maybe eggers could script?
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/01/05/bond_update_sam_mendes_in_talks_to_direct/
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
They need to quit being so cautious and let Tarantino direct one, someday.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
ha, the article agrees with me.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
i thought the fassbender/myers scenes in IB were the most tolerable scenes. but he is such an epic douche and it'd have shitty references to other films and ugh.
iirc he is actually talking about doing a len deighton novel.
he should do austin powers 4 imo.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Should be Mark Neveldine amirite?
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
had to google that (for shame): guessed it was the director of 'the room'. wrongly.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think there's a queasy disturbing emo quality to the Cranks which wd fit nu-Bond to a tee.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
wonder if it'll be in 3d
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
pretty sure the world is ready for james cameron's bond, if that wasn't already done in true lies
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think 3D is a fun party gimmick but sucks for watching movies in.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
true lines would have been epic if it hadn't starred arnie and that annoying guy.
ya 3d would suck... unless eva green agrees to star amirite.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol trudat
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
her eyes would be amazing in 3d
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Spot where the roffles begin:
No, this isn't an April Fool's prank. According to both The Times' Hero Complex blog and the Hollywood Reporter, Sam Mendes, the wonderfully cerebral and cultured filmmaker who once upon a time won an Oscar for directing "American Beauty," is in discussions to make the new James Bond film, which could go into production as early as this June. Daniel Craig would be onboard, reprising his role as Mr. 007.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
i like the suggestion that instead of this, mendes should do an 'after hours' and make a low-budget indie movie to get his mojo back. perhaps he could team up with a hip young novelist to do it? and it's true -- like martin scorsese he should avoid playing the industry's game by (say) making a sequel to someone else's movie.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think the April Fool lies somewhere between "wonderfully" and "cerebral".
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
Mendes has never made a good movie and should stay far, far away.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/nolan-says-hed-love-to-do-bond/
this would be better than mendes
clive owen and nolan 2012 imo
― D, dilly, dillies, dill, d-bombs (history mayne), Friday, 9 July 2010 10:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ yes
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 9 July 2010 10:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
And away we go.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Godammit. New Bond title "Boredom is Forever"...or "Stare At This Thing For A Long Time While Nothing Happens"
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
You Only Have a Midlife Crisis Twice
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Theme song by Josh Groban.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
A Merchant Ivory co-production
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
so i'm pretty psyched for this now. i like how he says the new script excites him more than Casino Royale's did.
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/daniel-craig-bond-23-will-be-better-than-casino-r/227418
― piscesx, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
fuck sam mendes with a big fucking stick
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
He's hardly going to say "the script is worse than Quantum of Solace", but, yeah, will watch. I don't give a monkeys about gadgets though, really.
― Beating up the Ritz (DavidM), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
not even watching the interview but yeah Craig's quote is basically "this new album is my strongest work yet" and fuck sam mendes with a great big fucking stick and yeah will watch
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Skyfall appears to be the title, Javier Bardem to play the villain.
http://fusible.com/2011/10/new-james-bond-film-to-be-titled-skyfall-domain-names-privately-registered/
― DavidM, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/javier-bardem-bond-23-villain-246719
― DavidM, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 20:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Works for me.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hope he actually reprises Anton Chigurh.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a348799/james-bond-23-press-conference-live-daniel-craig-on-skyfall.html
Bérénice Marlohe, Naomie Harris are the new Bond girls. Albert Finny and Ben Whishaw also cast. Scotland, London, Istanbul and China the locations.
― DavidM, Thursday, 3 November 2011 12:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Elder Scrolls XXIII: Skyfall
― Dust, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
fuck the poster sucks
― owenf, Thursday, 3 November 2011 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
god i REALLY hope this is good. Royale was a frickin masterpiece of a Bond movie.
our Dan looks a bit knackered mind
― piscesx, Friday, 4 November 2011 00:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sam Mendes: danger danger danger
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/skyfalls-daniel-craig-to-endorse-heineken-as-james/259502
Altogether now.. "HEINEKEN?? FUCK THAT SHIT.. "
― piscesx, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
next thing you know, he'll be endorsing ford mondeos or something...
― Jibe, Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
more tittle tattle. i think this is gonna be amazing tbh.
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/james-bond-skyfall-director-likens-movies-to-doctor/267394
hey and check the wacky user comment at the bottom too while you're there. interesting.
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 May 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
wacky, but I like it. A good chin-scratcher.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Trailer in the next few days. Meantime:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cool poster. If it's half as good as Casino Royale I'll be happy.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sweeeet
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
HOW IS MAN WALKING UP GUN BARREL??
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's v tiny, iirc
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Man. Ant-Man."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Look at this exploding fountain pen, Q, it's huuuge!"
"Sure is, Tiny Bond!"
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tiny Bond confronts Blofeld.Blofeld steps on Tiny Bond.Fin.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hold me closer, tiny Bondster
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha yes, excellent tradecraft there
― goole, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 02:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
used that word twice already today, that's my limit
― goole, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 02:59 (3 months ago) Permalink
despite everything i did have a pretty good time watching the film (craig is still good, deakins is awesome, action scenes as standalones were pretty cool) but it definitely has diminishing returns.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 03:09 (3 months ago) Permalink
i feel like bond's final ploy to draw silva out should have been met with blank stares and termination of his employment.
loloolol
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:34 (3 months ago) Permalink
the other thing that didnt resonate at all for me in this was the angle about bond being made obsolete. no attempt is made to give it context, everyone just talks about how he's a dinosaur so he can have the triumphant Sometimes My Old Man Ways Are The Best arc. are we meant to imagine unmanned drones taking his place offscreen? what makes it a relevant issue in 2012 instead of when the last bond came out, or the one before that? it irritated me way more than it should've, like they just wanted to have the gritty old guy shows the young punks that hes still the best story without laying any groundwork... maybe i just missed the point or something
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 15:53 (3 months ago) Permalink
I thought the point was that he was an older dude who got shot on a mission and wasn't bouncing back as quickly as he would have had he been younger
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 15:55 (3 months ago) Permalink
right but its the springboard for a bigger theme about the relevancy of agents in this brave new world or whatever
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:02 (3 months ago) Permalink
m's big speech in front of the british... panel.. of upset people. whatever that was
I thought it was less the relevancy of agents in general and more the specific relevancy of M and Bond because they are old fossils who should be replaced with young sparkly models like baby Q
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:04 (3 months ago) Permalink
and M's baseline argument was "bitch I've seen some shit, don't front" and then the building blew up and Bond and The English Patient shot everyone in the face
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:05 (3 months ago) Permalink
(that was my takeaway anyway)
yeah u could be right. also, lol
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:08 (3 months ago) Permalink
the british... panel.. of upset people
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:10 (3 months ago) Permalink
the script is the worst thing about this, and that's including Sam Mendes existing
sans news and credits, you would not have known this was Mendes.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:14 (3 months ago) Permalink
I loved this till about halfway through, when I popped into the lobby to buy a couple of Cornettos, fell down some stairs and did my back in.
When I came back, Bardem was in some blonde wig spouting bollocks doing Homosexual Panic 101, then he shot the sex slave in the head, and it all sort of fell apart. And my back hurt.
Deakins was great but he can't shoot a gunfight for toffee.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:20 (3 months ago) Permalink
xp
well i don't know that Mendes has a "style", but he makes incoherent story-telling choices and likes to throw some big empty "makes you think" moments into everything so that ties in with Skyfall
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:22 (3 months ago) Permalink
xxp Needed a scene of Bond sitting on a London street watching a plastic bag blow around an alley.
― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:25 (3 months ago) Permalink
(if there are different Britishes words for "plastic bag," "alley" and "Bond," I don't know them, sorry)
he makes incoherent story-telling choices
visually? othwise you should blame the writers, yes?
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:40 (3 months ago) Permalink
i think ade is right, i remember a LOT of stuff about like, "why do we need agents when we can HACK people" or whatever
― max, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:15 (3 months ago) Permalink
which is SO dumb because like a) they never actually sell this in the movie itself, in fact they specifically UNDERMINE it at the start with the whole hard drive chase and b) within the 'bond universe' he has literally been dealing with 'hackers' for 20 years, basically every single brosnan bond involved hacking of some kind
― max, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:16 (3 months ago) Permalink
yeah exactly
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:33 (3 months ago) Permalink
eh I remember explosions and ppl getting shot a lot
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:34 (3 months ago) Permalink
which is basically what I go to a Bond movie for
in the bond universe it should be received wisdom that british agents like bond are not only needed but the most skilled purveyors of the jobs no one else can do, even those colonist savages in the u.s.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:48 (3 months ago) Permalink
i feel like half this movie was spent trying to elide the true identities of certain characters so we could have catch-your-breath moments like when you realize, holy shit, it's fucking Q.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:49 (3 months ago) Permalink
the moneypenny thing infuriated me too
― max, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:16 (3 months ago) Permalink
so infuriating
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
assassins choosing desk jobs after a few years seems reasonable
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 22:19 (3 months ago) Permalink
Tbf she started the movie killing our hero, perhaps 00 status wasnt exactly nailed on at that stage
― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 22:23 (3 months ago) Permalink
the moneypenny thing was horrible
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 23:53 (3 months ago) Permalink
who was it that pointed out that they never actually recovered that special hard drive of all agents everywhere... oops
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 23:54 (3 months ago) Permalink
If they decrypted the list the hard drive would be completely useless?
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 23:56 (3 months ago) Permalink
YOUR hard drive would be useless
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 23:56 (3 months ago) Permalink
ultimately though nobody besides bardem actually succeeds at doing what they're trying to do in this movie rite?
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 23:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
wow let's get back this decrypted hard drive they could have made a zillion unencrypted copies of
yeah silva is the winner
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 23:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
moneypenny's character arc was so depressingly retrograde
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 23:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
my thought when they were making all the shaving jokes at the end:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/A-close-shave.jpg/220px-A-close-shave.jpg
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 23:59 (3 months ago) Permalink
did it seem to anyone else that this was largely stitched together from familiar action-movie tropes? almost literally, in a shot to shot way? some obv (apocalypse now), some less so (i actually can't think of one now, shit), and some overbearing (bond IS the dark knight...like, with a stately home he blows up and an old guy he owns)
bardem earned his keep but his character was a uh-oh-danger-GAY (vs bond teaching us to be MEN) dude that was maybe two-face (on the inside...of his face), maybe jaws, also btw he was locked in a crystal and at one point laughed maniacally I AM JUST SAYING HERE
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:25 (3 months ago) Permalink
the reptilian part of my brain kinda loved this, and thought it well-made or w/e, but if i think about it even for a second it's just crappy
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:26 (3 months ago) Permalink
i basically agree with that last sentiment, like walking out of the theater i was "bond returns in style in this delightful new--" and then i started to think about it and it fell apart, as if i'd removed the mandible from the movie's jaw and it revealed its horrible true guise.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:29 (3 months ago) Permalink
it's kinda weird that my two biggest complaints are that it was too referential and "young" (hackers! Q has a floppy haircut and a sweatervest! moneypenny isn't just a secretary, she's an agent!) and that it reveled in bond's piggish chauvinism, and excused it maybe? it's like it was written for archer to parody
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:30 (3 months ago) Permalink
Yeah it was really trying to have it all with the self-referential shit and the above-being-a-bond-movie shit and idk at least two other layers of overthinking, it rested heavily and shapelessly over some very good action scenes.
― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:34 (3 months ago) Permalink
an old guy he owns
i thought this was hilarious btw, bond's been gone for years and returns to his family's abandoned estate and ah this old painting, look at the dusty furniture, and why there's that old fella still in the same corner, hasn't moved has he?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
Ah, mr bond. I've been expecting you.
― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:40 (3 months ago) Permalink
an acquaintance of mine used to call it 'james bonding' a film when you were too intent on plot/continuity/reason to enjoy the spectacle of a blockbuster action movie.
and i get that, which is why i don't care that bond survived a fatal shooting/fall in the opening scene or magically picked out the password for q. (was there a 'zoom in! enhance!'? i don't even remember.) or that dude was 'one of six ppl in the world to use these radioactive bullets'.
but the whole plot made no sense. there was ridiculous shit like albert finney and his flashlight as the burning estate lit up the night. craig's bond is humorless; he can get away with shit like 'a waste of good scotch' even less than his predecessors. i liked the bourne movies -- if they wanna go that route it's cool with me, but if so they need to go all the way. as it was, it's a mishmash of bullshit trying to have it every which way.
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:46 (3 months ago) Permalink
i mean srsly fucking give slock1 the bond franchise
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
now i'm just wondering what ronin would have been called if it had been a bond movie
if bond is going to be a tough old relic of the cold war he may was well chase some ice skates wanted by the ira
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:08 (3 months ago) Permalink
would have been called bonin obv
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 February 2013 04:18 (3 months ago) Permalink
bonin'