Movie Thread

[Guest]

If I had to really choose a favorite among all of Bassey's excellence, I'd go with "Diamonds are Forever." Everything just works right with that one.

This is gonna be a really unpopular opinion, but Diamonds Are Forever > Goldfinger. All of it.
Last time, I was bored out of my mind watching Goldfinger. The film has a bunch of characters who might be interesting in other movies, but don't work with each other at all. Goldfinger himself is just a generic evil businessman, and Bond doesn't really give a shit about him. Oddjob is a lamer Jaws and serves him because servant. Pussy Galore is one of the least attractive Bond girls and works with Goldfinger because money, I guess?

Cut to Diamonds Are Forever, where Blofeld has already been built up by several films, there's a pair of gay killers making oneliners, a schoolteacher hiding jewels in a Bible and Jill St John as a sexy diamond smuggler, whose shift of allegiance to Bond makes perfect sense. Everybody bounces beautifully off of one another, the pace is pitch perfect and Connery wears a knowing "y'all paid me millions for this bullshit" smirk throughout the entire film.

Goldfinger is the most overrated movie in the series. Meh Bond girl, lame story, generic American setting. Just go away Goldfinger.

On the other hand, it's old laserdisc commentary was banned by EON because the director talked shit about Albert Broccoli, so there's that.

Die Another Day was a classic Babs fuckup, with her using it to push Jynx and a possible spinoff movie, the culmination of her attempts to create a woman who was "Bond's equal."

[Rushy]

you can talk shit about Barbara Broccoli all you want, and you probably wouldn't wrong, but at the very least she did say definitively that she's not switching Bond's gender

which is more than Doctor Who can say

[Guest]

Why switch his gender when you can strip away his 007 title and fill his movie with ethnic women who are better than him in every way?

[Rushy]

Why switch his gender when you can strip away his 007 title and fill his movie with ethnic women who are better than him in every way?

Q is better than him at this point. The man has been 60 years old since Skyfall

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Why switch his gender when you can strip away his 007 title and fill his movie with ethnic women who are better than him in every way?

The new female agent to replace Bond will have the number 1337.

[Guest]

Grandpa Moore was more sprightly in A View to a Kill than Craig was in Skyfall.

[CuckTurdginson]

But she wouldn't have lasted as long if she didn't know a few tricks.

I'll bet you want her to show you.

[Guest]

In the Heights made Big Cheeto its villain. "They want to deport the Dreamers!" Nigger, you're all Puerto Ricans.

[Guest]

Just bought a ton of Bond blu rays at the local Half Priced Books for $3 a piece. Because of some Fox deal expiring they're all out of print or like $30 on Amazon.

[Guest]