wyngarde posted this yesterday on his LJ

[ericcoleman]

Maybe the best Bond movie never made

I have not laughed this much in ages

Comments

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

brilliant.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't do for a Bond film, for one, the plot is too coherent....someone might almost think the Director had been reading one of Ian Fleming's books.
Willie Donaldson once called Fleming 'The writer of the James Bond adventure books for children'*. But Willie Donaldson was a god (of a particular kind).


*Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics. ISBN 0304357286
In the entry for 'Winchester: Bapsy, Marchioness of'.

[wyngarde.livejournal.com]

I love how Daniel Craig is shot down right in the begining...

(Don't get me wrong, I like Craig, it's the set-up that's funny...)

[ericcoleman]

Hey, things blow up ... what else do you need ???

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

You may be right.
I've made a category mistake, haven't I?

[ericcoleman]

Bond movies are about more than tuxes and gorgeous women ...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

....there are the explosions too.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

And gadgets. Don't forget the gadgets.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Blast, how could I have forgotten the gadgets?

(I wonder how Henry James would've written a JB novel? Or James Joyce? or P G Wodehouse?)