Skyfall: Bond #23

a lot of work has gone into making Bond super awesome again and i can see it being pissed away in one long windy makes you think monologue

QOS sounded good on paper - shortest Bond ever, I think?, pretty kickass Bond girl, etc. - but Forster just bungled the action up too badly.

it also had the lowest stakes of any bond ever iirc... didnt the bad guy want to like corner the bolivian water market or something

Yeah, they pretty much set up this shadowy organization and the villain was a member using their resources to corner the water market. It was kind of an understated "DON'T YOU SEE oil isn't the only valuable resource" plot.

my heart's beating a little faster just reading that

I thought that was a super Bond-y plot twist tbh

also I <3 Mathieu Amalric, but I remember his villain being pretty damn pathetic.

It was really not a great Bond film, but then I can't conceive any Bondometer that scores Craig higher than Brosnan, so..

borsnan

yeah roman polanski jr. was a crummy villain

I thought Brosnan was a good Bond, but the films became very much late-period Bond where there's more goofy shit and gadgets than intrigue and seduction. The action is cranked-up to new levels in the Craig films, but I feel like the "blunt instrument" angle of the new films is a good departure.

QoS having an understated threat is kind of a non-starter when you remember that Casino Royale's main section was about beating the investment specialist of a criminal organization in cards to try to turn him. The exploding plane section was more intense, but it was the setup.

If anything, the water plotline of QoS was taken directly from the news: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests

I hope whoever decided that what Bond needed was ripped-from-the-headlines verisimilitude got thoroughly sacked.

^^^

new trailer looks really awesome

you could probably make a good bond movie about bolivian water stealing or whatever, but it would just have to be like, written better, and directed better

i haven't watched the new trailer yet; i hope badem's good: i see him & he just seems like the exact same villain they have now, like a well dressed pouty guy with serious hair. they should mix it up a lil. get a really big, comely & charismatic guy. or a cool talking animal. like a tiger. the action in james bond films now just seems to be him running over terracotta tiled roofs & through narrow fruit stall littered streets.

new trailer looks really awesome

― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:13 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed tho tbh i can't get armisen out of my head now

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/08/New-James-Bond-Villain.jpg

did they do the willem-dafoe-in-wild-at-heart thing to his teeth?

<3 the californians btw

http://www.soulculture.co.uk/music-blog/newmusic/adele-skyfall-james-bond-theme-new-music/

That is frankly stunning.

I am also stunned - I'd have thought she could at least gone the extra yard and worked in something on the moon/june theme.

go Epworth is all i can say. cool bastard.

yeah, the actual song isn't much but her voice plus that production sounds pretty great, sounds like a fucking bond theme. i welcome its oncoming unavoidableness.

anyone who thought chris cornell and jack white were good candidates for bond themes should be fired from any job.

Cogoddamnsign

sounds like a fucking bond theme. i welcome its oncoming unavoidableness.

I just hope that the movie is worthy of the song!

i like 'die another day' but feel madonna missed a real opportunity to go big adult contemporary power ballad there. ever since she got blatantly terrified of being old she's completely ignored that aspect of her sound, at least as big a part of her prime as bringing danceteria to top 40. also got too optimistic at first that this would just shoehorn the title in in passing like 'nobody does it better' did but nope pretty soon 'skyfall' kept popping up like that is a term anglophones actually commonly use. it's like they feel the need to amplify the fact that these recent bond (ie post roger moore) movies have awkward titles.

anyone who thought chris cornell and jack white were good candidates for bond themes should be fired from any job.

― omar little,

Maybe I'm alone in thinking You Know My Name is a great Bond theme! The Jack White one I can't really remember, which suggests it wasn't up to much.

yeah the cornell song is good, tho it took time to grow on me. now jack white... that was a disaster

you guys are nuts, also the Jack White song had Alicia Keys

what's the 2012 equivalent of Duran Duran doing a theme, they have Bardem looking like Walken's villain from A View to a Kill, might as well complete it

i like 'die another day' but feel madonna missed a real opportunity to go big adult contemporary power ballad there. ever since she got blatantly terrified of being old she's completely ignored that aspect of her sound, at least as big a part of her prime as bringing danceteria to top 40.

So otm. I think this has played a big role in her decline in the charts.

Yep. Live to Tell is one of favourite Madonna tracks.

what's the 2012 equivalent of Duran Duran doing a theme

Take That, possibly.

OH FATHER

live to tell could even be a bond title! theme might not work unless movie was about bond going after the guy who molested him or something, some real 'this time it's personal' stuff

"Live to Tell" is a top-shelf Bond title! Get writin balls

Get writin balls? They already covered that.

http://www.ciaranbrown.com/images/mikkelsentorturescene200.jpg

live to tell could even be a bond title! theme might not work unless movie was about bond going after the guy who molested him or something, some real 'this time it's personal' stuff

― balls, Friday, October 5, 2012 4:33 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm and lol

i'd watch that

getting RAVES left right and centre. in teh main.

That is frankly stunning.

otm - track is DOPE

Didn't clock that Deakins was doing the cinematography. Actually psyched now.

fwiw i'm always wary of really early RAVES for tentpole pics

A roundup... more worried about the "lost his parents" mandatory angle than that he's given up smoking.

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-sam-mendess-skyfall

They got the Deak? Rad

Few Bond films have one-word title; Goldfinger comes to mind. Skyfall is one of them and to sum up its appeal in one word, it's terrific

oh my god is there a worse writer alive than emmanuel levy