i didn't really notice the music in that scene. i did notice that they forgot to put spots on Q when they called to attention how spotty he was.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 26 November 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i didn't really thought it stuck out as being bad but then the incidental music in Bonds DID used to be the most amazing incidental music ever.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 November 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's been a mixed bag, really
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
ma'ambling
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Connery would've turned them down
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 26 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Bond #24 and #25 to be uh.. a *two-parter* say rumours. not sure how i feel about that tbh.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 November 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
so long as Gollum isn't in it
― Toshiro Mifune is my spirit animal (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm cool with it as it acts like the previous three movies never happened, and it doesn't suck
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Strictly speaking Casino and Quantum made for a two-parter.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
FSVO strict
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
sick dn sic
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
jesus christ mum
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm English and I have no idea how to pronounce ma'am, because it's a word actual people never use. I suppose I would say it 'marm'.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
What would be the female gendered equivalent of "excuse me, sir?"
― mh, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
but how do you pronounce "marm"? because for me (AmE) that scans as rhyming with "harm", as in "schoolmarm"
― Toshiro Mifune is my spirit animal (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
hang on have i imagined "just the facts, ma'am" as being some mad exoticism that no American has ever heard?
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
hardly. It's a catchphrase from Dragnet.
― Toshiro Mifune is my spirit animal (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
Just watched. As a pun lovin' guy I was disappointed by the mediocre wordplay in this.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
"you've just been james boned" didn't do it for you?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
Re pronunciation of maam: You know how they pronounce it in the film 'skyfall'? That's how we pronounce it.
― caek, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― mh, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
it's not like the maam in maamtrasna
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
mums a texas tradition
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
Nice article on the special effects: http://www.fxguide.com/featured/skyfall/
At the very least you should check out the b-roll from the train chase.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
Obviously I am an idiot for not even considering that the Komodos were fake but it's cool CGI is now regularly convincing enough to fool the foolish.
― ledge, Thursday, 29 November 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link
i figured they were fake from their movement and the fact that they were eating grown men
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
spoiler.
It's generally easy to tell with things that are supposed to be alive. Buildings and vehicles and that can be extremely convincing.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
I was hoping he would sleep with one of the Komodo dragons.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
and eat it afterward.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
saw this today with my boys (16 and 9).never been a big bond fan, but we all loved it .. when the aston came into play there was a large cheer from a bunch of blokes at the back of the cinema !
― mark e, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
The bloke in the cinema who cheered at the Aston Martin when I saw it was my sixty year-old Dad sitting next to me.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 2 December 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
hahah !
― mark e, Sunday, 2 December 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
biggest movie in British history! http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35926
― piscesx, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
So it's number one in the US again. Film has some legs for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 December 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
I don't read reviews v thoroughly in advance, so I didn't realize this was such a blatant Momism melodrama.
AND ALBERT FINNEY AS MONTY WOOLLEY
Are we done with pulp heroes' childhoods NOW?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
and the score just ends up pushing it over the top and ruining it
welp, it IS Thomas Newman.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not overly invested in the sanctity of bond movies. I'm pretty sure the first several I ever saw were Roger Moore ones. Some have sucked and some were good. I liked this one pretty well. Didn't feel like Bond sometimes but it was certainly entertaining.
― akm, Sunday, 9 December 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
it's kind of conflicted over being a Grownup Bond Film (and who the hell asked for that) and staying with the 007 bells and whistles, as when Craig says "I got into deep water" just before the climactic death scene.
btw his "How do you know this is my first time?" response to Bardem's grope is essentially swiped from Clint Eastwood in Tightrope.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 December 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
so what use did bardem have w/ bond babe if he was gay? just someone he keeps around?
― iatee, Monday, 10 December 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
he wasn't gay, he was a) trolling bond and maybe also b) he's outside the law, your petty rules of sexuality do not apply to him
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 10 December 2012 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
he was spy-curious
― WilliamC, Monday, 10 December 2012 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
irl lol
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 10 December 2012 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
niiice
― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Monday, 10 December 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
Watching QoS, which is SO much better than this
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
^nut
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
also do you think the movie is aware that the bad guy basically succeeded at his plan and bond in the end did nothing to stop it in any way?
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, November 1, 2012 9:43 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just finally saw this last night, and yeah. I was thinking at the end, "This is your big plan? You, miles from nowhere, with a little old lady, a grumpy old man, and yr dad's shotgun?"
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
hey sometimes you have to shake things up, get one step ahead
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 10:09 (eleven years ago) link
I still can't get over the clever "flashlight while we try to escape stealthily in the dark" move...
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
one clever move amongst many, that one.
Christ, this was awful, though. Nobody did anything remotely sensible throughout, which idk was sound enough for moore or brosnan or even connery but in a pofaced craig bond really has to be considered a major failing
― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link