James Bond Appreciation Thread

Who is the best James bond

  • Daniel Craig

    Votes: 4 3.9%

  • Pierce Brosnon

    Votes: 20 19.4%

  • Timothy Dalton

    Votes: 20 19.4%

  • Sir Roger Moore

    Votes: 19 18.4%

  • George lazenby

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • Sean Connery

    Votes: 38 36.9%
  • Total voters
    103
Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
They made depraved Frenchman the director of the next film.

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He's Quebecois, I can't believe I have to defend the French against the insult of being confused with their hillbilly North American counterparts.

It will probably look good. Probably be the best looking Bond film, but don't expect good performances. It might be serviceable, but I am leaning to it being kind of bland, with a story that won't make any sense as soon as it gets any scrutiny. Probably better than most of the Craig films, but that isn't a high bar.
 
I really liked the Dune films. I never saw Sicario or his Blade Runner.
He's an A-List director at the moment. I can only see it as a check mark in the positive list. It still will come down to who they cast and whatever approach they choose for the new iteration of Bond.
 
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I’m guessing we’ll be getting a 007 casting announcement soon then.

And while I know it’s unlikely to happen, it’d be hilarious if DV decided to do a sci-fi-flavored Bond set in the near-ish future.
 
Dune Messiah starts filming in the next couple of weeks. That'll be a few months of Denis being very busy.

One would hope Denis has been on Bond for a little bit and writers will be developing stuff to come back to him for when Dune enters post. Then maybe a casting announcement before the end of the year.

I'm just curious about what they do. Will it be remakes? A reimagining? Or just Bond is established and goes on a mission.
 
Honestly with films I feel Bond is likely dead but Video games? That I feel might be where 007 can survive as it's funny that he's been relatively treated well in the gaming department.

It's even funny that Blood Stone, has a Bond theme I'll Take It All, a favorite of mine that's better than almost all of the Craig era themes.
 
Screamer_2 said:
I really liked the Dune films. I never saw Sicario or his Blade Runner.
He's an A-List director at the moment. I can only see it as a check mark in the positive list. It still will come down to who they cast and whatever approach they choose for the new iteration of Bond.
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Honestly, I like his films. Even Blade Runner 2049.
 
Kyria the Great said:
Honestly with films I feel Bond is likely dead but Video games? That I feel might be where 007 can survive.
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Amazon purchased half of the 007 franchise for $1 billion but also had to purchase MGM for $8.5 billion to get the other half. So between 007 movies, shows, merchandise, and MGM's back catalog they need to clear over $9 billion. So expect the 007 and Bond licenses to be plastered onto every possible piece of merchandise that anyone can think of in the next two or three decades. There are already a few shows and video games in preliminary stages.
 
There's plenty of stuff out there using the 007 and Bond licenses, but at some point over the last couple of decades, they decided the main market was men over 40/50 who are rich.

My hunch would be they got into the, "it's not appropriate to make James Bond toys," mindset. Marketed to adults and then found a lot of men with disposable money will spend hundreds of dollars on the clothes Bond wears to low key larp as Bond. The Bond Lifestyle.

Looking over on https://007store.com/ You can get an idea of the kind of stuff they're doing. A lot is almost low key Bond. You wouldn't know if you didn't know. Some is more overt.

Looking now, there's more affordable stuff than whenever I was last there, but then there's still a £115,200.00 GBP Faberge Egg.

I'll be honest, I have stuff. I have some Orlebar Brown Bond stuff. Waste of money and not bought for the ridiculous prices they are now. I have a MY Disco Valante cap. Only once has someone ever gone, "Bond" at it.

I would love a Bond watch, but they're priced at a point that is far too expensive for me. Two grand. I'd buy one. When you're getting up to 10, 15 grand. NOPE. I can do too much better stuff like holidays to interesting places in the world for that money. Which to me is more of the Bond lifestyle.
 
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