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(Chud) Spiffy Albert Finney to class up the next James Bond film   (chud.com) divider line 35
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bingethinker [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 05:47:50 PM
In related news, Albert Finney is still alive!
 
fusillade762
2011-10-28 05:59:06 PM
but he's even up for a reprise of his role in the American Bourne franchise!

I thought his character in that series was dead?
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 06:27:57 PM
Who cares. Get rid of that pile of suck you call a Bond and we'll talk.
 
LewDux
2011-10-28 06:36:48 PM
delightful friction between Finney and Dench.
 
Ess_Aytch
2011-10-28 06:37:57 PM
fusillade762: but he's even up for a reprise of his role in the American Bourne franchise!

I thought his character in that series was dead?

I believe it's an unneccesary prequel.
 
zerkalo
2011-10-28 06:40:03 PM
He didn't get a star on that wall in Langley
 
Nabb1 [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 06:43:04 PM
GAT_00: Who cares. Get rid of that pile of suck you call a Bond and we'll talk.

i2.photobucket.com
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 06:45:39 PM
Ess_Aytch: fusillade762: but he's even up for a reprise of his role in the American Bourne franchise!

I thought his character in that series was dead?

I believe it's an unneccesary prequel.

The original trilogy that the movies are made off of was 3 books. Once the movie deal got going he started writing new ones. There's a total of 9 now. Well, he's "writing" them in that his name is on the cover and the guy who actually is writing them is hidden at the bottom.
 
BroVinny
2011-10-28 06:47:13 PM
GAT_00: Ess_Aytch: fusillade762: but he's even up for a reprise of his role in the American Bourne franchise!

I thought his character in that series was dead?

I believe it's an unneccesary prequel.

The original trilogy that the movies are made off of was 3 books. Once the movie deal got going he started writing new ones. There's a total of 9 now. Well, he's "writing" them in that his name is on the cover and the guy who actually is writing them is hidden at the bottom.

The "he" in this instance being a dead guy, that's perfectly reasonable.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 06:51:00 PM
BroVinny: The "he" in this instance being a dead guy, that's perfectly reasonable.

Oops. Didn't know that. Figured it was money grubbing like Clancy is these days having other people write his books.
 
hoots_toot_ochaye [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 06:56:54 PM
GAT_00: BroVinny: The "he" in this instance being a dead guy, that's perfectly reasonable.

Oops. Didn't know that. Figured it was money grubbing like Clancy is these days having other people write his books.

I believe Eric Van Lustbader has written many of the post-Ludlum Bourne books.
 
Dr. Speed
2011-10-28 07:22:04 PM
GAT_00: Who cares. Get rid of that pile of suck you call a Bond and we'll talk.

Shut your farking whore mouth you farking whore
 
WTF Indeed
2011-10-28 07:38:01 PM
GAT_00: Who cares. Get rid of that pile of suck you call a Bond and we'll talk.

i2.photobucket.com
 
FunkOut [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 07:51:05 PM
BroVinny: GAT_00: Ess_Aytch: fusillade762: but he's even up for a reprise of his role in the American Bourne franchise!

I thought his character in that series was dead?

I believe it's an unneccesary prequel.

The original trilogy that the movies are made off of was 3 books. Once the movie deal got going he started writing new ones. There's a total of 9 now. Well, he's "writing" them in that his name is on the cover and the guy who actually is writing them is hidden at the bottom.

The "he" in this instance being a dead guy, that's perfectly reasonable.

Haven't you heard about zombie Robert Ludlum? He's a little crispy but still banging away at the typewriter.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 07:51:37 PM
Brosnan was twice the Bond Craig is. Don't be mad at the truth.
 
oldebayer
2011-10-28 08:17:04 PM
GAT_00: Brosnan George Lazenby was twice the Bond Craig is. Don't be mad at the truth

FTFY.
 
Dr. Speed
2011-10-28 08:23:28 PM
GAT_00: Brosnan was twice the Bond Craig is. Don't be mad at the truth.

Ian Fleming was five times the man you'll ever dream of being.

Shall we continue?
 
jake3988
2011-10-28 09:26:11 PM
GAT_00: Brosnan was twice the Bond Craig is. Don't be mad at the truth.
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I don't disagree with you often but this is utterly lulzworthy.

/Unless we only count goldeneye, then sure.
//Daniel Craig is similar to Timothy Dalton (who was the best bond) but the movies still suck. Mostly due to direction and writing.
///Sam Mendes solves the shiatty directing problem... let's hope the writing is half-decent.
 
zato_ichi
2011-10-28 09:43:39 PM
GAT_00: Brosnan was twice the Bond Craig is. Don't be mad at the truth.

Pierce Brosnan, you're exactly as big as I let you be, and no bigger, and don't forget it, ever.
 
djkutch [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 09:48:44 PM
Marr Damon knows accents. Just sayin'.
 
djkutch [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 09:49:34 PM
djkutch: Marr Damon knows accents. Just sayin'.

Matt.

Fat fingers.
 
John Buck 41 [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 09:52:33 PM
GAT_00: Brosnan was twice the Bond Craig is. Don't be mad at the truth.

I like Craig, but yeah, I miss the Pierceinator. In a few years time I'm sure I'll say the same about Craig.

Ralph Fiennes is in this? I thought Javier Bardem was the villain? Or are both of them villains and one of them is the henchman?
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 10:01:09 PM
jake3988: Daniel Craig is similar to Timothy Dalton (who was the best bond) but the movies still suck. Mostly due to direction and writing.

Daniel Craig is the worst Bond. Utterly awful.
 
Moonvale
2011-10-28 10:03:49 PM
Daniel Craig is an amazing Bond. Pierce Brosnan...eh, he just kind of bugged me. maybe it was more because the movies during his tenure just got crazier and crazier: friggin' invisible car and asian dude who couldn't feel pain because of bullet lodged in his brain, and...bleh. give me Daniel Craig Bond anyday
 
oldebayer
2011-10-28 10:14:46 PM
jake3988: Daniel Craig is similar to Timothy Dalton (who was the best bond)

Now I have to ask, has anyone here actually

(a) read any of the books

(b) seen Dr. No or From Russia, With Love

If not, please go and play with whatever you kids play with nowadays.

/Chased Sean Connery off my lawn in 1980.
 
John Buck 41 [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 10:29:04 PM
Moonvale: Daniel Craig is an amazing Bond. Pierce Brosnan...eh, he just kind of bugged me. maybe it was more because the movies during his tenure just got crazier and crazier: friggin' invisible car and asian dude who couldn't feel pain because of bullet lodged in his brain, and...bleh. give me Daniel Craig Bond anyday

Robert Carlyle was not Asian.
 
Moonvale
2011-10-28 10:33:42 PM
wow you're right. I have no idea why I remembered it being an asian guy....also, that movie had Denise Richards as Nuclear Physicist Christmas Jones, solely for that one terrible pun at the end of the movie
 
Moonk
2011-10-28 11:00:05 PM
Moonvale: wow you're right. I have no idea why I remembered it being an asian guy....also, that movie had Denise Richards as Nuclear Physicist Christmas Jones, solely for that one terrible pun at the end of the movie

Robot chicken did a very nice sketch on that pun. Link (new window) NSFW Innuendo.
 
wont_eat_bugs [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 11:12:02 PM
oldebayer: jake3988: Daniel Craig is similar to Timothy Dalton (who was the best bond)

Now I have to ask, has anyone here actually

(a) read any of the books

(b) seen Dr. No or From Russia, With Love

If not, please go and play with whatever you kids play with nowadays.

/Chased Sean Connery off my lawn in 1980.

Yes

Yes

Love Daniel Craig as Bond. Love, love, love him as Bond. Still waiting for his gay sex scene. Craig is reported to have said Bond would sleep with anybody if it got him information and he wants to play it that way.
 
ertznay
2011-10-28 11:51:57 PM
Just don't give him the high hat.
 
Moonvale
2011-10-28 11:54:57 PM
hahah, that robot chicken sketch is good
 
bigtotoro
2011-10-29 12:13:21 AM
oldebayer: jake3988: Daniel Craig is similar to Timothy Dalton (who was the best bond)

Now I have to ask, has anyone here actually

(a) read any of the books

(b) seen Dr. No or From Russia, With Love

If not, please go and play with whatever you kids play with nowadays.

/Chased Sean Connery off my lawn in 1980.
Yes and yes. Have even read a few of the Gardner books. The important thing to remember about the character is that he was and is a killer. I never for one second believe that the character, when portrayed by Brosnan or Roger Moore was capable of killing someone with their bare hands. I have no trouble whatsoever believing that for Connery, Dalton, and Craig. He is supposed to be a blunt edged weapon that happens to look good in a tuxedo. That is not to say that I have not enjoyed the other portrayals (For Your Eyes Only is a top 3 for me), but Craig, Dalton, and Connery are the closest to what Fleming intended, in my estimation.

/Never mind the fact that Dalton did not have great material to work with, although I still really love The Living Daylights.
 
100 Watt Walrus
2011-10-29 04:32:23 AM
bigtotoro: oldebayer: jake3988: Daniel Craig is similar to Timothy Dalton (who was the best bond)

Now I have to ask, has anyone here actually

(a) read any of the books

(b) seen Dr. No or From Russia, With Love

If not, please go and play with whatever you kids play with nowadays.

/Chased Sean Connery off my lawn in 1980.
Yes and yes. Have even read a few of the Gardner books. The important thing to remember about the character is that he was and is a killer. I never for one second believe that the character, when portrayed by Brosnan or Roger Moore was capable of killing someone with their bare hands. I have no trouble whatsoever believing that for Connery, Dalton, and Craig. He is supposed to be a blunt edged weapon that happens to look good in a tuxedo. That is not to say that I have not enjoyed the other portrayals (For Your Eyes Only is a top 3 for me), but Craig, Dalton, and Connery are the closest to what Fleming intended, in my estimation.

/Never mind the fact that Dalton did not have great material to work with, although I still really love The Living Daylights.

Pretty much all of this. Dalton had shiat scripts. Living Daylights was passible. Fleming would have liked Craig. Brosnan was an OK "Hollywood Bond." He was enjoyable to watch. But I'm glad they've gone back to the old-school, down-and-dirty Bond that bears some resemblance to Fleming's anti-hero.

/those books are sometimes hard to read, from a modern perspective, with cringing
 
100 Watt Walrus
2011-10-29 04:33:18 AM
Oh, and Finney? Fark yeah!
 
phoxxy
2011-10-29 02:50:28 PM
oldebayer: jake3988: Daniel Craig is similar to Timothy Dalton (who was the best bond)

Now I have to ask, has anyone here actually

(a) read any of the books

Craig, by far, embodies the Bond from Fleming's books in my opinion.
 
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