Comments on: Planck Meets Fleming

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:39:31 +0000

pedant - No, no, no! Roger Moore’s Bond degenerated the whole thing into a farce, or Carry-On movie. I love Carry-On movies as much as the next person, but I want a Bond Film to be a proper spy thriller. For the longest while the best Bond films (i.e. in the Bond tradition with the Bond feel) were made in America and were not Bond at all - a good example is the set of Bourne films, started marvellously by Doug Lyman (and finished marvellously by Paul Greengrass… the last one arguably equally British and American). Even True Lies knocked the socks off pretty much every modern Bond film. Bond films became a laughing stock. I’d even prefer to see an Austin Powers movie over almost any of the Pierce Brosnan ones.

Except for the brief interlude provided by the two long-forgotten-but-really-good-considering Timothy Dalton movies, the films were pretty dreadful bits of camp nonsense for the longest while, from Moore onwards. This new “relaunch” of the series is just fantastic, recalling the very early Connery ones, which were really splendid.

Of course, you’re welcome to disagree!! (And all the Roger Moore-Bond fans out there.) Don’t get me wrong…. I still end up fondly watching Bond movie marathons on some channel in a hotel somewhere on a trip. Guilty pleasure mixed with nostalgia…

Cheers,

-cvj

By: Supernova

Supernova — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:50:13 +0000

This title reminds me of the Patrick O’Brian book The Nutmeg of Consolation (part of the series that starts with Master and Commander). I haven’t read it yet, though, so I can’t say whether solace is sufficiently similar to consolation as to warrant use of the same basic nutmeg unit.

By: pedant

pedant — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:46:07 +0000

Yvette

How did these boffins mangle such simple words? Nucular (like Dubu’ar) or unclear (c.f. Murray Gell Mann’s ’squalid state’)? Atomic like Blondie? Whatever, Roger Moore was the man. Not that any of it is real, of course.

By: Yvette

Yvette — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:02:53 +0000

Can’t beat the suggestions here. I will say, though, that I always wanted to be a Bond girl primarily because it annoyed me when the nuclear engineer couldn’t pronounce “nuclear” and “atomic” correctly. If I were running around the world with an international spy I’d nonetheless say the words right, dagnabbit!

By: efp

efp — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:09:46 +0000

The ‘up’ emoticon?

By: Elliot

Elliot — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:16:13 +0000

How about a Cheneyon?

He doesn’t seem to have much compassion at all.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:30:46 +0000

Ah!

-cvj

By: onymous

onymous — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:28:26 +0000

Yes, I don’t think I would have thought of it without the example of the enhançon.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:14:29 +0000

You know, I really wish I’d thought of that. It’s so good.

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:11:48 +0000

Oh my…! Brilliant. And that’s funny for a whole host of reasons (to do with a paper I wrote with Peet and Polchinski in 1999). Are you cleverly making reference to that, by any chance?

Cheers,

-cvj

By: onymous

onymous — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:08:16 +0000

Solaçon.