gotta give it to him for being consistent in playing bad guys with weird hair
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
lol totally, he looks like a fred armisen character
^ actually thought it was Armisen for a couple seconds while watching the trailer
― I DIED, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
tbqf this movie looks dope and it appears to be a pretty cleanly directed flick, with none of that that marc forster jiggle cam shit from QoS.
― omar little, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 07:08 (eleven years ago) link
watched QoS again the other night and still think it rocks bells, meanwhile Mendes is the biggest cunt on god's green earth and i am wildly cautious
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
a lot of work has gone into making Bond super awesome again and i can see it being pissed away in one long windy makes you think monologue
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
QOS sounded good on paper - shortest Bond ever, I think?, pretty kickass Bond girl, etc. - but Forster just bungled the action up too badly.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 August 2012 07:44 (eleven years ago) link
it also had the lowest stakes of any bond ever iirc... didnt the bad guy want to like corner the bolivian water market or something
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, they pretty much set up this shadowy organization and the villain was a member using their resources to corner the water market. It was kind of an understated "DON'T YOU SEE oil isn't the only valuable resource" plot.
― your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
my heart's beating a little faster just reading that
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
I thought that was a super Bond-y plot twist tbh
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
also I <3 Mathieu Amalric, but I remember his villain being pretty damn pathetic.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
It was really not a great Bond film, but then I can't conceive any Bondometer that scores Craig higher than Brosnan, so..
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
borsnan
― goole, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah roman polanski jr. was a crummy villain
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
I thought Brosnan was a good Bond, but the films became very much late-period Bond where there's more goofy shit and gadgets than intrigue and seduction. The action is cranked-up to new levels in the Craig films, but I feel like the "blunt instrument" angle of the new films is a good departure.
QoS having an understated threat is kind of a non-starter when you remember that Casino Royale's main section was about beating the investment specialist of a criminal organization in cards to try to turn him. The exploding plane section was more intense, but it was the setup.
― your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
If anything, the water plotline of QoS was taken directly from the news: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
I hope whoever decided that what Bond needed was ripped-from-the-headlines verisimilitude got thoroughly sacked.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 August 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
new trailer looks really awesome
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
you could probably make a good bond movie about bolivian water stealing or whatever, but it would just have to be like, written better, and directed better
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't watched the new trailer yet; i hope badem's good: i see him & he just seems like the exact same villain they have now, like a well dressed pouty guy with serious hair. they should mix it up a lil. get a really big, comely & charismatic guy. or a cool talking animal. like a tiger. the action in james bond films now just seems to be him running over terracotta tiled roofs & through narrow fruit stall littered streets.
― , Blogger (schlump), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:13 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agreed tho tbh i can't get armisen out of my head now
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/08/New-James-Bond-Villain.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
did they do the willem-dafoe-in-wild-at-heart thing to his teeth?
― goole, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
<3 the californians btw
― goole, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.soulculture.co.uk/music-blog/newmusic/adele-skyfall-james-bond-theme-new-music/
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 4 October 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
That is frankly stunning.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 October 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
I am also stunned - I'd have thought she could at least gone the extra yard and worked in something on the moon/june theme.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 5 October 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
go Epworth is all i can say. cool bastard.
― piscesx, Friday, 5 October 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, the actual song isn't much but her voice plus that production sounds pretty great, sounds like a fucking bond theme. i welcome its oncoming unavoidableness.
― balls, Friday, 5 October 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
anyone who thought chris cornell and jack white were good candidates for bond themes should be fired from any job.
― omar little, Friday, 5 October 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
Cogoddamnsign
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like a fucking bond theme. i welcome its oncoming unavoidableness.
I just hope that the movie is worthy of the song!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 5 October 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
i like 'die another day' but feel madonna missed a real opportunity to go big adult contemporary power ballad there. ever since she got blatantly terrified of being old she's completely ignored that aspect of her sound, at least as big a part of her prime as bringing danceteria to top 40. also got too optimistic at first that this would just shoehorn the title in in passing like 'nobody does it better' did but nope pretty soon 'skyfall' kept popping up like that is a term anglophones actually commonly use. it's like they feel the need to amplify the fact that these recent bond (ie post roger moore) movies have awkward titles.
― balls, Friday, 5 October 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
― omar little,
Maybe I'm alone in thinking You Know My Name is a great Bond theme! The Jack White one I can't really remember, which suggests it wasn't up to much.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 5 October 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the cornell song is good, tho it took time to grow on me. now jack white... that was a disaster
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 5 October 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
you guys are nuts, also the Jack White song had Alicia Keys
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 5 October 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
what's the 2012 equivalent of Duran Duran doing a theme, they have Bardem looking like Walken's villain from A View to a Kill, might as well complete it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 5 October 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
i like 'die another day' but feel madonna missed a real opportunity to go big adult contemporary power ballad there. ever since she got blatantly terrified of being old she's completely ignored that aspect of her sound, at least as big a part of her prime as bringing danceteria to top 40.
So otm. I think this has played a big role in her decline in the charts.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 5 October 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yep. Live to Tell is one of favourite Madonna tracks.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 5 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
what's the 2012 equivalent of Duran Duran doing a theme
Take That, possibly.
OH FATHER
― goole, Friday, 5 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
live to tell could even be a bond title! theme might not work unless movie was about bond going after the guy who molested him or something, some real 'this time it's personal' stuff
― balls, Friday, 5 October 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Live to Tell" is a top-shelf Bond title! Get writin balls
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
Get writin balls? They already covered that.
http://www.ciaranbrown.com/images/mikkelsentorturescene200.jpg
― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
― balls, Friday, October 5, 2012 4:33 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm and lol
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
i'd watch that
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 5 October 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
getting RAVES left right and centre. in teh main.
― piscesx, Saturday, 13 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
otm - track is DOPE
― suggest butt (Pillbox), Saturday, 13 October 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't clock that Deakins was doing the cinematography. Actually psyched now.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, 13 October 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link