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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

It'll be intersting to see someday if my posts are any less amazing when I'm sober.

Not today, though (dook dook dook).

People who spend more than $200 on a cellphone are insane.

People who deprive the numerous Bond threads of good content by instead derailing the controversial opinions thread are monsters.

xpost I spent >$200 on my phone but I'm still using the same one like eight years later even though it is a certifiable POS at this point so I feel like I've justified the extravagance.

I guess none of the above exactly refutes your assertion, though.

used for 8 years would take it out of the category of purchases I am targeting. Yikes, I think the longest I ever had one cell phone was 4 years.

People who deprive the numerous Bond threads of good content by instead derailing the controversial opinions thread are monsters.

i think this might be part of a new rationalizing of ILX, in the same way that the Controversial Music Opinions thread is doing the work of most of ILM quite comfortably

xp. I'm just surprised a phone works after 8 years.

Yeah, I probably spend more time cursing at it than I do actually using it.

I still have a second generation ipod that works with the little rotary wheel thing.

^ ha ha

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

last time I saw it was on a cinema triple-bill with Goldfinger & The Spy Who Loved Me and it fucking rips

People who spend more than $200 on a cellphone are insane.

― Yerac, Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:38 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, you could even drop that to $100ish

going from Goldfinger's climactic "Bond rapes a lesbian straight and she turns her crime army to help him" to a film full of women's agency being respected and elevated was p sweet too

i have a 14 month old huawei that cost me $117 canadian (cheapest smartphone i could fine) and it hardly works now

I thought every cellphone was designed to self destruct at 14 months. Apple is running such a scam.

I have to go into a meditative state with my friends who leave their new iphones in cabs or crack the screens all the time.

there are no good James Bond movies, they are all one long continuous stream of racist chauvinist imperialist garbage

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

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:47 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you think alien is boring

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

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:49 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you seen this movie? oh? you would never bother? ok then... shut up?

People who deprive the numerous Bond threads of good content by instead derailing the controversial opinions thread are monsters.

― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:46 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol every time bond comes up on ilx i feel like i'm just restating the same opinions in a completely different thread

Daniel Craig is the best James Bond, hands down.

(NB I have not seen a James Bond film which did not star Daniel Craig.)

(But I have seen all of the Daniel Craig Bond films because he's just that good.)

I have been angling to try to stay a night at that hotel in the atacama desert at the end of Quantum of Solace.

i saw 20 minutes of the one where roger moore is on skis and that was fun, i like gunfighting on skis

that is all of the james bond i have watched

so anyway, here are my strong opinions on the entire franchise:

Could never get on board with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Pierce Brosnan was the best Bond imo. Eager to see who's next - is Idris Elba still a possibility? That'd be great.

in terms of smartphones apple phones last the longest, it's just that people want the newest features so they trade them in every year

6 years ago i bought a samsung galaxy s3 or s4 whichever it was, and it broke in a little over a year

Could never get on board with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Pierce Brosnan was the best Bond imo. Eager to see who's next - is Idris Elba still a possibility? That'd be great.

― flappy bird, Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:08 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bond is about post-colonial anxiety and racism, patriarchy etc. the novels are even clearer regarding this. getting idris to play him for representation reasons ignores this fact completely. the best new bond is no bond

Henry Golding should be the next James Bond

yeah there's so much blatant over-compensation baked into the character. oh yr empire just collapsed and yr feeling a little unsure of yrself culturally, politically, sexually, economically? here's a macho superhuman British super-spy that gets all the pussy, has an unlimited supply of fabulously expensive gear, puts those uppity natives in their place, and generally acts like he still owns the place. Who needs this fucking crap.

are you quoting Trump

I haven’t seen Elba be good in anything since the wire, not sure if it’d be good or bad to take him out completely by saddling him with the entirely shitty bond franchise

Pierce Brosnan was the best Bond

this is definitely the controversial opinions thread.

there are no good bond films but not for the reasons Οὖτις said: they are already bad anyway, the ideology can't make them worse

that too!

🙌

they all follow a preposterously thin formula

can ilx do westerns next

I haven't seen a Bond film that hasn't made me want to turn it off, read Virginia Woolf, and drink gin.

there are no bad westerns

well

bond movies are just generic well-made Hollywood action movies these days. You could put a batman mask on Daniel Craig and only need to change 10 lines in the film. old bond movies all have dated horribly and come across super cheeseball.

xps

good start dudes

shit boring takes on the weight ilxors are desperate for genre movies to bear for them itt