Special Movie Debate: James Bond

[Mega Tank | 967]

8 hours ago, RH said:

Anyone ever go to Carowinds and ride th James Bond ride back when it was Paramount’s Carowinds?

That was awesome. 

No, but now it makes sense why I heard After Burn used to be Top Gun. Thanks!

[RH | 4,923]

20 minutes ago, Mega Tank said:

No, but now it makes sense why I heard After Burn used to be Top Gun. Thanks!

Originally the Bond ride was Days of Thunder but Paramounts retrofitted it with a Bond theme.  Also, the ride was in 5 theme parks in the US, and Carowinds was just one of them.  Here’s a promo video with some of the footage cut in it throughout a mini making of video.

 

[Mega Tank | 967]

8 minutes ago, RH said:

Originally the Bond ride was Days of Thunder but Paramounts retrofitted it with a Bond theme.  Also, the ride was in 5 theme parks in the US, and Carowinds was just one of them.  Here’s a promo video with some of the footage cut in it throughout a mini making of video.

 

That's really cool that they committed to making a movie for the ride! Basically working on an FPS movie a long time ago before Hardcore Henry lol

 

[Scrobins | 1,727]

One thing I remember enjoying learning is that several actors who play either henchmen or doomed 00 agents were also imperial officers in the original Star Wars trilogy.

[Tanooki | 4,939]

On 9/20/2023 at 11:58 PM, Tulpa said:

I went with Goldfinger. I think it's just about perfect. I'm also fond of Dr. No and From Russia, With Love, but not so much You Only Live Twice or Diamonds are Forever. Never Say Never Again is also kind of blah. I mean, it's literally a remake of Thunderball, which to me was a middle of the road Bond movie.

I always felt On Her Majesty's Secret Service, if you ignore Lazenby's giant redwood acting, was one of the best ones.

As a kid I loved the Moore Bonds, but they're kind of hokey watching them as an adult. When a pigeon does a doubletake and they use a slide whistle for music during a stunt, you know they've started to lose the thread. And Moonraker always felt like "Let's remake The Spy Who Loved Me, only set it in space."

Dalton was really underrated. His two aren't as flashy as Moore or Brosnan, but they're really good.

Brosnan wasn't terrible, but I felt his films got too much of that 90s-00s ACTION/ADVENTURE! style shoved in them. They start to blend together to me.

I liked 2006 Casino Royale and Craig, and getting back to down and dirty spywork again, though I think it did peak with Skyfall. But I liked that they were trying something a little different.

 

1967 Casino Royale is bonkers upon bonkers. The backstory of that film is pretty interesting in and of itself, and what they had to do when Peter Sellers walked off the set.

 

 

I was more or less going to write all this, so thanks for doing it for me first as I feel the same entirely on this.


I'm surprised there wasn't a poll #3 in this for one you liked the least since there was a liked the most.  I'm curious to see how that one would spread out.

After the last movie though I'm done with Bond, they decided to intentionally tear down and apart the character that stood for so long.   I'm good still with the rest, still will re-watch the rest, but as far as I'm concerned the one two years ago doesn't exist and I kind of hope they'd just let the franchise expire at this rate with the comments about future directions to take it.