The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

You've got me beat, I wouldn't go to those lengths. The funny thing is that I didn't need to alter the pic of Cavill which I posted.

[Dr. No]

Happy Birthday Ale

[Dr. No]

Good to see you Sweeney!

I'm not sure who would be good as Bond and who isn't Bond material. Then there is the obvious casting mistakes like Craig. I get each of the Bond has something people don't like about them. Dalton has his detractors as does Connery and the others.

If Lazenby had stayed or Dalton had got the role instead I don't think the 1970s would not have played out much different, DAF with Connery was pretty much the same as they did for Moore. Dalton or Lazenby making 7 movies might be no different from the movies Moore made. They could bring in a CGI Bond next with Connery's image and if they want to make the same depressing movies they are now it wouldn't be much better.

I guess what I am trying to say is the actor is only part of the problem and solution. There are so many people who say they were offed the role it hard to know what separates them from the 6 official actors. Fate? Luck?

From Pierce and Craig said they feel the same way about their role in the movies they are a guy in suit trying to play the part but not given much to really do. What makes Bond good or bad is the writers, directors, soundtrack, then the actors.
IMHO to get Bond back to where it used to be the producers have to clean house. Unless this happens it's the same old same old. Since 1995 it's been a really well done movie followed up by a halfbaked movie if we are lucky.

[Dr. No]

Maybe Brian Williams can host the Daily Show and Stewart can take over the nightly news.

[Kristatos]

I thought Armitage might have been a good candidate back in his Spooks/Robin Hood days. But I was quite shocked at how much he'd aged in the Hobbit movies. He seems to have aged faster than Connery did between YOLT and DAF. As I said in my mini-review of the last film, he reminded me more of Roger Delgado's Master than of Bond.

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

I have always thought that James Purefoy would have made a superb Bond for the 2000's. In a different universe, where Dalton carried on through the 1990's, Purefoy would have been my choice for Dalton's successor. Purefoy has admitted to feeling that he messed up his Bond audition back in 1994, but having watched him in a number of different genre's of film and tv, I think that he would have made a wonderful Bond.



He is 6' 3" tall... 6' 3" tall. He was taller than Dalton (6' 2"). Not saying that he would have been better than Dalton. But right off the bat, Purefoy fit the three basic requirements for Bond. And in interviews, he comes across as a likeable enough guy. That isn't a must when looking for a new Bond, but it's a good quality all the same. Alas, at 50, he wouldn't get a look in now.

[The Sweeney]

I have always thought that James Purefoy would have made a superb Bond for the 2000's. In a different universe, where Dalton carried on through the 1990's, Purefoy would have been my choice for Dalton's successor. Purefoy has admitted to feeling that he messed up his Bond audition back in 1994, but having watched him in a number of different genre's of film and tv, I think that he would have made a wonderful Bond.



He is 6' 3" tall... 6' 3" tall. He was taller than Dalton (6' 2"). Not saying that he would have been better than Dalton. But right off the bat, Purefoy fit the three basic requirements for Bond. And in interviews, he comes across as a likeable enough guy. That isn't a must when looking for a new Bond, but it's a good quality all the same. Alas, at 50, he wouldn't get a look in now.

Been a Dalton fan, I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Jason Isaacs, as they look very similar, and he had the right edge to play a perfect Fleming Bond....

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

I know of Isaacs, but I have not seen in as much as I have Purefoy. Off the top of my head...... I have only seen Isaacs in that Jackie Chan film, The Tuxedo. He did look quite Bondian, I admit.




One of these days, i'm gonna invest in a TARDIS, and see how those alternative timelines of the Bond series turned out.

[bjmdds]

I have always thought that James Purefoy would have made a superb Bond for the 2000's. In a different universe, where Dalton carried on through the 1990's, Purefoy would have been my choice for Dalton's successor. Purefoy has admitted to feeling that he messed up his Bond audition back in 1994, but having watched him in a number of different genre's of film and tv, I think that he would have made a wonderful Bond.



He is 6' 3" tall... 6' 3" tall. He was taller than Dalton (6' 2"). Not saying that he would have been better than Dalton. But right off the bat, Purefoy fit the three basic requirements for Bond. And in interviews, he comes across as a likeable enough guy. That isn't a must when looking for a new Bond, but it's a good quality all the same. Alas, at 50, he wouldn't get a look in now.

On this I DO agree with you Toothpaste and Purefoy would have been pure Bond. He was in the running against Cr-egg 10 years ago as was Jackman, but we got a simian dolt via the Broccoli casting couch

[Omega]

I have always thought that James Purefoy would have made a superb Bond for the 2000's. In a different universe, where Dalton carried on through the 1990's, Purefoy would have been my choice for Dalton's successor. Purefoy has admitted to feeling that he messed up his Bond audition back in 1994, but having watched him in a number of different genre's of film and tv, I think that he would have made a wonderful Bond.



He is 6' 3" tall... 6' 3" tall. He was taller than Dalton (6' 2"). Not saying that he would have been better than Dalton. But right off the bat, Purefoy fit the three basic requirements for Bond. And in interviews, he comes across as a likeable enough guy. That isn't a must when looking for a new Bond, but it's a good quality all the same. Alas, at 50, he wouldn't get a look in now.

Been a Dalton fan, I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Jason Isaacs, as they look very similar, and he had the right edge to play a perfect Fleming Bond....

Jason isaacs is great most here know him as a villain he could of been awesome as bond.


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[kater23]

Gotta disagree about Richard Armitage. Aged badly?He wouldn't be getting jobs if that was the case. He's currently got a gig on S3 of Hannibal.

[Kristatos]

Purefoy was my choice for the next Bond after Brosnan as well. In fact my disappointment at his not getting the part is why I now try not to get too emotionally invested in a single candidate. I mentally divide the candidates into "acceptable" and "unacceptable" and leave it at that.

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

So would I be right if I said that Purefoy was the one actor we could all agree should have been Bond?

[Count_Lippe]

Dominic Cooper doesn't only look like a lemur, I think he looks too dark and Mediterranean as well, not the right looks for Bond.

Re Jason Isaacs, if we don't want a Connery look-alike why would we want a Dalton look-alike?

[bjmdds]

So would I be right if I said that Purefoy was the one actor we could all agree should have been Bond?

That's PURE Bond perfection He would have been well received and an excellent choice for Bond........but what did Broccoli give the world? Cr-egg I still cannot believe this Cr-egg clump of clay was chosen over Brosnan,Purefoy, Jackman, and Cavill to do CR It boggles the mind what the hell Pascal and Broccoli were thinking to desecrate the franchise with this inane lout who is a terrible ambassador for the franchise. For me, the franchise has been on hold since 2002. What has been shoveled out by Eon and eaten up by the minions is a disgrace to Fleming's masterpiece The day they fire him every single one of us here will have a collective awareness of each other's emotions even before we come to this Bond fortress of solitude to post our exuberance I cannot wait for that day I yearn to return to the fun days of watching a James Bond film .....BUT, Broccoli's influence WILL ruin any future Bond actor, with her “emasculinization” and political correctness nonsense redefining who the modern character really is.

[Omega]

Just got home from seeing Kingsman
It's a Bond movie made for us. They take the time to rip the current Bond movies. All the JBs Jason Bourne, James Bond, Jack Bauer.

Never thought I'd say this but I'd do Lancelot, not Jack Davenport who was a name mention with Bond before, Sophie Cookson will always be Lancelot to me.. They have a better Q and better HQ and bosses and villain and coolest henchman I've seen in a long time.
And Colin Firth was a bad ass.

For the guys doing the unofficial novel. They beat you to a agent going nuts in a church with ensuing massacre Kingsman is OTT but it is fun. Vaughn would have made a better CR then was made, but he would not of made the CR that made Craig a name he would of made a real Bond movie. I just don't think Craig can pull off real Bond.

BTW first rated R Bond movie.
I don't think it will be big at the BO, not the weekend to release a spy movie even if the villains name is appropriate. Early crowd was light next crowd will probably be half full from the people standing in the hall judging from past openings and my movie theaters size a decent opening but small.

[Omega]

Funniest line in the movie Colin Firth "Hail Satan" to a bible thumper at a racist church.

[FormerBondFan]

I saw Kingsman as well. I never have been blown away by a spy film ever since DAD. Who needs James Bond when we got Kingsman?

[Kristatos]

BTW first rated R Bond movie.
I don't think it will be big at the BO, not the weekend to release a spy movie even if the villains name is appropriate. Early crowd was light next crowd will probably be half full from the people standing in the hall judging from past openings and my movie theaters size a decent opening but small.

Estimated weekend gross is $36 million. Box Office Mojo set the "bar for success" at $30 million, so unless the actuals are way below the estimates, it seems to be performing decently. Not as well as 50 Shades of Grey, of course, but it probably works well as counter-programming for (mostly) single guys.

[Omega]

I just looked it up. It's not bad for a spy movie I hope it has better legs than expendables


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