Please stop saying they should do an old man Bond film. It would be shit. It would be a Bond film with an old man. We’ve had a few of them, and they’re all bad.
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The worst thing about Bond now is that one of the real world bond villains owns the franchise and supporting those new films, even if they are somehow made well, will be supporting fascist oligarchy.
Respectfully, JR, I’d watch the shit out of this lad being collected from his retirement villa in the Caribbean for one last mission (and they owe him a decent one)
But would be the point? When you can just watch normal Bond doing things? Indiana Jones 5 proved that no one gives a shit about old people doing young people tings
I'm still pinning all my hopes on Clint Eastwood doing a gentle story about a retired gent who does nothing but fish by his lake all day and you only find out his name when the credits roll listing "Harry Callaghan".
one of my friend’s dads once lamented about skyfall (which I personally adore) “the thing about james bond is that he’s never supposed to get old and decrepit, that particular escapist fantasy is its key to success with middle aged men” and i think about that every time i watch it
“he’s always a fully grown man — not 18 or 20, but always in his 30s — so you don’t have to feel bad about not being youthful anymore, but he’s also immortal, which is important”
Roger Moore is my Bond, but he was 58 when A View to a Kill was released. I personally enjoy that movie for what it is, but Roger Moore was way too old.
Connery wasn't even that old in Never Say Never Again, which is a movie I cannot stand. That movie is like a Bizzaro version of the Eon movies.
They should do that as a reeeaaalllly looooong TV series where nothing happens until the very last few seconds of the 1st series where Bond is reposting a Facebook post about small boat crossings in the channel when he notices the name of the originating account: Blofeld093827…
Wasn’t that one of the early ideas for Skyfall that the Sean Connery would be a previous bond who became caretaker of the house at the end? (Or did I just eat a heroic amount of cheese before bed one night and dream it?)
He should be all old and living somewhere nice, then they should call him back for one last mission, he can meet the person who's taken over as 007, then he can die at the end. For a change.
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The Man with the Golden Girls.
Connery wasn't even that old in Never Say Never Again, which is a movie I cannot stand. That movie is like a Bizzaro version of the Eon movies.
Also the pension would simply be too good for him to keep working.
FINALLY a Bond movie for me!
"Quite frankly, yes. I've just got to wait."
Oh, that’s right. Not real Beach Boys tunes.
"No, Mr Bond; I expect you to get up and go to the toilet twenty-seven times during the night."