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<p>Watched Jason Bourne on Saturday and it didn't disappoint.</p>
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<p>Just finished re-watching the first 3 again. They really hold up.</p>
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<p>Is there any benefit to re-watching the 4th one, Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner? Or do they just forget that one ever happened?</p> -
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<p>Pulp Fiction facts. It's all linked!!</p>
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<p>Michael Madsen would have been sensational as Vincent Vega. Curse you Wyatt Earp.</p> -
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<p>Just finished re-watching the first 3 again. They really hold up.</p>
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<p>Is there any benefit to re-watching the 4th one, Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner? Or do they just forget that one ever happened?</p>
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<p>What 4th one?</p>
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<p>No need as it doesn't even rate a mention. It's back to Bourne and what the series does best.</p> -
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<p>What 4th one?</p>
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<p>No need as it doesn't even rate a mention. It's back to Bourne and<strong> what the series does best.</strong></p>
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<p>What ? be a poor mans James Bond ? :fishing:</p> -
<p>Jason Bourne would smash all the Bonds together!</p>
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<p>Jason Bourne would smash all the Bonds together!</p>
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<p>Some of them...Pierce Brosnan maybe. Definitely not George Lazenby who whilst being a pretty boy with questionable acting chops was actually a legitimate tough fluffybunny in real life.</p> -
<p>I don't get the lack of love for Pierce Brosnan. I actually thought he was good and his "Bond" lifted the series from where Timothy Dalton had left if.</p>
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<p>Certainly the fans of the series didn't really take to Dalton's Bond although I also thought the Dalton Bond wasn't bad.</p>
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<p>I thought Brosnan did a pretty good job of reviving the series and especially his first Bond movie, was pretty damn good with Michelle Yeoh.</p>
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<p>I do admit that the last one was pretty lame especially surfing that tsunami.</p>
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<p>I thought Brosnan was ok, but most of the films he made were a little too much erring on the side of bullshit for me.</p>
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<p>I'm going to be pissed if Idris Elba is the next Bond.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MajorRage" data-cid="602379" data-time="1470114523"><p>I thought Brosnan was ok, but most of the films he made were a little too much erring on the side of bullshit for me.<br>
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I'm going to be pissed if Idris Elba is the next Bond.<br>
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For the reason that is the elephant in the room.</p></blockquote>Brosnan was very good, he was dictated to by the scripts which were a deliberate move away from the Timothy Dalton Bond era -
<p>All Bonds had their good and bad points, I like Connery,Moore, Lazenby and Craig equally followed by Dalton and then Brosnan.</p>
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<p>I get pissed off with the whole "let's have a black bond" or "let's have a chick as Bond"</p>
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<p>FUCK</p>
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<p>Is it a crime to not be fucken PC in this world and actually keep the character as he is written ?</p>
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<p>Shit, I had enough stress coping with a blond bloke playing him, thankfully Craig turned out to be awesome.</p> -
<p>they shoulda gone for Martin Freeman</p>
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<p>I'm going to be pissed if Idris Elba is the next Bond.<br>
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For the reason that is the elephant in the room.</p>
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<br><p>Agreed, if they're going to have a black Bond, they could at least have got the last King of Scotland...<br><img src="http://images.popmatters.com/film_art/l/last-king-of-scotland.jpg" alt="last-king-of-scotland.jpg"></p> -
<p>S'funny, if you look at all the Bonds, more often than not their first films are by far the best, definitely much grittier and darker and then the descent into over reliance on gadgets and outlandish action scenes. Casino Royale v Spectre is a case in point. CR was just a great film with little in the way of gadgetry and you just know Bond will be merciless. Spectre, all though a good enough film was basically a series of action sequences with a plot loosely tied around it. From memory there were two minor explosions in CR but Spectre...</p>
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<p>Same for Connery's bond. Compare Dr No with Diamonds are Forever or (God forbid) Never Say Never Again. Moore with Live and Let Die v pretty much any of the others. Goldeneye v that awful last one that Brosnan did.</p>
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<p>I had high hopes that the Craig franchise would not become over reliant on the trickery but... meh.</p> -
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<p>S'funny, if you look at all the Bonds, more often than not their first films are by far the best, definitely much grittier and darker and then the descent into over reliance on gadgets and outlandish action scenes. Casino Royale v Spectre is a case in point. CR was just a great film with little in the way of gadgetry and you just know Bond will be merciless. Spectre, all though a good enough film was basically a series of action sequences with a plot loosely tied around it. From memory there were two minor explosions in CR but Spectre...</p>
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<p>Same for Connery's bond. Compare Dr No with Diamonds are Forever or (God forbid) Never Say Never Again. Moore with Live and Let Die v pretty much any of the others. Goldeneye v that awful last one that Brosnan did.</p>
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<p>I had high hopes that the Craig franchise would not become over reliant on the trickery but... meh.</p>
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<p>The Craig ones have also reintroduced the scarred main villain and indestructible henchman as well.</p>
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<p>Diamonds are Forever was fucken crap ( for Bond, it's still okish ) and Connery looked fat and disinterested with a horrible tie....</p>
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<p>and who knows what the fuck they were thinking with the "henchmen".....</p>
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<p>Disagree about Moores gritty dark one though, that was definitely "For your eyes only".....after a frankly ridiculous journey into space and trying to kill Jaws for the umpteenth time that was a real return to basics even going so far as to having Q's car blow up early on ( so not a single "gadget" ) and having a really cool old school mountain climbing scene and a pretty "realistic" plot ( the bad guys just wanted a coding machine, not to destroy the world ) Kriegler was a cool Henchman too.</p>
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<p>It and "Live and Let Die" are my favourite Moore Bonds although this guy is far and away the best lead villain.....</p>
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Jason Bourne would smash all the Bonds together!</p></blockquote>
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I'd bet on Roger Moore against Maaaatt Damon any day of the week.
