"Those were the days when we still associated Bond with suave, old school actors such as Sean Connery and Roger Moore,"
"Daniel didn't have a hint of suave about him," - Patsy Palmer
Brosnan also revealed that he has never watched Daniel Craig as 007.
“I haven’t seen Daniel in the role. I tried watching it on an airplane,” he says. “I thought 37,000 feet was a good distance to watch it from and it broke down right at the beginning. The attendant came and changed it and it broke down a second time, so I figured ‘OK. The Gods must be saying something . . .’ ]
“So I never went near it! I just thought, ‘let sleeping dogs lie.’ I got the Academy screener for the last one and I turned it on for my boys and I left them to it. I didn’t go near it.”
they sent out Academy screeners for Quantum
"Those were the days when we still associated Bond with suave, old school actors such as Sean Connery and Roger Moore,"
"Daniel didn't have a hint of suave about him," - Patsy Palmer
The Sweeney wrote:
For me, the cheesiest Bond films are the Moore and Brozza films. But each to their own. If you don't find the Brozza or Moore films cheesy, but you do find the Craig films incredibly cheesy, then fine. It's your opinion.
There is an actor called Sean Connery who made a series of camp Bond movies in the 1960's which have been parodied many times since ans spawned many cheesy spy movie imitators!! If you find elements of Brosnan or Moore cheesy, then Connery must invariably descend into cheese too.
QOS will go down as a cult cheesy movie in future years as it will fall into the "it's so bad it's funny" category. There are so many cheesy classic moments such as the freefall jump, the motorcycle flip, Craig ripping off a door handle to lock someone in a cupboard..........
The freefall is cheesy, I admit. But is that any worse than what was seen during the Brozza era?
Also, overall would you say the Craig films are cheesier than the Brozza films? I know you hate Craig, and hate the new, grittier direction, so I doubt you would find Craig's films cheesier than Brozza's. You have different issues with Craig's films, I know.
Nothing wrong with grittier direction Sweene. The problem is the vehicle driving it.....Craig.....spoiled cheese......
katied wrote:Babs is EON's version of Obama-they're both doing half-a$$ed jobs!
Hopefully they will be replaced with intelligent people real soon.
I have many criticisms of Obama, but lack of intelligence is not one of them. His cool intellectual detachment was what attracted a lot of people to him (you need a steady hand on the tiller in times of crisis), but it may prove to be his undoing. He seems unwilling to really take a stand on anything, and really fight for the change he promised. I see a lot of similarities with Tony Blair - both were relatively young, charismatic leaders elected in landslides in order to punish a discredited right-wing government. And both turned out to be a case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss". I think America desperately needs a viable third party. Both the Republicans and Democrats are too compromised, and in the service of the same elite interests. Party labels are just brands at the moment, engendering tribal loyalty, like those Mac vs. PC ads on TV. Time to revive the Populist Party?
The Tea Party is already taking shape. Oh-bama minus his teleprompter Kris, has little to offer. He travels around with a constant speech writer. Do not be fooled by the liberal media that he is a true intellectual. He voted PRESENT 143 times in Illinois on issues so he would not draw attention. That kind of BS will not fly as President and he is quite an arrogant ass as well which is seen at his fake town hall preconceived events. Get him one on one, even with Diane Sawyer last night, and he is CLUELESS on issue solving. This novelty act is going down in 2012, especially once Hillary quits after November's massacre of the Democrats nationwide.
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carl stromberg wrote:BTW, this thread is confusing with multiple topics!!
That's why it's called a general discussion thread!
Correct Kris. All topics, all the time, in no order or sequence. It keeps us on our toes. As an aside, have you seen Avatar yet? I have not. Why so much interest that it is now numero uno of all time?
Favorite Bond Movie: Octopussy From Russia With Love The Living Daylights On Her Majestys Secret Service Doctor No .... Ah heck all of them
Favorite Movies: Lawrence Of Arabia, Forrest Gump, Jaws, The Shawshank Redemption, Vertigo, The Odd Couple, Zoolander, Cool Hand Luke, The Great Escape...many more.
Location: Well here obviously. At the moment of course
Favorite Bond Movie: Octopussy From Russia With Love The Living Daylights On Her Majestys Secret Service Doctor No .... Ah heck all of them
Favorite Movies: Lawrence Of Arabia, Forrest Gump, Jaws, The Shawshank Redemption, Vertigo, The Odd Couple, Zoolander, Cool Hand Luke, The Great Escape...many more.
Location: Well here obviously. At the moment of course
Favorite Bond Movie: Octopussy From Russia With Love The Living Daylights On Her Majestys Secret Service Doctor No .... Ah heck all of them
Favorite Movies: Lawrence Of Arabia, Forrest Gump, Jaws, The Shawshank Redemption, Vertigo, The Odd Couple, Zoolander, Cool Hand Luke, The Great Escape...many more.
Location: Well here obviously. At the moment of course
Favorite Bond Movie: Octopussy From Russia With Love The Living Daylights On Her Majestys Secret Service Doctor No .... Ah heck all of them
Favorite Movies: Lawrence Of Arabia, Forrest Gump, Jaws, The Shawshank Redemption, Vertigo, The Odd Couple, Zoolander, Cool Hand Luke, The Great Escape...many more.
Location: Well here obviously. At the moment of course
Thanks Carl.
Nice to see Pierce has God talking to him. Telling him not to watch Craigs Bond films.
Standard former Bond procedure.
Not the messages from the almighty. Hope he's not about to pull a David Ike.
Or is that the style now 
