Benecio del MANIAC
― Raymond Cummings, Sunday, 25 November 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
dalton's angry Bond in license is sort of the precursor to Craig's this time its personal take, but License is really funny in its own way. Robert Davi gets one of my favorite one-liners ever
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, November 25, 2012 5:55 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah totally, re: dalton as pre-craig. Ahead Of His Time
― max, Sunday, 25 November 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like this bond was so good in concept -- bardem is an ex 00 agent! he doesn't have a crazy scheme for world domination he just wants to fuck with M a bunch and then kill her! -- that they didn't bother to execute making a good movie!
― goole, Sunday, November 25, 2012 6:05 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was the worst kind of bad movie where you spend the whole flick sitting there wondering why no one ever consults you because you wouldve made this movie SO MUCH BETTER
― max, Sunday, 25 November 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
always avoided those dalton bonds growing up, have heard enough about them in recent years to make me curious (esp license to kill - 'bond + cannon films'?), thanksgiving i almost had my chance but there was only ten minutes left in it by the time i noticed it was on; ended up watching roadhouse again. skyfall was enjoyable, opening was great and enjoyed bond chasing bardem thru the shootout at the hearing, enjoyed most of the setup for 'proper bond' though everyone's right that the moneypenny setup that seems to have been devised to vaguely modernize and empower her (this ain't yr grandparent's moneypenny!) only did the opposite, esp paired w/ 'm is a man again, the natural order of the universe is restored'. considering how much bourne hangs over the craig bond i wish they'd gone just a step further (or focused a bit more or thought thru the story at all) and made bardem effectively bourne minus amnesia w/ more regret and anger fueled vengeance, but bond still the hero, basically a reactionary response to the bourne movies - 'the state makes us ruthless killing machines who follow orders or ppl die, you need me on that wall, etc'. i still enjoyed it - i enjoyed quantum of solace or whatever - but this was somehow more frustrating, for reasons max states above. hoping the next one is the lighter, breezier, this time it's not remotely personal trad-bond installment it hints we're at.
― balls, Monday, 26 November 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
made bardem effectively bourne minus amnesia w/ more regret and anger fueled vengeance
this would have been brilliant!
bourne v bond, c'mon someone, make this happen
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 November 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
seriously have the same opening (maybe change macguffin, maybe not), then spend twenty minutes focusing solely on bardem - him prepping plot, motivation speech to some other mi6 agent he offs, establish that in the movie where he's the star he's the good guy, maybe there's some mission where he ended up killing a child and m knew it would happen but fuckit england, and then when he lands his first blow (maybe he blows up mi6, hacks their computers) enter bond, our 'hero'. 'yknow under different circumstances we might have been friends' etc.
― balls, Monday, 26 November 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
Goldeneye also had a terrific title credits sequence. Can't remember a thing about Skyfall one.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 26 November 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
definitely felt like bardem was coming close to saying "look at what they make you give" a few times
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 26 November 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
Feel like I'm always banging on about it when Dalton comes up in a Bond thread, but The Living Daylights is solidly in my top five.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
the part with Charles Trenet's 'Boum' was one of the most eerie, kinda sinister uses of music since Hurdy Gudry Man in Zodiac imo.
yeah The Living Daylights is easily in my top few Bonds; i still treasure my sheet of stickers that came free with Weetabix.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 November 2012 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
This movie was pretty ok.
Admit it, we could make any movie better, right?
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
Sam Mendes does think gay dudes are creepy, though
Sam Mendes is pretty creepy.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Monday, 26 November 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
His wife seems nice but also likely to fall for the devices for crepes. If only I'd met her.
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
* of crepes
i never thought about this but yeah, the only other sam mendes movie i've knowingly seen also had a huge gay panic moment in it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 November 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
(i.e. american beauty)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 November 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
thing about severine/bond was that i thought at first she was playing bond with the victim steez, and he was happy to go along with that. Then it seemed likelier that she was being straight with him (ridiculous but sure fuckit) and he was all up for the rescue. Then i figured it was more in character for craigbond to play along with a rescue attempt just to get closer to the target, ans she's disposable all along.
I think that could have been a neat line, but the playout of this strand was such a mess (like so much else) that it's tough to credit mendes with enough lucidity to say anything for sure beyond 'girl seems vulnerable, bond screws her, she's written off callously almost immediately' without us being able to attribute any character insight into either bond or our villain.
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
I just read it as Silva attempting to fuck with Bond by threatening her, and Bond pretending not to care so it wouldn't appear that Silva's able to get to him. I mean, this is a villain who has been reading Bond's files and Craig's version of Bond does have that Vesper incident in there.
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, November 26, 2012 5:34 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, November 26, 2012 5:35 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this isn't quite fair. alan ball!
the bond gay-panic scene does end with the lol-take-that-homophobes line of "who says i haven't" (or w/e). honestly at this point i'm chalking up everything bad about this movie to ineptness.
― goole, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
lol, no one is calling anyone mum in this or any other bond film, they're saying ma'am
― jabba hands, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
its confusing b/c bardem DOES call her "mum" right? i didnt think bond was tho
― max, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
argh still so mad about the music in this. why fuck up that amazing shanghai tower fight with such a terrible score
― max, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
why does no one call me about these things
The "mum" thing drove me crazy in MI5 and Inspector Lewis too.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Monday, 26 November 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, this pusle pounding action music sucks arse... better replace it with some pooping butthole Vangelis crap I guess
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 26 November 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
*rolls eyes*
― max, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
did you say "sucks arse" because you're in a mood for britishisms in a bond style, or to draw a distinction between sucking ass and being hungry for it?
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
I was clearly posting in max's voice.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
when are they gonna let the guy who directed donnie darko take a crack at a bond movie?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
max is british now?!?
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
has De Palma ever expressed an interest? cause boy would i love to see that.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
tbh next one shd be Mike Leigh or gtfo
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
tim burton, we can find out how bond's dad tried to crush his creative spirit as a child, then after that we could get a superbond reboot where bond lands on the tower bridge into the surprised yet kindly arms of michael caine, a child fleeing the destruction of his home planet
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
wes anderson's james bond !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 26 November 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
now THAT would be stylish !
max would totally rock a monocle
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
Maxacle
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 November 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
is he saying "mum" or "ma'am"?on some subtitled brit shows, it says "ma'am" when I thought they were saying "mum"
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 26 November 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
he's saying "ma'am." to an American, the vowel he uses (as in "palm") might sound something like "mum" but it's not the same word.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
ma-dam versus ma-dahm
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
xp yes but it's not spelled "malm."
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
tbf britishes don't really pronounce the l in palm, either
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
is it a subtle or big distinction in pronunciation between ma'am and mum?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 26 November 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
In the US? Huge. First of all, ma'am almost has two syllables? More so in the south and southwest but I think most people from most US places have a slight hesitation that extends the As.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
I rewatched Casino Royale after Skyfall though and they definitely say maam the american way a few times. so I think all the moms in Skyfall were probs intentional
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
i guess they feel like m is part of the fumily
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 November 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
in the UK i think it's a North/South thing too re "ma'am". up North no one says "Ma'am" as "mum" i don't.. think. then of course there's "Mam" which people in Newcastle say which sounds more like "Ma'am" than "Mum" does.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 November 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
Imagine Bond would say 'mother', but then you are in Avengers territory.
It is definitely 'ma'am'. Longer sound than 'mum'.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
christ's sake
― goole, Monday, 26 November 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link