Ah, mr bond. I've been expecting you.
― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
i mean srsly fucking give slock1 the bond franchise
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
would have been called bonin obv
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 February 2013 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
bonin'
anagrams amirite
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-11/the-secret-james-bond-missed-in-skyfall-.html
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
anagrams
too clever by half
― Hoogste Punt van Nederland (Aimless), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
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, 12 November 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
this movie sucks.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
quantum is the best of the craig bonds, as 'bond' movies anyway
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Skyfall? More Like DumbAmericanBeautyguysucksatactionfall!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
quantum of solace has some really enjoyable set pieces revolving around buildings so it's great in my book
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
wtf are you people on
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
QS wasn't that good but it was better than this one
― goole, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
smokin' dat rob ford
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
s1ocki otm
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
can we get back to that guy's anagram-based analysis of Skyfall
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
if you watch Quantum as a direct sequel to Casino (ideally you watch them both in the same sitting) it's waaaaay better
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
disagree
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Casino is quite clearly the best of the Craigs.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
I really enjoyed watching all of the Craig Bond movies *shrug*
― smoking, drinking, cracking and showing the MIDDLE FINGER (DJP), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
In fact I think Connery is the only Bond so far whose debut isn't also his best.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
it's all better than Roger Moore's entire run tbh
otherwise Morbs otm re: quibbling at a Bond movie
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
that parkour/crane chase in Casino still blows me away by how great it is
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
my favorite Skyfall factoid is how Ben Stein became obsessed with Javier Bardem's character
― smoking, drinking, cracking and showing the MIDDLE FINGER (DJP), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
that anagram thing means they were all saying "mum" after all?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
lol, yes DJP
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMo_HcRBnUY
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
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)
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
well none of them has a four-hour slog through a melting ice palace, right
― j., Tuesday, 12 November 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
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'
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link
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
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― smoking, drinking, cracking and showing the MIDDLE FINGER (DJP), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
it's a bad bad bad bad bad bad world is not enough
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
quantum of solace is vastly better than this i thought. have trouble even defending it as a whole, beautifully shot movie but otherwise
― max, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
skyfall sucks!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
The only thing I remember about Quantum of Solace was a fight in an elevator (that *was* in that movie, right?).
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
is skyfall the one with a silhouette fight scene like those ipod commercials
― adam, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
Brosnan:
Goldeneye>>>>>>WiNE>>TND>>>>>>>>DAD
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
silhouette fight scene sucks as a fight scene but is amazing as a visual
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
applies to a lot of modern fight scenes tbf
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah i think what i really appreciate about 'casino royale' was how clean and economical it was w/r/t direction, martin campbell is p clearly a guy in the peter yates/frankenheimer mold of unflashy skilled action directors (while not rising to their level.) QoS was incoherent, skyfall was quite a visual spectacle but at the expense of virtually everything else. and really, like myself and others have said the depiction of the female characters was horrible. and bond's final gambit was like if mcclane at the end of die hard shot gruber and he pulled holly out the window with him.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link