Skyfall: Bond #23

And away we go.

Godammit. New Bond title "Boredom is Forever"...or "Stare At This Thing For A Long Time While Nothing Happens"

You Only Have a Midlife Crisis Twice

Theme song by Josh Groban.

A Merchant Ivory co-production

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

fuck sam mendes with a big fucking stick

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.

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

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/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/javier-bardem-bond-23-villain-246719

Works for me.

I hope he actually reprises Anton Chigurh.

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.

Elder Scrolls XXIII: Skyfall

fuck the poster sucks

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

Sam Mendes: danger danger danger

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/skyfalls-daniel-craig-to-endorse-heineken-as-james/259502

Altogether now.. "HEINEKEN?? FUCK THAT SHIT.. "

next thing you know, he'll be endorsing ford mondeos or something...

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.

wacky, but I like it. A good chin-scratcher.

Trailer in the next few days. Meantime:

http://images.fandango.com/images/fandangoblog/skyfall-poster-1.jpg

Cool poster. If it's half as good as Casino Royale I'll be happy.

Sweeeet

HOW IS MAN WALKING UP GUN BARREL??

he's v tiny, iirc

"Man. Ant-Man."

"Look at this exploding fountain pen, Q, it's huuuge!"

"Sure is, Tiny Bond!"

Tiny Bond confronts Blofeld.
Blofeld steps on Tiny Bond.
Fin.

Hold me closer, tiny Bondster

Tiny Bond: For Your Microscope Only

Supposedly there's a scene set in the London underground and the gun barrel poster is apparently referencing that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mTIE4D9JM

heckfire. seemed to be a bit 'Teal and Orange'y but i might be imagining it.

the film-makers have definitely seen Inception.

looks very english

Looks alright.

I see Mendes was taking notes from Tinker Tailor.

that is crazy t&o

looks pretty dope imo, i like the less-frenetic style. not as down on QoS as some folks but it was def too bourney.

QoS had some great location choices in that the plot _was_ the location. Unfortunately the bits more reliant on dialogue and emotion were not as good.

I felt like The International, which came out the following year, had some similar issues.

roger deakins is the DP on this and it looks great

The guy certainly has a resume.

see a helicopter fly through tower bridge on 9 june. probably for this.

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2012/05/21/helicopter-to-fly-through-tower-bridge/

what if the bad guy turned out to be skynet

You can't say those things first thing in the morning, s1ocki. God, I need more coffee.

Lol

On a random note, I feel like Casino Royale succeeded _despite_ Paul Haggis being one of the screenwriters, because damn, can I not really stand that dude's work.

btw s1ocki does the email you've got connected to your ilx account work? Going to be in yr neck of the woods next week, may collect on that coffee.

yup yup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgr2syY_OU4

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.

Except for the moore thing

So yeah, bring back the one-liners!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUTr3tkVGo

i'd like some good one-liners and not weird stuff like the ones in skyfall like where he lolled @ the woman being shot

casino royale had plenty of one-liners, not that i can remember any of them?

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!

i'd like some good one-liners and not weird stuff like the ones in skyfall like where he lolled @ the woman being shot

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.

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.

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

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.

plus he really doesnt seem to like it

it's a job, right

we've been spoiled by seeing genius super-ninjas in the Bourne franchise

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, November 17, 2013 3:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Idris Elba for everything imo

sadly he'll be too old by the time craig ages out

If they go with another white dude, Fassbender has a very Bondian way about him

He can reprise stringer bell in crossover sequel: The Bell Only Rings Twice

lol

The Spy Who Luthered Me

the name's Pentecost. Stacker Pentecost.

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), Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:55 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah fassy would be great

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

the fass reminds me a bit of cranston

hmmm

yknow....

Fassbender's real-life history of violence against women would put him right in the Connery tradition.

the fass reminds me a bit of cranston

― 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

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?)

http://i.imgur.com/CnuJpat.jpg

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!

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.

also aren't the realtors angry that Bond destroyed a home he didn't own anymore