Since we're still waiting for the next Bond film

 

[VIDEO] Remember Sam Neill from Jurassic Park or better yet another one of my favorite roles that he played was on The Hunt for Red October with the late Sean Connery playing a Soviet submarine Captain and Neil played his first officer. Well imagine him as James Bond 007.

Well he'd be in the camp of George Lazenby who's from Australia and Pierce Brosnan who's Irish. Neill is actually from New Zealand. And I think I would've liked his portrayal he almost looked like his former co-star Connery who was the first James Bond in this screen test recorded in 1986.

However, in time for 1987 The Living Daylights he lost out to Timothy Dalton.

Where has James Bond been?

Not sure why exactly but James Bond wasn't even a blip on my radar screen this year. It got squeezed between The Dark Knight Rises and next year's Star Trek into Darkness. And there's more than enough time to watch the Star Trek sequel next May.

I'm big into genre movies especially action and science fiction. In fact if there were any two movie franchises that have been long time favorites over the years it's Bond and Star Trek. It's even more puzzling to me that not a lot of focus on my part was put into the latest Bond effort entitled Skyfall.

I went to see Skyfall recently at River East near Navy Pier. It was pretty good and it almost seemed like a classic bond film with an old school sounding theme song and of course there's the Ashton Martin that was a fixture in the Bond films of the 1960s. It was certainly a nice touch at the end where the offices Bond enters into near the end of the movie simply went retro!

I've been a Bond fan for a long time and it's very regretful that no trailers were shown here on this blog prior to its release. Besides trailers for Star Trek and The A-Team had been shown here in the past on this blog for example. Why was I too slow for Skyfall?

James Bond will return in the near future and I promise to do much better in the future.