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  • #286
    Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    I enjoyed Brosnan's Bonds.
    I read somewhere that they wanted Brosnan right after Moore, but he could not get released from his contract with Remington Steele. Now, that younger Brosnan would have made a great Bond.
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    • #287
      Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

      Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
      I read somewhere that they wanted Brosnan right after Moore, but he could not get released from his contract with Remington Steele. Now, that younger Brosnan would have made a great Bond.
      Yep, I had a female college friend who was very disappointed they didn't get Brosnan in his prime. But I picture Bond as Forever 40. Moore was Decrepit Bond. Dalton, who I love in his theater work, was also badly miscast as Sensitive Bond.
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      • #288
        Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

        Dalton simply had zero charisma in that role. Brosnan had all of it.

        I remember the Remington Steele issue although I suspect if enough money had been tossed about they could have found a way to film both roles given network TV doesn't require that much time throughout the year.

        If he's not too old I've always thought Jude Law would make a fine edition. If hair color isn't a nonplus I'd vote Cumberbatch although at first glance I know I'd be in the minority on that.

        Speaking of which, I know part of the allure of the Bond character is that we know next to nothing about his younger life, but I wouldn't hate the idea of "prequels" that cover perhaps his entry into the MI6 program etc.
        Last edited by Slap Shot; 05-25-2017, 01:55 PM.

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        • #289
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          The network wasnt going to allow him to do both they only wanted him doing RS. I have seen him interviewed about it.
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          • #290
            Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

            Originally posted by Handyman View Post
            The network wasnt going to allow him to do both they only wanted him doing RS. I have seen him interviewed about it.
            I think you're correct on that irrc. You'd think it would have only boosted the show but...

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            • #291
              Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

              Originally posted by Handyman View Post
              The network wasnt going to allow him to do both they only wanted him doing RS. I have seen him interviewed about it.
              Which was incredibly foolish of the network.
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              • #292
                Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                I think you're correct on that irrc. You'd think it would have only boosted the show but...
                It has been a while, but iirc the show was actually about to be cancelled (which is why he signed to be Bond) but then at literally the last second it was renewed again and they didnt want him splitting time or risk him jumping ship.
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                • #293
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                  Every time I see Pierce Brosnan in anything I have to fight the urge to body slam him and break his glasses. I don't know what it is about him, maybe he seems like a shallow and unlikable person who played lacrosse in high school because all the cool kids were playing lacrosse. But he kind of ruined the Bond character for me.
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                  • #294
                    Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                    Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                    Dalton simply had zero charisma in that role. Brosnan had all of it.
                    If you want to see Dalton with charisma watch The Lion in Winter. In a movie that has Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole AND Anthony Hopkins, it's Dalton and (the incomparably* beautiful) Jane Merrow who steal the show.

                    * Well. Nearly.
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                    • #295
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                      Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
                      (other than maybe Lazenby, who most people have never heard of)..
                      George did get Diana Rigg as his bond girl, so he's the luckiest. then 2nd place would be dalton who had Carey Lowell AND Talisa Soto in the same movie... which just isn't fair!!!!

                      there was a twitter story about a guy meeting roger moore in an airport when he was 7 that is so good it is almost made up.

                      and mookie can't think of roger moore without saying his name like the commercial director in lost in translation. that scene with bill murray being told to 'do' james bond makes him laugh out loud.
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                      • #296
                        Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                        Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                        George did get Diana Rigg as his bond girl, so he's the luckiest.
                        True dat. Diana Rigg > all the other Bond girls combined. That's why she got a ring and the others just got his jimmy junior.
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                        • #297
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                          I plan to watch Wonder Woman, although not in theaters. I can wait. Curious to see how they do it.

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                          • #298
                            Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                            Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                            Silicon Cowboys:
                            Documentary on the meteoric rise of Compaq computers in the 1980's, and how they basically took on 3M. Really informative, rather entertaining. They really didn't know exactly what they were doing at first, which makes their success even more amazing.
                            Still, the biggest losers in the PC/GUI world are Xerox and IBM. Adapt to the mantra of "a computer in every home", with a GUI, and they would've likely ruled the world through 2000-2005.

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                            • #299
                              Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                              Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                              Still, the biggest losers in the PC/GUI world are Xerox and IBM. Adapt to the mantra of "a computer in every home", with a GUI, and they would've likely ruled the world through 2000-2005.
                              No idea what GUI is. But IBM did act arrogantly, and it was their downfall in the PC market. Compaq, well, it's just like every "Behind The Music" ep one might have seen, although not as controversial. They could not keep the magic that made them special.
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                              • #300
                                Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                                Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                                No idea what GUI is. But IBM did act arrogantly, and it was their downfall in the PC market. Compaq, well, it's just like every "Behind The Music" ep one might have seen, although not as controversial. They could not keep the magic that made them special.
                                Graphical User Interface. The 'windows' you click around on to open, close, save, etc.

                                Before the GUI, Brent, it was DOS or other similar stuff - command lines/nerdery needed to operate computers.

                                Thanks to contract terms negotiated by Jobs, Apple indirectly ripped the GUI concept from Xerox right around 1980 - predominately by stealing subject matter experts. The rest is history.

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