Britney Spears wants to be the next Bond girl

[Deja Q]

If that doesn't turn you off of the Bond movie franchise, nothing will. (Pierce Brosnan and the sub-Roger Moore "quality" of the new movies alone was enough to turn me away...)

Manufacatured image wants to be a Bond girl, who called up the Bond producers and begged apparently... :eyes:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/05/1075853982134.html for one article of many. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/people/159510_people06.html for another, which also has some other interesting news tidbits.

And, sorry, but I've got to agree with (some of) the Freepie's on this one: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1072423/posts
Brit-Brat should stay a light-year away from Bond. Why can't she prove herself in some raunchy teen comedies like every other aspiring actor/actress has to do?! She's no better, that's for sure.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Might as well have Beyonce, or Matthew Perry

Screw it. If that low-talent artist-wannabe gets into a Bond film, I'm not going.

[Deja Q]

6. Well, they'd put in Madonna in the last one for no reason...

The plot starts out nice enough, Bond being captured and stripped of his job and seeks revenge (and I love revenge type plots, like I do "Licence to Kill"). But it turns into the typical "Big corporate dude has a big weapon to compensate for his teeny weenie peenie and is going to blow up the world because he's gone bonkers" rubbish. They can't rely on the same formula forever.

The bollocks about the new car was a bit too much as well, and I'm usually very tolerant on the implausible yet impressive stunts they've pulled over the decades...

But Hallie Berry? When she appears, I promptly think of the Chris Rock Show's skit called "Hallie Berry 911" where she caused accidents and proclaimed not to be in movies that didn't work well at the box office... hilarious skit, but it left a mark. Which is a pity, she's a great choice for "Bond girl"... unlike Teri Hatcher...

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. See, i think Madonna has great talent

She works in a genre I'm not very keen on, but I see her as a real artist, not as a corporate fake. She's very genuine.

But I missed the last Bond film entirely. I don't know how, but never got around to seeing it in the theater, and I was very bummed.

And though I loved Halle Berry in "Monsters Ball", I really don't think that much of her, and her being in the Bond movie was a bit of a turn-off. But on the other hand, I need to see more of her, since she was so good in Monsters Ball.

[Deja Q]

10. Mmmm...

Starting with "The Next Best Thing" she's turned corporate, or rather self-propriatorship, shoving her personal believes into everything she does. Making it into one big advertisement. In small doses, this is no small problem. And I know of other actors who incorporate bits of their lives into characters they play but use it in a charming way. But Madonna is tactless about it all, probably by accident, but it comes off all wrong and works against her (IMHO). Early on she was much more genuine.

As an artist, she's best with music. (though she really started to shine by 1988 and has been a solid performer since, her earlier stuff doesn't come off as well. I did like "Material Girl" though.

Hope you're not as bummed these days!

[Skittles]

11. Madonna is a skank

and Britney is skank-heir-apparent.

[peterh]

14. Oh skittles….

Madonna, beyond one’s personal taste, has put up some numbers that I think puts her above the shank category in both film and music…. Britney, on the other hand, can’t be proclaimed “heir apparent” to even Madonna’s sidekicks yet…

[Catholic Sensation]

2. she would end up quitting after 55 hours

because she was drunk when she asked to be a bond girl, and thought this would be a fun thing to do while celebrating new years in london :D

[madrchsod]

3. she`s not good looking enough

to be a bond girl. she isn`t really very attractive.

[peterh]

4. Hey….what the heck….

With the exception of maybe Jill St. John, the Bond girls are there for one thing….and it ain’t the “acting” talent….

Call me liberal…I don’t have a problem with that…

[Deja Q]

8. True...

What started out as the British saying "We're not a country of homosexuals" has become something utterly sexist and a tradition for the Bond movies.

Which is a pity as when women are given roles of importance (which is rare, but the movies OHMSS, FYEO, LTK, arguably Octopussy, and GE - using acronyms to save on typing did try creating female characters who are more than walking 'good bits') , they get lopped in with the usual sexist routine as well.

On the other hand, it's a movie. It's entertainment. It surely isn't real. And there's plenty of TV that compensates for the mindlessness, if you can find it... Keep the distinction in mind and they can do any crackpot off-the-wall thing they want. And the world is made up of all types, so I don't mind if it is sexist. (And if I were hetero, I'd mind it even less!)

[mouse7]

15. At least one eventually learned acting

The one who was on Law and Order for a couple of years as part of the female prosecutor bullpen by committee.

[Catholic Sensation]

5. Salma Hayek should be the next Bond girl

Ann Coulter could be the next Bond Villain, Shemale or something could be her name.

[CanuckAmok]

9. "Sub-Roger Moore" WHAAA??!! Are you drunk?

The Roger Moore Bonds were soooo lame. He nearly killed the franchise single-handedly. The only Moore Bond films which didn't suck were "Live and Let Die" and "A View to a Kill", and both of those were saved by the very enjoyable villains (Yapphet Kotto, Jeffrey what's-his-name who used to shill for "7-Up", Grace Jones, Christopher Walken, and the big fat guy who played "Whisper"), and the Bond girls in each one (Jayne Seymour, Denise Richards). And, some very memorable stunt-work (the boat chase in L&LD was amazing--and set a Guiness record for powerboat jumping over land).

Are you nuts?! Lest we forget the abominations of "Moonraker" and "The Spy Who Loved Me". Particularly laughable was the one (I forget which one it was) where Moore has to infiltrate a Soviet Carnival, and ducks into a change-room only to appear moments later in a clown costume, complete with professional clown make-up.

And that whole thing with Richard "Jaws" Keil and his tiny wife--WTF?!

on edit: I thought Terri Hatcher was a good choice...and she's HOT! Same gors for Miriam D'abo, who played the cellist/assassin in one of the later films.

[DS1]

12. There's such a thing as "sub-Roger Moore"

Can't be, I don't believe you

[CanuckAmok]

13. Agreed...all that was missing was a talking chimpanzee sidekick. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. She might be ok

as the bimbo at the beginning of the movies who gets laid and murdered in the space of 30 seconds...

[bubblesby2002]

17. anf very often, after the hype of the movie is over,

the bond girl disappears from public view. so maybe that would be a good way to get rid of her.