Skyfall: Bond #23

well they still had to prevent him from releasing the undercover agents names, which was presumably automatic?

I love how it was just youtube videos and youtube didn't take them down

― iatee, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

YouTube has a shitload of online forms you have to fill out to get them to take it down, it's kind of a hassle. might as well just live with it.

Buried in a bit of self-pity from Ben Stein:

On the other hand, Skyfall came out. Not only is it the best Bond ever, but Javier Bardem, the “villain” is the single most interesting character I have ever seen on a movie screen. He may be the most interesting character I have ever seen in any drama. The depths of his personality go on forever. The vivacity and inventive playfulness of this murderer are overwhelming.
I saw it again tonight. I would call it the best movie since Blade Runner. Maybe better. I have seen it in the theater nine times and I could see it every day. You simply cannot miss this movie.

...uh?

What a weirdo

"Bardem? Bardem?"

Saw this over vacation, it ruled

my lord what a genuinely dreadful film

you're both wrong!

no it was really bad: boring, incoherent, ponderous, dumb - all of these qualities on display

heard Adele theme in supermarket yesterday, i started crouching in the dairy aisle.

albert finney popping out of the corner in a beard was p funny ill give it that

heard Adele theme in supermarket yesterday, i started crouching in the dairy aisle.

"Boys of Winter 2013"

damn u ppl today, D Craig is like 5 years younger than me

I saw this today -- dug it! Loved the motorbike chase across the rooftops, Shanghai/Macau were wowwww, and I enjoyed the repeated themes of ruins/crumbling empires/old age/the past/etc

Albert Finney is a man who knows how to grow a beard. I was happy to see him

And I continue to have a huge dumb crush on Craig as Bond. Hope he keeps it going.

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i'm glad you enjoyed it. the bits you singled out were cool (except for albert finney). but it was a letdown. ilx needs a production arm because we could easily craft a better plot

Ridiculous. This is a solid film.

i enjoyed it.

nah it was mediocre overall and egregious at points

like star wars, it came in with a kickass history/backstory but could have been so much better

it's no Casino Royale, I'll admit

Ridiculous. This is a solid film.

counterargue every criticism itt then

I though this was p good, to add sturdy critical weight to Gukbe's exegesis.

Mind you I thought Casino Royale was a sack of shit and QoS one of the very worst films ever made.

two things, Albert Finney is just absurd, a reprise of his role in Ocean's... 13 was it? where the fact that he's Albert Finney is somehow the whole reveal of the film. I've still never been so incredulous in a cinema as when he twirled round in his chair at the end of that goddam film (also one of the very worst films ever made).

Also, continuity stuff is usually boring at best (unless it's I Jones and Crystal Skull - where it's a bloodsport), but it did provide quite a surreal effect where one minute Craig's smiting the sledded Bardems on the ice in Scotland, the next he's standing atop a Westminster building, on a bright breezy day, with Big Ben standing at 7 iirc - only possible in British Summer Time I think? The effect is like another, better spy story, Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, where all seasons occur p much in the space of a single chase through London and across France. (This reminds me of one of the curiosities, for me anyway, of the Bond books: the tempo of the chases. Bond's in his Bentley and it's all about him cutting off x villain where the Villefranche road joins the Chamonix Alpine pass before gunning down to Paris, finally meeting y villain at the Versailles fork, thrashing the Bentley's gears as he goes. With film 'chases' have become something very different to their early versions in writing, such that the early versions seem quite alien and strange, and appealingly unfrenetic.)

your thoughts about this shitty film are much better than this shitty film deserves

sam mendes' greatest talent is in hiring cinematographers

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Saturday, November 10, 2012

^^^ this.

I wasn't bored once except for the shootout at the Scottish castle but my god this is fucking incoherent, as in "We have no idea what to do with these scenes and Bardem as a bison-voiced catamite with a blond dye job and Shanghai and Ralph Fiennes franchise shopping and Macallan product placement." Totally appropriate that Bond cares more about his car getting vaporized than the child sex slave.

Craig is smashing but I could have watched a whole movie of the Dame looking stern as she's called "mum."

Did Bardem remind anyone else of Taylor Negron in The Last Boy Scout?

he reminds me of what conservatives say gays will do to boy scouts

Bardem dressed as a copper is one of my favourite film images from last year

Did Bardem remind anyone else of Taylor Negron in The Last Boy Scout?

― epistantophus, Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:27 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

i wish he was that good!

this film was good but I'm getting tired of villains who have zero motive beyond creating chaos that's supposed to *~~make you think about things~~*. More die hard ramblings here but one of the nice things abt 1 (and 3 to a lesser extent) was that these cunning sociopaths just wanted to score megascrill and were going through the motions of a higher calling.

bardem's part in this was rock bottom bad and that ben stein piece above about how he "may be the most interesting character I have ever seen in any drama" cuz he comes onto james bond a lil is astounding

Ben Stein into homoeroticism non-shocker

tbf Bardem - is it telling i can never remember the character name? Silva? - doesn't want to create chaos he just wants to get back at the woman/organisation that hung him out to dry

he's a dog without a master, or so he claims, but he still has an attachment to M even though she abused him and gave him away

the entire "I make up my own secret missions and play my own games" thing is overshadowed by his obsession with facing her, really

I don't disagree but he does cause chaos and then sends mi6 messages telling them to think about it.

think on your sins -- kind of directly aimed at M?

I get the point, though - his M.O. is very "I sow the seeds of chaos to prove to you that you don't really have the world all sewn up, things will fall into murder and mayhem if pushed" a la the Nolan Batman trilogy which is really what ran this into the ground. Nice of them to give him a direct, actual motivation on top of that but it didn't exactly make him interesting.

"More die hard ramblings here but one of the nice things abt 1 (and 3 to a lesser extent) was that these cunning sociopaths just wanted to score megascrill and were going through the motions of a higher calling."

Why did you leave out the die hard movie with kevin smith?

tbf the new Die Hard returns to the megascrill formula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dsdp_7bxIc

Lynda Carter...Lynda Carter...uh, wha?

still mad about this stupid movie

I don't mind attempts to humanize bond but bruce wayning him wasn't really the way to go.

I mind the fuck out of attempts to humanise bond, go make yr own stupid movie if you don't want to make a bond one you pretentious fuckin hack

bardem's villain was really pretty bad, not remotely scary, total fred armisen character

Fred armisen is a classic Bond villain if be had some deformity.

I knew the day would come when I liked a big hit movie more than youse philistines

this guy loves star wars prequels and sam mendes bonds and all of the sudden we're the philistines

do not slander me, sirrah. I have never expressed love for Vader: A Psychohistory.

haha I kind of am amazed at the virulent feelings against this movie