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[glidrose]

Bond villain! He's truly underrated. Hope to see him back in another Bond flick.

A Bond film that clocks in at:

-three hours
-just under two hours

[S K Y F A L L]

under 2 hours. 

 

Films ending on water; battle #3

 

DN 

 

OR 

 

DAF

 

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[thecasinoroyale]

...I'll give this one to 'Diamonds Are Forever' - nice and manic, with good action.

 

 

Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan...

 

BOND VILLAIN!

 

or

 

BLAND VILLAIN!

 

??

[glidrose]

Bland villain.

 

Timothy Dalton singing "The Man With the Golden Gun"

 

or

 

George Lazenby and Clint Eastwood singing "Another Way to Die"

[The Dove]

George and Clint singing AWTD...Hah!!

 

Bond 24 use of the Bond theme...should it have more or less, like Skyfall reserved it for the special moment the Aston Martin DB5 was on screen, ??

[thecasinoroyale]

Hm... I loved all of the use of the Bond theme, but somehow I don't like it when it parodies itself only appearing in a "Bond" moment, I think it could be used to more as his motif rather than just when a fan favourite image pops up on screen - lets have it when he's travelling somewhere or in a confrontation without worrying we are over-using it. It IS his theme after all, not just reserved for "classic moments".

 

 

Joseph Wiseman as Doctor No...

 

BOND VILLAIN!

 

or

 

BLAND VILLAIN!

 

??

[The Dove]

Sort of a BLAND/BOND VILLAIN in my opinion.. Really, more could have been done with the final battle between him and Bond, rather than just having him boil to death in the water.

 

 

The cheesier sexy-saxophone music moment in a Bond film... During Bond "removing" Saida's lucky charm in The Man With The Golden Gun OR when Stacy Sutton arrives by helicopter to Zorin's estate in A View To A Kill??

[glidrose]

Neither. I think the Sutton intro is a great moment. So Saida loses by default.

 

More gratuitous, cheesier use of Bond theme:

 

Bond checking out his hotel room in either DN or FRWL

 

Bond & Q or Bond, M and Moneypenny go for a ride in TND

[thecasinoroyale]

Has to be the ride sequences in 'TND'. At least the 'DN'/'FRWL' moments used the original Bond theme and had that air of cool about them rather than just loud, brassy noise for no real reason.

 

 

Gert Frobe as Auric Goldfinger...

 

BOND VILLAIN!

 

or

 

BLAND VILLAIN!

 

??

[The Dove]

Oh definitely a BOND villain!

 

Bond infiltrates another Quantum meeting..should it be...in the crowd at a match during the World Cup in Rio OR something more fun like a pub crawl where each pub stop has a Quantum member that passes along a message in code to someone at the next stop ?

[AMC Hornet]

You mean

The World Cup is Not Enough

or

World's End is Not Enough

?

[S K Y F A L L]

Pub Crawl.

 

 

Finishing on the water #4

 

DAF 

 

OR

 

TMWTGG

 

00?

[thecasinoroyale]

I'll go for 'The Man With The Golden Gun' - a nice bit of fun with Nick Nack vs Bond. Pity there's no wine in those bottles though.

 

 

Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga...

 

BOND VILLAIN!

 

or

 

BLAND VILLAIN!

 

??

[The Dove]

You mean

The World Cup is Not Enough

or

World's End is Not Enough

?

 

Right.. to answer casino's..Christopher Lee as Scaramanga...definitely a BOND villain (he's the best thing about the film, IMO).

 

(As I'm about to do a Batman marathon,) Which current or former 007 would make or would have made a good Batman/ Bruce Wayne... Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan or Craig?

[AMC Hornet]

A tossup between Lazenby in the 60s and Dalton in the late 80s.

 

(A bit of advice, Milos: watch the first four Batman films in reverse order, so you can experience them getting better instead of worse.)

 

While we're on the topic, who had the best Batmobile?

 

Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer/George Clooney or Christian Bale?

[thecasinoroyale]

Has to be Michael Keaton - fantastical to the comic source but good enough to look real before it started getting daft in the future films.

 

 

Grace Jones as May Day...

 

BOND VILLAIN!

 

or

 

BLAND VILLAIN!

 

??

[The Dove]

A tossup between Lazenby in the 60s and Dalton in the late 80s.
 
(A bit of advice, Milos: watch the first four Batman films in reverse order, so you can experience them getting better instead of worse.)
 
Good idea AMC! I literally have not watched the  Joel Schumacher Batman flicks since before Chris Nolan's "Batman Begins" came out in 2005... It'll be good to get these ones out of the way first.

Right.. Grace Jones as May Day.. definitely a BOND VILLAIN..

Which Bond actor would be or would have been the best soccer / football player for a World Cup team? Connery for Scotland OR Craig for England?

[thecasinoroyale]

Hm. You think Craig, but I actually think Connery would have that dexterity about him and be quite nippy and strong on the pitch so I go for him!

 

 

Sophie Marceau as Elektra King...

 

BOND VILLAIN!

 

or

 

BLAND VILLAIN!

 

??

[glidrose]

Bond villain. And an excellent actress too.

 

Better ski chase:

 

TWINE or AVTAK

[AMC Hornet]

That's one thing I'll give AVTAK. I don't even mind the California Girls cue.

 

Glastron boat jump in LALD

or

Spiral car jump in TMWTGG

?

[thecasinoroyale]

The slide whistle lets it down for me as that would win, so for overall final production I go for the boat jump in 'Live And Let Die'.

 

 

Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld...

 

BOND VILLAIN!

 

or

 

BLAND VILLAIN!

 

??

[The Dove]

BOND villain!

 

The lack of Bond 24 news...are you finding it frustrating OR no, I'm still staying patient?

[glidrose]

Very frustrating.

 

Better Joe Don Baker performance:

 

Whitaker in TLD

 

Jack Wade in either GE and/or TND

[S K Y F A L L]

Tough one, have to go with Jack Wade because I seen them first and it made it strange to see him in TLD.

 

Ending on water #5 

 

TMWTGG

 

OR 

 

TSWLM

 

00?

[thecasinoroyale]

....hmm.  Both have awfully cheesy musical ending numbers to cap off a decent finale, but both have wonderfully cheeky innuendo puns....so I go for....'The Spy Who Loved Me' on the fact Barbara Bach is there instead of Ekland.

 

 

Talisa Soto as Lupe Lamora...

 

BOND GIRL!

 

or

 

BLAND GIRL!

 

??

[The Dove]

BOND Girl!!

 

 

Cool Bond Moments... Bond raising his martini to toast Severine's body guards just before he fights them off in the Lucky Dragon casino in Skyfall OR Bond bursting the "Smiert Spionan" balloon in anger and fury after Saunders is crushed to death in The Living Daylights?

[thecasinoroyale]

Has to be that rage and humanity seen via Dalton with Bond bursting the "Smiert Spionan" balloon in anger and fury after Saunders is crushed to death in 'The Living Daylights'.

 

Denise Richards as Dr Christmas Jones....

 

BOND GIRL!

 

or

 

BLAND GIRL!

 

??

[The Dove]

BLAND GIRL!!

 

 

Which former/current Batman actor would make or would have made a good James Bond?  Adam West (he was discussed prior to Diamonds Are Forever), Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale or *shudder* Ben Affleck?

[thecasinoroyale]

...good one Dove. Hmm. Not West, nor Bale....NO WAY Clooney....not Affleck....

 

...Kilmer was a good Batman but he's no Bond so I'm going to make a link between that darker, broody yet sophisticated side of Dalton to Michael Keaton.

 

I go for Michael Keaton as James Bond!

 

 

Tanya Roberts as Stacey "JAMES! HELP ME!! JAMES!! DON'T LEAVE ME!" Sutton....

 

BOND GIRL!

 

or

 

BLAND GIRL!

 

??

[S K Y F A L L]

Bond girl, I really don't mind her all that much. A product of that time I guess.

 

Films ending on water; Battle #6

 

TSWLM

 

OR

 

OP (I can't clearly remember if this one in fact ends on water, I believe Bond was on Octopussy's boat wasn't he?)

 

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