Bond 25 - "No Time to Die" (2021) (1 Viewer)

[jcroy]

Oh, agree 100% there! "Live and Let Die" is easily my favorite Bond theme - perhaps not a shock because McCartney is my favorite artist who's done a Bond theme, but it's still a really good song.

Not sure what my 2nd fave Bond theme would be - probably "View to a Kill".

Besides SirPaul, the only other Bond theme song I still listen to is "View To A Kill" by Duran Duran.

 

[Sam Favate]

Yeah, I agree. I'm not a fan of James Bond movies and rarely watch them but I did re-watch The Living Daylights a week or so ago. I really enjoyed it. I thought Timothy Dalton was pretty good.

I love TLD. It's a top 5 Bond movie for me. That said, I did not like LTK. It felt like a generic 80s revenue thriller, and it unfortunately began the second phase of Bond movies, in which Bond is always a rogue agent and the mission is personal.

 

[Worth]

I always really liked "License to Kill" and never quite understood why so many hate it...

I understand what they were going for, but I think it's way off the mark. It's the only Bond film that looks cheap. Ugly photography, terrible performances from everyone other than Dalton and Davi, a needlessly convoluted story - it feels like a second-tier Joel Silver production from the era, something that could have starred Steven Seagal.

 

[Malcolm R]

My first theatrical Bonds were A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, and Licence to Kill. So I always remember Moore's last film and thought Timothy Dalton was a great choice to take over the role. I was really disappointed when he only got two films.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Besides SirPaul, the only other Bond theme song I still listen to is "View To A Kill" by Duran Duran.

Yeah, those are easily top 2 for me.

Despite my extreme fondness for her work, I didn't much care for Madonna's theme back in 2002, but it's grown on me.

To a lesser degree, it's the same for Garbage's song, though unlike Madonna in 2002, I wasn't a Garbage fan in 1999. I didn't get into them until a couple years later, and that song just doesn't especially work for me, though I think it's okay...

 

[Colin Jacobson]

My first theatrical Bonds were A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, and Licence to Kill. So I always remember Moore's last film and thought Timothy Dalton was a great choice to take over the role. I was really disappointed when he only got two films.

My biggest issue with Dalton is that I think he suffered from a bad case of Tried Too Hard Syndrome.

He was so dag-blasted determined to do everything he could to separate his Bond from Roger Moore's that he damaged the character's charm too much of the time.

Connery - RIP! - was the perfect blend of tough and charming. Seems like all the Bonds since can do one of those well but not both.

Moore, Brosnan: slick and charming, not so tough.

Dalton, Craig: tough but not so charming.

Connery: Baby Bear territory - just right!

 

[jcroy]

Yeah, those are easily top 2 for me.

Despite my extreme fondness for her work, I didn't much care for Madonna's theme back in 2002, but it's grown on me.

To a lesser degree, it's the same for Garbage's song, though unlike Madonna in 2002, I wasn't a Garbage fan in 1999. I didn't get into them until a couple years later, and that song just doesn't especially work for me, though I think it's okay...

I feel the same way about the theme of Casino Royale.

Back in the early 1990s, I use to listen to Soundgarden all the time.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I really like Licence To Kill - when I got into Bond just before GoldenEye, LTK was the most readily available of the films at my local video stores for whatever reason, so I saw it a bunch at a young age. It was also the first of the “this time it’s personal” stories so it felt new and fresh at the time.

As for Bond songs, there are very few that I didn’t like. The Sam Smith and Madonna ones were not particularly good to my ear, and there were some other rather mediocre ones. I really like Quantum Of Solace a lot - it has a great propulsive energy and Jack White and Alicia Keys together sound great and sort of mimic the chemistry between Bond and Camille. Heck, I like that movie more than most. It’s one hell of a late night fever dream. Watch it drunk after a bad breakup at 1am and it’s the best thing ever.

 

[Mark Booth]

I definitely would agree that the experience of watching a movie with an audience is something that cannot be recreated at home.

Before the pandemic, we regularly recreated a theater audience situation in our own home (garage theater). In fact, we'd have 15-22 people per showing in our home while, the last several times (all before the pandemic) we've gone to a real theater for a weekday matinee, there were fewer than 15 people in there.

Mark

 

[Osato]

Saw Goldfinger at a local amc theater tonight. Loved seeing the film on the big screen.

There was 7 people in the theater.

 

[Thomas T]

Saw Goldfinger at a local amc theater tonight. Loved seeing the film on the big screen.

There was 7 people in the theater.

At least one didn't have to worry about social distancing.

 

[Jim*Tod]

Granted at 67 my movie going experience pre-dates the era of the shoebox multiplex, it was a very different experience for example seeing the Bond films in the 1960's in a movie palace which seated 1500 patrons with most seats filled and all those people reacting. No home theater is ever doing to equal that nor is any multiplex.

 

[Jeff Cooper]

Saw Goldfinger at a local amc theater tonight. Loved seeing the film on the big screen.

There was 7 people in the theater.

See, the home theater experience DOES replicate the actual movie going experience.

 

[Osato]

See, the home theater experience DOES replicate the actual movie going experience.

I’ll I can say is I loved seeing it in a theater. I think at home it’s so easy to be distracted or interrupted.

There’s just something about seeing 007 and other big films in the theater. For me anyway.

 

[Worth]

Looks like MGM may be up for sale soon...

MGM Enlists Advisors to Explore Sale (Report)

MGM appears to be getting closer to formally exploring a sale.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Osato]

Looks like MGM may be up for sale soon...

MGM Enlists Advisors to Explore Sale (Report)

MGM appears to be getting closer to formally exploring a sale.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Buy another day

No time to buy?

Tomorrow never buys?

For your buys only?

A view to a buy

You only buy twice

Live and let buy

The spy who bought me

License to buy!

The buy is not enough

 

[Osato]

As a longtime Bond fan I hope mgm can find some stability with a new owner.
As excited as I have been for No Time To Die I’m just as excited about the possibility of the next Bond film.

I came in near the end of the Roger Moore era with Octopussy, and the constant for me has been a new actor playing 007 every few years. 2006 was close to 15 years ago now. I’m ready for a new actor to play Bond. I also think it’s time for a pendulum swing with the films and the overt seriousness of them. I didn’t become a Bond fan because of the Fleming books although I have read them and can appreciate those as well.
I think Daniel has had a good run as Bond. His films have been up and down for me as they were for Pierce Brosnan. Some good some not good.

Anyway. I hope No Time To Die is released in April.

 

[Sam Favate]

MGM has been unsettled for decades. I hope it finds a good fit with one of the other studios.

 

[Osato]

MGM has been unsettled for decades. I hope it finds a good fit with one of the other studios.

Agreed.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

I wonder what will happen to the MGM HD channel? Like it but they show the same 30 movies over and over again and their commercial breaks last about 8 minutes on average.