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I am a huge James Bond fan, thought Daniel Craig was the best Bond to date... but got to be honest I was dissapointed with No Time to Die.... I walked out of the cinema feeling pretty flat and depressed! lol I am not sure what the future holds for Bond now...with all the woke BS

If they decide to continue, please do not mess around with the character of James Bond and what Ian Fleming intended him to be. If they want to do that, create another character.... even a spin off MI6 agent to create a character who they want... but leave the character of James Bond the 007 moniker well alone!

Thats my two penneth any way....we shall see I guess.

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Do you fear that he'll be obliged to drive a hybrid?

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I presume you're happy enough for Bond films to be set in the current times, see him playing with modern gadgets and so on. Do you think a modern-day James Bond would or should still have 1953 attitudes? I don't think Fleming would have considered a woman - Judi Dench - for playing "M". Are you against that?

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Hybrid? do me a favour. He needs to be all electric in the next movie.

Have you watched the new Marvel "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" yet? They drive an all electric BMW iX3.

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Interesting that you (like me) consider Craig to be the best 'Bond' so far.

He's the only one to have immediately treated women as capable as he is; he's the only one to have really loved; the only one to have cried; happy enough to have a woman boss (although Brosnan did too).
So allowing for this inappropriate, hijacking of the term woke, you consider it BS but you believe the most 'woke' has been the best one.

You seem a bit mixed up. :lol:

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Well.... I think its all about subtle changes to stay relevant with the modern times while staying true to the past. I don't think M being played by a woman is directly altering or ruining the actual Bond character, as it happens I think Judi Dench was an excellent M... the best in my opinion...it was a real shame they killed off her character, ironically she even referred to Bond as a "mysoginstic dinosaur" in Goldeneye... which was a great touch. Fleming didn't imagine M as a woman because as you say it was unheard of in 1953 but these are the subtle changes that should be made to stay relevant with the modern world, just don't radically change the actual character the movie is about, and what has made it one of the most successful and longest running franchises to date.

Part of the appeal that draws audiences to the James Bond movies is the character he is.... a man with a traumatic past, orphaned at a young age, sent to boarding school, who as a result develops into a dark ruthless assassin (for the good of course) with a devil may care attitude who hasn't got a lot of feelings for anything or anyone.

In my opinion if they deviate form this too much its not James Bond anymore, and this is not what people want to see.

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The best Bond movie was Skyfall hands down. As I said I was dissapointed with No time to die.... I felt very flat after watching it.

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Well it was bad enough he had to drive BMWs especially the Z3 and the 750.... poor Brosnan, his version of Bond didn't deserve that!

Aston Martin all the way, nothing else.

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In the life of James Bond (the movies) that past has only been revealed recently so it can't have been the appeal previously. Craig's character has apparently been the most successful in terms of Bond Movies so that suggests they must be doing something right.

You seem to have fallen for all the bollocks about being woke.

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I have not but will put it on a list somewhere.

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Somehow none of the Bond movies do that much for me these days. So many copycat franchises: Bourne, Mission Impossible, etc.. Skyfall was good, but ultimately it's the same plot and same gags repeated over and over.

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Yeah its bollocks alright, its a crazy world we now live in.

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It is an irritating obsession of conservatives. People are talking about films or, well not books, conservatives aren't likely to have read books, but football, tennis, most anything, and there's a lesbian or a person with a piercing involved and then there's a whole load of claptrap about "woke", "youth of today", "gone to the dogs". Life moves on, you do have to call your black dog something else now, no need to obsess over it.

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he'll have one of those electric scooters all kited out by Q

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In contrast with the opinion upthread, I thought Marriage Story to be a compelling and accurate portrayal of the workings of family lawyers. Casting Scarlett Johansson as someone plump and dowdy is improbable but the terrible hair and Mom jeans helped.

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Marriage Story was really good.

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A very slight generalisation there... I think. All conservatives and all liberals don't fall into any particular stereotype, it depends on the individuals culture, not their political persuasion, for example I find North American conservatism different to British conservatism both right ring but the back ground and culture of these people is different.

But your right that conservatives do like their old school traditional values... I don't see anything wrong with that at all, as long as they evolve too, because as you say life does move on, however I have to admit that certain things do irritate me... its usually something that doesn't make any sense, such as the phrase "pregnant people" what?? it makes zero sense... no one can deny that, so why even say it? Even Trudeau's "peoplekind" made more sense than that! But considering the way of the world now....I am just likely just to roll my eyes, rather than get bent out of shape about it. :rolleyes:

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Watched 'Last night in Soho' yesterday, would recommend.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9639470/

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exactly!!! I am a new democrat so I am educated and i read them books. like the users guide for my new cell phone? like, i read it several times, but u have 2b like a thatcherite to speak their hateful language? read my dad's chequebook once and laught cause it was like so pathetic? that he wasted money? on booshwah shit like electric bills? and food? screw him!

anywho watched an educational movie on tiktok the other day. it was about whats it? you know, amazon and tesla and all other slave-owners in corporate capitalism. word capitalism comes from the latin, or maybe greek, word "rape" because they rape the women before they burn them to death. they don't rape the men because they're homophobic? they know about real worker liberation. the liberals talk too much, but the communists act! there has never been a minimum-wage problem in a communist country or in britain before cannibal thatcher. in cuba, everyone works at whatever they want to do and they don't care how much they make because they're happy! they have a rich culture (source: guardian) and really good health care (source: morning star).

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I acquired a new cell phone yesterday. It didn't come with a user guide. I've got the old one too (as JCC would phrase it), that didn't come with a user guide either. They're either iOS or Android so they don't need a manual, everyone already knows how they work.

Are you, perhaps, thinking of a new wireless set? They came with printed manuals.

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You sound like a conservative who does not even know how to find a book. https://www.central-manuals.com/user...oogle_vignette

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No Time to Die was better than I expected. The only scene I missed was Bond in a casino and meeting his adversary.

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If I said there was a film that involved Bruce Willis and an accepting attitude toward Tourette's Syndrome, you might run a mile. If I said the film exhibited a progressive attitude to race relations ill fitted to the time in which it is set, you might roll your eyebrows. Accept the incongruities, Motherless Brooklyn is a fine noir.

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I shall certainly take a look.

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I heard the latest Spider Man is getting rave reviews, anyone here watched it yet?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10872600/

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Had planned to. However Cinemas closed as of today as Newfoundland enters stage 3 of Covid measures. Will do whenever we come out again.

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Watched "Don't Look Up" on Netflix... absolutely hilarious. Terrifyingly accurate satire, truly wonderful stuff. And the cast...!!!!

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Accurate satire, and great cast, but it didn't work at all for me. Apart from maybe the last ten minutes, that was good.

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Watching it right now. Not a laugh out loud but I'm smiling.

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Yes indeedy. I did giggle, it took me a while to get into it as I wasn't really sure what I was watching to start with but once it clicked, well it's good. Very good.

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Watched it Christmas Eve - thoroughly enjoyed it :D

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For such a high profile cast, I am surprised this escaped my attention until your post.
Very good, so many things worked in this movie.

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Nice scientific analysis of Don't Look Up from Prof Brian Cox.

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Hand of God (Netflix) was good, although very Italian. It's a coming of age story rather than football. Did Maradona's Hand of God goal count in the end or was it disqualified ? I didn't know he played for Napoli.

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Into the White (Pluto TV) was an inspiring war film. Some Brits and Germans crash in snowy Norway and end up sharing a log cabin for a few days. It really underscores the tragedy of warring European nations.

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The Silent Sea (Netflix series) exciting and suspenseful Korean science fiction drama on a troubled lunar base. Really interesting concept, had to binge watch. :lol:

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1000 Miles from Christmas (Netflix). Very good seasonal Spanish romcom. I usually run a thousand miles from Xmas films, but this being set in the Pyrenees got a pass, and it was a genuinely engaging film.

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Heathen. :frown:

:rofl:


Yes it counted. No VAR back then

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Thanks and thanks (VAR). Have heard that phrase over the years, just never knew much about it.

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I know what you mean.... it took me a while to get into it I thought the satire was too much... albeit accurate.

Like you I think the last third of the film stuck out more for me, it was very poignant and powerful, and also I think accurate, showing how people reacted so differently in many places all over the world, once they knew that it was actual going to happen.....and were no longer in denial/ill informed. I think that's just how it would be.