tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post8335322498450373582..comments2023-11-03T05:49:10.841-04:00Comments on Storytelling Rules: Bond, Old or New?Maureen McGowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-50353024407485982852012-12-12T22:22:39.726-05:002012-12-12T22:22:39.726-05:00Hmmm. No wonder I've had trouble dressing appr...Hmmm. No wonder I've had trouble dressing appropriately for work. My role models are all wrong.<br /><br />I love Daniel Craig and I thought Skyfall was great, but I have to admit, I love the old winky cheesy Bond movies.Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803986849921870941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-28782381140890447692012-12-12T15:03:32.365-05:002012-12-12T15:03:32.365-05:00Stephanie, you might like the new Bond films. Grit...Stephanie, you might like the new Bond films. Grittier, darker, more violent, less silly.<br /><br />The line in the first Daniel Craig one that summed up the transition for me:<br /><br />A bartender asks him whether he'd like his martini shaken or stirred. Bond looks at the bartender with disdain, "Do I look like someone who'd care?"<br /><br />That one with Denise Richards was bad. So bad. Boy they do have a tradition of choosing actresses who can't act...<br /><br />Another low (but had me laughing) moment in the one last night: They steal jumpsuits to go into the mine (but apparently there were no boots, because she had to stay in high heels) but the best part was he says something about how it was too bad she couldn't find a suit that fit, and they show her wrapping the belt of the jumpsuit around her waist 2-3 times (she was seriously skinny) BUT the suit itself was nearly skin tight. Apparently only the belt was too big. Or tightening the belt magically takes in all the seams by 6 inches...<br /><br />I remember being furious about a physicist wearing daisy dukes to work. I think that's when I swore off them too...Maureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-73361529752004899792012-12-12T14:28:46.231-05:002012-12-12T14:28:46.231-05:00See I gave up on Bond when they made Denise Richar...See I gave up on Bond when they made Denise Richards a physicist and the line Christmas comes more than once a year...<br /><br />So I never saw Craig. I might have to check him out.Stephanie Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448686465587131952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-13895551014951285292012-12-12T14:18:10.034-05:002012-12-12T14:18:10.034-05:00I have this fondness for all the Bond movies, even...I have this fondness for all the Bond movies, even the cheesy ones that Roger Moore did, and the dark, kind of depressing Timothy Dalton ones. If they're on TV, I watch them with glee... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-67490702085751551552012-12-12T13:30:50.494-05:002012-12-12T13:30:50.494-05:00You're welcome, Bonnie. :)
That's the onl...You're welcome, Bonnie. :)<br /><br />That's the only part of that song I recognized. It seemed like Duran Duran tacked a verse of an entirely different song, with the words "View to a kill" in it, in front of the Dance into the Fire song, to that they could call it View to a Kill, instead of Dance into the Fire and have a bond theme song.Maureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-36851881475270670092012-12-12T12:29:41.979-05:002012-12-12T12:29:41.979-05:00Thanks Maureen, now I have that Duran Duran song p...Thanks Maureen, now I have that Duran Duran song playing in my head. "Dance into the fiyah!" ;)<br /><br />Although I do enjoy the cheese factor of the Connery/Lazenby/Moore/Brosnan Bonds, I love the way Daniel Craig portrays the character. I guess I enjoy a flawed character more than one covered in Teflon and identical blondes. LOLBonnie Staringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15617661715759556106noreply@blogger.com