Casino Royale was the only Craig one based on a Bond book and the only one that was in any way a Bond film. Skyfall was just a generic Hollywood action movie and I didn’t bother watching the third. The trailer for the new one looks like a Jason Bourne movie with a touch of The Night Manager thrown in.
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The Night Manager was sh1tous
The TV show was not bad
Went to see Yesterday.
It’s exactly what you’d expect. Lovely without reaching any great heights.
One moment left me oddly, deeply, almost embarrassingly moved.
You’ll know when you see it.
Edit: Also, Weirdy MsGhostbuster is very good in it.
Edit: edit: Not that these things really bear thinking about in this sort of movie, but…there’s a very specific alternate reality paradox that they’ve almost gone out of their way to create and don’t address at all.
It doesn’t affect the movie or the enjoyment of it at all, it’s just…a strange choice.
is there any bond books that havent been made into films yet? How many of the films are based on the books?
I think the locales and character names and basic themes are based on the existing books, but given that Fleming died many years ago, they’ve had to keep adding to what was written.
All of them? I think some of the later ones, eg Goldeneye, Skyfall and Spectre, are not based on any of Ian Fleming’s Bond stories; and some of the earlier ones only have bits of Fleming’s stories in them along with a lot of newly-created stuff.
Personally I think the Cubby Broccoli films had a bit of charm and were a lot of fun, but after he died the whole thing degenerated to the point where for a long time Bond has been just another Hollywood action hero.
He looked just like you’d think he would’ve too.
Agree though - was low key like the main character
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Stop it.
I’m at work.
Also, whack some spoiler tags on that.
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Just saw the new Spider-Man, went in with zero expectations and had no clue to what it was about. But I reckon it’s the best Marvel movie yet, so entertaining.
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Spider-Man Rocks!
These are the Ian Fleming books (published between 1957 and 1966):
Casino Royale
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds Are Forever
From Russia With Love
Dr No
Goldfinger
For Your Eyes Only
Thunderball
The Spy Who Loved Me
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
The Man With The Golden Gun
Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Other writers continued to write “Bond” books after Flemings death in 1964.
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There are other short stories he had published in magazines.
Probably Playboy.
Pretty sure Quantum was one, and I think others have been developed.
That’s why I added the wiki link…I couldn’t be bothered typing anymore 
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Oh.
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Ian Fleming HATED to write. He had to literally force himself to do it. He’d go to a town he had zero interest in, lock himself in a hotel that was too uncomfortable to enjoy, then stay in the room until he’d finished a complete book.
Damn! Far from home is fantastic.
I left the theatre with the biggest smile on my face. It was such a good time. I love the teen movie theme, in the Marvel universe… so so good.
Homecoming is great. This movie is better.
Define “based”. Diamonds are forever is a book, but there ain’t many similarities between the book and the movie after the first 15 minutes of the movie.
Finally went and saw Avengers End Game.
Why do I do it? I know there isn’t going to be much in there for me. Why do I do it?
Anyway, I think I’ve worked out where these superhero movies lost me: It’s when they disappeared off planet earth/ramped up the Godly powers etc.
So I liked the initial Iron Man stuff, in the desert, power from his engineered heart etc.
I liked Ant Man, with a suit that shrinks/grows, simply trying to just break into buildings etc.
Then…for example, I hated Thor and his parallel world or whatever Asgard is…and gradually, those kinds of characters from mystical magical worlds slowly met with and infected the landscape and destroyed (for me) any sense of immersion that comes from a story on planet earth with at least some semblance of real physics.
So, in summary, may I find superhero-like strength and resist any urge to go to their next conveyer belt production.
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