I like this trailer a lot. What I like about the Roger Moore Bond movies was their sense of scale. Sure, many of them are sort of silly, but the villains tended to be larger-than-life, as were their schemes. Specter seems to harken back to those movies (or the trailer does, at any rate). The Timothy […]
` I am not a huge fan of Daniel Craig’s James Bond—I prefer Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton—though with “Skyfall” not only will he gain busloads of fans but those that count themselves among the true believers will be ecstatic. I have always had an on-off relationship with James Bond. The Sean Connery Bond films were […]
Some are also calling “Skyfall” the best Bond ever. I assume that that’s more than a little bit of hyperbole because some of the 007 films that I enjoyed most were not necessarily the best in the series. For instance, of the Sean Connery Bond films, was never a huge fan of “Dr. No,” “From […]
Sam Mendes‘ “Skyfall” teaser is up, and while I like my Bond with more gizmos than this current incarnation (for my money, Pierce Brosnan‘s Bond struck an almost perfect balance between technology and testosterone, with the exception of “Die Another Day,” which almost played like a parody of a James Bond film), there is something […]
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