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Hasn't M always been played by a new person every third movie or so? (Except in Judi Dench's case I believe.) There was one of the older ones I remember where Bond says something like "I believe your predecessor kept a healthy supply of brandy in that credenza."
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No. M was played by the same actor for the first dozen or so movies. He died, and was replaced for the last couple of Moore ones, and the Dalton ones. Dench has been M dor all of Dalton's.
The two different male M's were supposed to (I believe) be the same character. Dench's M is obviously not.
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All I care about is that they get a half way decent actor who can at least pass for being a Brit to play Bond! LOL. Although. If the guy who originally played Q gets replaced by a dude who is supposed to be playing the SAME Q, I may have to start doing very bad things to the movie companies....... If he is meant to be a different Q, I would mind.........as much, but Q was a legend as far as I'm concerned. R should fill Qs shoes from now on and the role of Q should be retired.
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Oh come now! Tim Dalton wasn't that bad! As a matter of fact, The Living Daylights is one of my favorite Bond movies. He may seem like a robot because the 2 movies he was involved with had a far more serious tone to them and not nearly as much humor.
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Actually, one thing I really like about "Tommorow Never Dies" is the interplay between M and Admiral Roebuck -- although I wasn't aware of this until just a few months ago, apparently the two actors star in a sitcom which airs on PBS here in the States every now and then.
Speaking of which, "TND" is my favorite of the Bond flicks. Especially that amazing opening scene -- WOW! That was done SO well! And that BMW -- !!!!
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I don't think Mr. Brosnan would like very much to be called British...
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I miss Q, i wish he was still around. but he was probably going to retire soon anyway. he looked OLD. as for Bond 30, i would really like to see it go way past 30. mayby to 40. and maybe james bond is like austin powers. maybe he gets frozen, then gets thawed out every time the would needs saving. then when he's done, he goes back into the freezer.
anyone played the World Is not Enought N64 game? i think it really sucked compared to Rare's goldeneye and Perfect Dark.
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Out of curiosity, putting aside the whole national origin of Mr. Brosnan issue (a fact wholely and blissfully outside the realm of my knowledge), how does one refer to U.K. citizens who do not happen to be British?
Also, why is there an apostrophe in "get's"? I do not know.
John Cleese was pretty bad as R, he's gone sooo soft after about "Clockwise", he's totally lost the cynicism, sarcasm and irony of his Monty Python years and "Fawlty Towers"... "Fish called Wanda" was pretty good, but he had started his conversion into gullible-cuddly-old-man then...
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Yeah, part of the point of Q's final scene in The World is Not Enough was that is could be used as a "retiring" scene. Lewellyn did state however, shortly after, that he'd continue playing Q as long as he could. Which fate no doubt took to be a challenge.
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