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GoldenEye The following suggestions were made by the most recent FAC, here:

  • Find scholarly criticism of the film, and analysis of the film's content through scholarly sources
  • A "themes" would be a good addition to the article
  • An image of the complete cast would be a preferable addition to the cast section
  • The vehicle and gadgets section needs real world context for all of its information, as opposed to what the vehicle/gadget was used for in the film
    • This specifically refers to the second and fourth paragraphs in that section
  • A section dealing with the film's cinematic style is needed
  • More analysis of the artistic aspects of the film, beyond the sound, is needed
  • A general copy-edit is needed for most of the article - • The Giant Puffin • 20:12, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Real-life context needed

Some real-life context is needed for the vehicle and gadgets section. At the moment, it is purely about the item in the film, as opposed to a production-related information about using that item in the film. Do not archive this:

  1. "Bond also drives an Aston Martin DB5 near the beginning of the film, which is equipped with a refrigerator in the middle armrest to hold champagne and two glasses; and a communications system including voice commands and a fax machine, which prints out from the CD player.'
  2. Q gives Bond a Parker Jotter pen that doubles as a "class-four" (C4) grenade. Three consecutive clicks arms the four-second fuse; another three disarms it. Boris Grishenko unwittingly sets this off at one point, allowing Bond and Simonova to escape. Bond's watch, standard issue for MI6 agents, can remotely detonate mines and has a built-in laser that can cut through metal.
  3. Q also gives Bond a size-34 belt containing a 23 m rappelling cord and a piton-shooting buckle. When fired, it shoots a grapple attached to high-tensile-strength wire designed to support Bond's weight. At the start of the film, when Bond bungee jumps off a dam, he uses the grapple gun to lock on to the building below. He then uses the gun's built-in motor to pull him down. Once on the building, he uses the laser function of the watch to get into the building's ventilation system. Bond also uses the grapple gun to escape from Ourumov and his troops.
  4. Bond's standard issue pistol, a Walther PPK, is chambered for the 7.65 x 17mm Browning (or .32 ACP) cartridge. It is shown in the film's promotional poster equipped with a silencer."

We need some sort of real-life context for this setion, it is one of the article's major criticisms - • The Giant Puffin • 12:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Nothing has been found, nothing! I have divided the Vehicles and Gadgets and merged it into Plot and Production. Now there wont be any criticism called fancruft. Vikrant Phadkay 15:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Proposed Move

I am on a campaign to move all James Bond film articles to have the reference (film) in them. For example, I just moved The World Is Not Enough to The World Is Not Enough (film). The reason for this is because there is more than one thing with this title. (books, films, games, etc). That is why this should be moved to GoldenEye (film) and the disambiguation page should be GoldenEye. Emperor001 (talk) 16:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] First wholly original Bond film

I think that this is the first wholly original Bond film and that it should possibly state that in this article. Until recently, The Spy Who Loved Me was listed as the first wholly original Bond film, but I removed that statement, as the element in which a nuclear missile's targeting coordinates are redirected so that the missile destroys a submarine is borrowed from the novel Moonraker.--Urban Rose 20:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

You forget, 006 was mentioned in the novel OHMSS. Emperor001 (talk) 13:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Primary Topic

Currently, this article is at GoldenEye because it's the "primary topic", but this wasn't the first thing called GoldenEye. The Operation and the estate came first, so one of them should be GoldenEye and this should be GoldenEye (film). Emperor001 (talk) 13:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I've just noticed, this is basically your move suggestion from above in a different guise. - X201 (talk) 13:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I disagree. Given the number of entries on Goldeneye (disambiguation), neither of them should be here. If anything, Goldeneye should be the disambiguation page and the film should be moved to Goldeneye(film). - X201 (talk) 13:24, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I agree with your suggestion, but everytime I tried this with Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough, but they were just moved back. I still believe that since it can be debated as to what the primary topic is, the name should lead to the disambiguation page. Emperor001 (talk) 17:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC)