lol @ pooh good call
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
the more I think about this movie the more I dislike it, even though I didn't hate it while watching it
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
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
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
β iatee, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:11 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ilx in a nutshell
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
rooftop chase was better in that tom cruise/cameron diaz flick
― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
I knew I shoulda have watched the director's cut of vanilla sky
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
rooftop chase kind of reminded me of the one on foot in The International
β 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)
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
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 !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
no factor in 007, to state the obvious
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Worldwide Box Office $883,046,744
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
and two cents.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
ahah, of course.that said, I suppose if we analyzed all the other bonds, it wuoldn't make much more sense !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
what makes you think it would be the first time bond's been analyzed
― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
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 !).
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
lol deems
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
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?"
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I think they need to either double down on nihilistic antihero bond or go full hero, but instead heβs a total nihilist who gets awkwardly framed as a hero
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
it's goin over a billion
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
didya notice they cut away from Finney before he had to get through the secret tunnel door?
β saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
lol
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
they set the "bros before hos" tone of nu-bond in casino royale.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
has there ever been a bondbabe w/ a bleaker life story?
1. child slave prostitute2. henchman frees her and I guess uses her as flex honeypot / possibly for spy-sexual purposes3. she is in a casino and meets bond and is like 'no I can't take you to my bosses headquarters'4. sleeps w/ bond5. takes him to bosses headquarters where he will get killed, which is basically what boss wanted right6. boss still kills her for basically no reason7. bond laughs about it
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
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
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
They could have added the MEREST HINT OF CONSENT ON HER PART, really.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
kind of find it hard to believe that any woman finds being in the arms of James Bond safe or comforting
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
that is all very Goldfingerish, whaddya want in 48 years, progress?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
"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!"
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
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
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
I just misread that as "peeing on her in the shower" and thought I missed something
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
I would have liked it better if he seduced a komodo dragon taking a shower
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
should have turned out to be m in the shower for full dramatic effect
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, movie really needed an oedipal angle
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
loool
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
L, how many Sean Connery Bonds have you seen? biz as usual fer that guy.
Yeah, the New Gritty Bond, w/ komodo dragons eating squat Asian henchmen.
ew mook
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
THE CHINATOWN OF JAMES BOND SEX SCENES
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Next movie should be an all komodo dragon cast, Lancelot Link style.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
As I said upthread when I first commented after seeing, I think Bond as played by Craig deserved better.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
since Dench is the only woman Bond cries over, I guess he'd be a sucker for Exotic Marigold Hotel.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
can we both agree that the bladerunner-esque shanghai sneak-up and fight was awesome though
yeah, str8 up homage to collateral by my lights
ah, I KNEW there must be a reason I was underwhelmed!
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
that never required a reason before
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
That was one of many scenes where I thought "just shoot him with your gun!"
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link