The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Kristatos]

From the news stories, it sounds like it is Sony, rather than EON, who are desperate to have Craig back, and making it a condition of their putting the money up for it.

[Veronica]

I recently watched The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo fully for the first time and noticed just how much more enthusiastic Craig seems to be. Make no mistake,his performance is nothing to write home about (I would say the same thing about the movie-way too dark for my taste) but at least he's not sleepwalking through the movie like he does in most of his Bond movies.
Blowfeld mentioned one very good thing-just how much EON and co. put effort in presenting Craig as the definite version of the character. After all the fabulous gushing about "the unique mix of charisma and acting skills" a.k.a Craig to quote Barbara I can't even imagine them doing the same thing for some other actor. Not to mention with all the gushing about Craig they were undermining previous actors.

[acid]

Blowfeld mentioned one very good thing-just how much EON and co. put effort in presenting Craig as the definite version of the character. After all the fabulous gushing about "the unique mix of charisma and acting skills" a.k.a Craig to quote Barbara I can't even imagine them doing the same thing for some other actor.

I wouldn't be so sure Veronica. Yes, they are head over heels in love with Craig but I can see them (and the fans) using similar sort of language for whoever the next Bond is as well. It's the norm now to hype a new product to the stratosphere while trashing everything that's gone before (even when you made it).

I was really REALLY hoping he was gone now but it's not looking likely, is it? Still it makes no difference really as I'm quite sure whoever is playing Bond, we won't be seeing a straight up back to basics classic Bond film anytime soon. That ship sailed a long time ago.

Also, when are they going to find some new script writers?

[kater23]

Saw Rogue One yesterday..a-may-zing.

[Napoleon Solo]

From the news stories, it sounds like it is Sony, rather than EON, who are desperate to have Craig back, and making it a condition of their putting the money up for it.

Back in September, Radar Online ran the story where Craig supposedly was being offered $150 million to do two more Bond movies. That story said Sony was behind the offer (rather than MGM). It also said that "any day" Sony would be announcing it had a new agreement to distribute Bond films.

http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/s ... ond-films/


On Dec. 16, it was the Mirror which said MGM was "panicking" and that Craig's participation was key to getting Sony to re-up to co-finance and distribute.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-n ... ic-9471998

[bjmdds]

[Veronica]

Blowfeld mentioned one very good thing-just how much EON and co. put effort in presenting Craig as the definite version of the character. After all the fabulous gushing about "the unique mix of charisma and acting skills" a.k.a Craig to quote Barbara I can't even imagine them doing the same thing for some other actor.

I wouldn't be so sure Veronica. Yes, they are head over heels in love with Craig but I can see them (and the fans) using similar sort of language for whoever the next Bond is as well. It's the norm now to hype a new product to the stratosphere while trashing everything that's gone before (even when you made it).

I was really REALLY hoping he was gone now but it's not looking likely, is it? Still it makes no difference really as I'm quite sure whoever is playing Bond, we won't be seeing a straight up back to basics classic Bond film anytime soon. That ship sailed a long time ago.

Also, when are they going to find some new script writers?

IMO the thing is they just hit the wall with SP so to speak. Just like with DAD which was Bond dialed up to eleven SP is Craig era kind of movie dialed up to eleven mixed up with cheap homages.
After DAD they said there was no other way than to erase everything about James Bond because it was just so freaking horrible. If Craig stays that would probably mean the whole foster brother crap continues as well.
But I am just not sure if anyone would like to continue that crap anyway. They saw the results,they saw the lukewarm reviews. They probably thought that would pay off in the same way the pretentious Tennyson poetry paid off in the previous one.
But it didn't and now they are stuck with the choice to either hire a new actor and forget all about the dismal foster brother nonsense or to continue that with the actor who looks so bored he might as well fall asleep in the middle of the sentence.
And it's not like anybody is actually interested in little Franz/Blowfeld thing or Craig's sleepwalking performance. Except his devoted erm...fans.

[FormerBondFan]

Watch this:

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[bjmdds]

FBF, you must be excited over Pierce's new projects! Have you finished your 5 viewings of Fantastic Beasts yet? Were you VERY pleased with the Potter prequel?

[FormerBondFan]

FBF, you must be excited over Pierce's new projects!

Are you still treating like I'm the only Pierce loyalist in this forum?

Have you finished your 5 viewings of Fantastic Beasts yet? Were you VERY pleased with the Potter prequel?

The mission is done. I wouldn't change anything to the potter prequel.

[Count_Lippe]

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[Goldeneye]

Carrie Fisher reportedly had a major hart attack on a London to LA flight. I hope and pray she pulls though. She is too young and we have lost so many in 2016.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

[Goldeneye]

Bond related food for thought despite such sad news. Bond was a Hollywood powerhouse because it produced movies so consistently for the larger part of 40 years, after Cubby's passing the children run the asylum, recent Bond movies personally crafted by Barbara have come down a very slow pace with mediocre results. After a year of no movement in the Bond world, a lost year as it was so aptly put, I wonder if EON is about to kill the goose who laid the golden egg by indulging Craig as well as their own lethargic tendencies.
Bond at one point was unique in the movie world because it continued a series for decades with an average of 2 movies every two years for 40 years, slipping by the 50th anniversary with a paltry 3 movies made in 10 years. As a look at the cineplex tonight it is crammed with major movies series with a thought out strategy for decades of sequels and prequels, is EON about to fall to behind the rest of the world at the risk of becoming extinct?
Audiences are becoming accustom to movies with fairly good production and stories values releasing at a steady pace while EON is contemplating returning in 2018-9 with a Bond introduced 14 years earlier with a paltry 4 movies under his belt. I kind of fell like they are about to be run over by the evolution of our popular culture as the Hollywood presses on with a new system and long term plan. I've been wrong before and I don't expect this to be an exception, I've had this feeling something is wrong, maybe different in the Bond world since Spectre was wrapping up. A year later Bond has no news and the eagerness of people the earlier part of the year for a new Bond is being tempered with the expectation they go back to the aging (temperamental as Jerry Lewis) Craig. Can't shake the feeling something is rotten in Bondmark. What say ye?

[bjmdds]

“Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher was in critical condition Friday after suffering a “cardiac episode” during a flight from London to Los Angeles, according to airline and emergency officials.

Fisher, 60, was rushed to UCLA Medical Center by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics shortly after noon, after her 11-hour flight touched down at LAX.

A source who was not authorized to discuss the incident said the actress was “in a lot of distress on the flight.”

A statement released by United Airlines said that medical personnel met Flight 935 from London on arrival after the crew reported a passenger was "unresponsive."

“Our thoughts are with our customer at this time,” the statement read.

Just prior to arrival, a pilot told the control tower that passengers who were nurses were attending to an “unresponsive” passenger.

“So they’re working on her right now,” the pilot said in a public recording of the conversation on liveatc.net.

[bjmdds]

Bond related food for thought despite such sad news. Bond was a Hollywood powerhouse because it produced movies so consistently for the larger part of 40 years, after Cubby's passing the children run the asylum, recent Bond movies personally crafted by Barbara have come down a very slow pace with mediocre results. After a year of no movement in the Bond world, a lost year as it was so aptly put, I wonder if EON is about to kill the goose who laid the golden egg by indulging Craig as well as their own lethargic tendencies.
Bond at one point was unique in the movie world because it continued a series for decades with an average of 2 movies every two years for 40 years, slipping by the 50th anniversary with a paltry 3 movies made in 10 years. As a look at the cineplex tonight it is crammed with major movies series with a thought out strategy for decades of sequels and prequels, is EON about to fall to behind the rest of the world at the risk of becoming extinct?
Audiences are becoming accustom to movies with fairly good production and stories values releasing at a steady pace while EON is contemplating returning in 2018-9 with a Bond introduced 14 years earlier with a paltry 4 movies under his belt. I kind of fell like they are about to be run over by the evolution of our popular culture as the Hollywood presses on with a new system and long term plan. I've been wrong before and I don't expect this to be an exception, I've had this feeling something is wrong, maybe different in the Bond world since Spectre was wrapping up. A year later Bond has no news and the eagerness of people the earlier part of the year for a new Bond is being tempered with the expectation they go back to the aging (temperamental as Jerry Lewis) Craig. Can't shake the feeling something is rotten in Bondmark. What say ye?

If the rotten vegetable keeps Cr-egg around another decade, the franchise will become a real BORE with the BOAR still in the role! WE create more buzz about Bond than EON does

[carl stromberg]

Festive greetings to all at DCINB.

[Blowfeld]

Happy Christmas!

[The Saint 007]

Merry Christmas!

[Omega]

Merry Christmas!!


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[Veronica]

Merry X-mas everyone!