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Skyfall

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Saw it. Liked it. Still think Sean Connery is the best Bond. Not going to reveal any plot details whatsoever until more members have had a chance to see the film.

I did see Roger Moore on television promoting his book about the Bond legacy. He said before he saw Skyfall, he thought Connery was the best; after seeing the new movie he says it's Mr. Craig. It changed his mind, but not mine.

JAMES
 
Next Tuesday I will go to the movie with my wife, son and his girlfriend. I think the fact most people consider Sean Connery still the real James Bond has something to do with the movies in which he was James Bond as well. Especially in the Roger Moore period the movies went over the top in my opinion and became completely unbelievable.

The story of Casino Royale was much more down to earth again and I think this contribute a lot to the popularity of Daniel Craig as James Bond. I found Quantum of Solance a bit disappointing, but look forward ti see Skyfall as most people who saw it were positive about it.

Cheers,
Huub
 
huub vink said:
Next Tuesday I will go to the movie with my wife, son and his girlfriend. I think the fact most people consider Sean Connery still the real James Bond has something to do with the movies in which he was James Bond as well. Especially in the Roger Moore period the movies went over the top in my opinion and became completely unbelievable.

The story of Casino Royale was much more down to earth again and I think this contribute a lot to the popularity of Daniel Craig as James Bond. I found Quantum of Solance a bit disappointing, but look forward ti see Skyfall as most people who saw it were positive about it.

Cheers,
Huub
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Well said. I do think Daniel Craig is a better James Bond than any of the other actors with the exception of Sean Connery. Sean Connery was the first and set the standard, after him it was more about gadgetry and special effects.
 
stansdds said:
Well said. I do think Daniel Craig is a better James Bond than any of the other actors with the exception of Sean Connery. Sean Connery was the first and set the standard, after him it was more about gadgetry and special effects.
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I agree wholeheartedly. I remember Pierce Brosnan in particular talking about the difficulties of locating the character amonst all the special effects, although I do think he did a good job in the role. It must have been particularly frustrating for him; people wanted to see him in that role, and NBC wouldn't modify the contract for Remmington Steele.

I very much like Daniel Craig's portrayal, but he would not have been my first choice. If I were executive producer I'd have picked Clive Owen. He's much more my picture of 007. Ian Fleming has Vesper Lynd say Bond looked very much like Hoagy Carmichael, only more brutal. Here's Fleming's cartoon of Bond.

JAMES
 
As I own the complete box set collection of the James Bond series I am and have been a huge fan since 1962 and I gotta agree,Sean Connery is James Bond,Daniel Craig is my second favorite Bond actor.I can't wait to see Skyfall and add it to the collection!:cool:
 
Thanks for the quick review on whether it's worth seeing or not. I'm a huge Bond fan and I've liked all the characters over the years. While Timothy Dalton is not mentioned too often, I liked his two films portraying 007. It's interesting how the bad guys have changed over the years depending on the world situation. It took me a while to get used to Roger Moore, but in the end I liked him too.

If any of you are Roger Moore fans, look for the movie Ffolkes. It's like a bond thriller, but with different names.
 
Jagdflieger said:
Thanks for the quick review on whether it's worth seeing or not. I'm a huge Bond fan and I've liked all the characters over the years. While Timothy Dalton is not mentioned too often, I liked his two films portraying 007. It's interesting how the bad guys have changed over the years depending on the world situation. It took me a while to get used to Roger Moore, but in the end I liked him too.

If any of you are Roger Moore fans, look for the movie Ffolkes. It's like a bond thriller, but with different names.
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I did see Ffolkes. It was one of my aunt's favorite movies. She loved films like this, or say, Where Eagles Dare or Murphy's War.

Timothy Dalton I felt bad for for several reasons. At the time he got the role, the Bond people really wanted was Pierce Brosnan, who couldn't get out of his tv commitment, so Dalton began as sort of a second choice. IMO, apart from A View to a Kill, he got the weakest scripts, with the least interesting (to me) Bond girls. Don't get me wrong, they were all beautiful women, just no comparison to Ursula Andress coming out of the Caribbean in that bikini like The Birth of Aphrodite. I don't know what movie it was, maybe Kill Bill vol.2, but when the advance trailer for Die Another Day came on and Halle Berry came out of the ocean, the men in the audience applauded. Die Another Day I thought died in the second half, and the villian's superweapon was stolen from Diamonds Are Forever, but I thought the premise of Bond being captured and possibly turned was interesting. I liked all the Bonds for the most part. I bought On Her Majesty's Secret Service the other day at Big Lots for I think 3 USD, and I'm even having second thoughts about George Lazenby. I'd seen the film last year on TCM, and on the lead-in they said it actually made money, but not as much money as the studio expected. The main criticism against the film, according to the studio, was the audience wanted Sean Connery, who was really worried about being typecast. They ended up paying Connery an exhorbitant amount (I forget the exact figure) to return for Diamonds Are Forever, and still had to pay off George Lazenby's contract. I don't think he was bad in the part, it's just that most people see Bond as Sean Connery. I mean ,really, Sean Connery and Diana Rigg. How COMPLETELY, ULTIMATELY, COOL would that have been? I'm old school though. To me, Holmes and Watson still look exactly like Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, even though I luv Lucy Liu. I want Lucy to be my "companion". I want to do yoga and relaxing breathing excercises with Lucy Liu. I want to deduce things with Lucy.

JAMES
 
I was a little skeptical at first. It looked like a combination of three previous Bond movies, so that worried me.

However, I think this is by far the best Bond film. There is character development and several things are explained.
 
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