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I thought "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was pretty good, especially since it gave us a nice car chase between a green Aston Martin DBS and a red Mercury Cougar XR7.
The new Bond car will be a brand new 2002 Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. No clue on the actual color or "extras" though.
Another little piece of Bond trivia. The World's Most Recognizable (And Priceless) Car, James Bond's silver birch 1964 Aston Martin DB5, used in the movies "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball", has not been seen for years. The car was owned by a New Jersey collector when it was apparently stolen by thiefs who broke into the hanger where it was stored. The car has not been seen since. This is one of the Aston Martin DB5s used for "GoldenEye", an almost identical replica.
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Fact fans: It was implied to be the same car, although it had a slightly different licence plate.
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That Vanquish is one Bad Motha.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Fact fans: It was implied to be the same car, although it had a slightly different licence plate.
I think the licence plate had a few characters from the "Goldfinger" plate and a few characters from the "Thunderball" plate. And though "it was implied to be the same car," Bond's "defense mechanisms" now consisted of chilled champagne and glasses.
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The "GoldenEye" DB5 also had a new CD Player/Fax Machine in the dash.
The DB5 also made appearances in "The World Is Not Enough" and in a few of the Moore/Dalton films.
James Bond actually drove 2 Lotus Esprits (actually, tehnically 3). Moore drove two different ones in "The Spy Who Loved Me" (the first exploded in the beginning) and Dalton also had one.
By far the best looking Bond car has been the Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante (Prince Of Wales-spec) that Dalton drove in "The Living Daylights".
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So the BMW cars won't be in the next Bond film then...hmmm...what will Halley Berry blow up then?
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Nope. The return of Aston Martin is official, but Halle Barry's appearance is still just rumored.
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I havn't been on the forum since sometime after 9/11. but my favorite bond film of all time is Goldeneye. I don't know why. But I think it's the best.
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I have seen all 19 Bond films, and I can't tell you what is my favorite. I have read most of the Ian Fleming books, and I can tell that the stories are different from the movies in many respects.
I think that the later Bond films are trapped within a formula set in the first Bond film, Dr. No, and haven't been able to grow much beyond this formula. They are, for a simplier word, lacking.
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I've been reading the few Bond books I have again. They're all by Ian Fleming; I won't read any of the ones not by him. MAN, was he a fucking BASTARD! I just finished "Goldfinger" & check out some of the shit he has to say on various groups. Granted, these were written in the 50s & early 60s, but still.
on Jews:[re: Goldfinger, a background description] "You won't believe it, but he's a Britisher. Domiciled in Nassau. You'd think he'd be a Jew from the name, but he doesn't look it. We're restricted at the Floridiana. Wouldn't have got in if he had been."
on short men:[Bond's thoughts, re: Goldfinger's physical description] "Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big--bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world. And what about a misshapen short man with red hair and a bizarre face? That might add up to a really formidable misfit. One could certainly feel the repressions."
on Koreans:[Goldfinger, re: why he has a totally Korean staff] "'Mr. Bond--' Goldfinger snapped his fingers forthe two servants-- 'it happens that I am a rich man, a very rich man, and the richer the man the more he needs protection. The ordinary bodyguard or detective is usually a retired policeman. Such men are valueless. Their reactions are slow, their methods old-fashioned, and they are open to bribery. Moreover, they have a respect for human life. That is no good if I wish to stay alive. The Koreans have no such feelings. That is why the apanese employed them as guards for their prison camps during the war. They are the cruellest, most ruthless people in the world. My own staff are hand picked for these qualities. They have served me well. I have no complaints. Nor have they. They are well paid and well fed and housed. When they want women, street women are brought down from London, well remunerated for their services and sent back. The women are not much to look at, but they are white and that is all the Koreans ask--to submit the white race to the grossest indignities. There are sometimes accidents but--' the pale eyes gazed blankly down the table-- 'money is an effective winding-sheet.'"
on gays & women's rights: "Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterton was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and 'sex equality.' As a result of fifty years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused, not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits--barren and full of frustrations, the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. He was sorry for them, but he had no time for them."
Ah, & for those who've wondered, I list below the recipe from "Casino Royale" for the "classic Bond martini" developed by Bond himself:
Three measures of Gordon's gin One measure of vodka, preferably grain Half a measure of Kina Lillet
Shake very well until ice-cold, then serve in a deep champagne goblet with a slice of lemon peel.
Bond tells Felix Leiter that "when I'm--er--concentrating, I never have more than one drink before dinner. But i do like that one to be very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad This drink's my own invention. I'm going to patent it when I can think of a name. Later, he names it the "Vesper" after Vesper Lynd, the girl in the book, because "it's very appropriate to the violet hour when my cocktail will now be drunk all over the world."
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Yeah, the tank chase was the best. I don't think they've yet been able to top that. the Thames chase in "The World Is Not Enough" came close. But there just ain't no beating 70 tons of hulking steel barreling down a crowded street at breakneck speeds. Can't wait till the next movie comes out.
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Have they don't a chopper chase yet? I'd like to see a pair of attack choppers playing cat'n'mouse between a group of skyscrapers. Naturally with a few nice fireballs. Cause what action film would be complete without those?
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