The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

Especially for Capt Flandry, here's Mick Jagger dancing to the theme from On The Buses:



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Get in that bus...and get it out!

[bjmdds]

Radiotimes.com lists Diamonds Are Forever as the worst Bond film of all time and On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the best of all time: https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/james ... ms-ranked/

[dirtybenny]

Radiotimes.com lists Diamonds Are Forever as the worst Bond film of all time and On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the best of all time: https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/james ... ms-ranked/

What a s**t list! Feels like it was compiled by someone who glanced at a Reddit post and wrote an article.

[Kristatos]

What a s**t list! Feels like it was compiled by someone who glanced at a Reddit post and wrote an article.

A bir predictable, but it could be worse. At least NTTD is nearer the bottom than the top, with QOS and SPECTRE below it.

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[bjmdds]

Over what is typically a lucrative Easter box office weekend, there’s unfortunately no great rush stateside to Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore which is heading toward an estimated $44.5M opening. Warners is seeing at least $40M with the potential for upside. On the high side, that’s 27% off the $62.1M opening of the 2018 second movie The Crimes of Grindelwald, which already had an opening that was 17% off from the first 2016 installment. Eddie Redmayne has NO on screen presence whatsoever and mumbles to the point of incoherence in the first 2 films. The characters so far are boring as well.

[bjmdds]

Some genius named Bhatia, at an obscure website called thewire.in, suggests the following: 'As a die-hard fan of the films, who has seen all 25 of them, some of them repeatedly – shut down the series. Bond has gone, now the entire 00 franchise should be retired. It is an anachronism, as the man said in Spectre..............It is time to retire the whole series and the whole premise. Britain has other problems it must contend with and should not be burdened with saving the world from megalomaniacs. Bond has done his duty and can now rest in peace. The 00 programme must be retired – we fans will wallow in our nostalgia for the heydays of James Bond, of outlandish and cartoonish villains, of those glorious henchmen and henchwomen, of cracking lines, of the sexy Bond girls and of endless debates of who was the best Bond of them all.' -----I am sure Broccoli will heed his opinions. https://thewire.in/film/james-bond-repl ... -shut-down

[Kristatos]

I've been hearing this since the '80s. They'll shut it down when people stop going to see them, like Fantastic Beasts.

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[carl stromberg]

From the article BJ posted at https://thewire.in/film/james-bond-repl ... -shut-down

'As a die-hard fan of the films, who has seen all 25 of them, some of them repeatedly'

That made me laugh - it sounds like something Peter Cook would have said.

[dirtybenny]

From the article BJ posted at https://thewire.in/film/james-bond-repl ... -shut-down

'As a die-hard fan of the films, who has seen all 25 of them, some of them repeatedly'

That made me laugh - it sounds like something Peter Cook would have said.

"Some of them repeatedly," how does that meme go? "I'm something of a Bond expert myself."

[kater23]

Good friend of mine saw Fantastic Beasts and..fell asleep TWICE!

[Kristatos]

The 10 stupidest things the CraigBond has done:

https://screenrant.com/james-bond-quest ... craig-007/

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[bjmdds]

The 10 stupidest things the CraigBond has done:

https://screenrant.com/james-bond-quest ... craig-007/

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"Throughout the movie's events, it is made clear that the nanobots can be re-engineered to target different people. After all, the bots that killed SPECTRE members in Cuba were initially meant for Bond. Agent 007's, therefore has no reason to give up. It's highly likely that the MI6 could have found a way to make the bots in his body less deadly, hence allowing him to be with Madeleine and Mathilde once again.".............exactly right.

[Irony-Man2]

The 10 stupidest things the CraigBond has done:

https://screenrant.com/james-bond-quest ... craig-007/

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The article lost me when it claimed that Craig's Bond was known to be charming. Even the biggest Craig fanboys would have to concede that this was the least charming James Bond ever put on screen. And whether that was a choice made to highlight how this version of Bond wasn't interested in all the things that made Bond Bond - an appreciation for the small joys of life, loyalty, friendship - or a recognition that the actor they chose to play Bond didn't have the charisma to play charming, doesn't matter. This Bond was a blunt instrument from the opening scene in Casino Royale all the way thru to his demise in NTTD.

[Veronica]

The 10 stupidest things the CraigBond has done:

https://screenrant.com/james-bond-quest ... craig-007/

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The article lost me when it claimed that Craig's Bond was known to be charming. Even the biggest Craig fanboys would have to concede that this was the least charming James Bond ever put on screen. And whether that was a choice made to highlight how this version of Bond wasn't interested in all the things that made Bond Bond - an appreciation for the small joys of life, loyalty, friendship - or a recognition that the actor they chose to play Bond didn't have the charisma to play charming, doesn't matter. This Bond was a blunt instrument from the opening scene in Casino Royale all the way thru to his demise in NTTD.

But I really did see his fans call him charming. Some even said he is more charismatic than Connery which is... an interesting point of view.

As for Craig Bond's lack of charm- I think it was a mix of Craig's limitations in that department and the fact they were going for the whole "dark and edgier is better" approach.

[acid]

Radiotimes.com lists Diamonds Are Forever as the worst Bond film of all time and On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the best of all time: https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/james ... ms-ranked/

What a s**t list! Feels like it was compiled by someone who glanced at a Reddit post and wrote an article.

Only just caught up with this.

Our lead was suitably supported in his 007 debut by a sensational turn from Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and the absolutely magnetic Mads Mikkelsen as the villainous Le Chiffre.

Taking the skeleton of Ian Fleming's first Bond novel and building around it an action thriller that felt genuinely dangerous and unpredictable at points, this was the most exciting and challenging the franchise had felt for years. Never mind the Craig era, Casino Royale is one of the best Bond movies ever, period.

Uhh, somebody was getting a little over-excited there, I think. I just hope they're not still ranking Casino Royale right at the top in another 15 years.

And ranking DAF last It's implausible campy fun, certainly, but it succeeds at being fun and has plenty of exciting action and Charles Gray's idiosyncratic performances are always interesting.

How could they forget to mention the best PTS ever (Yeah, I know, I can get over-excited too, but, seriously, it's appropriate) when discussing Moonraker? The look of determination on Moore's face when he spots the sky diver below him, John Barry's genuinely epic score, the mid air fight and Bond struggling to do up the parachute harness. The sense of hope and eventual triumph against almost impossible odds - that's what I miss from the Bond movies of today.

[Veronica]

I don't think Craig and Green worked well together. Some of it is due to the script and the way their relationship was written(as well as Vesper's character in general) but Craig overall lacked chemistry with the actresses he was paired with.

[bjmdds]

A new THOR film is due out July 8:

[bjmdds]

The new Jurassic World Dominion will be out soon:

[bjmdds]

The new Dr. Strange film is on the way:

[bjmdds]

The final list of next weekend's Chiller Theatre is : http://chillertheatre.com/gt/gtc4.htm