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edited December 2010 in Debate and/or Discourse
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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I love the new Bond

    I think they did a really good job with Casino Royale but the other one wasn't as good

    I would like a gay scene in the next Bond movie

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Sean Connery is the best James Bond because he drunk from the Holy Grail and can never die.
    TehSloth wrote:
    I always thought they were the same place and it was just a thing that people didn't like calling it londonderry cause... well... histry n stuff.

    The original (London)derry, as located in County (London)derry, formerly County Coleraine, is this. But there are two towns in New England, where one is called Derry and one is called Londonderry. There's also a Belfast.

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited November 2010
    So It Goes wrote: »
    I love the new Bond

    I think they did a really good job with Casino Royale but the other one wasn't as good

    I would like a gay scene in the next Bond movie

    Yeah, the latest one was kind of a disappointing mess. There wasn't much of a plot and it was gimmicky as hell. A house fueled by deadly explosive hydrogen? That's the same crap that weighed down the Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan movies.

    I would also endorse a gay Bond. He should be a voracious 21st century sex god.

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  • JokermanJokerman Everything EverywhereRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    James bond should be dead by now. Guy is as old as my dad.

    Also, while Jakob is a great mod, his [chat]'s rival elki for teh suck.

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  • GalahadGalahad Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    There was a bit on NPR last week that was saying that if the next Bond doesn't do pretty well MGM is dead dead.

    Dr. No. is my favorite. Maybe just because it was the first one I saw.

    I haven't seen the Daniel Craig Bond movies, but I've seen all the others.

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  • JamesJames Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    James Bond is alright.

    I kind of resent famous fictional characters with whom I share the same first name.

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited November 2010
    Jokerman wrote: »
    James bond should be dead by now. Guy is as old as my dad.

    Also, while Jakob is a great mod, his [chat]'s rival elki for teh suck.

    There is no way you have had time to watch all ten awesome clips I posted.

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  • DaxonDaxon Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    So It Goes wrote: »
    I love the new Bond

    I think they did a really good job with Casino Royale but the other one wasn't as good

    I would like a gay scene in the next Bond movie

    Loved casino royale, quantum of solace was pretty lame.

    "oh we're gonna take over the world by having all your waters."

    Yeah sure, whatever douche.

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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I liked the Casino Royale song

    Also a View to a Kill cause I like the 80's

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  • BobCescaBobCesca Is a girl Birmingham, UKRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Oooh, Bond.

    I should put the soundtracks on the ipod for uni today.

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    snake

    eaaaterrrrrr

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  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Daniel Craig is a pretty mediocre Bond.

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited November 2010
    Tarranon wrote: »
    snake

    eaaaterrrrrr

    I see no Bond here, Tarranon

    remedy this

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  • GalahadGalahad Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I recently listened to the Moonraker audiobook.

    I think I like book Bond better than movie Bond.

    Though, of the movie Bonds I've seen, Sean Connery was the closest to the guy in the book. Not quite right though. Mebby Daniel Craig gets it right. I'll get around to watching the new ones someday.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Hey, there's an Antrim too!

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited November 2010
    So It Goes wrote: »
    I liked the Casino Royale song

    Also a View to a Kill cause I like the 80's

    I love Duran Duran, and they always had the best videos

    The Casino Royale song is the best one in years and years. Who knew I would ever like something with the dude from Soundgarden and the dudes from Rage Against the Machine? That's like the anti-Jacob formula but it somehow worked.

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    The new Bond movies are great but it seems like they're a lot harder to make. Silly action scenes, one dimensional super evil villains, overly slick spy dialogue... it practically writes its self and it's fun. It's a formula that works well.

    But if you make Bond a deeply flawed man fighting a more realistic, nebulous enemy and dial back the over-the-top stuff, you can't fall back on the cheap and easy Bond movie formula. They tried in the last one and audiences hated it. You have to make something that's actually good.

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  • TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Mmmmmm, Christmas Jones.

    That is all.

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    jacobkosh wrote: »
    Tarranon wrote: »
    snake

    eaaaterrrrrr

    I see no Bond here, Tarranon

    remedy this

    I thought you would settle for a Bond homage :(

    Goldeneye and Casino Royale are basically the only two bond movies I care about. I just never got that much into the franchise.

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  • DaxonDaxon Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Silas Brown wrote: »
    Daniel Craig is a pretty mediocre Bond.

    Your face is a pretty mediocre Bond.

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited November 2010
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    The new Bond movies are great but it seems like they're a lot harder to make. Silly action scenes, one dimensional super evil villains, overly slick spy dialogue... it practically writes its self and it's fun. It's a formula that works well.

    But if you make Bond a deeply flawed man fighting a more realistic, nebulous enemy and dial back the over-the-top stuff, you can't fall back on the cheap and easy Bond movie formula. You have to make something that's actually good.

    That's an excellent point, and very true. The temptation to fall back on old habits must be overwhelming since they know audiences will basically show up for whatever.

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Silas Brown wrote: »
    Daniel Craig is a pretty mediocre Bond.

    :arrow:

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    There's also a New Boston. :?:

    I get New York, what with York being a long way away, but New Boston?

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited November 2010
    Galahad wrote: »
    I recently listened to the Moonraker audiobook.

    I think I like book Bond better than movie Bond.

    Though, of the movie Bonds I've seen, Sean Connery was the closest to the guy in the book. Not quite right though. Mebby Daniel Craig gets it right. I'll get around to watching the new ones someday.

    You really should at least see Casino Royale. It's a lot more in the spirit of the books.

    The other one can safely be skipped, though

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  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
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    AND THAT'S FINAL

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Hey, my cousin's on Wikipedia!

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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    This guy, right here:

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    Is James Bond in spaaaace. Only with better writing and Poul Anderson first published stories about him in 1951, two years before Ian Flemming started on with James Bond.

    edit: Also, the finale to the series of stories about Dominic Flandry's foil and primary nemesis (well worthy of being his Moriarty) is called "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows". The only thing making that book less than the single best piece of epic science fiction ever is that to get the most out of it you really need to have read the previous stand-alone books with the characters (much like Night Watch in the Discworld series).

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Uh, guys? Remember the hispanic grandmother in the apartment below? Crying like Telemundo? Well she stopped. Then a few minutes passed. Then firetrucks and ambulances came.

    She was carried off on a stretcher. :(

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I will write a sci-fi James Bond by taking "Doctor No" and putting the word "Space" in front of every location, device and concept.

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  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    Uh, guys? Remember the hispanic grandmother in the apartment below? Crying like Telemundo? Well she stopped. Then a few minutes passed. Then firetrucks and ambulances came.

    She was carried off on a stretcher. :(

    Oh man :/

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    Uh, guys? Remember the hispanic grandmother in the apartment below? Crying like Telemundo? Well she stopped. Then a few minutes passed. Then firetrucks and ambulances came.

    She was carried off on a stretcher. :(

    D:

    I hope she's okay.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    help me i am gay for craig boone

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  • WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I love James Bond. One of the most iconic male protagonists in film history. One of the greatest things about the franchise is how each Bond flick feels like a Bond flick, you watch them because you want to watch something specific, something that's carved out its own place in the action genre. They are a category unto themselves.

    And despite the fact that, at the end of the day these films are just about violence, fast cars, loose women, and the suave, cocky, calculating British killing machine that is James Bond, every once in a while a Bond flick will slide something in there that's actually touching. Like the ending of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, or the betrayal James felt at the hands of his friend Trevelyan in Goldeneye. The fate of Felix and his wife at the beginning of License to Kill.

    Bond rarely cares about who he's after, he just gets the job done, and that lack of connection in most other action films would be detrimental -- a paycheque is not sufficient reason to kill hundreds of men, even if it is to save a nation or the world, you need a more personal reason for a man to go to the lengths that Bond does.

    But that's just it: Bond's more than a man. He's James Fucking Bond.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    help me i am gay for craig boone

    This is perfectly natural.

    is there a mod that will let my dude romance him?

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    help me i am gay for craig boone

    This is perfectly natural.

    is there a mod that will let my dude romance him?

    Whoops, got horribly confused and thought you were talking about Daniel Craig.

    Anybody else want a ticket for the fail train?

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Kakos bought Choco New Vegas so I will check it out.

    Apparently there is a character named Cass and we are kindred spirits.

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  • JamesJames Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Young Franklin Roosevelt looks similar to someone I know.

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  • WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Shut the door Alec, there's a draft!

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    help me i am gay for craig boone

    This is perfectly natural.

    is there a mod that will let my dude romance him?

    Whoops, got horribly confused and thought you were talking about Daniel Craig.

    Anybody else want a ticket for the fail train?

    being gay for daniel craig is also perfectly natural so

    it's okay to be confused

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