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[Professor Pi]

Surrender.  Everything about it screams opening title.  If You Asked Me Too works perfectly as an end title.

 

Better Bill Tanner

 

Rory Kinnear

 

OR

 

Michael Kitchens

 

??

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Michael Kitchens

 

Better Bond-meets-Bond-girl scene:

 

Bond alias "Peter Franks" meets blond-brunette-redhead Tiffany Case in her apartment in Amsterdam in Diamonds Are Forever

 

or

 

Bond "the banker" gets reacquainted with his ex-girlfriend Mrs. Paris McKenna Carver at the CMGN party in Hamburg in Tomorrow Never Dies?

[seawolfnyy]

Bond as Franks in DAF. I could never stand any scene with Paris Carver.

 

 

Bond movie/opening titles change-up:

Live and Let Die with Spectre's opening titles

OR

Spectre with Live and Let Die's opening titles

?

[DaveBond21]

SPECTRE with the LALD opening titles

 

Preferred snow chase:-

 

TWINE

 

or

 

SPECTRE

 

??

[The Dove]

Definitely the snow sequence in SPECTRE..

Daniel Kleinman's title sequences.. Skyfall OR SPECTRE??

[thecasinoroyale]

'SPECTRE' without a doubt.

 

 

Best 'WOTW' lyrics to sum up 'SPECTRE' perfectly...

 

"A million shards of glass that haunt me from my past."

 

OR

 

"I want to feel love run through my blood, tell me is this where I give it all up."

 

??

[seawolfnyy]

A million shards of glass that haunt me from my past.

 

 

 

Bond in Australia

OR

Bond in South Africa

?

[The Dove]

Australia...definitely time we get 007 "down under"..

 

For Bond 25...which would be a funnier scene...009 getting into it with 007 over stealing the DB10 and leaving it at the bottom of the Tiber in Rome OR James Bond meeting Moneypenny's "friend" from that scene in SPECTRE??

[seawolfnyy]

I would definitely love to see Bond meet Moneypenny's "friend."

 

 

 

Craig's Bond being strapped to the back of a boat and used as shark bait

OR

Moore's Bond having the villain scratch his balls....

?

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Craig's Bond being strapped to the back of a boat and being used as shark bait.

 

Better Bond ally:

 

Felix Leiter(Rik van Nutter) in Thunderball

 

or

 

Tiger Tanaka(Tetsuro Tamba) in You Only Live Twice?

[DaveBond21]

Ooh that is actually quite hard. I will go for Van Nutter's Felix.

 

Preferred ally in Bond 25:-

 

008

 

or

 

A rebooted Luigi from FYEO

 

??

[thecasinoroyale]

Rebooted Luigi. Two 00 agents would make it even more a generic action buddy film when it should be Bond working alone (bar occasionally meeting them in the field)

 

 

What hobby do you think James Bond enjoys doing when he's not "working"?

 

9 holes of golf on a Sunday

 

OR

 

Mountain biking

 

??

[seawolfnyy]

Mountain biking. I think he'd get bored quite fast with golf....unless he finds the wrong golf ball on the course.

 

 

Worse Bond ally:

Jimmy Dean as Willard Whyte

OR

Denise Richards as Christmas Jones

?

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Christmas. I actually thought JD's WW wasn't a bad ally.

 

Bond actor/film mixup:

 

Timothy Dalton as Bond in SPECTRE

 

or

 

Daniel Craig as Bond in LTK?

[DaveBond21]

Craig in LTK would be interesting as an experiment only.

 

Scene you'd like to see added to a movie:-

 

Frederick Gray apologising to Bond at the end of Moonraker for being wrong about Drax

 

or

 

Group Captain Pritchard apologising to Bond at the end of Thunderball about being wrong about Derval

 

??

[thecasinoroyale]

Freddie apologizing about Drax in 'Moonraker'. Always liked the fact M believed Bond regardless; faith in your best man.

 

 

Speaking of 'Moonraker', which moment in the film is most absurd for you:

 

The lab in Venice turned into a room of a mansion in a matter of hours - size, décor...everything.

 

OR

 

Jaws surviving all of his near-death experiences in a comical way

 

??

[seawolfnyy]

Jaws surviving his near death experiences in comical ways. Just glad you didn't include the double taking pigeon in your options.

 

 

Which time period does James Bond work better in:

the 1960s

OR

the 2010s

?

[AMC Hornet]

The 60s.

 

BTW, if you look in the background, you'll see that the opulent room was always there, just with the high-tech stuff installed. The only things that had to be brought in later were the chandelier and the desk.

 

But I digress.

 

Seeing as the latest entry in the film series is already being dissected to within an inch of it's life, I propose

 

The better 'leave it as it is' candidate:

 

SPECTRE

or

Moonraker

?

[seawolfnyy]

Moonraker. We've had 36 years to dissect that one, but only about 3 weeks for Spectre.  Let people have their fun. Or torment....either way.

 

 

Better non-Bond role for Sean Bean:

Boromir

OR

Eddard Stark

?

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Boromir

 

 

Better use of a parade as a backdrop to Bond action:

 

The Junkanoo in Nassau in Thunderball

 

or

 

Carnival/Mardi Gras in Rio in Moonraker?

[DaveBond21]

Both are great, but the Thunderball junkanoo plays a more prominent role in the plot.

 

Preferred scene in FYEO:-

 

Ski chase between Bond and Krieger in Cortina

 

or

 

The keel hauling sequence in Greece

 

??

[AMC Hornet]

Hafta go with the keel-hauling. Conceived by Fleming and hadn't been done already.

 

Seriously, what was the point of the ski chase? Kristatos had put Bond onto Colombo, Loque was wearing a dove pin, all to steer suspicion away. Didn't Kriegler get the memo? If he was part of the ploy, nothing was said about it later. He seemed too determined to catch Bond.

 

The better 'leave it as it is' candidate round 2:

 

Spectre

or

Die Another Day

?

[thecasinoroyale]

'SPECTRE'  - could have been far worse, and it's best to leave it.

 

 

So, after the comedown, how do you feel about 'SPECTRE':

 

Gave me what I wanted and expected. Great fun and a solid Bond film.

 

OR

 

Left me quite disappointed, and a little empty. Could have been a far better Bond film.

 

??

[PrinceKamalKhan]

 

Gave me what I wanted and expected. Great fun and a solid Bond film.

 

I pick this one of those two options. I enjoyed SPECTRE and consider it Craig's best since CR.

 

Better Bond and Blofeld scene:

Bond wearing the astronaut uniform meets Blofeld face to face for the first time in the extinct volcano HQ in You Only Live Twice

 

or

 

Bond wearing a tuxedo confronts two Blofelds and two white cats in Willard Whyte's penthouse in Diamonds Are Forever?

[seawolfnyy]

Bond and Blofeld in YOLT.

 

 

 

Better Bond henchman death:

Stamper blowing up in stealth boat after failing to kill Bond

OR

Dario being crushed by the cocaine crusher after failing to kill Bond

?

[thecasinoroyale]

Dario - totally fit the context of the film; brutal and bloody and brilliant. 

 

 

Which format are you investing in for 'SPECTRE' next year:

 

DVD

 

or

 

Blu-ray

 

??

[seawolfnyy]

Blu-ray. Already have the other 23 films in blu-ray, though I'll probably download it digitally on itunes a week or two early like with Skyfall.

 

 

 

How long before we learn something about the next Bond game:

within the next year, Spectre has grossed $750 million and EON are going to want to capitalize on that anyway they can

OR

with the potential sale of the Bond license and the still poor taste of 007 Legends, the next Bond game is still several years away if we ever even get one

?

[thecasinoroyale]

I think they'll wait - not even material in 'SPECTRE' makes for a potential game, and there is too much up in the air with the licence they need to sort first.

 

 

Currently edging towards $750m worldwide, will 'SPECTRE' smash $800m...?

 

YES - The Christmas period will give it a boost and it will reach $800m

 

OR

 

NO - It's slowing down now, and 'Star Wars' will take away any and all audiences for the holidays.

 

??

[AMC Hornet]

YES - $800m is not out of the question (I've only seen it twice so far - I expect to see it at least twice more before the DVD comes out).

 

Less annoying line:

 

"This never happened to the other fellow"

or

"I'll buy you a delicatessen - in stainless steel!"

?

[PrinceKamalKhan]

This never happened to the other fellow(when I first saw it as a kid I thought it was a Cinderella/Prince Charming reference).

 

Better Bond goes to rescue the damsel-in-distress action scene:

 

Natalya gets captured by Ourumov in St. Petersburg and Bond pursues them in a tank in GE

 

or

 

Madeleine gets captured by Hinx and co. in the Austrian Alps and Bond pursues them in a plane in SPECTRE?