New Bond

[under par]

I also..was in the running but my fee couldn't be met!!

said I was too, cool to be a bond

Ice Kool eh! any way they wanted a blond this time

[David Bailey]

Sorry , juvenile I know, but it just struck me as being a pretty funny surname - that first glass of wine really hit the spot

Maybe we should have a list of Stuff Moderators Have Done Whilst Drunk... kind of like a TV out-takes programme

[Stuart]

He did the screenplay for Goldeneye - which, to be fair, was pretty damned good. So who knows...

Its the same director as Goldeneye as well.

I think he'll be quite good in the role, even though I'll still always think of him as "Geordie" from "Our Friends in the North".

[LMC]

A not very good but vaguely relevant quiz...

(I'm Daniel Craig apparently)

[Groovy Dancer]

Ice Kool eh! any way they wanted a blond this time

Could of been a bald one
(and I have the picture to prove it)

[Stuart]

Could of been a bald one
(and I have the picture to prove it)

I'm thinking of "Diamonds are Forever" here!

[David Bailey]

So, who's going to see Casino Royale then? Any more opinions, now it's been extensively-hyped?

[Stuart]

I'm planning to go and see it next week. I'd go and see it regardless of the hype as I'm a James Bond fan.

[TurboTomato]

So, who's going to see Casino Royale then? Any more opinions, now it's been extensively-hyped?

Much as I hate hype, I'll probably go and see it. After all it's got to be better than the last effort, though to be fair that's not hard

Daniel Craig has the potential to be a good Bond and from what I've seen they've moved back from the special effects extravaganza to something a bit more believable which can only be good

[janey]

I know its not that normal for a girl but I am a huge Bond fan and I will definately be seeing this one as soon as possible.

The trailers for this one look good & after seeing the clip of Daniel Craig emrging dripping wet from the sea I think a lot more of us girlies will be watching Bond...

[Dreadful Scathe]

Definately too old! The next film they're making is Casino Royale, so its right at the start of Bond's spy career, so he's supposed to be young, this guy looks older than the very gorgeous Pierce Brosnan does now! I heard a couple of years ago now that they were looking at Ewan McGregor, I think even he's possibly too old to play a really young Bond now. I would have thought that Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) might have been closer to the right age group! I know he's a bit too young, but they could age him a little bit.

how old was bond supposed to be in Casino Royale? Ive not read the book for a few years but I got the impression he was a reasonably mature age? Wikipedia doesnt help much/

The new film is looking promising, a great change from "Dire Another Day" then

[Barry Shnikov]

I remember watching the scene in xXx when Vin Diesel is given some 'x-ray spex' which can see right through a brick wall. I was so disgusted I switched off. If a film contains magic, fine - I have no problem with Harry Potter because the premise is clear. But no science enables you to see through bricks - and yet xXx is supposed to be a 'serious' thriller, rather than a film featuring magic.

And then I saw the second half of Die another day and felt profoundly let down. An invisible car, fer crissakes. What a pile of steaming horse*****. There's more reality in SpongeBob SquarePants.

Hopefully the Bond team will keep to the new brutalism, rather than veering off into nonsense as seemed quite possible.

[Trouble]

ive only seen the coming out of the sea clip where he is wet and dripping and walking out towards the beach, sun glistening off his muscles.........IM GOING TO SEE IT JUST ON THE BACK OF THAT....yum bloody yum

dont need anything else really.

[TheTramp]

We're going to see it on Friday night.

Haven't ever seen a Bond film at the cinema before. I'm sure it'll be interesting

[Dreadful Scathe]

And then I saw the second half of Die another day and felt profoundly let down. An invisible car, fer crissakes. What a pile of steaming horse*****. There's more reality in SpongeBob SquarePants.

Very true. I despised Dire Another Day (it wasnt me that coined that particular misspelling ....I'm not the only one). Whilst invisibility is possible i.e. you have a camera capturing whats behind the object to then display it on the front, that clearly only works in 2 dimensions. A whole car? from any angle? Thats not a stretch, its ridiculous - may as well have given Bond some spells to cast That wasnt the worst thing though - that was Halle Berry's "Acting". She couldnt even run 20 yards convincingly. I wanted her character to die horribly - first time ive felt that feeling toward a Bond girl Then you've got the stupid laser machinery , the satellite killer laser beam trying to kill Bond, cars and missiles on ice, complete face change technology, backwards dives into the sea from 1000ft up.....etc...

[David Bailey]

Very true. I despised Dire Another Day (it wasnt me that coined that particular misspelling ....I'm not the only one). Whilst invisibility is possible i.e. you have a camera capturing whats behind the object to then display it on the front, that clearly only works in 2 dimensions. A whole car? from any angle? Thats not a stretch, its ridiculous - may as well have given Bond some spells to cast That wasnt the worst thing though - that was Halle Berry's "Acting". She couldnt even run 20 yards convincingly. I wanted her character to die horribly - first time ive felt that feeling toward a Bond girl Then you've got the stupid laser machinery , the satellite killer laser beam trying to kill Bond, cars and missiles on ice, complete face change technology, backwards dives into the sea from 1000ft up.....etc...

Well, I know, and Bond was so well known for its gritty realism up until then too.

I'm in a minority - I liked Die Another Day. It had some old-style Bond detective work - he didn't even touch a gadget for the first hour. It had an excellent sword fight scene. Brosnan definitely wore the role well. Halle Berry, well she wore her bikini nicely.

Compared to the abysmal "Tomorrow Never Dies" and the even-worse "The World Is Not Enough" (featuring Robert Carlyle as the Baddy With A Superpower Which Was Then Never Used), I thought "Die Another Day" was pretty good.

[Dreadful Scathe]

Well, I know, and Bond was so well known for its gritty realism up until then too.

Point taken. But even in the especially silly Roger Moore era there was the grounding of a decent script. But i think it was because D.A.D. started off so promisingly that it was even more of a dissapointment. WIthout those things I mentioned, you're right it would have been the best bond film for a long while. I really cant suspend disbelief THAT far though

[whitetiger1518]

Ah well... there will be nothing to top Goldfinger. ... I know looking back Sir Sean looks as if he is being led by his wig (if it wasn't a wig then ) but at least it did have a plot written by the great Ian Fleming himself!

Whitetiger

[Dreadful Scathe]

Ah well... there will be nothing to top Goldfinger. ... I know looking back Sir Sean looks as if he is being led by his wig (if it wasn't a wig then ) but at least it did have a plot written by the great Ian Fleming himself!

Whitetiger

they could redo Moonraker - its a decent book but they really changed the plot somewhat for the film

[David Bailey]

Well, I saw "Casino Royale" over the weekend. I had fairly low expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised. Daniel Craig is great as Bond - very physical, and quite scary.

The action sequences are excellent, and the film generally flows well - it drags a bit towards the end, after the big poker game finale - which in itself is a little flat - but it's generally well worth watching. And it leaves quite a few things up in the air, which is nice to see.

Good film, go see it.