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Post by deuce on May 11, 2017 11:54:52 GMT -5
Robert McGinnis painting.  |
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Post by emerald on May 11, 2017 15:33:16 GMT -5
Robert McGinnis painting. Wow, that is spectacular. I wish it was dated. Given the almost unbelievable consistency of the artist's style, this could have been painted at any point in the past 45 years, any time from the mid-sixties up until last week. The slap-you-upside-your-head sexuality of the woman seems too intense for the image to be contemporaneous with the 1965 film. Hats off to the artist. 91 years old and still painting paperback covers that can stop you in your tracks. |
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Post by andys on May 12, 2017 11:39:19 GMT -5
I just got done watching Spectre (thank you Amazon Prime)...can I say I liked it better than Skyfall?
I thought Skyfall was a massive bore. Great cinematography but everything else about the movie felt drab. Skyfall certainly isn't great, but it did entertain me in stretches and I appreciated that it was sort of trying to resurrect the classic Bond movie vibe. |
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Post by deuce on May 15, 2017 22:37:21 GMT -5
Wow, that is spectacular. I wish it was dated. Given the almost unbelievable consistency of the artist's style, this could have been painted at any point in the past 45 years, any time from the mid-sixties up until last week. The slap-you-upside-your-head sexuality of the woman seems too intense for the image to be contemporaneous with the 1965 film. Hats off to the artist. 91 years old and still painting paperback covers that can stop you in your tracks. Although it's in keeping with his other Bond work of the 60s, I suspect that Domino's barely there cozzie might not have passed muster back then as part of the film's official promotional material. Great painting but. McGinnis painted it as a private commission in 2001. What an amazing artist. |
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Post by johnnypt on May 16, 2017 7:15:51 GMT -5
Got this for my Christmas one year, maybe 72 or 73 - a double-album's worth of music from the first six films. John Barry's music was a big part of the early films' success.   ......  I thought it might have been a good idea to revive the "007" theme, first used in From Russia With Love and hasn't been used since Moonraker, for either Skyfall or Spectre. I believe only John Barry ever used it since he created it, but it certainly gives you that Bond feeling:
I need to see if I can edit together a "full" version with the music from the end of Thunderball when the boat's swerving out of control tacked on.
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Post by deuce on May 23, 2017 9:04:59 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 24, 2017 9:10:15 GMT -5
Roger Moore actually played Bond onscreen once in 1964:
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Post by deuce on May 25, 2017 11:54:04 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 30, 2017 9:38:13 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 7, 2017 16:25:23 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Jun 22, 2017 11:28:20 GMT -5
I've heard the code name theory before, I think it's just a fun way to reconcile the very different personalities the screen "James Bond" has had. Tying into this theory is that John Mason in the Rock is actually one of these previous "Bonds", playing off of the fact of who plays Mason.
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Post by andys on Jun 23, 2017 11:56:23 GMT -5
The problem with the code name theory is that it ignores Tracy and Felix Leiter. Each Bond up through Pierce Brosnan mourned Tracy, even if it was just a very brief scene, and Felix (who was also played by multiple actors) also remarked on it occasionally.
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Post by almuric on Jun 23, 2017 20:45:27 GMT -5
The other theory being that Bond is an exiled Time Lord. It would explain the longevity, the gadgets and the hot female companions . . .
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Post by deuce on Jul 19, 2017 12:19:58 GMT -5
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Post by paulmc on Jul 19, 2017 12:28:04 GMT -5
I have the 1st and 3rd issue of that. Still waiting to stumble on the 2nd sometime. |
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