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My two favorites are

1. Goldfinger
2. Octopussy

BUT the current Casino Royale is right up there.
I wouldn't mind seeing them now do remakes of all the Bond movies as more serious spy thrillers with less preposterous gadgetry. The only one I think would be hard to top as a remake would be Goldfinger, with all fabulous villans (Gert Frobe and Odd Job) the famous and subtly amusing scenes (like where the crushed LIncoln with gold in trunk is loaded into the back of a Ford Ranchero and the car-pickup barely goes down on its springs at it drives off hauling the crushed Lincoln with dead body and Gold.)

Somehow I think Ian Fleming would be proud of the current Bond movie as being truer to what the novelist originally intended, and not as full of Hollywood gimmicks designed to stimulate ticket sales, nor as blatantly sexist. I even think that Albert Broccoli (rest his soul) would find the more serious approach to the entire series appealing.

Whatever Bond's take vis a vis Happy Feet, it's making enough money to make a 15 or 20 movie series of more serious remakes financially feasilble. A number of these movies are already 40 years old and even older.

David


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