Bond...James Bond

[Twocky61]

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Just like the Carry On franchise

How many were there?

[tex]

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Bond films? How many have been made now?

Just like the Rocky films with Sylvester Stallone; there were six

It must be now over kill with Bond

I lost interest by half a dozen

A better triology I find is the Bourne films:

Identity & Legacy & Supremacy & Ultimatum & the original Jason Bourne

Bit of over kill there too; but I prefer those films over the Bond franchise

I think there are now 23 Bond films, the franchise is still a huge moneyspinner and is unlikely to go away quietly, unfortunately there are now so many action film franchises that bond is always expected to be better than the last one which after 23 films is quite a big ask.

[Twocky61]

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Bond films? How many have been made now?

Just like the Rocky films with Sylvester Stallone; there were six

It must be now over kill with Bond

I lost interest by half a dozen

A better triology I find is the Bourne films:

Identity & Legacy & Supremacy & Ultimatum & the original Jason Bourne

Bit of over kill there too; but I prefer those films over the Bond franchise

[tex]

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The talented Javier Bardem, in Skyfall

I said for years he would make a great bond villain , and he did. I also said Christoph waltz would make a great bond villain......He didn't

[zabadak]

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The talented Javier Bardem, in Skyfall

[tex]

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Rosa Klebbe in From Russia with Love is another good villan. That poisoned blade in her shoe is very memorable. I also like her main henchman, Red Grant (Robert Shaw), and his fight with Bond on the train is one of the best in the series imo.

Agreed, two huge blokes like Connery and Shaw dukeing it out in that small space made for a great fight, i'm sure there must of been a few genuine bruises after shooting that scene. A similar fight was staged in a lift in diamonds are forever between bond and Peter franks.

[victorbrunswick]

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My favorite Bond villain is General Orloff, the renegade Soviet general from "Octopussy," played by Stephen Berkoff who seemed to have been in demand as a villain in the 1980s as he was also the bad guy in "Rambo" and "Beverly Hills Cop."

[staffslad]

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Rosa Klebbe in From Russia with Love is another good villan. That poisoned blade in her shoe is very memorable. I also like her main henchman, Red Grant (Robert Shaw), and his fight with Bond on the train is one of the best in the series imo.

[tex]

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Donalds portrayal of Blofeld was the inspiration for the hillarious Dr evil...interesting fact Gert frobe was dubbed for his part as Goldfinger due to his german accent

[Donald the Great]

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Who is your fave Bond villian? staffslad likes Donald the Great. So do I. Pleasence brought a subtle psychopathia to Ernst Stavro Blofeld the others did not. Auric Goldfinger is also up there in my preferred Bond villains as is Dr No the madman in the very first Bond film.

[Donald the Great]

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Who is your favourite actor to play James Bond and what is your favourite Bond film? Also, your favourite Bond girl, Bond villan, film scene and title song.

I will start the ball rolling. My favourite Bond is Timothy Dalton, and he beats Sean Connery by a whisker for me. I like his harder-edged portrayal of Bond after the far lighter Roger Moore era.

The Living Daylights is overall my favourite Bond film. It has some great action scenes and a plot that is far more grounded than we had seen in a long time.

Favourite Bond girl is Daniela Bianchi, who played Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love. She's beautiful and sensual, but has an innocence and naivity about her that I find very appealing.

Favourite Bond villan is probably Donald Pleasence as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. That guy has quiet menace down to a 'T'. Definitely the best portrayal of Blofeld imo.

Favourite scene. The pre-credits sequence from The Living Daylights, where Bond is on the roof of the Land Rover and it goes over a cliff.

Best Bond song...I have two: Diamonds are Forever and The Living Daylights. Dame Shirley belts out the former as only she can, and A-Ha really rock it in the latter.

We differ here staffslad. My fave Bond has to be Sean Connery. He is amore masculine than the others.. ruggedly handsome rather than almost effeminitely handsome like Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan. Timothy Dalton was my second preferred James Bond. Connery was the superior actor over Moore too. I will leave with a word about the Australian On Her Majestys Secret Service Bond, George Lazenby. Figured he got a ruff deal with the solitary 007 role. My fave Bond films are Thunderball, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, Man With the Golden Gun, View To A kill and Tomorrow never Dies.

[tex]

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Tom jones was said to of held the final note so long that he passed out, i love this song. The whole Rowan atkinson thing was almost as preposterous as casting John cleese as Q

[staffslad]

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Regarding Thunderball and its unofficial remake Never Say Never Again. While the plot of Thunderball is ok and the villan is a good one, I, too, found that the extensive underwater scenes really slowed down the film, and it is probably my least favourite of the Connery Bonds. I remember the excitement that surrounded Never Say Never Again and the return of Connery as 007. I didn't get to see it at the pictures, but rented it on video as soon as it was released. I have to say that overall it disappointed me. The lack of budget really showed, I thought, and I didn't like Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett and Edward Fox as M. Kim Basinger, though gorgeous, was, I thought, rather bland. Wrestler Pat Roach was the guy who fights Connery at the clinic, and Kent Walton was forever talking about Roach being in the film when he was doing World of Sport Wrestling. I do, however, prefer NSNA's title song to that of Thunderball. Lani Hall is one of my favourite female singers, while Tom Jones's catawaling is near the bottom of my list of Bond title songs. A bit of trivia...the makers of NSNA wanted Roger Moore to appear in a cameo at the end of the film. Moore would have approached Connery while he was with Basinger and wag his finger at him saying "Never, never", a reference to when Connery said "Never again" when asked if he would play Bond again after making Diamonds are Forever.

[tex]

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The semi-official Never Say Never Again has been shown on BBC1 a few times, & BBC4 once screened From Russia With Love as part of a theme night.

Shame on Sean connery for getting involved with this poor remake of thunderball, i cant imagine why an actor of his ability who could not be short of film offers would agree to appear in this rubbish, one theory was to spite Cubby broccoli with whom he had come to dislike imensely. I think Octopussy was being released at the same time as never say never and it was billed as the battle of the bonds by the media.

[tex]

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Thunderball is hardly ever shown. I saw it on TV, about a year ago, and it was so foreign to me I was even starting to think that was the first time I'd seen it!

I use to say that my favourite was Live And Let Die, until I saw Skyfall. Wow! It helped that Bond (on film, at least) was 50 years old, as was I, so I was caught up very much in the moment.

Anyway, that is now my favourite but my fave theme is You Only Live Twice, but then I'm a huge Nancy Sinatra fan!

Thunderball was a good film but was critised for the overlong underwater sequences which slowed the film down, great plot however and my fave bond villain in Emilio largo.
Daniel craig has brought the series back to where it needed to go with a much grittier Bond and far less parody, shame the next will be his last (imo)