While I know its probably not her fault, I can't ever get over how badly she actively ruins Starship Troopers in every single scene she is in.
Everyone else is overacting themselves into legendary status, while she is straight up boring and has the nerve to not even whip her titties out like all the other female characters.
This is something a lot of people were predicting shortly after Red Skull started spouting mainstream conservative views: leftist creators are going to start depicting mainstream conservative ideas - held by at least half the nation - as metaphysically evil and worthy of violent suppression. Heroes will be explicitly leftist, minority, feminist, and lgbtq. Villains will be explicitly Christian, white, conservative, and heterosexually masculine. It’s going to be hardline propaganda from here until the collapse.
Artist are inherently leftist. They are the original useless eaters. The couldn't even exist as a class until agriculture ensure that food was no longer something that everyone had to worry about every day.
Not that you are wrong, but its important to note they literally adapted the same book twice within two decades of each other with Sean Connery playing Bond in both to show how unwilling they were to deviate for a while.
Never Say Never Again, the second Thunderball you're referring to, is not canon. They also couldn't make the plot anything else, due to various legal issues.
There's a reason it took so long for it to be released on DVD, unlike every other movie with a character named James Bond in it.
Because it's not a "Bond movie" in the traditional sense.
None of the movie Bonds really capture the look of the character from the novels:
He paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey-blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical.
Casino Royale was good. Pretty close to the original novel, and mostly dispensed with gadgets (which were not a thing in the books). What annoyed me the most was the switch from baccarat to poker for the tournament.
Many. They are okay at best. Read either of the Ian Fleming short story collections, or read Quantam of Solace which contains all his short stories. If you like those, read his novels in order. And yes that does include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
He wrote the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Fleming spent the last few decades of his life as a journalist and would spend his vacations writing novels. He did a few distinct departures from the norm, and a kids book about a magic car was one of them. The other big one was The Spy Who Loved Me. That one is a Bond book from the point of view of the Bond girl.
Holy shit, that movie was a childhood fever dream where I always wondered if that really existed, knowing it was based off a book by Fleming? Whole different level of what the fuck
He's British and upper class - so probably invite a million of the most violent third world criminals and release them into working class neighborhoods.
Who is betting that one of the main villains Bond fights and takes down in a future novel will happen to be a fictional take on Andrew Tate, the leader of a manosphere organisation?
It is only a matter of time before James Bond reveals he is homo or transsexual. Enjoy the old James Bond films with cute babes while you can.
James Bottom
They already did. In Skyfall Bond said he banged boys in college.
The evil right wing villain has a closeted henchman, and Bond subverts him by fucking his brains out.
The most hilarious was Denise Richards as a nuclear engineer, at least she was hot.
While I know its probably not her fault, I can't ever get over how badly she actively ruins Starship Troopers in every single scene she is in.
Everyone else is overacting themselves into legendary status, while she is straight up boring and has the nerve to not even whip her titties out like all the other female characters.
Don't care, Ill always simp for Starship Troopers-era Denise Richards.
Tbh I think her career peak was Tammy and the T-Rex so her underwhelming performance in Starship Troopers isn't surprising.
I've always wanted to have Christmas in Turkey.
I thought Christmas came only once a year...
The bond girl in the next movie was super cute though.
This is something a lot of people were predicting shortly after Red Skull started spouting mainstream conservative views: leftist creators are going to start depicting mainstream conservative ideas - held by at least half the nation - as metaphysically evil and worthy of violent suppression. Heroes will be explicitly leftist, minority, feminist, and lgbtq. Villains will be explicitly Christian, white, conservative, and heterosexually masculine. It’s going to be hardline propaganda from here until the collapse.
One caveat: I don't think they will let them be too masculine. It will be more like The First Order where they are incompetent, angry, man children.
Artist are inherently leftist. They are the original useless eaters. The couldn't even exist as a class until agriculture ensure that food was no longer something that everyone had to worry about every day.
And the mainstream right will say "Imagine if the sides were reversed 😏" until the very last rightist is forced into the pod
If it's not written by the original author, it's not actually James Bond. It's just a shallow imitation.
Another multi-generational cultural icon subverted and rotted out from within.
Not by Ian Fleming: It's just fanfic.
Not to defend this trash, but Ian Fleming died in 1964.
There's no way every single film before this was based on his books.
Most of them, sure, but ALL?
And many of them have been garbage as well. Coincidence? No.
That's called Sturgeon's Law.
They literally made Thunderball twice.
Not that you are wrong, but its important to note they literally adapted the same book twice within two decades of each other with Sean Connery playing Bond in both to show how unwilling they were to deviate for a while.
Never Say Never Again, the second Thunderball you're referring to, is not canon. They also couldn't make the plot anything else, due to various legal issues.
There's a reason it took so long for it to be released on DVD, unlike every other movie with a character named James Bond in it.
Because it's not a "Bond movie" in the traditional sense.
I never read the books but have seen discussion that only a few of the movies were close adaptations to the novels anyway.
Is it still written by the same author?
Also, James Bond is a white man with dark hair. I don't know who that blond twat in the thumbnail is supposed to be, but that's not James Bond.
None of the movie Bonds really capture the look of the character from the novels:
Ian Fleming died in 1964
Then it sounds to me like any new books won't actually be James Bond novels. They'll just be "fan"fiction.
I was never super into Bond, they were just fun to watch.
I can't even say that anymore.
Last one I can say I sat all the way through and wasn't bored was The World is Not Enough with Pierce Brosnan as Bond.
Casino Royale was good. Pretty close to the original novel, and mostly dispensed with gadgets (which were not a thing in the books). What annoyed me the most was the switch from baccarat to poker for the tournament.
They took the concept of micro cameras and recorders and just went wild in the movies.
That would be MI5 bullshit. Bond is MI6 he fights international problems.
Geez. I didn’t know they were still writing novels. Have there been a lot of non-Fleming Bond books?
Many. They are okay at best. Read either of the Ian Fleming short story collections, or read Quantam of Solace which contains all his short stories. If you like those, read his novels in order. And yes that does include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Wait, Bedonobs and broomsticks' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
He wrote the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Fleming spent the last few decades of his life as a journalist and would spend his vacations writing novels. He did a few distinct departures from the norm, and a kids book about a magic car was one of them. The other big one was The Spy Who Loved Me. That one is a Bond book from the point of view of the Bond girl.
Holy shit, that movie was a childhood fever dream where I always wondered if that really existed, knowing it was based off a book by Fleming? Whole different level of what the fuck
Jokes on them. If it's not written by Ian Flemming it's not really a James Bond book.
What's he going to do? Argue with them in obscure corner-of-the-internet message forums?
He's British and upper class - so probably invite a million of the most violent third world criminals and release them into working class neighborhoods.
Crime in the now bad parts of the country and city may be going up, but think of the food we'll now be allowed to eat.
not written by fleming, not james bond.
Who is betting that one of the main villains Bond fights and takes down in a future novel will happen to be a fictional take on Andrew Tate, the leader of a manosphere organisation?
We need to burn those fucking books.
Their authors as well
Rooting for the villain.