"Do you expect me to talk?" "No Mr Bond i expect you to die!"

[MAztinA 323]

i heartly agree! kung fu is for jackie chan, jason stratham and jet li!

sean is the best!!!!!!! personal favorite is You Only Live Twice (1967)

[Cosmo Dude]

Dr. No was the best....
It all went down hill after 007 died for queen and country and continued carrying out missions.

[chicaboo]

My favourite Bond has to be Roger Moore. Basically he took up the role in the 70s to the mid 80s, so his flims were being released during my generation. So I guess it's like ABBA and 70s country music, even though it's wrong, the nostalgia factor means I love it. He also introduced the crazy "toys" into the Bond lineage, he posessed that brilliant dry humour and he was a master of the single entendre (as was Sean).

Sean owned the role because he was the first, all to follow were compared to him. It shows just how well Roger Moore took over the role that fans accepted him as Bond for 15 odd years. George got a hard time being the 2nd Bond for only one release. But I think that him not being accepted and the dramatic change in Moore's Bond afterwards really launched Bond into the 70s along with that damn Lotus of his!

Her Majesty's Secret service was made cheaply except that Dianna Rigg and Telly Savalas were starring attractions. Unlike people who say they don't like this movie because the world tells them not to, even though they haven't seen it, I have actually watched this film and think it's OK. The only thing that really ruined it for me was the brief action intro detracted from the tried and true blue dream forumla that we associate with Bond flims.

George Lazenby was the most physical Bond I had ever seen for many years before Pierce Brosnon. To me there is nothing wrong with his portrayel of Bond, the movie itself was certainly no worse than Live and Let Die (the worst one outside of any Timothy movie). But even then I can watch LALD for a young Jane Seymour alone.

Anyhow, leave George alone, that poor farka had some big boots to fill, and in my book he did it as well as could be expected. The movie itself wasn't the best, but certainly not the worst, however this was not the doing of George's representation of Bond, production values let this movie down.

Gav.

[Savvyfx]

LALD Wasn't that bad. And I didn't like the ending of Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Dr No is definitly one of my favourites. It also had Felix IIRC. Felix is cool.

[BJ BoI]

i agree with cosmo, dr.no was the best in my books, it will be good to see a bond movie with more brutal violance rather than shooting, however i dont think daniel craig is the BEST man for the job, my reasons are 1. he is blonde, 2. he doesn't drive manual, 3. he doesnt like guns and 4. he just doesnt look like bond to me (not suave enough), but as i have said to everyone else i will be going to see it and only then can i truly judge it

[BigMal]

When I said Jason Stratham I didn't mean Bond should go martial arts, I meant that if
he was bond they could do more/better fight scenes because of his ability.
Scenes in line with say a Bourne Identity type fight scene where it looks secret agent
and lethal. Only Sean and Timothy Dalton looked like they could fight at all, the others
without bond toys couldn't get out of a wet paper bag.

edit. Add George Lazenby to the fighters he looked tough enough.

[Ripper323]

Has any one read the original Casino Royale? I read it a while ago and I'm pretty sure it has a wicked torture scene in it, wonder if they will put that in. Poor James gets it bad in that one.

[chicaboo]

Only movie I know of where he gets tortured is Die Another Day, and even then it's mainly obscured through the opening credits and mentioned later after he's rescued...

Looking at IMDB, the only other movie Daniel Craig has done that I recognise is Tomb Raider: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185819/

[platypus]

roger moore was the best!!

just didn't do enough imo

and whats going on here? bond used to be my birthday treat! november 17 release?

what ever happened to the boxin gday releases of ye olde??

[Cincinnatus]

Read it a few years ago. He does get the **** tortured out of him, if i recall, hes tied in a chair with the bottom cut out of it, naked, the russki keeps hitting his nuts with a tennis racket.

Love Connery, next is Lazenby, on her majestys secret service is one of my favourites. Loved that Movie, he actually gets married in this one. Only bond movie to actually have a story line acording to the tradional lines. Anyway. Didn't really like Moore, always seemed abit too camp, Doltan was a Dolt, Brosnan, well, maybe he was just unlucky enough to come to the series when the writers idea of sexual inuendo goes somethin like "You did her? Didn't know you were that desparate" or "So you wanna have sex with me?"

Having said that the original Casino Royael with Woody Allan is one of the unfuniest Woody Allan movies i had ever seen. A very silly movie.

[MAztinA 323]

yea i watched like half of 1967 casino royal (not the 1954 one) and could NOT watch the rest-it was sooo bad! can believe it!

1. sean 2. roger 3. timothy 4. pierce 5. lazenby (lazenby was quite good, but the others are better hehe)

check my profile out here for all the other stuff

http://debrief.commanderbond.net/ind...?showuser=6514

and i totally agree with you Cinncinatus, OHMSS was absolutley fabulous!!!! the ending is soo sad but! i think they were thinking of having bond's wife in diamonds are forever (the next one) and killing her off at the start which i think would have been better (except sean cant cry )

[Ripper323]

Originally Posted by Cinncinatus

Read it a few years ago. He does get the **** tortured out of him, if i recall, hes tied in a chair with the bottom cut out of it, naked, the russki keeps hitting his nuts with a tennis racket.

Yep thats the one, wonder if they will have that in the new one. That would seriously jurt having that done to you

[Rupewrecht]

Originally Posted by Ripper323

Yep thats the one, wonder if they will have that in the new one. That would seriously jurt having that done to you

Apparently it is. Carpet beaters (not tennis raquets) are bad, mmkay?


OHMSS is one of my favorites. It was a hard movie for Lazenby to pull off as it's got Bond falling in love and getting married, and he's just not supposed to happen.

And in Lazenbys defence, it was his choice to only do one film, not the producers who offerd him a contract to do three more films after OHMSS.


And Casino Royale is the best of the Ian Fleming books. Most of you probably don't know that Kingsley Amis (the old ones will know who i'm talking about) wrote a bond book after Fleming died, and then from the late 70's to the 90's, John Gardner wrote another dozen of so books, then someone else after that!

I've got all the books, but to get an interesting insight to them (and the early movies) see if you can find John Pearson's biography of The Life of Ian Fleming'

[project.r.racing]

Originally Posted by Rupewrecht

I've got all the books, but to get an interesting insight to them (and the early movies) see if you can find John Pearson's biography of The Life of Ian Fleming'

This was adapted into a movie also in the mid 90's, hard to believe a reporter work for the british secret service and then made money writing books about it, hello Mr Bond.