Yes but I think everything is total and utter shit except Sylvia Plath, Ingmar Bergman and Sporty Spice.
Who else here thinks that James Bond is shit? Page 7
Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 27th September 2021, 4:04 PMYes but I think everything is total and utter shit except Sylvia Plath, Ingmar Bergman and Sporty Spice.
Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 27th September 2021, 3:32 PMYes but I think everything is total and utter f**king shit except Sylvia Plath, Ingmar Bergman and Sporty Spice.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 27th September 2021, 3:39 PMThree of them now - you must be exhausted before you get out of bed in the morning.
Remarkable echo on this thread
An intelligent man never repeats himself. - Hear hear!
James Bond is so shit one of the films is by Roald Dahl and it's still shit.
So, you don't like James Bond films, then.
Always knowing he'll face certain death many times during the film but will still be alive and shagging at the end takes the edge off being a thriller.
Even the original Author Ian Fleming realised that and killed him off.
Rosa Klebb kicked him in the knackers with a poisoned toe cap and he died.
It'd be cool if he DID get the shit kicked out of him just for once. Smug c**t.
The only one I bothered with was the one with Grace Jones. Not my kind of thing.
Interesting fact about James Bond: The original character was actually based on me. 25 years ago, of course.
Fleming's novels were never particularly good.
The appeal of the films is that Bond is pretty much a terrible human being, which is fun to watch. Narcistic, irresponsible, reckless and enormously self-satisfied. He's Eton and privilege and preening self-entitlement. He's our leaders but with gym membership and a gun.
I saw one of the early films at the pictures when it came out (can't remember which one) because it was what all self-respecting 12 year old boys were expected to do. And had the spy kit and the Corgi Aston Martin for Christmas. But I've never bothered with any others. By the time I was 13 I was too much into football and horse-racing to spend two hours watching nonsense in a darkened cinema.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 28th September 2021, 10:36 AMBy the time I was 13 I was too much into watching nonsense in a darkened cinema.
Yes, it's amazing to a young sprog what those courting couples get up to on the back row - I expect your sex education went up by leaps and bounds, especially after Mummy and Daddy were coy about such matters.
Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 28th September 2021, 9:05 AMIt'd be cool if he DID get the shit kicked out of him just for once.
He has. He gets his testicles whipped with a belt in Casino Royale.
Excuse me! Not a belt, a knotted rope.
I didn't see any more, I had my eyes closed.
Quote: beaky @ 28th September 2021, 1:06 PMExcuse me! Not a belt, a knotted rope.
I didn't see any more, I had my eyes closed.
You're right! I must have been thinking of the 1967 version and the infamous scene in which Orson Welles whips David Niven's testicles with a belt.
"That's no way for a gentleman to behave!" Quipped Niven.
Not enough. I want him locked in a cold, dark room with One Direction on playback
I think the Post 'Bourne' Bonds have really upped their game with the action being very brutal but stylish. I think Lazzard is right about the 'British' branding, but making world class 'British' action movies is a good thing, isn't it? Like Harry Potter and the Premier League being badged as British doesn't always mean something is shite. Anyway it has an iconic theme tune that hits all the right notes for me as the lights dim in the theatre.
And any franchise that managed to survive the awful Roger Moore years obviously has something going for it?