The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[bjmdds]

Pascal was an idiot hiring Craig as Bond and she is an idiot with Garfield, age 27, playing a kid. No way will he do the numbers Tobey did. Ryan Reynolds will ruin The Green Lantern as will Rogen ruin the Green Hornet just as Brandon Routh ruined Superman Returns. The actor needs a certain look and quality to play a super hero and these guys will not cut it. Pascal is a sick puppy in Hollywood.

[FormerBondFan]

Spidey 4 is set to release on the week after Trek 12's release date, June 29, 2012.

[FormerBondFan]

Peter Parker getting his powers during high school and become Spidey. That's already been done successfully on the big screen, and that was 8-9 years ago. And in 2012, Spidey comes back and rebooted. Superman reboot is totally understandable, but a Spidey reboot, after the franchise's first introduction on the big screen 8 years ago? WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!!!!! There's a whole bunch of other superheroes out there that are not yet seen before on the big screen. Last April, we got a superhero came out on screen known as Kick-Ass, which I never heard of until seeing the trailer. This is a one example of making a movie on a superhero that not many people are familiar with. But if you want to reboot a superhero franchise, why not reboot Fantastic Four?

[bjmdds]

I just watched QOS twice on Showtime. In a word, abysmal. Forster's attempt to smear the USA and UK governments, compounded with a senseless plot based on 60% control of Bolivia's water, with a trash villain in Greene, and a vendetta against a rapist general, all fails. Craig is a lifeless thug ala Rambo. Broccoli should be ashamed of herself and Jeffrey Wright as Leiter must go as well for he is dread awful and dull.

[Mazer Rackham]

Pascal was an idiot hiring Craig as Bond and she is an idiot with Garfield, age 27, playing a kid. No way will he do the numbers Tobey did. Ryan Reynolds will ruin The Green Lantern as will Rogen ruin the Green Hornet just as Brandon Routh ruined Superman Returns. The actor needs a certain look and quality to play a super hero and these guys will not cut it. Pascal is a sick puppy in Hollywood.

Pascal did not want Craig. Clive Owen was more her speed. She was talking to Brozza about coming back only a few weeks before Craig was announced. Well after all the screen tests and such.

This Garfield kid, nothing against him personally I can see the direction they want to go with him. However I just don't see Peter Parker. But then I didn't think Maguire was all that great as Parker either. Honestly it isn't Peter Barker that sells tickets, it's Spider-Man and as long as Spider-Man looks convincing on the silver screen it may do alight. For the life of me I do not see the sense in rebooting there are much simpler ways of doing essentially the same thing.

[Kristatos]

Superman reboot is totally understandable, but a Spidey reboot, after the franchise's first introduction on the big screen 8 years ago? WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!!!!!

And Superman Returns didn't bother to retell Supes' origin story again. Incidentally, I didn't think Brandon Routh was as bad as everyone says. He was no Christopher Reeve, but I thought he was adequate in the role. Kate Bosworth's Lois Lane irritated me far more.

[katied]

I just watched QOS twice on Showtime. In a word, abysmal. Forster's attempt to smear the USA and UK governments, compounded with a senseless plot based on 60% control of Bolivia's water, with a trash villain in Greene, and a vendetta against a rapist general, all fails. Craig is a lifeless thug ala Rambo. Broccoli should be ashamed of herself and Jeffrey Wright as Leiter must go as well for he is dread awful and dull.

I'm surprised you sat through it twice!

Me, I don't mind Wright's Felix. Under used in Quantum of Solace, which is a shame.


Oh! I bought my first Blu Ray today!(it rhymes!)...


Kill Bill Vol. 1(it was either Kill Bill or Shaun of The Dead).

[Harvey danish]

sat through it twice........BJMDDS.......... are you ok?? no after effects?????? Jeff Wright is OK as Felix.....

[katied]

CBS was showing Dud Another Day last night. They are really scraping the barrel for programming-and the shows they have on their fall schedule aren't much better.

[Harvey danish]

noticed that also

[bjmdds]

TV is a wasteland, a true boob tube....look at the trash on......an insult to human comprehension....Maury, The Bachelorette, Springer, Oh-pra, Dr. Phil, soap operas....bring back I Love Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Munsters, etc.! Happy Fourth of July to the great USA!

[katied]

I guarantee you a lot of the shows that are coming on the fall-not just on CBS but on all the networks-are not going to last very long. They'll be dipping into their mid-season replacements before they know it. I'll probably be sticking mostly to cable-I love the Nat Geo(National Geographic) channel.

As far as Dud Another Day goes..if I wanted to see it, I'd watch Spike or G4, since they always seem to be showing DUD(they have the Bond films as their "other" programming).

I'm headed out to a 4th of July party in a few hours.....mmmm, hamburgers!

[Mazer Rackham]

I just watched QOS twice on Showtime. In a word, abysmal. Forster's attempt to smear the USA and UK governments, compounded with a senseless plot based on 60% control of Bolivia's water, with a trash villain in Greene, and a vendetta against a rapist general, all fails. Craig is a lifeless thug ala Rambo. Broccoli should be ashamed of herself and Jeffrey Wright as Leiter must go as well for he is dread awful and dull.

I'm surprised you sat through it twice!

Me, I don't mind Wright's Felix. Under used in Quantum of Solace, which is a shame.


Oh! I bought my first Blu Ray today!(it rhymes!)...


Kill Bill Vol. 1(it was either Kill Bill or Shaun of The Dead).

They have cast worse Leiter's. The problem with Wright's Felix is it completely takes s**t on the Bond Felix relationship. They sit around now bitching about how evil their governments are as they practicing scowling at each other. Reading Wrights interviews it is clear he and Craig have no idea what they are doing.

No...You Suck more!

[Harvey danish]

She may have been a true Cold Warrior, but Anna Chapman is red-hot in the sheets.

The flame-haired Russian hottie accused of being a deep-cover mole in the U.S. was a wild woman in the sack, her ex-hubby says.

"Anya was great in bed and she knew exactly what to do," said Alex Chapman, who married the then-Anya Kushchenko in 2002. "The sex was great and she had this incredible body."

Chapman told the British newspaper News of the World that he met the stunning spook at a rave in England in 2001 and immediately fell in love.

"I hadn't met anybody like her before," he said. "I was infatuated with her."

They began a torrid affair, which Alex Chapman says quickly veered into kinky territory.

The randy Russian had a penchant for whips and nipple clamps and once joined him in a mile-high sex romp aboard a Moscow-bound flight, he said.

"I found her Russian accent such a turn-on," said the 30-year-old psychologist trainee. "We were having so much fun. We also experimented with sex toys."

*********************** He said he's not surprised his former flame was accused of spying for Mother Russia, as she always had a deep love for James Bond films.***********************************************

"If she is a spy then she's fallen into it because of the glitz and the glamour of it all," he said. "She used her looks to get noticed."

Through her lawyer, Anna Chapman, 28, says she is deeply "embarrassed" by photos of her gallivanting around the U.S. that made her the face of the alleged spy ring even though she is considered a minor player.

Alex Chapman says his ex wasn't always so flashy.

For the first few years of marriage, he said, they lived a "carefree" bohemian life in London, where she worked at banks.

But there was always a sinister side. Chapman says his bride told him that her father, Vasily Kushchenko, 53, was a senior KGB agent.

"Her dad was scary. He was very concerned about which direction my life was going, how I was going to 'earn my money,'" Chapman told London's Daily Telegraph.

After a few years of marriage, Anna Chapman began palling around more with well-connected Russian friends and grew increasingly secretive, Alex said.

"She fell in with a group of people who had a lot of influence. She would go to film premieres and became arrogant and obnoxious, always going on about powerful people she was meeting," he said.

By 2006, they had grown apart and had divorced, but she kept his name, and the two remained friends.

He said she later regaled him with tales of dating rich and powerful men who helped whisk her to the Big Apple, where she began a real estate business that became successful suspiciously quickly.

"Clearly a lot of money had been pumped into the business from somewhere, but I couldn't work it out," he said.

Anna Chapman is charged with attempting to gain entree into American political circles and send reports on their inner thinking back to Moscow.

She has been held without bail since being arrested last Monday in an FBI sweep that nabbed 11 suspected Russian spies who lived quiet suburban lives around the U.S.

[Blowfeld]

Some good food for thought

Someone poseted this on the BJMDDS:EON's direction with James Bond thread at the Alternate 007 forum

Someone posted this on the recent Ain't It Cool MGM thread.

I'm A Lifelong Bond Fanatic And, through my work, I have some connections to the people who make the films - and I have to put forth a theory here that I don't think anyone seems to be picking up on. The Broccolis, that is Barbara and her stepbrother Michael Wilson, are in complete control of Bond and seem to be using MGM's status as an excuse to stop making the films. Why would they do that? Because they're greedy and lazy and they're tired. This is a family business they inherited and thus they never had the same passion (or, IMHO, the creative understanding) for that their father did. They have swung like a pendulum trying to guess what the public wants, but they don't seem to truly "get" what makes their hero/franchise so special. But on every film they have made these unbelievable "Producer Fees" above and beyond their ownership of the franchise and they are filthy ****ing rich. Ever wonder why Bond doesn't seem to end up in a major city anymore, like Bourne does? Because instead of putting the money "back on the screen" the way Cubby did, they put it all in their pockets. They don't really care that much, but they are also confused by the mixed responses they get their flailing. (QOS was a good film that could have been great, IMO, with just a better edit) It's not unlike what happened after Licence To Kill. Cubby stopped making the films not because he was in the middle of a lawsuit - that is the PR myth that Bond fans have been repeating for years - no, he was tired. Dalton's second film was the closest thing the series had to an outright box office bomb. His stepson was in charge and running this great series into the ground. Wilson wrote a script all by himself...Cubby read it and rejected it...and a six year "hiatus" was born. At that point, Cubby was old and didn't want the grief, wanted a break after 25 years of making Bond movies. I think the same thing is happening now. I think these two just want to do nothing and enjoy life. It could be the development of the new script wasn't going very well, or it just presented choices they were tired of making. But they have the right to take Bond anywhere they want. This MGM situation just gives them an excuse to go on holiday. I'm not demonizing them. They're just very very rich and this business is not something that's really in their veins - it could be a chain of hardware stores for all they really care. I say this not just as a fan, but as somebody who has known people working on the films. So... While I'm very disappointed, I'm wondering if maybe this isn't the beginning of the Broccolis selling off Bond altogether and getting out of the 007 business. I hope so. I think the series would benefit from the stewardship of someone new and fresh and who really loves it. That's my two cents. Sorry for the long post, guys

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[zu zu petals]

Hi. This is my first post here. It struck me how much passion there is here for your cause. I personally like Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. The other actors who portray James Bond are not my cup of tea. I too do not like what EON productions has done to this franchise and it might be a long time before anyone sees another James Bond film at this rate.

[zu zu petals]

Hi. This is my first post on your forum. I am fascinated by your passion in your cause. My favorite James Bond actors are Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan. I too am not at all happy with what EON has done to this franchise and at this rate, no news is bad news for we may be waiting years for the next James Bond film and it might require a replacement for Daniel Craig.

[bjmdds]

They should get out. MGW and Broccoli have no idea of what they are doing.

[Harvey danish]

I agree BJMDDS..... no business in the business.....

[Omega]

It's not unlike what happened after Licence To Kill. Cubby stopped making the films not because he was in the middle of a lawsuit - that is the PR myth that Bond fans have been repeating for years - no, he was tired. Dalton's second film was the closest thing the series had to an outright box office bomb. His stepson was in charge and running this great series into the ground. Wilson wrote a script all by himself...Cubby read it and rejected it...and a six year "hiatus" was born. At that point, Cubby was old and didn't want the grief, wanted a break after 25 years of making Bond movies. I think the same thing is happening now. I think these two just want to do nothing and enjoy life. It could be the development of the new script wasn't going very well, or it just presented choices they were tired of making.

I think LTK is a point where the series become too self-aware. It got better again during Brosnan's time, started slipping near the end with DAD. A movie entirely too aware of the film history behind it but that's the point of #20. CR turned the corner to being to self aware and desperately trying to avoid running in with their past self. That's how I'd explain it if using a time travel analogy with CR they were back at the beginning and desperately afraid of the paradox of running in to themselves, a becoming the gooey pizza looking blob from TimeCop!

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