tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post3510870902677767052..comments2024-03-29T00:20:03.012+13:00Comments on The Tearoom of Despair: BondBob Temukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-25272514969306894522011-04-25T15:10:07.011+12:002011-04-25T15:10:07.011+12:00I can totally understand why people have a problem...I can totally understand why people have a problem with Bond, Colin. The whole series is ideologically dubious, but I overlook its faults when it offers up sheer, nasty thrills.<br /><br />So I don't mind when smart people like Moorcock point out the flaws, just like I don't mind it when people say they can't stand Frank Miller's comics. I like Frank the Tank's work so much I can live with the huge and glaring flaws, and it's usually the same with Bond.<br /><br />But I AM a complete snob when people moan about Grant Morrison's comics being too hard to follow. Grow a fucking brain, man.<br /><br />And A View To A Kill was the one Bond that came out when I was going through that teenage addiction, so I obviously think it's AWESOME, even though Moore looked more like my Grandad than ever before.Bob Temukahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-87448445569400364392011-04-25T09:27:26.163+12:002011-04-25T09:27:26.163+12:00I think too your first Bond MOVIE might be your fa...I think too your first Bond MOVIE might be your favorite even if it isn't the best. The first one I remember seeing was A View To A Kill back in theatres, and while I recognize now it's hardly Bond at his peak, the combination of Grace Jones, bleached Christopher Walken and a still viable if aged looking Roger Moore make it work for me. And gosh darn it as far as pop Bond tunes go that Duran Duran one soars...<br /><br />Now let's hope they stop dicking around and make that next Craig one before he gets too old for it!Nikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817525516356141103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-85124635177977835772011-04-24T10:01:15.976+12:002011-04-24T10:01:15.976+12:00I do love seeing characters through other folk'...I do love seeing characters through other folk's eyes. Sometimes it transforms my opinions entirely, and it always modifies my opinion. I enjoyed seeing Bond through your perspective, and I feel more fond of him just for doing so.<br /><br />I've always struggled with Bond myself, though the Connery and Craig takes are undeniably charismatic. To me he feels like profoundly damaged goods, which is of course part of the appeal, but was it Moorcock who said that the problem with Bond was that he had no values, that he'd kill for anyone who happened to be in power? And it's true, I think. I worry that I could imagine without any effort at all his carrying out hits for a Junta wrapped in the Union Jack.<br /><br />Of course, I'm not saying that that makes the character indecent. It makes him interesting, of course. It's just that I worry so about my own moral compass slipping that I have to be careful about who and who I don't end up adoring where my fiction is concerned. In fact, most of my fictional heroes are absolute losers, and I find their doubt easier to associate with.<br /><br />I have no style, I fear, and I don't trust the romance of the indomitable hero. But I did enjoy reading about how JB looks through your eyes :)Colin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15246781681702128600noreply@blogger.com