Skyfall: Bond #23

new trailer looks really awesome

― 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

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/08/New-James-Bond-Villain.jpg

did they do the willem-dafoe-in-wild-at-heart thing to his teeth?

<3 the californians btw

http://www.soulculture.co.uk/music-blog/newmusic/adele-skyfall-james-bond-theme-new-music/

That is frankly stunning.

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.

go Epworth is all i can say. cool bastard.

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.

anyone who thought chris cornell and jack white were good candidates for bond themes should be fired from any job.

Cogoddamnsign

sounds like a fucking bond theme. i welcome its oncoming unavoidableness.

I just hope that the movie is worthy of the song!

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.

anyone who thought chris cornell and jack white were good candidates for bond themes should be fired from any job.

― 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.

yeah the cornell song is good, tho it took time to grow on me. now jack white... that was a disaster

you guys are nuts, also the Jack White song had Alicia Keys

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

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.

Yep. Live to Tell is one of favourite Madonna tracks.

what's the 2012 equivalent of Duran Duran doing a theme

Take That, possibly.

OH FATHER

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

"Live to Tell" is a top-shelf Bond title! Get writin balls

Get writin balls? They already covered that.

http://www.ciaranbrown.com/images/mikkelsentorturescene200.jpg

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, October 5, 2012 4:33 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm and lol

i'd watch that

getting RAVES left right and centre. in teh main.

That is frankly stunning.

otm - track is DOPE

Didn't clock that Deakins was doing the cinematography. Actually psyched now.

fwiw i'm always wary of really early RAVES for tentpole pics

A roundup... more worried about the "lost his parents" mandatory angle than that he's given up smoking.

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-sam-mendess-skyfall

They got the Deak? Rad

Few Bond films have one-word title; Goldfinger comes to mind. Skyfall is one of them and to sum up its appeal in one word, it's terrific

oh my god is there a worse writer alive than emmanuel levy

to coin a phrase, it's terrific

glad Ben Whishaw has the classical training necessary to play Q.

Not often a bond fan (never a mendes fan), but really liked this. Looks great, moves quickly, none of that bad-bond stuff where it's all a bit confusing-boring. Bardem disappointed me a tiny bit, but sold on the mid-long term cast. Good at London too, always approve of that.

it's sort of blade runner meets home alone. dug it.

ha, get that on the poster

glad Ben Whishaw has the classical training necessary to play Q.

Rory Kinnear in the Guardian the other day was pointing out that between him, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney and Whishaw, this is possibly the first quadruple-Hamlet film, certainly the first such Bond.

how many keatses in it

Well that was most enjoyable, though the final Scottish sequence was a little drawn out. Pre-credits was up there with the franchise's best, and gotta approve of any action movie that features a henchman being eaten by a komodo dragon. Casino Royal>Skyfall>>>>>>>>Quantum.

Quantum sucked kinda

iirc Quantum didn't have a real script during shooting due to WGA strike; they were making shit up as they went

(didn't see it tho cuz it had a dumb name)

The title of the thread made me wonder : is there a film series with as many films as the bond ones ? 23 is a lot !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_%28film_series%29

Oh ! Never heard of that !

Porn, mostly (hah, moistly is a pretty good typo there).

Other than that there's still a few. "Abbott & Costello" is probably cheating as a film series - I guess the most famous long series would be Godzilla then?

Oh ! Never heard of that !

You wouldn't have if you're not British.

I keep coming up with alternate skyfall theme songs in the shower, shirley bassey-style

"but... you could lose it all! in skyyyyyyfaaaaaaaal!"