Skyfall: Bond #23

"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

to coin a phrase, it's terrific

glad Ben Whishaw has the classical training necessary to play Q.

Not often a bond fan (never a mendes fan), but really liked this. Looks great, moves quickly, none of that bad-bond stuff where it's all a bit confusing-boring. Bardem disappointed me a tiny bit, but sold on the mid-long term cast. Good at London too, always approve of that.

it's sort of blade runner meets home alone. dug it.

ha, get that on the poster

glad Ben Whishaw has the classical training necessary to play Q.

Rory Kinnear in the Guardian the other day was pointing out that between him, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney and Whishaw, this is possibly the first quadruple-Hamlet film, certainly the first such Bond.

how many keatses in it

Well that was most enjoyable, though the final Scottish sequence was a little drawn out. Pre-credits was up there with the franchise's best, and gotta approve of any action movie that features a henchman being eaten by a komodo dragon. Casino Royal>Skyfall>>>>>>>>Quantum.

Quantum sucked kinda

iirc Quantum didn't have a real script during shooting due to WGA strike; they were making shit up as they went

(didn't see it tho cuz it had a dumb name)

The title of the thread made me wonder : is there a film series with as many films as the bond ones ? 23 is a lot !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_%28film_series%29

Oh ! Never heard of that !

Porn, mostly (hah, moistly is a pretty good typo there).

Other than that there's still a few. "Abbott & Costello" is probably cheating as a film series - I guess the most famous long series would be Godzilla then?

Oh ! Never heard of that !

You wouldn't have if you're not British.

I keep coming up with alternate skyfall theme songs in the shower, shirley bassey-style

"but... you could lose it all! in skyyyyyyfaaaaaaaal!"

Seeing this tomorrow night...

rub it in, why don't you

gotta wait another week and a half, here

The name's James Bond. James Bond.

wtf.. even happened in this

my flatmate went to see it, wasnt overly impressed..."not enough girls and it was too long"

last two posts have me even more excited!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/board/flat/206367651

wait, really?

wtf.. even happened in this

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:57 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my flatmate went to see it, wasnt overly impressed..."not enough girls and it was too long"

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:31 (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last two posts have me even more excited!!

― goole, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:31 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha otm

this had many enjoyable moments and was better than quantum but it was somehow leaden and effortful too much of the time. something i miss in this new bond series is bond's smile, his joie de vivre, his don't-give-a-fuck-ness, the suspicion that bedding beautiful women ranks right about the same place in bond's personal hierarchy of importance as tracking down terrorists, the sense that bond is the best not from any sense of loyalty to the mission or even his country but because of the sheer narcissistic pleasure it gives him to be the best

I liked the lack of that - between the Tinker Tailor moments and the gaunt lord of the estate look at the end, they managed to get 10-15 minutes of acting out of Craig, which was more than I expected.

its just a different vibe, i kinda dig grim fascist bond just because the series had gone so overboard in the other direction so many many times

if you don't like james bond overdosing on his own awesomeness you don't like james bond

james bond being a grim jerk is kind of at the core of jamesbondness if u go back to the books

I should read more of the books! The only time I really did was when I was on a vacation to Cancun and it was kind of cold out, so I laid out next to the pool under a towel and read Casino Royale and a collection of short Bond stories.

I really like James Bond as an awesome gadabout btw, Brosnan 4eva, but I don't think that Daniel Craig is any good at that, he just seems blank - so I'm glad when they get something out of him.

idk, being a dude who gets tortured occasionally and runs around killing some people and deceiving others seems to be a thing that'd make you less than jovial

Got a good bond for you Craig deniers

http://austenprose.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/downton-abbey-thomas2-x-200.jpg

Exactly, there's not much room for joie de vivre when your day job requires killing people. xpost

I mean, Fleming's Bond is a virulent misogynist to a point, but it's more that it's 90% misanthropy with a little misogyny on top. I feel like earlier film adaptations played down some of the misogyny by skimming from the bottom 90%, but they're doing a reasonable job of skimming off the top this time around. Opinion might change after I see Skyfall, I guess.

it's a pretty misogynistic movie all around tbh

how'd you see it already? reviewer screening?