Skyfall: Bond #23

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?

― 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?"

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

liked rooftop cycle chase better in Tintin

Was there any thought of approaching Sean Connery for that role?

There was a definite discussion about that -- way, way early on. But I think that's problematic. Because, to me, it becomes too ... it would take you out of the movie. Connery is Bond and he's not going to come back as another character. It's like, he's been there. So, it was a very brief flirtation with that thought, but it was never going to happen, because I thought it would distract.

rooftop chase kind of reminded me of the one on foot in The International

lol @ pooh good call

the more I think about this movie the more I dislike it, even though I didn't hate it while watching it

like the whole bond girl plot bothers me a lot, there is absolutely nothing in the sequence of events that involves her that makes sense on any level

the more I think about this movie the more I dislike it, even though I didn't hate it while watching it

― iatee, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:11 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilx in a nutshell

the more I think about this movie the more I dislike it, even though I didn't hate it while watching it

otm

rooftop chase was better in that tom cruise/cameron diaz flick

I knew I shoulda have watched the director's cut of vanilla sky

rooftop chase kind of reminded me of the one on foot in The International

― mh, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:11 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they used the exact same location (rooftop of the bazaar)

I was going to say that, but I was like... I think there are multiple bazaars in the world and I'm going to feel like a jackass if it's in a completely different country

I found the movie alright and fun but, yeah, so many things make no sense.
I wonder how no one in the process of making such a big movie stood up and said "errr, you know that this doesn't work, right ?".
I mean, it must no be the most complicated/expensive part of the production to get the scenario coherent !

no factor in 007, to state the obvious

Worldwide Box Office $883,046,744

and two cents.

ahah, of course.
that said, I suppose if we analyzed all the other bonds, it wuoldn't make much more sense !

what makes you think it would be the first time bond's been analyzed

oh not saying it's the first time ever. jsut talking about ILX (and I haven't checked if there are other threads analyzing Bond !).