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Never mind.
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"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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I was hoping it'd be another "Free CD Giveaway" thread.
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Pop Musik is one my favourite pop songs of all time, probably the second or third single I bought after New York Groove and Boys Keep Swinging.Howard Beale wrote:I was hoping it'd be another "Free CD Giveaway" thread.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Those would probably be my choices, too.Heston wrote:By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?
"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."
So who's your favourite Bond girl? I used to have a bit of a crush on Jane Seymour.
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?
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Olaf wrote:Those would probably be my choices, too.Heston wrote:By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?
"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."
So who's your favourite Bond girl? I used to have a bit of a crush on Jane Seymour.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Madeline Smith....Olaf wrote:Those would probably be my choices, too.Heston wrote:By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?
"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."
So who's your favourite Bond girl? I used to have a bit of a crush on Jane Seymour.
'People like Coldplay and people voted for the Nazi's, you can't trust people Jeremy':- Super Hans
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'Hayes ... is one of the most godforsaken places I have ever struck. The population seems to be entirely made up of clerks who frequent tin-roofed chapels on Sundays and for the rest bolt themselves within doors.' - George Orwell
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Theme tune included, there's no element of Goldfinger that doesn't plump one over every other entry in the series.Heston wrote:By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?
"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."
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Yeah, "Live and Let Die" is pretty damn cool, but "Goldfinger" is the one I think of when I think of Bond themes. Let me also take this opportunity to say again that the movies beat the fuck out of the novels in every way possible. I've read maybe the first half dozen of the novels, and they are incredibly awful. It's amazing that they sold well enough to generate interest in Hollywood to adapt them.Silent Majority wrote:Theme tune included, there's no element of Goldfinger that doesn't plump one over every other entry in the series.Heston wrote:By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?
"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Hitler's one redeeming feature—he left behind a reliable go-to villain for some sixty years now.Olaf wrote:Germans make great villains apparently.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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I don't know. I think the novels have got some redeeming features if you meet them on their own racially patronising and snobbish terms. The films are certainly better.Dr. Medulla wrote:Yeah, "Live and Let Die" is pretty damn cool, but "Goldfinger" is the one I think of when I think of Bond themes. Let me also take this opportunity to say again that the movies beat the fuck out of the novels in every way possible. I've read maybe the first half dozen of the novels, and they are incredibly awful. It's amazing that they sold well enough to generate interest in Hollywood to adapt them.Silent Majority wrote:Theme tune included, there's no element of Goldfinger that doesn't plump one over every other entry in the series.Heston wrote:By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?
"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."
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I can accept them in the context of the time when they were written, but the writing and plotting is just plain dull. In Moonraker, for example, the set-up goes on and on and on about how Bond is assigned to find out how Drax is cheating at bridge. Only Bond is skilled enough at bridge to defeat Drax. Over and over and over. And then, ridiculously casually, it's revealed that Drax cheats by using a highly reflective cigarette case to see others' cards. All set-up and no pay-off. And that's how all the Bond novels that I've read have been—ridiculous but compelling spy premises with awful follow through.Silent Majority wrote:I don't know. I think the novels have got some redeeming features if you meet them on their own racially patronising and snobbish terms. The films are certainly better.Dr. Medulla wrote:Yeah, "Live and Let Die" is pretty damn cool, but "Goldfinger" is the one I think of when I think of Bond themes. Let me also take this opportunity to say again that the movies beat the fuck out of the novels in every way possible. I've read maybe the first half dozen of the novels, and they are incredibly awful. It's amazing that they sold well enough to generate interest in Hollywood to adapt them.Silent Majority wrote:Theme tune included, there's no element of Goldfinger that doesn't plump one over every other entry in the series.Heston wrote:By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?
"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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I tend to think of them as like the blues, or Wodehouse. Everything sounds the same, but the details change and you're getting under the skin of a character (very different from the action Bond of the films who was essentially made by Connery) who's obsessed with tiny details and very, very occasionally shoots people on his travelogue adventures. It's less about that Drax cheats at bridge, but about how the villain's described.Dr. Medulla wrote:I can accept them in the context of the time when they were written, but the writing and plotting is just plain dull. In Moonraker, for example, the set-up goes on and on and on about how Bond is assigned to find out how Drax is cheating at bridge. Only Bond is skilled enough at bridge to defeat Drax. Over and over and over. And then, ridiculously casually, it's revealed that Drax cheats by using a highly reflective cigarette case to see others' cards. All set-up and no pay-off. And that's how all the Bond novels that I've read have been—ridiculous but compelling spy premises with awful follow through.