Wade:Secret Agent!
Cannot think of a name
10-11-2006, 11:13
Okay, so I was having this discussion just now with a friend about James Bond. I didn't see the last one but he was saying that it seemed like they where hopping to create a spin-off franchise American chick Bond.
My thought is that if they were going to do that (with the exception of the chick part) their best bet was with Jack Wade, played by Joe Don Baker. He was amusing, compitent, pragmatic. I totally would have watched a movie about Wade:Secret Agent.
I have a few friends that agree, but the theory is that we're just about the only ones. So I put it to you, would you watch the adventures of Jack Wade:Secret Agent?
(He's the guy who started his little Russian car with a sledge hammer and had the Marines standing by at the giant dish.)
Lunatic Goofballs
10-11-2006, 11:21
We already have the XXX movies.
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um...
Forget I said anything.
*bolts for the door*
Okay, so I was having this discussion just now with a friend about James Bond. I didn't see the last one but he was saying that it seemed like they where hopping to create a spin-off franchise American chick Bond.
My thought is that if they were going to do that (with the exception of the chick part) their best bet was with Jack Wade, played by Joe Don Baker. He was amusing, compitent, pragmatic. I totally would have watched a movie about Wade:Secret Agent.
I have a few friends that agree, but the theory is that we're just about the only ones. So I put it to you, would you watch the adventures of Jack Wade:Secret Agent?
(He's the guy who started his little Russian car with a sledge hammer and had the Marines standing by at the giant dish.)
not really. Jack Wade was more of a competent partner material and not spotlight agent.
Cannot think of a name
11-11-2006, 03:16
Man, it looks like so far my friend is right, we're in a stark minority.
I like Wade's pragmatic make-do functionality, I would dig watching him improvise his way through things. It wouldn't be over the top stunts like Bond, more clever ingenuity...
It'd be nice to have a chick secret agent that wasn't a total Charlie's Angels type wanker. Someone who actually is cool...like Angela Basset.
(He's the guy who started his little Russian car with a sledge hammer and had the Marines standing by at the giant dish.)He's also the guy that tries to kill Bond with his special bulletproof machine gun contraption. But that's Joe Don Baker, and not Wade ;)
Infinite Revolution
11-11-2006, 04:00
hawaiin shirts are sooooo low profile. FTW!!
Andaluciae
11-11-2006, 04:54
He's also got one mighty beer belly. I'd imagine he'd spend more time drinking beer and cracking jokes than blowing shit up.
In fact, from what I've seen Jack Wade is a far better secret agent than James Bond, he stays on the down low, he's not got that spy feel to him, and he's a rather congenial, normal sort of fellow. I'd bet he could recruit spies within foreign governments far more effectively than Bond could.
It would probably be more of a comedy though, and probably a pretty dull one at that.