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Hardrock69
11-05-2006, 02:12 AM
Here are release details for the US. You can find release details for other countries at the official site, which is listed below:


There are four boxed sets, the first two set for release on 7 November 2006 and the other two due on 12 December 2006. Each set will contain five Bond films, for a total of twenty when all the sets are released.

Volume 1 (Gold Box Set - 7 November): Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Living Daylights, and The World Is Not Enough

At Walmart for $60.39
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Volume 2 (Blue Box Set - 7 November): Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, A View To A Kill, Licence To Kill, and Die Another Day

At Walmart for $60.39
http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/02/76/16/06/0002761606005_500X500.jpg

Volume 3 (Red Box Set - 12 December): From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Live And Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, and GoldenEye

At Walmart for $56.87
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Volume 4 (Silver Box Set - 12 December): Dr. No, You Only Live Twice, Moonraker, Octopussy, and Tomorrow Never Dies

At Walmart for $56.87
http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/02/76/16/06/0002761606020_500X500.jpg


http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=Ultimate+James+Bond&search_constraint=4096&ic=24_0&ref=&search_sort=4

Actor Specific Box Sets / Special Collections

According to Play.com, three new James Bond ‘Ultimate Edition’ sets will be released on 27 November 2006:

the Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Pierce Brosnan box sets.

The Connery set will include all six of his official James Bond films, all seven for the Moore set and all four for the Brosnan set.

Also set for release on 27 November is The Ultimate Golden Triple Pack, which contains: Goldfinger, The Man With The Golden Gun, and GoldenEye.

You can order these thru Amazon.com

Here is the official website for the Ultimate Edition DVDs

http://www.theultimatebond.com/

Seshmeister
11-05-2006, 08:37 AM
I see the greedy bastards have mixed up the films to force people to buy the crap ones like For Your Eyes Only and the Dalton movies...

knuckleboner
11-05-2006, 02:56 PM
Originally posted by Seshmeister
I see the greedy bastards have mixed up the films to force people to buy the crap ones like For Your Eyes Only


perhaps you just had to be an adolescent at that time, but i'd say bond turning down that figure skating chick ranks just above matt damon passing on famke jansen in "rounders," as most unbelievable denial...

Seshmeister
11-05-2006, 04:30 PM
Heh.

He was old enough to be her grandfather...

Nickdfresh
11-05-2006, 06:43 PM
What a bunch of shit! Who wants to see a Bond film without Connery? Actually, ironically almost, I thought Brosnan was good too. Roger Moore was okay, and Timothy Dalton gets owned by even George Lazenby...

blonddgirl777
11-05-2006, 06:59 PM
Originally posted by knuckleboner
... that figure skating chick...

Yeah... Bibi!!!

And Carole Bouquet was gorgeous...

blonddgirl777
11-05-2006, 07:01 PM
Originally posted by Nickdfresh
...Who wants to see a Bond film without Connery?...

I jchust can't schtand to litschen to him talkking... plus, he looks like a chipmonk
Roger Moore was the best!

blonddgirl777
11-05-2006, 07:02 PM
Originally posted by Seshmeister
I see the greedy bastards have mixed up the films to force people to buy the crap ones like For Your Eyes Only and the Dalton movies...

Yep!
Marketting... :rolleyes:

Nitro Express
11-05-2006, 07:16 PM
Originally posted by Seshmeister
I see the greedy bastards have mixed up the films to force people to buy the crap ones like For Your Eyes Only and the Dalton movies...

They show the old Sean Connery ones enough on TV why in the hell do I want to buy the boxed set polluted with Diamonds are Forever and other dated, dumb, and disspossable bond movies? That's like forcing a Star Treck fan to buy the Next Generation eposodes with the originals.

Nitro Express
11-05-2006, 07:21 PM
Roger Moore did good. He lost me when he made out with Grace Jones though. That was Nasty!

Nitro Express
11-05-2006, 07:22 PM
I still like Goldfinger. How can you not like a movie that has names like Pussy Galore in it! LOL! That movie probably freaked out all the evangelical conservatives when it came out.

knuckleboner
11-05-2006, 07:28 PM
true. but the knuckleboner still says that the best bond girl name has to be "dr. goodhead."

i mean, she's got an advanced degree in it!!

blonddgirl777
11-05-2006, 08:40 PM
Originally posted by Nitro Express
Roger Moore did good. He lost me when he made out with Grace Jones though. That was Nasty!

I just don't remember him making out with her...
Maybe I just blocked it out unconscously?
Eeeeeewwwww!!!

blonddgirl777
11-05-2006, 08:44 PM
Originally posted by Nitro Express
I still like Goldfinger. How can you not like a movie that has names like Pussy Galore in it! LOL! That movie probably freaked out all the evangelical conservatives when it came out.

I saw a show where they interviewd many of the Bond girls and the one that played Pussy Galore said that yes it did, freak out not only the conservatives but a whole bunch of people back then!

Hardrock69
11-06-2006, 01:56 AM
"Plenty O' Tool"

"Named after your father, no doubt..."

For all of you whining that you are being forced to buy movies with Timpthy Dalton, or Roger Moore, or whatever, scroll back up and read the item I posted.

At the end of this month they will release 3 box sets: One with all the Sean Connery films. one with all the Roger Moore films, and one with all the Timothy Dalton films.

Happy now?

;)

Seshmeister
11-06-2006, 10:04 AM
Originally posted by Nitro Express
I still like Goldfinger. How can you not like a movie that has names like Pussy Galore in it! LOL! That movie probably freaked out all the evangelical conservatives when it came out.

Just about every Bond film after that was basically a remake of Goldfinger.

Seshmeister
11-06-2006, 10:05 AM
Originally posted by blonddgirl777
I jchust can't schtand to litschen to him talkking... plus, he looks like a chipmonk
Roger Moore was the best!


Is there some rule at this site that there has to be at least one nutty insane post per thread?:)

Seshmeister
11-06-2006, 10:07 AM
Originally posted by Hardrock69
"Plenty O' Tool"

"Named after your father, no doubt..."

For all of you whining that you are being forced to buy movies with Timpthy Dalton, or Roger Moore, or whatever, scroll back up and read the item I posted.

At the end of this month they will release 3 box sets: One with all the Sean Connery films. one with all the Roger Moore films, and one with all the Timothy Dalton films.

Happy now?

;)


I wouldn't go that far but less unhappy...:)

Aparently the Extras are really good on these DVD's. I'll probably get the Connery ones and then never get/take the time to watch them.

flappo
11-06-2006, 10:20 AM
when i think of tim dalton i always think of his voiceover work for 'brain's faggots'

how apt

flappo
11-06-2006, 10:23 AM
http://www.dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/index.php?page=food/faggots.htm

http://www.dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/food/faggots.jpg

Hardrock69
11-06-2006, 10:57 AM
I will probably wait for the box sets by actor. Not interested in a mish-mash of different actors in one box set.

That way too if you wanna have your own personal james bomb festival, you can watch thwem all in order without having to constantly figure out which box set has the next one in chronological order.

Watch the Sean Connery box set first, then the Roger Moore box set, then the Timothy Dalton one.

I posted about this before, with a link to a detailed explanation of how the remastering process they used is above and beyond the standard process....and supposedly is gonna kick holy fucking ass!!


http://commanderbond.net/article/2878

DrMaddVibe
11-06-2006, 11:23 AM
Originally posted by Nickdfresh
What a bunch of shit! Who wants to see a Bond film without Connery? Actually, ironically almost, I thought Brosnan was good too. Roger Moore was okay, and Timothy Dalton gets owned by even George Lazenby...

About the way I sizee them up too, unfortunate that they wouldn't release Brosnan from that shitty tv show so he could move on to Bond sooner. He was too old to keep the part for very long.

I've heard that the new one is pretty good.

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 11:23 AM
Originally posted by Seshmeister
Is there some rule at this site that there has to be at least one nutty insane post per thread?:)

Ho, I get to read a lot more than one nutty insane posts per thread!
(And I don't eaven read all the threads)...

Connery DOES, talk like that. Wich makes him sound not very manly...
Bond is supposed to be a womanizer and one of the qualities the ladies notice is a nice voice and a sexy accent (like Roger Moore's)!
Schomeone who schews his words is not very attractive to listchen too... ;)

Brosnan is an excellent replica of Moore but Dalton?... W.T.F.?

DrMaddVibe
11-06-2006, 11:26 AM
Bond ( in the Flemming novels) is supposed to be a human chameleon.

That discounts Roger Moore right off the bat.

DrMaddVibe
11-06-2006, 11:27 AM
They took Moore because they didn't want The Saint to rub out the Bond marque.

DrMaddVibe
11-06-2006, 11:31 AM
Dalton is and was the worst of them, but when you see him in the mideast headress in Afghanistan...he did look the part of a "local".

Moore's characters relied on too many gadgets and a white tuxedo. I'm not discounting Moore's movies, just that I didn't find him to be the best fit for as many movies as he did make.

I did like "Live And Let Die" and "Moonraker" though.

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 11:32 AM
Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
Bond ( in the Flemming novels) is supposed to be a human chameleon.

That discounts Roger Moore right off the bat.

Most men I know prefer Connery and most women prefer Moore.

The older women I know say thet they where happy when they took the guy from "The Saint" to play James Bond...

I never watched "The Saint"...

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 11:37 AM
Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
...I did like "Live And Let Die"...

"The Man With The Golden Gun"...
Yes!

I would have fallen very easily for Roger Moore's little "lady tricks"!
I especially like it whan he turns back at the camera (while holding a girl in his arms) giving that look; "Well... it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it"! :D

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 11:39 AM
I like almost all of the James Bond movies (including Schawn Connery's) but I don't care for the new/modern ones...
At one point in time, they lost their edges.

Jimmy Jingles
11-06-2006, 02:08 PM
I grew up with Moore, he is my favorite.

Moonraker kicked my ass many times as a little fucker.

And I do have to agree that Bibi (the Blond ice skater) was one of the most fuckable Bond bitches of all time. When she was bouncing on that trampoline with those blond pigtails...pass the tissues.

twonabomber
11-06-2006, 02:26 PM
Roger Moore was Bond in a leisure suit.

i've already rented and copied all the Bond flicks, so i don't have to buy these.

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 05:48 PM
Originally posted by Jimmy Jingles
... Bibi (the Blond ice skater) was one of the most fuckable Bond bitches of all time. When she was bouncing on that trampoline with those blond pigtails...pass the tissues.

And when she BEGS James to fuck her!
L.O.L.

BALLYJUNKIE
11-06-2006, 07:41 PM
a young jane seymore was hot ... live-n- let die

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 08:17 PM
My favorite is Ursulla Andress (that legendary scene, when she comes out of the water)...

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 08:18 PM
Originally posted by BALLYJUNKIE
a young jane seymore was hot ... live-n- let die

It seems that she had never changed...
She looked young for a long time!

Hardrock69
11-06-2006, 09:37 PM
LMFAO!!!

Bibi....I agree. James coulda had some 16-year-old stuff there....

Oh well. According to the James Bomb mythos, he is never lacking for women. Hell. in the movies if he turns one chick down, he is making out with a new one by the next scene anyway.....

I do dig the opening of whatever flick it was (I think with Timothy Dalton) where he is doing some parachute hanglider type exercises in Gibralter or some fucking place, and he is gonna get killed by some fellow skydiver dude turned fucking traitor.....and he lands on some bitch's yacht just as she is talking on the phone complaining about how their are no real men around here (she needs to worship the chromium cob)......and bam...there he is.....she hands him a flute of champagne, they kiss....then he fucks the living shit out of her in front of the British naval destroyer that has arrived to pick him up......thus ensuring his legendary-ness amongst Her Majesty's Navy.....

But where was I????

It just always seemed to me Sean Connery's Bond was more ruthless....Moore was like, "Oh dear, I suppose I must karate chop you here.....try not to bleed on my Brooks Brothers suit".

Whereas Connery did not fuck around. Possibly due to superior acting abilities?

Imagine in your mind's eye the fictional character James Bond 007....you want him to be a ruthless, murderizing fuckup machine! Perhaps Sean Connery was just better at portraying that quality.....

I am rambling.

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blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 09:52 PM
The beginings are also cool...
When you see shadows of naked women, dancing/floating around with guns between their legs etc...


Ho and I really like the end where he ends up (with the girl) in this white "bubble" device, floating in the middle of the ocean... "The Spy Who Loved Me" I think?
That seemed like paradise!

Hardrock69
11-06-2006, 09:53 PM
I failed to mention one thing.

While men want James Bomb to be a ruthless, murderizing fuckup machine, women want him to be a ruthless, womanizing fucking machine!

:D

Suave...debonair....with the Chromium Cob.....

;)

Hardrock69
11-06-2006, 09:56 PM
Originally posted by blonddgirl777
The beginings are also cool...
When you see shadows of naked women, dancing/floating around with guns between their legs etc...

Notice though that there is no actual frontal nudity in James Bomb movies. Albert Broccoli decreed that an "R" rating would significantly reduce revenue, so he insisted there was to be no actual nudity in the film.

I have LOVED the intros in recent years. There was one a few years ago that looked like a lot of women's naked torsos with digital circuitry projected on them.

And I REALLY dig the intro to GoldenEye.....wif Miss Tina doing her vocal stylings to the max!

:cool:

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 09:59 PM
Originally posted by Hardrock69
... While men want James Bomb to be a ruthless, murderizing fuckup machine, women want him to be a ruthless, womanizing fucking machine!...

That's why I said that women usually prefer Roger Moore...

I think that they're is a shit load of movies out there with ruthless, murderizing fuckup machines that are not "suave" at all with women...
Bond was unique!

Ho, Jaaaames!!! :hula:

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 10:03 PM
I tend to forget, I own the James Bond soundtrack with a medley of many of the songs...
I should put it on!

Seshmeister
11-06-2006, 10:37 PM
Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and '007' by the John Barry Orchestra are tremendous.

Every home should have a Best of James Bond CD.


Cheers!

:gulp:

Hardrock69
11-06-2006, 11:12 PM
That twangy Fender guitar.....

BLAM!!!

http://www.funkpopart.com/media/catimg/bond-intro.jpg

Hardrock69
11-06-2006, 11:13 PM
Sesh that avatar is the shit!
:D

blonddgirl777
11-06-2006, 11:38 PM
Originally posted by Hardrock69
Sesh that avatar is the shit!
:D

That muppet keeps on going, and going, and going...

Hardrock69
11-07-2006, 09:03 AM
And Fozzy Bear just sits there stupefied.....

:D

Jimmy Jingles
11-07-2006, 09:24 AM
Originally posted by blonddgirl777
My favorite is Ursulla Andress (that legendary scene, when she comes out of the water)...



Awww yes.

Ursulla and her mammoth juggs.

Be right back...








(wank)
(wank)
(wank)







Yeah...she was hot.

Hardrock69
11-07-2006, 10:12 AM
Carole Bouquet and Rosamund Pike are my faves as far as Bond girls go.

blonddgirl777
11-07-2006, 10:53 AM
Originally posted by Hardrock69
And Fozzy Bear just sits there stupefied.....

:D

I'm not a man but I would probably be mortified, if someone would have been going on and on like that (non-stop)... You'd think that there would be no more skin left on that "think"?
L.O.L.

blonddgirl777
11-07-2006, 10:54 AM
Originally posted by Hardrock69
Carole Bouquet and Rosamund Pike are my faves as far as Bond girls go.

I've seen many of the Carole Bouquet movies... eaven now, 20 years later, she still looks almost the same!
Very classy...

Seshmeister
11-07-2006, 03:00 PM
The Sunday Times November 05, 2006


‘Potato head’ shoots his way to 007 triumph
Stuart Wavell



THEY said he was too ugly, too chunky and too blond to play the sixth James Bond. Bookmakers took bets that the actor known as “Mr Potato Head” would not survive the first movie.
But Daniel Craig has come through with flying colours as Ian Fleming’s sadistic secret agent in Casino Royale.



It is probably the most violent Bond film yet, with Craig, 38, wading gamely into the fray, breaking heads, loosing lead and, in a notable torture scene, strapped naked to a chair and getting his unmentionables whipped by a man with a thick rope.

The 21st film in the series takes Bond back to his earlier years and his first assassination. He dispenses with the usual gadgets in favour of a ruthlessness and athleticism that is reminiscent of Sean Connery, the first screen 007.

Craig’s performance rescues the franchise from the trough into which it had fallen in the last outing, Die Another Day, which despite a good box-office seemed as vacuous as Bond’s invisible car. Many thought it was time for Pierce Brosnan to disappear, too.

Guests who attended a sneak preview emerged impressed. Monica Bertei, 29, an actress, said: “He’s very sexy. It’s a lot more graphic and gritty than in the past.” Graham Rye, 55, editor of 007 Magazine, said: “I haven’t been as excited about a Bond film for years. He’s the best Bond ever.”

Casino Royale, which goes on release on November 16, is only nominally based on Fleming’s 1953 novel. Here 007 finds himself pitched against a Euro-villain named Le Chiffre (played by Mads Mikkelsen), a man with a scarred, dead eye, who weeps blood through a tear duct when he starts to get agitated.

Such traits do not serve him well when bluffing at Texas hold ’em, the card game around which the story revolves. Having tracked Le Chiffre from Madagascar to Miami, Bond — “the best player in the service” — must face off with him in a high-stakes game in Montenegro.

This provides an opportunity to showcase Craig in a tuxedo, quaffing a cocktail and squiring a comely babe (Vesper Lynd, played by Eva Green). She is a chaperone from MI6, on hand to ensure the agent doesn’t blow his wad, in any sense, outside of the business at issue.

Le Chiffre, it turns out, prefers bankrolling terrorist organisations to anything fanciful like satellite death rays or pools of piranha fish. Armed with several million pounds from the Treasury, Bond’s mission is to clean Le Chiffre out, thus siphoning off global terror’s funding.

It’s all quite riveting. Throw in some neat oneliners and a couple of major setpiece stunts — notably a vertigo-inducing bit of leaping between cranes on an African dockside — and Casino Royale does the business.

It is almost enough to forgive the absence of Q, and the pain of an appalling theme song, sung by Chris Cornell.

We see Bond as little more than a grubby little murderer, or “blunt instrument”, as M calls him, who performs his first messy kill in a public lavatory and whose new-found 00 (assassin) status barely elevates him above the villains he terminates before his afternoon snifter.

Casino Royale is rich in little insights. We learn that Bond is an orphan, resents the mysterious benefactor who paid for his schooling, won his Aston Martin DBS at poker, and prefers the no-strings thrill of married women. This is a prototype Bond we have never seen before. It seems we have underestimated you, Mr Craig.

Royale story

Casino Royale was Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel, written in 1953

David Niven played Sir James Bond in a 1967 spoof loosely based on the book

A leaked memo listed concerns at Eon Productions about actors shortlisted for 007. Hugh Jackman was thought “too fey”, Eric Bana “not handsome enough” and Colin Farrell “too sleazy”. Daniel Craig, 6ft, beat off Ewan McGregor, who was “too short” at 5ft 10in

Seshmeister
11-07-2006, 03:05 PM
Originally posted by Seshmeister
Such traits do not serve him well when bluffing at Texas hold ’em, the card game around which the story revolves.

Sacrilage!

Bond plays Baccarat or Bridge not fucking Texas hold 'em.

What's the world coming to...?:)

DrMaddVibe
11-07-2006, 03:23 PM
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Hardrock69
11-07-2006, 03:44 PM
He dispenses with the usual gadgets in favour of a ruthlessness and athleticism that is reminiscent of Sean Connery, the first screen 007.

Now THAT is what I have been talking about!
:cool:

Seshmeister
11-09-2006, 06:42 PM
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DrMaddVibe
11-10-2006, 07:51 AM
For once, there is truth in advertising: The credits proclaim Daniel Craig as "Ian Fleming's James Bond 007," and Craig comes closer to the author's original conception of this exceptionally long-lived male fantasy figure than anyone since early Sean Connery. "Casino Royale" sees Bond recharged with fresh toughness and arrogance, along with balancing hints of sadism and humanity, just as the fabled series is reinvigorated by going back to basics. The Pierce Brosnan quartet set financial high-water marks for the franchise that may not be matched again, but public curiosity, lack of much high-octane action competition through the holiday season and the new film's intrinsic excitement should nonetheless generate Bond-worthy revenue internationally.
Bond made his debut in "Casino Royale" when it was published in 1953, and while the novel was adapted the following year for American television (Barry Nelson played Bond) and in 1967 became a lame all-star spy send-up featuring Peter Sellers, David Niven and Woody Allen, it remained unavailable to the Eon producers until now.

As refashioned for this 21st series installment, the novel's focus on a high-stakes cards showdown doesn't kick in for an hour. But Craig's taking over as the sixth actor to officially portray the secret agent on the bigscreen (not including that first "Casino") provides a plausible opportunity to examine the character's promotion to double-0 status, which is neatly done in a brutal black-and-white prologue in which he notches his first two kills.

After the pic bleeds into color, Bond pursues a would-be suicide bomber in a madly acrobatic chase through an African construction site, at the end of which he happens to be filmed killing an apparently, if not in fact, unarmed man in images instantly disseminated on the Internet, to the enormous embarrassment of MI6. Welcome to the 21st century, Mr. Bond.

Doubling the displeasure of his boss M (Judi Dench happily back for her fifth turn) by surreptitiously entering her flat, Bond ignores her reprimand by high-tailing it to the Bahamas, itself a nice throwback to the film series' origins in "Dr. No." Following a cell phone trail of potential terrorist bombers, Bond tracks one, then another in Miami, where an evening that begins at a "Bodyworks" exhibition ends with a high-speed tarmac battle in which the fate of the world's biggest new jetliner hangs in the balance.

Even by this early juncture, the pic has emphatically announced its own personality. It's comparatively low-tech, with the intense fights mostly conducted up close and personally, the killings accomplished by hand or gun, and without an invisible car in evidence; Bond is more of a lone wolf, Craig's upper-body hunkiness and mildly squashed facial features giving him the air of a boxer; 007's got a frequently remarked upon ego, which can cause him to recklessly overreach and botch things, and the limited witticisms function naturally within the characters' interchanges.

As matters advance to the Continent, elements even more unusual in the Bond world of late, comprehensible plotting and palpable male-female frissons, move to the fore. Bond's enemy is not a Mr. Evil type plotting world domination, but a financier of international terrorism, Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), who needs to make financial amends by winning a big-pot poker game at the casino in fictional Montenegro. Bond plans to break Le Chiffre for good at the gambling table, and to this end he is fronted $10 million delivered by a most alluring messenger, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), assigned to keep tabs on the coin.

Their initial meeting on board a Euro fast train fairly crackles with a sexual undercurrent as they perceptively size one another up. But Vesper intends to maintain a professional distance from her temporary colleague, whose contest of wills and luck with Le Chiffre in the hushed confines of a private gaming room is repeatedly interrupted during breaks by spasms of violence and attempts on Bond's life.

Yarn does tend to go on a bit once it sails past the two-hour mark, but final stretch contains two indelible interludes crucial to defining this new incarnation of Bond. Constrained nude to a bottomed-out chair, Bond is tortured by Le Chiffre who repeatedly launches a hard-tipped rope upon his nemesis' most sensitive area, and Craig once and for all claims the character as his own by virtue of the supreme defiance with which he taunts Le Chiffre even in vulnerable extremis. Later, the startling, tragic turn in Bond's relationship with Vesper provides a measure of understanding for his rake-like tendencies down the line.

Script by series vets Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, along with Paul Haggis, hangs together reasonably well and is rewarded for its unaccustomed preoccupation with character by the attentiveness to same by director Martin Campbell, back after having helmed the first Brosnan entry, "GoldenEye," 11 years ago. Dialogue requires Bond to acknowledge his mistakes and reflect on the soul-killing nature of his job, self-searching unimaginable in the more fanciful Bond universes inhabited by Brosnan and Roger Moore.

Shrewd and smart as well as gorgeous, Vesper Lynd is hardly the typical Bond girl (she never even appears in a bathing suit), and Green makes her an ideal match for Craig's Bond. Danish star Mikkelsen proves a fine heavy, an imposing man with the memorable flaw of an injured eye that sometimes produces tears of blood. Giancarlo Giannini has a few understated scenes as a friendly contact in Montenegro, and while Jeffrey Wright has little to do as CIA man Felix Leiter, he does get off a couple of the film's best lines, and one can hope he may figure more prominently in forthcoming installments. Sebastien Foucan does some eyebrow-raising "free running" stunts in the African chase.

"Casino Royale" is the first Bond in a while that's not over-produced, and it's better for it. Production values are all they need to be, and while the score by David Arnold, in his fourth Bond outing, is very good, the title song, "You Know My Name," sung by Chris Cornell over disappointingly designed opening credits, is a dud.

Camera (Deluxe color, Panavision widescreen), Phil Meheux; editor, Stuart Baird; music, David Arnold; production designer, Peter Lamont; supervising art director, Simon Lamont; art directors, Dominic Masters, Steven Lawrence, Peter Francis, Alan Tomkins, Fred Hole; set decorators, Lee Sandales, Simon Wakefield; costume designer, Lindy Hemming; sound (DTS/Dolby Digital/SDDS), Chris Munro; supervising sound editor, Eddy Joseph; re-recording mixer, Mark Taylor; sound designer, Martin Cantwell; special effects and miniature effects supervisor, Chris Corbould; visual effects and miniature supervisor, Steve Begg; visual effects, Peerless Camera Co.; stunt coordinator, Gary Powell; associate producer, Andrew Noakes; assistant director, Bruce Moriarty; second unit director/camera, Alexander Witt; casting, Debbie McWilliams. Reviewed at the Avco Cinemas, Los Angeles, Nov. 8, 2006. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 144 MIN.





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twonabomber
11-10-2006, 08:24 AM
no Q, no Bond.

Hardrock69
11-10-2006, 09:52 AM
No John Cleese?

Hmm.....but then, this film was designed to be true to the novel, and Q's appearances are more of a chance for comedic relief as well as a chance to explain to the audience what kind of gadgets Bond will use later on in the film.

Besides, Desmond Llewelyn will aways be Q in my book.

Now, M is a different story.

Call me a nut case, but I think Judy Dench is a HOT older woman.


LOL! Here check this article out:

007 EmasculationWatch: Judi Dench Adds 'Size Queen' To Her Royal Acting Resume

bond-dench - DefamerIn a mere matter of weeks, minds will finally be made up over whether Casino Royale's latest Bond incarnation, Daniel Craig, has proven his many, internet-enabled naysayers wrong and was worthy all along of inheriting the superspy's mantle. Still, a little nudge of encouragement from a respected co-star never hurts, such as when Dame Judi Dench recently registered her awed surprise at having caught a sidelong glance at Craig's generously proportioned double-oh-seven.

James Bond actor Daniel Craig has a large penis, according to his 'Casino Royale' co-star Dame Judi Dench.

The British actress caught a glimpse of the hunky actor's impressive appendage as he was getting dressed in his trailer which was situated opposite her own.

Dench, who plays secret service boss M in the new movie, told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "It's an absolute monster! Maybe I shouldn't have said that. How uncouth of me!"

Having some time ago laid our impressionable eyes upon the body part in question, we'll assume Dench's choice of the descriptive "monster" in this instance refers to a supernatural creature of the diminutive sort--a trembling, wet mogwai, for instance.

http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/james-bond/007-emasculationwatch-judi-dench-adds-size-queen-to-her-royal-acting-resume-211179.php+Judy+Dench+naked&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8


Hahahaha....I found an old picture from the 60s of Judy Dench topless!!!
:D

http://www.hogrockcafe.com/Judi%20Dench%20Nude%202%20-%20Midsummer's%20Night%20Dream.jpg

Seshmeister
11-10-2006, 09:53 AM
Was Q in the books at all?

I loved the Q stuff but you can't really make a gritty realistic interpretation of Bond with John Cleese popping up as a funny boffin giving him invisible cars.

Seshmeister
11-10-2006, 11:53 AM
http://www.sayagain.co.uk/b3tapix/images/CasioRoyal.jpg

DrMaddVibe
11-10-2006, 11:54 AM
Hold the pickle!

Hardrock69
11-10-2006, 11:33 PM
Daniel Craig is on Jay Leno in about 10 minutes (Jay has to get his monologue out of the way).

Hardrock69
11-10-2006, 11:51 PM
THat is fucked up. I just posted Daniel Craig is on Jay Leno, but he is actually on Letterman.

Every forum shows I was the last person to post on the thread, but when I load the page, that post is missing.

Fucking bizarre....

Hardrock69
11-10-2006, 11:55 PM
Ok so I loaded up Internet Explorer, and not only was my first post not visible, but my second one was not either. Does not matter if I use Firefox or IE.

This forum is eating posts.