Battle of the Bonds

Do you know who Ian Flemming's role model for James Bond was? The man lived with Flemming for a time and is the father of a friend of mine.......that slant would make a very interesting story...........kadeasonjohnson@gmail.com

As a die-hard James Bond fan and Ian Flemmng afficionado, I agree with your assessment but was a tad irked by your "facts." On the preceeding page outlining babes, vehicles, villians, etc, there were a number of discrepancies I'd like to point out. First, under babes, while May Day may have been marketed as a Bond girl for A View To A Kill, it was actually Stacey Sutton (Tonya Roberts) who filled that roll. And I would also point out that it wasn't Electra King who took the B-girl role but Chrstmas Jones (Denise Richards). As for the villians noted, are these your researcher's favorites or are they just underpaid interns who didn't want to put much effort into their job? But then again, I guess it depends on your desired interpretation of villian versus henchmen. If we are using the villian title as James Bond's main antagonist, Odd Job from Goldfinger was clearly not it, but Auric Goldfinger. In Diamonds Are Forever, James did fight it up with Mr Wint and Mr. Kidd but it was actually Ernst Stavo Blofeld who he was truely after. I also content that Franciso Scaramanga was the main villian in The Man With The Golden Gun and Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me. The ones that puzzled me the most are the "KGB spies" noted as the villians in For Your Eyes Only and The Living Daylights. It would have been nice if your researchers (Marc and Sarah) could have at least watched the movies before making this bogus claim as Aristotle Kristatos is the main villian in For Your Eyes Only and General Georgi Koskov in The Living Daylights (I guess you could also make the argument that Brad Whitaker was also a main villian in The Living Daylights but was ultimately tied to the General).

I admit that I may be taking this a little bit too seriously but if you are not versused in the ways of Bond, you have no business writing "objective" articles about the films or the future direction of the series. I will add however that Quantum of Solace is a great film and Daniel Craig is fianlly bringing the Bond character back to his former luster before it was defiled by Roger Moore's pathetic, pansy portrail that we will all unfortunately have to live with until our dying day.

I really enjoyed this last Bond installment. I think of it as a "real" Bond. Is not that I enjoyed the other movies, but I went to watch all Bond movies knowingly that I would find the never-ending-and-frankly-exhausted cold war scenarios and the unbelievable gadgetry that characterized all Bond movies, and I found this last one more entertaining and finally with new up-to-date and realistic villains, less fantastic gadgets and more action-packed.
Not very happy with the choice of Bond actor though, but I guess is okay with all the physical action he???s now performing??? Can???t imagine Brosnan or Dalton (or any of the Bonds for that matter), running, jumping and sweating like Craig, but he???s definitely not as handsome as any of the other ones.
I liked this one a lot and is a great entertaining movie!

Nice piece. I am a big fan of James Bond soundtracks, be it 'From Russia with Love', or 'Goldfinger'. I saw my first Bond movie when I was five years old, with my grandfather at a movie hall. The movie was 'Goldfinger'. I loved the movie.

Interesting juxtaposition of Moore/Dalton with Brosnan/Craig. I agree that when Bond becomes too camp, the creative teams behind his films tend to overcorrect and steer the franchise into "grim 'n' gritty" territory. The problem is that the franchise then becomes *too* grim 'n' gritty. After all, where's the fun? I think the same criticism was leveled at Bale's Batman in "The Dark Knight." Yes, good show, nice acting, but in Part 2, the audience is going to expect the main to stretch his wings a bit and show us something other than what we saw in Part 1. I think audiences ultimately rejected Dalton because he was too monochrome, too lifeless. If Craig doesn't get to show some joie de vivre in the next installment, I see Craig's tenure as Bond to be about as long as Dalton's.

I???m not sure if you???ve heard this yet, but I just wanted to let you all know that the entire James Bond movie collection is available in HD for the first time ever now through November 30 (http://blogs.usatoday.com/entertainment/) through Comcast On Demand. There are lots of cool extras including two documentaries and some good stuff from the new movie Quantum of Solace. You can also check out this clip on YouTube which features clips from all 21 Bond films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnDlWBAOIQ0

I???m not sure if you???ve heard this yet, but I just wanted to let you all know that the entire James Bond movie collection is available in HD for the first time ever now through November 30 (http://blogs.usatoday.com/entertainment/) through Comcast On Demand. You can check out every Bond actor and figure out which one you think is the best. There are lots of cool extras including two documentaries and some good stuff from the new movie Quantum of Solace. You can also check out this clip on YouTube which features clips from all 21 Bond films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnDlWBAOIQ0

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