i have a 14 month old huawei that cost me $117 canadian (cheapest smartphone i could fine) and it hardly works now
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
I thought every cellphone was designed to self destruct at 14 months. Apple is running such a scam.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
I have to go into a meditative state with my friends who leave their new iphones in cabs or crack the screens all the time.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
there are no good James Bond movies, they are all one long continuous stream of racist chauvinist imperialist garbage
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
On Her Majesty's Secret Service was boring af last time i saw it
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:47 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you think alien is boring
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
i'm sensing a connection to your 5-star rating of Halloween II
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:49 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
have you seen this movie? oh? you would never bother? ok then... shut up?
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
People who deprive the numerous Bond threads of good content by instead derailing the controversial opinions thread are monsters.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:46 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol every time bond comes up on ilx i feel like i'm just restating the same opinions in a completely different thread
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Daniel Craig is the best James Bond, hands down.
(NB I have not seen a James Bond film which did not star Daniel Craig.)
― Ham Beats All Meat! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
(But I have seen all of the Daniel Craig Bond films because he's just that good.)
― Ham Beats All Meat! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
I have been angling to try to stay a night at that hotel in the atacama desert at the end of Quantum of Solace.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
i saw 20 minutes of the one where roger moore is on skis and that was fun, i like gunfighting on skis
that is all of the james bond i have watched
so anyway, here are my strong opinions on the entire franchise:
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
Could never get on board with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Pierce Brosnan was the best Bond imo. Eager to see who's next - is Idris Elba still a possibility? That'd be great.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
in terms of smartphones apple phones last the longest, it's just that people want the newest features so they trade them in every year
6 years ago i bought a samsung galaxy s3 or s4 whichever it was, and it broke in a little over a year
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:08 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bond is about post-colonial anxiety and racism, patriarchy etc. the novels are even clearer regarding this. getting idris to play him for representation reasons ignores this fact completely. the best new bond is no bond
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
Henry Golding should be the next James Bond
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
yeah there's so much blatant over-compensation baked into the character. oh yr empire just collapsed and yr feeling a little unsure of yrself culturally, politically, sexually, economically? here's a macho superhuman British super-spy that gets all the pussy, has an unlimited supply of fabulously expensive gear, puts those uppity natives in their place, and generally acts like he still owns the place. Who needs this fucking crap.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
are you quoting Trump
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
I haven’t seen Elba be good in anything since the wire, not sure if it’d be good or bad to take him out completely by saddling him with the entirely shitty bond franchise
― coetzee.cx (wins), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
Pierce Brosnan was the best Bond
this is definitely the controversial opinions thread.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
there are no good bond films but not for the reasons Οὖτις said: they are already bad anyway, the ideology can't make them worse
― mark s, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
that too!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
🙌
― coetzee.cx (wins), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
they all follow a preposterously thin formula
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
can ilx do westerns next
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
I haven't seen a Bond film that hasn't made me want to turn it off, read Virginia Woolf, and drink gin.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
there are no bad westerns
― mark s, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
well
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
bond movies are just generic well-made Hollywood action movies these days. You could put a batman mask on Daniel Craig and only need to change 10 lines in the film. old bond movies all have dated horribly and come across super cheeseball.
― iatee, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
xps
good start dudes
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
shit boring takes on the weight ilxors are desperate for genre movies to bear for them itt
― unproven (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Cary Grant was a wooden and completely uncharismatic actor
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
yes
except bringing up baby tho
― unproven (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
I just had the conversation about mobile phones (or cellphones, bloody Americans) with this nerdy computer science guy I work with. First of all he got all excited because he thought my phone was one of the first android phones - and then disappointed when he found out it isn't, it's from 2010. Then he was telling me he was about to spend £300 quid on a new phone and I sort of shamed him into admitting that he couldn't really justify spending that much on a phone he'd only have for 2 years max, then I felt guilty.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
I still don’t know what people mean when they say things are “good”
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
did we say how spacey and malkovich are not even actors its not a question of bad acting they dont act
― unproven (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
its bad to see them not acting in roles is i spose the way to say it
― unproven (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
dmac inching closer to the proverbial throne
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
in the future we will have otm takes on boring movies if things go shakey's way
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
Spacey did a pretty good Nixon a few years ago opposite Michael Shannon as Elvis, who was just awful
Can't think of a movie I've seen with Malkovich where he isn't just doing Malkovich. I realize this may be a post-BJM phenomenon. I like him, though.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
I don’t know what “boring” is supposed to mean either
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
have you seen Spacey in K-Pax, Margin Call or House of Cards? He loves acting and he's so bad at it.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
Cary Grant is the best actor in the history of movies.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, November 8, 2018 9:36 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's true that the (preferred) usage "good not bad" is clearer
― mark s, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
ive avoided both of them whenever possible for many years tbh
xp i regret otming the cary grant thing i do love him tbh
― unproven (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
K-Pax, oh my god yeah. Horrendous
xxxp I know you love CG alfred and believe me I've tried! I just can't stand him
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
Film acting isn’t really acting
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
good not bond
― coetzee.cx (wins), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
what's wrong with wood? It keeps you warm and is hard.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
good horning!
― unproven (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
But his titanic presence and legacy in American cinema make it obvious I'm missing something, or simply haven't seen him in anything I liked. Love Notorious and NXNW but don't like him in them. Can't stand His Girl Friday. I forget what else I've seen him in.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link