Dave HomewoodI have to agree with you, the bond films have been turned in to something like the shoot em up games you
get for your PC, thats probably why the younger people
like them so much. 😀
As opposed to the soft porn, psuedo comedy romps full of catchphrases and cliche’s of the earlier versions, with the campest baddies in spy film history. Many of the car chases were farcical. Many of the henchmen were straight from comic book creations. The elaborate underground lairs that no-one knows about despite the obviously hundred of people working there and immense earthmoving had to have taken place to build them. The gadgets that are only there to titilate the viewer and serve little purpose to the plot. Hmm.
I still love the old films but Daniel Craig’s Bond is hard nosed, energetic, tough, quick thinking. Everything a secret agent should be. He doesn’t ponce about in safari suits delivering one liners to impress the Bond girls. He doesn’t drink his martini shaken, nor stirred. He just gets on with the job, and does it well.
Dave HomewoodI have to agree with you, the bond films have been turned in to something like the shoot em up games you
get for your PC, thats probably why the younger people
like them so much. 😀
As opposed to the soft porn, psuedo comedy romps full of catchphrases and cliche’s of the earlier versions, with the campest baddies in spy film history. Many of the car chases were farcical. Many of the henchmen were straight from comic book creations. The elaborate underground lairs that no-one knows about despite the obviously hundred of people working there and immense earthmoving had to have taken place to build them. The gadgets that are only there to titilate the viewer and serve little purpose to the plot. Hmm.
I still love the old films but Daniel Craig’s Bond is hard nosed, energetic, tough, quick thinking. Everything a secret agent should be. He doesn’t ponce about in safari suits delivering one liners to impress the Bond girls. He doesn’t drink his martini shaken, nor stirred. He just gets on with the job, and does it well.
Dave HomewoodBond is not, nor ever has been an “American ” film.
Made with American money, yes, distributed by Hollywood studios, but hardly a American film.
They’ve rarely been filmed in the US, and usually have UK directors, but the director of Casino Raylae was a Kiwi.
The main stars are British, and lately, a very international supporting cast with rarely an American in sight.
I was referring to the owners of the film rights and the film franchise, producers Albert R. “Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, who were the two men very instrumental in moulding the books into the films we know and love, and influencing the whole culture of the James Bond myth. Your post forced me to look them up, and I concede that I found Saltzman was in fact a Canadian, which I did not know. But Cubby was certainly from the USA, from New York. I was aware that their company Eon Productions was UK based, and there have been three James Bond films made by New Zealand directors so far (one of whom we’d rather forget and we’re glad he’s gone to live in hollywood).
Dave HomewoodBond is not, nor ever has been an “American ” film.
Made with American money, yes, distributed by Hollywood studios, but hardly a American film.
They’ve rarely been filmed in the US, and usually have UK directors, but the director of Casino Raylae was a Kiwi.
The main stars are British, and lately, a very international supporting cast with rarely an American in sight.
I was referring to the owners of the film rights and the film franchise, producers Albert R. “Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, who were the two men very instrumental in moulding the books into the films we know and love, and influencing the whole culture of the James Bond myth. Your post forced me to look them up, and I concede that I found Saltzman was in fact a Canadian, which I did not know. But Cubby was certainly from the USA, from New York. I was aware that their company Eon Productions was UK based, and there have been three James Bond films made by New Zealand directors so far (one of whom we’d rather forget and we’re glad he’s gone to live in hollywood).
Dave HomewoodDave HomewoodMany people don’t know that Sean Connery was not the first actor to play Bond on screen, that goes to Barry Nelson – the forgotten Bond, who played him in the original version of Casino Royale in 1954. See
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/
I have that on tape. It is interesting. One of the best screen baddy actors, Peter Lorre, plays the baddy!
I ahve seen all the films (except the 1967 spoof Casino Royale) and read most of the books, and I think all the movies have entertainment merit and are certainly products of their time, but Daniel Craig is the first actor to play Bond as I imagined he should be from the books. He in my opinion is the best portrayer of the written character, and all the fluff that was added later by the US filmmakers has been dropped out. Even Miss Moneypenny and Q are gone from Casino Royale, but oddly they are not really missed.
In saying that Daniel Craig is closer to the books than all the others, I’ll add that Quantum of Solace is the first James Bond film in the series not to be based on a book by Fleming. So I guess they can now take him in any direction they want and it is very interesting thatthey made it a direct sequeal, picking the story up. I’m looking forward to seeing the new film.
Dave HomewoodMany people don’t know that Sean Connery was not the first actor to play Bond on screen, that goes to Barry Nelson – the forgotten Bond, who played him in the original version of Casino Royale in 1954. See
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/
I have that on tape. It is interesting. One of the best screen baddy actors, Peter Lorre, plays the baddy!
I ahve seen all the films (except the 1967 spoof Casino Royale) and read most of the books, and I think all the movies have entertainment merit and are certainly products of their time, but Daniel Craig is the first actor to play Bond as I imagined he should be from the books. He in my opinion is the best portrayer of the written character, and all the fluff that was added later by the US filmmakers has been dropped out. Even Miss Moneypenny and Q are gone from Casino Royale, but oddly they are not really missed.
In saying that Daniel Craig is closer to the books than all the others, I’ll add that Quantum of Solace is the first James Bond film in the series not to be based on a book by Fleming. So I guess they can now take him in any direction they want and it is very interesting thatthey made it a direct sequeal, picking the story up. I’m looking forward to seeing the new film.
Dave HomewoodHere is another thread with more great photos
http://rnzaf.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=airshow&action=display&thread=7887
Dave HomewoodYes they have the original Hispano engines and were built to exacting detail for accuracy. And blimey, seeing one last year was nice, but I cannot wait to see the three together. And hearing them for that matter, the one I saw at Omaka sounded amazing.
Dave HomewoodThere are more photos here
http://rnzaf.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=walkarounds&action=display&thread=7882
I’m amazed no-one has made any comments!
Dave HomewoodThanks TEEJ, so they were RAF captured machines They took more than photos as the site says, they actually filmed them both on the ground and taking off.
Funnilly enough I have just been watching Clark Gable’s excellent documentary “Combat America” which also shows two of that unit’s aircraft and is mentioned on the link above.
Dave Homewoodausternj673,
If I may, I asked the very same question a long time ago on the forum and got some very informative answers then, just as you’re getting now. You might like to have a look at that old thread, I learned a lot form it.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35340&highlight=night+bomber+formation
I might add that it seems a few posts have been removed from it. Having re-read right through now I’m wishing I hadn’t brought it up again.
Dave HomewoodArm Waver, that documentary about the Spitfire is called ‘The Perfect Lady’, the title coming from a quote from RNZAF pilot Johnnie Houlton about his Spitfire I believe.
Dave HomewoodFor me I would like to see that early The World About Us documentary on the CAF filmed in 1980/81.
Do you mean “Colonel Culpeppers Flying Circus”? Great programme!
That documentary series on aviation broadcast in 1988.
Would that be ‘Reaching For The Skies” narrated by Anthony Quayle? That is a super series too. When it screened here in NZ in 1989 there was an additional episode made to fit into the series though locally made here that covered New Zealand aviation.
Dave HomewoodThat is a fantastic photo of the Venturas and Mitchells together Paul. I would assume the squadron is No. 1 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron RNZAF flying No. 10 Servicing Unit Venturas from Guadalcanal from October 1943 as they flew several missions in formation with Mitchells as their lead squadron when they arrived there before they were fully broken in as a combat weary squadron and flew missions by themselves in their own right. I may be wrong though, if you had a date I could narrow it down more.
James, now you’ve made me scratch my head. I think the issue of Flightpath I referred to was Volume 19 No. 4 with the three shark mouth’s on the front. there’s photo of a Mosquito in there supposedly marked U-NA and somehow I had worked out and equated that this was A52-506 as shown below but now I can’t recall how I came to that conclusion. It was a few months ago mate. And I could be wrong. the photo is in the middle of pages 26 and 27.
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