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May 16, 2013, 02:05 PM | #76 |
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There are only two true Bonds. The ones played by Moore and Connery. All others are just a knock off.
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May 16, 2013, 02:25 PM | #77 |
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New pistol for Bond?
I'm still carrying a PPK (manufactured in 1933) and have had trouble trying to retire it. Just can't find anything as good looking and performance-perfect. I guess the best looking gun right now is the Kimber Solo. That would be my choice for Bond.
So why didn't I replace my old PPK with the Solo? Because when I went to my LGS to buy one I was told they sent them back to Kimber on recall and they wouldn't be getting any more, so I bought a PPS. Ugly. Very ugly. Good shooter tho.
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May 16, 2013, 04:19 PM | #78 |
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I think George Lazenby, an Aussie, is/was pro gun. Someone made reference in an earlier thread that he used his down time target shooting while filming in Switzerland on the Bond film.
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May 17, 2013, 07:41 AM | #79 |
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I'd love to see dirty Harry knock that prissy little English twit James Bond up side the head with the butt of his revolver.
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May 17, 2013, 07:59 AM | #80 |
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And drive off in his smokey ass diesel afterwards! Relax coldbeer, it's all fantasy.
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May 17, 2013, 08:23 AM | #81 |
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Korth 9mm.
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May 17, 2013, 09:55 AM | #82 |
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It's a tool box...
Bond should have a primary sidearm... one that he carries most often. If that's the PPK/s, so be it. That said, if my primary carry is a PPK/s in .380 and I know I'm going into battle, my .380 will take on a backup role to something more substantive and with a higher capacity. A carbine/or combat shotgun would also make it into the mix.
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May 17, 2013, 10:40 AM | #83 |
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The whole deal with going back to the PPK in Skyfall is that the movie was supposed to be a 50th anniversary of the start of the franchise. Thus the whole retro feel, with the Aston Martin, the office at the end, and of course Moneypenny.
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May 17, 2013, 04:21 PM | #84 |
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I agree with those saying the PPK was the perfect pistol for Bond in Skyfall. Nothing fancy or too "obvious." While there are certainly special effects, it is pretty much a gadget-free movie. This, along with the plot and Craig's acting give the movie a very gritty feel for a Bond movie. I think it may be the best.
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May 17, 2013, 09:52 PM | #85 |
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Why not the PPK? Skyfall was kind of a re-boot of the Bond franchise with the introduction of a new "M", the move back to the old location for MI6 HQ, the introduction of "Q" and Moneypenny so a new story for Bond's Walther PPK.
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Do you perhaps mean the introduction of a new Q and Moneypenny? Both were there in the early Connery movies, and Bond's flirtation with Moneypenny was in most (if not all) the original books. |
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May 22, 2013, 03:20 PM | #88 |
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After reading Casino Royale, British gun writer Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote to Ian Fleming, saying, among other things, that he didn't think much of Bond's gun and making a number of suggestions for changes, principally that Bond should have a .357 revolver. Some of Boothroyd's suggestions were incorporated into Dr No, and the armourer character was named 'Major Boothroyd'.
Boothroyd wrote an article about it all in 1985. His S&W .38/200 was borrowed by Fleming for the painting on the cover of From Russia With Love. The trompe-l'œil artist Richard Chopping said the gun had been the "very devil to paint" but he managed it well and did several other covers. It was recreated here in a photo shoot. |
May 22, 2013, 04:11 PM | #89 |
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Moore played the part like he was told to by the director and producers. I didn't like him nearly as much as Connery, who in my mind is the only true Bond, until Clive Owen gets the part.
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That might just work Pilot, although I have nothing against Dan Craig.
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May 23, 2013, 05:07 PM | #91 |
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I had hoped once that Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan) would have been chosen. He could pull off the suave Bond & the action Bond.
If they ever do another Bond parody like the first CASINO ROYALE or the Moore films, I'd pick Hugh Laurie.....
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