For Your Eyes Only -- the only Bond movie in which 007 did not get a special gadget.

Other than Dr. No, I guess.

Really? Is that true?

I think you're sort of wrong. He had the tricked-out Lotus Esprit from the previous film (Spy Who Loved Me), which blew up before really being used.

Good trivia question, though. He wasn't "given" that "gadget" by Q, at least not during the course of the film.

I never realized that before, and I've seen that one a thousand times.

He was in King Arthur. He is forgiven. Aactually I would forgive him for just about anything ... even if he turns out to be a liberal.

Ace, thank you for finally covering some really important news.

Now, do you think you could maybe get Clive to model one of those dusty girl tees?

Well, there's the last nail in THAT franchise coffin for me.

Sorry, Ace, I love manly men provided their faces don't look like day-old vomit. Clive Owen makes day-old vomit look good.

I just do not understand what women see in features that appear to be mercilessly flailed with a bag of pennies.

The contents of my toilet after my husband's morning hangover dump is more sensual than Clive Owen will ever be.

I could go on. Really, I could.

Later,
bbeck

Good call. Think he'll bring a little of Connery's dirt-under-the-fingernails and sweatiness back to the role.

They need to get away from the bigger and bigger explosion, gadgetry stuff though. Bond invented the action thriller, but they need to bring it back a notch, more to the Jason Bourne level, where bond isn't always killing someone with a cocktail in hand, bon mot on lips cheese whiz.

Don't know what Clive Owen looks like.

But like For Your Eyes Only. Carole Bouquet was a Bond girl with a brain AND a crossbow!

The BMW films with him were pretty good.
But aside from Ewan McGregor and Jackman, who else could they get for Bond?

I think he needs his balls shaved, and my appointment calendar has an opening, next, um, anytime.

Think he'll bring a little of Connery's dirt-under-the-fingernails and sweatiness back to the role.

Gosh I hope so. Pierce Brosnan was such a pansy. More like one of the heart-throbs from Teen Beat Magazine than a real maaaaaahhhhn like Sean Connery!

(sorry Pierce honey)

Yeah, Pierce was a little too pretty.

Lipstick, here...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654110/

As you can see from the still photo on the first page, his skin appears to be covered with cancerous cysts when he's not airbrushed or well-lit (and they often show even when he IS). I don't know about you but that ain't sexy to ME.

Later,
bbeck

as long as they get rid of the metrosexual Bond of the brosnon era and the over-reliance on flashy special effects and gadgets, i'll start watching again

i'm hoping for at least 1 out of 2

Pierce Brosnan was such a pansy. More like one of the heart-throbs from Teen Beat Magazine than a real maaaaaahhhhn like Sean Connery!

So damn true. Connery was the only one where the Tux wasn't wearing him.

Everybody here hates Pierce Brosnan? The guy is my role model. And GoldenEye and The World is Not Enough were the first two decent Bond films in a long, long time.

Die Another Day, of course, absolutely reeked. Sean Connery couldn't have redeemed that one.

Iblis, the Bond producers should have gotten off their tails and found an unknown like Connery, who is arguably the best Bond ever. But that would have been too much work, I guess.

All the other Bonds (except Lazenby) were fairly established and couldn't come close to making the role theirs in the way Connery did. And now the producers are making the same mistake AGAIN.

At least the people making the next Superman film knew to LOOK for someone right for the role and take a chance on an unknown after no "movie star" fit the bill. Nice to know some producer somewhere in Hollywood still has a pair.

Later,
bbeck

Thanks bbeck!

Wow, in that first photo it looks like his head is going to explode!

I clicked on a couple of other ones that looked better, but I still don't have an informed opinion.

Just keep clear of his head when it looks like it's about to blow, I guess. Thanks.

NP, Lipstick. Sorry if I sound so pi$$y about this choice but I am a big Bond fan (despite that last several attempts at the franchise) and I was really hoping they would cast someone un-stomach-turning.

I didn't like the rumors about choosing Gerard Butler either...

http://imdb.com/name/nm0124930/

...but HE would have been about a zillion times better than Vomit Face.

Later,
bbeck

Omigod, omigod, omigod. Oh. My. God. Clive Owen as James Bond? LOVE it! Seriously, it just rawwwwwks, you know? After Timothy Dalton, I was like, no way can another Bond actor top this. Ever, ever, ever. No way. Well, WAY! Clive Owen is sooo amazing - nobody does it better. ;)

ACE!

You gotta get the scoop on this:
Pope gets the tube. Forced Starvation next?

This story is just aching for the Ace treatment...

Dang.

Screwed up the URL. There goes my Pulitzer.

Is the pope catholic, and does he sh!t in the woods?

no comment. my fingers must be cursed. perhaps it is forbidden to refer to the Pope in less than hushed tones?

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4327439/detail.html

Yeah, bbeck, that Butler dude is a little pretty too.

Not in a good way.

Thanks.

Nordicgirl,

I am so INTO YOU that I wanna help you out.

If your post had just mentioned how HOT you thought Clive Owen was, and how he makes you want to engage in group sex with Betsy while bouncing quarters off the firm yet supple butt of a 14 year old Taiwanese hooker, you would have just about had a perfect come on.

If you agree with what I'm saying, just look at me and say "YES". Or you leave me your number, and I'll call the machine later....

George,

Not sure if your trivia info is correct, because I think Carole Bouquet gave Bond her, um, "special gadget".....

Clive Owen was my pick.
But... i liked Brosnan too and would like to have seen him continue in the role
the only Bond i was not thrilled w/ was Dalton

Dalton = worst of all worlds. Brosnan was at least as good as Moore (not very).

Connery was the archetype, and I haven't seen this Owen chap in anything, so I'll reserve judgment. But it's good that the new Bond isn't such a fey looking mannequin (from the pics on the link at least).

Heh. Just noticed Ace used "stiff girlieman." Heh.

Ace - just re-read and .... what's up with the threat to ban girls?? I notice Downtown Lad is allowed to throw out "balls shaved" with abandon, but we girrrrrrrrrrrls cain't swoon a little?*

*that would refer to those of us not concerned with exploding faces.

awww... girls can praise him if they like. I just didn't want this to turn into an eighth-grade "Ohmygodhe'ssocute!" squeal-fest.

I'm trying to run a respectable, mature site here.

Script? He needs a script?

"...concerned with exploding faces..."

Exploding...faces?

Or exploding...IN faces?

Mwahahaha!

"I just didn't want this to turn into an eighth-grade "Ohmygodhe'ssocute!" squeal-fest."

Um, I think I'm doin' my part here, Ace.

But I'm not sure how mature it was for me to call Owen "Vomit Face."

Later,
bbeck

Yeah but you're just doing it from the opposite POV--

"OhmyGod!He'ssonotcute!Yakkers!"

Chicks... they're so dumb.

Actually, Owen reminds me too much of the charisma black hole that was George Lazenby, both in looks and screen presence (or lack of same.) The only good Bond was Connery.

not bad but Russell Crowe would've made a great Bond best ever - as good as Connery IMO

ooooh yeah Russell Crowe, good thinking voted4harper ... yum yum yum.

(excuse me while I go have my eighth grade squealfest ....)

Clive Owen is sexy.

Bbeck wouldn't know sexy if it cast an enchantment spell on her.

Chicks may be dumb, but you aint no einstein ace.

keep it up, Chickpea. I'm in a bannin' kind of mood, and you're flyin' right into the proverbial Danger Zone so eloquently described by Kenny Loggins.

I had so much fun banning Downtown Lad I think I might just start banning people randomly.

As they say-- every once in a while you have to hang a few admirals to encourage the others.

could someone show me where the Lad got banninated?

I read somewhere, several years ago, that Roger Moore had suggested Cuba Gooding, Jr. for the role.

At first, I was taken aback...he wasn't the first person to come to mind. Then, after a few minutes, I could totally see it.

I think he would be fantastic.

Not sure if your trivia info is correct, because I think Carole Bouquet gave Bond her, um, "special gadget"

"For your eyes only, dahhhhling."

http://www.bondmovies.com/sounds/sounds/fyeo/eyes.mp3

Oh, I know sexy, Chickpea.

Maybe someone just cast a Repulsion spell on Owen and you made your save.

Later,
bbeck

"Chicks... they're so dumb."

Yeah, right, Ace, like lusting all over Kim Richards takes brains.

Later,
bbeck

George,

Computer can't do sound right now, but no matter:

"For your eyes only, dahhhhling."

THAT'S the ticket!

(sigh) Just being a girl. Thanks.

That last comment to George was from me. Sorry for the no name.

"Now, look: I know all the ladies love Clive Owen. "

This one doesn't even know who the fuck he is. Then again, I haven't seen a movie since the presidency of William Howard Taft.

you have 5 female commenters?

And what was wrong with James Caviezel - the guy can play Jesus he's a natural to play Bond!

No, there are more than five women here. But this is a bit of a sausage hang.

James Caviezel as Bond? That's... silly. 'Sides, Bond is always a UK (or former UK) actor.

"I'm trying to run a respectable, mature site here."
Haha...right. Well i have to say that no matter how Clive Owen looks the man can act pretty damn well. He's especially good at danger-right-below-the-surface vibe which will suit Bond well.

I know I've seen movies that Clive Owen is in, but I can't for the life of me remember what he looks like. I'm not sure whether that says more about his good looks or my weird taste. If I had to pick a hot actor to crush on, I'd pick Joaquin Phoenix, but he'd make a lousy Bond.

I know I've seen movies that Clive Owen is in, but I can't for the life of me remember what he looks like.

He was the glasses-wearing assassin Jason Bourne kills in the field near the end of Bourne Identity.

It pretty much was a screen-test to play Bond. I think he passed.

Connery, certainly, was the best ever..Dalton, the worst.

Clive Owen will likely make a pretty good Bond, but as of this moment, I'm not swooning. Perhaps, the role will transform my opinion of him.

And Crowe...eeeww!

I.do.not.get.it. He always looks so, so...greasy.

And Crowe...eeeww! I.do.not.get.it. He always looks so, so...greasy.

At least he doesn't look perfumed and powdered like Pierce does ... Personally, I don't want a Bond who smells better than I do!

Ace,

You implied that you banned Downtown Lad, yet he commented earlier in this thread...sarcasm on your part? If so, I apologize for missing it.

Agree with bbeck...Owen brings absolutely nothing to the role.

Of all the 'potential Bond' names being bandied about, I still prefer Jackman. Still, there was only one 'real Bond,' Sean Connery.

I suppose nobody here ever heard of Jason Statham?

James Bond left with Sean Connery and has never returned.