James Bond

[Habitual Perfectionist]

The biggest Bond fan on the DB gives out his personal choices.



1. Best Bond movie : On Her Majesty's Secret Service. How I wish the movie had Sean Connery instead of Lazenby.



2. Best Actor portraying Bond : Sean Connery without any doubts.



3. Best action scenes in Bond movies : The speedboat chase in Live and Let Die



4. The best Bond Villian : Many may disagree but I loved Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE, especially in Diamonds are forever.



5. Best Bond girl : Claudine Auger (Domino) in Thunderball.



6. Best car used by Bond : The Aston Martin in Goldfinger





What does the rest of the board have to say on these heads?

[The Jackal]

The biggest Bond fan on the DB gives out his personal choices.

We may have to argue on this.Lets say one of the biggest.

1. Best Bond movie : On Her Majesty's Secret Service. How I wish the movie had Sean Connery instead of Lazenby.

Mine will always be TLD(the first bond movie I have ever seen).I wish Dalton continued in some more bond movies.

2. Best Actor portraying Bond : Sean Connery without any doubts.

Definetly Connery but IMO Dalton is the closest actor to resemble Ian Flemmings James Bond.In the books James Bond was a very dark character.

3. Best action scenes in Bond movies : The speedboat chase in Live and Let Die

I have to say GE tank scene or the ending of TLD on a plane.

4. The best Bond Villian : Many may disagree but I loved Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE, especially in Diamonds are forever.

I liked Donald Plesenace in YOLT because Blofeld is supposed to be evil.I think the best Bond Villain will be Sean Bean because he tricked Bond became his best friend.And he used his wit unlike all the remaining villains.Even Goldfinger was really good.

5. Best Bond girl : Claudine Auger (Domino) in Thunderball.

IMO it is Sophia Marceau from TWINE or Famke Jannsen from GE.

6. Best car used by Bond : The Aston Martin in Goldfinger

Yup thats the best bond car.The Lotus used in TSWLM comes second.

[Sharjeel]

The biggest Bond fan on the DB gives out his personal choices.

Here's mine:

1. Best Bond movie: From Russia With Love, Thuderball, Goldeneye, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

2. Best Actor portraying Bond: Sean Connery!!!

3. Best action scenes in Bond movies: Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough had nice ones.

4. The best Bond Villian : Goldfinger .

5. Best Bond girl : Diana Bianchi as Tatyana ---.

6. Best car used by Bond : The original AM! it was a DB5.

[Portuguese Man-Of-War]

I think the best stunt is the one in Live And Let Die where he hops over crocodiles...

[asli_badmash]

I think the best stunt is the one in Live And Let Die where he hops over crocodiles...

I remember that scene; I am not sure if the Croc's are alive... I thought they were dummy.



PS: Nice to see a post from you PMOW.

[azazel]

havent seen the best, yet

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1. Best Bond movie: From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, A View To a Kill, Goldeneye. (havent seen On Her Majesty's Secret Service yet)

2. Best Actor portraying Bond: Sean Connery (who else?). Brosnan comes second.

3. Best action scenes in Bond movies: Tank chase in Goldeneye, and the mid-air sequence in Living Daylights

4. The best Bond Villian : Scaramanga, Blofeld, Max Zorin (Walken in View To a Kill), Sean Bean in Golden Eye

5. Best Bond girl : Famke Jenssen in Golden Eye....sigh

6. Best car used by Bond : patha nahin...sab achche lage....



and a new category:



7. Best Title Music: Tina Turner in Golden Eye

[ycr007]

Well, I cannot disagree with many of you but My Favz are a bit different.Being Relatively younger and A Newbie,muy school of thought is somewhat diff frm the rest:





1) I am not the Biggest James Bond Fan Ever but Certainly am the Biggest Bond Fan in My Colony (Notice the userid????):D



2)Best actor playing Bond: A Tie Between Sean Connery & Pierce Brosnan (Do I hear Connery's Fans Groaning !!!!)



3)Best Action Scene: Tank Scene in GE followed by Car Chase on ice in DAD



4)Best Villain : GoldFinger In Male & Sophie Marceau in Female



5)Best Bond Girl: UNDOUBTEDLY Denise Richards



6)Bond Car: Aston Martin



7) Least-Liked Bond Movie: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (I Must've broken the record for most No. of Yawns!!!!)

[The Jackal]

Bond Fans check out this website: http://www.mi6.co.uk,IMO its the best Bond Fan site.

[ycr007]

Anyone watching the Bond Movie being telecast by ZMZ (Zee Movie Zone) every sunday??? today they telecasted "For Your Eyes Only"-IMO a Boring Bond Movie..........

[The Jackal]

Anyone watching the Bond Movie being telecast by ZMZ (Zee Movie Zone) every sunday??? today they telecasted "For Your Eyes Only"-IMO a Boring Bond Movie..........

I think its an awesome movie.Completely down to earth like FRWL and LTK(These three are proper spy movies,IMO).

[Cowboy]

1. Best Bond movie : From Russia With Love.



2. Best Actor portraying Bond : Sean Connery.



3. Best action scenes in Bond movies : Speedboats in Live and Let Die, Car chases from almost all Bond movies.



4. The best Bond Villian : Goldfinger



5. Best Bond girl : Denise Richards



6. Best car used by Bond : All the Aston Martins

[Cowboy]

havent seen the best, yet

Got all the bond movies. You want 'em too?

[ycr007]

havent seen the best, yet

Got all the bond movies. You want 'em too?

Wht Movie is on ZMZ tonite,have any idea???

[azazel]

Got all the bond movies. You want 'em too?

dude, ur gonna kill me or waaaat



p.s: wait till i get my pay this month



p.s 2: i mite be gettin some interesting stuff soon

[The Jackal]

James Bond 21 Is Casino Royale

3rd February 2005



MI6 can confirm that the 21st James Bond film will be titled "Casino Royale" and will be directed by Martin Campbell. Eon Productions officially announced the news in a press release today.



Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond films, and MGM announced today that Martin Campbell will direct CASINO ROYALE, the 21st film in the 007 franchise.





Above: Martin Campbell will direct the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale. This is Campbell’s second time as helmer of a James Bond film. In 1995 he directed the hit GOLDENEYE which introduced Pierce Brosnan to the role of 007 with great success.



Wilson and Broccoli said: “We are thrilled that Martin has accepted our offer to direct CASINO ROYALE. He is an extremely talented director and we believe he will help take our films in a new and exciting direction. He is currently finishing filming ‘Legend Of Zorro’, the sequel to ‘The Mask Of Zorro’, and will be joining EON Productions shortly to work on the development of the script with our writers, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.”





MGM Vice Chairman and COO Chris McGurk said: “Martin is an incredibly exciting filmmaker. GOLDENEYE was a wonderful movie and helped reinvigorate the Bond franchise. We’re thrilled to have him back to direct the newest Bond.”



Born in New Zealand, Campbell moved to England in 1966 and made his directorial debut on the popular TV series’ ‘The Professionals’ and ‘Minder’. He moved to America in 1986 to direct ‘Criminal Law’ and ‘Defenceless’. Following GOLDENEYE, he went on to direct ‘The Mask Of Zorro’, ‘Vertical Limit’ and ‘Beyond Borders’ and is currently directing ‘Legend Of Zorro’.



CASINO ROYALE will be released in 2006 and distributed world-wide by MGM. No decision has yet been made regarding casting for the role of ‘James Bond’.

[The Jackal]

James Bond 21 Is Casino Royale

3rd February 2005



MI6 can confirm that the 21st James Bond film will be titled "Casino Royale" and will be directed by Martin Campbell. Eon Productions officially announced the news in a press release today.



Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond films, and MGM announced today that Martin Campbell will direct CASINO ROYALE, the 21st film in the 007 franchise.





Above: Martin Campbell will direct the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale. This is Campbell’s second time as helmer of a James Bond film. In 1995 he directed the hit GOLDENEYE which introduced Pierce Brosnan to the role of 007 with great success.



Wilson and Broccoli said: “We are thrilled that Martin has accepted our offer to direct CASINO ROYALE. He is an extremely talented director and we believe he will help take our films in a new and exciting direction. He is currently finishing filming ‘Legend Of Zorro’, the sequel to ‘The Mask Of Zorro’, and will be joining EON Productions shortly to work on the development of the script with our writers, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.”





MGM Vice Chairman and COO Chris McGurk said: “Martin is an incredibly exciting filmmaker. GOLDENEYE was a wonderful movie and helped reinvigorate the Bond franchise. We’re thrilled to have him back to direct the newest Bond.”



Born in New Zealand, Campbell moved to England in 1966 and made his directorial debut on the popular TV series’ ‘The Professionals’ and ‘Minder’. He moved to America in 1986 to direct ‘Criminal Law’ and ‘Defenceless’. Following GOLDENEYE, he went on to direct ‘The Mask Of Zorro’, ‘Vertical Limit’ and ‘Beyond Borders’ and is currently directing ‘Legend Of Zorro’.



CASINO ROYALE will be released in 2006 and distributed world-wide by MGM. No decision has yet been made regarding casting for the role of ‘James Bond’.

[ycr007]

Good News.......



Any News on who will be the next Bond????



Clive Owen Anyone????

[Habitual Perfectionist]

I still feel Brosnan is the best Bond in business after Sean Connery...maybe even matching up to Sean's charisma. Anyone else would be a notch or two below him.



As for Casino Royale, I don't know how good of a choice that too is. Its good in terms of being the first Bond book written by Sir Ian. A younger Bond, at the beginning of his career would be interesting.



But then, the novel has already been adopted for a spoof earlier, Starring David Niven. And however much the producers try to avoid it, comparisons are inevitable. Something that'll harm the movie in the long run, more so as it will have a new untested Bond too.



Whatever...I'm waiting for it.

[The Jackal]

Good News.......

Any News on who will be the next Bond????

Clive Owen Anyone????

Well some guys are saying that Clive Owen will be the guy because of his Golden Globe and Oscar nomination.And that EON will wait till the oscars and tell everyone the news because then he will then be huge.

[The Jackal]

Variety asks if the world is ready for a new James Bond - Pierce Brosnan priced himself out of the role at $40m







Variety editor Peter Bart wrote a lengthy piece in his "Backlot" column on Sunday about the state of the James Bond franchise, and a snippet on the real reason Pierce Brosnan was not asked back. MI6 readers will be unsurprised that it was all about money, and nothing to do with the unfounded "too old" rumours that circulated last year.



"Word filtered out recently that the affluent and rather haughty proprietors of the Bond franchise had hired a director, Martin Campbell, and are scratching around for a new star. According to the Bond rumor mill, Pierce Brosnan, who'd weathered four Bonds, had priced himself out of the market (his proposed compensation package would total out north of $40 million). Sony, which inherited the franchise with the acquisition of MGM, understandably favors Clive Owen as his successor.



But does anyone care? London's Guardian delivered its vote recently, recounting Judi Dench's quote as M in "Goldeneye" that Bond is "a sexist, misogynist dinosaur"and observing that the public's "tolerance for snobbery had withered."



Ian Fleming, the Eton-educated journalist, created the character as his hallucinatory alter-ego, who battled the forces of Spectre and Smersh but occasionally behaved "like an ancient gay dress designer," in the words of the Guardian.



If the Bond character is a bit passe, part of the blame rests with "Austin Powers' " satiric forays, and part, too, with Matt Damon's "Bourne" thrillers, whose central character is far more accessible to today's audience.



Then, too, part of the problem rests with creaky scripts. The proprietors of the Bond franchise, Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (the daughter of Albert, the founder) live in a cocoon of wealth and autonomy. They've been free to take the Bond franchise wherever they want, and they've managed to take it downhill.



Actually, I was a semi-oblivious spectator to the process during my tenure as a senior vice president at MGM 20 years ago. The treatment for a Bond picture appeared one day and I was informed by business affairs that the film came under my purview. Before I'd even finished reading the material, however, the project had triggered a greenlight along with a cascade of pay-or-play deals, which was just as well since the movie turned out to be "Octopussy," and I would have had no idea how to deal with either the title or the storyline.



After a series of misfires, Wilson and Broccoli, in the '90s, started hiring writers who, like Fleming, were former journalists and who managed to reconnect the character with credible heavies. Bruce Feirstein, for example, was brought in to shake, not stir, "Goldeneye," which shrewdly poked fun at Bond's elitist idiosyncrasies and served as the first "Bond" vehicle for Campbell, the New Zealand filmmaker. By the time "Die Another Day" was released in 2001, however, this run had ended and even the good-natured Brosnan began to make noises about defecting.



Will another Bond be made? Probably some Sony executive will shortly be receiving a treatment and, before he knows it, a new "Bond" will be speeding down the assembly line. In the view of the Guardian, however, the next film should embrace "a gay Bond, a black Bond, a paraplegic Bond, an obese Bond ... Any Bond but James Bond."

[The Jackal]

Man can you beleive Brosnan?Sucess must have really gone to his head...

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a black Bond

thats not a bad idea....

i'd love to see Will Smith as Oh-Oh-Seven

[The Jackal]

a black Bond

thats not a bad idea....
i'd love to see Will Smith as Oh-Oh-Seven

Did you know that P Diddy wanted to do Bond.He gave a press conference that the world is ready for a Black Bond and he wants to do it.

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a black Bond

thats not a bad idea....
i'd love to see Will Smith as Oh-Oh-Seven

Did you know that P Diddy wanted to do Bond.He gave a press conference that the world is ready for a Black Bond and he wants to do it.

but Will Smith is better looking and more suave.....



Denzel-bhai is another potential black bond!