James Bond

I remember hearing whispers many years ago before Spectre that they wanted to make Mr Hinx (Bautista's character) the true mastermind behind SPECTRE. The actor was apparently not quite ready for the big time meatier role.

A guy who was bigger, smarter, faster, tougher than 007. I would have liked that movie with just a relentless badass bad guy that is better than James at everything. Have Waltz as the fake puppet leader.

I think they dropped the ball.

As far as the other ones meh. I liked Skyfall. Hopefully this new one is good. I hear they are going with a black chick for Bond now?

:rolleyes:
They already did a movie with a villain who was bigger, smarter, faster, and tougher than Bond. It was called From Russia With Love and the character was Red Grant. The black chick in the new one is a 00 agent who may have taken the 007 number but gives it back. That was my understanding anyway.
 
They already did a movie with a villain who was bigger, smarter, faster, and tougher than Bond. It was called From Russia With Love and the character was Red Grant. The black chick in the new one is a 00 agent who may have taken the 007 number but gives it back. That was my understanding anyway.

#reboot

From Russia With Love was fantastic and Red Grant was a champion of a bad guy.

Seriously though I thought that was the direction they were headed.

Would have been better than his long lost forgotten step brother starting up a super bad guy squad.

“Oh this guy? Yeah I just forgot to mention him” lol
 
The long lost step brother shtick felt like Austin Powers. So much for that gritty, realistic Bond that they always touted.
 
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The brother thing infuriated me. I thought Casino Royals was fantastic from beginning to end. The poker scene showed Bond’s youthful arrogance and helped demonstrate his character development in an important way. QOS was kind of a bridge movie that was probably meant to set up something, but they dropped it an incorporated it into SPECTRE once EON regained the rights to the name and character of Blofeld.
Yes, I thought Casino Royale was just a really good movie. And an excellent reboot of Bond, resetting it back to factory settings, so to speak.

It's kind of lost it since then a wee bit. Not nearly as gritty or practical-minded. Hopefully this one will get back to that. QoS was pretty ropey. Spectre was a return to the fantastic twists and plots of previous generations and I didn't much enjoy it at all. Skyfall was a little like that, but there were scenes I really enjoyed, which redeemed it for me. Moneypenny's character. Introducing the new Q to Bond in the National Gallery in front of Turner's Temeraire was an ace scene. The Aston Martin. The fight at his ancestral home with a hammy turn by Albert Finney - 'I was ready before you were born son'. I met a few fuckers like that up there.
 
I don't think they have a clue on how to handle Bond.
 
I'm not real interested in changing fundamental characters for PC BS... I mean, I think rather than turning an entire storyline inside out, if you want a great character/story that's a black guy or a brown guy, or a woman or whatever write an awesome original story for them.. why is that so difficult?... there must be an army of highly paid people in Hollywood who create stories for a living...

that said, I think Idris Elba would make a really great Bond... that dude is so smooth and cool I think he would be really badass... he's got a way slicker presence than guys like Craig or fucking Pierce Brosnan.... I dunno how you fit that into the story of being born into Scottish nobility, so I guess it kinda fucks up the entire backstory, but if they gotta do something different I'm totally down with that guy.
 
I'm not real interested in changing fundamental characters for PC BS... I mean, I think rather than turning an entire storyline inside out, if you want a great character/story that's a black guy or a brown guy, or a woman or whatever write an awesome original story for them.. why is that so difficult?... there must be an army of highly paid people in Hollywood who create stories for a living...

that said, I think Idris Elba would make a really great Bond... that dude is so smooth and cool I think he would be really badass... he's got a way slicker presence than guys like Craig or fucking Pierce Brosnan.... I dunno how you fit that into the story of being born into Scottish nobility, so I guess it kinda fucks up the entire backstory, but if they gotta do something different I'm totally down with that guy.

Yeah don't force it on me and shove it down my throat.

Atomic Blonde with Charlize was an awesome bad ass double agent spy action movie.

We don't need to make Road House with Ronda Roussey as the lead. An all female Ghostbusters movie is a dumb idea. James Bond now being Janet Bond or some shit is silly.

Write a good original story with a female lead. If its good people will watch it.

I remember Denzel in an interview being asked why there are so few black lead actors and instead of harping on about race and all this PC bullshit he said "Good black writers need to write strong and original stories featuring black leads. Don't force it on other people's stories"
 
Yeah don't force it on me and shove it down my throat.

Atomic Blonde with Charlize was an awesome bad ass double agent spy action movie.

We don't need to make Road House with Ronda Roussey as the lead. An all female Ghostbusters movie is a dumb idea. James Bond now being Janet Bond or some shit is silly.
:righton:

Write a good original story with a female lead. If its good people will watch it.

I remember Denzel in an interview being asked why there are so few black lead actors and instead of harping on about race and all this PC bullshit he said "Good black writers need to write strong and original stories featuring black leads. Don't force it on other people's stories"
Hmm... smart dude... and a true original star

in all honestly my very favorite "franchise" or movie series is Alien... I just think there's several great movies in there(kinda rare), and it's totally original storyline..... anyhow you don't even really notice that the lead badass is a woman.... I mean, you don't say to yourself, this is unique or that woman's amazing... it's just a badass movie that happens to have a female as the lead badass and it's totally seamless.

that's the way it's done.
 
The thing that made Bond great was the debonairness of the character and the outrageous over the top gadgets and villains. I enjoyed Craig’s movies well enough but I wished they’d get back to that.
 
The thing that made Bond great was the debonairness of the character and the outrageous over the top gadgets and villains. I enjoyed Craig’s movies well enough but I wished they’d get back to that.

I bet this will be blasphemy for the real Bond fans but as I get older I really like the Brosnan take at Bond too...

Debonair and cool gadgets with some over the top action/bad guys is exactly what he put out there for his run. It wasnt perfect but they were all fun and had babes. Denise Richards and Halle Berry cmon.
 
The thing that made Bond great was the debonairness of the character and the outrageous over the top gadgets and villains. I enjoyed Craig’s movies well enough but I wished they’d get back to that.
I totally agree... and I don't much care for them because as someone said it's like Bond does Jason Bourne... Bond is much cooler and cleverer than that.
 
I bet this will be blasphemy for the real Bond fans but as I get older I really like the Brosnan take at Bond too...

Debonair and cool gadgets with some over the top action/bad guys is exactly what he put out there for his run. It wasnt perfect but they were all fun and had babes. Denise Richards and Halle Berry cmon.
Brosnan wasn't my favorite but IMO he played in some really well done Bond movies... some of the best.
 
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Brosnan wasn't my favorite but IMO he played in some really well done Bond movies... some of the best.

Golden Eye was good shit.

I mean his movies were campy but they were fun. I don't need to have a dark, gritty Bond every time haha.
 
I mean is it too fuckin much to ask for a god damn lazer beam watch?

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