Is every Indy fan a Bond fan?

StoneTriple

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Attila the Professor said:
I'm not sure it's all that obvious; it's not Sean Connery that made the dinner jacket iconic.

"There are Dinner Jackets, and Dinner Jackets. This is the latter"




(and yes, that's on-topic) ;)
 

Montana Smith

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StoneTriple said:
I can't speak for every Indy fan, but I can speak for me. Yes, I'm a huge Bond nerd and have been since 1973. Just as much as Indy. Long-time member of a 007 board, have all the films, several soundtracks, books, etc.

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MI6 Forums?

http://www.mi6forums.co.uk/index.php

It was the first forum that I went to from a Google search, and I think I see you there.

I am way out of touch with the progress of Bond #23...

:hat:
 

Stoo

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Montana Smith said:
I'm looking forward to the For Your Eyes Only/Octo***** era, as those were the first ones I saw in the cinema
First one I saw in the theatre was "The Spy Who Loved Me" and was instantly bitten. Haven't missed any on the big screen since then. "For Your Eyes Only" is a good entry and one of the earlier attempts to bring the series back-to-basics. The only aspect that bugs me about it is the non-John Barry soundtrack.:(
Montana Smith said:
So, I see there are three separate Bond chronologies: 1962-1985; 1987-2002; and 2006 on to the present (Daniel Craig).

David Niven's Casino Royale and Connery's Never Say Never Again don't really count.
What about Barry Nelson & Peter Lorre's "Casino Royale"?:p The FIRST Bond.
StoneTriple said:
I can't speak for every Indy fan, but I can speak for me.
When this thread started, I was shocked at the amount of disdain for Bond there was on this board. It must be a generational thing because NEVER in my life have I met anyone who HATES James Bond!:eek: Like you, I have all the films, many books (some original editions), and a few soundtracks. Heck, last summer at our family cottage I even found my old Corgi toy of the white Lotus Espirit!(y)
 

Montana Smith

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Stoo said:
First one I saw in the theatre was "The Spy Who Loved Me" and was instantly bitten. Haven't missed any on the big screen since then. "For Your Eyes Only" is a good entry and one of the earlier attempts to bring the series back-to-basics. The only aspect that bugs me about it is the non-John Barry soundtrack.:(

After Moonraker it was a welcome return to earth! Then Octopus*y went a bit loopy, followed by A View to a Kill.

Stoo said:
What about Barry Nelson & Peter Lorre's "Casino Royale"?:p The FIRST Bond.

On all the DVDs I have there are documentaries, and at least one showed clips of the 'first Bond'. It didn't look very appetising! :p

Next on my watch list is Never Say Never Again, and the Nivern Casino Royale, then I'll be back on track with the Eon series with Timothy Dalton.

Stoo said:
When this thread started, I was shocked at the amount of disdain for Bond there was on this board. It must be a generational thing because NEVER in my life have I met anyone who HATES James Bond!:eek: Like you, I have all the films, many books (some original editions), and a few soundtracks. Heck, last summer at our family cottage I even found my old Corgi toy of the white Lotus Espirit!(y)

Since I discovered some of the old paperbacks and early Book Club editions I've set out to read them in publication order. I'm three quarters through From Russia With Love. (I've downloaded scans of Fleming's 15 novels, but reading on the screen isn't as welcoming as holding a real book.)

Fleming was very heavy on description, and you can see Fleming the snob coming through into the character of Bond. It's a great window onto '50s and '60s culture and the attitudes to the Cold War. I've dug out that copy of A Man Called Intrepid again, to dip into with reference to Fleming.

And to think that it was the Bond Car Collection that set me off into this journey through 007!
 

StoneTriple

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Stoo said:
...last summer at our family cottage I even found my old Corgi toy of the white Lotus Espirit!(y)

My neighbor down the street has one! He must have moved it to storage or possibly sold it. He drove it fairly regularly. :cool:
 

StoneTriple

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Stoo said:
When this thread started, I was shocked at the amount of disdain for Bond there was on this board. It must be a generational thing because NEVER in my life have I met anyone who HATES James Bond!:eek:

The haters are just jealous that they aren't that cool. :p
 

mattzilla2010

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I'm a HUGE Bond fan! I own the entire MGM series on DVD and watch them often. I've also read all the Fleming novels. In my opinion, Daniel Craig is the best Bond actor, and his two films are the best of the series (I like the reboot idea and that those films are much closer to the tone and style of the novels). Timothy Dalton's my second favorite (again, very close to Fleming Bond), followed by Connery. :)

Looking forward to Bond 23! If and when MGM sorts out all their financial poop.
 

Dr. HenryJones.jr

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Oh, more spelling and I couldn't read whole in my english...

then yes, I am huge Fan of James Bond and I collect more books, Bond's Car Vintage ;)

At the movies I couldn't want the George Labenzby... :( *yike*

Did they know, today has the problems from Buget the MGM frozen by filming the 23th Bond.... (only I said to know 26th...)

pur Action by Casino Royale better as than as A Quatnum of Solace, but is the book of Casino Royle was better as then movies, cause the torture room... *yike*
 

teampunk

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i don't dislike it. i've never really watched the old ones. i think if i did austin powers might have ruined it for me. but i did like the two new ones.
 

Willie

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I'm a BIG Bond fan myself. I've seen every single Bond film more times than I can count. My favorite actor to play bond is Sean Connery. I also enjoyed his performance in The Last Crusade. :)
 

Joosse

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Montana Smith said:
On all the DVDs I have there are documentaries, and at least one showed clips of the 'first Bond'. It didn't look very appetising! :p

Contrary to what you may have heard, it's actually quite good.

Especially if you remember that this was made for televison in 1954.... :hat:
 

Calo

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I'm no huge fan of Bond or anything, but I tend to watch some Bond movies when I catch 'em on TV or just rent the latest ones.
 

Joosse

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It's a bit like watching the Maltese Falcon.

In my opinion, a great film! Thrilling and adventurous! Enormously groundbreaking for it's time.

But some of the people I have shown it to have objected to it because they thought it was outdated and worst of all, in black and white...

Shock....

Horror....
 

Montana Smith

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Joosse said:
It's a bit like watching the Maltese Falcon.

In my opinion, a great film! Thrilling and adventurous! Enormously groundbreaking for it's time.

But some of the people I have shown it to have objected to it because they thought it was outdated and worst of all, in black and white...

Shock....

Horror....

Some of the greatest and most immersive movies were in shades of black and white, but the clip that I saw of '54 Bond didn't inspire enthusiasm. Maybe they deliverately picked the clip to make the colour versions look even more impressive?
 

Montana Smith

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100909/tts-uk-bond-ca02f96.html

Former James Bond star doesn't care about 007 woes

The James Bond franchise may be in grave danger thanks to its studio's financial woes, but a former 007 actor is not too shaken up about it. Skip related content
George Lazenby, a plain-spoken Australian who played Bond a single time in the 1969 movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," happily detailed his sexual conquests and disdain for his leading lady and director on Wednesday.

But when he was asked during a Q&A for his thoughts on the future of the Bond franchise, he was decidedly blunt.

"Y'know, I couldn't give a s**t," he said, to much laughter during an exchange that following a screening of the film.

The producers of the next Bond feature, known as "Bond 23," announced in April that development had been suspended "indefinitely," while debt-ridden studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc seeks a lifeline.

It could be several years before fans get a follow-up to 2008's "Quantum of Solace." Daniel Craig, who revived the almost 50-year-old franchise with 2006's "Casino Royale," has moved on to other projects in the meantime.

Lazenby, now 71, has moved on as well. But he gamely answered fans' questions about his experience in one of the more unusual films in the Bond franchise.

The melodrama saw his character escape from a mountaintop aerie to marry the daughter of a villain only to see her die in his arms as they were leaving the wedding.

"Too bad I couldn't act, but it was fun," Lazenby said, explaining that his arrogance and sure way with women helped get him the coveted role previously held by Sean Connery.

Asked about his sexual conquests during his glory days, the former model said, "I don't want to brag too much, but at least one a day."

His on-screen love interest, Diana Rigg, was not one of those. He described her as "a tough nut," who warned him against sleeping with so many women on the set. A chill set in once she caught him rolling about with a hotel receptionist on a mattress used by stuntmen, he recalled.

Relations with director Peter Hunt were similarly frosty, he said. The two did not speak at all during shooting, although Lazenby did not see this as a problem. "I didn't know the director had to talk to me."

Lazenby said he was "a dumb s**t" for leaving the Bond series. "On the other hand, I wasn't, because I could have had four or five or 15 houses in Beverly Hills with different wives living in them, (been) a drug addict or me now, who missed out on everything and had to survive."

In reality, he has just two ex-wives, and joked that the second one, former tennis champ Pam Shriver, "wants to kill me."

He recalled that an adviser told him, "Bond is over, finished. It's Sean Connery's gig. You cannot match that guy." But when he sought work in other movies, he said producers were afraid to hire him because they wrongly thought he was under contract to do more James Bond movies.

His money ran out as his acting offers dried up, and he ended up living with his mother back in rural Australia. But he said his days are busy now with the three young children that he had with Shriver. A memoir is in the works, and a filmmaker wants to make a documentary about him, he added.

As for the best Bond? "Realistically" it was Connery, Lazenby said, but noted: "If I was allowed to be who I am now at that age, I think I could have given him a run for his money."

(Reporting by Dean Goodman; Editing by Eric Walsh)
 

mattzilla2010

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^ I was at that screening/Q&A - it was at a theater in Santa Monica. Anyway, Lazenby seemed like a pretty cool guy and it was awesome seeing one of the best Bond films on the big screen with a large audience.

Too bad that report didn't include the quote of the evening - Lazenby was talking about his 3 young kids and how unusual it is to have young kids at his age. "Yeah, they should've shot my dick off 20 years ago."
 

Attila the Professor

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Just saw <I>Casino Royale</I> a few weeks ago. Wasn't wild about the leftover gags from <I>Bananas</I>, personally. Nice to see so many different facets of the Bond persona, though.
 
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