Classic Bond Forum

bjmdds wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 4:00 am From 2015 until the supposed next release in 2028, there will have been only "1" Bond film made!

The last James Bond movie was released in 2002 and you will never convince me otherwise.

If nothing else, Amazon is definitely sending a strong message with this hire and letting everyone know they're taking the franchise seriously. I feel like Villeneuve has surpassed Nolan over the past 5-10 years as the name I see most often whenever the subject of a "dream" director for Bond pops up ...

bjmdds wrote: Mon Jun 09, 2025 6:35 pm Last night, this is who Broadway voted as the best MALE actor in a play: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fspy4pCmzHY

This would instantly be the leading contender for new Bond or Bond girl if you-know-who was still calling the shots!

I'm afraid I was already a few drinks in last night when discussing the end of Final Reckoning, so apologies for not including a spoiler warning! :oops:

But also, does this site not use traditional BBCode spoiler tags? I couldn't get them to work and had to use a makeshift warning that isn't likely ...

Btw bourn really burned out prematurely thanks to the hubris of the star and directors involved


I was convinced Bourne was poised to explore an entirely new level for the spy genre at the end of Ultimatum. After all, what does this guy do once he fully recovers the memories of all the terrible ...

Boy would Aidan work as Bond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiofoMIbF4U


I feel like 2016 was the real death of the Bond franchise, as it was clear to everyone but Broccoli it was time to recast.

The fact that Turner apparently wasn't even considered after that 2015 Agatha Christie film ...

Yes that was a interesting twist , I think they were afraid of covering ground person of interest covered with self-aware AI changing outcomes

Although it might have been interesting for Ethan Hunt to have protected status from the ai.

I still think there was room for a twist, was this what the ...

Jake, not from State Farm, the Mission Impossible films are FAR better espionage films than ALL of Cr-egg's junk portrayals. Broccoli must have thought she was in constant competition with the MI franchise as well as the Bourne sagas.


I imagine it drove Broccoli nuts that Mission Impossible was ...

The solution isn’t the problem really, not credible considering how isolated the place was supposed to be , and how fast the download was.
But it works for an end story. Not really a issue except
I have a lot of trouble with what lead to it. Honestly a self aware ai would be better enslaving ...

:oops: Without going too far into it, I’d say that the villain and the main threat made absolutely no sense nor did the solution to them.

**Spoilers**

I was excited by the solution, as it was the same method Captain Picard used to defeat an AI version of Professor Moriarty in an episode of Next ...

As much as I didn't want Craig returning for a 5th movie, it does feel like he did us all a huge favor by insisting his version of the character would be killed off.

Imagine if we had to worry about Amazon hiring a Craig lookalike and not only continuing that absurd soap opera storyline but ...

To fans we see only a few options; continuing the the series after DAD. And reboot.
Reboot leads to ultimately two choices: modern or era correct.

I think we are stuck with reboot because nobody has the imagination to write the story picking up after DAD ignoring everything that’s happened and ...

I hope that’s what Amazon is trying to get the audience ready for is classic bond not Craig’s vanity project called bond. Best we can say is we got Babs bond not Ian Fleming’s

I kind of think revisit the story in my own way could mean remake or it could be the take on bond. Depending on what ...

I’d argue I don’t think EON’s CR put anything on screen to make that character a driving force in bonds life.

Agreed. I think they also tried to exaggerate her importance throughout Craig's arc because they were really more interested in turning her into Marie from the Bourne films than anything ...

:fight: Second was when the sequel to cr was being talked about, mgw had a script cubby canned because bond does not look back. Supposedly this early bond adventure type of scrip was going to be the basis for bond 22. That never happened .


Was this related to the early ideas about Bond ...

Broccoli emasculated Cr-egg but it all started with Dench as M in 1995 in Goldeneye.


Even worse was how they slowly tried to turn M into a maternal figure for Bond. Between that and making Blofeld a jealous sibling... :hair:

I still can't believe how many people went along with that nonsense ...

Plus, have any of these live-action remakes of Disney animated features been a success? I don't know why they keep making them.


It feels like it's mainly been driven by nostalgia for 90s era Disney more than anything else, although I'm not sure Disney has realized that yet.

Aladdin, Lion King ...

Dalton played the villain in the 1923 Yellowstone prequel as a sadistic rich land baron for several episodes until in ended. Broccoli ended the franchise with her final killing off of Bond and she KNEW she was done. You don't say you need 2 years to FIGURE OUT where they wanted to go next! Nonsense ...

Babs films are all over the place in tone and world content. If you try to put Craig’s movies together as a movie arc of connected stores you’ll get a headache trying to get the logic behind all the random contradictory stuff Babs stuffed in to those movies.

Yes, I think the initial shock of the ...

The first two were magnificent, though, and set a ridiculously high bar for others to follow.


I honestly prefer 3 and 4 over everything that followed :oops: , solely because Reeve was so good in the role. Even in Superman IV- with the whole d**n movie visibly falling apart around him- Reeve ...