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[thecasinoroyale]

Bond film based on a Bond book, every time...although the books do make interesting reads with their added scenes/dialogue not in the film, like 'GoldenEye' and the tiny bit more detail in things that you can picture more in your minds eye.


Where does Bond excel more:

On water

OR

On snow

??

[Pussfeller]

He does well on both, but his record is better with snow.

Who would make a better M:

Ralph Fiennes

or

Albert Finney ?

[thecasinoroyale]

Ooh...I have to say, I think Albert Finney. Although his age is against him for a decent run of movies (like Bernard Lee, say) but I think he has the look and air about him to pull it off. Fiennes is suited to more devious, debonair characters and not an 'M' figure...but I'll eat my words if I am proved wrong in October!


Bond quits MI6. What is his next career path:


Professional rally car driver

OR

Professional yacht skipper for racing

??

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Bond quits MI6. What is his next career path:


Professional rally car driver

Double feature:

You Only Live Twice/ The Living Daylights

or

Thunderball/Octopussy?

[Pussfeller]

YOLT/TLD. A wider gamut.

Moore's eyebrow

or

Brosnan's neck ?

[Mr. Blofeld]

Eyebrow. Wider gamut of emotions. ;-)


Bond films produced and released in book order

or

Bond books written and published in film order

?

[The Dove]

Bond books written and published in film order.

More "campy" mode of transportation for 007: Melina's yellow Citroen 2CV in FYEO or Jaws' clapped-out old van which breaks down in the desert in TSWLM?

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Jaws' clapped-out old van which breaks down in the desert in TSWLM, though it's a close battle.

Better early script draft idea that was not used:

The Spy Who Loved Me: Left-wing terrorists take over SPECTRE and try to use a nuclear submarine to attack the world's oil fields

or

Octopussy: Octopussy Smythe uses her knowledge of Tracy Bond's murder to enlist Agent 007's aid in a plot against SPECTRE?

[Pussfeller]

The Octopussy idea sounds a lot better than the befuddled mess they eventually went with. The SWLM idea sounds too political for a Bond film, and would have made SPECTRE seem feeble.

Most bizarre early draft idea:

Dr No as a monkey

or

Goldfinger's twin brother in Diamonds Are Forever

[glidrose]

The Octopussy idea sounds a lot better than the befuddled mess they eventually went with. The SWLM idea sounds too political for a Bond film, and would have made SPECTRE seem feeble.

Most bizarre early draft idea:

Dr No as a monkey

or

Goldfinger's twin brother in Diamonds Are Forever

Goldfinger's twin brother in Diamonds Are Forever


Kingsley Amis writes a second Bond novel or John Pearson writes the Irma Bunt in Australia follow-up.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

John Pearson writes the Irma Bunt in Australia follow-up.

Better "also-ran" casting:

Anthony Hopkins as Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye

or

James Mason as Sir Hugo Drax in Moonraker?

[Mr. Blofeld]

Hopkins.


Person you'd want to hire as continuation novelist were you given the choice tomorrow:

Anthony Horowitz

or

Christopher Wood

?

[Pussfeller]

Wood.

Most inexplicable action by a henchman:

Wint and Kidd placing Bond in a pipe without harming a hair on his head.

or

The cigar girl blowing herself up rather than just shooting Bond in the face, which is what she had been trying to do.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

The cigar girl blowing herself up rather than just shooting Bond in the face, which is what she had been trying to do.

Better discarded script idea:

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service:James Bond getting plastic surgery at the beginning to explain why he's now being played by George Lazenby instead of Sean Connery

or
A View to a Kill: Zorin plans to attack Silicon Valley by manipulating Halley's Comet?

[thecasinoroyale]

James Bond getting plastic surgery at the beginning to explain why he's now being played by George Lazenby instead of Sean Connery.

Close call...but that would be ludicrously interesting to see and hear!



Best method of trying-to-kill-007-but-dragging-it-out-ever-so-slowly-that-Bond-gets-to-escape, by a villain:

Dr Kananga tying up Bond and Solitatre to feed to the sharks...but making sure it's "Slowly, Whisper...slowly!"

OR

Hugo Drax leaving Bond and Goodhead in the shuttle exhaust bay waiting for the rocket to launch... and giving a speech in the meantime.

??

[The Dove]

Hugo Drax leaving Bond and Holly Goodhead to be barbecued by the Space Shuttle exhaust..how he failed to check Bond's watch for the plastic explosives is beyond me! LOL

Cheesier in-film song performance: B.J. Arnu singing "Live And Let Die" when Felix and Bond enter the Fillet Of Soul in New Orleans or Minnie Driver "singing, or rather lip synching" "Stand By Your Man" as Bond and Zukovsky chat in Goldeneye?

[thecasinoroyale]

Minnie Driver 'performing' "Stand By Your Man" as Bond and Zukovsky chat in GoldenEye. Such a strange, pointless and badly dubbed moment...it's quite surreal!


Best Roger Moore wit in AVTAK...

"There's never a cab when you want one!"

OR

"I'm afraid all the kings horses and all the kings men won't do much with that."

??

[PrinceKamalKhan]

"I'm afraid all the kings horses and all the kings men won't do much with that."

Bond battling enemy assasin mid-air over the parachute in Moonraker

or

Bond battling Necros on the cargo net of the Hercules in The Living Daylights?

[The Dove]

Bond battling Necros on the cargo net in The Living Daylights

Elektra's strangulation chair in TWINE or Le Chiffre's "special rope" treatment in CR (if you had to choose one way to be tortured) ?

[Mr. Blofeld]

Oy... neck, if only because Brosnan made it look so comfy. :-P


Which, if you couldn't avoid it, would you choose:

Carpet beater up your ballsack (CR)

or

Buzzsaw up your ballsack (GF)

?

[Jaws0178]

I'd have to say buzzsaw only because I hope it would finish me off

Best Brosnan era one liner NOT said by the Broz

"You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me." Elektra King TWINE

vs.

"She's an ugly little bitch, but she'll get you there." Jack Wade, GE

[thecasinoroyale]

"You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me." ... said with such an air of...seduction...but leading to a put-down. Literally!


Classic Bond-villain line:


"Goodbye Mister Bond!"

OR

"Kill him!"

??

[glidrose]

"You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me." ... said with such an air of...seduction...but leading to a put-down. Literally!


Classic Bond-villain line:


"Goodbye Mister Bond!"

OR

"Kill him!"

??

Kill him!

Roger Moore in The Living Daylights or Pierce Brosnan in Casino Royale '06.

[dogmanstar]

Moore in TLD.


Ok, Finlay Light replacing Moore or Sam Neill?

[glidrose]

Moore in TLD.


Ok, Finlay Light replacing Moore or Sam Neill?

Sam Neill. In fact Neill over Dalton. Do we know that Finlay Light ever existed?

A fifteenth Fleming Bond book or a third Dalton Bond film?

[dogmanstar]

Well, it seems that he exists. http://www.life.com/...y-light-at-home


15th Fleming book.


Another Deaver book or another Faulks book?

Edited by dogmanstar, 19 January 2012 - 12:34 AM.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Do we know that Finlay Light ever existed?

Yes, we do: http://debrief.comma..._1#entry1145882

Deaver.


Improvised flame thrower (LALD)

or

Improvised shark bait (TSWLM)

?

[Eric Stromberg]

Do we know that Finlay Light ever existed?

Yes, we do: http://debrief.comma..._1#entry1145882

Deaver.


Improvised flame thrower (LALD)


or

Improvised shark bait (TSWLM)

?

Improvised flame thrower is looking a little weak these days...so I'll go with shark bait which never goes out of style.

Tarantino as future 007 director

or

another Marc Forster foray

[Mr. Blofeld]

Forster; even he wouldn't be as "experimental" as Tarantino gets, to the detriment of some of QT's films.


Better deleted lines:

TB:

MONEYPENNY: "Every 00 man in Europe is there. And the Home Secretary."
BOND: "The Daleks have invaded!"

or

LTK:

SANCHEZ: "You could've had everything!"
BOND: "Don't you want to know why?"
(he holds up lighter)
BOND: "Compliments of Leiter!"
(he flicks it; Sanchez goes up in flames)

?

[PrinceKamalKhan]

LTK:

SANCHEZ: "You could've had everything!"
BOND: "Don't you want to know why?"
(he holds up lighter)
BOND: "Compliments of Leiter!"
(he flicks it; Sanchez goes up in flames)

Better earlier unused script draft:

Moonraker: Sir Hugo Drax works for SPECTRE, has a huge underground base in Loch Ness, Scotland and plans to to hijack a nuclear submarine. From Russia With Love's Tatiana Romonova returns as the lead heroine.

or

Diamonds Are Forever: Auric Goldfinger's identical twin brother plans to use his diamond generated laser cannon aboard his oil tanker to assault the free world?