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James Bond Decides to Follow Terminator: Dark Fate into the Grave, Producing the "Wokest," "Most Politically Correct" Bond Movie Yet
And the last Bond movie for a long, long time.
License revoked.As many expected, Bond marries the last bland girl because they're remaking On Her Majesty's Secret Service. But this isn't your daddy's Mrs. Bond -- Oh no, Madeleine Swann refuses to take Bond's last name.
It has been billed as the most politically correct James Bond movie yet... Fans who have come to love such doubles entendres might be surprised that they have survived the franchise's 'woke' makeover that has banned outdated sexism and introduced strong female characters, such as Lashana Lynch as another top British secret agent. Earlier this year, this newspaper revealed that Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge had been brought in as a scriptwriter to ensure the blockbuster was appropriate for the #MeToo era.
The morning after their wedding, Bond wakes sleepy-eyed and says 'Good morning, Mrs Bond', to which she replies: 'Don't you mean Ms Swann?'There will be no "Bond girls" in the movie. In fact, people weren't even allowed to say "Bond girl" on set.
White men, they're so useless and stupid -- am I right or what?
A source said: 'The phrase 'Bond girl' was outlawed from the set. The women in this film are all strong, brave and fiercely independent. These women are not helpless girls who jump into bed with Bond – their reactions are very different from what people might think. 'Bond tries his usual seduction techniques but they fail miserably. It's very funny.'
That moment might have been #cancelled due to fan backlash of "replacing 007." She might have a different double-0 codenumber in the finished movie.
A movie insider said the original plan was for a 'popcorn-dropping moment' when M, played by Ralph Fiennes, says 'Come in 007' and 'this beautiful, strong black woman walks through the door'.
She was determined her character should be a 'real' woman 'who has issues with her weight and maybe questions what's going on with her boyfriend'. She even discussed something which has never made it into a Bond film before: 'We had one conversation about her maybe being on her period in one scene and… throwing her tampon [into the bin].'Great, a Bond girl who whines about issues with weight and her boyfriend. (Or are they suggesting her boyfriend might not be a male?) Just what we've all been waiting for. And the tampon thing -- so classy.
Craig's Bond is brought out of retirement to work alongside the female special agent to save the world from a villain who has developed a deadly algae which threatens to kill the world's oceans – a nod to the concerns of climate campaigners. In that vein, producers were determined to make the most environmentally friendly 007 film ever. Crew members were given reusable water bottles which they filled from taps, saving an estimated 230,000 single-use plastic water bottles.And Daniel Craig is pushing even more environmentalism -- Bond's driving an electric car in this movie.
Skeptics had it right in 2005 -- Daniel Craig (who is a leftwing dum-dum and almost certainly behind most of this bullshit, now that he can order EON to do whatever he wants) is in fact the death of James Bond. It just took him more time to kill Bond than we thought.
Even Bond's beloved gas-guzzling Aston Martin hasn't escaped the green makeover. Craig will drive an electric Rapide E model. Only 155 of the £250,000 vehicles have been built.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: ... at November 11, 2019 04:06 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:06 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:07 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: dude at November 11, 2019 04:08 PM (hpbeA)
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:08 PM (Pzzpr)
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 11, 2019 04:09 PM (xptlg)
Posted by: ... at November 11, 2019 04:09 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:09 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: DaveA at November 11, 2019 04:09 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Regular Joe at November 11, 2019 04:09 PM (6/uwW)
Posted by: steevy at November 11, 2019 04:10 PM (KNsKs)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Roman Maroni at November 11, 2019 04:10 PM (vCA4F)
Posted by: Carly Fiorina at November 11, 2019 04:10 PM (YJPsB)
Posted by: rammajamma at November 11, 2019 04:10 PM (xceTB)
Posted by: dagny at November 11, 2019 04:10 PM (nRWPy)
granted i haven't watched any of the NEW bond flicks, since they've been redoing already made movies, but good lord.
can someone just nuke Hollywood already?
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (+y/Ru)
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I note that a lot of unhappy feminists have "rejection pr0n" fantasies about shooting down QB1 or some other chad.
1. As if.
2. I don't think "Bond seduces" means what you think it means.
Bond generally beds wahmen because he forms a bond with them, is very masculine and direct, and because he has a male quality known as "being Don Draper".
Also, if Suzy Snatchguzzler rejects Bond in real life, it happens. Rejection is part of the game. Bond has usually found it easiest to seduce the bird to get the bad guy. But now, in woke script land, it's funny that Bond can't get the girl. wup dee doo.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (Pzzpr)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (EnQC8)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (4e+hS)
Posted by: Slim Pickens at November 11, 2019 04:11 PM (rwaEp)
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 11, 2019 04:12 PM (xptlg)
Posted by: SMOD Keeper at November 11, 2019 04:12 PM (pSVFi)
That's just good business sense.
Greta Thundershart won't even see it because it's too woke.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2019 04:12 PM (h4eZh)
lol. of course she won't actually be fat and Bond never had girlfriends, just broads he was banging.
Posted by: x at November 11, 2019 04:12 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:13 PM (Uu+Jp)
Seems an opportunity for some billionaire with non-leftist tendencies to create a competing industry and make a killing.
Posted by: makatta at November 11, 2019 04:13 PM (Y7Qzg)
Shit, she'll probably get invited to get an award by the evil lefty org she's invading.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:13 PM (FEQY4)
To be honest, I'd rather see politically incorrect african james bond than woman jamie bond who is woke.
Come to think of it, I hate everything woke.
Posted by: shibumi, living in Atlas Shrugged at November 11, 2019 04:13 PM (Wmf3G)
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 11, 2019 04:13 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: dagny at November 11, 2019 04:10 PM (nRWPy)
With his dick.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ye Barbed Cocke of Satan at November 11, 2019 04:13 PM (koNhm)
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:14 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: Regular Joe at November 11, 2019 04:14 PM (6/uwW)
Posted by: ... at November 11, 2019 04:14 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:14 PM (q80AH)
Everything else? Well yes, that'll kill the franchise.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:15 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Laments: Mimes, Why Did It Have To Be Mimes? at November 11, 2019 04:15 PM (MIvvh)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2019 04:15 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: ... at November 11, 2019 04:14 PM (uEbPt)
you owe me a new monitor... lolol
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 11, 2019 04:15 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:15 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: cayleygraph2015 at November 11, 2019 04:15 PM (+DIDk)
Posted by: wooga at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (F7a4Z)
Posted by: SH at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (sX1BW)
Has anybody ever run out of gas during a car chase?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: ... at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (uEbPt)
They could have at least chosen a hot black chick. They do exist, and not just Halle Berry or other mixed chicks.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (9hauA)
It is a cyanide tipped dart in case you are wondering.
Posted by: Q at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (Pzzpr)
Posted by: CN at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (U7k5w)
Posted by: Zakn at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (cXz93)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (ptqGC)
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Hasn't this been the case for the past 15 years?
Posted by: SH at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: God is my Co Commenter at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (Fxgkp)
Everything else? Well yes, that'll kill the franchise.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:15 PM (G0vdT)
Ever watch a Formula E race?
They stop 1/2 way through EVERY RACE and change CARS because the battery dies and there's no way to refuel.
Bond usually is involved in chases. A battery car is really bad in chases.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fluffy at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (dCRRg)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (4e+hS)
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If I recall, Bond marries the girl in OHMSS because she's a bit of tough nut to crack.
but not because she's a feminist harpy rejection pron icon but because her dad is so Don Draper (and rich and powerful) and she's so hot n' shit, that no man can appeal to her.
IIRC, Bond saves her life while she's being kidnapped and pursues her for reals. He wins her over but she already won him over.
Having her be bitchy AND BLAND would not make sense. Bitchy and rich and hot would make more sense.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (FEQY4)
I thought he said there should have been a non-gay Remington Steele.
Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (h4eZh)
Posted by: God is my Co Commenter at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (Fxgkp)
It is a cyanide tipped dart in case you are wondering.
Posted by: Q at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (Pzzpr)
CBD works for Q?
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (8D42x)
Shit, she'll probably get invited to get an award by the evil lefty org she's invading.
See, that's how you'd make a good Bond movie with that conceit (especially if it's a hot black female), so it'll never happen.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (ZGrMX)
Hopefully the new Mrs. Bond or whatever her name takes half of Bonds shit at the end of the movie. Grrl power.
Posted by: brak at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (qfeE7)
Valentine wanted to wipe out humanity because of global warming. It rang true because we all know that many environmental activists would gladly line up behind him.
A bad guy who's out to destroy the oceans? It's pure fantasy. Now, that can be fine in escapist entertainment, but that's not what this is supposed to be, is it? It's supposed to be topical and woke.
So, you have to create antagonistic motives and assign them to a hated class in order for your movie to have an antagonist at all? And that's supposed to be "important"?
It's like these people who get paid large sums of money to tell stories don't know how to tell stories.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (cfSRQ)
Kicks Bond franchise, sees no movement...
It's dead, Jim. Deader than the ONT at 3 am. Deader than Epstein, who managed to acquire a few bumps and bruises while totally not killing himself.
Sigh.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (Z4rgH)
Has anybody ever run out of gas during a car chase?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (Uu+Jp)
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Only in horror, comedy, and Hallmark movies.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (G0vdT)
I always root for the villains in Bond movies anyway, Bond is a deep state bureaucrat creature and the Blofelds of the world are entrepreneurs.
Posted by: Living in Amash's District at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (Xo3T0)
Posted by: Fritz at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (Pzzpr)
I just shake my head now. Dumb fucks.
Posted by: nip at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (Izot6)
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Well, they'll be history soon.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: wooga at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (F7a4Z)
Posted by: 007 at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (ncWhm)
That moment might have been #cancelled due to fan backlash of "replacing 007." She might have a different double-0 codenumber in the finished movie.
Or China just said "Fuck that noise, roundeye."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (1Vobx)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (ptqGC)
in jello?
that may have potential...
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (8D42x)
Prediction.
The lowest grossing Bond film in history.
George Lazenby will be now considered "a true Bond star".
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (4e+hS)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at November 11, 2019 04:09 PM (uEbPt)
Just give it another year or two, it'll be condemned as a transphobic attack on women who don't menstruate.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (N4xQB)
Posted by: Ahnold Schwarzengruber at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (sWM8x)
The actor who plays him will be mortified by his popularity and a thousand memes will bloom when he had agent 00-Woke at his mercy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (qMLbi)
The plot consists of Craig whining about some bloke's tweeting while he waits 7 months to see a proctologist.
Posted by: SH at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (sX1BW)
Valentine wanted to wipe out humanity because of global warming. It rang true because we all know that many environmental activists would gladly line up behind him.
Yes. That and Obama's head exploding at the end.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: wooga at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (F7a4Z)
Good thing I wasn't taking a drink here.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Bad guy likes to win every once in a while.
Posted by: atilla the thrilla at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (w7KSn)
And will cry if you call them bond girls.
Makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (noE+3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2019 04:20 PM (h4eZh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (Uu+Jp)
Prediction.
The lowest grossing Bond film in history.
George Lazenby will be now considered "a true Bond star".
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (sy5kK)
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Nah.
But I could be the lowest grossing Craig Bond movie. That's currently Quantum of Solace which made 586.1 million world wide.
By comparison, the last Bond movie, Spectre, made 880.7 million. The highest grossing was Skyfall which cracked a billion and made 1.109 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Fritz Stinkfinger at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: dananjcon at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (u6xw0)
I don't want to see people like me in most movies. I expect the key characters to be attractive (as appropriate).
And if anyone is going to complain about weight struggles, they had better make it darned funny.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (N4xQB)
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Every generation thinks its the first one to discover sex.
Millennials went even better, thinking they're the first ones to hit puberty.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Jolo at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (WrMOC)
Posted by: steevy at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (KNsKs)
So. His expense account was cut and they gave him a fleet car?
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: The last James Bond flick at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Jason M at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (KcWn0)
Posted by: brak at November 11, 2019 04:18 PM (qfeE7)
Nah, she valiantly tries but fails to save Bond's life at the end, unsuccessfully of course. And gets ALL his stuff.
Leaving the challenge of retconning Bond back to life for the next scriptwriter.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (Z4rgH)
They stop 1/2 way through EVERY RACE and change CARS because the battery dies and there's no way to refuel.
Bond usually is involved in chases. A battery car is really bad in chases.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well it does create one new challenge for the writers. No more "shoot the gas tank" scenes.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (noE+3)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: SH at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (sX1BW)
I don't want to see people like me in most movies. I expect the key characters to be attractive (as appropriate).
And if anyone is going to complain about weight struggles, they had better make it darned funny.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (9hauA)
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Does Bond complain about his weight and how much his girlfriend nags him? Has he ever?
Why would a female Bond do anything like that? Why wouldn't she be the female suave version of Bond?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (q80AH)
I like how there was a desert outpost, underground, with about 1000 young go getters without any apparent transportation or even a starbucks. HR must be doing a hell of a job.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (6ypVs)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:21 PM (Uu+Jp)
Most dangerous when she's PMSing.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (9hauA)
I have an incredible idea, I think I'll patent it. Gonna make me rich! I'm gonna call it a "Drinking Glass". You can even put ice in it if you want to make your drink cold.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (4e+hS)
https://youtu.be/h5jqmUCqc1k
Posted by: Sharkman at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (S6rpg)
women in this film are all strong, brave and fiercely independent. These
women are not helpless girls who jump into bed with Bond their
reactions are very different from what people might think.
Huh, sounds like someone is not familiar with Bond movies.Was the Grace Jones character helpless?Was Octopussy helpless?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (qMLbi)
women in this film are all strong, brave and fiercely independent. These
women are not helpless girls who jump into bed with Bond their
reactions are very different from what people might think.
Huh, sounds like someone is not familiar with Bond movies.Was the Grace Jones character helpless?Was Octopussy helpless?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (bDqIh)
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Pussy Galore was just all about sitting back and waiting for Bond to save her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (q80AH)
How many cases of dysentery did they suffer, filming on location?
Posted by: Roy at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (h4eZh)
Posted by: Czech Chick at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (haWye)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (9hauA)
I was thinking the same thing. If they want a black British girl for the part, the one who played Missandei in Game of Thrones is gorgeous.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (N4xQB)
First one was good.
Rest were meh. Nice T&A and gadgets though.
Now anyone can get the gadgets and the T&A is better on a free porn site. As for bad guys the USSR no longer exists and SEALS, Delta Force, Rangers, SAS and REAL spies take out the world's assorted assholes when we let them; in much better form I might add.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (8Ls/+)
The joke about Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist in whatever one she was in wasn't that oh hahaha a girl is a nuclear physicist, it's that it was Denise Richards.
(Note to self: watch Wild Things again, it's been days)
Who the hell are these movies being made for?
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (mf5HN)
I think she would be called a script doctor, mostly rewriting dialogue especially that involving women, which sounds like most of it.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: dananjcon at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (u6xw0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: gaius martius at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (hMlTh)
They don't care about the money. They kill these characters because they think it hurts you more than it does them. And in many cases, they're right.
There's been a pretty good case made about engaging in the cultural arena - because all things are downstream of culture. I get that. But in this case, it's Hollywood taking an IP and cutting it's throat to spite those that loved it.
The only move is to walk away. Find something else to do. Fuck Bond. Don't even try to revive the books - just let it die.
They killed it. Trying to save it makes no sense.
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (qiqGr)
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I think Lazenby's OHMSS was a great bond film. Probably comparable in tone (for the day) as Craig's Casino Royale.
no bullshit gimmick gadgets, he's a complete cad (who gets won over by the girl), and a ton of stunts.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (FEQY4)
She was interviewed by Stern last week and every other word was literally , ie; 'No kidding , I was literally floored by her performance' .
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (Q5ALd)
Posted by: ursula andress at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (Uu+Jp)
Why would a female Bond do anything like that? Why wouldn't she be the female suave version of Bond?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (q80AH)
Because feminists and SJWs suck and ruin everything.
Because a non-whiny non-bitter woman would be too much to ask.
I guess that is their sole experience of womanhood, so maybe we shouldn't blame them too much.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (9hauA)
I was thinking the same thing. If they want a black British girl for the part, the one who played Missandei in Game of Thrones is gorgeous.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (N4xQB)
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They already have one!
The girl who plays Moneypenny!
Naomie Harries is a good looking black woman. She could have done the stupid thing and taken up the 007 mantle. She's already in the franchise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Little Brian at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (ZZEwZ)
I mean, surely that will bring in the target demographic to the theater.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (6ypVs)
I'll have a soy milk. Shaken, not stirred.
Posted by: Mx. James Bond at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Muad'dib at November 11, 2019 04:25 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:25 PM (qMLbi)
Only in horror, comedy, and Hallmark movies.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (G0vdT)
The next Bond movie is on Hallmark Channel?
Is it going to be Christmas-themed, too?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 11, 2019 04:25 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (q80AH)
But her name was Pussy, so.....
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)
I couldn't tell you what even happened in the last 5-6 Bond movies, the "cheesy" era was far more memorable.
Daniel Craig just pouts and we're supposed to bend the knee on how "realistic" is. Real spycraft is incredibly boring, so let's instead just have fun with a movie instead.
Posted by: Blago at November 11, 2019 04:25 PM (sjTfF)
I mourn for today's youth.
Posted by: xnycpeasant at November 11, 2019 04:25 PM (koNhm)
Posted by: Mx. James Bond at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (NMAzL)
Breast milk. Warmed, not chill.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (qMLbi)
And what about when Bond realizes he's been snacking a bit much lately and is getting a bit flabby in his midsection? This is pathos that the series always needed.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (oZ6kz)
women. Humiliating the man to make the woman look better doesn't
actually make the woman look better.
Ah, but the people who are demanding these "strong women" hate men, so that's an understood facet of "strong women."
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (bDqIh)
I have an incredible idea, I think I'll patent it. Gonna make me rich! I'm gonna call it a "Drinking Glass". You can even put ice in it if you want to make your drink cold.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (Kpl3J)
too far fetched. it'll never catch on. people would have to clean them. and remember where they put them.
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (8D42x)
Now that would be woke.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: gaius martiu
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yeah, but she didn't wear the skin of a male franchise and she used her girly skills to win the day, which is a no no.
Apparently, in the cold war, bath tubs of ice were like med kits in video games.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: brak at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (qfeE7)
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (Q5ALd)
Now that would be woke.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (LWu6U)
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So...a John le Carre novel?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (Pzzpr)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: SH at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (Q5ALd)
women. Humiliating the man to make the woman look better doesn't
actually make the woman look better.
Ah, but the people who are demanding these "strong women" hate men, so that's an understood facet of "strong women."
Posted by: Lizzy
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yeah, it's some sort of weirdo feminist rejection fantasy. They get to tell teh Don Drapers of the world no (except they never get approached by DD).
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: gaius martius at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (hMlTh)
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You want a female Bond?
She's right there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Little Brian at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (ZZEwZ)
Along that line, the original Marlboro Man, who never smoked, died the other day.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)
She was determined her character should be a real woman who has issues with her weight and maybe questions what's going on with her boyfriend
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This movie has been made. "Breach" was a not-bad movie about Robert Hanssen. Case solved by ordinary-looking, no-nonsense people who dress ugly and work in dreary offices.
There's a GENRE for "real people" with weight issues and distractions.
They didn't need to hijack James Bond.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (Z+IKu)
To these people women have no worth whatsoever unless they do, act, think, and talk like men.
A beautiful, alluring, caring woman is like garlic to a vampire with them.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (mRALi)
Posted by: gaius martius at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (hMlTh)
I turned that movie off....It was bad.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (bDqIh)
You know, because that's classy.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (6ypVs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (WI7YS)
I'm telling you now - I'll be swimming in money such that the ghost of L. Ron Hubbard will visit me just to say "You magnificent bastard".
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (qiqGr)
License to Tweet
Womb-raker
Dr. No, Ed.D.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
I think John Holmes already made Womb-raker.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (s2OJe)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (4e+hS)
Much agreement.
Naomie Harries is a good looking black woman. She could have done the
stupid thing and taken up the 007 mantle. She's already in the
franchise.
Also much agreement.
Why is it that 5 minutes on AOS provides more good answers than all of Hollywood can produce with a huge budget and years of planning?
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (T6t7i)
I guess that is what I resent - acting like strong women haven't appeared in Bond before, or that this is a new thing. They keep pretending to smash a barrier that was smashed decades ago.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (noE+3)
They stop 1/2 way through EVERY RACE and change CARS because the battery dies and there's no way to refuel.
Bond usually is involved in chases. A battery car is really bad in chases.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well it does create one new challenge for the writers. No more "shoot the gas tank" scenes.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (G0vdT)
Woke Folk and Facts do not mix.
I guess Bond shorts out the chasing Teslas using a mini EMP maker cleverly disguised as a rainbow dildo that once belonged to Moneypenny.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (8Ls/+)
This movie has been made. "Breach" was a not-bad movie about Robert Hanssen. Case solved by ordinary-looking, no-nonsense people who dress ugly and work in dreary offices.
There's a GENRE for "real people" with weight issues and distractions.
They didn't need to hijack James Bond.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (13CQC)
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How about The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
A female Richard Burton?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (noE+3)
Huh? It has kept our show on the air for 20 years now.
Posted by: Women of The View at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (DBbLv)
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (Pzzpr)
Baretta 93R > Bond's Manstopper
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: DanMan at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (XTiHL)
Fuck him, fuck them, by the way
Every Bond movie, other than Never Say Never Again, is free for subscribers of Prime now.
Posted by: not so at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (8Ls/+)
Does he at least sniff it first?
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (noE+3)
Posted by: Fritz at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: gaius martius at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (hMlTh)
Posted by: Q at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (9ccE/)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (noE+3)
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I loved the marketing of the new Terminator movie.
Upping the fact that there was a female action star like Terminator 2 had never happened.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: jhawk90 at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (Xvo1a)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (oZ6kz)
No, no I expect for you to die Mr. Bond.
Another of the world's most successful franchises sent to kill itself on the altar of wokeness.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (DBbLv)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: not so at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (HALdu)
Upping the fact that there was a female action star like Terminator 2 had never happened.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (q80AH)
And Linda Hamilton is even in the g*d damn travesty, to boot!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (AURKQ)
theme song by the Indigo girls
Posted by: brak at November 11, 2019 04:26 PM (qfeE7)
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Threadwinner.
Take a bow.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (cfSRQ)
I thought it was law that this strong woman should be in all movies.
Posted by: Bruce at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (vd8XM)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:16 PM (9hauA)
I was thinking the same thing. If they want a black British girl for the part, the one who played Missandei in Game of Thrones is gorgeous.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (N4xQB)
Honestly, I think this is all part of my belief/conspiracy theory that Hollywood is one of the last bastions of institutional racism in the US.
They would never cast a not hot white woman for this kind of role.
When it comes to black women, they're like, fine,we'll just throw them any old black female to get them to shut up and burnish our woke bona fides. What does she look like? Eh, they all look alike. Here you go, happy now?
I may be engaging in slight hyperbole, but I'm not joking.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (9hauA)
Or what about Barbara Bach as Bond's Soviet counterpart in "The Spy who Loved Me?"
It's just like what's happening with action movies overall, where they keep trying to force abrasive Mary Sues like Captain Marvel in the name of "strong women characters" when you already had a perfectly good one in Ellen Ripley decades ago.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (N4xQB)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (ijEPD)
Posted by: MAGA at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (pGGwA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:23 PM (q80AH)
I was going to say, yes, like that shrinking violet Pussy Galore.
*clambers up on the tall soapbox*
You know what's insulting? Assuming that women have to be handed an IP rather than starting a new one that has a female star in the first place.
Atomic Blonde was hella fun and you could tell Charlize Theron was having hella fun making it and everyone involved treated it exactly as seriously as it should be treated which is to say not at all.
Women don't need handouts. Women can stand on their own.
See re: Alien franchise. Halloween. Hell, the really annoying thing about Woke Terminator is that Sarah Connor was one of the strongest female characters in sci fi in the first place. There was no need to woke her up.
This is where I get back to the Fast and the Furious movies making somewhere between 5 and 6 billion dollars and counting. Completely multicultural. The women in those movies are strong women who are also *women*. They aren't just guys with boobs bolted on. And it's no big deal. And Vin is printing money like he owns a printing press.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (mf5HN)
I'm sure it will all be clear when I don't see it in the theater.
Posted by: Chunk Hunger at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (sN9mD)
Posted by: LithiumFIre at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (CqE5x)
So then, 2020 - the year that two of the biggest movie franchises ever - Bond and Star Wars - die from over-wokeness?
Be still my heart.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (9Om/r)
They stop 1/2 way through EVERY RACE and change CARS because the battery dies and there's no way to refuel.
Bond usually is involved in chases. A battery car is really bad in chases.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well it does create one new challenge for the writers. No more "shoot the gas tank" scenes.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (G0vdT)
Woke Folk and Facts do not mix.
I guess Bond shorts out the chasing Teslas using a mini EMP maker cleverly disguised as a rainbow dildo that once belonged to Moneypenny.
Posted by: The Man from Athens
New Ford Mustang 900 hp Electric motor.
0 to 60 in 3.3 seconds.
Full to complete battery discharge in 3.4 seconds.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (s2OJe)
I loved the marketing of the new Terminator movie.
Upping the fact that there was a female action star like Terminator 2 had never happened.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (q80AH)
I love the review where he continually calls her "androgynous thing."
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: MAGA at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (pGGwA)
Posted by: Dr. No at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (yhf6w)
Posted by: trev006 at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (LGIve)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (6ypVs)
Bullshit. Were they bringing in bottle water by the pallet load before?
Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (Pzzpr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (Kpl3J)
Speaking of...
https://tinyurl.com/yzdysafw
Posted by: josephistan at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (Izzlo)
Just surprised that she is not a muzzie that is a closet lezbo.
OH-OH spoiler alert for next Bond!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: James Bland at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (UGKMd)
I loved the marketing of the new Terminator movie.
Upping the fact that there was a female action star like Terminator 2 had never happened.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:30 PM (q80AH)
I love the review where he continually calls her "androgynous thing."
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)
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I like MacKenzie Davis. Mostly from Blade Runner 2049, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (q80AH)
Moonraker had a couple of my favorite Bond Villain lines, "Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him."
And, "Observe, Mr. Bond, your means of conveyance from this world to the next." (After setting up the umpteenth death trap for Bond, which would also fail).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (xmKbk)
Posted by: gaius martius at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (hMlTh)
Think "Nuff Said" was a Bernie Mac thing.
Posted by: not so at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: MAGA at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (pGGwA)
Lana Wood--Natalie's sister with pizza-sized nipples
Sophie Marceau
Jane Seymour in Live and Let Die
The blonde who drove the Mustang in Goldfinger
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (CqE5x)
Ever seen a 400V spark?
Posted by: LithiumFIre
DC.
I've seen welding with a 12v dc battery.
400v would be glorious.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (s2OJe)
I mean, consider what a corresponding male toss-off attribute/behavior might be: Opening a scene by showing Bond pull a one-cheek sneak before an important meeting? Having to artfully suppress a boner? Stuff everyone knows guys have to do but no professional guy would ever want to be seen doing let alone be identified with (outside of the deliberately comic).
I don't even like the Bond genre, but dammit, these people have no clue about romance or fantasy because they have no imagination for anything beyond their crabbed, vindictive, hyper-politicized bubbles.
Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (Hi8cV)
fine,we'll just throw them any old black female to get them to shut up
and burnish our woke bona fides. What does she look like? Eh, they all
look alike. Here you go, happy now?
I may be engaging in slight hyperbole, but I'm not joking.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (9hauA)
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This is objectively true.
They are shallow bigots and child-pimps. Note that Joss Whedon was Mr. Feminist until his ex-wife noted that he made ample use of the casting couch.
This is about getting woke cred and wasting other people's money.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (4e+hS)
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (Q5ALd)
Posted by: Fritz at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (2Mnv1)
How do you do sound effects for an electric car chase? just tire squeeling? Imagine the Bullet chase scene without the IC engine sounds...
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (xmKbk)
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I always like that idea.
He's probably too old now, but he would have made a good Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (q80AH)
They didn't need to hijack James Bond.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (13CQC)
my favorite detective was Columbo, who always dressed shabbily and drove a crappy car. Not to mention that Peter Falk always had that goofy eye.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (Kpl3J)
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Brain fever epidemic in Hollywood?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (+y/Ru)
garret (last name)
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Gareth Williams.
And interestingly, shortly before he was murdered and stuffed in the bag, he had been involved in hacking, you guessed it - the Clintons.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (AzW6q)
To these people women have no worth whatsoever unless they do, act, think, and talk like men.
A beautiful, alluring, caring woman is like garlic to a vampire with them.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 11, 2019 04:27 PM (mRALi)
Same thing for minorities.
Which is why, instead of creating interesting new material for women and "POCs", they just hand them down sloppy seconds.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (9hauA)
appeared in Bond before, or that this is a new thing. They keep
pretending to smash a barrier that was smashed decades ago.
Yeah, but almost all of the Bond women are also gorgeous and feminine (exceptions like that Russian female soldier who trained the undercover Aryan Richard Harris character). Femininity is bad. Wanting men, falling for the charms of alpha male Bond is is bad. They want female characters who act like men, not strong *women*.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (r+sAi)
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Well, do us all a favor and save the entire Carbon Footprint of the movie. No actors, gas-guzzling cars, no energy usage, no airline flights, no meetings, no advance screenings.
World saved. You're welcome.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (xptlg)
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (xmKbk)
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I always like that idea.
He's probably too old now, but he would have made a good Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (q80AH)
I agree. I think Elba would have been awesome (not to mention burning hot).
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at November 11, 2019 04:33 PM (xmKbk)
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Ya know, I was thinking the other day that virtually every actor on The Wire was excellent, but he was the only one who got famous off it. It's weird.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (AzW6q)
appeared in Bond before, or that this is a new thing. They keep
pretending to smash a barrier that was smashed decades ago.
Yeah, but almost all of the Bond women are also gorgeous and feminine (exceptions like that Russian female soldier who trained the undercover Aryan Richard Harris character). Femininity is bad. Wanting men, falling for the charms of alpha male Bond is is bad. They want female characters who act like men, not strong *women*.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (bDqIh)
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Gemma Arterton in Quantum of Solace...
I have a thing for redheads.
Dolley's a redhead, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (q80AH)
The first book - the first movie - Bond was no hero. He was a pick-pocket card player with a penchant for taking it to the extreme before anyone else got there. He was handsome - but not the best looking guy in the room. Fit - but not the ass-beater on the scene that could take the bouncer.
Neither was Craig. And neither was Connery in the first one.
Meh - whatever. I liked the first John Wick. He took a beating in the first one. Then they turned it up to eleven.
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (qiqGr)
Should have satisfied themselves with just a few nods to Wokeness (e.g., make Agent 008 a transvestite that dies heroically saving Bond in the open credit sequence or something), but "The World is not enough," apparently.
Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (hdzef)
Posted by: Bond...James Comey Bond at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (yhf6w)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (Uu+Jp)
They would never cast a not hot white woman for this kind of role.
When it comes to black women, they're like, fine,we'll just throw them any old black female to get them to shut up and burnish our woke bona fides. What does she look like? Eh, they all look alike. Here you go, happy now?
I may be engaging in slight hyperbole, but I'm not joking.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (9hauA)
China.
Seriously, this is about making sure movies play in China.
I'm way too lazy to look but there have been a few articles over the last couple of years pointing out that the Chinese are not so much down with black movie stars and, well, there you go.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (cqNba)
Posted by: Zakn at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (cXz93)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (4e+hS)
China.
Seriously, this is about making sure movies play in China.
I'm way too lazy to look but there have been a few articles over the last couple of years pointing out that the Chinese are not so much down with black movie stars and, well, there you go.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (mf5HN)
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And that's why Idris Elba never got to be Bond.
It wouldn't have been loud angry Southern rednecks, it would have been Chinese audiences.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (q80AH)
Craig is interesting to watch but has never once really felt like James Bond. He has zero chemistry with any of the women, at no point does he have that cold sophistication or incredible capable nature. The opening sequence of Casino Royale where he shows all the intellectual capacity and experience in spycraft of the Tasmanian Devil was very disappointing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: The Federal Reserve at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (w+Ped)
You know, because that's classy.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (6ypVs)
call it an oil change?
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (cfSRQ)
If he just had the nads to own being a horndog, he'd get more trim than Captain Mal.
... which is less than you imagine, given the m'ladying for a whore with delusions of grandeur, but it would be honest. And he'd still be spoiled for choice.
Posted by: trev006 at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (LGIve)
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Central Scrutinzer at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (vI+F1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (pw+jk)
250,000 vehicles have been built.
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Ah, of course. This kind of electric car runs on magic. The special energy that comes from the magic hole in the wall.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (xptlg)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (mf5HN)
The Fast and Furious movies are a good example of how you can have diversity in a cast in a way that feels organic to the story.
By contrast, the diversity in the new Star Wars movie was so forced that it took me out of the story.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (N4xQB)
Posted by: kallisto at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (4Pkdw)
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Sean Connery at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (ncWhm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: James Bond at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (mbYl0)
every actor on The Wire was excellent, but he was the only one who got
famous off it. It's weird.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2019 04:35 PM (AzW6q)
True. But he was the only one who looked like Idris Elba.
To be fair, they've all had careers as character actors, just none of them turned into stars.
Posted by: Chunk Hunger at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (sN9mD)
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (CqE5x)
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This too, is the story of Oblahblah.
Posted by: The Narrator at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (+GU5r)
Posted by: zombie Robert Shaw at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (9hauA)
He's probably too old now, but he would have made a good Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (q80AH)
He was recently badass in Hobbs and Shaw right?
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (Q5ALd)
He was good with very little to work with in the "Gunslinger" movie.
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (qiqGr)
But.. I assume they kill off the wife? Or is he trying to seduce the other women for some side trim?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (438dO)
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (6ypVs)
Unless she's a romantic interest for a white guy, the she's gotta be half-white and super cute.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (KZzsI)
So then, 2020 - the year that two of the biggest movie franchises ever - Bond and Star Wars - die from over-wokeness?
Be still my heart.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg
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Something funny, although the franchise is over over over, never to return:
The Twilight Saga, all five movies, had only one flicker of wokeness in them, which was the Quileute Indian element, although even that was pretty much an excuse to have foxy werewolves.
This was tripe for teen girls and it was never as woke as these blockbusters with violent video-game tie-ins and franchises that are all about a guy whose buzz is "licensed to kill."
Hollywood missed something that should have hit them right between the eyes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:39 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Jim Scrummy at November 11, 2019 04:39 PM (WkTpz)
I don't think it's hate. I think they don't respect them. They can not imagine a strong POC, so they just color swap a white character.
It is why libs talk down to POC, they see them as children - as inferior. Part of this is that many are so insulated from reality living in a bubble, and part of it is their need to dictate to others, including POC and to do that they have to see everyone else as lesser humans.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 11, 2019 04:39 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Quilters Irish Death at November 11, 2019 04:39 PM (Kp81N)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:39 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2019 04:39 PM (CqE5x)
He's probably too old now, but he would have made a good Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:34 PM (q80AH)
He was recently badass in Hobbs and Shaw right?
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (Q5ALd)
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Bond is at least a ten year commitment. Probably fifteen.
When the Broccolis hire a Bond, it's not for one movie, it's to carry the franchise for, hopefully, a generation.
And, Elba has said he's not interested recently. Wouldn't want to deal with the blowback from his casting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:39 PM (q80AH)
You know, I bet James Bond has to shit every once in a while - how come every Bond movie doesn't have a 5 minute toilet scene? Why don't we see Bond shaving every day? Jerking off? Doing his laundry?
We can assume that movie characters still do human being things that aren't shown on screen.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Grannymimi at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (u5LFV)
They would never cast a not hot white woman for this kind of role.
When it comes to black women, they're like, fine,we'll just throw them any old black female to get them to shut up and burnish our woke bona fides. What does she look like? Eh, they all look alike. Here you go, happy now?
Wanda Sykes FTW!
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (s2OJe)
Posted by: kallisto at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (4Pkdw)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Ever at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (ZZDMQ)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (4e+hS)
In mud.
Posted by: Grannymimi at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (u5LFV)
Just Daniel Craig yelling, "WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES/!?!?!?!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2019 04:28 PM (WI7YS)
I haven't seen it either; some 12-episode (over 3 years) BBC comedy, based on her stand-up routine. Apparently not good enough to make it to BBCA.
Here's a 9/10 * review at IMDB:
The story of a dysfunctional 30 year old, laid bare for the world to see.
For anyone a bit messed up by life the writer of this series wants you to reassure her she is not alone. Set in London it is a touching lesson in the bizarre, crazy and irrational things Londoners will do for some control and stability in their lives.
This series is absolutely not for the sane, it's for the sad, miserable and insane, desperately looking to feel good about themselves (and in need of a good laugh).
Undoubtedly the beginning of something great.
So, basically, throwing all her neuroses on the screen for attention and validation.
Sounds like an ideal fit for a 007 movie. /s
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (ijEPD)
We're far enough along for an O/T.
It ain't a pineapple, and it wasn't sideways , but still.....
https://cbsloc.al/36WxC9O
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (cqNba)
~Timothy Dalton
Posted by: Quilters Irish Death at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (Kp81N)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (xPJvm)
... which is less than you imagine, given the m'ladying for a whore
with delusions of grandeur, but it would be honest. And he'd still be
spoiled for choice.
Posted by: trev006 at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (LGIve)
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Not true. He's objectively a terrible human being, and the only way he could score was by paying for it.
It's common in Hollywood, the way business gets done. These guys think they're alphas when really they're betas with credit cards.
The MeToo thing exploded because women weren't getting their end of the bargain. They did their time on the couch, but the would-be moguls couldn't make them stars.
So you have people who made a deal with the devil and then realize that all they got were three seasons (at most) on a WB sitcom that didn't even get picked up by Netflix.
Some only got a pilot episode. So much for "I'll make you a star."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Bruce at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (vd8XM)
Idris is ai-aight but come on, enough already. Plus, he's one of these male actors who is now 60 but claims to be 42. I'm sure there's a spy movie he can (or could've) been in but he's not James Bond.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (FEQY4)
https://tinyurl.com/w3aagql
Spoiler: She did tell Trump
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)
that Hollywood is one of the last bastions of institutional racism in
the US.
They would never cast a not hot white woman for this kind of role.
Oh yes, Hollywood is terribly bigoted, which is why getting lectures from them as if their experience at work is shared by the rest of us is so exhausting.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (DBbLv)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (4e+hS)
You know, I bet James Bond has to shit every once in a while - how come every Bond movie doesn't have a 5 minute toilet scene? Why don't we see Bond shaving every day? Jerking off? Doing his laundry?
We can assume that movie characters still do human being things that aren't shown on screen.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:40 PM (oZ6kz)
True
But couldn't a car chase get interrupted because somebody needs to take a dump in the worst possible way?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: Fritz at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: Quilters Irish Death at November 11, 2019 04:42 PM (Kp81N)
Posted by: Ever at November 11, 2019 04:42 PM (ZZDMQ)
Posted by: Bruce at November 11, 2019 04:42 PM (vd8XM)
They honestly don't seem to understand that some of their grand ideas will make people laugh out loud. I've seen it several times, they build up a scene to a big line that's supposed to make people think and feel and perhaps reconsider their white privilege and the audience laughs in contempt.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:42 PM (KZzsI)
Just because he's doing stupid stuff to the franchise doesn't negate that fact.
I always like that idea.
He's probably too old now, but he would have made a good Bond
Agreed. An intelligent person would have started a Bond franchise built upon another, somewhat older character who'd been a 00 and was not the guy who ran the 00s, but not at the M level. He could still do the odd stunt, but he'd be the uber 00. Elba would be very convincing for that.
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2019 04:42 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Quilters Irish Death at November 11, 2019 04:42 PM (Kp81N)
Oh my God, that is the absolute death-knell. The fact that they would even CONSIDER her is absurd. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is basically the (taller, skinnier) British version of Lena Dunham - -a grotesque unwitting parody of feminism, in the trendy new subgenre of "disgustingly sexual" -- i.e. women who brag about being hypersexual, but simultaneously brag about being physically repellant.
Posted by: zombie at November 11, 2019 04:42 PM (fK2gX)
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:37 PM (N4xQB)
C'mon, you were out of the story during the Battle of Yavin.
Posted by: josephistan at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (Izzlo)
Wanda Sykes FTW!
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The HELL! That's my part, witch!
Posted by: Whoopie G at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (EwMGh)
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (Q5ALd)
really annoying thing about Woke Terminator is that Sarah Connor was one
of the strongest female characters in sci fi in the first place. There
was no need to woke her up.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:31 PM (mf5HN)
Sarah Connor was a great character. She went from a clueless scooter driving bint to a 5'6" machine gun toting blonde babe of badassery looking to shoot anything remotely involved in skynet including the janitor who swept the floors. They really didn't have to do shit to that character. But you know, leftists ruin everything they touch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (KZzsI)
She's not going to whip my ass, by any means - so it's a flaw in the plot - but I'm still watching The Watchmen.
Regina King is good in this one. And I think they're setting everything up for a serious swerve.
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (qiqGr)
https://cbsloc.al/36WxC9O
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (cqNba)
OMG. It was in there for a WEEK?!?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: josephistan at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (G0vdT)
Just what we've all been waiting for.
And the tampon thing -- so classy.
I can't wait to avoid this one.
What next? A bout of explosive diarrhea, to get a little more edgy?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (YqDXo)
Craig would be all for it. After Casino Royale he wanted a scene where Bond seduces another dude. Because not only would he find it comfortable and familiar, but virtue signalling.
I mean, there is a place for that in spy films (see The Fourth Protocol with Pierce Brosnan) but that's not a Bond kinda thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (C1Lsn)
Seriously, this is about making sure movies play in China.
I'm way too lazy to look but there have been a few articles over the last couple of years pointing out that the Chinese are not so much down with black movie stars and, well, there you go.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (mf5HN)
I think that's also part of it, but they are still doing ridiculous forced casting, like black Ariel (who I couldn't care less about but was still pretty ridiculous) and this chick.
There's some racism involved. After all, they are progressives. I wouldn't come to this conclusion if they just said, hey, our casting also has to do with profitability (which, granted, could be an excuse to discriminate but could also be legitimate). Instead, they act all holy and virtuous and above us all.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (ptqGC)
The Spy That Got Surprise Dry Anal.
Craig literally acts by the seat of the pants... and then some.. less.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (pw+jk)
If this plot is accurate, I hope the producers are prepared for unintended laugh lines.
Posted by: kallisto
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It's weird, I'd have thought the Broccolis had some creative control.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Roger "Where's my fucking Metamucil, Q?" Moore at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (H5knJ)
As was said above, how long before the woke film community decrees that all previous Bonds are the equivalent of The Birth of A Nation and mus never be shown in public?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (Ki5SV)
The Bond movies have been going down hill since the Brosnan ones with the PC bullshit. Making Judi Dench M with all of her feminist insulting the character was the beginning of the end. Casino Royale seemed to reverse the trend but after that they took a steep decline and the rest of the Craig ones are completely unwatchable. I'm sure this new one will be a complete shit show and they will blame evil white men for the craptastic box office
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (BeuRt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (9Om/r)
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I always liked Ripley more. Ripley never became a badass. She play acted as one when she went to get Newt from the processing station. She was terrified and out of her league, but she made it work.
Conner's transition to badass happened between movies, so she was a bit more one dimensional. Of course, T2 isn't her movie, it's John's, but I think that limited her badassness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: zombie at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (fK2gX)
https://cbsloc.al/36WxC9O
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
A million to one shot doc...
Posted by: Bruce at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (vd8XM)
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2019 04:22 PM (G0vdT)
Well, ever seen the carnage when a bullet slices through 32 lithium ion batteries?
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (EnQC8)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (cqNba)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (Kpl3J)
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Well, it ain't original, but Dune should be awesome next year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (q80AH)
Wait - she can't handle this herself? Is the villain a spider? Someone forcing her to parallel park? What?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Whoopie G at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (EwMGh)
Hey, not fair! Whoopie was legit and no one pretended she was attractive.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (Q5ALd)
She probably pegs him every night. At his insistence
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (BeuRt)
https://tinyurl.com/w3aagql
She did tell Trump
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The Apprentice
T: Thank you Niki. You may go.
*phone rings in toilet, Tillerson picks up*
T:Tillerson you're fired.
T:Kelley finish up and then you're fired.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (zgRmG)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (qMLbi)
As was said above, how long before the woke film community decrees that all previous Bonds are the equivalent of The Birth of A Nation and mus never be shown in public?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (Ki5SV)
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Birth of a Nation? Was that that move that came out a couple of years ago?
I mean, movie history started with Star Wars, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Nope. They're killing things that are dead.
Posted by: eleven at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (tH5fk)
Posted by: kallisto at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (4Pkdw)
https://tinyurl.com/w3aagql
Spoiler: She did tell Trump
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)
I caught Rush saying has anyone asked her if she told Trump and my immediate thought was I assumed she did tell Trump and the Trumpasaur lay in wait to use it as the best time.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (9hauA)"
Ted Danson did.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (oZ6kz)
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I read that real quick and thought you were saying Bond was fighting GENRE, a new evil organization.
Posted by: MAGA at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (pGGwA)
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (N4xQB)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (ptqGC)
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Golf clap!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Bruce at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (vd8XM)
True
But couldn't a car chase get interrupted because somebody needs to take a dump in the worst possible way?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (Uu+Jp)
No, just plan for it and keep driving.
Posted by: Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak, former NASA astronaut at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: WeBoned! at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (1s2j5)
'Physician, heal thyself'! Ex presidential candidate who called Tulsi Gabbard a Russian asset slams 'abusive posts and conspiracy theories' about female politicians
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Depends on what the meaning of Epstein didn't kill himself is.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (cqNba)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (438dO)
Because, boil down the message of the movie, it is pretty simple - the elites hate you, and want to kill you. And also, they suck in every way it is possible to suck. They are vain, stupid, greedy, ego maniacal, and overall not worth a damn thing.
Think about it.
It's why the second movie wasn't as good - instead of leftist villains it tried to create rightist villains....problem was they were less than believable as villains. They also seemed old hat since EVERY movie has rightish villains - it made the whole thing more boring.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (noE+3)
I read that real quick and thought you were saying Bond was fighting GENRE, a new evil organization.
Posted by: MAGA
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Close! The new, woke Bond is fighting GENDER
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (ptqGC)
Craig would be all for it. After Casino Royale he wanted a scene
where Bond seduces another dude. Because not only would he find it
comfortable and familiar, but virtue signalling.
I mean, there is a place for that in spy films (see The Fourth Protocol with Pierce Brosnan) but that's not a Bond kinda thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:44 PM (KZzsI)
They are both pieces of lefty shit who had a hand in destroying the screen version of that character
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (BeuRt)
River Tam.
She kicked ass, without even breaking a sweat.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (cqNba)
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Broken psychologically.
Turned into a killing machine by mad scientists.
I like it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (ymnmz)
So, a plan then.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (Pzzpr)
That would be a great running gag. The Rapid-E car get shot up early in the film and begins burning. Throughout the movie that spans time, there are shots returning to the car, still burning. End the credits with shots of the electric car still burning.
Posted by: Craig From Oz at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (lD3vL)
Posted by: hstad at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (uywSX)
No more Bond for me.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (0nzNY)
She's gorgeous, but she's also a crazy feminist.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2019 04:24 PM (AURKQ)
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Shouldn't it be 'Dr. No Means No' ?
Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (N0If5)
She grew quite a bit in the first film from being a pretty typical California college age girl into the woman that gritted "your terminated, F***er!!" crushing the T-800 in an industrial press. The Sarah we saw in the second film was a completely reasonable reveal for what she had gone through, knew and was determined to do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (WRnYo)
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Yes. True.
I waited until Tillerson was on the toilet. It was great.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (VXSAv)
You want woke?
River Tam.
She kicked ass, without even breaking a sweat.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (cqNba)
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Also, casting couch.
She paid for those super powers.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (cfSRQ)
told Trump and my immediate thought was I assumed she did tell Trump and
the Trumpasaur lay in wait to use it as the best time.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:46 PM (mf5HN)
The Magnificent Orange Bastard sure seems to have a public breakup now and then, yet suddenly you get guys like Bannon right back in his corner again.
I don't believe he's playing Nth Dimensional Chess. I do believe he could inspire certain people to play possum for him, in such a way as to not cut their own throats. A Win-Win, if you will.
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (qiqGr)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (C1Lsn)
Skyfall is one of the very best Bond movies, and a fantastic adventure even if it weren't a Bond. Period.
I've haven't seen anything since then -- and I won't see this PC Bond film. (Ace, are you sure this wasn't a satire of yours, or the Babylon Bee's?)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: torabora at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (Y274z)
Posted by: zombie at November 11, 2019 04:42 PM (fK2gX)
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Good comparison. I made it through 1.5 episodes of Fleabag, obviously weren't for me.
Posted by: jhawk90 at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (Xvo1a)
checked out twitter, seanMdavis notes that the left is all "ewww, Jesus, yucky" about someone in trump admin quoting the bible to talk about trump.
man, fuck these libs. They need to stay in their blue hell hole cities they created.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (FEQY4)
I think the scene where Daniel Craig gets his balls pounded up into his thoracic cavity may have been real.
He really deserves more credit for that scene I guess.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (lJtAs)
Posted by: Brie Larson at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (WRnYo)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (Uu+Jp)
The Spy Who Requested Directions to the Nearest Safe Space
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:51 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Brian Williams at November 11, 2019 04:51 PM (qMLbi)
She grew quite a bit in the first film from being a pretty typical California college age girl into the woman that gritted "your terminated, F***er!!" crushing the T-800 in an industrial press. The Sarah we saw in the second film was a completely reasonable reveal for what she had gone through, knew and was determined to do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (KZzsI)
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That's true, but I still think there's a large leap from where she ended the first and where she started the second. It can be inferred easily, but I'd like to see more of the growth in that direction. It wouldn't fit the movie as it is, but I just feel like it holds Sarah back a bit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:51 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:51 PM (oZ6kz)
pretty typical California college age girl into the woman that gritted
"your terminated, F***er!!" crushing the T-800 in an industrial press.
The Sarah we saw in the second film was a completely reasonable reveal
for what she had gone through, knew and was determined to do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (KZzsI)
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The final scene, with her getting in the Jeep and driving into the storm, full of determination told you there was more to come.
Remember that? Movies that left you wanting more?
Weird.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:51 PM (cfSRQ)
Nobody does. There'a actually a big difference between making plans and playing Nth dimensional chess.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2019 04:51 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (ZLI7S)
It's almost like Trump didn't get rich by accident.
Further also, Donald Trump appears to be the cleanest person in politics. I am stunned by that and I do not mean it as an insult to Trump. He was in the NYC construction business for decades, you'd have to at least get mud on your shoes by accident. But nope.
Also Donald J. Trump is the most pro-life President we've ever had. Donald. Trump.
Mysterious, mysterious ways.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (mf5HN)
The lowest grossing Bond film in history.
George Lazenby will be now considered "a true Bond star".
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 11, 2019 04:19 PM (sy5kK)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service was a damn good movie and far better than any of the PC bullshit that has past for a Bond movie since the 90s.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (BeuRt)
Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (4thlk)
I think the scene where Daniel Craig gets his balls pounded up into his thoracic cavity may have been real.
He really deserves more credit for that scene I guess.
Posted by: TexasDan
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Except that in that scene he dislikes the experience.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (13CQC)
Eh.
Sounds like they're going the "Mad Max: Fury Road".
ie. have the character we came to see as the4 main character kicking asses and taking names
relegated to a lame-ass supporting roll in the service of making SJW-Grrrrrl the real hero.
Like Mad Max, I expect James Bond to spend most of the 2nd and 3rd act all tied up and gagged or captured and drugged-
something like that while 00Vag kills the Big Bad.
Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (kauXV)
Pretty much any movie with Chasey Lain in it.
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (qMLbi)
Get someone over six feet without wearing deniros.
Posted by: not so at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (H5knJ)
Sounds like they're going the "Mad Max: Fury Road".
ie. have the character we came to see as the4 main character kicking asses and taking names
relegated to a lame-ass supporting roll in the service of making SJW-Grrrrrl the real hero.
Like Mad Max, I expect James Bond to spend most of the 2nd and 3rd act all tied up and gagged or captured and drugged-
something like that while 00Vag kills the Big Bad.
Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (kauXV)
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My subtextual reading of Fury Road is that the movie is saying that women are terrible at everything and need men to fix their screw ups.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (/Njku)
Seriously, this is about making sure movies play in China.
I'm way too lazy to look but there have been a few articles over the last couple of years pointing out that the Chinese are not so much down with black movie stars and, well, there you go.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 04:36 PM (mf5HN)
I don't see how having ugly blacks helps with China over having attractive ones. If they dislike blacks then leaving them out seems the way to go.
I looked up the China Box office for Black Panther versus infinity wars. It was somewhat smaller, 100 mil versus 400 mill in a total take if 1.5 billion to nearly 4 billion. So even a wholly black cast doesn't tank China draw that much.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (FTPn0)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:50 PM (Uu+Jp)
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Really enjoyed U.S. version "Point Of No Return" - Bridget Fonda was pretty smokin' in that one there.
Posted by: jhawk90 at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (Xvo1a)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (EnQC
They will never show that. Nothing to make people see the downside to their green fantasies. They will fake video of gas tanks blowing up on the news, but never show you a tesla blowing up.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (WRnYo)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (0nzNY)
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remember, whenever a leftist tries to go allegorical, they end up teaching the opposite lesson.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (ptqGC)
The Spy who Asked for a Manager.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (ijEPD)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (96FM8)
Michelle Yeoh in The World is not Enough
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (WRnYo)
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Tomorrow Never Dies, but yes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (q80AH)
Well, her tooth to gum ratio is about as low as you can get without dropping to the full Pelosi.
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (noE+3)
They did it a fun way without ever jamming the grrrl power BS down anyone's throat. The characters were likeable and adults not whiny, empower me bitches
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (BeuRt)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (oZ6kz)
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remember, whenever a leftist tries to go allegorical, they end up teaching the opposite lesson.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (FEQY4)
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Like Harry Potter being a parable for why the administrative state is antithetical to liberty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (q80AH)
https://cbsloc.al/36WxC9O
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (cqNba)
OMG. It was in there for a WEEK?!?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:43 PM (ptqGC)
******
I guess you can say he really screwed himself??
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (ijEPD)
The Spy Who is Fine with Wherever You Want to Eat
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (wCmLp)
As if females don't seduce people too.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (0nzNY)
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Absolutely! Well, maybe a bro hug.
Posted by: Weasel at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (MVjcR)
The Spy Who is Fine with Wherever You Want to Eat
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (wCmLp)
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It's a trick!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (q80AH)
I for one would love to see a female Bond and her tampon. It'll be a riposte to all those times wymyns had to watch the male Bond cut his toenails and clean out the smegma from...oh wait. The movies never showed any of that. But the moviegoing public is dying to see a used tampon scene. Just take out one of the cool car chases or Bond taking on the William's henchmen to make room.
Posted by: JuJuBee at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:38 PM (KZzsI)
Don't even get me started on this. It's changing a little now, but a dark skinned black woman is almost never cast as a love interest or someone attractive. It's always the mean strong black woman. Law and Order was one of the worst offenders.
Don't get me started on British shows, where they succumbed to the pressure to always have "POC" in their shows set in *English villages*. But there seems to be an unwritten rule that a black person must never be married or romantically linked with another black person. Always a white person. (Indians are occasionally allowed to romantically consort with other Indians.) Occasionally, they even allow non-mixed black people on their shows. It's pretty egregious.
I still watch them, though.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (Uu+Jp)
Why not just slap a pair of tits on Bond and dress him in a skirt?
Posted by: Fritz at November 11, 2019
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There was a funny pastiche of Bond called "Bond Strikes Camp," written by one Cyril Connolly in the '60s, in which Bond does indeed have to go undercover as a woman. Q asks him what type of breasts he wants to have. "Round or pointed?"
"Round, for God's sake," says Bond.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (Ejm1K)
And I think that the "fan backlash" was just that a female 007 needed to be a new person, not a reinvention of James Bond. A different double-O would be nice, but everyone understands that the code number isn't permanent to an individual and could be passed to someone else. So they backtrack on a "female James Bond" but then double down on what really was annoying people?
Oh, and James Bond isn't a slut in the books, or at the very least it's never on the page. The movies have always bothered me that way. (He also doesn't deliver dorky one-liner puns, iirc... I must go back and read them I suppose, it's probably been 30 years.)
Posted by: Synova at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (BD/yx)
Jason Chaffetz: FISA report delay signals Durham prosecution
#twoweeks? LOLGF
Posted by: Galil
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No indictments or arrests signals you're safely in the hands of people who know better.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (/Njku)
Specter was godawful. The douche who played Blofeld sounded like Mr. Rogers. He was just awful and so was the movie
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 04:55 PM (BeuRt)
Oh come one, that mop on her head gag is hilarious! And I hear she does it every week without ever breaking character.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (BeuRt)
It's one of my favorites, I don't know why it gets little love.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (ijEPD)
g'afternoon, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (cuot+)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (WRnYo)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (wCmLp)
Posted by: JuJuBee at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (Pzzpr)
Here
https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore
/19/11/4/hD0FfnSU7kiYnFRHHeJ-
lg2.mp4
how do you get a huge manatee,
Start with a small one.
Posted by: LithiumFIre at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (cqNba)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (xfb67)
Strong female spy?
Michelle Yeoh in The World is not Enough
Posted by: Anna Puma
Yup, she was quite good in that movie. She's a real actress instead of an ornament.
*cough**Denise Richards**cough**
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (T6t7i)
"A movie insider said the original plan was for a 'popcorn-dropping moment' when M, played by Ralph Fiennes, says 'Come in 007' and 'this beautiful, strong black woman walks through the door'."
IOW, "Shaft" was right: "If that cat was real, he'd wish he was me."
Posted by: Arbalest at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:45 PM (ptqGC)
The Spy who Asked for a Manager.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (ijEPD)
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The Spy Who Shouldn't Have To Tell You To Do That
Posted by: jhawk90 at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (Xvo1a)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: Lizzy at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (bDqIh)
I could force myself to rail against the melting icebergs and disappearing polar bears for a night. Maybe even two night.
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (Q5ALd)
Posted by: jhawk90 at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (Xvo1a)
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The US version was arguably better. For one thing, we still have the death penalty, so it's more plausible.
In France, they'll lock you up for "life" which means they'll let you out in a couple of years. No biggie.
Also, the cultural difference of how the French guys needed to know about her family, whereas the US guy felt emotionally distant, which again is more believable. People in the US are always looking for a fresh start, so who cares where you're originally from?
I remember enjoying it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:57 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Weasel at November 11, 2019 04:57 PM (MVjcR)
#twoweeks? LOLGF
Posted by: Galil at November 11, 2019 04:48 PM (Pzzpr)
******
I troll the twits even when I am not trying
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 11, 2019 04:57 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:57 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (0nzNY)
I won't be seeing him, but he came to church yesterday and reminded everyone it was the Marine Corps birthday.
D'oh and I saw him on TV this morning in the Veterans Day Parade, standing in a WWII vehicle with his VFW group, saluting the reviewing stand.
When I do see him again, I'll def give him a yuge hug for you!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:57 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:57 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 04:58 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Permaculture Pete at November 11, 2019 04:58 PM (Fxgkp)
And drives a car through some sort of ice castle parking garage.
Good Lord that was a pile of crap.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 11, 2019 04:58 PM (lJtAs)
Posted by: not so at November 11, 2019 04:58 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 04:58 PM (ijEPD)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 11, 2019 04:29 PM (noE+3)
They did it a fun way without ever jamming the grrrl power BS down anyone's throat. The characters were likeable and adults not whiny, empower me bitches
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019
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I've seen some of the Honor Blackman episodes. She was sexy, but kind of hard to like, and I didn't know if she even liked working with Steed. It was clear from the very start, on the other hand, that Emma Peel did like him and working with him.
But unquestionably they were adults, and the shows were fun, not preachy tracts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 04:58 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 04:58 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:49 PM (KZzsI)
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That's true, but I still think there's a large leap from where she ended the first and where she started the second. It can be inferred easily, but I'd like to see more of the growth in that direction. It wouldn't fit the movie as it is, but I just feel like it holds Sarah back a bit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:51 PM (q80AH)
I think in the context of that movie you can see that her mania about that was on or over the edge of going too far - alienating John Connor, being locked up away from him, etc. She's all hissing defensive momma cat, but it was on the edge of failing to get Connor believing and prepping for his future role. It took the Terminators showing up to deflect matters back on the path.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2019 04:58 PM (FTPn0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:57 PM (KZzsI)
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Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking of.
But, you can't do that. You can't have a Terminator movie without Terminators.
I think there's a huge space in the market for sequels or off shoots of franchises that take established properties in extremely different directions.
Follow up some disaster movie with a drama about how the hero is dealing with the aftermath, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:59 PM (q80AH)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2019 04:59 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 04:59 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 04:59 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 04:57 PM (KZzsI)
THE PREGNANCY OF GRETA THURNBERG
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 04:59 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2019 04:59 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (WRnYo)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (H5knJ)
I remember liking those few movies she did, Jumping Jack Flash and, I suppose Sister Act, but there was another I think. I thought they were funny. (I think that Sister Act is the only one that gets air time anymore.)
Posted by: Synova at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (BD/yx)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (s2OJe)
Posted by: TexasDan
Except for Rosamund Pike. She was at her absolute peak in that movie.
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (H8QX8)
The Spy Who Wanted All This Done by the Book
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 04:47 PM (N4xQB)
I remember reading Live and Let Die and thinking, "damn, I like Moore and Seymour, but this would have been a hell of a better movie than the one that hit the screen!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: Jewells45 at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:59 PM (q80AH)
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Or like the unintended environmental impacts of the heroes' actions? Or how he comes to understand his real power is male privilege and how to lean out?
This is genius stuff.
Posted by: Hollywood at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (lJtAs)
Posted by: Serious Cat at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (Xqo6t)
Posted by: Weasel at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (MVjcR)
right? what's the female equivalent of a badass footballer turned soldier with a bit of a rogue?
there is none, really. You'd have to go the other direction, a female with sharp female charm and skills. Like Mata Hari.
It's funny cause the left would probably point to Gina Carino or the blonde UFC fighter, but I saw them interact with boys in TUF and they're not men eaters
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (Q5ALd)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (aKsyK)
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I started watching these on Prime.
I was gobsmacked at just how incredibly beautiful and sexy Diana Rigg was in that role, yet also demure.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (JcXHH)
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remember, whenever a leftist tries to go allegorical, they end up teaching the opposite lesson.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 04:53 PM (FEQY4)
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Like Harry Potter being a parable for why the administrative state is antithetical to liberty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 11, 2019 04:54 PM (q80AH)
I'm only a bit of the way into Death Stranding, which I love but it is the kind of bizarre that's my bag, baby.
Apparently Kojima said it's softly anti-Trump and anti-Brexit which okay fine whatever. Even Kojima trying to make sense out of a Kojima plot is hilarious.
But let's say that's true. To the extent there is a discernible plot, some kind of apocalypse happened, America is now fractured and one side wants to renew connections between the remaining cities while Our Hero Norman Reedus, I mean, Sam, says, nope, America is done and we have to try to take care of ourselves.
Oh but he gets talked into helping make the connections! See how important it is!
Yes. He is emotionally blackmailed by his mother and someone who is his sister(sort of) into doing the job that the women can't do. Oh and if Sam is the Trump supporter avatar, it means that the only way the omg we must all come together to help can achieve anything is if the Trump supporters do all the hard work.
Now, mind you, I think my interpretation is stupid because it's a *Kojima game*. Sanity and coherence are nowhere close to the plot.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (mf5HN)
Meh.. the only good Bond was Sean Connery.
Posted by: Jewells45 at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM
This 'ette. She gets it.
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (cuot+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (KZzsI)
In the new movie, every male in the audience will have his sack beaten as soon as he steps into the theater
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (RKQ/v)
Posted by: Brie Larson at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (pw+jk)
They could never write dialogue like this any more
Steed finds Emma in the lingerie department and remarks, "I asked the
chief predator where to find you and he said, 'Our Mrs. Peel is in ladies'
underwear.' I rattled up the stairs three at a time."
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (BeuRt)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (9hauA)
Saw "Dr Sleep" today.
I have to say I enjoyed it, which I did not expect.
The script corrected or minimized a lot of the defects of the novel.
The all powerful Mary Sue issue still exists, but is tempered a bit. and Dan Torrance is allowed his moment to shine(!).
Not really a horror movie. Sort of a "The Shining" influenced supernatural thriller. And in that, not truly a sequel to The Shining.
Well directed. Very good acting all around. Nice script with some nice moments and set pieces. Very well-paced, no slow moments.
Fake Shelley Duval and Faux Jack Nicholson are a bit distracting but you roll with it.
If you have a Shoe Size IQ, you will still see the ending coming from a mile away. But, it's well done.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (kauXV)
Donald Pleasence was Blofeld, and he was the inspiration for Dr. Evil. Then Kojak played him after that.
It was downhill after that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (NMAzL)
Oh, and James Bond isn't a slut in the books, or at the very least it's never on the page. The movies have always bothered me that way. (He also doesn't deliver dorky one-liner puns, iirc... I must go back and read them I suppose, it's probably been 30 years.)
Posted by: Synova at November 11, 2019
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The books don't have that sort of humor, but drier. In New York Leiter tells Bond that if he wants to pass for American, he needs to ask for the "check" instead of the "bill," and to say "Laff" instead of "Larf." The one word to be avoided at all costs, says Leiter, was "Ectually." Bond says that this word was not part of his vocabulary.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2019 04:52 PM (H5knJ)
"America doesn't have the guts to admit that Whoopi Goldberg isn't funny."
Sam Kinison
Posted by: josephistan at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: jhawk90 at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (Xvo1a)
.........
BOWROOOOO! BOWOWROOOOO!
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (Q5ALd)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (I2/tG)
And the best scene is when the Connery Bond banged Trebec's mother.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (k81AA)
I enjoyed Whoopie as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost.
That is as far as I will go.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (96FM8)
Posted by: Jewells45 at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (dUJdY)
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Best Moore picture was For Your Eyes Only. When he scales that cliff, that is serious acting.
Also the scene where he literally kicks the guy's car off the cliff. Brutal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 05:01 PM (oZ6kz)
Loved Endgame, too.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (9hauA)
They could never write dialogue like this any more
Steed finds Emma in the lingerie department and remarks, "I asked the
chief predator where to find you and he said, 'Our Mrs. Peel is in ladies'
underwear.' I rattled up the stairs three at a time."
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019
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Yes! Dynamite line.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (Ejm1K)
Female empowerment? Eight eye roll. Talk to me when you devour him after sex. And you can still get a date every single Friday and Saturday night because, well, that's guys for ya.
Posted by: Face-sized spider at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2019 05:04 PM (I2/tG)
You also had Stefanie Powers as the Girl from UNCLE.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at November 11, 2019 05:04 PM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at November 11, 2019 05:04 PM (oZ6kz)
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well, LeChefre's girlfriend was a strikingly hot, tall blonde, maybe a bit amazonian.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 05:04 PM (FEQY4)
That's what awaits all these action series that follow that pattern.
Posted by: Whistleblower Axeman, Who Reads Stuff on the Net (EDKH) at November 11, 2019 05:04 PM (DuZls)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 11, 2019 05:04 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, camp fire pics welcome at e-mail in nic at November 11, 2019 05:04 PM (gd9RK)
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I love Jumpin Jack Flash. I've seen it a million times and I still laugh my ass off.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at November 11, 2019 05:04 PM (JcXHH)
..........
and wears an old mop she stole out of my garage on her head.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (mf5HN)
You could be right. Look how fast the pinkest haired liberal feminist falls back into "I'm getting threats, save me, men" when getting any political pushback from anyone.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (FTPn0)
Posted by: Whistleblower Axeman, Who Reads Stuff on the Net (EDKH) at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (DuZls)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 04:56 PM (ijEPD)
I think it was the ending. It was so downbeat and so unlike other Bond movies. Lazenby was a bit of a stiff but not awful considering it was his first movie
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (BeuRt)
I think they should do the most "woke" parody ever on this-taking off of "The Spy Who Shagged Me" At least someone might get a laugh.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (WI7YS)
That's why Hollywood has to pander hard to #woke millennials because any movie worth seeing was made before they were born. They don't know that they're being spoon fed total dreck and rubbish.
Posted by: kbdabear at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: mjc at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (qMLbi)
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (G546f)
I remember liking those few movies she did, Jumping Jack Flash and, I suppose Sister Act, but there was another I think. I thought they were funny. (I think that Sister Act is the only one that gets air time anymore.)
Posted by: Synova
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Ghost. She was funny in that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (13CQC)
At least, when she's whipping ass, it's believable.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2019 05:00 PM (s2OJe)
Theoretically, the Franchise has always had a "strong woman" and always exactly the same one. He's always been "on Her Majesty's Secret Service", since the first film and even since 1952. They really have never needed another. I thought Dench as M was absurd.
Unless they have a young Bruce/Caitlin a female Bond just won't do it. Stupid, stupid, stupid
Posted by: CN at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (U7k5w)
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She's got nuthin' I ain't got!
Posted by: Lisa Page at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (c2YiA)
Best Moore picture was For Your Eyes Only. When he scales that cliff, that is serious acting.
Also the scene where he literally kicks the guy's car off the cliff. Brutal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (cfSRQ)
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Agreed, plus it gave us a grounded fairly realistic espionage plot after the excesses of Moonraker.
Could have done without the really cringey part with the teenage figure skater though.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (N4xQB)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (ptqGC)
It's common in Hollywood, the way business gets done. These guys think they're alphas when really they're betas with credit cards.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 04:41 PM (cfSRQ)
There are a lot of genuine pricks who still get a lot of sexual attention. They're also unable to maintain monogamous or even tolerable relationships, but that's not what they're looking for anyways.
Whedon could probably score with fangirls, despite his obvious disadvantages, if he didn't have anti-game. I'm surprised he hasn't drowned in MeToo allegations, tbh.
Posted by: trev006 at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (LGIve)
Posted by: Jewells45 at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Hillary at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (COzlW)
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what's funny is that movie is nearly 30 years old. That's how long whoppie has been around.
I watched it as a kid with me dah. He pointed out that there's a scene in which 30+ teenagers die at once in a drug overdose. He's like, if that happened in real life, the country would grind to a halt. Of course, this was back in Real America.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: kallisto at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (4Pkdw)
I do think that, originally, when she wrote them, those books were SUPPOSED to be that. Look at her bad guys: a fascist who wants to take absolute control, a reporter who is a lying deceptive piece of manipulative trash, a sweet schoolmarm lady who is actually a sadistic tyrant, a brutal police state of absolute government control, and always opposed by one person who keeps violating the rules and defying them no matter what it costs him.
Rowling changed a LOT over the years since writing the books, largely due to the movie community and vast wealth causing her to hobnob with the glitterati rather than back when she was poor and had to face reality.
And I think it shows in her inability to write anything coherent any longer.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (qiqGr)
Posted by: Jewells45 at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Whistleblower Axeman, Who Reads Stuff on the Net (EDKH) at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (DuZls)
I think we're well past the point where any movie worth seeing has already been made.
That's why Hollywood has to pander hard to #woke millennials because
any movie worth seeing was made before they were born. They don't know
that they're being spoon fed total dreck and rubbish.
Posted by: kbdabear
Sands of Iwo Jima with an all Wymen cast!!!
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (N4xQB)
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It was clearly a humorous way to turn the tables. Normally Bond's the hunter, now he's the hunted and creeped out by the jailbait.
I generally like Connery best, but that's a good film.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (cfSRQ)
Apparently she has too much bounce.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (WRnYo)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (Ejm1K)
You sound like a Fleming savant.
If you remember in "For Your Eyes Only" the Canadian Mountie tells Bond how to get by as a native with a handful of clipped expressions.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (pw+jk)
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Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: Whistleblower Axeman, Who Reads Stuff on the Net (EDKH) at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (DuZls)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (ptqGC)
I think they should do the most "woke" parody ever on this-taking off of "The Spy Who Shagged Me" At least someone might get a laugh.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2019 05:05 PM (WI7YS)
I actually don't plan to legally change my name if I ever get married, but I will definitely not mind being called Mrs. X at all. I'll probably sign my name that way sometimes too.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (9hauA)
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yeah, I rewatched that a few years back and was impressed. An actual good story and characters.
One thing though about old Bond movies is try not to be blown away by how cool old pre-invasion Europe was.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (FEQY4)
Could have done without the really cringey part with the teenage figure skater though.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (N4xQB)
But it did have a great line where she throws herself at him and he says, Yes well, you put your clothes on and I'll buy you an ice cream.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (BeuRt)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (cfSRQ)
I enjoyed Whoopie as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost.
That is as far as I will go.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (96FM
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I've cried in theaters twice - first was her kids reuniting with her at the end of A Color Purple when I was 18.
Second time was when Jessie's owner drove off after dropping her in a box during Toy Story 2. Damn You Sarah MacCanadian and your sad songs!
Posted by: jhawk90 at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (Xvo1a)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (8tgbz)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019
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And in Goldfinger, the second Masterton girl prefers Pussy Galore to any man.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Jonah Kyle at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (SH7Tr)
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (qiqGr)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 05:09 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Weasel at November 11, 2019 05:09 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (9hauA)
That will create confusion with your local bank.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 05:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 11, 2019 05:09 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: Angry White Man at November 11, 2019 05:10 PM (qiqGr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (Ejm1K)
You sound like a Fleming savant.
If you remember in "For Your Eyes Only" the Canadian Mountie tells Bond how to get by as a native with a handful of clipped expressions.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019
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The Bond novels were the first "grownup" books I ever read. Explains a lot of the warp in my personality.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:10 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:02 PM (Ejm1K)
You sound like a Fleming savant.
If you remember in "For Your Eyes Only" the Canadian Mountie tells
Bond how to get by as a native with a handful of clipped expressions.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (H8QX
I think there was one book where Bond knew the girl was English because she said her tire had a puncture not flat.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019 05:10 PM (BeuRt)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2019 05:10 PM (I2/tG)
Sands of Iwo Jima with an all Wymen cast!!!
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (LOq4H)
Someone keeps talking about remaking Lord of the Flies with an all-female cast. The problem, of course, is that all just stay on the beach around 2 or 3 campfires, saying Mean Things about each other, until they all starve to death.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2019 05:10 PM (Kpl3J)
Best Moore picture was For Your Eyes Only. When he scales that cliff, that is serious acting.
Also the scene where he literally kicks the guy's car off the cliff. Brutal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2019 05:03 PM (cfSRQ)
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Agreed, plus it gave us a grounded fairly realistic espionage plot after the excesses of Moonraker.
Could have done without the really cringey part with the teenage figure skater though.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 11, 2019 05:06 PM (N4xQB)
When they turned the camp down a notch on the Moore movies, they were excellent. Otherwise they were too silly.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 11, 2019 05:10 PM (ijEPD)
Posted by: Weasel at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (9hauA)
That will create confusion with your local bank.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 05:09 PM (Zz0t1)
I broke my right wrist and the bank had no problems cashing checks appearing to be written by a drunken 4 year old.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (FTPn0)
but only the STATE will be able to use them, of course.
Posted by: Don Q at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Richard at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (huaUe)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (Uu+Jp)
Rising of the Shield Hero has the Shield Hero fixing the problems the other three heroes created.
One hero killed a dragon and thinking he had vanquished the monster left. BUT! The dragon corpse started to rot and cause a plague before turning into an undead dragon.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (WRnYo)
Posted by: josephistan at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself
Well you couldn't be perfect I guess
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (s2OJe)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 11, 2019 05:12 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2019 05:11 PM (FTPn0)
I changed my signature to more of an autograph for reasons I won't go into here, but my bank called me up and said "we've noticed a change in your signature and need to confirm it was on purpose."
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 05:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at November 11, 2019 05:13 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Insomniac at November 11, 2019 05:13 PM (NWiLs)
You also had Stefanie Powers as the Girl from UNCLE.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at November 11, 2019
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The producers at the time didn't know how to do something as neat as Emma Peel, so April Dancer wound up being kind of wimpy and uninteresting. It didn't help that the show's writing made Batman seem clever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:13 PM (Ejm1K)
Flies with an all-female cast. The problem, of course, is that all
just stay on the beach around 2 or 3 campfires, saying Mean Things about
each other, until they all starve to death.
Posted by: Tom Servo
It would be interesting to see how they'd deal with all the toxic boy stuff from the book.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019 05:13 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 05:08 PM (9hauA)
That will create confusion with your local bank.
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 05:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Haha. I will sign my legal name on official documents.
I would say I don't want to change it because of an established career at a non-spring chicken age, blah blah, but the truth is, I never planned to (my mom didn't) and I really don't see why I have to. But I appreciate that I am in a minority about this.
Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at November 11, 2019 05:13 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at November 11, 2019 05:14 PM (8tgbz)
Posted by: Insomniac at November 11, 2019 05:13 PM (NWiLs)
Its the woke thing to do. How else are they going to indoctrinate society?
Posted by: Sponge at November 11, 2019 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2019 05:15 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2019 05:15 PM (WRnYo)
Great flick, there are a few little stupid bits in it like unnecessary sound effects, but its overall Moore's best and probably what he thought he was signing on to when he became Bond. Rather than... well, most of his other bond movies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2019 05:16 PM (KZzsI)
any movie worth seeing was made before they were born. They don't know
that they're being spoon fed total dreck and rubbish.
Posted by: kbdabear
Sands of Iwo Jima with an all Wymen cast!!!
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019 05:07 PM (LOq4H)
Midway was good.
Funded by the Chinese as an anti Japanese movie, but was true to history.
And the cast actually surprised me with playing it straight. First movie I've seen that I actually LIKED Woody Harrelson.
Posted by: Don Q at November 11, 2019 05:16 PM (NgKpN)
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I read that to my wife. She said "I bet they all have hairy armpits, too."
You know, strong and brave - and deadly - women can work. They did in the 60s. Remember Ursula? Or Emma Peel?
All they are doing today is make female characters no man would want.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 11, 2019 05:16 PM (ZbwAu)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 11, 2019 05:16 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at November 11, 2019 05:13 PM (G546f)
That was remade into "My Eyes Are Up Here."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2019 05:16 PM (YqDXo)
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Coldfinger
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 11, 2019 05:09 PM
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Whose head henchperson's name is Female-Penis Galore.
Posted by: Irright at November 11, 2019 05:16 PM (pMGkg)
600+ posts about Emma Peel and Sarah Conner later...
I love impossible kick-ass female characters. I DON'T love the fiction and self congratulations for bucking some sort of oppressive force in order to do it.
So stupid.
Posted by: Synova at November 11, 2019 05:16 PM (BD/yx)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2019 05:17 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Big V at November 11, 2019 05:17 PM (B06Zw)
So they borrowed a lot of vagina from Austin Powers,hmm past it's best dry date.
Ransom $100 DOLLARS.
Posted by: saf at November 11, 2019 05:17 PM (5IHGB)
Posted by: naturalfake at November 11, 2019 05:18 PM (kauXV)
Posted by: nip at November 11, 2019 05:18 PM (Izot6)
Posted by: Current Dr Who at November 11, 2019 05:20 PM (y87jW)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 11, 2019
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Sounds like Goldfinger again.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:20 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019 05:21 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: troyriser at November 11, 2019 05:21 PM (E2EAq)
The Spy Who's Fine Really Everything Is Just Fine No Really There's No Problem At All I 'm Fine Just Fine
Posted by: naturalfake at November 11, 2019 05:21 PM (kauXV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Spy who loved me. It's how the chick knew Bond was a Brit.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019 05:22 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 11, 2019 05:24 PM (FEQY4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Spy who loved me. It's how the chick knew Bond was a Brit.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 11, 2019
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Oh, right -- Bond said it, not the girl. The second Masterton girl in GF didn't have a flat; he deliberately crunched her car to keep her from following him and Goldfinger.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2019 05:24 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Fritz at November 11, 2019 05:31 PM (wo3c/)
Rumors of a Bond script featuring the struggle to release a crucial dossier compiled by British Intelligence that reveals a crass populist American President was filmed ordering hookers to piss on a hotel bed in Moscow, and is being blackmailed over it by Russian Intelligence. Some subplot about Russians changing the outcome of the election with hundreds of dollars in Facebook ads.
And another one about a plot to destroy life as we know it by tricking the British public into voting to leave the EU.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 11, 2019 05:45 PM (r2EMi)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 11, 2019 05:47 PM (r2EMi)
Posted by: JW Pepper at November 11, 2019 06:14 PM (q1Pj5)
Posted by: Portnoy at November 11, 2019 06:16 PM (NZbhV)
If we wanted banal scenes of stupidity and boredom all we have to do is pay attention to our own life. We don't have to go to the movies for it.
I have no interest in movies anymore. I only see stuff about them here. And I've pretty much stopped buying books for the same reason. All my favorite authors are either dead or putting out stuff to keep from being sued by a Tumblrina somewhere.
Libraries have stopped putting Science fiction in a separate section because there isn't enough of it anymore that can be actually classified as Science Fiction. Ain't that a bitch!
I'm coming around to Michelle Obama's view except I don't hate my country, I hate the people in it.
Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at November 11, 2019 06:21 PM (cxIsI)
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Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at November 11, 2019 06:41 PM (cGlgB)
That, I might watch.
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A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)