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Spinless:
http://danielcraigisnotbond.com/index.html

These guys really don't like Daniel Craig.


Edit: Oh wow, hey, this sounds like it's gonna be really really bad. Apparently, it writes the previous 20 films out of the contunuity.
Edit: http://www.alternative007.co.uk/25.htm

That article gave me some chuckles.

KharBevNor:
I've got to say, though Layer Cake was a pretty crap film, after watching it you must admit that Daniel Craig would probably still be a good bond. At least he's a human being with a pulse, which automatically assures him of having more charisma than Roger Moore.

Electric Monk:

--- Quote from: Spinless ---Edit: Oh wow, hey, this sounds like it's gonna be really really bad. Apparently, it writes the previous 20 films out of the contunuity.
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Since when has Bond had a continuity?

KharBevNor:
It kind of had continuity in the Connery and Moore films, when it was roughly believable. Then they mostly got rid of all that when they picked up Dalton, and then invented a new continuity in the nineties after Goldeneye with a new team of people at Mi5 and recurring characters like that fat russian dude and that fat american dude who wears bad shirts and is in no way as cool as any given incarnation of Felix Leiter, who I seem to remember got killed off when Dalton arrived in Licence to Kill.

Ignoring all the continuity is, I suspect, a ploy so they can get at least eight half-decent films out of Ian Flemings original plots (again), though really, if they want to reinvigorate the bond franchise, the first steps I'd take would be to not make every single bond film into a huge product placement advert (or at least not do it quite so obviously), and reintroduce actors and writers with some calibre, and some genuinely cool ideas that aren't completely rehashed, which is kind of hard operating in a post-Austin Powers environment. You Only Live Twice, in my opinion probably the best of the series, had SEAN CONNERY and AWESOME NINJAS with THROWING STARS and ROCKET GUNS fighting DONALD PLEASANCE, who had an ARMY OF MEN IN SILLY ORANGE SUITS and a LAKE FULL OF PIRANHAS and a SPACESHIP WITH TEETH in his VOLCANO BASE and was trying to START WORLD WAR THREE for LITTLE REAL LOGICAL REASON, and he was doing it by EATING SPACESHIPS even though he obviously possessed the military and technical prowess to build nuclear weapons. Also, James Bond flew a HELICOPTER THE SIZE OF A MINI WITH MORE GUNS THAN AN APACHE WHILST WEARING A STUPID HAT and he had a CIGARETTE THAT SHOT A TINY ROCKET and he was TRAINED BY NINJAS and VERY INEFFECTIVELY DISGUISED AS A JAPANESE PERSON, then he spouted WITTY YET DREADFUL ONE LINERS as he PUSHED PEOPLE INTO AFOREMENTIONED LAKES FULL OF PIRANHAS whilst AFOREMENTIONED AWESOME NINJAS attack AFOREMENTIONED VOLCANO BASE. And to top it all, the whole thing was written by ROALD DAHL.

Die Another Day had a shitty Madonna song, a guy with a face made of diamonds and an invisible car. It just ain't the same. Part of it's the effect of modern special effects in that all films look completely the same (charming and soulless), partly its that they have completely run out of entertaining plots, partly it's the fact that after you see Ninjas with machine guns abseiling into a Volcano base, anything is downhill.

Ozymandias:
I think Casino Royale looks positively bitchin'. It looks like they adapted an actual Bond novel, with a splash of Transporter-esque action.

I am all for it. Fuck the last 20 movies. It's time for the series to get a reboot that doesn't involve Madonna and the world's shittiest plots ever.

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