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Post by BJMDDS on Aug 31, 2021 14:58:56 GMT -5
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Post by harrypalmer on Sept 19, 2021 13:52:55 GMT -5
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Post by Cpt. Sir Dominic Flandry on Sept 29, 2021 2:41:51 GMT -5
Mixed reviews for the last Craig Bond movie. It looks like a strange movie.
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Post by harrypalmer on Sept 30, 2021 12:15:43 GMT -5
Mixed reviews for the last Craig Bond movie. It looks like a strange movie. From the reviews I have read it sounds like a typical Daniel Craig James Bond film - a run of the mill action film, another sequel to Casino Royale and with a bizarre angle to the storyline.
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Post by harrypalmer on Oct 2, 2021 14:35:35 GMT -5
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Post by Cpt. Sir Dominic Flandry on Oct 3, 2021 12:59:19 GMT -5
Shocking reviews for NTTD. Even from Craig fanatics.
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Post by BJMDDS on Oct 3, 2021 13:49:50 GMT -5
The Cr-egg era is OVER!
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Post by drfanshawe on Oct 4, 2021 14:47:23 GMT -5
The Cr-egg era is OVER! It really would not surprise me if he came back for one more film in 3 years with a miraculous resurrection. I'll only believe he has left the role when the next actor is announced!!
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Post by Robert on Oct 6, 2021 12:47:31 GMT -5
Luke Quantrill reviews No Time To Die www.alternative007.co.uk/339.htmWell, it has certainly been a grim few years for the world but at least we can always rely on James Bond to raise our spirits and provide us with fun filled escapism. Can't we? As far as Bond films go, The Spy Who Loved Me will always be the one with the underwater car. Thunderball will always be the one with the jet-pack. Goldfinger will always be the one where the woman is covered in gold paint. Live and Let Die will always be the one with crocodiles. You Only Live Twice will always be the one with the volcano. As for No Time To Die, that will always be the one where Bond becomes a daddy and takes a cruise missile up the hooter because he's been infected with a nanobot virus. And they say the art of screenwriting is a lost craft? What nonsense. The film begins with a tremendous Phantom of the Opera fan stalking a child across an ice covered lake. I like to think of this as an easter egg pertaining to Damien: Omen II. I wonder what happened to the kid who played Damien in that film? The film then cuts to Bond in Italy with some French bird. There's genuine drama and emotion in these scenes because Bond's clothes have shrunk in the wash. You really feel for Bond because his clothes are way too small for him and he must be in agony. It's like the wardrobe department went to some fancy fashion house but only the child's section was open. You can see the pain etched on Daniel Craig's face in these constrictive outfits. The French bird tells Bond that he must visit Vesper's grave so he decides to do this but the grave blows up and all these people with Marty Feldman eyes keep trying to kill Bond and he's running away, jumping off bridges, riding a motorcycle, on roller skates, a pogo stick. And he's doing it all in clothes that are too small for him so it's taking even more effort. If he was wearing normal clothes it would probably be a lot easier. Bond is angry now because he thinks the French bird might have set him up. Bond is confused. How did Spectre manage to recognise him? How did they know where he was? If I had to hazard a wild guess myself I'd say it probably had something to do with the fact that Bond is always driving around in a vintage Aston Martin. It's not exactly inconspicuous is it? We are about ten minutes into the film and the script is already making Bond look like a right old thicko. So Bond and the French bird end up in the Aston Martin and all the Marty Feldman people are shooting the glass and it's beginning to crack. Bond isn't doing anything. He isn't sure he wants to live and no longer trusts the French bird. And on top of that he's thinking about how his clothes are too small and beginning to chafe. Bond eventually decides to use the Aston Martin machine guns to shoot all the Marty Feldman people and then he buys the French bird a one way ticket to Margate and shoves her on a train. After a theme song by Billie Eilish (verdict: sonic cold Ovaltine), the film opens in London where a scientist named Valdo Obruchev is kidnapped from a lab. This all has something to with Project Heracles. Heracles is a virus with nanobots that, er, gives you a deadly virus with, um, some nanobot thingys in it. Hey look, I didn't write this film. Ask someone else about Project Heracles ok? Meanwhile, Bond now decides to go and live in the West Indies. Jamaica? No, she went of her own free will. Oh, please yourselves. Bond finds a nice gaff but the plumbing isn't brilliant so he has to shower outside in a rock pool like one of the contestants in I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Bond likes it here because he has time to mope and the clothes aren't so tight. More here www.alternative007.co.uk/339.htm
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Post by BJMDDS on Oct 9, 2021 10:25:00 GMT -5
Deadline.com: Saturday AM: The wait is over as the 25th Bond finally hit U.S. movie screens yesterday grossing $23.3M, including $6.3M previews, on its way to a weekend of only $60M at 4,407 theaters. This is where tracking spotted Daniel Craig’s swan song as 007, and as we continually wrote, if Bond was going to overperform, it would mean that an overabundance of older moviegoers (45+) came out. Bond inherently is a property that skews older, and not younger like the Marvel properties. CNBC brazenly, and incorrectly, declared that No Time to Die was poised to make $100M at the domestic B.O., and that number was never in any rival studio or MGM/United Artist Releasing’s calculations. Even though advance ticket sales were outpacing Venom: Let There Be Carnage, in the pandemic era all box office forecasting has been thrown off course. Comscore/Screen Engine shows that 37% of No Time to Die‘s ticket buyers were over 45, proportionally a higher share than Spectre‘s 29%. Males came out at 64%, with 57% over 35. Fifty-two percent were Caucasian, 17% Latino and Hispanic, 13% Black, and 18% Asian/other.........it seems that a segment of a potential Bond audience IS relevant to these Eye-lash woke films, and these directors and producers do everything they can to appease those who stay home and alienate those that desire to see a 'proper' Bond film!
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Post by aethelwold on Dec 27, 2021 13:15:45 GMT -5
The movie bombed because, for one, it's too long. Not enough action, too much talking. The business about nanobots reminds everybody of Covid. Worst part is they didn't continue the brilliant things that Sam Mendes set up in Skyfall.
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Post by BJMDDS on Jan 20, 2022 19:50:52 GMT -5
Skyfall was not brilliant. It was a ridiculous mess of an Oedipus complex by a former agent. The 7th 007 will be named this year, probably around the 60th anniversary of the release of Dr. No. Instead of moving on NOW and naming the next Bond, Broccoli will waste another year and it will probably be the end of 2024 that another film is released.
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Post by BJMDDS on Jan 20, 2022 20:00:40 GMT -5
The movie bombed because, for one, it's too long. Not enough action, too much talking. The business about nanobots reminds everybody of Covid. Worst part is they didn't continue the brilliant things that Sam Mendes set up in Skyfall. If you want to read JETSETYWILLY's postings, then come to classicbond.com/forum/ and read them. He goes by another name there, THE SWEENEY. classicbond.com/forum/search.php?author_id=15&sr=posts There are 3384 posts from him.
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Post by aethelwold on Feb 17, 2022 12:34:58 GMT -5
I disagree about Skyfall not being brilliant. It had all the markings of a modern classic. It certainly holds a special place in the series, and Sam Mendes is first and foremost a premier director who brought a thoughtful character-driven film.
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Post by BJMDDS on May 1, 2022 19:33:50 GMT -5
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