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Poll Question: James Bond or Jason Bourne?
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    Posted: May 09 2009 at 21:43
Originally posted by Keppa4v Keppa4v wrote:

^I've read a few of them (at least From Russia with Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die, Moonraker and You Only Live Twice) and I think ...Her Majesty's... was very much like the film and From Russia... also quite a lot. The other were indeed very different. A lot of things in the early Bond films look dated today and it doesn't bother me one bit, but the underwater scenes in Thunderball are just boring. Still, it's just the least great film of them, not bad at all Wink
 
Aww come on! They aren't that boring, but they could be much shorter...

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 Bond for me , Sean Connery ones 60s' nostalgia
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Finally managed to catch the latest 007 film, what a terrible let down. It feels like nothing really happened. There was a guy who wanted to control Bolivia's water supply and then he died. That's it, pretty much. Hopefully the next film will continue the story, maybe they make some sense out of the Quantum thing.
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I must be the only one on earth who doesn't care for James Bond.

The Bourne movies are more interesting, although far from exceptional, imo.
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^I've read a few of them (at least From Russia with Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die, Moonraker and You Only Live Twice) and I think ...Her Majesty's... was very much like the film and From Russia... also quite a lot. The other were indeed very different. A lot of things in the early Bond films look dated today and it doesn't bother me one bit, but the underwater scenes in Thunderball are just boring. Still, it's just the least great film of them, not bad at all Wink
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Originally posted by Keppa4v Keppa4v wrote:

Originally posted by mr.cub mr.cub wrote:

Hmm...interesting. I actually found the newest Bond to be essentially a horrible Bourne film. The Bourne movies are very good, the first one being exceptional. However, they come nowhere near this lineup: Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball (actually Bond movies never came close after these)

I think Thunderball is probably the least good Bond with Connery (not counting the unofficial Never Say Never Again). I watched it for the fifteenth time a week ago, and the movie is very good otherwise, but the underwater scenes are like all instrumental sections from Train of Thought combined. I believe I've expressed my opinion about them many times, so no need to specify Tongue
If you`ve read the original Bond novels by Ian Fleming you`ll see that the film version is the only Bond film that follows the book almost to a tee. It made more money than the previous three Bond films put together when it was released in `65. I thought the underwater scenes were cool when I was 12 years old but today of course they are a little dated considering what is possible with all these crazy special effects.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

well this is a prog site...


Bond - cultured Englishman

Bourne - barbarian American..


Bond all the way hahha..
 
Yeah, how about this scenario (very close with Connery who had a real nasty streak= Russia with Love)
 
Bond- barbarian Englishman
 
Bourne- cultured American 
 
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Originally posted by mr.cub mr.cub wrote:

Hmm...interesting. I actually found the newest Bond to be essentially a horrible Bourne film. The Bourne movies are very good, the first one being exceptional. However, they come nowhere near this lineup: Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball (actually Bond movies never came close after these)

I think Thunderball is probably the least good Bond with Connery (not counting the unofficial Never Say Never Again). I watched it for the fifteenth time a week ago, and the movie is very good otherwise, but the underwater scenes are like all instrumental sections from Train of Thought combined. I believe I've expressed my opinion about them many times, so no need to specify Tongue
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Bond, because he almost turned into an archetype in the western collective subconscious.
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Which one do I enjoy more? Bond.

Which one would royally kick the other's ass in a fight? Tough, but since I have yet to see Bond kill a guy with a pen/towel/soon to be a blade of grass or piece of paper, Bourne it is. LOL

But Bond at this point has the longevity, so I'm going with him.
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loved Casino Royale but also thoroughly enjoyed the first two Bourne films, Identity a bit more

I vote Bourne







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Hmm...interesting. I actually found the newest Bond to be essentially a horrible Bourne film. The Bourne movies are very good, the first one being exceptional. However, they come nowhere near this lineup: Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball (actually Bond movies never came close after these)

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^My brother and I love it, surely one of the very people on earth who see it. We find it to be a great mix of Mission Impossible's fiction with a bit of humour. Also the fact of having a case per chapter, plus the story itself is pretty cool, one of the things I like so much about Dr. House too.
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Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

This is my choice:


Or maybe this one:



Leslie Nielson.... YES!

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All, excpet a few, Bond movies are just crap. And Bourne just bores me to tears... so I´m going with Bond, just because of Casino Royale.
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Which Bond/Bourne?

Both characters were quite different in the books from the movies.  Personally, I enjoy both a lot.  Although I've only read Bourne in book form, and not Bond.  Bourne in book is amazing and better than the movies, but I enjoyed the action and such.  I'll go with Bourne I guess.
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Bourne introduced a new aspect to the rock-paper-scissors game.

He beat a guy who had a knife with a towel.

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I found Bourne's films to be extremely boring and repetitive (sorry to the fans here). Although I feel the same way about bond. I loved Casino Royale though, so that gets my vote...
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Bond - cultured Englishman

Bourne - barbarian American..


Bond all the way hahha..
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Bond, although Casino Royale was so horrible that I've no interest in seeing the new one. The last few with Brosnan very pretty bad too, but at least they felt like Bond movies.

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