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    Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
    Burton is past his prime, but he did do some great stuff. He's like an NFL running back in his 30s.

    I don't think he should do Bond. I also agree that the new Bond movies, while good, don't feel like Bond.
    If you're judging Daniel Craig's 007 stint based on the fact that it never captured the feel of the older movies...Then I hate to say it but...You don't know Bond. At all. The James Bond films are based on an Ian Fleming character and each actor who has played 007 before in the past has focused on different aspects of the character rather than focusing on all aspects at once.

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    Well I think it's unfair to say I don't know Bond. At all. I just only know the 'aspects' of him that the other actors focused on, which I like better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
    Well I think it's unfair to say I don't know Bond. At all. I just only know the 'aspects' of him that the other actors focused on, which I like better.
    Have you ever read Casino Royale and/or Live and Let Die? Those books are smurfing awesome! Well anyway the James Bond I read in those books wasn't the James Bond that I saw on the silver screen. I don't think Hollywood could ever make a film adaptation that manages to completely capture the essence of a literary character. We'll probably never see an actor who focuses on all aspects of Ian Fleming's creation. That's why you shouldn't say Daniel Craig's films weren't "Bond films" because the other movies weren't Bond films either.

    The early Bond films had followed a formula that director Terence Young had created. And that formula stayed with Bond up until Die Another Day. And after Die Another Day you didn't see that formula anymore. The producers probably thought "The formula Terence Young had created back in the 60's was old now and we needed a new formula for a new generation."
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    Quote Originally Posted by John_912 View Post
    Well I don't really recognize the Roger Moore films as Bond movies because they're just too smurfing goofy. It was like watching a saturday cartoon done in live-action when Moore was Bond IMHO.
    Roger Moore will come off of his spotless white stallion to smack you across the head with his sceptre of truth if you have the audacity to insult this beautiful specimen of a man ever again.

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    They weren't really insulting Moore so much as they were slating the Bond movies he was in. And it's true that his last few are probably the worst of the lot since the series started.
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    Quote Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by John_912 View Post
    Well I don't really recognize the Roger Moore films as Bond movies because they're just too smurfing goofy. It was like watching a saturday cartoon done in live-action when Moore was Bond IMHO.
    Roger Moore will come off of his spotless white stallion to smack you across the head with his sceptre of truth if you have the audacity to insult this beautiful specimen of a man ever again.
    You have issues if you actually found the prospect of an older man romancing younger women to be enjoyable. Even Roger Moore himself didn't like the idea. He felt dirty when he was kissing women who were frickening young enough to be his daughters!

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