And then I guess hurting you quite a lot in a train. Hard to put all that into one image macro though
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 November 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
This just wasn't much fun at all (not for lack of supercars or pyrotechnics). Needed more Moneypenny! Needed more jokes.
― yes wave (rip van wanko), Saturday, 7 November 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Agreed. I heard some bellyaching about how Skyfall was humorless, but that was fun and colorful while this one was beige FPS Bond all around w/the exception of the introduction, maybe. Entertaining enough, I suppose. Waltz is as wasted as Bardem was, and his villain backstory was much more nonsense.
I guess at least Davebomb Batista got some work out of it
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 November 2015 01:19 (eight years ago) link
It wasn't stolid or self-serious, it just wasn't funny, ever.
― yes wave (rip van wanko), Saturday, 7 November 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
I thought this was a gigantic amount of fun.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Saturday, 7 November 2015 03:08 (eight years ago) link
Kind of a mixed bag, but so much better than Skyfall that I'm not mad or anything.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 November 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
I REALLY dug Batista here, kinda hoping the character somehow isn't dead and randomly pops up in, whatever, the next reboot or iteration, Craig or no Craig.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 November 2015 03:32 (eight years ago) link
There were at least two moments where I wished VegemiteGrrl was in the theater next to me so I could jokingly elbow her after some of her earlier insistences about the plot :)
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 7 November 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
chekov's cat -- if Q mentions a cat in the first act...
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 7 November 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
so someone strokes a cat in this?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 November 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
no comment
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 7 November 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
this was great! I caught myself being disappointed she didnt get offed at the end, i was feeling the OHMSS nods lol
love a train fight, bautista was so good!!!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 November 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
the sheer physicality of that fight was amazing, just brutal
might have just been the large screen nature but the 'romance' seemed more intense, lots of close shots of almost-kissing, heavy breathing
― μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 8 November 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
i don't know. that scene where Bond "seduces" Monica Bellucci was classic Bond nonsense cheese
― Nhex, Sunday, 8 November 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
I felt like Bellucci was kinda wasted in this, she deserved a bigger role imo
also the Bautista eyeball popping - did he have metal thumbnails? i didnt quite catch them
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 November 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
Fell asleep :(. Was enjoying but just was exhausted. Gonna try again
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 8 November 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
in the UK they shaved some seconds from 2 scenes to get a 12A, i'm thinking one musta been the eyeball-popper.
― piscesx, Sunday, 8 November 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
This movie kinda convinced me that I'm ready for a return to batshit, balls out Bond movies.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 8 November 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
Remember when these movies had tons of random agents and characters, and when they were overtly funny and witty?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 9 November 2015 00:00 (eight years ago) link
but everyone moans when they get too silly, and this is the essential Bond quandary! the lows of the Moore era (Jaws running in slo-mo with his girlfriend at the end of Moonraker, "Hiss off" to a snake in Octopussy etc etc) and the windsurfing Brosnan.. oh man.
i think the Craig 4 have been as good a 'linked' run of popcorn movies as i've ever seen and i hope they do no more in case they spoil it.
― piscesx, Monday, 9 November 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
i could handle one more
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 November 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
def needed more Belucci but I feel that way about most films
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 9 November 2015 01:01 (eight years ago) link
anyone else wonder during the entire last section if he was, in fact, face-blind and the portraits he encountered meant to mock him all looked the same? everyone else either spoke to him first or was very recognizable via voice/smell/size
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 9 November 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
First three Craig bonds took my money and had their way with me over a cumulative ten hours or so of fun-free overly-expositioned SRS BZNESS griefy mummy issues thug but srsly u gotta get wise sometime and fuck the nolanisation of bond
ps its been done by Dalton, and it didn't take all fucking day either.
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Monday, 9 November 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link
xpost i kinda wondered
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 November 2015 01:20 (eight years ago) link
tell you what's odd.. Skyfall had zero connection to the previous 2 (aside from the characters) mainly i guess because they wanted to have no obvious link to Quantum. but this one has all kinds of .. elements that tie up loose ends from *all 3* of the Dan Craig films. it's weird. soon as you see Vesper *and* Javier in the credits it's like 'woaah WTF'. i wonder if the writing guys had originally wanted the new Mr White scenes and suchlike, in Skyfall but someone poo-pooed it.
― piscesx, Monday, 9 November 2015 01:28 (eight years ago) link
At least White was in Casino Royale and a dangling loose end from Quantum's introduction. Feel like they deliberately ignored Quantum as much as possible because, well, it was awful
Also I suspect you're right about Skyfall, they seemingly intentionally cut ties to Quantum, which was annoying considering how the movie ended so open
But what do they even tie up from the other three films, really? Kind felt like the villain in Scream 3 - the guy YOU NEVER KNEW was there from BEFORE the beginning and it turns out he was responsible for EVERYTHING!
― Nhex, Monday, 9 November 2015 01:44 (eight years ago) link
I must be the only person who couldn't stand Skyfall, in large part because of the Adele song (sorry).
Really though, no more backstory please, no more connective tissue between episodes, etc. ENOUGH. Spectre "tying together the loose ends" felt super perfunctory.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 9 November 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link
Also I would dig a movie entirely about Mr White's life more than Spectre itself
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 9 November 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
Like I saw the movie Friday and was on the fence about it, some good and some bad, but then when I sat down to write a review today all my bile came up
idk, it had most of the things I wanted from a Bond movie & for a Craig joint it was pretty fun. Not giddy but more enjoyable than the usual grim tone
Exotic cold open! Car chase through Rome! Imposing henchman!Alps & a plane chase!Train fight! Villain + ACTUAL lairCat!
etc
I am more than happy with it & def bump this well above Skyfall
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 November 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
Mr. White all radiation-poisoned, paranoid, and hiding in a basement in the middle of snowy nowhere was a nice scene
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 9 November 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
Helicopter scene made me wince whenever the copter started looking like it was going to take out hundreds of civilians
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 9 November 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
$73 M in North America this weekend to Peanuts' $45 M
Why It’s Time to Retire James Bond (As We Know Him)
The 24th Bond film, ‘Spectre,’ is in theaters this Friday. And it’s very, very lame.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/07/why-it-s-time-to-retire-james-bond-as-we-know-it.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 November 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Saw this Friday – that Daily Beast review is pretty much spot-on.
― phở intellectual (WilliamC), Monday, 9 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
isnt mgm's bond contract up? pretty sure its all gonna get rebooted once that happens.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 9 November 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
he warns Scarlett Johansson off in pretty much exactly those terms
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 15 November 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
I almost mentioned that, but wondered if that was supposed to be funny.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 16 November 2015 09:49 (eight years ago) link
Much prettier than ScarJo imo
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 16 November 2015 10:09 (eight years ago) link
Opinion duly weighted.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 November 2015 11:41 (eight years ago) link
thought she looked a lot like naomi watts in the train scene
― niels, Monday, 16 November 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
minus 50% in N America this weekend
will likely be outgrossed by The Martian
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
Sounds good.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 November 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
Saw it yesterday. About 40 minutes of fun rattling around inside 2 1/2 hours of pointlessness. When Bond says "It's not over" to Girl, as they're walking out of the Villain's Lair, my wife and I both groaned out loud. Then later, when he's creeping through the abandoned HQ from Skyfall and passes a boat, I immediately thought, "Fuck, there's still a boat chase coming?"
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 16 November 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
at least they didn't jump over j.w. pepper
mendes's two movies seem determined to resurrect every element of the old format, which i consider a mistake, but it's keeping in line with recent blockbusters (star trek, star wars, terminator, jurassic x, etc.)
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Monday, 16 November 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
I think you can rest assured that these are not films where the director makes all the decisions
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
yeah, this is probably stating the obvious but there's some funky self-referentiality going on between new movie and old movies and media coverage and audience interaction etc. that made me think baudrillard could have written a hilarious essay on spectre
― niels, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:06 (eight years ago) link
was hyped for this, but it never quite hit its stride until the scenes with lea sedoux. the self referential stuff never quite added up to much, dont think i needed ANOTHER film (or have there been less than i think?) where bond is going rogue - cant he just have normal missions? and belluci was in it for like 5 mins, which was weird (also her performance seemed quite terrible). it was a fun watch, but i would like a bond film that sort of feels like it coheres a bit more, the first 30 mins or so seemed to be quite choppy.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
also, chris waltz was underused. he was more villainous in tim burtons big eyes!
As I said above, I'm not sure that the canon-wanking (including a lot of Waltz's character - based on not one but two book characters!) is for any actual audience.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link