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I don't remember a minute of Skyfall or Casino Royale, but I recall liking them. Looked good, very Borne Identity? I only remember that because I recall Quantum of Solace being unwatchable, which casts things into relief. I do know that, regardless, I didn't even bother seeing the last one, because James Bond sucks.

Moonraker

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a great Bond film and Lazenby gets too much shit considering some of Roger Moore’s performances.

Casino Royale > Quantum of Solace > Spectre > Skyfall (but only barely - the last two are REALLY BAD)

Would vote for Live and Let Die or From Russia With Love as best Bond, with Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me battling for #3. Part of me loves Diamonds Are Forever because it’s so curdled and cynical and gross.

one of the best uses biggest wastes of Roger Deakins

two best bonds are from russia with love and on her majesty's secret service

hating them all is an entirely defensible, non-controversial opinion

unperson's ranking of the craig bonds otm

i think qos is best craig, it lacks the bloat and weight and is almost brosnanesque

brosnan bonds, apart from goldeneye, utter waste but dont have sam mendes' cutprice christopher nolan pseuodobollox

The best thing about Skyfall is the song, a karaoke classic:

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"brosnan bonds" sounds like worst idea for a new cryptocurrency ever.

ha

I like Casino Royale just because of Eva Green.

i can absolutely see that argument tbf

most films are bad

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, November 8, 2018 5:24 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this isn't controversial, or even an opinion, it's a fact considering how many films have been made and are made every year

i think qos is best craig, it lacks the bloat and weight and is almost brosnanesque

i feel this, i have a lot of affection for qos, but the action is shot like garbage

everything is bad except Virginia Woolf and gin

otm

is that controversial

i'd rather have tonic

Replace gin with cognac and I agree.

I don't understand the appeal of alcohol, especially among people who make their living with their brains. I can't write drunk (or high), and I always want/need to be able to write.

weirdly i think that's otm too, but i trained myself out of drinking and writing bc i always wrote garbage when drunk

writing stoned, however, if you can manage it (it took me ten years to finally not feel 100 percent stupid while high), is great

It's not so much not being able to think/write when high as not being able to think/write when hungover, anxious and tired - something that used to last a matter of hours, but can now last anything up to a week, depending on the booze intake.

oh yeah also hangovers completely destroy my ability to do anything cognitive for at least 24 hours which is why i've mostly given up drinking

still gin is good imo

I've made myself sound like a pisshead when my job doesn't remotely allow me to drink during the week (and adequately function). Booze is still debilitating at the weekends, though. Mmm, sweet booze.

alcohol sucks, the worst drug

coke just barely beats it imo

and I always want/need to be able to write

I often yearn to escape from it and language. From control in general.

Maybe some of you are drinking too much? I drink regularly, but literally never to the point of incapacitation or debilitation (the latter of which I didn't know was an actual word until spellcheck didn't correct it).

So my controversial opinion is that alcohol is kind of nice, in spite of everything.

xp

sometimes it's about personal chemistry, for instance at this point if i have more than two beers i'm gonna be hungover xp

I write best when drunk

By write I mean shitpost obv

otm

Coke has to be the least bang for buck going

two best bonds are from russia with love and on her majesty's secret service

these are the only two good Bonds (but I love Live And Let Die and enjoy all the Broccoli Connerys)

The Living Daylights adaptation is alright, but the film then carries on for more than two hours afterwards

coke just barely beats it imo

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:40 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh shit yeah otm

Uh, unperson, I don't write drunk. Never have. Cocktails are a reward for productivity. I couldn't write as much as I do high or drunk. I also teach, so there's that.

Real writers write when inebriated though

Real writers write when inebriated though

All my Bukowski books are in a box in my basement. I see yours are still piled beside your bed.

william faulkner could write pretty well

In college I revised short stories high on occasion because the monomaniacal attention to minutiae characteristic with being stoned worked then. I couldn't possibly now.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was boring af last time i saw it

it took me ten years to finally not feel 100 percent stupid while high

i'm sensing a connection to your 5-star rating of Halloween II

i'd need lots of gin to get through Mrs. Dalloway

I mean there are still writers who write poorly when drunk, but that is not because of the alcohol

My comment was more or less tongue in cheek though

everyone's chemistry is different