Skyfall: Bond #23

well it would explain his retrograde attitude towards women and his need for approval from a mother-figure

/yeah that's right

yeah, I was also quite suprised that his mother was french (or canadian ?).
there are many french bond girls, that said !

maybe it's because I come from a backwards country, but kinda surprised "what makes you think it's the first time? (smirk)" hasn't gotten more attention. het sex icon in gay-brag shocker?

The MI in MI6 stands for "Male Intercourse." True story.

the flirty back and forth between bond and bards SCANDALIZED the audience in the theater i was in

haha, really?

A guy in our theater yelled "WHAT?!?!" like he was very taken aback -- it was one of the most emotional responses to a movie I've seen since a guy ran out of Crossroads crying.

lol

haha, really?

― d-_-b (mh), Monday, November 12, 2012 4:38 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah—i don't think they were grossed out, just... scandalized

hope you mean the macchio crossroads

steve vai... oh god *chin trembles* i can't take it

Parental stuff is canon, but she's not quite French:

James Bond was born of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond of Glencoe, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, from the Canton de Vaud.

Tracer you were NOT the only one about the bullet, I promise, I thought the same thing at first

Of interest:

http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2012/10/hashima-island.cfm

cool, I was asking about that upthread

Bullet confused me as well, Tracer. Wasn't helped by having him reflected in a mirror as he dug out the bullet fragments, either.

ugh wtf batcave batmansion batdeadparents fuck off and just make a bond movie ffs

Thought this was an okay way to spend 2:30 but overall pretty leaden and over-plotted, could have been one of the terrible Brosnan Bonds except with better acting/more edge. Pretty annoyed at killing off M and making Naomie Harris Moneypenny.

every half decent 'grown-up' action movie lately was overlong and overplotted, so sick of director's writing chops. Watch some mctiernan, learn something you hacks.

good reference point because the villainy here was some lesser-Die Hard shit, except Timothy Olyphant >>>>> Javier Bardem

jeez guys this was massive dumb fun try watching it when yr not clinically depressed

notm it was massively dumb fun spoiled by bad drama intruding for the last half

man weeping for his bombed out vintage car was excellent drama and also makes u think.

weeping for the cold war instead of this 21st century everyone's-a-spy, you-get-no-toys shit

even when it went all Hogwarts it was great, Albert Finney was fantastic as Albert Finney With A Beard

god the "hacking" in this was friggin' embarrassing.

^^^

actually to be honest I could've accepted all the "hacking!!111" if the film hadn't been premised on the theft of a comprehensive MI6 cover list that was unaccountably on a laptop hard drive that was then transported to another country.

xp heh i'm sure actual brutal murderers nudge each other and say much the same thing during the fight scenes, whaddayagonnado

ps what the hell ever happened the big important fuckin list of names, they kinda dropped that ball huh

M. ejector seat gag was great tho

(wish it had actually been used)

watching dame judy fly above the highlands shrieking wd. have been a crowning achievement of action cinema

doesn't Rafe Fiennes actually say at one point, "why do you have a fucking hard drive full of cover names?" and Judi Dench is all "suck it"

i dunno has it been said but she's been p bad at her job throughout her stint as m

Srsly she went through three different 007s, should've been fired years ago tbqf

"I mean look it costs a lot to train these, can you keep it under control for a bit?"

who was third bond?

someone who died before craig's recruitment i guess

someone otm upthread, this pic weighed down heavily by the spectre of christopher nolan. if only nolan and peter jackson could find themselves a writer/editor or two between them, what great work they could do

nothing wrong with Jackson that a 9 hour trilogy of Meet the Feebles wdn't put right

i tihnk he's fucking makin it is the problem

always felt the hippo's back story needed elaborating

tim burton to write in daddy issues, gillia offering the 'accountants can't judge me' angle, good collaboration imo

i like to think that the wackiness of the hacking scenes in this was a wink to how ridiculous the technology scenes in the pierce brosnans bons were (srsly that shit has aged so poorly) but prob not

i like to think the "rule Britannia" shite was satire but prob not

outside of UK i thought it played ironic/funny/kind of sad

Actually the thing that freaked me out a bit was when things started going into the Underground sequence and I started wondering if there was going to be a bomb or the like, just because of 2005. Very glad that they didn't go that route, obv.

there was an explosion that derailed a train wasnt there? i was surprised they went there actually

yeah, but it was conspicuously empty