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#1 2006-11-19 17:27:26

Marc Grayson
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Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

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#2 2006-11-21 22:38:59

Horace
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

He didn't wear as many suits as I would've liked.  Not very formal, was he?

Also, alas, no smoking.  Bond must smoke. 

I liked it when Brosnan's character had that bottle of Smirnoff and drank to excess (almost).

Also the idea of this woman having Bond's DJ made up for him wasn't very good either.

I guess I'm such a purist, that I want the Bond films to be faithful to the books.

I think the opening lines of Casino Royale were some of Flemings best writing, though maybe others would think them purple prose.


""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.

 

#3 2006-11-22 12:15:06

richt
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#4 2006-11-22 12:26:02

Terry Lean
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

They turned me down without even an audition you know...


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#5 2006-11-22 17:32:56

richt
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#6 2006-11-22 18:57:20

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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

I dont like that in the adds he's walking about with his black tie, untied. Doesnt that go against the grain of sophistication? Shows you that even bond gets dragged down. Maybe he'll bust a rap next. Maybe theyll cast Jay Z as 008 for the next movie.

 

#7 2006-11-22 22:41:21

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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket


"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not."  Oscar Wilde

 

#8 2006-11-22 22:44:41

Horace
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket


""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.

 

#9 2006-11-23 13:01:50

richt
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#10 2006-11-23 14:44:58

Terry Lean
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

Ummmmmm...

The Foreign Ofiice is actually kinda...

Well...

It's sort of...

You know those friendly guys who...?

Well that's pretty much how it all works.

It's all to do with finding people who are loyal.

So with that in mind...

Sorry, what was my point here?

T.

(See what a good spy I'd make? Everything I write is in impenetrable code).


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You're going to rise up singing"

 

#11 2006-11-23 16:34:22

richt
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I do, as it were, understand, what you were, so to speak, saying...

 

#12 2006-11-23 17:55:55

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It's become such a senile, unwatchable franchise it's like "GQ the Movie". It only limps along because of product placement. But when the Bond movies are marketed to the same type of people who go ape over beer commercials where the guy prefers beer to girls (one of my beautiful cousins married one of those Devils fans) of course youre going to see untied black tie.

 

#13 2006-11-23 20:39:27

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#14 2006-11-23 22:19:35

Horace
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket


""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.

 

#15 2006-11-23 22:20:50

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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket


""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.

 

#16 2006-11-23 22:27:32

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""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.

 

#17 2006-11-24 01:11:48

Terry Lean
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"One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing"

 

#18 2006-11-24 09:25:21

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#19 2007-03-10 01:15:09

BCL
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

Finally, a Bond with a decent body!!!
Complain all you want, but for me, nothing was more cringe-worthy than watching SC or PB do a bathing suit scene. They were all flab, hairiness and no muscle tone(yet, their hair was somehow always perfectly coiffed....)-blech!!! Even Brosnan confessed that his wife begged him never to show his legs in the Bond films, lest he "down the entire franchise". 'Nuff said.
Bond was always a brute,  a scrawny brute, but a brutish assassin, nonetheless.
That said, I think Craig will be a great Bond. He looks fantastic in those suits(though the lapels, IMHO, look a little disproportionately narrow on his frame), but since they had a more muscular Bond, they (the producers) were smart enough to take advantage, hence the half-nakedness, and plenty of it. Besides, don't most bespoke suits, etc., try to mimic the athletic form? It's been my experience that suits-especially-look best on a muscular frame, and trying to fake it with padding will, I'm sure, always lead to disappointment-for the other person, that is. It's like when a 'hot' date removes her Wonderbra. Sad, ain't it?. "Fakin' it till you make it" won't cut it. Never will.
Time to put some muscle under that there chest canvas!!!!!
And.....LIFT!
Damn, you've pulled something already?!!!!
Wuss!!!

Last edited by BCL (2007-03-12 22:53:51)


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#20 2007-03-11 01:33:50

Terry Lean
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket


"One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing"

 

#21 2007-03-11 18:31:40

BCL
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

LOL!
Just a question, but are we perhaps confusing 'real' with 'average'? LOL
Thank God for body waxes!
Without them, one wouldn't be able to give a decent tongue bath without spending the next morning extracting hairs from one's teeth, and NO ONE wants that!!!
I'll let the imagery bounce around for a bit.....

Last edited by BCL (2007-03-12 22:54:37)


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#22 2007-03-12 06:53:14

Terry Lean
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

Well, really!


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You're going to rise up singing"

 

#23 2007-03-12 22:55:32

BCL
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket


Take care, gents.
God bless.
-BCL

 

#24 2007-03-13 02:26:08

Terry Lean
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First body-conscious Bond actor (by the standards of their time)?

Lazenby (sp?) was a male model, but I don't like him.
Moore used to model too, but I don't like him either.

... I've a feeling I'm being inane again...


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You're going to rise up singing"

 

#25 2007-03-13 15:43:56

BCL
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Re: Casino Royale Dinner Jacket

Last edited by BCL (2007-03-13 15:44:38)


Take care, gents.
God bless.
-BCL

 

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