Or how about the car just makes its appearance and there's absolutely no explanation where it came from or how he got it? It's just a given it's there. Simple and uncomplicated.
You maybe dead right. However, I think we've been thrown a bit of a curveball with the article from Car Collectors World talking about a DB5 with machine guns and the like. Plus, how does the new "Q" fit into this film? Especially with the premise of MI6 being under attack, in disaray, and with what appears to be the "00" section nearly wiped out...except for one man, Bond, James Bond (I couldn't help myself, with a new film on the horizon it still gives me chills -{ ).
I see everyone's point (men... put them away now) but tbf did anyone complain about the DB5 in GE? I suppose we didn't have the internet back then. And Craig is a better fit than Brozzer for the DB5 in terms of looks. If Craig's Bond could own a vinyl turntable, why not the Aston. Added to which, modern cars just don't have the same flavour anymore, or is that just me? I mean really, who could care less if the latest Aston appeared in a Bond film, there wouldn't be the love.
Love the idea of the DB5 being back.....but is it possible that the old car is back because EON could not get Aston Martin to pony up some new cars as a sponsor?
In many ways Skyfall, is begining to remind me off the Rover 75.
For a supposed "Reboot" nothing to do with those old campy Bond film of the past and Keeping all that realism.
I do find it odd that they're putting back into their new product many of the elements of the Old. Which Brings me
to the Rover 75.
A nice car, handled well nice to look at. BUT very Nostalgic, harking back to the great days of British Motoring.
The styling was very 60's/retro, So while other companys Pressed on doing what they'd always done e.g. BMW.
Mercedes etc making good cars with modern styling, Car companys looking forward not Back, These companys
pressed on and are now as successful as ever while poor old Rover is No More.
So bringing back a 60's car whick if you drop all the Love Bond fans have for it,
Isn't very fast ( compared to even a top end family saloon car ) Handles like a classic ( Not very Good )
And if it's anything like the classic cars I've had to deal with, It will break down all the time, you'll have to wait
for days for spare parts. Not the sort of car a Field agent would stake his life on. Then again D Craig's Bond
is a rookie so might not of figured this out yet.
So as far as realism goes, It basically doesn't. Why they didn't give him a Modern Car, I'll guess they couldn't
get a "Product placement deal ". Although they still should of gotten something from this century, This is as Silly
as The Tarzan Yell or M Thatcher in her kitchen.
In many ways I feel Skyfall is going to be a" Brosnan" Bond film. Many old touches stuffed in, like the DB5.
Only Craig has so many fans here he won't get the Bashing poor old Brosnan would.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
In many ways I feel Skyfall is going to be a" Brosnan" Bond film. Many old touches stuffed in, like the DB5.
Only Craig has so many fans here he won't get the Bashing poor old Brosnan would.
I feel the complete opposite to be honest! I can't see Mendes going down the Brosnan route with Skyfall in any shape or form, its not at all his or DCs style!! I just hope he chucks some humor in (even if its dark humor)
I cant see the DB5 being used in any light hearted sort of way,
I think SKYFALL is going to please and surprise Many fans with
a hard edged and gritty spy story, with the DB5 making a
welcome return....... I wouldn't take what is written in Car Mags
and the like as any sort of proof, writers who write about Bond
who are not overly keen fans, will see a DB5 showing up in a
Bond film and just asume its got all the gadgets built in, due to
their memories of the car from the early Bonds and it having the
same number plate, maybe jumping to conclusions.... who knows
I genuinely cant see their being a great explanation for the DB5
in the film... it will be Bonds personal car, like it has been said, it
dosent need alot of explanation in all honesty its Bond and Bonds
car is a DB5 ...... I cant see where Q is going to come into this film
I also cant see the film makers repeating anything from The
Legenday Desmond, like a shot for shot copy or take on Q scenes
from his early Q Roles...... hopefully not
my only main regret with the DB5 in Goldfinger was that not all
Gadgets were used on screen when they should have been, would
be cool to see Daniel Craigs Bond being parted from his PPK and he
goes under drivers seat to the weapons tray ( maybe an updated
version ) with P99 silenced PPK silenced, a few other gadgets and
devices in their too.
Why Didn't Bond just ram! the Goldfinger Mercs.... chasing him in
that Pinewood alley way !!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the Revolving Plates could be used to effect in this one, but
it was kinda done in a comical fashion by Roger Moore AS Roger
Moore AS James Bond AS Goldfarb in THE CANONBALL RUN ) )
Are you really using that line in reference to a James Bond film?
It's all about the suspension of reality to a degree, my friend! If you want realism, then you'd have to start thinking about the cars an SIS operative would afford on £33k a year. Rover 75, perhaps?
Do you know, all this controversy about the Aston Martin DB5 in Skyfall is peanuts. So what if it's not exactly the same as the one from CR. Before the reboot, we went through 40-odd years of 5 different Bond actors - continuity? Who cares? As Moonraker 5 says - its about suspension of reality. Just enjoy the film.
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Hey, don't go knocking the ROVER 75, It makes a fine Minicab )
I must of gotten it wrong, I seem to remember that the reboot was to Be more Realistic.
It seems like reality has caught up with James Bond. One of the most famous people in the world for the last ten years was a fabulously wealthy meglomaniac who controlled a worldwide network of assassins, terrorists, smugglers, and thieves from his secret underground lair deep in the heart of the Afghanistan mountains. The bad guy even gotten taken by a special operations strike just like the conclusion of an old-fashioned Bond film (hopefully Bond wouldn't have taken ten years to do it). The president orders drone strikes from ten thousand miles away to eliminate various People We Don't Like, and the average person can buy a GPS tracker (a pipedream in "Goldfinger") to stick on somebody's car. Short of sending Bond to Uranus, I'm not sure what you could do to make an "unrealistic" Bond film now.
One of the most famous people in the world for the last ten years was a fabulously wealthy meglomaniac who controlled a worldwide network of assassins, terrorists, smugglers, and thieves from his secret underground lair deep in the heart of the Afghanistan mountains.
So that's where Rupert Murdochs Been. )
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Rumors that the film features Mi6 under attack? And the return of the DB5... with gadgets?
Leads me to consider an entertaining idea. Mi6 being under siege, Bond is without support or weapons. He pays a visit to a long-forgotten safehouse/bunker that has been largely neglected by Headquarters. There, he meets a near-senile elderly gentleman named Boothroyd, who was a major in the Service and has been forgotten in some corner of England for decades, awaiting reactivation in the event of a Soviet attack that never came.
Excited at finally seeing some action after decades of boredom, he excitedly supplies Bond an antique Walther PPK with a Berns-Martin Triple Draw Holster, and leads Bond to the barn in the old farmhouse he's been tending for 40+ years to outfit him with the vehicle that's been waiting in reserve, religiously maintained for decades: a 1964 Aston Martin DB5. He begins briefing 007 on the various gadgets installed on the car. Bond raises surprised eyebrows at the outlandish rigging; oil slicks, flamethrowers, grenade dispensers, etc. "This thing has a flame-thrower!?" Boothroyd apologetically explains that while it all sounds silly, it was a different time, back during the Cold War. Soviet assassins were using cyanide-dispensing umbrellas, you know!
Later, when being hotly pursued by ruthless villains in a Ford Mondeo that easily outpaces and outmaneuvers a 50-year-old relic, Bond puts each gadget to the test - and each fails hilariously due to the antiquity of the gadgets. The oil in the oil slick has gelled into a giant Jello-esque blob that plops onto the highway and rolls off to one side. The grenades are duds and bounce harmlessly into the grass on the side of the road. The smokescreen machine just fills the cabin up with smoke and makes him cough. The flamethrowers end up setting the paintwork on fire somehow.
Finally, out of options, Bond pulls the handbrake and whips the car around. He floors the accelerator pedal, aiming his bonnet directly at the front grille of the opposition. His face is a grim mask of determination as the yards turn to feet, then inches, and then...
...he soars fifty feet into the air, reaching an apex, and then, with a fluttering sound, his parachute opens, and he floats defiantly over the twisted wreckage of a Ford Mondeo, Aston Martin DB5, and two dead henchmen.
The ejector seat still worked.
As he gently descended to the ground, the last words he heard from Boothroyd echoed in his mind:
Rumors that the film features Mi6 under attack? And the return of the DB5... with gadgets?
Leads me to consider an entertaining idea. Mi6 being under siege, Bond is without support or weapons. He pays a visit to a long-forgotten safehouse/bunker that has been largely neglected by Headquarters. There, he meets a near-senile elderly gentleman named Boothroyd, who was a major in the Service and has been forgotten in some corner of England for decades, awaiting reactivation in the event of a Soviet attack that never came.
Excited at finally seeing some action after decades of boredom, he excitedly supplies Bond an antique Walther PPK with a Berns-Martin Triple Draw Holster, and leads Bond to the barn in the old farmhouse he's been tending for 40+ years to outfit him with the vehicle that's been waiting in reserve, religiously maintained for decades: a 1964 Aston Martin DB5. He begins briefing 007 on the various gadgets installed on the car. Bond raises surprised eyebrows at the outlandish rigging; oil slicks, flamethrowers, grenade dispensers, etc. "This thing has a flame-thrower!?" Boothroyd apologetically explains that while it all sounds silly, it was a different time, back during the Cold War. Soviet assassins were using cyanide-dispensing umbrellas, you know!
Later, when being hotly pursued by ruthless villains in a Ford Mondeo that easily outpaces and outmaneuvers a 50-year-old relic, Bond puts each gadget to the test - and each fails hilariously due to the antiquity of the gadgets. The oil in the oil slick has gelled into a giant Jello-esque blob that plops onto the highway and rolls off to one side. The grenades are duds and bounce harmlessly into the grass on the side of the road. The smokescreen machine just fills the cabin up with smoke and makes him cough. The flamethrowers end up setting the paintwork on fire somehow.
Finally, out of options, Bond pulls the handbrake and whips the car around. He floors the accelerator pedal, aiming his bonnet directly at the front grille of the opposition. His face is a grim mask of determination as the yards turn to feet, then inches, and then...
...he soars fifty feet into the air, reaching an apex, and then, with a fluttering sound, his parachute opens, and he floats defiantly over the twisted wreckage of a Ford Mondeo, Aston Martin DB5, and two dead henchmen.
The ejector seat still worked.
As he gently descended to the ground, the last words he heard from Boothroyd echoed in his mind:
'I never joke about my work, 007.'
that would be so awesome if that happened.
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. "
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
The Land Rover Defender is to appear in Skyfall. It will be driven in a chase sequence involving Naomie Harris's character, Eve.
Skyfall co-producer, Andrew Noakes. "We are really going to test that car, do things to it it's not normally designed for. Some of the stuff is so hairy and dangerous, we have to use a stuntman in a pod on the roof to do the driving. We've had to crank up the suspension, and the Defender is going to work very, very hard".
A true icon, the Aston Martin DB5 is frequently acclaimed as the most beautiful car in the world. Appearing in six James Bond films including Bond's latest outing "Skyfall", released later this month, the DB5 has left an indelible mark on popular culture.
An interesting tale of two Aston Martin DB5's that were sold at the same auction in 2010. One, a silver 1964 DB5 fitted with all the gadgets. The cars provenance included a stint in Goldfinger and Thunderball, it was sold for £2.912 million pounds. The other, a British racing green 1965 DB5, which sold for £224,000.
Roger Stowers, former historian at Aston Martin's HQ, assembled an archive measuring 1.7 million cubic centimetres during 35 years with the company, telling stories of aluminium and leather craftsmanship, accounts, contracts and letters, some of which were exchanged with the Bond film franchise. They're going to feature in a new two year exhibition at the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust near Warwick, which has won a £71,000 grant to put them on public display for the first time, accompanying the existing showcase, the largest collection of British cars in the world.
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You maybe dead right. However, I think we've been thrown a bit of a curveball with the article from Car Collectors World talking about a DB5 with machine guns and the like. Plus, how does the new "Q" fit into this film? Especially with the premise of MI6 being under attack, in disaray, and with what appears to be the "00" section nearly wiped out...except for one man, Bond, James Bond (I couldn't help myself, with a new film on the horizon it still gives me chills -{
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For a supposed "Reboot" nothing to do with those old campy Bond film of the past and Keeping all that realism.
I do find it odd that they're putting back into their new product many of the elements of the Old. Which Brings me
to the Rover 75.
A nice car, handled well nice to look at. BUT very Nostalgic, harking back to the great days of British Motoring.
The styling was very 60's/retro, So while other companys Pressed on doing what they'd always done e.g. BMW.
Mercedes etc making good cars with modern styling, Car companys looking forward not Back, These companys
pressed on and are now as successful as ever while poor old Rover is No More.
So bringing back a 60's car whick if you drop all the Love Bond fans have for it,
Isn't very fast ( compared to even a top end family saloon car ) Handles like a classic ( Not very Good )
And if it's anything like the classic cars I've had to deal with, It will break down all the time, you'll have to wait
for days for spare parts. Not the sort of car a Field agent would stake his life on. Then again D Craig's Bond
is a rookie so might not of figured this out yet.
So as far as realism goes, It basically doesn't. Why they didn't give him a Modern Car, I'll guess they couldn't
get a "Product placement deal ". Although they still should of gotten something from this century, This is as Silly
as The Tarzan Yell or M Thatcher in her kitchen.
In many ways I feel Skyfall is going to be a" Brosnan" Bond film. Many old touches stuffed in, like the DB5.
Only Craig has so many fans here he won't get the Bashing poor old Brosnan would.
I feel the complete opposite to be honest! I can't see Mendes going down the Brosnan route with Skyfall in any shape or form, its not at all his or DCs style!! I just hope he chucks some humor in (even if its dark humor)
I think SKYFALL is going to please and surprise Many fans with
a hard edged and gritty spy story, with the DB5 making a
welcome return....... I wouldn't take what is written in Car Mags
and the like as any sort of proof, writers who write about Bond
who are not overly keen fans, will see a DB5 showing up in a
Bond film and just asume its got all the gadgets built in, due to
their memories of the car from the early Bonds and it having the
same number plate, maybe jumping to conclusions.... who knows
I genuinely cant see their being a great explanation for the DB5
in the film... it will be Bonds personal car, like it has been said, it
dosent need alot of explanation in all honesty its Bond and Bonds
car is a DB5 ...... I cant see where Q is going to come into this film
I also cant see the film makers repeating anything from The
Legenday Desmond, like a shot for shot copy or take on Q scenes
from his early Q Roles...... hopefully not
my only main regret with the DB5 in Goldfinger was that not all
Gadgets were used on screen when they should have been, would
be cool to see Daniel Craigs Bond being parted from his PPK and he
goes under drivers seat to the weapons tray ( maybe an updated
version ) with P99 silenced PPK silenced, a few other gadgets and
devices in their too.
Why Didn't Bond just ram! the Goldfinger Mercs.... chasing him in
that Pinewood alley way !!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the Revolving Plates could be used to effect in this one, but
it was kinda done in a comical fashion by Roger Moore AS Roger
Moore AS James Bond AS Goldfarb in THE CANONBALL RUN
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It's all about the suspension of reality to a degree, my friend! If you want realism, then you'd have to start thinking about the cars an SIS operative would afford on £33k a year. Rover 75, perhaps?
I must of gotten it wrong, I seem to remember that the reboot was to Be more Realistic.
That's right...more realistic....not real life...
........ Yes, this is my second Life. :007)
That, Sir Miles, presumes you believe DC-Bond is more realistic than his predecessors.
He is, though, I suppose. Well, more than one of 'em.
It seems like reality has caught up with James Bond. One of the most famous people in the world for the last ten years was a fabulously wealthy meglomaniac who controlled a worldwide network of assassins, terrorists, smugglers, and thieves from his secret underground lair deep in the heart of the Afghanistan mountains. The bad guy even gotten taken by a special operations strike just like the conclusion of an old-fashioned Bond film (hopefully Bond wouldn't have taken ten years to do it). The president orders drone strikes from ten thousand miles away to eliminate various People We Don't Like, and the average person can buy a GPS tracker (a pipedream in "Goldfinger") to stick on somebody's car. Short of sending Bond to Uranus, I'm not sure what you could do to make an "unrealistic" Bond film now.
So that's where Rupert Murdochs Been.
Leads me to consider an entertaining idea. Mi6 being under siege, Bond is without support or weapons. He pays a visit to a long-forgotten safehouse/bunker that has been largely neglected by Headquarters. There, he meets a near-senile elderly gentleman named Boothroyd, who was a major in the Service and has been forgotten in some corner of England for decades, awaiting reactivation in the event of a Soviet attack that never came.
Excited at finally seeing some action after decades of boredom, he excitedly supplies Bond an antique Walther PPK with a Berns-Martin Triple Draw Holster, and leads Bond to the barn in the old farmhouse he's been tending for 40+ years to outfit him with the vehicle that's been waiting in reserve, religiously maintained for decades: a 1964 Aston Martin DB5. He begins briefing 007 on the various gadgets installed on the car. Bond raises surprised eyebrows at the outlandish rigging; oil slicks, flamethrowers, grenade dispensers, etc. "This thing has a flame-thrower!?" Boothroyd apologetically explains that while it all sounds silly, it was a different time, back during the Cold War. Soviet assassins were using cyanide-dispensing umbrellas, you know!
Later, when being hotly pursued by ruthless villains in a Ford Mondeo that easily outpaces and outmaneuvers a 50-year-old relic, Bond puts each gadget to the test - and each fails hilariously due to the antiquity of the gadgets. The oil in the oil slick has gelled into a giant Jello-esque blob that plops onto the highway and rolls off to one side. The grenades are duds and bounce harmlessly into the grass on the side of the road. The smokescreen machine just fills the cabin up with smoke and makes him cough. The flamethrowers end up setting the paintwork on fire somehow.
Finally, out of options, Bond pulls the handbrake and whips the car around. He floors the accelerator pedal, aiming his bonnet directly at the front grille of the opposition. His face is a grim mask of determination as the yards turn to feet, then inches, and then...
...he soars fifty feet into the air, reaching an apex, and then, with a fluttering sound, his parachute opens, and he floats defiantly over the twisted wreckage of a Ford Mondeo, Aston Martin DB5, and two dead henchmen.
The ejector seat still worked.
As he gently descended to the ground, the last words he heard from Boothroyd echoed in his mind:
'I never joke about my work, 007.'
that would be so awesome if that happened.
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Skyfall co-producer, Andrew Noakes. "We are really going to test that car, do things to it it's not normally designed for. Some of the stuff is so hairy and dangerous, we have to use a stuntman in a pod on the roof to do the driving. We've had to crank up the suspension, and the Defender is going to work very, very hard".
The FULL article.
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Motoring-issues/Land-Rover-Defender-to-star-in-2012s-new-James-Bond-film-Skyfall/
A true icon, the Aston Martin DB5 is frequently acclaimed as the most beautiful car in the world. Appearing in six James Bond films including Bond's latest outing "Skyfall", released later this month, the DB5 has left an indelible mark on popular culture.
Aston Martin DB5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hcFS3vOvCQI
James Bond Skyfall crew turned to 3D printers for Aston Martin DB5 stunt double
http://www.slashgear.com/james-bond-skyfall-crew-turned-to-3d-printers-for-aston-martin-db5-stunt-double-12256594/
EDIT Here is a video of the Voxeljet VX4000 3D printer used to create the 1:3 scale replica models of the Aston Martin DB5.
voxeljet's VX4000 - industrial 3D printer for sand casting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15AmryIYu4k
A Tale of Two Aston Martin DB5s
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/a-tale-of-two-aston-martin-db5s/
DB5 Tours China
http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/event_aston_martin_china_2013.php3?t=&s=&id=03466
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Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Huge Aston Martin archive to reveal letters to James Bond in two-year exhibition
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/transport/road%20transport/art424157