They need to quit being so cautious and let Tarantino direct one, someday.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, the article agrees with me.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought the fassbender/myers scenes in IB were the most tolerable scenes. but he is such an epic douche and it'd have shitty references to other films and ugh.
iirc he is actually talking about doing a len deighton novel.
he should do austin powers 4 imo.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Should be Mark Neveldine amirite?
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
had to google that (for shame): guessed it was the director of 'the room'. wrongly.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I think there's a queasy disturbing emo quality to the Cranks which wd fit nu-Bond to a tee.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
wonder if it'll be in 3d
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure the world is ready for james cameron's bond, if that wasn't already done in true lies
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I think 3D is a fun party gimmick but sucks for watching movies in.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
true lines would have been epic if it hadn't starred arnie and that annoying guy.
ya 3d would suck... unless eva green agrees to star amirite.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
lol trudat
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
her eyes would be amazing in 3d
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Spot where the roffles begin:
No, this isn't an April Fool's prank. According to both The Times' Hero Complex blog and the Hollywood Reporter, Sam Mendes, the wonderfully cerebral and cultured filmmaker who once upon a time won an Oscar for directing "American Beauty," is in discussions to make the new James Bond film, which could go into production as early as this June. Daniel Craig would be onboard, reprising his role as Mr. 007.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the suggestion that instead of this, mendes should do an 'after hours' and make a low-budget indie movie to get his mojo back. perhaps he could team up with a hip young novelist to do it? and it's true -- like martin scorsese he should avoid playing the industry's game by (say) making a sequel to someone else's movie.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the April Fool lies somewhere between "wonderfully" and "cerebral".
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Mendes has never made a good movie and should stay far, far away.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/nolan-says-hed-love-to-do-bond/
this would be better than mendes
clive owen and nolan 2012 imo
― D, dilly, dillies, dill, d-bombs (history mayne), Friday, 9 July 2010 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
^ yes
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 9 July 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
And away we go.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Godammit. New Bond title "Boredom is Forever"...or "Stare At This Thing For A Long Time While Nothing Happens"
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
You Only Have a Midlife Crisis Twice
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Theme song by Josh Groban.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
A Merchant Ivory co-production
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
so i'm pretty psyched for this now. i like how he says the new script excites him more than Casino Royale's did.
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/daniel-craig-bond-23-will-be-better-than-casino-r/227418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pw7i82JUaw
― piscesx, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
fuck sam mendes with a big fucking stick
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
He's hardly going to say "the script is worse than Quantum of Solace", but, yeah, will watch. I don't give a monkeys about gadgets though, really.
― Beating up the Ritz (DavidM), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
not even watching the interview but yeah Craig's quote is basically "this new album is my strongest work yet" and fuck sam mendes with a great big fucking stick and yeah will watch
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
Skyfall appears to be the title, Javier Bardem to play the villain.
http://fusible.com/2011/10/new-james-bond-film-to-be-titled-skyfall-domain-names-privately-registered/
― DavidM, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/javier-bardem-bond-23-villain-246719
― DavidM, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Works for me.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
I hope he actually reprises Anton Chigurh.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a348799/james-bond-23-press-conference-live-daniel-craig-on-skyfall.html
Bérénice Marlohe, Naomie Harris are the new Bond girls. Albert Finny and Ben Whishaw also cast. Scotland, London, Istanbul and China the locations.
― DavidM, Thursday, 3 November 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
Elder Scrolls XXIII: Skyfall
― Dust, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
fuck the poster sucks
― owenf, Thursday, 3 November 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
god i REALLY hope this is good. Royale was a frickin masterpiece of a Bond movie.
our Dan looks a bit knackered mind
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pixies/2011/11/3/1320333022686/Daniel-Craig-and-Sam-Mend-007.jpg
― piscesx, Friday, 4 November 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
Sam Mendes: danger danger danger
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/skyfalls-daniel-craig-to-endorse-heineken-as-james/259502
Altogether now.. "HEINEKEN?? FUCK THAT SHIT.. "
― piscesx, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
next thing you know, he'll be endorsing ford mondeos or something...
― Jibe, Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
more tittle tattle. i think this is gonna be amazing tbh.
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/james-bond-skyfall-director-likens-movies-to-doctor/267394
hey and check the wacky user comment at the bottom too while you're there. interesting.
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 May 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
wacky, but I like it. A good chin-scratcher.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Trailer in the next few days. Meantime:
http://images.fandango.com/images/fandangoblog/skyfall-poster-1.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Cool poster. If it's half as good as Casino Royale I'll be happy.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
Sweeeet
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
HOW IS MAN WALKING UP GUN BARREL??
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
he's v tiny, iirc
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
"Man. Ant-Man."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
"Look at this exploding fountain pen, Q, it's huuuge!"
"Sure is, Tiny Bond!"
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
Tiny Bond confronts Blofeld.Blofeld steps on Tiny Bond.Fin.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
Hold me closer, tiny Bondster
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Tiny Bond: For Your Microscope Only
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't they like trumpet a return to the set up with MI6 that they had in the very beginning of the Connery sequence? with Ralph Fiennes becoming Bernard Lee's M and the black girl who shot Bond at the beginning becoming Moneypenny. So looked like they were trying to return to something approaching where things were then and this new Spectre/Blofeld development would just add to that. Not sure how things compare to the books since its been a while since I read those that I have, just wondering if it is trying to reboot something closer to them or something.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 17 November 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
there's definitely a reboot of sorts going on. but the key question is how many more films will the producers let daniel craig make. skyfall was full of 'too old' themes, so my guess is one more for dc, the next story will include some transition to a younger replacement.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
ffs he's not Doctor Who
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
they should ride craig as long as they can imo
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
aw yeah
― eris bueller (lukas), Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
for sure, the odds of a replacement being an improvement are pretty slim
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
he's signed for two more bonds iirc
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
the new one was original going to be a two-parter but they scrapped that idea once Mendes got back on board
― Number None, Sunday, 17 November 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
I really hope they do give it to Idris Elba next. Seems very unlikely though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 17 November 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
They should reboot and shoot the next four or five as period pieces tbh
― bachmansplain jenny turner overtalk (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 November 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
i wd really enjoy films of the original books - inasmuch as they're filmable - but it wd be "James Bond" not James Bond and kinda too big a budget for the arthouse and too out of time for the multiplex
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 November 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
Anyone read William Boyd's Bond novel? I'm quite keen to.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 17 November 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
no way they can top Skyfall/ Royale with the next one. they should quit, take the rest of the decade off and come back with a new guy. the quote about how they were bringing back Bond's funny knockabout romp side (or something) doesn't fill me with much hope.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 November 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
I'm not waiting 10 years for another bond movie just bcz you've had yr fill ffs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 November 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
I could top skyfall with my phone camera, a bic lighter, a bmx and a jack jones shirt
― bachmansplain jenny turner overtalk (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 07:13 (ten years ago) link
+ komodo dragon
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 November 2013 07:16 (ten years ago) link
the quote about how they were bringing back Bond's funny knockabout romp side (or something) doesn't fill me with much hope.
I have the opposite view: IMO part of what makes Bond Bond is the humour/quipping/charming bastard side of the character. Bond shouldn't be just a thug, otherwise you could just be making generic action movies and not call the guy James Bond at all. I thought the thuggishness and overt seriousness was okay in Casino Royale, because it was established Bond was still a rookie and this was his origin story of a sort. But three movies of that is enough already, you don't need to imitate your imitator and makes James Bond into Jason Bourne. So yeah, bring back the one-liners!
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 November 2013 09:28 (ten years ago) link
make two James Bonds, one for people who love the vibe of the books and the early movies, the other for people who enjoy whatever the fuck Roger Moore thought he was doing
― thus spake darraghthustra (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 November 2013 09:29 (ten years ago) link
Well, I didn't mean they need to revert to late Moore level of buffoonery. But in the early years Moore was still pretty good, and Connery wasn't overtly serious either. The later Connery and early Moore movies are probably the platonic ideal of the cinematic James Bond, they had a good balance of seriousness and rompishness, so I see no problem in taking your blueprint from those.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 November 2013 09:36 (ten years ago) link
Except for the moore thing
― bachmansplain jenny turner overtalk (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
So yeah, bring back the one-liners!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUTr3tkVGo
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 18 November 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
i'd like some good one-liners and not weird stuff like the ones in skyfall like where he lolled @ the woman being shot
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 18 November 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
casino royale had plenty of one-liners, not that i can remember any of them?
― max, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
James Bond: [laughing - after being stuck five times with a knotted rope] Now the whole world's gonna know that you died scratching my balls!
― slam dunk, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Yeah. A while ago I rewatched For Your Eyes only, and it was kinda weird to realize that movie had the strongest female protagonist in any Bond movie made before or after it. Not long after that I went to see Skyfall, and it had the rapey boat scene, the aforementioned "just shoot her" scene, plus the Moneypenny subplot with the implication that women aren't cut to be field agents, and the ending where the proper gender order was re-established with a new male M and a Moneypenny behind the secretary desk... Give me your over-the-top crossbow-wielding female avengers and thighs-of-death assassins over this kind of "realism" anyday.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
Yeah totally, all of that is the main reason I really can't imagine ever wanting to watch this again, that and it being eight years long.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
I don't know why but I'm again pondering how unfortunate it was that there was an actual Bond film with Christopher Walken and Grace Jones and they fucked it up by having a weak plot
― mh, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
tbh there isnt any suggestion throughout craig's tour of duty that he's cut out to be a field agent himself, it's three movies of disaster upon disaster.
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
plus he really doesnt seem to like it
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
it's a job, right
― mh, Monday, 18 November 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
we've been spoiled by seeing genius super-ninjas in the Bourne franchise
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Idris Elba for everything imo
― i too went to college (silby), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
sadly he'll be too old by the time craig ages out
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
If they go with another white dude, Fassbender has a very Bondian way about him
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
He can reprise stringer bell in crossover sequel: The Bell Only Rings Twice
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:57 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
The Spy Who Luthered Me
the name's Pentecost. Stacker Pentecost.
― Statham. Versus. Franco. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:55 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah fassy would be great
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
like I'm almost convinced that he's irl Bond
every tv interview I've seen him on, I keep waiting for him to shoot a watch dart at the interviewer or pull a martini from somewhere
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
the fass reminds me a bit of cranston
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 06:18 (ten years ago) link
hmmm
yknow....
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 06:27 (ten years ago) link
Fassbender's real-life history of violence against women would put him right in the Connery tradition.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:18 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
haha i spent a lot of 12 years a slave imagining cranston playing epps instead of fassbender
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
this was on tv
i had forgotten, or never clocked, that just before the infamous "waste of a good scotch" line when bardem pours craig the 50-year-old macallan and clinks bond's glass, saying "to women we have loved", bond actually drinks it. bond doesn't drink that, does he? a villain's toast? (from a bottle no one else has taken a sip of yet, even?)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CnuJpat.jpg
― calstars, Thursday, 21 January 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
if they're going to reboot the villains, what the next one needs is a really vicious train fight as per 'From Russia..' between Bond and a Shaw-esque psycho thug.
pisces 'Broccoli' x tips his hand!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 21 January 2016 12:12 (eight years ago) link
the scene where Silva shoots up Parliament actually made my anxiety spike when I was watching it again. even though it's different countries obv, after January 6th, anything resembling that (or worse) = revulsion.
well shot scene though.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
also aren't the realtors angry that Bond destroyed a home he didn't own anymore
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 October 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link