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r11co

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  1. Bond 22

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    I liked pierce brosnan better.

    It is more english type you know and he wears brioni.

    Hmmm. Strange logic - you say an Irishman wearing an Italian suit is more 'english type' than an Englishman wearing an English suit? :huh:

    Pierce was OK, but he was chosen for the role when Roger Moore was the present incumbent, and the Moore era was as far removed from Fleming's character as Bond ever went.

    Bond has now returned to his roots, and Brosnan would have been irrelevant to that.

    Daniel Craig was and is the right man for the job.

  2. Bond 22

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    Definitely something 'strange' going on with Agent Fields there. IMO the casting of Miss Arterton was a throwback to the bad-old-days of putting flavour-of-the-moment eye candy British actresses in Bond movies.

    Spoiler : highlight to read..

    But thank goodness her character gets killed off.

    PS. The suit is an Alfred Dunhill.

  5. 22mm Rubber PO Strap

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    This does not look absolutely fine:

    a. That is your opinion.

    b. That opinion is formed by looking at a pretty average photograph of one example.

    My opinion is based on handling several of these straps in person. Oh, and it doesn't matter to you how many other people agree with me......

    Who is right in this discussion?!

    Go figure.

    But, by all means wait for Trusty's. He's been promising arrival of 'his' version since he released a really bad copy of the CR special edition PO. Hope you can handle disappointment well.

    (FUD).

  7. 22mm Rubber PO Strap

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    I know the strap from Silix fits, and it might be 1:1 but in the photos I've seen it looks cheap.

    Well, I and several hundred other members here have the Silix one, and believe me it looks absolutely fine. It was modelled from a genuine strap so it is as good as it is going to get for a rep (if you can excuse the intentional '1 letter out' part code which is hidden behind the strap retainer anyway).

    I used to have two of Trusty's 20mm Seamaster rubber straps and they were crap by comparison, so I can't see how he intends to improve on the Silix item going by previous efforts.

  8. 22mm Rubber PO Strap

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    Why does it matter exactly? What's with the sycophantic chasing of the irrelevant products of a particular dealer?

    They've been beaten to the turn by another dealer (Silix) who has been marketing a 1:1 22mm PO strap for almost a year now. Yeah - stop the presses for this one..

    What's the headline?! Prolific cartel dealers 1 year late to the plate..... Maybe the reason for the no-show is that they've realised there's no bloody point.

    Oh, and haven't you heard?! PO on rubber is so 2006....

  10. Omega Smp 007 "old School"

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    You are joking, aren't you :lol:

    There are certain 'Holy Grail' watches that have never been repped, and then there are the 'Holy Grail' of top-notch reps that came and went. This is one of the latter category.

    Plenty has been written about this watch in this forum. A quick search of 'closed factory 007' will reveal all.....

  16. Tequila drinkers...

    in The looney bin

    Posted

    i really hate tequila...it's the only alcoholic drink that makes me vomit just by smelling it... :yuk: ...I can drink practicly anything...but tequila no way...

    Tequila is the only alcoholic drink that tastes exactly the same coming back up as it did going down!! Absolutely not my taste. Give me a decent brandy any day.

    I do have two bottles in the house though..... which I use for cooking!

  17. Jean Michel Jarre

    in The looney bin

    Posted

    The quality of output from Oxygene (1976) to Waiting for Cousteau (1990) was awesome.

    Chronologie was more than half-decent and definitely captured the contemporary 'techno' style of the day, but might not have appealed to die-hard fans.

    I agree his later stuff was poo, but it might have had something to do with the fact he'd fallen out with Polydor/Disques Dreyfus and was just seeing out the remainder of his contract with them.

    Indeed, he had an entry in the 1987 Guinness Book of Records for the biggest concert ever (Rendez-Vous Houston).

    Topped in 1990 with his 'Paris La Defense' concert to mark the 200th anniversary of French Independence (I watched the concert from the Palais de Congres on my 21st birthday :))

    Topped again in 1997 in Moscow.

  19. Bond 22

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    I enjoyed the comments in this Guardian Blog (the article itself is crap) where they're trying to write a theme tune to rhyme with a Quantum of Solace...

    :lol:

    Brilliant (especially the one about the polis).

    Funny how folks have exceptionally short memories though....

  20. Bond 22

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    Even "Bond 22" would have been a better title...

    Sounds too much like Bond 77 - the title given to the soundtrack piece written by Marvin Hamlisch for the skiing scene in The Spy Who Loved Me, which he said he chose because he couldn't come up with anything better :huh:

  21. Bond 22

    in The Omega Area

    Posted

    There's a precedent for the title of a Bond film to be changed prior to release to compensate for a dumbass unreceptive audience. Licence To Kill was originally titled Licence Revoked in the teaser posters, but early in production it was established that over 50% of North Americans didn't know what 'revoked' meant, so it was changed...

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