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[The Dove]

Excellent! Lucky to pick up at least 1 Oscar (though I do feel it should have picked up the Cinematography award too)

 

 

The Bond 50th Anniversary Retrospective at the Oscars...

 

 Satisfying OR EPIC FAILURE, it failed to deliver the exciting promises which the producers assured us and they should have tried to bring the 6 007's together??

[AMC Hornet]

Satisfying. The night is about all the top movies of the year - it was never intended to be a three-hour Bond tribute.

We were lucky to see the recognition that the franchise got. As for the actors' reunion, that was only an idea that never panned out. Too bad, but there it is. Perhaps it will happen next year, to publicize B24 (There, I've just gone and started the rumour mill spinning again).

 

Wather P99 in TND-CR

or

Walther P5 in OP & NSNA?

[seawolfnyy]

P99, it's a more modern weapon.

 

 

 

For a winter chase in Bond 24:

Skiing

OR

Snowboarding

?

[thecasinoroyale]

Has to be the skis! Long overdue for a good Bond chase.

 

 

What grizzly death should await a future Bond henchman for Daniel Craig to administer...

 

Crushed underneath a car that collapses on top of him in a garage, released by Bond

 

OR

 

Impaled on a barb-wire fence after a fist-fight on a roof after a fall

 

??

[seawolfnyy]

Well that's pretty macabre, but I'll go with the impaled on a fence after a rooftop fist fight. Sounds more Craig.

 

 

Which is better:

A View to a Kill reaching Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100

OR

Skyfall winning an Oscar for Best Original Song

?

[007jamesbond]

Skyfall for best original song.......sorry don't care about AVTAK 

 

Bond (Daniel Craig) vs Green 

 

or 

Bond (Connery) vs No

Edited by 007jamesbond, 25 February 2013 - 11:40 PM.

[AMC Hornet]

No contest - squaring off against an evil half-German-half-Chinese mad scientist - with metal hands - on the submerging rod insertion platform of an overloading nuclear reactor trumps being assaulted by a shrieking wimp with a hatchet in the hallway of a burning hotel any day (even if inserting the uranium rods should have been stabilizing the reaction, not destabilizing it).

 

Besides, Dr No's demise was the prototype for so many more confrontations to come - Bond vs Green was just one of those subsequent attempts at a variation on the theme.

 

"We'll soon lick you into shape"

or

"I can't find the stationary."

?

[seawolfnyy]

"I can't find the stationary." Just because I love Strawberry Fields.

 

 

 

"I hope you don't snore, Q."

OR

"Goodnight, I hate to ask you big questions, but where exactly did you lay him out cold?"

?

[thecasinoroyale]

"I hope you don't snore, Q." - Even in Dalton's hard-edged Bond world, this is a great moment that shows how close Bond and Q are even out of MI6 in the field.

 

 

In a perfect world, what other Oscar would you have liked to see 'Skyfall' nominated for...

 

'Best Actress In A Leading Role' for Dame Judi Dench

 

OR

 

'Best Actor In A Supporting Role' for Javier Bardem

 

??

[The Dove]

Definitely "Best Actor In A Supporting Role" for Mr. Bardem...

 

 

Bond cinematographers... Phil Meheux (Goldeneye, Casino Royale), OR Roger Deakins (Skyfall) ?

[thecasinoroyale]

I really have to say Roger Deakins for 'Skyfall', and not riding on the hype of the film, but watching it on Blu-Ray, I have come to love and appreciate even more the scale, depth and colour of all the sets and mise-en-scene. It's truly captivating.

 

 

Which older Bond film is 'Skyfall' most comparable in terms of scale, drama and action.....

 

'You Only Live Twice'

 

OR

 

'Licence To Kill'

 

??

[seawolfnyy]

Licence to Kill. Although, I think Quantum of Solace is even closer to LTK in my opinion. Speaking of QoS and LTK....

 

 

"Then you have my resignation sir." "We are not a country club 007!....Effective immediately. Your license to kill is revoked, and I'll need you to turn in your weapon. Now, I need remind you that you are still bound by the Official Secrets Act." -- "Then I guess it's a farewell to arms."

OR

"Miss Fields showed true bravery. I want that mentioned in your report. Now you and I need to see this through." -- "There's nowhere to go. There's a capture or kill order out on you." -- "Now who would've done that?"

?

[Professor Pi]

Moore's delivery on "All those feathers and he still can't fly." seals the deal for me.

 

More disturbing sacrificial lamb scene in the Craig films:

 

Severine's death and "Waste of good scotch."

 

OR

 

Mathis being tossed into a dumpster with Bond taking the cash from his wallet

 

??

[thecasinoroyale]

HAS to be Severine. Had so much more to give....

 

 

And I'll take seawolf's question as it was missed:

 

"Then you have my resignation sir." "We are not a country club 007!....Effective immediately. Your license to kill is revoked, and I'll need you to turn in your weapon. Now, I need remind you that you are still bound by the Official Secrets Act." -- "Then I guess it's a farewell to arms."

 

OR

 

"Miss Fields showed true bravery. I want that mentioned in your report. Now you and I need to see this through." -- "There's nowhere to go. There's a capture or kill order out on you." -- "Now who would've done that?"

 

??

[The Dove]

I'll go with the line from Licence To Kill... just delivered perfectly for Dalton's Bond..

 

Which Bond girl was the bigger innocent victim of a tragic death... Agent Fields covered in oil in Quantum of Solace OR Plenty O'Toole being drowned in the pool in Diamonds Are Forever?

[thecasinoroyale]

Have to give it to Plenty O'Toole. Fields was tragic, but she was in the espionage business, if only filing reports. Someone usually dies.

 

 

Which actor emits Fleming's coldness of Bond better -

 

Timothy Dalton

 

OR

 

Daniel Craig

 

??

[seawolfnyy]

Have to go with Dalton. Craig's Bond seems to actually care a lot more. It just takes something big for it to show i.e. Vesper, Fields' death, M in trouble.

 

 

"You aren't going to let me in there. You've got your armour back on."

OR

"I wish I could set you free, but your prison is in there."

?

[AMC Hornet]

Camille's line, because Bond didn't respond with any emotive pledge about whatever there is left of him being hers.

 

The 'Bondola' hovercraft

or

the BD5 Acrostar

?

[seawolfnyy]

The acrostar...hate that hovercraft.....

 

 

 

"Egyptian builders."

OR

"It's the circle of life."

?

[AMC Hornet]

"Egyptian builders"

But only because it's been around longer.

Neither line makes much sense, but at least Moore's was delivered with more genuine panache.

 

"Do you suppose she has handcuffs?" "I do hope so."

or

"How do you take it?" "Straight up...with a twist." "Nhn..."

?

[Professor Pi]

Handcuffs.  Seemed more natural nonchalant banter whereas the other line seemed lifted from a Playboy magazine. 

 

(Sorry I missed seawolf's question earlier, not sure how Silva hacked into my computer!)

 

Live and Let Die's skull title sequence

 

OR

 

Skyfall's skull graphics

 

??

[seawolfnyy]

(It's cool, Professor Pi. It happens.)

 

LALD's skull graphic, but like AMC said only because it was first.

 

 

"I didn't think it would end like this." -- "We're not dead yet."

OR

"No, not like this. Not this way." -- "Close your eyes...."

?

[AMC Hornet]

"Make it count."

Honestly, Melina, how did you think it would end?

 

Blofeld's little diamond-encrusted laser satellite

or

Grave's giant solar mirror/ laser satellite

?

[007jamesbond]

Blofeld's little diamond-encrusted laser satellite, even though silly it more original than DAD which just rip off it

 

Bond capture in Goldfinger with Laser about to slice him 

 

or 

 

Bond torture in a chair in CR 

[thecasinoroyale]

Hmm...as much as I love Bond's balls being beaten by a knot...the important 5 B's there....I will honor the 'Goldfinger' sequence, as even now it's a very tense moment with great use of the music, camera shots, the panic from Bond and the un-moving guise of Goldfinger, and even now you think he's actually not going to bother stopping the laser until that last moment! A great sequence.

 

 

Does James Bond use a diary?

 

YES - It's so secret even we never see it, but he has his locations, contacts and important notes tucked away

 

OR

 

NO - He doesn't need one, he has his brain and a stable memory.

 

??

[The Dove]

NO- He doesn't need one, he has his brain and a stable memory..

 

Like matching a fine wine with a gormet dinner, which two Bond films would complement each other best as a double feature... From Russia With Love and The Spy Who Loved Me OR OHMSS and Skyfall?

[seawolfnyy]

Hmm, a tough one, but I think OHMSS and SF. The tone of those two movies match each other better.

 

 

Things we'd see on James Bond's twitter feed:

 

Strapped to a chair with some psycho beating my balls with his disgusting STD-encrusted rope. Could use some help.

OR

Totally being chased by a bunch of spies on skis. Looking for a great song to play. Any ideas?

?

[thecasinoroyale]

Totally being chased by a bunch of spies on skis. Looking for a great song to play. Any ideas?

 

 

Which girl do you think made more of an impact on Bond, in terms of relationship, humanity and friendship?

 

Tracy

 

OR

 

Vesper

 

??

[The Dove]

Have to say Vesper...

 

 

Apart from Naomi Harris, which previous Moneypenny would have looked best in the field, firing  weapons with 007...Lois Maxwell, Barbara Bouchet (CR'67) Pamela Salem (NSNA), Caroline Bliss OR Samantha Bond?

[Walecs]

Samantha Bond would have been great on field.

 

How about Q, on field... I mean Ben Whishaw's quartermaster,

 

Would he work on field near Bond?

 

OR

 

Not?