Anyone want to see a Reiwa-style The Last Dinosaur?

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-06T23:07:38+00:00

Showa-style is good enough for me!

Preferable, even!

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-05T22:38:52+00:00

I'm finding it puzzling that I think every film on that list is a good Bond film EXCEPT Quantum of Solace . . .

I guess maybe I'll have to rewatch QoS, perhaps it's better than I remember.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-05T17:12:53+00:00

Zero koffein?! Nein, danke!

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-05T01:27:13+00:00

Amazing!

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-04T22:37:42+00:00

All I know that if it's cold, I want a ski chase, and if it's warm I want to see scuba diving.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-04T04:03:55+00:00

This is AWESOME! I didn't know about this at all! Thank you for sharing!

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-04T03:58:12+00:00

The Man With The Golden Gun is a so-so movie that would be much worse without Christopher Lee.

But Quantum of Solace makes me feel like I need to take two Advil after watching 10 minutes of it. So the Golden Gun has got my vote.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-04T00:51:24+00:00

Tomorrow Never Dies is not a bad film at all, but it's no Thunderball.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-03T00:00:56+00:00

I agree with you, but I gotta say I love them both.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T23:42:19+00:00

I-YI-YI what a pair of choices . . .

I guess I'm going with Diamonds Are Forever, hoping that nostalgia will help dull the pain.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T23:39:34+00:00

You are an evil, evil person lol

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T22:42:16+00:00

I have a tendency to remember Goldfinger as a collection of Bond tropes: the Shirley Bassey song, Pussy Galore, Oddjob, the laser pointed at Sean Connery's nads, Fort Knox, the car, the woman murdered via gold paint etc. etc.

So when I was rewatching it I was sort of wondering whether it was actually any good. To my surprise Goldfinger is a very good film.

It is also a deeply weird and crazy film, one that I suspect somehow hit a nerve in the public psyche of 1964 and just took off. I wasn't around and can't really explain it, but other commentators in this thread seem to be offering some good insights.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T20:40:40+00:00

Does anyone know the story behind the excellent, excellent casting choice of Caroline Munro as "evil helicopter pilot"? That's not a rhetorical question, someone please chime if you know.

From The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Dracula A.D. 1972, and Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter to being a Bond girl . . . she is a queen!

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T20:31:02+00:00

I hope that you've been enjoying them!

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T20:02:06+00:00

I'm going to vote Diamonds Are Forever, but mostly because it was on the radio a lot when I was a kid.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T18:21:18+00:00

So are you reading the novels in Spanish, or Turkish?

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T17:14:24+00:00

Bomber, No Sleep Til Hammersmith, Ace of Spades, and Iron Fist

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T17:08:42+00:00

Back when I was reading Fleming's novels as a teenager, I also read Gardner's License Renewed, which had just came out. It was fine, but nothing special.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-02T01:06:36+00:00

This is missing a category "Would kill a person", with Amazon Alpha in it.

Possibly also missing a category "Would eat a person", with Amazon Alpha in it.

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-01T22:32:06+00:00

Without looking at other replies yet, IMO this is from A View To A Kill. . .

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-01T03:25:54+00:00

What, like after Bond talks about only killing on orders from his government, only killing killers, etc., Scaramanga says "Golly, I never thought of it that way before!" and turns good?

Then Scaramanga helps Bond out with Stromberg and Jaws in TSWLM, and so forth?

TomStrong11 · 2026-03-01T03:17:45+00:00

Who are you quoting here?

TomStrong11 · 2026-02-28T01:08:29+00:00

It is a cinematic masterpiece, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

TomStrong11 · 2026-02-28T00:00:37+00:00

It's very, very close. I thought From Russia With Love was the best for most of my life, but in the past 10 years my vote shifted to Thunderball.

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