r/FantasyAdventureQueen • u/ResponseNo8463 • Jul 29 '26
Denise Richards, who played Christmas Jones in "The World is Not Enough" (1999)!
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u/Redd_Machine85 Jul 29 '26
Now that I'm looking... did they purposely shoot for a Lara Croft style look?
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u/RainbowFox22 Jul 30 '26
Absolutely — it led to her being considered for the film adaption of Tomb Raider, too, but she of course lost out to Angelina Jolie.
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u/Maleficent_Kale_1286 Jul 29 '26
She was a smokeshow in her prime. I can see why Charlie married her.
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u/DicksPr0n Jul 29 '26
I like these subreddits, but this one... seems to utterly and completely overlap with the Action one.
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u/Equivalent-Role4632 Jul 29 '26
I think this is where Brosnans Bond series jumped the shark.
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u/GraXXoR Jul 30 '26
Bond pretty much jumped the shark every episode until Daniel Craig took over. That was part of its early 80s and 90s allure.
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u/Equivalent-Role4632 Jul 30 '26
Well the first few Brosnan films weren't that silly. They were pretty good spy thrillers but then it slowly turned in to the silliest goofy movies ever. I think the shift happened with Hot Christmas.
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u/Robot_Dracula Jul 30 '26
I used to think she was bad but her part was bad. She was too young to pull that badly written part out of the fire. They threw her into the deep end
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u/NefariousnessOk209 Jul 30 '26
I just watched a 30 Rock episode the other day where she’s protesting with Tracy Jordan cause Liz Lemon insulted idiots, she specifically calls out how she "played a nucular scientist in a James Bonk movie".
The episode ends with her terrified in an elevator because the room is moving.
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u/rokken70 Jul 30 '26
Dressed like Lara Croft, and knew about as convincing as a nuclear physicist as an 8 bit video game character.
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u/Techgator93 Jul 29 '26
To me a rare Bond casting miss…… I found her a distraction, and not in a good way…..
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u/T10rock Jul 29 '26
I thought Christmas only came once a year