bonds go it is one of the best. Brosan was flawless in it.
Also I want to care about by Series7	Mar 10th, 2008 10:41:28 AM
Quantum leap, but the idea of Martin Campbell not coming back and leaving it up to Marc Forster. His movies are just so boring. Call me when they've decided which American Band they use this time. Why they haven't used Robbie Williams yes is fucking ridiculous. I bet Lilly Allen will get one before he does. I hope they don't go with one of those gay indie rocks bands that are big right now like The Shins are Wilco.
Series7 ... by Henry Jones Sr	Mar 10th, 2008 10:51:32 AM
... I was 20 when GoldenEye came out. I wasn't making any grand statements about it's quality or anything like that, I just couldn't stand it! Obviously, that's just my own personal taste. I wanted Dalton to continue the role and I really wasn't impressed by Brosnan at all. I just thought he wrong, wrong, wrong. The story was boring, visually it was boring (all that gloomy Russian imagery!), and the music sounded like a mobile phone ringing whilst being rolled downhill inside a bin. I just didn't like it, man. As a footnote, I really grew to like Brosnan in the role, but in GoldenEye he was far too stiff and ... well, dull. It's all good, though. I'm glad the Bond films change style now and then.
As for Robbie Williams ... by Henry Jones Sr	Mar 10th, 2008 11:00:25 AM
... he'll never get a theme song because he's a cunt. I hope he doesn't even go to see the film in the cinema, let alone record the theme song. I hate the idea of the Bond song being thought of as Top Of The Pops. Each song has a different feel and style, and needs a particular kind of vocalist to get it just right - even if that means going for someone who isn't a pop star, or isn't even commercial. That's why some of the songs over the last decade haven't worked. They should always leave the film's composer to write the theme song and choose the vocalist. You Know My Name isn't the greatest Bond song by any stretch of the imagination, but it works because everything about it is right for the movie. I really hope they don't do a Die Another Day with the new one and hand the whole enterprise over to someone ike Madonna ... or that cunt Robbie Williams.
Spy Who Loved Me by Abominable Snowcone	Mar 10th, 2008 11:25:39 AM
Barbara Bach...nude supine akimbo!
Yeah I know Robbie by Series7	Mar 10th, 2008 11:40:09 AM
Is a cunt, but I feel that his style given a good song would work well for a bond movie. I was just saying about your age because I was not sure HOW many bonds you were alive to see when they were first released. Also to me the last good Bond song was Golden Eye. I do like You know My Name and it works with the film. Lets just see who they get to do this one.
Sithdan, I'm With You Buddy by Rebeck2	Mar 10th, 2008 12:33:54 PM
All this talk about Casino Royale 'saving' the series makes me sick. First of all, it never needed saving - if the numbers were going down instead of up with every installment, maybe, but no. Secondly, I have been a lifetime fan of Bond because he is different than other heroes - BECAUSE he is cool, suave, unflappable, smooth beyond all belief in the worst of circumstances, not a lower-class brute-force asshole with a fugly boxer's face and a major chip on his shoulder. I don't need gritty Bond! Get this new "fans" - BOND. WAS. NEVER. GRITTY. Repeat that till it sinks in. He was always a fantasy. Go back to the first film, Dr. No - a megalomaniac with metal hands, a robot dinosaur and his own nuclear powered island. Yeah, really gritty, motherfuckers! (And don't give me that same shit about the books - have you read them? Still not gritty.) Bond is a fantasy. It's meant to be popcorn thrills and spills, not "real" or "psychologically dark". Oh shut the fuck up. I'm old, my first Bond in theatres was a double feature of OHMSS and YOLT. I was 7, appropriately. I loved them from the get-go. And the one thing I've learned over a lifetime of fanatical Bond-dom is whenever people talk about making Bond "human"...run for cover. It means a wet noodle like Dalton or a witless thug like Craig is playing Bond and trying to make him something he's not. I like the gadgets, the action that ends with him actually winning, the fucking around with as many women as possible, the glamor, the dry wit, the exotic, the bizarre, the absurd far-fetched plots. Here's a hint: if you don't like those things, you're...not...a...Bond...fan. You're somebody who wants a different kind of hero. Now I love the Bourne movies (first two, third sucks), but Bond is NOT that kind of spy. In the final analysis, as "fresh" as CR was - and there were some great ideas in there, not all of them completely ruined by Campbell or Craig - it just wasn't fun enough. I have watched it completely maybe 3 times, when I usually watch Bond films a minimum of a dozen times. That tells me everything I need to know. Let me be the one to say the emperor has no clothes... Craig is NOT Bond! He had a few good moments, but his overall classlessness and lack of humor/irony just ruins Bond as a character. Brosnan had that perfect Bond DNA. The movies were never quite as good as he deserved, but HE was Bond. If it doesn't have a twinkle in its eye or one eyebrow raised, then you're not watching Bond...you're watching a million mediocre action films with monosyllabic tough guy heroes. And if you just now think you like Bond because of CR - and not the 20 other films that came before - then...uh, find another series for yourself. It's like going to see Star Wars and complaining cuz it's not a Spaghetti Western. Leave my series alone! ...Breathing, breathing... Rant over.
Oops by Rebeck2	Mar 10th, 2008 12:35:41 PM
I meant robot dragon, otherwise I agree with my rant 100%. Well said, Rebeck!
So is this large organazation going to be the new version of S.M by Reel American Hero	Mar 10th, 2008 12:40:05 PM
I always liked that aspect of the certain Bond films when I was younger, the recurring villain Blofeld and his evil organization.
Well said, Rebeck by Sithdan	Mar 10th, 2008 01:17:36 PM
I totally concur. "Reimagining" Bond as a dark, brooding and emotionally tortured chartacter totally destroys what Ian Flemming was trying to create. James Bond is supposed to live the life that every guy wants to have. He gets the pretty ladies, he drives an awesome car, he battles megalomaniacs and saves the world using some of the most outlandish gadgets ever constructed. And all that just before his lunch hour. It's pure escapist entertainment.
WATCHED THE BOND MARATHON ON SPIKE OVER THE WEEKEND by BringingSexyBack	Mar 10th, 2008 01:48:49 PM
I had enjoyed his movies, but in retrospect, Brosnan was such a girly man. Long live the Craig Bond. What made Casino Royale so tasty had MUCH to do with Eva Green. Now that the bitch is dead, it's gonna be tough to out-do CR.
Yes, BSB by Rebeck2	Mar 10th, 2008 02:16:35 PM
You're so right. Bond should be a fugly Putin look-alike with all the class and style of a Dorito chip. That's how we know he's a real man!! Real men are fugly!! Bond was never about brute force, it was about being smart and cool and turning brute force back on itself. Any hero can have muscles, big deal. And as for Eva Green - she IS attractive when she doesn't put the mascara on with a fucking paint roller. I think the real twist of CR was that Vesper was actually a RACCOON!
Bond is fantasy by penguinblooz2	Mar 10th, 2008 03:28:03 PM
I lean toward Rebeck2's argument. I like all of the Bond films, even the bad films, some more than others. But Bond is a fantasy. I lkke it when he gets the girl(s), gets a drink, beats up the bad guy and hardly messes up his suit. Most of the Bond films I can watch over and over again. I havn't watched Casino over and over again, but I think that's because a good chunk of that story is cerebral and over a game of cards. I liked the movie a lot. I think this whole notion of rebooting Bond (Or Batman, or anything) is just silly. Stories are updated to go with the times. Batman in 1989 was a reboot - or update - to the TV series, for example. That said, I hope they don't make James Bond a complete Bourne-type hero. Each Bond film is often a reaction to the previous film. After the over-the-type fun of Moonraker, we came to For Your Eyes Only, which was a way to make Bond more realistic. The character changes with the times. I just hope the eventually bring back Moneypenny, Q and the other characters we have come to love pretty soon. As for now, I am with the new Bond.
Camille????? by C.K. Lamoo	Mar 10th, 2008 03:31:13 PM
What kind of name is that for a Bond babe. Whatever happened to Yesi Havacunt and Clito Torres?
1st time - The Living Daylights by polyh3dron	Mar 10th, 2008 04:15:27 PM
I was about 6 years old.. A great Bond film to start on though.
Diamonds Are Forever... by VirgilHilts	Mar 10th, 2008 07:28:19 PM
...at the long-gone Woods Theater in the loop in Chicago for my ninth birthday. The following summer they re-released Goldfinger and FRWL and my Grandfather took us to see them at the (also) long-gone 1-80 Drive-In. Sigh. I will now take a brief nap, then catch the early-bird at Denny's, followed by some yelling at the neighbor kids to get the hell off of my lawn.
"Look after Mr. Bond...see that some harm comes to him." by Master Bruce	Mar 10th, 2008 10:04:57 PM
Yes, my first theatrical Bond experience was MOONRAKER as well. This was all my 11 year old self needed to become a lifelong fan of 007. Of course, now I look back @ the film and while It's certainly amusing, it's far from the best Roger Moore or any other Bond film ever made, which is a shame because Michael Lonsdale is a PERFECT Bond Villian as Hugo Drax & his scheme is pretty cool, it's just a shame they went a little too over the top w/it - even for a Roger Moor film!
Never Say Never Again... by Jaka	Mar 11th, 2008 02:03:38 AM
...I know, I know. But it was still enough to get me interested in other Bond films. If this one is at least as good as Casino Royale, and I'm betting (oh the puns!) it will be better, I hope they next one is a continuation as well. You can't really call them sequels at this point. So I just hope they keep telling the same story for a minute. They have the freedom to do whatever they want, so why not go all the way with it? They could get deep and twisted with the plots, like a good secret agent thriller should be. And effa title and opening credits - run that shit at the end. It's a Bond film. We know this already.
these new Bonds are still BROSNAN movies at HEART by stamper	Mar 11th, 2008 03:22:56 AM
There arent, because Brosnan is not in them and Craig is. That's makes the TOTAL difference.
A View to a Kill by CreasyBear	Mar 11th, 2008 06:25:49 AM
Duran Duran's title song is in the top four catchy Bond songs.
Anchorite... by 23GreatWoundsAllGotInBattle	Mar 13th, 2008 02:48:03 AM
We are in agreement. Him sucking on the chick's fingers (mmmm...African blood...)was the gayest thing I'd ever seen in a Bond movie...until he sat down in the assless chair. The first ten minutes of CR where he got his 00 prefix were badass, but then when he was leaping through the levels of the construction site I kinda lost interest. My first Bond movie was Live And Let Die on cable. First in a theater, the Brosnan one after GoldenEye - so dumb I don't remember the name. My favorite? Either On Her Majesty's Secret Service or Goldfinger.

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