Sentences with phrase «bond series»

It is essentially a group of maps, all based on iconic moments in the actual Bond series, that double as an arena for some multiplayer fighting.

The story itself feels like something you would see with the Jason Bourne or James Bond series with fighting sequences that resemble Kill Bill.

It apes the James Bond series with its gadgets, «The Prisoner» television show with its remote island locale and gallery of grotesques, and «The Avengers» with its tits - and - ass while demonstrating all the sleek cool of, say, The Love Bug.

A bit of trivia: Quantum of Solace follows the longest entry in the James Bond series as the shortest.

He wrote the phenomenally successful Young Bond series which has now sold over a million copies in the UK and has been translated into over 24 different languages.

Casino Royale — This latest reinvention of the James Bonds series is really quite good.

Non-marketable securities can't be transferred to another owner or traded in the secondary market (examples: U.S. Savings Bonds Series EE, I, and HH).

If true, Waltz will join actors Donald Pleasance, Telly Savalas and Charles Gray in portraying the character in the official Bond series, while Max von Sydow also played the villain in 1983's unofficial Never Say Never Again.

They consider 10 developed country equity indexes, 11 developed country government bond series, 25 agricultural / energy / metal futures series and nine U.S. dollar currency exchange rate series.

Cubby -LCB- Albert Broccoli, Barbara's father and original producer of the James Bond series -RCB- always used to say that it takes three movies to get the cocktail right.

DVD Extras The Special Edition includes an audio commentary, live Tina Turner performance of the theme song, a making of featurette, a made for TV feature on the entire Bond series, TV spots and trailers - pretty good but nothing out of the ordinary

On the whole, I've enjoyed Daniel Craig's tenure in this rebooted Bond series, even if I've turned my nose up at directors stubbornly trying to get away from formula (like the rifle barrel opening that was dropped from the very opening of the films until this new film).

With priceless help from ace second unit director / stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong (a veteran of the James Bond series no less), cinematographer Christopher Popp and film editor Anand Subaya, the action is expertly staged and paced and often simply breathtaking to behold, particularly one extended rock climbing sequence.

Some big - name options include the «The Hunger Games» by Suzanne Collins and the James Bond series by Ian Fleming.

Savings Bonds Series E and EE savings bonds are also state and local tax free, except that the interest on them may be deferred until maturity.

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Sean Connery's second instalment of the James Bond series sees him travel to Russia to battle secret terrorist organisation, Spectre.

Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of Quantum of Solace... Though the James Bond series is over 20 films long, it is very rare any of them contain continuity references to the previous films.

The Young Bond series to date: 1.

With Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, the Spy Kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape: a James Bond series for kids.

Today, many remember Ian Fleming (1908 - 64) as the author of such books as the James Bond series and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but less - commonly known are the details of his involvement in World War II.

There's a good deal of humor for adults as well, with multiple references to adult films including Titanic, the James Bond series, and indeed, Wallace & Gromit.

While this has kept the Bond series as a whole firmly in the realms of fantasy, it has allowed individual entries in the series to push for something more gritty or realistic; if it works, it's embraced and carried forward, and if not the series reverts to type with very few tears.

Despite the very real threat and the personal stakes and the grim weight given to things, director Sam Mendes manages to pay sophisticated, sincere homage to the conventions that define the Bond series while remembering that one of the things that makes the series such an enduring presence is fun.

It is cashing in on the Blaxploitation genre in the same way that the Bond series had done so with Live and Let Die three years earlier.

One of the most obvious characteristics of the Bond series is that each instalment of the franchise can sit on its own.

With the Bond series firmly committed to reinventing 007's mythos in a contemporary setting, Guy Ritchie is going back to where our fascination with spycraft began — the «60s, when the coolest spy on the small screen was The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

With it previously having looked as if they'd completed their work on the Bond series after five movies, screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are apparently back on board to take a pass at John Logan's screenplay.

For those who love camp movies, all the Bond series would please.

Gilbert made stars of Michael Caine and Julie Walters, and directed three of the most extravagant films in the James Bond series

The Bond series already had two films under its belt by the time 007 matched wits with Gert Fröbe's precious - metal obsessive, but the third time was the charm.

Home Entertainment distributor of SKYFALL and all the other 22 movies in the James Bond series.

Brosnan returns as 007 in Tomorrow Never Dies, opus 18 of the «official» James Bond series (Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again were outside productions).

Spy Hard is a loose send - up of the Bond series and other overly expensive action flicks, but after Hot Shots!

Studio head Harvey Weinstein, as he did in the past with «The King's Speech» and the documentary «Bully,» turned the ratings decision into a political and promotional battle, enlisting Dench to film a video assuming the character she played in the Bond series, MI5 Chief M.

The Beatles said at the time that it was inspired by The Marx Brothers» Duck Soup and was satirizing the James Bond series.

A lot of good people and good material spend copious amounts of effort to propel the story forward, but there's no denying that fatigue has once more set into the Bond series.

Christopher Nolan's production company, Syncopy, has recently signed on to produce the 25th film in the James Bond series, and as such speculation is rife over whether Nolan might fancy taking the helm himself.

The industry is in a better place with movies like the Bourne series (or Bond series) in rotation.

It's a barebones, forgettable plot, and barely hinged together, though that doesn't exactly make this entry differ much from any other in the Bond series.

Playing a little more like an entry in the Bourne series than the Bond series, not only with its «rogue agent who can't trust his organization» story, but also its hyperkinetic way of editing the sometimes brutal action sequences, Quantum of Solace falls a bit from star Daniel Craig's debut due to the fact that impressively choreographed hand - to - hand combat fails to impress when the action and stunts are this grandiose.

According to The Wrap, David MacKenzie and Tom Hooper were also in the mix to direct the film, the story of Sir George Mansfield Cummings, who served as the inspiration for M in the James Bond series, and was the first head of MI6.

The Bond series of films operate on a certain level of whimsy no matter how serious they get.

«Skyfall» is one of the better entries in the Bond series, and one of the most homegrown (not a Yank in sight).

Thanks to the most recent movie installment in the James Bond series, «Skyfall,» straight razors are popular again.

FAVORITE MOVIES: The Friday the 13th franchise, Kevin Smith movies, the films of George A. Romero (especially the initial Dead trilogy), Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, FleshEater, Intruder, Let the Right One In, Return of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, Jaws, Tremors, From Dusk Till Dawn, Phantasm, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, Back to the Future trilogy, Dazed and Confused, the James Bond series, Mission: Impossible, the MCU, the list goes on and on

But perhaps the most highly - anticipated release this November isn't an award contender at all, but rather the long - awaited 23rd installment in the James Bond series, which looks to be Daniel Craig's best 007 adventure yet.