no way they can top Skyfall/ Royale with the next one. they should quit, take the rest of the decade off and come back with a new guy. the quote about how they were bringing back Bond's funny knockabout romp side (or something) doesn't fill me with much hope.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 November 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
I'm not waiting 10 years for another bond movie just bcz you've had yr fill ffs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 November 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
I could top skyfall with my phone camera, a bic lighter, a bmx and a jack jones shirt
― bachmansplain jenny turner overtalk (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 07:13 (ten years ago) link
+ komodo dragon
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 November 2013 07:16 (ten years ago) link
the quote about how they were bringing back Bond's funny knockabout romp side (or something) doesn't fill me with much hope.
I have the opposite view: IMO part of what makes Bond Bond is the humour/quipping/charming bastard side of the character. Bond shouldn't be just a thug, otherwise you could just be making generic action movies and not call the guy James Bond at all. I thought the thuggishness and overt seriousness was okay in Casino Royale, because it was established Bond was still a rookie and this was his origin story of a sort. But three movies of that is enough already, you don't need to imitate your imitator and makes James Bond into Jason Bourne. So yeah, bring back the one-liners!
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 November 2013 09:28 (ten years ago) link
make two James Bonds, one for people who love the vibe of the books and the early movies, the other for people who enjoy whatever the fuck Roger Moore thought he was doing
― thus spake darraghthustra (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 November 2013 09:29 (ten years ago) link
Well, I didn't mean they need to revert to late Moore level of buffoonery. But in the early years Moore was still pretty good, and Connery wasn't overtly serious either. The later Connery and early Moore movies are probably the platonic ideal of the cinematic James Bond, they had a good balance of seriousness and rompishness, so I see no problem in taking your blueprint from those.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 November 2013 09:36 (ten years ago) link
Except for the moore thing
― bachmansplain jenny turner overtalk (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
So yeah, bring back the one-liners!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUTr3tkVGo
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 18 November 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
i'd like some good one-liners and not weird stuff like the ones in skyfall like where he lolled @ the woman being shot
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 18 November 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
casino royale had plenty of one-liners, not that i can remember any of them?
― max, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
James Bond: [laughing - after being stuck five times with a knotted rope] Now the whole world's gonna know that you died scratching my balls!
― slam dunk, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Yeah. A while ago I rewatched For Your Eyes only, and it was kinda weird to realize that movie had the strongest female protagonist in any Bond movie made before or after it. Not long after that I went to see Skyfall, and it had the rapey boat scene, the aforementioned "just shoot her" scene, plus the Moneypenny subplot with the implication that women aren't cut to be field agents, and the ending where the proper gender order was re-established with a new male M and a Moneypenny behind the secretary desk... Give me your over-the-top crossbow-wielding female avengers and thighs-of-death assassins over this kind of "realism" anyday.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
Yeah totally, all of that is the main reason I really can't imagine ever wanting to watch this again, that and it being eight years long.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
I don't know why but I'm again pondering how unfortunate it was that there was an actual Bond film with Christopher Walken and Grace Jones and they fucked it up by having a weak plot
― mh, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
tbh there isnt any suggestion throughout craig's tour of duty that he's cut out to be a field agent himself, it's three movies of disaster upon disaster.
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
plus he really doesnt seem to like it
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
it's a job, right
― mh, Monday, 18 November 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
we've been spoiled by seeing genius super-ninjas in the Bourne franchise
I really hope they do give it to Idris Elba next. Seems very unlikely though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Idris Elba for everything imo
― i too went to college (silby), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
sadly he'll be too old by the time craig ages out
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
If they go with another white dude, Fassbender has a very Bondian way about him
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
He can reprise stringer bell in crossover sequel: The Bell Only Rings Twice
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:57 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
The Spy Who Luthered Me
the name's Pentecost. Stacker Pentecost.
― Statham. Versus. Franco. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:55 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah fassy would be great
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
like I'm almost convinced that he's irl Bond
every tv interview I've seen him on, I keep waiting for him to shoot a watch dart at the interviewer or pull a martini from somewhere
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
the fass reminds me a bit of cranston
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 06:18 (ten years ago) link
hmmm
yknow....
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 06:27 (ten years ago) link
Fassbender's real-life history of violence against women would put him right in the Connery tradition.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:18 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
haha i spent a lot of 12 years a slave imagining cranston playing epps instead of fassbender
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
this was on tv
i had forgotten, or never clocked, that just before the infamous "waste of a good scotch" line when bardem pours craig the 50-year-old macallan and clinks bond's glass, saying "to women we have loved", bond actually drinks it. bond doesn't drink that, does he? a villain's toast? (from a bottle no one else has taken a sip of yet, even?)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CnuJpat.jpg
― calstars, Thursday, 21 January 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
if they're going to reboot the villains, what the next one needs is a really vicious train fight as per 'From Russia..' between Bond and a Shaw-esque psycho thug.
pisces 'Broccoli' x tips his hand!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 21 January 2016 12:12 (eight years ago) link
the scene where Silva shoots up Parliament actually made my anxiety spike when I was watching it again. even though it's different countries obv, after January 6th, anything resembling that (or worse) = revulsion.
well shot scene though.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
also aren't the realtors angry that Bond destroyed a home he didn't own anymore
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 October 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link