james bond, in Tv

Shattered Sponge · Mon 06/09/2004 21:20:42

Quote from: veryweirdguy on Mon 06/09/2004 20:32:34Sorry, Sponge, I just skipped your post because I don't like you very much. I read the bit where you said you didn't like Connery & then dismissed the rest of your post as 'ptosh' (yes, ptosh) as anyone who doesn't like Connery is clearly dilousional.

Wrong, bitch; those who fawn over the man are the delusional ones. Ã,Â As you said yourself, people wouldn't be so enamoured with him if they knew he wasn't the first to play the role; this is why I made the 'original and best' crack about Nelson, to prevent people making the same boring statement about boring old Con... oh, let's just stop arguing about this and have some nice makeup sex - I bagsy top!

Flippy_D · Mon 06/09/2004 23:28:24

Quote from: SSH on Mon 06/09/2004 13:40:06
Quote from: Flippy_Unplugged on Mon 06/09/2004 12:37:13
Dalton (OHMSS was awesome!)

OHMSS was Lazenby

Oops.

Quote
The real question is, which was the best bond song?

IMHO:

1. Goldeneye (duh-du-du-du na-naaah)
2. We have all the time in the world (OHMSS)
3. Goldfinger
4. Live and let die
5. Tomorrow never dies
6. The Man with the Golden Gun
7. The World is Not Enough

Unquestionably You Only Live Twice!

1. You Only Live Twice
2. From Russia With Love
3. A View To A Kill (Duran freakin' Duran!)
4. TWINE
5. Tomorrow Never Dies
6. The Living Daylights
7. Live and let Die
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. Moonraker
10. The Man with the Golden Gun

And the worst by far... Thunderball. Absolute tosh.

QuoteI mean, you wouldn't expect Leslie Neilsen to play Bond would you?

SPY HARD.

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Incidentally... I believe I can do that, except the year.

Dr. No | 'James Bond' - John Barry Seven Jazz Group
From Russia With Love | Title - Matt Monro
Goldfinger | Title - Shirley Bassey
Thunderball | Title - Tom fscking Jones
You Only Live Twice | Title - Nancy Sinatra
OHMSS | 'Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?' - Hal David
Alternatively, 'We Have All The Time In The World' - Louis Armstrong
Diamonds Are Forever | Title - Shirley Bassey
Live And Let Die | Title - Paul McCartney & Wings
The Man With The Golden Gun | Title - Lulu
The Spy Who Loved Me | 'Nobody does it better' - Carly Simon
Moonraker | Title - Bassey once again
For Your Eyes Only | Title - Sheena Easten?
Octopussy | 'All Time High' - Rita Coolidge
A View To A Kill | Title - Duran Duran

The Living Daylights | Title - Ah-ha
License To Kill | Title - er... Gladys Knight? I could be wrong about that.
Goldeneye | Title - "Not lace or leather..." Tina Turner
Tommorrow Never Dies | Title - Sheryl Crow (awesome song, too)
TWINE | Title - Garbage
Die Another Day | Title - Madonna

Phew... I hope I got those right.

Yufster - Half Awake · Tue 07/09/2004 06:46:40

Timothy Dalton was the best Bond. He was truer to the Bond of the books, and he was a better actor. He was also in what I thought was the best film, The Living Daylights.

Roger Moore was far too comic and wooden, and George Lazenby was crap. Pierce Brosnan looks like he's sucking a lemon all the time, and Sean Connery... he was good, but not as good as Dalton.

Nacho · Tue 07/09/2004 07:26:51

What about the best bond-girl? A too malist topic?

Anyway, my vote goes for Goldmund's neighbour Isabella Scorupco, from Goldeneye.
Then, Basinger and Ursula.

All the Bond girls... (May contain some soft nudity)
http://home.zonnet.nl/w.de.bruin/007-the%20Girls.htm

mmmmm...

Mr Jake · Tue 07/09/2004 08:24:53

DAlton, hmm, Living Day Lights is good but to me Dalton doesnt look (or feel) like James Bond (but thats due to earlier Bonds rather than the books)

Does anyone else find it strange that Bond gets younger as the years go one

veryweirdguy · Tue 07/09/2004 17:30:07

Quote from: Shattered Sponge on Mon 06/09/2004 21:20:42
oh, let's just stop arguing about this and have some nice makeup sex - I bagsy top!

What does that leave me with?

Flip, I hate to tell you this, but Spy Hard SUCKED.

Well, it didn't SUCK exactly, but there have been better Leslie Neilsen...things. I got bored with Spy Hard rather quickly when I saw it.

But it looks to me as if you did pretty well on the name game, so, as promised:

Cluey · Tue 07/09/2004 17:48:46

James Bond rocks, but the best film is by far GoldenEye
"For England, James?"
"No Alec, for me"
Splat
Excellent
with GoldenEye coming in close second fo me

Flippy_D · Tue 07/09/2004 18:40:23

Goldeneye followed by Goldeneye?

VWG: Awesome, Kudos. I want karma next time, though.
Die Hard wasn't good, but it was just to show you that what he said had already happened.

GarageGothic · Tue 07/09/2004 21:02:41

Best Bond movie? From Russia With Love - no gadgets, no ludicrous supervillains planning to conquor the world, just pure spy business. How I'd love to see somebody (but I'm not so sure about Tarantino) remake Casino Royale in the same style.

Best Bond? I've always like Timothy Dalton because he was closer to the character in the novels, Lazenby was also pretty good - maybe because he was allowed to show emotion. Sean Connery was great, but I actually prefer him in his later movies, like The Untouchables and Name of the Rose.

Who should play Bond? Hugh Grant, obviously! No, just joking. There are two ways the movies could go to save the franchise. One would be making them much darker and more realistic in tone, like the original Fleming novels. Off-hand I can't think of any British actor (thanks SSH

) who'd fit the bill, possibly Johnny Lee Miller who played Sick Boy in Trainspotting. Another way would be to camp them up - Roger Moore style, except it's no longer the seventies. I'd really love to see Rupert Everett do that type of Bond. I think he would be awesome - like a sexy Austin Powers

Best song? It's a toss-up between A View to a Kill and Live and Let Die, I think. Of the Shirley Bassey songs, Diamonds are Forever is probably my favourite.

BTW: The other day I found a dvd (region 1) of Casino Royale which has both the David Niven and the Barry Nelson versions of the movie on it. I have both on VHS already, taped from tv, but until quite recently the Barry Nelson version was very rare.

Cluey · Tue 07/09/2004 21:04:03

Quote from: Flippy_D on Tue 07/09/2004 18:40:23
Goldeneye followed by Goldeneye?

I like Goldeneye, sue me..

Mr Jake · Tue 07/09/2004 21:05:50

Quote from: GarageGothic on Tue 07/09/2004 21:02:41
I actually prefer him in his later movies, like The Untouchables and Name of the Rose.

hmmm? American names? do you know the numbers of them so we can compare (they aren't called that originally :/ and Im sitting under the full set right now)

SSH · Tue 07/09/2004 21:08:02

Quote from: GarageGothic on Tue 07/09/2004 21:02:41
Off-hand I can't think of any Englishman who'd fit the bill, possibly Johnny Lee Miller who played Sick Boy in Trainspotting.

The one thing that this thread has shown conclusively is that some people are really ignornat as to the differenences between Scottish, English and British. JLM is Scottish, for goodness sake, wasn't Trainspotting a clue?

And Name of the Rose and Untouchables weren't bond movies... they were Sean movies

Mr Jake · Tue 07/09/2004 21:09:09

oh, right, makes sense XD :

GarageGothic · Tue 07/09/2004 21:18:10

Sorry SSH, yeah that was stupid. It's not that I don't know the difference, just that I was thinking "non-american" when I wrote Englishman. But him being Scottish is an ever better reason actually. And we KNOW from Trainspotting that he can do a Sean-accent

PaulSC · Tue 07/09/2004 22:08:11

I admit I'll always have a fondness for Moore because his films were the ones I grew up with on TV. And The Spy Who Loved Me is probably my personal favourate Bond film overall.

Aside from the campiness (which I can tolerate in small doses) Moore's main problem was that he just didn't know when to stop. By the end of his run, he'd reduced Bond to a late-fifties letch, doddering around in a cardigan, feebly chasing after 18 year olds and their mothers in truly wretched fashion. He was almost as bad as Lazenby in that scene where Bond takes a peak at a Playboy mag. Bond reading Playboy? For shame!

Timothy Dalton was okayish, but dispite having that nice hard edge, he just seems to lack a certain charisma. It doesn't help that Bronon pretty much made him redundant by clearly being able to do everything Dalton could do and more.

It's a real shame he missed out on the role back in the 80's, because Brosnon would really have had a chance to shine in the Dalton movies, in a way he's been largely deprived of in his own.

Like every sane person I have a very bad feeling about where the series is heading. Brosnon was so great in the role that you knew they could release any old shite and you'd still at least have a credible Bond performance to rely on. Without him, what's left?

If Brosnon's not coming back, they need to take a long break to reassess the situation. I can't believe they're being so stupid as to stick rigidly to a 2005 release date when no one involved has more then a vague idea what the hell they should be doing with the franchise.

Shattered Sponge · Wed 08/09/2004 10:38:12

Quote from: veryweirdguy on Tue 07/09/2004 17:30:07
Quote from: Shattered Sponge on Mon 06/09/2004 21:20:42
oh, let's just stop arguing about this and have some nice makeup sex - I bagsy top!

What does that leave me with?

Bottom!

IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.

Yufsie Esq · Wed 08/09/2004 19:39:03

Ok, I understand somebody not thinking Dalton is the best Bond, but you have to be crazy to say Brosnan is a better actor.

MrColossal · Thu 09/09/2004 03:40:57

apparently a lady I work with went to highschool with/best friends with Barbara Goldbach who later became Barbara Back who then was a bond girl...

crazy world

james bond, in Tv

Yufster - Half Awake

Yufsie Esq