Meath_Villan Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Is Daniel Craig a better Jimmy bond than Brosnan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 6 hours ago, Meath_Villan said: Is Daniel Craig a better Jimmy bond than Brosnan He's a much better actor, but I don't enjoy any of Craig's Bond films as much as Goldeneye, and perhaps Tomorrow Never Dies. Probably both done one great one, one utter shit one and two in the middle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 16, 2017 Author VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2017 9 hours ago, Meath_Villan said: Is Daniel Craig a better Jimmy bond than Brosnan Yes, definitely. Bond, though, IS Sean Connery. Craig is a LONG way behind, in second. All others can be dumped into a deep ocean for all I care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Brosnan's GoldenEye is the best Bond film ever. Fact. No returns. Your Mom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 16, 2017 Author VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) 25 minutes ago, AVFC_Hitz said: Brosnan's GoldenEye is the best Bond film ever. Fact. No returns. Your Mom. Never seen it, never will. Blind predjudice, I'll be the first to admit it. I've seen all the Connerys, several times. When Roger Moore took over, I was incensed - he wasn't Bond, he was the **** ing SAINT! I abandoned Bond movies completely at that point. When they started doing 'new' (i.e. non Ian Fleming) titles, it only increased my scorn. The publicity for the Craig Casino Royale persuaded me that it might be a return to classic early 60s style Bond, so I watched. It was... acceptable, but no more. I have seen one other Craig Bond, don't remember the title, the one that ends up with a big shootout in a Scottish mansion. It was shite. Back to the Connery DVDs. Edited September 16, 2017 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 11 hours ago, Meath_Villan said: Is Daniel Craig a better Jimmy bond than Brosnan Yes, IMO Goldeneye aside, Brosnan's films were pretty poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 I don't know how you go about measuring it. Is it the quality of the films (over which the lead actor doesn't really have that much control)? Is it how the performance measures up against some image of Bond in your head? From the books? Brosnan will probably always 'be' Bond for me, simply because those were the films I saw first, so that's what Bond 'looked like'. I don't think he's a better actor than Daniel Craig, although I don't think there's all that much in it really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 16, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2017 Yep, same as @HanoiVillan for me. When I think of Bond, I think of Brosnan because he was Bond when I was growing up. But I do think Craig is better. Casino Royale is one of the best Bonds ever, although it's gone very downhill since then. Brosnan's later Bond films were dreadful. Die Another Day is laughably bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Official national or international days ho makes them official? And who decides its national finish work at 4pm day? Or cat day? Or Jammie Dodger day? seems to be becoming more and more popular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 16, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2017 Just now, villa4europe said: Official national or international days ho makes them official? And who decides its national finish work at 4pm day? Or cat day? Or Jammie Dodger day? seems to be becoming more and more popular I don't think anyone makes them official, hence why there's so many. It's just marketing. Run an ad campaign that says the 4th October is national pretzel day. Voila. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: I don't think anyone makes them official, hence why there's so many. It's just marketing. Run an ad campaign that says the 4th October is national pretzel day. Voila. Shall we club together and sue all these organisations for claiming or inferring something is an official day when it is not? Probably say it's ruined our lives in some way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Could certainly do with having a "national let villa win" day occasionally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 11 hours ago, lapal_fan said: Could certainly do with having a "national let villa win" day occasionally I don't know, even us winning seems to infuriate a few people on here. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 17, 2017 Author VT Supporter Share Posted September 17, 2017 22 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Brosnan will probably always 'be' Bond for me, simply because those were the films I saw first, so that's what Bond 'looked like'. Precisely. This is why I'm a Connery man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 How do some people know so much about everything? Now I don't mean knowing little facts or snippets, I mean those people who seem to know every facet and detail about everything that ever happened. From 1970's Belgium politicians to the life cycles of deep sea molluscs to the ins and outs of the dawn of the Bolivian space programme to where modern patisserie techniques will evolve to by 2020? Just stop it! What makes it more perplexing/annoying is that normally the know it all type people are in their thirties or younger. Its impressive in a way but nauseating and boring in another. Do they live reading wikipedia? Google attached to their brains? I'm not saying don't educate yourself or be aware of what has happened/is happening or could happen in future in the world but sometimes, now and again, just please stfu because you sound like a nause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 31 minutes ago, Ingram85 said: How do some people know so much about everything? Now I don't mean knowing little facts or snippets, I mean those people who seem to know every facet and detail about everything that ever happened. From 1970's Belgium politicians to the life cycles of deep sea molluscs to the ins and outs of the dawn of the Bolivian space programme to where modern patisserie techniques will evolve to by 2020? Just stop it! What makes it more perplexing/annoying is that normally the know it all type people are in their thirties or younger. Its impressive in a way but nauseating and boring in another. Do they live reading wikipedia? Google attached to their brains? I'm not saying don't educate yourself or be aware of what has happened/is happening or could happen in future in the world but sometimes, now and again, just please stfu because you sound like a nause. I don't know exactly what you mean, but if you're like me (definitely not saying I know a lot!) - but if you're interested in something, then you go and research it. So you love a movie, I go and check it's IMDB out, read as much as I can about it, it's cast, what they've done, bits of trivia etc. At the minute for me, it's Ertl Thomas the Tank Engine toys, because my son plays with my own toys - so I got a list of the missing ones and have started buying them, finding out when they were made, when they stopped being made, and then I found myself looking for EVERYTHING to do with Thomas the **** Tank Engine I know a little about a lot, but scratch my surface and I don't know anything It's just interest I guess. You know a lot about WWE or video games compared to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 (edited) 23 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: I don't know exactly what you mean, but if you're like me (definitely not saying I know a lot!) - but if you're interested in something, then you go and research it. So you love a movie, I go and check it's IMDB out, read as much as I can about it, it's cast, what they've done, bits of trivia etc. At the minute for me, it's Ertl Thomas the Tank Engine toys, because my son plays with my own toys - so I got a list of the missing ones and have started buying them, finding out when they were made, when they stopped being made, and then I found myself looking for EVERYTHING to do with Thomas the **** Tank Engine I know a little about a lot, but scratch my surface and I don't know anything It's just interest I guess. You know a lot about WWE or video games compared to me. Kind of but not quite. Whatever I'm into at the time, I know a bit about and retain some information on things I've learned about in the past. I think that's normal, everyone does that. I'm talking about people who know everything about everything and always chime in with an almost authoritarian tone. You know the types I mean. I guess this could go in the TTPYOTS thread. Edited September 19, 2017 by Ingram85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, Ingram85 said: How do some people know so much about everything? Now I don't mean knowing little facts or snippets, I mean those people who seem to know every facet and detail about everything that ever happened. From 1970's Belgium politicians to the life cycles of deep sea molluscs to the ins and outs of the dawn of the Bolivian space programme to where modern patisserie techniques will evolve to by 2020? Just stop it! What makes it more perplexing/annoying is that normally the know it all type people are in their thirties or younger. Its impressive in a way but nauseating and boring in another. Do they live reading wikipedia? Google attached to their brains? I'm not saying don't educate yourself or be aware of what has happened/is happening or could happen in future in the world but sometimes, now and again, just please stfu because you sound like a nause. I went on a quiz night recently and did ok... my teammates all kept saying how well I did. The questions were wide ranging but I just knew a fair few of the answers. How? I don't know! I must just absorb snippets of otherwise useless information and trivia. I'm not saying I'm clever but its a knack i guess. @Shropshire Lad posted about pub sign history recently... I read up a bit on it and its now in my brain and it'll stay there for a long time. When they became legal, what King was in charge at the time etc. I don't need to go back and check - its just stuck in there now for a future pub quiz. I try not to chime in at work as a know it all Edited September 19, 2017 by Xela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Just to be clear. I don't mean individual people knowing stuff about individual specialised things like Lapal and Thomas the Tank Engine or Xela's Pub signage . I mean one single person knowing it all in fine detail about what seems to be literally everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Well, I was going to tell you how it's done, but I won't bother now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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