Bond 24 - Spectre

[DONNIEP]

That said in real life women are bad enough never mind actresses never mind Italian actresses.

Can you imagine living with an Italian actress?...

Not that one.

[Hardrock69]

Uh, no. Not interested in having a slave mistress.

[DONNIEP]

Uh, no. Not interested in having a slave mistress.

Not even Slave Girl Leia?

[Hardrock69]

Well, if I had to serve a mistress, serving a young version of her would be pretty awesome.

[Kristy]

Well, if I had to serve a mistress, serving a young version of her would be pretty awesome.

Brilliant post as always, Kirsten. Sad to see how your "career" has taken a dive. Maybe you can give Eddie a call?

ASPIRATIONAL from Matthew Frost on Vimeo.

[binnie]

I've not been much of a fan of Craig as Bond. Too humourless.

The films have been good, but there's something missing.

[twonabomber]

That's from growing up watching the Roger Moore Bond movies, snickering at all the little comic relief lines they'd throw in there. Brosnan had a few good ones too.

[Seshmeister]

I much prefer Daniel Craig to Brosnan and the films have improved hugely.

Die Another Day was the worst ever Bond movie, a total disgrace.

[twonabomber]

That might have been the last Bond I saw at the theater. "Just surviving, Mr. Chang. Just surviving."

[Nickdfresh]

I liked Bronson as Bond, but I think he hung on a bit too long and was over the hill a bit and should have become M or something. I do like Craig, as he's sort of a contrast as a more serious Bond and is probably as close to the novel Bond as Connery was - I recall the character is a bit of a serious manic depressive with a conscience that doesn't always drink martinis with his pinky out. I think he's doing shots of tequila in From Russia With Love after killing a Mexican drug dealer because he feels like a common whore-assassin...

[DONNIEP]

Die Another Day could have been the best Bond movie ever, but half way in it goes completely off the rails. An invisible car?? And it was virtually indestructible?? Then you've got the whole North Vietnorean colonel who somehow gets morphed into the worst snotty Brit stereotype ever to grace a screen and then he turns into Robocop?? Even Brosnan was disappointed with the film and said so.

I like Craig as Bond. And I like that they basically rebooted the series and took the time to develop the character (as much as they have, these are Bond flicks after all).

[Seshmeister]

Die Another Day could have been the best Bond movie ever, but half way in it goes completely off the rails. An invisible car?? And it was virtually indestructible?? Then you've got the whole North Vietnorean colonel who somehow gets morphed into the worst snotty Brit stereotype ever to grace a screen and then he turns into Robocop?? Even Brosnan was disappointed with the film and said so.

Maybe the worst bit in any Bond film....you get better CGI on a Wii...

[Coyote]

Apparently, one of the reasons for reshaping Bond in a more serious direction was Austin Powers...

[Seshmeister]

They will need to be careful with how they pitch the new one.

There is a whole generation who will be asking 'Why is Christoph Waltz dressed as Dr Evil?'

[Seshmeister]

I liked Bronson as Bond, but I think he hung on a bit too long and was over the hill a bit and should have become M or something.

Daniel Craig is signed up to do this one and then a final movie at which point you and I get to be older than James Bond.

Fuck!

[Coyote]

That said in real life women are bad enough never mind actresses never mind Italian actresses.

Can you imagine living with an Italian actress?...

I'd give Caterina Murino a shot...

[BITEYOASS]

You know what this new Bond movie needs? Christmas songs!



This song was in an actual Bond movie. I shit you not!

[BITEYOASS]

Here it is in French, also in the same Bond movie.

[BITEYOASS]

And finally, in German..

[Nickdfresh]

Daniel Craig is signed up to do this one and then a final movie at which point you and I get to be older than James Bond.

Fuck!

I'm just happy Craig is a couple years older than me that this point

[Seshmeister]

You know what this new Bond movie needs? Christmas songs!

This song was in an actual Bond movie. I shit you not!

Ironically in one of the best soundtracks OHMSS.

I don't really remember it, I guess it's during the bits where he is wandering around the Xmas markets and tourists.

[Kristy]

Who knew?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ion-movie.html

[vandeleur]

i keep mentioning this , the daily mail is right wing shit rag .

[Seshmeister]

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/a...ampaign=buffer



Bond’s Aston DB10: the real story
TG exclusive: we interrogate Aston design boss Marek Reichman for the inside line on the 'Spectre' star

Sam Philip
15 December 2014



"Sam Mendes wanted this to be the poster car for every boy who watches James Bond for the first time," says Aston Martin design director Marek Reichman. He's discussing the conversation with Spectre director Mendes that led, eventually, to the DB10, Daniel Craig's company wheels in the 24th Bond outing, which reaches cinemas late in 2015.

"My interpretation of that was that Sam was talking about a brand-new DB5," continues Reichman in an exclusive chat with TG. The DB5, of course, was Sean Connery's ride in 1964's Goldfinger, a gadget-laden masterpiece that established the Bond-Aston love affair and remains, for many, the archetypal Bond car. But, says Reichman, the DB10 doesn't revive its predecessor's gadgetry, but rather its philosophy.

"The DB5 is pure, it's simple, it has a grille to die for. It's a scalpel not a kitchen knife. That's what Sam wanted, for this to be Bond's simple, pure Aston Martin, just like the original DB5 was."

To reinvent probably the most famous Aston - not to mention one of the most famous film cars - of all time. Not much of a challenge, eh? But, TG asks, this isn't a mere pastiche of the original - a la Fiat 500 - is it?

"Absolutely not," says Marek. "We don't do retro design. Sam said, ‘We don't want a parody, otherwise why not just get an original DB5?' This had to be modern and unique, the future generation of what the DB5 was..."

So what is the DB10? "The underpinnings are V8 Vantage," admits Reichman. "But it has a longer wheelbase than the V8, and an incredibly wide track, almost the width of the One-77. The engine is exactly as you might expect, a 4.7-litre V8... but maybe there's something there you won't expect."

Eh? TG asks Marek to elaborate. A long pause. "We want to focus on what James Bond's hands are doing. That may give you a hint..."

An automatic gearbox? Cruise control? TG assumes the unexpected element may be a little juicier than that. Marek, like any MI6 operative worth his salt, is giving away no details.

"When the car was unveiled by Sam, it was introduced as ‘the first member of the cast'. It has a big part to play in the story. It's going to do some things you might not expect."

Ooh, does that mean juicy gadgets, then? Rocket launchers? Hedgehog cannons? Another long, long pause. "I wish I could tell you," grins Reichman. "Let's just say... there's a relationship they [Bond and the DB10] have, and not in the way that he has a relationship with the Bond girls. That relationship becomes apparent in the movie..."

Best guesses below, TG.commers. Nothing smutty, if you will. Thankfully Reichman's rather less cryptic when explaining how the DB10 develops Aston's well-established design language.

"It has a very extended hood, with a short wheelbase. The cabin sits a long way back, and there's a very simple, elegant line that runs down the side of the car. It's a hard, sharp line."

He's particularly proud of the DB10's front end, a front end apparently inspired, in deliciously Bond-villain fashion, by frickin' SHARKS. "The grille doesn't sit on the upper surface in any way," Marek explains. "It's all on a negative surface, like a shark's face. This car has the lowest nose that we've ever produced."

TG cannot be alone in hoping for a scene in Spectre that sees Bond edging at 5mph down a speedbump-packed London street, wincing as that low, low nose skirts ever closer to sleeping policemen...

Anyhow. Does that sharky aesthetic, TG asks, reflects the darker side of Daniel Craig's Bond, the move from cheesy one-liners to tortured soul-searching since the 2006 franchise reboot in Casino Royale?

"Daniel's Bond is closer to the original, darker Bond," agrees Marek. "He's very much an athlete, and I wanted the car to have a similar appearance. It's a predator. I wanted this car to look like a hunter."

It's dark in a very literal sense, says Marek. "The grille is all in shadow. There's a darker feeling to the car. On the inside, it's very technical. It has a... not a sinister feeling, but a very machine-like feeling to it."

So why, if it's based on a V8 Vantage rather than a DB9, is this car called DB10? "Because it's a modern interpretation of DB5," explains Marek. "The association of Bond is with DB cars. The underpinnings of the Vantage are only there to create the car. It doesn't share the proportions. We have so little time to create the car, you have to use what's in your toolkit."

So it doesn't point to the styling of the DB9 successor, then? "It's very much a ten-off car for the movie," says Marek. "Of course we're going to take some influences from it, looking forward. Why wouldn't we? But it is a movie car, a new-from-the-ground-up car for James Bond that has the iconic association the original DB5 had with Connery. This becomes Daniel Craig's car."

Will any of those ten cars be for sale? Afraid not, says Marek. "They're solely for film use. Some may get destroyed. They'll be treated harshly, used in real stunts. When you see the car in the movie, it's not CGI. It's got a real driver in it. It's being pushed to its limits..."

[Seshmeister]

"When the car was unveiled by Sam, it was introduced as ‘the first member of the cast'. It has a big part to play in the story. It's going to do some things you might not expect."

Ooh, does that mean juicy gadgets, then? Rocket launchers? Hedgehog cannons? Another long, long pause. "I wish I could tell you," grins Reichman. "Let's just say... there's a relationship they [Bond and the DB10] have, and not in the way that he has a relationship with the Bond girls. That relationship becomes apparent in the movie..."

Hmm if they are going to have it talk Knight Rider style it could be very cheesy.

[twonabomber]

The Coolest Car In The Next Bond Movie May Be The Villain's Jaguar

James Bond is getting a limited-edition Aston Martin for the upcoming SPECTRE, but the bad guys may get something even better: the Jaguar C-X75 Concept.

Autocar reports that the holy crap why don't they just build it coolest concept car in years Jaguar is going to star in the next Bond movie as the villain's car.

The key difference is that the C-X75's hybrid drivetrain is gone. The concept, of course, had a supercharged and turbocharged 1.6-liter engine with additional plug-in hybrid drive for a total of 850 horsepower. At least that's what Jaguar's press office claimed.

In any case, the fairy dust PHEV concept drivetrain got torn out in favor of the company's standard 500 horsepower supercharged 5.0 liter V8, which does sound badass.

Beyond James Bond points out that Jaguar has neither confirmed nor denied Autocar's report, though the role does make sense for the company. They are in the midst of a 'good to be bad' ad campaign, and there's no better bad guy role than being a Bond villain.

http://jalopnik.com/the-coolest-car-...lla-1671683074

[Seshmeister]

Neither of these cars seems to have enough space to get a decent amount of booze home from the store.

[vandeleur]

So really your ideal car is a transit

[DONNIEP]

Neither of these cars seems to have enough space to get a decent amount of booze home from the store.

If you can afford one of those, you have your beers delivered to your house. Preferably in an 18 wheeler.

[twonabomber]

Worst part about mine is listening to the bottles rattle right behind me...

[Seshmeister]

Cool trailer I like that there are no explosions action and so on like a Liam Neeson.

Waltz is clearly Blofeld as predicted.

[clarathecarrot]

This new take on Bond is a exact copy of those Vin Diesel movies were he is blind and fight real tough giant space monsters.

It is like Bond has no appeal other than a slasher flick and I believe Diesel would be a better fit in these scripts than Craig.

Bond has become a thug flick..same generic shit as most other B-Movie tough guy movies.

[binnie]

So really your ideal car is a transit

They classify that as a house in Scotland.

[binnie]

I think that the next James Bond should be Tom Hardy.

Who else has suggestions?

[vandeleur]

Eddie Izzard

[DONNIEP]

Cool trailer I like that there are no explosions action and so on like a Liam Neeson.

Waltz is clearly Blofeld as predicted.

The static shot that's showing before you hit play - hard to believe that's on there 'cause Craig's not wearing an Omega. That's a Rolex 6538 on his left wrist.

[Seshmeister]

Looks good, I like the call backs to the OHMSS soundtrack.

[Seshmeister]

The initial reviews are good...

[Seshmeister]

Saw it tonight and thought it was very good.

Looks amazing as it should considering the crazy amount of money spent on it, all the actors do a great job and there is a lot for Bond fans in there. The pre title sequence is one of the best ever.

It's not absolutely perfect though, some silliness and plot holes but overall I highly recommend it. I'm not sure how I would rate it compared to Skyfall and Casino Royale, I'll need to think about that but it's definitely in the same ballpark.

[DONNIEP]

Dammit, I'm glad you got to see it. That's as it should be, doesn't mean I like having to wait though.

Are you going to go more than once?