Bond #25: NO TIME TO DIE

oh my god this was so fucking good

:D

Going in 45

best since casino royale easy while not quite as excellent (but cr feels like lightning in a bottle at this point)

the most visually striking bond film since… idk. the sam mendes films were often gorgeous but this one goes even further imo

and the hans zimmer score was mostly him on a tour through established bond themes but that’s exactly what i wanted to hear. hearing the strains of the ohnmss theme… what a dream

ohmss*

Yeah that was a series of nods I wasn't expecting. But I did love it.

there were a number of subtle tweaks that I hadn’t expected, and for all of the “oh no, it’s been script doctored to be funny” doomsayers about phoebe waller-bridge’s inclusion, I thought the dialogue was pretty crisp

what’s the record for longest intro sequence in a Bond movie before the title card and theme drop? this one seemed pretty long

The longest easily.

the new version of chekov's gun: if you remind people you're a commander in the royal navy...

taking my folks today. my dad's a huge Bond fan, first time we'll have seen a movie together since after he was hospitalized.

just gonna make sure he uses the bathroom before we go!

also good because by 1 am I was starting to doze last night. can't do the laties anymore.

Sooooo good

Seeing it tomorrow. How bad are we gonna regret doing it in 3D with moving seats?

during the opening scene u might puke

Ideal timing then with all the spacing they're doing now!

Could/should I take an 11 year old to see this?

hmm.

only one "fuck".

violence mostly not grisly or graphic, but there are young ppl in danger. lotsa car chases. one scene of Blofeld with no eye patch

There are approximately 90 minutes of footage of the hero firing machine guns into human beings

that describes just about every Bond film made in the last 30 years

the Ana De Armas cameo might have been my favorite bit about this. going from nervous and socially awkward upon meeting Bond and transitioning into smooth, assured, confident and in-charge as the mission begins and then shit starts hitting the fan.....she makes the best use of her short screen time.

THIS WAS GREAT

i enjoyed myself immsenely & look forward to many rewatches in the future

HOWEVER: good lord I don’t ever need to see Lea Seydoux’s snotty nose on a giant movie screen ever again

Lol my friend said EWW SHE GOTS A BOOGER

Charmingly realistic I thought.

I'm sure I'd be blowing nose bubbles all over the place. The problem I kept having was the preternaturally calm child.

as soon as Billy Magnussen showed up I knew he was gonna be a double agent because he always plays sons of bitches

just about EVERYTHING in Italy was gorgeous

was the missile silo a real location or a build?
it looked amazing

that describes just about every Bond film made in the last 30 years

i) not iirc
ii) I would not show an eleven-year-old Goldeneye, but I didn't ask

(also I saw the last movie and didn't remember all the continuity stuff; someone who was five years old at the time might be even more bemused)

196 people died in You Only Live Twice. suffice it to say people dying is a staple of Bond films.

they had a lot of guts

as a kid, dad had on For Your Eyes Only once and the murder of the Havelocks did upset me a bit.

mostly cos the dad never got to read his book

i was def too young to watch licence to kill when i watched licence to kill, the opening is so grim

plus a head explodes in that movie. rated r

and sharks!

License to Kill was unusually over the top violent, probably inspired by other movies of that ilk that were growing popular in the 80s.

I only saw it 5 or 6 years ago and, daaaaamn. definitely wouldn't have been ok with that as a kid.

Living Daylights not so bad.

of the many bond movies that no time to die echoed i really enjoyed the parts that reminded me of licence to kill. felix :(

The Living Daylights is a top ten Bond for me, despite Dalton giving the impression that martinis suck and he'd rather be in Twelfth Night.

for me too, prob my favorite cold open of any of them. also best suite of bond themes

Yeah it was the first one I saw in a theater -- up to that point it was cable or network TV -- and that combined with Dalton's approach means it'll remain a sentimental favorite, though as with all the John Glen-directed films his approach can best be called 'sturdy.'

Alfred weren't you the one in another Bond thread that said Dalton always played Bond like he was in a production of Othello?

(it was apt, I think I've stolen that IRL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWrecLbn4KE

such a banger

Billy Magnussen‘s character being referred to as “the book of mormon” was a good quick laugh

haha yeah.

why do I have the suspicion that there was an internal debate on whether Blofeld would say “Hello, Clarice” when he’s moved in to have his face-to-face with Bond

Alfred weren't you the one in another Bond thread that said Dalton always played Bond like he was in a production of Othello?

haha probably!

I did like how they played with Bond's long-standing paranoia, particularly after Vesper. One might think his ditching of Madeline was abrupt, but the way they framed it seemed like it might be convincing. He gets bombed after she brings him to Italy, after he visits Vesper's grave, she mentions having secrets and tells him in the car she has something to tell him (which is probably that she's pregnant). but I think the big one is the bags being downstairs. He thinks she was trying to get the fuck out of town after selling out her husband, when in reality, he'd told her 'when I get back, tell us where we're going next', so she had probably just made those plans and was going to tell Bond where they were going when he got back.

creepy as shit all the machinegunned henchmen were basically silhouettes

the motion chair was a pretty good time btw