Skyfall: Bond #23

an old guy he owns

i thought this was hilarious btw, bond's been gone for years and returns to his family's abandoned estate and ah this old painting, look at the dusty furniture, and why there's that old fella still in the same corner, hasn't moved has he?

Ah, mr bond. I've been expecting you.

an acquaintance of mine used to call it 'james bonding' a film when you were too intent on plot/continuity/reason to enjoy the spectacle of a blockbuster action movie.

and i get that, which is why i don't care that bond survived a fatal shooting/fall in the opening scene or magically picked out the password for q. (was there a 'zoom in! enhance!'? i don't even remember.) or that dude was 'one of six ppl in the world to use these radioactive bullets'.

but the whole plot made no sense. there was ridiculous shit like albert finney and his flashlight as the burning estate lit up the night. craig's bond is humorless; he can get away with shit like 'a waste of good scotch' even less than his predecessors. i liked the bourne movies -- if they wanna go that route it's cool with me, but if so they need to go all the way. as it was, it's a mishmash of bullshit trying to have it every which way.

i mean srsly fucking give slock1 the bond franchise

now i'm just wondering what ronin would have been called if it had been a bond movie

if bond is going to be a tough old relic of the cold war he may was well chase some ice skates wanted by the ira

would have been called bonin obv

bonin'

anagrams amirite

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-11/the-secret-james-bond-missed-in-skyfall-.html

back to yr point about Craig being humorless, I think he was really funny and charming in casino royale, he was A++. But they're fucking up his initial take on the role.

anagrams

too clever by half

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

― christmas candy bar (al leong), 17 February 2013 21:56 (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― birmingham six, guildford four, mumford & sons (darraghmac), 17 February 2013 22:00 (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was directed at mendes, not al leong :(

on rewatching this, it's really much worse than I was originally lead to believe

and Quantum = much better on rewatching than I first thought

thunderball is still pretty dumb, fyi

this movie sucks.

quantum is the best of the craig bonds, as 'bond' movies anyway

Skyfall? More Like DumbAmericanBeautyguysucksatactionfall!

quantum of solace has some really enjoyable set pieces revolving around buildings so it's great in my book

wtf are you people on

QS wasn't that good but it was better than this one

smokin' dat rob ford

s1ocki otm

can we get back to that guy's anagram-based analysis of Skyfall

if you watch Quantum as a direct sequel to Casino (ideally you watch them both in the same sitting) it's waaaaay better

disagree

i think I kinda prefer Casino over Quantum though. Skyfall, Bond-wise my least favorite of the Craigs. But the theme song and the villain are A+, so it's not a total writeoff.

Also I like that whole Macau thing with the sexy dragon lady & the komodo dragons

Casino is quite clearly the best of the Craigs.

I really enjoyed watching all of the Craig Bond movies *shrug*

In fact I think Connery is the only Bond so far whose debut isn't also his best.

it's all better than Roger Moore's entire run tbh

otherwise Morbs otm re: quibbling at a Bond movie

that parkour/crane chase in Casino still blows me away by how great it is

my favorite Skyfall factoid is how Ben Stein became obsessed with Javier Bardem's character

that anagram thing means they were all saying "mum" after all?

I mean, don't get me wrong -- all 3 Craig Bonds are great and I can happily rewatch any of them. the quibbling comes from a place of love, at least for me

lol, yes DJP

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

― christmas candy bar (al leong), 17 February 2013 21:56 (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― birmingham six, guildford four, mumford & sons (darraghmac), 17 February 2013 22:00 (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was directed at mendes, not al leong :(

― golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

the craig bonds for me are like this

casino royale >>>> skyfall >> QoS

but i do enjoy all of them to some degree (CR is a classic, skyfall has incredible elements, QoS is a nice diverting minor bond more than a catastrophe)

well none of them has a four-hour slog through a melting ice palace, right

i probably agree with that, with the proviso that the good-to-average bond is a nice diverting minor bond movie and stepping above that ito of reach is probably best done from a position of extreme strength/confidence as opposed to 'fuck james bond i wanna make a modern day theme srs movie'

we should really poll what the worst Brosnan film was, although we might have to throw out the ice palace one just to make it fair

it kind of went GoldenEye >>>>>>>>> rest of them

yeah

all of them worth watching for the exact length of time you were watching them and nary a nanosec more

madonna obv a low point

I've only seen Tomorrow Never Dies once but I remember really enjoying it. The World is Not Enough seems like it's on cable every other weekend and gets funnier and funnier every time I see it.

it's a bad bad bad bad bad bad world is not enough

quantum of solace is vastly better than this i thought. have trouble even defending it as a whole, beautifully shot movie but otherwise

skyfall sucks!

the action sequences are some of the worst i've ever seen since i watched Babylon A.D. the other night. they're terrible! and i've seen stone cold steve austin movies.

The only thing I remember about Quantum of Solace was a fight in an elevator (that *was* in that movie, right?).

is skyfall the one with a silhouette fight scene like those ipod commercials

Brosnan:

Goldeneye>>>>>>WiNE>>TND>>>>>>>>DAD

silhouette fight scene sucks as a fight scene but is amazing as a visual

applies to a lot of modern fight scenes tbf