Skyfall: Bond #23

Things I "learned" from this movie - cyanide tablets don't work, but can fuck up your teeth.

Hang on, I misunderstood what you meant there mh... carry on.

Things I learned from this movie: if you're having trouble aiming your weapons following serious bullet wounds, shoot two teacups under the tutelage of Albert Finney and you'll be cured.

Things I learned from this movie: radios are badass.

hahaha ya. "ever hear of RADIO!?!?!"

I love how Bardem says "James!"

i love how he says bond

I love how Bardem says everything tbh

bardem was lots of fun in this.
him and the komodo dragons.

Is his hair in this perhaps more ridiculous than his Anton Chigurh bowl cut?

I'm bleaching my hair to see if it works on me, brb

Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig are forced to team up to fight a secret evil hellbent on rewriting reality

Or just have them in a deathmatch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9C7yYomVuo

Meantime, just now on Twitter:

Cee Angi ‏@CeeAngi

Hospital employee to a full waiting room looking for a patient: "Last name BOND....James? Are you kidding me?!"

Of course the old man scooted over with his walker and said "yes. I'm Bond. James Bond." I love this place.

And that man... was Sean Connery.

FB friend said that George Lazenby needs to let it go.

some throwaway line in this movie about "orphans making the best secret agent recruits" has me worried they're going to do some spy kids-y oliver twist young james bond spinoff.

they already did, it's called Spy Kids

after the events of "Spy Kids 3-D", the parents and Danny Trejo all die in a tragic tandem parasailing accident

could always resurrect this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_James_Bond_Junior_003%C2%BD

Charlie Higson has been writing those for a while.

There's only been one 007 I think - they retire the numbers.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:03 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I was making a bad joke based on past casting changes. Although "Casino Royale" kind of screws up any kind of continuity by establishing that Bond acquired 00 status with his second kill in the Czech Republic; I.e. some time after 1993.

― super perv powder (Phil D.)

http://www.cracked.com/article/18367_6-insane-fan-theories-that-actually-make-great-movies-better/

Obviously doesn't hold up at all, but I kind of like it nonetheless.

Works until you introduce parents named Bond into the movies. Unless... they have brain imprinting technology

It would also mean Moneypenny is a codename too.

timothy dalton would make for a bitchin bond villain.

^^he kind of already played one on Chuck, which had a lot of fun messing around with that idea.

This spin-off also has a couple of books out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moneypenny_Diaries

more like Shitefall

my considered review

More like bumsidered review.

timothy dalton would make for a bitchin bond villain.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:21 PM (3 days ago

like in The Rocketeer?

when watching the country house scenes, where Bond, M and Kincade make their own weapons, bombs etc., I kinda expected to hear the A-Team music and see B.A. Baracus' bejeweled hand enter shot holding a welder...

sort of ruined it for me.

Macaulay Culkin should have played Kincade

mcguyver 4 next bond

But he hates guns!

this sucked.

Hey, gives 'em something to live up to.

psssh

at least give cred to that great teal/orange underwater frozen lake shot right

can we stop saying teal and orange. It's Roger Deakins ffs

^^

dont freak the deak

Most of the Shanghai sequence was filmed in London and Berkshire surprisingly http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/s/Skyfall.html

Hey, I didn't mean it as a negative. Not my fault that a bunch of hacks have overused a nice complimentary color scheme. The underwater lake fight was awesome.

this had too many problems moment-to-moment and as a whole for me to like it very much.

problem was the script basically, but mendes didn't help. inconsistent tone, unfunny humor pulled out at bad moments, action badly staged, plot didn't make much sense, scenes didn't make sense on their own let alone cumulatively, scary computer stuff was dated, and the running theme of old-school human agents vs 'technology' in an age of faceless terror was dimwitted.

casino royale had a cool re-imagining of what bond is: a driven thug who's able to withstand relentless punishment and still sit down and play cards (rather than a suave charmer who dodges the bullets w/o getting his hair mussed), bond as unflappable by dint of being unkillable. this movie didn't seem to know what it was about. by the time the crowd-pleasing aston martin showed up in the third reel i was already checked out. albert finney can't do a brogue.

i think there are upper limits to how good a bond movie can get and all those shortcomings are part of what makes it a bond movie. casino royale seemed far too dour and brooding to really be a bond movie. plus texas holdem??

well the bros aren't down with baccarat, what do you want

a new franchise called Dour Secret Agent.

I don't think Finney was even attempting an accent. Kind of like a reverse Sean Connery

to be honest, skyfall was also missing the requisite henchman death puns.