. You know, now that it's been explained, it's starting to grow on me, though it's still a bit unwieldy to get off the tongue. Then again, it'll probably fit Fleming's pulpy world in the movie pretty well. 
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skyjedi2005 said:Martin Campbell directed the 2 Best modern Bond films with Goldeneye and Casino Royale.
He also directed the Good movie Mask of Zorro and the not so good kiddie sequel . I was nervous at the time because Legend of Zorro was such a turd after Goldeneye and Mask of Zorro i thought Casino Royale would be awful.
there were things that i did not like about the movie. It being a reboot and so not really a prequel to Dr No because not in the sixties, cell phones and mention of 911. Not the Same Suave and cool dude as Connery Played, more like Jack Bower or Jason Borne. In essence they wanted a more american bond than brittish High Style had to go. They last time they tried to Americanize bond we got the dalton bond. Not the way i would have gone, but a different bond. To each there own.
My fave Bonds are Connery, Followed by Brosnan, Moore, Dalton, Craig, and Lazenby.
Moore put out the silliest Pictures until we got the world is not enough and die another day. Die Another die could have been a better film but the screenwriters and producers who deserve all the blame shifted it onto Brosnan who is a fine actor in other films besides being the best Bond since Connery.
Brosnan Himself wanted to do more serious Bond and was waiting for them to give him a good script. He wanted the more Fleming Bond last seen in the Dalton films. He wanted more control and say over the script because of how silly the last film was. They thought he became a problem and so fired him. He had a contract to make another bond film which they cancelled.
The only good dalton film which is decent but not the smash hit Goldeneye was is Living Daylights. The Dalton films were the lowest money makers of all the bond films from what i have heard. License to Kill with the hammy Villain from the Goonies and that Viva Las Vegas Dude could have not been a worse movie.
Dalton seemed to be a stiff. He acted by not acting, he was very much Like a stage play actor and not a movie star. He apparently still thinks he is james bond. Watch his laughable performance in Loony Tunes Back in action. So it goes for the dude who turned down Goldeneye.
The franchise Almost died with Dalton. we had the Black years with no Bond films at all. It's like George Clooney in Batman and Robin, and we had to wait so long for Batman to come back in the form of Christian Bale.
In the Dalton years filmgoers no longer cared about Bond. Bond was no longer drawing in an audience. Bond no Longer resonated with People, Bond no Longer mattered. Until Brosnan saved the Franchise in Goldeneye. Finally audiences got the Expensive blockbuster action packed kickass hero they were waiting for. Better Special effects and more awesome gadgets. Bond was fun to watch again and not snore inducing. The Brosnan reinvented Bond was back to the fun of the connery pictures. Then years later when Brosnans Paycheck got to big for the studios they reinvented bond again, for a more grim post 911 world.
Die another Day was a huge hit. The studios made money. They were taking a calculated risk in rebooting the entire series and throwing all previous bond out the window and casting an unknown.
While i liked Casino Royale to me it was a good action flick but was not James Bond. It reminded me of the cuthroat american action star movies and tv. We have our Rambos, John Mclanes, Our Jack Bowers and Jason Bornes. I want Bond to be Bond. A Ladykiller. The consumate man Of style, the suave and debonaire Guy who is cool under all circumstances ready to make a comedic joke as he takes down another bad guy.
That is the Cubby Broccoli Bond and the Connery Bond. It might Not be the Fleming Bond of the books who is "just a blunt object" as he put it. They created a real character for the movies that existed outside the books. The Character that Terence Young created for the screen. On the Silver screen our heroes are larger than life. and are not supposed to be a projection of reality. People who want Literary can aways pick up a damn book and read it.
That being said Chris Cornells song was awesome and Alicia Keyes and Jack whites song is just plain awful the worst bond song by far even worse than madonnas.
When i heard Jack White of the band the white stripes which i hate was singing this i wanted it banned. A pussified band where the dude sings Like a girl. I'll take Chris Cornell any day over that. Alicia Keys is a very good singer but was just awful here. The producers wanted a song Like Mcartneys Live and Let Die and tried to get him to wirte and sing one for this movie. Instead they make a Mcartney esque song ripoff of live and let die mixed with some bizarre Jazz Hiphop fusion wanting to stop up my ears as they bleed the song was so awful. White's coked up zombie face in the video is creepy. and Keys sings off key. Also they have zero chemistry together as a duet.
I just think you like to complain.
