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Agreed. The series lost track in 2005/2006 when for no reason whatsoever, the real James Bond stopped, and a 'reboot' happened. There was no reason for it. Never affected Bond before when a new actor was cast. My concern is when they do recast do they follow Craig's timeline or reboot again. And when they do recast what are real Bond fans chances of getting a Turner Bond, instead of a Broccoli Bond?
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bjmdds wrote:I have recently joined this website and I am very glad that there now is an available forum section on this website. To date, MI6 and Commanderbond.net have been the major players in the discussion of Daniel Craig's first outing as James Bond in Casino Royale. The problem with the other forum sites has been whenever a member with contrary views to either Craig or CR has posted their opinions, they are immediately attacked, like a swarm of bees, ridiculed, mocked, cursed at, defamed, and belittled by the masses of pro-Craig/CR members. Those two other sites are overwhelmingly in favor of the direction that Eon has taken with the Bond franchise. The minority of members in both of those sites have found it hard to debate fairly and intelligently any counter reviews or beliefs to Casino Royale. Both sites have there pitbull attack dogs ready to go whenever someone even hints that CR with DC is no longer a Bond film, no longer part of the historic franchise,and no longer recognizable as what it should be. CR was more successful at the international box office than it was in the USA. I hope this particular forum site can grow with members who in a cordial manner can openly debate various dissenting opinions of what Daniel Craig has done to the Bond franchise. By the time the next Bond film comes out, in November 2008, I hope this forum site has gathered a sizable amount of new members whose contrary opinions are appreciated, not attacked.
I am replying to your post ten years after you wrote it. Still as true then as it is now! Everything you described eventually happened to me and it was splendid to read your objective perspective. I was a long time member of Mi6 and it took me a few days to work out on joining, that to survive there, you had to be nice about Craig.

I admit that my survival strategy of appeasement backfired, but I thought that by hanging in there, I could convince others to smell the coffee. And, yes I drank the coolaid for a while .

But, once I eventually began to fight the b**lsh*t and criticise Craig, I began to create enemies and in the end was attacked by like you say : "A swarm of bees."

No matter how intelligently one argues, they will hit you with sarcasm and then provoke you to hit back and then contact a moderator to make out you started it.

I appreciate that here on CNB, one can express freely without being ridiculed. Within reason of course, because someone talking rubbish should be challenged.

As for the charge of being called not a fan of Bond for disliking Craggers, I had to laugh as my mother was a friend of the late Bob Simmons, who only happened to be Connery's stunt double as well being the stunt arranger for many years.

My ultimate point is that the pro-Craig forums use intimidation as a tactic, and I know of many people who keep their true feelings about Craig hidden, as they know they will be ganged up against. Path of least resistance.

And why did it take me so long to join Here? I was one of those idiots who thought that being loyal to EON, was being loyal to Cubby Broccoli. The truth is that being loyal to Craig, is disloyal to the legacy of Cubby's standards in leading man.

Better late than never, I guess.
Yes Dalton Ex-MI6, it's been almost 10 years to the date, that I left that MI6 site and came here :!: :clap: :Happy: The MI6 website that you left NOW is NOT the same forum it was 10 years ago. They shut that one down for some strange reason, and resurrected it into the current version. In either case, they are both EON shills. They admitted to me that their website is not a democracy, and they locked the most viewed and replied to thread I started there, because they obviously saw what was being written was not in their indoctrination agenda. I never bothered with them again. Cr-egg is NOT Bond :!: Period :!: I hate his presence in the role with a deep passion. What Connery stories can you share with us that you were told by your mother?
Thanks for the reply bjmdds. It is great to connect with real Bond fans free of the pollution and revisionism of the Craig era.

As for Bob Simmons, my mother talked more about life in general with him. She used to shop in a delicatessen called Delicatessen Stores in Northfields in West London. He happened to be there one day in 1986 and the owner who was close friends with him introduced my mother to him. And he lived very close to there. She initially got to know him being ignorant of the fact he was involved with Bond. Later the owner told her that he was responsible for the action in many Bond films.

Here is the rub. She told Bob Simmons after a few meetings in the shop, that she would invite him once our house-which was in the throes of a major refurbishment - was finished. My mother did not want him to see our house in a bad state, as she wanted to make a good impression, especially as she knew he was involved with the Bond films. She had a complex about that.

So, in late 1987, after pressure from me, as I was a new Bond fan, she phoned him to invite him over only to learn that he had recently died.
An absolute bummer, as I would have loved to have got to know him. She said he was such a nice person and was so down to earth.

My mother regretted his passing and it served as a valuable lesson to not take anything for granted. As they say tomorrow never comes.

I apologise for not having a Connery or Moore story from him, but that is the honest to God truth.
We never knew how he died. All that is out there is he died in October 1987.
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George Michael died of natural causes as the result of heart disease and a fatty liver, a British coroner said Tuesday.
Darren Salter, senior coroner for the county of Oxfordshire in southern England, said a post-mortem has found that the singer died of "dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver."

Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the left ventricle of the heart becomes stretched and weakened, limiting the heart's ability to pump blood. Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle........what about toxicology results?..............Carrie Fisher’s autopsy results have been placed on a security hold since January 4. :shock:
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FormerBondFan wrote:We have a new Star Trek captain:

http://deadline.com/2017/03/star-trek-d ... 202038246/
Apparently the tweet from the official ST Twitter account that announced it has been pulled. Not sure what's going on. Perhaps there was a mistake and the new captain is actually Moonlight ;)
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FormerBondFan wrote:We have a new Star Trek captain:

http://deadline.com/2017/03/star-trek-d ... 202038246/
Apparently the tweet from the official ST Twitter account that announced it has been pulled. Not sure what's going on. Perhaps there was a mistake and the new captain is actually Moonlight ;)
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Blowfeld wrote:
Dalton exMI6 wrote:
bjmdds wrote:
Dalton exMI6 wrote:
bjmdds wrote:I have recently joined this website and I am very glad that there now is an available forum section on this website. To date, MI6 and Commanderbond.net have been the major players in the discussion of Daniel Craig's first outing as James Bond in Casino Royale. The problem with the other forum sites has been whenever a member with contrary views to either Craig or CR has posted their opinions, they are immediately attacked, like a swarm of bees, ridiculed, mocked, cursed at, defamed, and belittled by the masses of pro-Craig/CR members. Those two other sites are overwhelmingly in favor of the direction that Eon has taken with the Bond franchise. The minority of members in both of those sites have found it hard to debate fairly and intelligently any counter reviews or beliefs to Casino Royale. Both sites have there pitbull attack dogs ready to go whenever someone even hints that CR with DC is no longer a Bond film, no longer part of the historic franchise,and no longer recognizable as what it should be. CR was more successful at the international box office than it was in the USA. I hope this particular forum site can grow with members who in a cordial manner can openly debate various dissenting opinions of what Daniel Craig has done to the Bond franchise. By the time the next Bond film comes out, in November 2008, I hope this forum site has gathered a sizable amount of new members whose contrary opinions are appreciated, not attacked.
I am replying to your post ten years after you wrote it. Still as true then as it is now! Everything you described eventually happened to me and it was splendid to read your objective perspective. I was a long time member of Mi6 and it took me a few days to work out on joining, that to survive there, you had to be nice about Craig.

I admit that my survival strategy of appeasement backfired, but I thought that by hanging in there, I could convince others to smell the coffee. And, yes I drank the coolaid for a while .

But, once I eventually began to fight the b**lsh*t and criticise Craig, I began to create enemies and in the end was attacked by like you say : "A swarm of bees."

No matter how intelligently one argues, they will hit you with sarcasm and then provoke you to hit back and then contact a moderator to make out you started it.

I appreciate that here on CNB, one can express freely without being ridiculed. Within reason of course, because someone talking rubbish should be challenged.

As for the charge of being called not a fan of Bond for disliking Craggers, I had to laugh as my mother was a friend of the late Bob Simmons, who only happened to be Connery's stunt double as well being the stunt arranger for many years.

My ultimate point is that the pro-Craig forums use intimidation as a tactic, and I know of many people who keep their true feelings about Craig hidden, as they know they will be ganged up against. Path of least resistance.

And why did it take me so long to join Here? I was one of those idiots who thought that being loyal to EON, was being loyal to Cubby Broccoli. The truth is that being loyal to Craig, is disloyal to the legacy of Cubby's standards in leading man.

Better late than never, I guess.
Yes Dalton Ex-MI6, it's been almost 10 years to the date, that I left that MI6 site and came here :!: :clap: :Happy: The MI6 website that you left NOW is NOT the same forum it was 10 years ago. They shut that one down for some strange reason, and resurrected it into the current version. In either case, they are both EON shills. They admitted to me that their website is not a democracy, and they locked the most viewed and replied to thread I started there, because they obviously saw what was being written was not in their indoctrination agenda. I never bothered with them again. Cr-egg is NOT Bond :!: Period :!: I hate his presence in the role with a deep passion. What Connery stories can you share with us that you were told by your mother?
Thanks for the reply bjmdds. It is great to connect with real Bond fans free of the pollution and revisionism of the Craig era.

As for Bob Simmons, my mother talked more about life in general with him. She used to shop in a delicatessen called Delicatessen Stores in Northfields in West London. He happened to be there one day in 1986 and the owner who was close friends with him introduced my mother to him. And he lived very close to there. She initially got to know him being ignorant of the fact he was involved with Bond. Later the owner told her that he was responsible for the action in many Bond films.

Here is the rub. She told Bob Simmons after a few meetings in the shop, that she would invite him once our house-which was in the throes of a major refurbishment - was finished. My mother did not want him to see our house in a bad state, as she wanted to make a good impression, especially as she knew he was involved with the Bond films. She had a complex about that.

So, in late 1987, after pressure from me, as I was a new Bond fan, she phoned him to invite him over only to learn from the person who answered that he had recently died.

An absolute bummer, as I would have loved to have got to know him. She said he was such a nice person and was so down to earth.

My mother regretted his passing and it served as a valuable lesson to not take anything for granted. As they say tomorrow never comes.

I apologise for not having a Connery or Moore story from him, but that is the honest to God truth.
We never knew how he died. All that is out there is he died in October 1987.
I am aware that there is little information on the Internet about Bob. And I was a teenager at the time. A shame, because he was not that old. He had only recently retired from the Bond films.

In April 2001 at my grandmother's funeral, I had an opportunity to talk with the owner of the delicatessen about Bob. I had not seen him in years as he closed his shop in the early 1990's, partly due to wanting to retire and also because of fierce competition from the supermarkets that sprung up in the area and were undercutting him. My grandmother was a very good customer of his, as were my parents.

He knew Bob for many years, because Bob would shop there when he was not doing the Bond films. He was doing the most exciting continental food at a time when British supermarkets were selling bland products. And Bob being well travelled, could buy food there from many of the places he visited doing Bond.

He lived above his delicatessen and when he closed, Bob would sometimes come over to play cards with him and his brother in law, who also worked with him.

By all accounts, Bob was one of the nicest people and because Bob was not married, he had a sense of family with Stefan, the owner. And they were both of the same generation.

Yes, Stefan told me Bob was on great terms with the Bond team and had many friends there , but as you can appreciate, they lived in different parts of the country and the world. So, this delicatessen was a great way for Bob to have a sense of connection with people in his own area.

I will say this, but to this day, I miss the atmosphere of that delicatessen. It was a great place to socialise and buy things. That is something that hardly exists these days.
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Re: the ad problem. eBay even has it, they are directing actually hijacking windows users with Firefox to a fake site to install "crucial Firefox updates" .


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Omega wrote:
Kristatos wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:We have a new Star Trek captain:

http://deadline.com/2017/03/star-trek-d ... 202038246/
Apparently the tweet from the official ST Twitter account that announced it has been pulled. Not sure what's going on. Perhaps there was a mistake and the new captain is actually Moonlight ;)
lol

Jason isaacs would have been a good bond when he was younger and a great m

Jason is better off not getting mix with Babs' evil regime. Trek should be something to get him off the Potter image.


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Big O, some websites are not allowed to be opened by Safari on Macs now too. It says "Safari cannot establish a secure connection". I checked the Apple forums and this is happening a lot now, and nobody has any answers. I hope it does not happen with this website. So far, 2 other websites I go to regularly no longer have access to Safari suddenly.
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Try clearing your catch. It is probably malicious script getting block by the Apple browser


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Movies You Love That Become Terrible After 30 Minutes: Moviefone: Phil Pirrello 2/23/2017---------'SPECTRE' (2015): To be fair, this movie goes off the rails soon after the gun barrel logo opening, with its pretentious "The Dead Are Alive" title card. From there, its an uneven, over-plotted decline from "Skyfall"-level highs...................DIE ANOTHER DAY' (2002): We checked out about 10 minutes in, thanks to that crappy opening titles song. But we liked the idea of Bond being captured and tortured. The film mostly abandons that story thread, and its dramatic potential, the moment Bond gets clean-shaven and takes off for Cuba.
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Dalton exMI6 wrote:
I am aware that there is little information on the Internet about Bob. And I was a teenager at the time. A shame, because he was not that old. He had only recently retired from the Bond films.

In April 2001 at my grandmother's funeral, I had an opportunity to talk with the owner of the delicatessen about Bob. I had not seen him in years as he closed his shop in the early 1990's, partly due to wanting to retire and also because of fierce competition from the supermarkets that sprung up in the area and were undercutting him. My grandmother was a very good customer of his, as were my parents.

He knew Bob for many years, because Bob would shop there when he was not doing the Bond films. He was doing the most exciting continental food at a time when British supermarkets were selling bland products. And Bob being well travelled, could buy food there from many of the places he visited doing Bond.

He lived above his delicatessen and when he closed, Bob would sometimes come over to play cards with him and his brother in law, who also worked with him.

By all accounts, Bob was one of the nicest people and because Bob was not married, he had a sense of family with Stefan, the owner. And they were both of the same generation.

Yes, Stefan told me Bob was on great terms with the Bond team and had many friends there , but as you can appreciate, they lived in different parts of the country and the world. So, this delicatessen was a great way for Bob to have a sense of connection with people in his own area.

I will say this, but to this day, I miss the atmosphere of that delicatessen. It was a great place to socialise and buy things. That is something that hardly exists these days.
Love hearing these stories. It adds depth and colour to a man we all appreciated on screen. As a fan I always felt a certain way about his passing, now I have greater appreciation for him who he was and how he lived his life, so much more than his contributions to the movies I enjoy.
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https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... ence-call/

No news from MGM on any movement concerning Bond 25

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer said nothing about Bond 25 during a 24-minute conference call to discuss 2016 earnings.
CEO Gary Barber didn’t mention Bond 25 in prepared remarks. Shareholders asked no questions despite recent reports last month in the New York Post and Wall Street Journal that MGM had been shopping itself to an unidentified Chinese buyer. The deal came undone late last year, the Journal said.
MGM instead highlighted remakes it has in production or planned, including Tomb Raider, Death Wish and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The company also said it plans to increase its “content spend” this year to $400 million to $440 million from $218 million in 2016.
In March 2016, Barber said on an investor call that Bond movies would come out on a three- to four-year cycle. There has been no significant news from the studio about Bond 25 since.
MGM isn’t big enough to release films on its own and cuts deals with other studios to distribute and co-finance movies. MGM doesn’t have a distribution deal for Bond 25. The last four 007 films have been distributed by Sony Pictures. Sony’s most recent two-picture Bond deal expired with 2015’s SPECTRE.
The latest conference call is archived on MGM’s investor relations page of its website.


A double edged sword. The longer that there is no Bond 25 the more likely we don't Craig back. But how long do Bond fans have to wait. Turner or Hiddles could be ready to fill the tux sooner rather than later.
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Blowfeld wrote:
Dalton exMI6 wrote:
I am aware that there is little information on the Internet about Bob. And I was a teenager at the time. A shame, because he was not that old. He had only recently retired from the Bond films.

In April 2001 at my grandmother's funeral, I had an opportunity to talk with the owner of the delicatessen about Bob. I had not seen him in years as he closed his shop in the early 1990's, partly due to wanting to retire and also because of fierce competition from the supermarkets that sprung up in the area and were undercutting him. My grandmother was a very good customer of his, as were my parents.

He knew Bob for many years, because Bob would shop there when he was not doing the Bond films. He was doing the most exciting continental food at a time when British supermarkets were selling bland products. And Bob being well travelled, could buy food there from many of the places he visited doing Bond.

He lived above his delicatessen and when he closed, Bob would sometimes come over to play cards with him and his brother in law, who also worked with him.

By all accounts, Bob was one of the nicest people and because Bob was not married, he had a sense of family with Stefan, the owner. And they were both of the same generation.

Yes, Stefan told me Bob was on great terms with the Bond team and had many friends there , but as you can appreciate, they lived in different parts of the country and the world. So, this delicatessen was a great way for Bob to have a sense of connection with people in his own area.

I will say this, but to this day, I miss the atmosphere of that delicatessen. It was a great place to socialise and buy things. That is something that hardly exists these days.
Love hearing these stories. It adds depth and colour to a man we all appreciated on screen. As a fan I always felt a certain way about his passing, now I have greater appreciation for him who he was and how he lived his life, so much more than his contributions to the movies I enjoy.
Indeed! Bob Simmons was a legend of the film industry when it comes to creating action sequences. He was involved with Bond from the first film Dr No, and for me he will always be a very important part of the Bond lore. He was there during The Beatlemania equivalent in the 1960's. And the best thing about Bob, apart from his titanic achievements, was how down to earth he was and approachable.


Even though the Craig era may boast about the big financial returns, helped by the biggest marketing I ever recall for the series, I do not notice people talk spontaneously about Bond how they did back when I was very young. When I was growing up- it was the Moore era- Bond was the biggest event in films. Young and old, Bond was always a talking point.
Now, the new Bond/ Bourne in a better suit, is one franchise amongst many others and does not have anything new to offer. That cannot be said of the classic era!
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Kong: Skull Island opens this weekend, and box office predictions are in. The movie looks set for a solid opening, despite heavy competition from the X-Men hit Logan. According to Deadline, Skull Island is expected to gross $45 million-$50 million in the US over its first three days. :up: This is an improvement over early tracking a month ago, which placed it closer to $40 million. The movie has received strong reviews, which will help its box office chances. Beauty and the Beast opens on March 17, and it has been reported that it could set a new all-time record for a March release. This only gives Skull Island a week of potential box office dominance, before Disney's lavish musical takes the top slot. Stay to the end of the credits or you will miss an intriguing setup for the inevitable sequel.. On the plus side for Kong, and this should work in its favor in regards to foot traffic, is that reviews are at 83% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. :up:
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Bond...James Bond wrote:https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... ence-call/

No news from MGM on any movement concerning Bond 25

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer said nothing about Bond 25 during a 24-minute conference call to discuss 2016 earnings.
CEO Gary Barber didn’t mention Bond 25 in prepared remarks. Shareholders asked no questions despite recent reports last month in the New York Post and Wall Street Journal that MGM had been shopping itself to an unidentified Chinese buyer. The deal came undone late last year, the Journal said.
MGM instead highlighted remakes it has in production or planned, including Tomb Raider, Death Wish and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The company also said it plans to increase its “content spend” this year to $400 million to $440 million from $218 million in 2016.
In March 2016, Barber said on an investor call that Bond movies would come out on a three- to four-year cycle. There has been no significant news from the studio about Bond 25 since.
MGM isn’t big enough to release films on its own and cuts deals with other studios to distribute and co-finance movies. MGM doesn’t have a distribution deal for Bond 25. The last four 007 films have been distributed by Sony Pictures. Sony’s most recent two-picture Bond deal expired with 2015’s SPECTRE.
The latest conference call is archived on MGM’s investor relations page of its website.


A double edged sword. The longer that there is no Bond 25 the more likely we don't Craig back. But how long do Bond fans have to wait. Turner or Hiddles could be ready to fill the tux sooner rather than later.
That's Napoleon solo's site, he's good people and great on his facts. Not sure MGM will be around for 2018-19 spending $400 million on those remakes of movies that sucked when they were made, MGM following the Sony school of thought and remaking all the properties they own will not help.
Tomb raider is the only one I think could be bigger but they'd have to brake the curse of video game movies being gawd awful. Death wish if low budget might do ok but they have to find as good a lead as the original. Dirty rotten scoundrel's why bother without Steve Martin. Even then it was a lame Orion movie.
Thing about MGM is their big spend year for a bunch of projects is about what EON spends on one bond movie, even if the make skyfall money the studio and distributors does not make a lot of money, bond costs too much especially the last two. They haven't shrunk the budget in decades, last frugal bond was GE, even CR the "back to basics" bond movie cost the same as DAD.

I'm not sure MGM is going to make it when they keep pulling the equivalent of hot tub time machine and Ben hur out of their hat. I did like magnificent seven remake but that movie lost money only making $162 million costing $108 million without prints and advertising counted. They'd need over $300 million to break even.

MGM is in the movie partnering business I think with out big dawgs like bond and hobbit they are slowly spending themselves to death on low return movies.



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Dalton exMI6 wrote: Indeed! Bob Simmons was a legend of the film industry when it comes to creating action sequences. He was involved with Bond from the first film Dr No, and for me he will always be a very important part of the Bond lore. He was there during The Beatlemania equivalent in the 1960's. And the best thing about Bob, apart from his titanic achievements, was how down to earth he was and approachable.
As you may or may not be aware, I'm a fan of classic Hammer films as well as a Bond fan, and Bob also acted as the stunt coordinator for some of Hammer's swashbucklers like The Devil Ship Pirates and Captain Clegg (aka Night Creatures).
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[video][/video] He looks decrepit and slovenly as usual :!: Get rid of him......NOW :!:
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Sun Bets have revealed which British actor is most likely to take on the classic role of 007----While Aidan Turner has been the bookies favourite for quite some time, he is currently being pipped to the post by Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender. Sun Bets are currently taking bets on over 50 male actors to take on the role of James Bond as Daniel Craig’s replacement. The favourite is currently split between Tom Hardy :down: and Michael Fassbender :down: , who both have odds of 11/4. ----------- Sun Bets next James Bond odds:
Michael Fassbender – 11/4
Tom Hardy – 11/4
James Norton – 7/2
Aidan Turner – 4/1
Idris Elba – 6/1
Tom Hiddleston – 8/1
Jack Huston – 10/1
Henry Cavill – 20/1
Luke Evans – 25/1
Jamie Bell – 33/1
Dan Stevens – 50/1
Rupert Friend – 33/1
Benedict Cumberbatch – 66/1
Clive Owen – 100/1
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