Skyfall: Bond #23

I saw this again for free on a work outing and I kept attempting to picture Connery as the gamekeeper dude and, yes, it would have been ridiculous

it would work but only if he played it 100% like he did in indiana jones 3, including calling james bond 'junior'

I misread that as an indicator they should reference the cartoon series James Bond, Jr.

haha was Connery wooed at some point?

didya notice they cut away from Finney before he had to get through the secret tunnel door?

There are outtakes, though.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xokjj1hDRE4/Tcr_BNi6Z7I/AAAAAAAACR0/10rZsX7Ec3k/s1600/blog_pooh_stuck.jpg

I think I read that they kind of thought of putting him in that role but Mendes and company decided it'd be too over the top.

as opposed to the rest of the movie

liked rooftop cycle chase better in Tintin

Was there any thought of approaching Sean Connery for that role?

There was a definite discussion about that -- way, way early on. But I think that's problematic. Because, to me, it becomes too ... it would take you out of the movie. Connery is Bond and he's not going to come back as another character. It's like, he's been there. So, it was a very brief flirtation with that thought, but it was never going to happen, because I thought it would distract.

rooftop chase kind of reminded me of the one on foot in The International

lol @ pooh good call

the more I think about this movie the more I dislike it, even though I didn't hate it while watching it

like the whole bond girl plot bothers me a lot, there is absolutely nothing in the sequence of events that involves her that makes sense on any level

the more I think about this movie the more I dislike it, even though I didn't hate it while watching it

― iatee, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:11 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilx in a nutshell

the more I think about this movie the more I dislike it, even though I didn't hate it while watching it

otm

rooftop chase was better in that tom cruise/cameron diaz flick

I knew I shoulda have watched the director's cut of vanilla sky

rooftop chase kind of reminded me of the one on foot in The International

― mh, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:11 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they used the exact same location (rooftop of the bazaar)

I was going to say that, but I was like... I think there are multiple bazaars in the world and I'm going to feel like a jackass if it's in a completely different country

I found the movie alright and fun but, yeah, so many things make no sense.
I wonder how no one in the process of making such a big movie stood up and said "errr, you know that this doesn't work, right ?".
I mean, it must no be the most complicated/expensive part of the production to get the scenario coherent !

no factor in 007, to state the obvious

Worldwide Box Office $883,046,744

and two cents.

ahah, of course.
that said, I suppose if we analyzed all the other bonds, it wuoldn't make much more sense !

what makes you think it would be the first time bond's been analyzed

oh not saying it's the first time ever. jsut talking about ILX (and I haven't checked if there are other threads analyzing Bond !).

lol deems

like the whole bond girl plot bothers me a lot, there is absolutely nothing in the sequence of events that involves her that makes sense on any level

And the dismissive execution was ugly even by Bond-movie standards -- as my gf noted, you're supposed to take Bond's lack of reaction like he's just playing it cool, but that only works if at some later point there's some kind of reference back to it to allow sufficient horror or anger or something to be shown. Instead it was just kinda, "Yeah, well ... look, helicopters! Who's the tough guy now?"

yeah I think they need to either double down on nihilistic antihero bond or go full hero, but instead he’s a total nihilist who gets awkwardly framed as a hero

i wonder if there's a personal project that Mendes has had in a drawer somewhere, which he'll now be allowed to make because his last film made close to a billion dollars.

it's goin over a billion

didya notice they cut away from Finney before he had to get through the secret tunnel door?

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

lol

they set the "bros before hos" tone of nu-bond in casino royale.

has there ever been a bondbabe w/ a bleaker life story?

1. child slave prostitute
2. henchman frees her and I guess uses her as flex honeypot / possibly for spy-sexual purposes
3. she is in a casino and meets bond and is like 'no I can't take you to my bosses headquarters'
4. sleeps w/ bond
5. takes him to bosses headquarters where he will get killed, which is basically what boss wanted right
6. boss still kills her for basically no reason
7. bond laughs about it

If there'd been a seat in front of me I would have started kicking it in frustration when he got in that shower w her.

well, there was the one two movies ago who drowned herself in an elevator out of guilt after betraying her country to try to save her boyfriend, who was really just an enemy agent playing her anyway

yeah they really could have just added 5 seconds of 'bond seduces her' to that scene instead of having him just appear out of nowhere naked

They could have added the MEREST HINT OF CONSENT ON HER PART, really.

kind of find it hard to believe that any woman finds being in the arms of James Bond safe or comforting

that is all very Goldfingerish, whaddya want in 48 years, progress?

"Oh, you are trying to meet the most horrible person I know. And I saw you kill a guy. And you obviously got out of a deadly situation with violence to get here. I feel so comfortable around you!"

well there was *consent* tbh but it's bad to give the idea that appearing out of nowhere in a stranger's shower is likely going to lead to consent

xp

I guess this comes from the Maxim school of thought that I heard a comedy bit about -- women like danger, right? If they could, they'd date a fire.

xp Yes, true. There wasn't consent for him invading her space or peeping on her in the shower, though. Those are both not-okay activities.

I just misread that as "peeing on her in the shower" and thought I missed something

would you guys have liked it better if the shower silhouette was of a komodo dragon to give a fake scare before it resolved itself into bond?

I would have liked it better if he seduced a komodo dragon taking a shower

should have turned out to be m in the shower for full dramatic effect

yeah, movie really needed an oedipal angle

he could woo the dragon with a bucket of chirping insects which the dragon devours messily and bond can go, "that's not very cricket."