James Bond

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Sam_The_Man

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Did anyone see that article in The Times today (10th June) about how in the next Bond film, Bond is going to rescue the Prime Minister from the bad IRA with the help of some nice IRA. Apaarently this would attract the Americans who are 'sympathetic' to the IRA. He'd also talk to Gerry Adams. This is an attempt to 'modernise' Bond.

Doesn't that sound 5hit? For starters, it's our fu¢king film, so I don't see why we need to attract Americans when a) James Bond is always good anyway and b) James Bond has always been British. They also said that the IRA would probably have got rid of their guns by the time the film came out. Yeah, and my name's Plenty O'Toole. And I don't see why anyone would want to rescue Tony from the IRA anyway.

Anyone else got opinions on this?

And did you see Tony at the Woman's Institute speech? Man, that was great :).

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I dunno bud, I'm not British nor Irish, but Bond kicks a$$!!!
I'm not so sure they are doing this to attract Americans since the film has always done extremely well here.
 

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The whole plot is full of holes:

Why would the Real IRA want to kidnap the PM? Surely they would just kill him.

Why would Bond be talking to Gerry Adams? Leave it to the politicians Jim-boy

The crap that has followed that U-Boat film has really annoyed me. I don't see why the institution that is Bond should be Americanised just to pull in extra bums into the cinemas.

I always thought that the Americans loved Bond as much as we do anyway.

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Oh yeah, the Bond films have always had a propaganda issue behing them, but using it as a political tool to speed up the Northern Ireland peace process is ludicrous (if that is what the jist of the article is about).

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/me aims a Flak Cannon in the direction of MoyDoy hoping he'll retract his last statement ;)

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Sounds like Bond is going down the pan... Surely they don't have to produce lame ideas like that just to keep the Bond saga going!

Come on guys you can do better than that!

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I dont like the sounds of that at all. But I suppose if it is not to come out untill IRA get rid of their weapons then I guess the film will never see the light of day! ;)

Fuc|&lt; that story! Bring back Spector and their mad schemes to take over the world! There are no Bond villians like Jaws and Odd Job anymore. :(

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I re-read the article, and I made a slight mistake... M shakes hands with Gerry Adams after a job well done, not Bond. but the idea still sucks.

And it isn't meant to speed up the p1ss... I mean peace process, because it should have already finished by then. Yeah, right.

What'll they Americanise next? Mr. Bean?

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I never really got into Bond, because they have all these hot chicks, but never show their boobs. They should update the film and allow topless actresses if they want more bums in the seats.

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