Skyfall: Bond #23

I'm cool with it as it acts like the previous three movies never happened, and it doesn't suck

Strictly speaking Casino and Quantum made for a two-parter.

FSVO strict

sick dn sic

jesus christ mum

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'.

What would be the female gendered equivalent of "excuse me, sir?"

but how do you pronounce "marm"? because for me (AmE) that scans as rhyming with "harm", as in "schoolmarm"

hang on have i imagined "just the facts, ma'am" as being some mad exoticism that no American has ever heard?

hardly. It's a catchphrase from Dragnet.

Just watched. As a pun lovin' guy I was disappointed by the mediocre wordplay in this.

"you've just been james boned" didn't do it for you?

Re pronunciation of maam: You know how they pronounce it in the film 'skyfall'? That's how we pronounce it.

lol

it's not like the maam in maamtrasna

mums a texas tradition

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.

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.

i figured they were fake from their movement and the fact that they were eating grown men

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 was hoping he would sleep with one of the Komodo dragons.

and eat it afterward.

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 !

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.

hahah !

biggest movie in British history! http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35926

So it's number one in the US again. Film has some legs for sure.

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?

and the score just ends up pushing it over the top and ruining it

welp, it IS Thomas Newman.

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.

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.

so what use did bardem have w/ bond babe if he was gay? just someone he keeps around?

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

he was spy-curious

irl lol

niiice

Watching QoS, which is SO much better than this

^nut

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?

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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?"

hey sometimes you have to shake things up, get one step ahead

I still can't get over the clever "flashlight while we try to escape stealthily in the dark" move...

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

I saw this again for free on a work outing and I kept attempting to picture Connery as the gamekeeper dude and, yes, it would have been ridiculous

it would work but only if he played it 100% like he did in indiana jones 3, including calling james bond 'junior'

I misread that as an indicator they should reference the cartoon series James Bond, Jr.

haha was Connery wooed at some point?

didya notice they cut away from Finney before he had to get through the secret tunnel door?

There are outtakes, though.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xokjj1hDRE4/Tcr_BNi6Z7I/AAAAAAAACR0/10rZsX7Ec3k/s1600/blog_pooh_stuck.jpg

I think I read that they kind of thought of putting him in that role but Mendes and company decided it'd be too over the top.

as opposed to the rest of the movie