Back in the US?

GoldenEye85GoldenEye85 Posts: 278MI6 Agent
in The James Bond Films
It's been a long time since a Bond movie has taken place squarely in the US. Casino Royale had a very the plane scene in Miami, but the fact that it is Miami means nothing for the scene the way Kentucky, Louisiana, Vegas and San Fransisco meant for for Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die and A View to a Kill.

But I would certainly like to see a modern Bond movie in the US as it's playground. Thoughts?

Besides the ones I mentioned, are there any others that have large parts in the US?
1, GE 2, CR 3, SF 4, TWINE 5, Spectre 6, TMWTGG 7, DAD 8, LALD 9, AVTAK 10, LTK 11, Octopussy 12, Moonraker 13, TLD 14, GF 15, QOS 16, Tomorrow 17, FYEO 18. TSWLM Not seen much: Dr. No, Russia, Thunderball, Twice, Majesty.

1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby

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  • RemingtonRemington CAPosts: 239MI6 Agent
    Thunderball and Moonraker featured the U.S. Only briefly though.
    1. Connery 2. Moore 3. Dalton 4. Brosnan 5. Craig 6. Lazenby
  • VesperMelogranoVesperMelograno The SouthPosts: 901MI6 Agent
    I guess I spend so much time in the US I do not really want to see Bond here. I do not want to associate Bond with Arby's and Big Gulps. Granted, few things beat an Arby's curly fry :D
    I've always wanted to have Christmas in Turkey
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    Licence to kill has us scenes also.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • zaphod99zaphod99 Posts: 1,415MI6 Agent
    Due to the dominance of the US film industry and (over) familiarity with the US in general I'd rather Bond avoided it, or was only briefly present.Dont get me wrong,I love America and have worked there a lot over the years but we see an awful lot of it...
    Of that of which we cannot speak we must pass over in silence- Ludwig Wittgenstein.
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    zaphod99 wrote:
    ...but we see an awful lot of it...

    Exactly. I want Bond movies to take me on a journey in stunning locations that I haven't seen, or seen a lot of, in films before. While I don't doubt that EON can produce a top notch Bond film set in countries that have already been frequently used in the series (Italy, contiguous US, Austria and of course England), Skyfall was an example of that, there are plenty of other fantastic locations around the world to utilise. A snow scene, instead of Austria or Switzerland, how about Canada or Alaska? An island scene, instead of the Caribbean how about a pacific island? Foreign big city, try Cape Town, Vancouver or Sydney?
  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    im with JTM,as much as I love the USA ,and I wouldn't think twice about going back , the European locations hold a special aspirational destination for me ,Venice ,the lakes,the Alps the Med , I think its due to the fact that in the Euro locations I can dress up in my Bond gear ,where as in the US, its docksides,pink shorts and polos for 2 weeks ,you don't feel the need to dress up (well not in Disney any way) :)) ,But im sure some one will come back ,and say ,there is more to the US than Florida :D :D
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • GoldenEye85GoldenEye85 Posts: 278MI6 Agent
    Has there ever been a Bond movie in Hawaii or Alaska?

    To me there are some things that I want to see each Bond do. A sort of mental checklist

    Each actor has shaved on screen, maybe except Lazenby and Dalton.

    Each Bond has skied, except Craig, unless he does so in Spectre. And video games don't count.

    Except Lazenby and Craig, again unless he does in Spectre, each has done what I call a water-logged movie (meaning large water segments): TWINE, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and License to Kill.

    Lastly. each has had a movie take place in US as a large part of the film; Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die and A View to a Kill.
    1, GE 2, CR 3, SF 4, TWINE 5, Spectre 6, TMWTGG 7, DAD 8, LALD 9, AVTAK 10, LTK 11, Octopussy 12, Moonraker 13, TLD 14, GF 15, QOS 16, Tomorrow 17, FYEO 18. TSWLM Not seen much: Dr. No, Russia, Thunderball, Twice, Majesty.

    1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    GoldenEye85 wrote:
    Has there ever been a Bond movie in Hawaii or Alaska?

    To me there are some things that I want to see each Bond do. A sort of mental checklist

    Each actor has shaved on screen, maybe except Lazenby and Dalton.

    Each Bond has skied, except Craig, unless he does so in Spectre. And video games don't count.

    Except Lazenby and Craig, again unless he does in Spectre, each has done what I call a water-logged movie (meaning large water segments): TWINE, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and License to Kill.

    Lastly. each has had a movie take place in US as a large part of the film; Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die and A View to a Kill.

    CR is pretty water logged, bond swimming in the sea, bond on a boat, bond in a sinking house in Venice, qos also had a major scene with the boat chase.
    When did Dalton ski? And when was Brosnan in the US? Craig didn't ski in Spectre mores the pity :#
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    It's hard to find very cinematic locations in the US that hasn't been used in other movies or TV-shows .... or that's my impression. I also feel that many don't find the US very exotic, even if they haven't been to the country themselves, for the same reason. People see NY on TV several times a week. Cities like Stockholm, Rio de Janairo, Beirut or Jakarta are felt to be more exotic because tjey are seldom used as locations, and that's what the Bond audience expect. I'm not against US locations, but it takes a lot more to make it look new and interesting to the cinemagoer.
  • MilleniumForceMilleniumForce LondonPosts: 1,214MI6 Agent
    GoldenEye85 wrote:
    Each Bond has skied, except Craig, unless he does so in Spectre. And video games don't count.

    Connery hasn't skied - the closest he's ever come to snow are the Geneva scenes in GF. Neither has Dalton, really, unless you count the cello case (which isn't Bond skiing.

    I think the film's have pretty much covered every different sort of place in the US; the south (LALD), big cities (LALD, AVTAK); and the touristy side (DAF). And the US locations in DAF and LALD are used very effectively, as they can only take place there - the Miami scene in CR can take place at any airport in any city, the MR scenes can take place anywhere (hell, the only major US location used is a French chateau and the construction facilities). The USA isn't really a romantic or beautiful place you'd expect a suave, British spy to be - the best locations used in the films are, like tropical islands or places in Europe.
    1.LTK 2.AVTAK 3.OP 4.FYEO 5.TND 6.LALD 7.GE 8.GF 9.TSWLM 10.SPECTRE 11.SF 12.MR 13.YOLT 14.TLD 15.CR (06) 16.TMWTGG 17.TB 18.FRWL 19.TWINE 20.OHMSS 21.DAF 22.DAD 23.QoS 24.NSNA 25.DN 26.CR (67)
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    edited May 2017
    I don't know? I could see bond having need to visit Washington dc, I've always thought he should also have business in Canada too...... And yes I do know Canada is not part of the USA :))
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Are you sure? I thought Canada is somehere near Europe. :))
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    If ever there was a time for predictive texting to fail that last post of mine was not it :)) fixed now
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Autocorrect can play tricks on you. Once I wanted to write "Fantastic beasts and where to find them".
    Autocorrect changed 'beasts' into 'breasts' :))
  • The Wicker ManThe Wicker Man EnglandPosts: 434MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Autocorrect can play tricks on you. Once I wanted to write "Fantastic beasts and where to find them".
    Autocorrect changed 'beasts' into 'breasts' :))

    Now that sounds like a film I would love to watch! :o
    1.ohmss 2.cr 3.frwl 4.ltk 5.gf 6.tswlm 7.sf 8.op 9.tld 10.dn 11.lald 12.tb 13.fyeo 14.ge 15.mr 16.yolt 17.tnd 18.avtak 19.sp 20.twine 21.qos 22.tmwtgg 23.daf 24.dad
  • GoldenEye85GoldenEye85 Posts: 278MI6 Agent
    MilleniumForce wrote:
    GoldenEye85 wrote:
    Each Bond has skied, except Craig, unless he does so in Spectre. And video games don't count.

    Connery hasn't skied - the closest he's ever come to snow are the Geneva scenes in GF. Neither has Dalton, really, unless you count the cello case (which isn't Bond skiing.

    Well, I wasn't 100% on Connery as I have only seen Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever all the way through more than once. Let's rephrase All Bond's skiing to snow/ice chases, because Dalton on the cello case was one of the ones I was thinking of along with this. Also I haven't seen Spectre yet so I didn't know if they had one in there or not.

    Have all Bonds smoked on screen? I know Connery has twice that I know of in Dr. No and in Goldfinger after he plants the C4 in pre-title sequnce. Moore in Live and Let Die, Dalton in License to Kill and Brosnan in Die Another Day.
    1, GE 2, CR 3, SF 4, TWINE 5, Spectre 6, TMWTGG 7, DAD 8, LALD 9, AVTAK 10, LTK 11, Octopussy 12, Moonraker 13, TLD 14, GF 15, QOS 16, Tomorrow 17, FYEO 18. TSWLM Not seen much: Dr. No, Russia, Thunderball, Twice, Majesty.

    1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    GoldenEye85 wrote:
    MilleniumForce wrote:
    GoldenEye85 wrote:
    Each Bond has skied, except Craig, unless he does so in Spectre. And video games don't count.

    Connery hasn't skied - the closest he's ever come to snow are the Geneva scenes in GF. Neither has Dalton, really, unless you count the cello case (which isn't Bond skiing.

    Well, I wasn't 100% on Connery as I have only seen Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever all the way through more than once. Let's rephrase All Bond's skiing to snow/ice chases, because Dalton on the cello case was one of the ones I was thinking of along with this. Also I haven't seen Spectre yet so I didn't know if they had one in there or not.

    Have all Bonds smoked on screen? I know Connery has twice that I know of in Dr. No and in Goldfinger after he plants the C4 in pre-title sequnce. Moore in Live and Let Die, Dalton in License to Kill and Brosnan in Die Another Day.
    Lazenby lit up in the dbs in the pts, Daniel Craig has never smoked as bond though.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
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