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Post by james on Jul 6, 2010 13:03:10 GMT -5
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Post by Derrick on Jul 6, 2010 16:34:35 GMT -5
Couldn't give a shit about THE HOBBIT but it looks as if Daniel Crag has been sunk kinda like what happened to Timothy Dalton.
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2010 6:31:13 GMT -5
I was interested in The Hobbit (much more than the next Bond) when Guillermo del Toro was set to direct. Now, I hope he makes the adaptation of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness he's talked about for years.
James
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Post by tombitd on Jul 7, 2010 14:05:20 GMT -5
I was interested in The Hobbit (much more than the next Bond) when Guillermo del Toro was set to direct. Now, I hope he makes the adaptation of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness he's talked about for years. According to reports, del Toro is returning to Universal to do the third Hellboy film he put off doing so he could do The Hobbit.... Of course, the most intriguing project he never got around to was the thoroughly top-to-bottom reimagined version of Fu Manchu he once talked about as a follow-up to Mimic.... |
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Post by Kelen on Jul 7, 2010 19:33:30 GMT -5
I was interested in The Hobbit (much more than the next Bond) when Guillermo del Toro was set to direct. Now, I hope he makes the adaptation of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness he's talked about for years. According to reports, del Toro is returning to Universal to do the third Hellboy film he put off doing so he could do The Hobbit.... Of course, the most intriguing project he never got around to was the thoroughly top-to-bottom reimagined version of Fu Manchu he once talked about as a follow-up to Mimic.... Whoo! Hellboy III! |
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Post by Eddie Love on Aug 5, 2010 18:12:17 GMT -5
This is the cover story of this week's Entertainment Weekly. As soon as I picked it up I said to my wife -- "Let's skim this to see where the bitchy crack about Timothy Dalton is." Sure enough, it's about 8 paragraphs in.
My blood is boiling right now. Why do they have to do this every effing time!!!! Whenever they write about Bond. Every. Single. Time. It is their editorial policy and has been for decades. There is no reason for it! It simply doesn't reflect the attitudes of true Bond fans, and when it's in an article lauding Roger Moore -- their favorite Bond -- insult is added to injury. I sent them an email about this in the past, but don't have the energy to do so again. Reeeeeaallly tempted to cancel my subscription.
Brainless. Petty. Ignorant. Haters.
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Post by grubl on Aug 6, 2010 23:17:17 GMT -5
Yes, it's frustrating, but so it is when you're a maven of any type of art and have to put up with common misconceptions from those who dabble. Take solace (a Quantum) in knowing that among Bond aficionados Dalton has gone through a reappraisal over the last decade and is consistantly ranked as the first or second interpretation (generally after Connery, not shabby).
Just as ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE is now seen, by those who care about such things, as we here all do, for the masterpiece that it is.
I'm in Hawaii!
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Post by Eddie Love on Aug 8, 2010 13:17:42 GMT -5
In total there are three slights against Dalton in this article. Way to go, guys -- thanks for serving up the tired group-think. (Because, as everyone knows, the lead actor is responsible for all the creative choices on a project.) It's an article about the business troubles for the franchise that never mentions the words "EON" or "Harry Saltzman". They do, however, include: - About GOLDFINGER: "the best Bond film, hands down." Thanks -- that's helpful for anyone who misplaced the first day's class notes from Reductive 007 Conventional Wisdom 101.
- George Lazenby we're told is "an underrated 007." Agreed -- and congrats for going out on a limb to challenge the forces of reaction from 1969. Lazenby's work we're also told is "a more tortured, emotionally complex Bond." Completely. Ridiculous.
- MOONRAKER is "the worst Bond movie by lightyears." Put another way, AVTAK and DAD are "lightyears" better than MOONRAKER.
- At the same time the writers refer to Roger Moore's "tounge-in-cheek years" as "a high point" in the series as he's "the ideal man...for the 70s" Hmmmmmmm, kind of shoots down the case you just made for Lazenby.
- In THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, Dalton's AIDS era Bond is "a one-woman man." Wrong! He bangs the chick on the yahct at the start, fools.
- Oh, and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN is "a low point" in a series to which is doesn't belong.
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Post by stevejrogers on Nov 7, 2010 19:49:55 GMT -5
Dalton's Bond DOES NOT HAVE SEX! -Adham Fisher, For Your Ears Only  |
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