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Isn't that what the Bond films are about though?

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dave c

In Reply to: RE: This one may actually kill the franchise....... posted by mr grits on September 27, 2007 at 07:01:19

No one expects a new plot, or even new dialogue.
The wit has dried to... whatever wit dries out to.
The Bond "girls" are a mere procession of what might have looked teasing in the early 1960s and Bond's attitudes are on a par with Homer Simpson.
But they do make money don't they?

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So, you didn't see the Daniel Craig film? - mr grits 15:54:37 09/27/07 (5)
A lot more serious with character development. Not like Moore or even Connery.

I would like to see all the books remade with a different actor being Bond each time (a'la Batman) following the actual plot in the proper time frame.

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- I did see the Craig film... - dave c 20:22:12 09/27/07 (4)
  ... and I thought the plot unintelligible.
  The villain sold the shares which didn't fall in price so he lost the money... oh wait, he didn't lose the money so he could have just paid it back.
  But apparently forgot he had it and thought a game of cards the best way out.
  It makes a lot of the other seem half plausible.
  Is this what we have come to? A Bond film about a game of cards.
  Shame the girl realised how to work the heart machine or we could have all gone home early.
  - If they had filmed it in the proper time period it wouldn't have been like that.... - mr grits 15:26:15 09/28/07 (1)
    Nor would have Africa nor Venice figured into it either. Flemming's world was the 50's and early 60's until the money-machine got hold of it.
    
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    - Interesting point - dave c 13:30:14 09/29/07 (0)
      Fleming's world, or Bond's world if you prefer was a cold war world as opposed to the vague enemies/baddies in the current crop of Bond films.
      They are probably closer to Greene and may now be more accurately described as historical.
      I find it hard to be involved in them. JUst like the Mission Impossible films, I fail to understand why they are tagged on to this other thing which has nothing to do with them. You might just as well call them SUperman for all the connection to the original.
      The franchise is fucked.
  - RE: I did see the Craig film... - rico 04:06:17 09/28/07 (1)
    The BOOK was about a game of cards.
    - And far better done, too. Of course, for people now accustomed to - tinear 04:58:58 09/28/07 (0)
      addictively watch and be massively entertained by cable poker...

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