New Bond Movie On Hold

Rusty85 said:

I don't remember him crying in any movie, lol. What part was that?

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Pretty sure he cried at the end of OHMSS.

Yep. OHMSS, in my opinion, is one of THE best Bond movies. Not in the typical sense of "Bond" as in "Gadgets, quips, and Doctor Evil", but more in the sense of treating Bond as a real, complex character rather than a cartoon caricature.

Well I rated the car chase at the beginning, but that's because it was an Aston Martin...

Bond aside- whats more worrying is when one of the biggest brands in cinema can't fund itself anymore, and what that says about the state of the industry as a whole.

Casino Royale is among the best Bond films I've seen. Top 5 easily. Quantum of Solace was an incomprehensible waste.

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Couldn't have said this better myself.

Maybe the Solace poison is biting them back!

You know, I wonder if Daniel Craig ever sits in his living room with a martini thinking, "So I only did two Bond movies, the best and the worst...and I did them back-to-back???" :lol

Probably not, since the only truly great Bond movies have Sean Connery in them.

Funky Jedi said:

You know, I wonder if Daniel Craig ever sits in his living room with a martini thinking, "So I only did two Bond movies, the best and the worst...and I did them back-to-back???" :lol

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He can cheer himself up, though, by saying, "It could have been worse, I could have been Timothy Dalton."

Funky Jedi said:

You know, I wonder if Daniel Craig ever sits in his living room with a martini thinking, "So I only did two Bond movies, the best and the worst...and I did them back-to-back???" :lol

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Well, he can console himself with the fact that the WORST Bond film is tied between Moonraker and Die Another Day. Moonraker probably barely takes the lead there.

noble said:

Couldn't have said this better myself.

Maybe the Solace poison is biting them back!

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Could be. Or it's possible that they're having a tough time coming up with how to continue the storyline with Quantum (or whether they want to at all).

micdavis said:

Probably not, since the only truly great Bond movies have Sean Connery in them.

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Generally true. Although I tend to have a few exceptions to that general statement.

- OHMSS is a fantastic movie, although Lazenby is not a fantastic Bond. I think he gets unfairly blamed for not being "Connery" enough but being just too "Connery" that you can't avoid the invidious comparison.

- For Your Eyes Only. Probably the best of the Roger Moore era, and the least "Moore-like" in terms of what it does. Moore's a bit colder (although only a bit), and the plot is a great Cold War era Bond plot.

- Living Daylights. I know everyone loves to call out Dalton, but I think Dalton's turn as Bond produced one of the best Bond films to date. The plot is great, the gadgets were cool, Bond himself was a badass (a nice change from Moore's anemic performance in A View to a Kill), and again, a nice Cold War plot. Plus, the introduction (and sadly, last appearance) of General Pushkin. Had the Cold War not ended, I think there'd have been a future for him. Frankly, I think Dalton's Bond is the second closest to the literary Bond. Connery's EARLY performances were the closest before Craig showed up, but his later more over-the-top entries knock him down to 3rd place for me (as far as capturing the literary Bond goes, that is).

- Goldeneye. As a 90s Bond film, Goldeneye is pretty good. Plus, Brosnan's initial run as Bond was a nice balancing act. Not too cartoony, but also not too dark/serious.

cboath said:

He can cheer himself up, though, by saying, "It could have been worse, I could have been Timothy Dalton."

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See above. I actually think Moore was the worst Bond. He had zero menace, zero sex appeal, didn't handle action particularly well (lacking in physicality), and was hamstrung by some truly abysmally bad takes on Bond. While there are moments in his films that are top-notch, his run was generally pretty sub-par. Don't agree? Let me remind you of the goofiness you see in the "Blaxploitation Bond" film Live and Let Die, the "Kung Fu Craze Bond" in The Man With the Golden Gun (including a cheesy repeat of the Louisiana Sheriff), the rehashing of You Only Live Twice with The Spy who Loved Me, the "Star Wars Bond" in Moonraker, and the "Oh My GOD We're Old Bond" in A View to a Kill.

While I enjoy The Spy Who Loved Me for its rehashing, I can't deny that it's a total ripoff of You Only Live Twice. And I certainly enjoy For Your Eyes Only, but that's ONE movie out of SEVEN. Octopussy...well, aside from the bad name...it was just mediocre to me. Nothing special, but at least it wasn't friggin' Moonraker.

Think back on all of those films and then tell me just how good a Bond Moore was.

I guess this means people who want more James Bond will have to . . . READ BOOKS.

AH! NO!!!!

The books are good and VERY different from most of the films. Not the plots, necessarily (although several are), but the characterization of Bond.

FYI, as far as I can recall, he almost NEVER says "Bond. James Bond" in the books. And I think he only played baccarat once in Casino Royale (where it was the tournament game, instead of poker).

Say what you want about A View to a Kill, but it had Christopher Walken as the villain! That alone makes it awesome

Noeland said:

I guess this means people who want more James Bond will have to . . . READ BOOKS.

AH! NO!!!!

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Have them all. Read them all. Now what.

Read a different series?