[quote]Tomas Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 5:56 pm Post subject:
I thought the last Bond film was the dumbest movie I’ve ever seen. Brosnan gets a thumbs down from me. I won’t go again until they switch to a new Bond. [/quote]
Why I thought Die Another Day was the best Bond film ever…by Toe Save
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James caught :shock: and tortured :shock: :shock: Best story open since YOLT…(shot in the Murphy bed… thought he was dead) Cool opening song…may even have to nominate Madonna against Sir Paul and KD for best opening tune??? Also nice marriage of the post 9/11 world and the Fleming world.
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H.B. 
…2nd best Bond-gal ever…
-better than Barbara Bach
-not quite the raw sexual energy of dear old Ursula …
-kinda have a soft spot for Carey Lowell in the Dalton one with Wayne Newton…Law and Order thang…
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Good bye dear dear Llewellyn…a true hommage to a modern British tradition, the addition of Cleese could not be brighter…and no better toastmaster to the Legend of Llewellyn than the genius of Cleese…
Long live the Q!!!
4)The ice boat, hovercraft and car chase scenes are the best I can remember…as was the sword fight…you don’t get that down and dirty with Sir Sean…sorry to say, but Sean was all judo and PPK…
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On a personal note, I am pretty sure that a guy I did a fringe play with was helping them into those nifty flying sled thingies they swooped into North Korea on…he even had a line…that puts me at 1 degree of separation…
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North Korea scares me in real life…they aren’t dealt with nearly enough as a villain, either in Hollywood or in Washington/Beijing/Tokyo/Pyongyang…okay okay…/London…)
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I cast Pierce as Sean’s replacement back in the early days of Remington Steele…his witty, snappy banter with the luscious Stephanie Zimbalist…his rugged handsomosity…the wee bit o welsh in his lilt…
Don’t get me wrong…Sir Sean was great…the greatest…I wish he’d never had to stop until Pierce was ready…Sean is who made us fans…we had to suffer through a long period of hacks with the martini, the Walther and the ladies…May the good knight enjoy the fruits of his creation, he need not lose another minutes sleep, the mantle of Bond is in a most capable shell…
The Less is Moore Period was detestable…his entendre was single if at all…and can you…in your wildest of “put reality on the shelf, this is Hollywood” kinda fantasies…Tanya Roberts and Roger Boor…puh-lease…
And the villains…Jaws was far too awkward…made the stunts laughable…the sterotypes abound throughout this period, but that is kinda true of Sean’s tutelege as well…none so 'ignit as Sheriff Culpepper…ffwd and quick…
Dalton put a halt on…Moore no more…I gave Dalton his due…his earnestness was a tad too callow for such a fellow as our James Bond…And get rid of that new CIA guy, the big cracker from Walking Tall…Joe Don Baker…is that the guy???
Finally, the new King is crowned. The mantle is firmly in place…In Brosnan We Trust…
And 8) Halle Berry in a sea of diamonds…BEST ENDING EVER!!!
[quote]chainsmoker Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:19 pm Post subject:
Toe Save wrote:
And now a trivia question for all you fans…
The title of the movie “The World is not Enough” comes from an earlier reference…what movie referred to this “motto” and why was it mentioned?
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It is a translation of the Latin Bond Family Motto from the family coat of arms.
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Well done smokerman…that is not an easy question…maybe a pretender hath fallen on my trivial blade…well done indeed…have some guanxi…
Russian agent was Robert Shaw in FRWL…you may also remember him as the inimitable Doyle Lonnigan in The Sting.
[quote]Huang Guang Chen Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 5:52 pm Post subject:
Toe Save . . you’re not the boss at a certain east Taipei monkey bar are you?
HG
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No.
So what am I chopped liver… he ain’t got nothing on my number one Bond…