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15 Dec 2012, 4:20 am

aspiemike wrote:

SoftKitty wrote:

Sean Connery, hands down. Pierce Brosnan was the most stylish/sexy Bond. Daniel Craig portrays the one that is closest to the book depiction.

My most beloved Bond movies in general are Dr. No, Casino Royale and Goldfinger.

My most fav Bond song is GoldenEye by Tina Turner.

Someone finally decided to bring up Bond themes. Goldeneye theme was written by Bono and The Edge. My top five are as follows although the first three aren't among my favourite bond films.

A-ha- The Living Daylights
Duran Duran- A View to a Kill
Madonna- Die Another Day
Nancy Sinatra- You Only Live Twice
Paul McCartney- Live and Let Die

Honorable mention- The Spy Who Loved Me. don't know who sings it.

I agree about your choices of Bond themes, although I'd also add Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale. Both the song itself and the design of the title sequence are fantastic.

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16 Dec 2012, 5:09 pm

Chevand wrote:

aspiemike wrote:

SoftKitty wrote:

I agree about your choices of Bond themes, although I'd also add Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale. Both the song itself and the design of the title sequence are fantastic.

I'd take You Know My Name over Madge's awful awful theme anyday of the week, Die Another Day was the worst Bond flick in the series in terms of naff CGI and a rip-off plot from the vastly superior Goldeneye.

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16 Dec 2012, 9:33 pm

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I remember reading that Die Another Day was more closely based off the books Colonel Sun and Moonraker. I guess that would mean Moonraker movie had less to do with the book.

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17 Dec 2012, 5:04 am

aspiemike wrote:

I remember reading that Die Another Day was more closely based off the books Colonel Sun and Moonraker. I guess that would mean Moonraker movie had less to do with the book.

The book of Moonraker has almost no connection with the film (apart from some names being kept). The book was published in 1955, two years before the launch of Sputnik and six years before the first manned spaceflight.

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20 Dec 2012, 2:51 am

Sean connery easily. All the most memorable films came from him.

Daniel Craig is close second.

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20 Dec 2012, 2:58 am

woody allen.

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20 Dec 2012, 3:46 pm

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woody allen.

Wasn't that Casino Royale a spoof?

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21 Dec 2012, 1:37 am

^^^
likely, fleming woulda thought ALL the movies made from his novel series are spoofs.

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21 Dec 2012, 3:52 pm

auntblabby wrote:

^^^
likely, fleming woulda thought ALL the movies made from his novel series are spoofs.

Fleming didn't think much of Dr. No on it's release back in 1962 :lol:

Not that it's a bad instalment, by the way.

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24 Feb 2013, 8:09 am

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Sean Connery. Those first ones with him as Bond are the best.

Although I now have to give Daniel Craig credit after seeing Skyfall for the first time.

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25 Feb 2013, 12:10 am

Moonraker is a re-make of The Spy Who Loved Me with an American spy instead of a Soviet spy, with space instead of the sea, with mass death by poison orchid gas rather than by a deliberately-provoked thermonuclear exchange, with settings in California (really it's France), Venice, Rio de Janeiro and South American jungle instead of Egypt, a train and Sardinia... the villain is thrown out of an airlock instead of being shot, Jaws changes sides instead of remaining loyal to the villain...

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25 Feb 2013, 1:01 am

^^^
thank you for that illuminating info

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27 Feb 2013, 12:50 am

I think the Spy Who Loved Me's villain's troops are in orange jumpsuits and those of Moonraker are in yellow jumpsuits. In the first, the villain fed a woman who betrayed him to a shark, and in the second, fed a woman who betrayed him to some dogs.

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27 Feb 2013, 1:27 am

creative types often have to recycle bits of their earlier work, it dates to elizabethan times.

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28 Feb 2013, 2:18 am

I love Pierce Brosnan.

My favorite Bond theme songs are For Your Eyes Only, All Time High, Live and Let Die and I also like Goldeneye. I think Skyfall is also my favorite Bond theme song.

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28 Feb 2013, 5:45 pm

Well as I haven't actually seen any besides Pierce Brosnan...then I have to say him.

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