Who’s your vote for the next James Bond?

[Zaukrie]

I wouldn't worry. Hollywood doesn't sell much to Russia, so I'm sure they'll start featuring more.

I'll take that bet. No one has courage in this country right now.

 

[Tonguez]

I wouldn't worry. Hollywood doesn't sell much to Russia, so I'm sure they'll start featuring more.

I thought Evil AI and their human puppets were the new BBEG of Modern Espionage

 

[Mannahnin]

I remember my first Bond theatrical experience. It was Goldeneye back in '95 and my buddy and I drove through a bad snow storm to go see it. We loved it! The N64 video game was amazing. It was hard to find a house anywhere in American that didnt have a copy.

Yup. The movie was good and the game was great. I didn't even own an N64 but I bought a controller just for playing four player GoldenEye, Mario Kart, and StarFox at friends' houses.

A View to a Kill was pretty terrible.

(And the Eiffel Tower scene is near the beginning, the climax was on the Golden Gate Bridge.)

I have a soft spot for A View to a Kill because I was a Duran Duran-loving kid, my dad had already shown me a few Bond movies and I had fallen for the franchise, and I think this was the first one I got to see in the theater. It was the first movie I saw Walken in, and IMO he made a great Bond villain. And that theme song really is a classic.

 

[Ryujin]

Yup. The movie was good and the game was great. I didn't even own an N64 but I bought a controller just for playing four player GoldenEye, Mario Kart, and StarFox at friends' houses.


I have a soft spot for A View to a Kill because I was a Duran Duran-loving kid, my dad had already shown me a few Bond movies and I had fallen for the franchise, and I think this was the first one I got to see in the theater. It was the first movie I saw Walken in, and IMO he made a great Bond villain. And that theme song really is a classic.

I found the Duran Duran song a little jarring, for the genre, despite having seen them in concert in something like 1983 at The Concert Hall, in Toronto. Don't know why "Live and Let Die" didn't hit me the same way.

 

[payn]

I found the Duran Duran song a little jarring, for the genre, despite having seen them in concert in something like 1983 at The Concert Hall, in Toronto. Don't know why "Live and Let Die" didn't hit me the same way.

I do like that it set a new precedent that you didnt have to have the 50's-60's cool jazz ensemble track though. Who gets the opening theme is almost as cool as who is playing Bond himself now.

 

[Mannahnin]

I found the Duran Duran song a little jarring, for the genre, despite having seen them in concert in something like 1983 at The Concert Hall, in Toronto. Don't know why "Live and Let Die" didn't hit me the same way.

Huh. I didn't get that at all. And yeah, I agree that Live and Let Die was already a pretty substantial break from the old standards. More of one, in some ways.

I do like that it set a new precedent that you didnt have to have the 50's-60's cool jazz ensemble track though. Who gets the opening theme is almost as cool as who is playing Bond himself now.

Agreed. Although honestly I felt like the horns gave a good note of continuity.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Both the Duran Duran and McCartney themes reference classic Bond chords, so I don't think they are much of a departure. Although after Live and Let Die we had a couple of throwback themes, so I guess some people didn't like it.

You know what does stand out, musically? The use of calypso Three Blind Mice in Doctor No.

 

[Zaukrie]

And Broccoli is out, and Amazon has full control......

 

[Plane Sailing]

Why not, instead, start a new franchise or spin-off with a female super-spy? I'd love to see a spin-off film with Ana de Armas kicking butt. It is a best of both worlds, really. Or if you insist on the Bond name, why not introduce his sister?

Isn’t that basically what they are doing with “Ballerina”? They are not casting Ana de Armas as ‘Jane Wick’ but introducing her as a new character in ‘his’ world!

 

[Plane Sailing]

No, that’s A View to a Kill (the last Roger Moore). The Living Daylights is the first Timothy Dalton - Bond is sent to stop the assassination of a Russian defector and smells a rat. Maryam d’Abo plays the would-be assassin and cello player. TLD is relatively romantic and Dalton is a compassionate, thoughtful Bond - my favourite version.

Timothy Dalton could have been my favourite Bond overall. I really liked Sean Connery and early Roger Moore, but the thing I particularly liked about the Dalton movies was that they were set in a world with lots of competent people - soldiers, spies, etc. Most films have Bond as the only competent person around (or Bond plus another key protagonist). The kitchen fight in The Living Daylights is a case in point.

I vaguely remember that Dalton’s movies came out around the same time as the AIDS scare started to bite, and so they deliberately toned down the amount of casual sex in his films. I’ve got no idea whether that was true.