Skyfall: Bond #23

i kinda miss pierce brosnan. i liked him as bond. i got nothing against this guy he's cool looking but i think i'm just a pierce fan. i'm no bond expert. i liked the one with halle berry. halle berry was in it.

in all fairness i should mention that i still have 50 minutes to watch in this movie because i went to bed last night before it was over. but i watched the first 3 hours.

brosnan would make good bond villain now. like how michael caine played the bad guy in the remake of sleuth.

and the beginning with the train and all that is one of the worst bond beginnings.

Yeah no it was really really good. Best bit of the film easy.

When he landed from his spacejump or w/e and adjusted his cuffs and drank the heineken ya that was tops

i think i'm just jaded because half the straight-to-dvd speeding car action movies made these days take place entirely on the tops of trains.

skyfall was quite a visual spectacle but at the expense of virtually everything else

Yeah, that is pretty much why I love it... And to be honest, a description that fits nearly all my favorite movies.

yeah I have really nothing bad to say about the intro

idk, I could go out on a limb and say that Bond wanting to save an agent instead of being locked into his job broke character a little. the playing of him as having a heart to contrast with M's apparent heartlessness was a little ham-fisted

Mamfisted

Again, those of you from the north of england will want to have adjusted yr sets there

i kinda miss pierce brosnan. i liked him as bond. i got nothing against this guy he's cool looking but i think i'm just a pierce fan. i'm no bond expert. i liked the one with halle berry. halle berry was in it.

isn't that the one with the ice palace?! seward you are bonkers

Yes it's Ice Palace, AKA perhaps the worst of all the James Bond films.

Brosnan wasnt a terrible Bond. But jfc those movies are silly as wheels. I mean, I like dumb fun but watching those Brosnan movies now is like injecting sugar directly into my eyes

the invisible car is like whaaaaat is even happening now am i being trolled (answer: yes)

i like the ones w robbie coltrane as bond's lovable oligarch pal

what's so silly about wheels

coltrane is gr8

wheels were square in Australia when that phrase was coined iirc

can we reboot the series with Judi Dench as Bond and Pierce Dalton or whoever as M

objectively i can see the problems with this movie but tbh i don't really care, it was a fun three hours. or four hours, or whatever it was.

nine iirc

would probably watch this again over (almost) any of the other three+ hour movies that came out at the end of 2012, for sure.

brosnan would make good bond villain now. like how michael caine played the bad guy in the remake of sleuth.

I remember reading somewhere that they asked Connery to play the butler dude in Skyfall, but he refused because he thought it would've been too weird. One can only imagine the wave of fan theories that would've followed if Connery was cast in that role... (Cf. the popular "James Bond is actually a codename passed from one agent to another" theory, coined to explain the actor changes between Bond movies, which Skyfall seemingly debunks, since it shows Craig's parents were called "Bond" too.)

meh, fans are pondlife, who cares what they think?

i basically agree with that last sentiment, like walking out of the theater i was "bond returns in style in this delightful new--" and then i started to think about it and it fell apart, as if i'd removed the mandible from the movie's jaw and it revealed its horrible true guise.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:29 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love this post

One thing that bugged me is why did Q and Bond have to have a furtive meeting in the National Gallery? They're not passing secrets to each other behind enemy lines, they're in the heart of London! Couldn't they just do their business in an office or something and avoid bothering with all the spy shit?

It was actually Q's day off but he was willing to meet with 007 just the same

i basically agree with that last sentiment, like walking out of the theater i was "bond returns in style in this delightful new--" and then i started to think about it and it fell apart, as if i'd removed the mandible from the movie's jaw and it revealed its horrible true guise.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:29 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't think about Skyfall during or after watching, which is probably why I enjoyed it.

have we forgotten that the evil plot in quantum of solace was the bad guy trying to corner the bolivian water market?

maybe that actually makes it cool

Is it inconceivable that Bond and Q are simply art lovers, and decided to meet at the National Gallery instead of the dreary ol' MI6?

Y

You help create a world where nothing is inconceivable, Tuomas. Thank you.

the plot in quantum of solace was actually believable and didn't involve space lasers so it fails

Is it inconceivable that Bond and Q are simply art lovers, and decided to meet at the National Gallery instead of the dreary ol' MI6?

fixed

I need to see QOS again. I think what annoyed me the most was the name?

Yeah, I think the biggest flaw in the two recent Bonds are the wimpy villains and their wimpy villainous plans. Trying to control a Third World country's water supply is just to realistic and sad, and a revenge plan for your surrogate mum who abandoned you is bloody Shakespeare, not Bond! And neither Silva or whatever the bad guy in the previous movie was never felt like they could be a physical match to Bond, nor did they have a memorable bulky henchman previous non-physical Bond masterminds have used to compensate for their lack of action skills.

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bloody Shakespeare

fake british tuomas

Quantum of Solace Frenchie had a badass South American general as his muscle iirc

i mean the details are sketchy, i enjoy Bond too much to give him the dissection some of youse are into

Mr White was awesome! The scene in QoS where everyone panics except for him. And he's never heard from again...

The were planning on expanding Mr White and the Quantum organisation's role in the franchise into the modern equivalent of SPECTRE apparently, then QoS didn't do too great and they had a rethink.

They should get back to that imo

was gon' say

also more botched missions and mistreated minor characters callously left to die, it all feels v. Ian Fleming to me

Yeah. But I don't think Jesper Christensen is interested in repeating his role.

nah, I gave him a ring, he's cool with it

Why wouldn't he be?

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He has said so in interviews. He is a big star in Denmark, and has commented on it.

Aight. Too bad. I would think that would be a pretty good way to increase ones international profile, though that's not necessarily what he's after.

I apologize to the people of Denmark for my inadvertent belittling of their cultural icon

Oh man, you should all see Nanna, where he plays the father of a little pre-school girl. The scene where she comes into the parents bedroom and asks them 'What are you doing?' and he answers: 'We're having sex. What are you doing?' is a classic of Danish childrens television.

Sorry, I'm derailing this thread. Just wanted to tell you about that.