Skyfall: Bond #23

"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

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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."

loool

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

THE CHINATOWN OF JAMES BOND SEX SCENES

Next movie should be an all komodo dragon cast, Lancelot Link style.

As I said upthread when I first commented after seeing, I think Bond as played by Craig deserved better.

otm

since Dench is the only woman Bond cries over, I guess he'd be a sucker for Exotic Marigold Hotel.

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!

that never required a reason before

That was one of many scenes where I thought "just shoot him with your gun!"

I dunno mook, I thought the Connery-Robert Shaw fight in From Russia with Love was fine w/out an installation from MoMA @MGM Grand behinsd them.

yeah that's maybe my fave bond action scene, brutal

That was one of many scenes where I thought "just shoot him with your gun!"

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:24 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

i was thinking about the scene where silva's captured right after he killed Severine, and why didnt bond just kill him there? there's nobody above him that they need him to lead them to, no plot of his that still needed to be foiled, bond just saw him cruelly murder a woman & then dispatched all his henchmen. hes got a license to kill! but the movie needed silva to be alive to have a silence of the lambs scene with M, sooo

well they still had to prevent him from releasing the undercover agents names, which was presumably automatic?

I love how it was just youtube videos and youtube didn't take them down

man there really is just not a single thing in this movie that made sense

oh yeah i forgot about that dumbass crap

lol i never thought of that.

in Bondworld, youtube is free-speech-absolutist.

did anyone think of Julian Assange for a sec despite the prerelease PR btw

AllahuAkbarVEVO

Javier's hair did keep him in my mind

man there really is just not a single thing in this movie that made sense

― iatee, 12. december 2012 23:02 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I kind of like that. Who cares about plot in action films anyway? It's not a film riddled with plotholes, it's film where absolutely nothing makes sense, from the premise of a computer with all the agents names on it, to the end where the bad guy wins. I like it. The misogony is a bit more disturbing, though.

by taking itself so seriously, i kinda think it lost the right to skate over all the plot holes. and some shit was just so unnecessarily glaring that it just seemed stupid

i mean, i accept that there are three guys in the world who use a certain radioactive bullet and that bond will immediately discover the exact thing he needs upon entering any room, but was there really no other way for bardem to notice the escaping m than a flashlight?

I don't care so much about the minor plot holes, I care more about the big picture 'this doesn't really add up to a plot for a movie'

I kind of like that. Who cares about plot in action films anyway? It's not a film riddled with plotholes, it's film where absolutely nothing makes sense, from the premise of a computer with all the agents names on it, to the end where the bad guy wins. I like it. The misogony is a bit more disturbing, though.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:31 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

action movies are always more exciting when you actually care about whats happening

like obv bond can do superhuman things and bed any babe but nobody's motives/goals/decisions makes any sense on any level

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movie should have had bond get shot in pursuit of something other than the leaked data (but still related). then the whole movie could be about the establishment thinking it was the shot, awol, angry, over-the-hill bond behind the leaks. M doesn't want to believe it, moneypenny can't handle it. bond has to figure out who the f silva is and dodge his own people. might as well go whole bourne with it! you could even work in digging up all kinds of janky old spy tech from forgotten safe spots, not just the car.

boom, better movie. mendes eat it.

give this man an oscar

why not have him team up with jason bourne against a predalien who turns out to be margaret thatcher, the original "M"

http://www.moviesonline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/peter-lorre-m-1.jpg

Who cares about plot in action films anyway?

ade otm

I love how it was just youtube videos and youtube didn't take them down

Dumbest part of this was how the one video we showed announced that he'd be releasing another video every week or 10 days or w/e, but it was numbered 1/8, and 2/8, 3/8, 4/8 etc were all in the sidebar

not to mention by the time it was released youtube's new recommendation algorithm doesn't even show you the rest of a series in the sidebar, lol your movie is as out of date as your sexual politics, pwned

action movies are always more exciting when you actually care about whats happening

― turds (Hungry4Ass), 12. december 2012 23:42 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As long as the cinematography is as good as it was in large stretches of Skyfall, I'll care. Plotless setpieces sorta linked, that is the way to go. (I think my favorite contrivance is the assasin using rare radioactive bullets. Wtf? And they didn't check the bullets from the dead agents in Istanbul?)

Dumbest part of this was how the one video we showed announced that he'd be releasing another video every week or 10 days or w/e, but it was numbered 1/8, and 2/8, 3/8, 4/8 etc were all in the sidebar

― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:19 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

that drove me crazy too

what if he twittered all the names from @nathanbarley instead?

q was fuckin shit an all

movie should have had bond get shot in pursuit of something other than the leaked data (but still related). then the whole movie could be about the establishment thinking it was the shot, awol, angry, over-the-hill bond behind the leaks. M doesn't want to believe it, moneypenny can't handle it. bond has to figure out who the f silva is and dodge his own people. might as well go whole bourne with it! you could even work in digging up all kinds of janky old spy tech from forgotten safe spots, not just the car.

Fucking hell, that's a great movie.

Goole should've written the screenplay for this obv

Would screen.