What about the tech?
What is your favorite gee-friggin-whiz gadget that is now totally common? Mine (from I forget exactly which movie) is when Q entered his secret labs behind a locked door which he opened by pulling a card out of his wallet and inserting it into a slot next to the door, rather than using a key. Now even the card keys you wave in the general vicinity of the sensor (or do the butt-wave) are old hat.
What is your favorite tech gadget that now seems totally ridiculous?
So in that vein, I guess questions about Casino Royale are right out?
Why do you think Dalton was the worst Bond? Personally, I prefer him to Moore. Moore (although he was the choice over Connery in Fleming’s eyes) seemed too smarmy and was playing it all for laughs. And for a guy with no acting experience, Lazenby did alright. I thought that the script for Her Majesty’s Secret Service was more faulty than Lazenby’s performance (a pity, too, since it dealt with a pivotal point in Bond’s personal life.)
Sorry to rain on your parade, Gabe, but there’s another CG here with more Bond experience. 
I’ve seen them all, and in fact, own them all on DVD.
And yet, I was still watching 008 days of 007 this Christmas.
Least Convincing Bond Disguise :
James Bond impersonates a Japanese man - poorly - in You Only Live Twice.
Which Bond movies have you not seen? Why?
Gabe,
You find the magic Genie lamp, and get to be sent away to a private island where time in the real world will stand still while you cavort privately with any Bond Girl of your choice for a week. After which, you return guilt-free to your current life.
Who you taking?
c’mon, Jaws get’s a girlfriend! What’s not to like!
Octopussy is the best Bond movie.
I said it before(almost 3 years ago) and I stand by it.
What do you think?
Most “Ask the…” threads belong in MPSIMS, but I believe this one is better-suited for our cozy Cafe. Off ya go!
I’d have to say Dr. Christmas Jones.
“And they say Christmas only comes once a year!”
Thunderball.
Moonraker. I’ll watch it when my DVD collection arrives any day now.
I thought he made an excellent Romulan.
The stone-age tracking device in Goldfinger and other films. GPS seems to be more effective.
I always thought Q’s slot-machine gadget was silly, not because I wouldn’t want one, but because I’m sure a casino would catch on in about 4 seconds.
You’re wrong. 
I think you are insane! 
I was watching The Spy Who Loved Me this morning and had forgotten about the opening scene bit where his Seiko digital watch starts making teletype noises and spits out a Dymo labelmaker tape with a message. Who was the fucking genius that thought up that piece of shit? Thart might get you a gold star for originality in an 8th grade stagecraft class.
I try not to get too upset when most technical gaffes show up. Fleming, to put it kindly, didn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground when it came to such spy basics as firearms so I give a lot of the outlandish things a pass. A girl could too die of skin suffocation, really.
What really frosts my Kelvinator is the recent trend of CG “stunts” that defy any kind of reality. In the old days a real stunt man had to risk his ass to get the money shot. Even as late as The Living Daylights the cargo plane net stunt was as real as it could be. Now 007 is reduced to para surfing on a glacier wave but it’s all done in a computer.
Licence to Kill is one right now. Holy crap, is that Benicio del Toro? I never recognized him in it before.
So, question: Felix, the CIA agent who helps Bond from time to time, is that one guy, or is “Felix” sort of the American code name equivilant to “James Bond”. Also, does Felix ever DO anything, or does he just occasionall loan Bond his vehicle?
That’s not the most ridiculous James Bond movie moment. It’s not even the most ridiculous James Bond movie moment involving a helicopter.
At the end of Goldeneye (one of my favorites, actually), James and Natalya have foiled the evil villain’s plot and destroyed his headquarters and are lying in an idyllic field somewhere in Cuba. James takes her in his arms, and when she protests that someone might see them, he says there’s not another person around for miles. Just then, the CIA guy enters and signals a platoon of marines to pop out of their foxholes all around the happy couple, and two helicopters descend into view.
Yes, that’s right, the helicopters were hiding by being off the frame of the movie screen. Thank you.
So that’s your explanation for Bond being played by several different actors over forty years, and not rotting away from VD?
I want to play too!
For the full-film Bond Girls, I’m going to have to say Tatiana Romanova from From Russia With Love.
If we include bit player girls, I might change my answer to Jill Masterson (aka the spraypainted gold chick) from my personal favorite Bond movie, Goldfinger.
That’s Felix Leiter, and it is just one guy, the same way that James Bond is just one guy.
Granted, he’s been played by seven different guys, and only David Hedison has played him in more than one movie, but still.
Some of these questions are quite stupid, and cannot of course be empirically answered, seeing as both James Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, and his film father, Alfred “Cubby” Broccoli, are dead. But I thought of these questions at work today, so here goes.
At the end of said film, James Bond gets married to the Bond Girl of the film, Tracy (played by Diana Rigg). Soon after their wedding, Blofeld kills her. Bond appears to care for Tracy still. In one film, he refuses to catch the bouquet at a wedding, and another opens with him leaving flowers on Tracy’s grave (although the majority of that sequence involves Bond getting rid of a man who is obviously meant to be Blofeld as a “fuck you” to Kevin McClory). Why is it, then, that this mourning spouse still sleeps around with different women?
What is your least favorite Bond film and why? It’s been a while since I saw them, but I remember that my least favorite was For Your Eyes Only- it was very dull compared to other Bonds of the era, and the only good part was a joke at the end involving Margaret Thatcher and a parrot.
What’s your favorite Bond movie theme song? Mine is the instrumental from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
What do you think is the best Evil Plan from a Bond movie, and what do you think is the worst? I think the best is Goldfinger (release a nuclear bomb inside Fort Knox, thus irradiating the United States’ gold supply, upping the price of gold). The worst for me is You Only Live Twice (I’ve harped on this one before. Starting World War III against the United States and the Soviet Union is a good idea, but I don’t know exactly why Blofeld wants to do it, nor why kidnapping astronauts from both countries in disguise as the other country’s rocketship would do it. Maybe there’s something about pre-Apollo 11 space hostages I’m not getting.).
Do you expect me to talk?
First of all, Never Say Never isn’t a good film, notwithstanding that it was a non-Eon remake of a film that didn’t need to be remade.
Second, I have to stand up for both Dalton and Lazanby. Dalton washed away the silliness that pervaded Bond films since You Only Live Twice (with a couple of notable exceptions). He actually looked and sounded like a bad motherf**ker that would just as soon put a bullet through your brain as talk to you, and The Living Daylights is one of my favorite Bond films, not only for eschewing the dandy persona crafted by Roger “The Saint” Moore, but also for some clever dialog and allusions to other films (The Third Man, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sound of Music). The cargo plane scene was one of the best action scenes ever filmed for a Bond movie, the stupid crash landing excepted, and Dalton handled dark, cynical side of Bond with aplumb.
Lazenby’s single entry, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, was an attempt to do something different with a Bond film; it was esssentially a tragic love story wrapped around a generic Bond plot. It was probably Fleming’s best novel and was in many ways the best Bond film, more akin to something that Hitchcock would have directed than a typical spy action film. Great cinematography, the last John Barry score until Moonraker (and perhaps the best of all), a great heroine (Diana Rigg), a good villian and perfect henchman, and Gabriele Ferzetti as Bond’s would-be father-in-law was perfect. Lazenby himself–not a trained or professional actor–was good in action scenes and kind of wooden in others, but I find it hard to picture Connery handling sincere romance scenes much better; the sort of droll wit that carried him through the first five entries wouldn’t have served well here. If Lazenby had continued in the role, he might have grown into it; Connery was kind of wooden in Dr. No, if you’ll recall, and that was after having half a dozen screen credits under his belt.
Like Fleming’s novels, there are just a few Bond films that are actually good, but we love them all anyway (well, except for The Man With The Golden Gun, and now Die Another Day) 'cause they’re Bond. It’s a mythos.
To respond to the OP: who is the best actor for the part who never played Bond? Who should have been, but never was?
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