Bond #24: SPECTRE

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;_;

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link

he's my favorite bond

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link

his face annoys me, and i don't mean "annoys" me, either

just1n3, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link

the only good thing about this movie is bond moving across the rooftops in the opening sequence with total poise and assurance - craig is remarkably graceful

otherwise it was shit, obv

Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 10:25 (eight years ago) link

Any analysis of the movie that ignores Dave Bautista's gleefully murderous henchman is a little lacking, I think.

Basically though Daniel Craig is good at playing a version of Bond that I have no interest in watching, even as murder machines go Bourne was at least charming.

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 11:13 (eight years ago) link

I think I just uncritically like movies like this about 90% of the time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

except Sam Worthington movies, those are almost always reliably terrible

its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link

Yeah, I occasionally wonder about him - what would it be like to star in, and be completely incidental to, the biggest movie of all time?

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link

he was in Titanic?

μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link

he played Kathy Bates

its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link

The iceberg is more his speed tbrr.

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link

if only worthington could muster a fraction of the charisma of that iceberg

Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link

i suggest Daniel Craig go back to being a gay sex object in films like Love Is the Devil.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link

maybe we should poll the least charismatic leading men of the last decade or so - worthington, jai courtney, taylor lautner, alex pettyfer...

Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link

http://shop.nfsa.gov.au/images/Macbeth.jpg

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link

armie hammer

remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link

boy yeah, armie hammer is not as bad as worthington imo but there's another guy hollywood decided needed to happen and you feel bad for everyone involved.

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link

haha yup, finally watching The Social Network made me say "I sort of see how they thought this dude could be an action star but I still don't really see why"

dude should have built up a portfolio of thoughtful secondary antagonist roles before trying to carry a franchise; "The Birth of a Nation" is a good move for him IMO

its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link

i thought he was really good and funny in TSN which really is what puts him a step above fellas like worthington/courtney/lautner et al. also he looked a little bit better than henry cavill in that man from u.n.c.l.e. remake from last year. basing this on the one time i saw the trailer and nothing else.

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link

the problem with him is more that yeah they tried to make him a leading man right away, i think he's alright i guess. the problem with those others (and even cavill) is that they're boring.

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link

lol I couldn't even remember who Jai Courtney was and just I watched Insurgent last weekend

oh and he was in Spartacus: Blood and Sand too? lol dude is the most unmemorable actor I've encountered in a very long time

its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link

the best jai courtney role is his key #2 bad guy role in Jack Reacher, but apparently he's so forgettable that in the plot summary on wikipedia his actually crucial character is referred to as "a man".

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link

he was also bruce willis' son in Die Hard 5, which alone imo renders the movie non canon

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link

I spectacularly failed to see Die Hard 5 but I'm certain I would still have zero recollection of him as an actor in it, as he appears to be made almost entirely out of anti-DJP and my brain is actively attempting to reject his existence

like, when his character popped in Insurgent, I was all "ho-hum generic bad guy" and then he started interacting with the leads and they were all "we meet again" and I had the horrifying realization that he had actually been in the first movie as Mekhi Pfeiffer's evil second-in-command and I could barely remember him

its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link

garrett hedlund too

cute, but a charisma vacuum

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link

christ i forgot that both he and worthington starred in terminator movies that everyone hated.

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link

that's how black holes are created

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link

i used to get garrett hedlund mixed up with garret dillahunt, just because of the name thing. like visually i have never recognized garrett hedlund (whose name in autocorrect get changed to "garrett headlined" which is funny because who'd want to see him headline a thing.)

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link

haha I remembered Worthington because he is full of anticharisma but I have no idea who Courtney was in that movie at all

its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link

The only thing I've seen Garrett Hedlund in is Troy, so I feel a little better about having absolutely no idea who he is

its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link

courtney was kyle reese in the last one. hollywood casting needs more michael biehns and fewer jai courtneys, really.

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link

Just did a Google image search on Jai Courtney; he looks like a plastic head aspiring hairstylists and makeup artists would practice on.

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link

ohhhhhhhhhh wait I was thinking he was IN the Sam Worthington movie, not that he starred in the newest one

not that it matters, had I seen Genisys I still wouldn't remember who he was

its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link

i saw it and i still just had to look it up on IMDb to remind myself he was in it

Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link

This really needs to be a new thread/poll -- Anonymous White Meat Action Stars of the Past Ten Years

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link

taylor lautner is the worst out of all of them - his voice is just.... ehhhhhh.

just1n3, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link

Ned make it so!

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link

Nah I'll forget somebody. You should do it.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link

Craig rankings? mine: Royale> Skyfall> Spectre> Solace. and yours?

piscesx, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link

Royale >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest

Number None, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link

Craig is a great Bond, and I think great at being the charming roguish Bond (cf Casino Royale) but when they decided to go Bourne in QoS it wasn't so great, and going the full Nolan Batman in the last two hasn't really paid off anywhere except the box office. idk i mean people seem to really love skyfall especially but it just feels wrong even if it's "accomplished" in many ways.

nomar, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link

Of all the things people seem to love about Skyfall, I never got the applause for Bardem - such a hammy (borderline homophobic?) performance

Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link

Whishaw also unbearable charisma vacuum - I'd rather Jai Courtbey tbh

Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link

lol Ned I would to but I'm not a scholar of this stuff either and have already learned a lot itt

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link

i love ben whishaw!

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link

I find his acting a bit mannered and try-hard. And he's not very good at jokes. Nice to look at though, totally.

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link

(Basing this only on Skyfall and The Hour, which is unfair - he could be great in other stuff)

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 00:26 (eight years ago) link

i'll always remember him from the tv show nathan barley

μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link

he's in a new bbc joint called London Spy, it is A+

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 01:59 (eight years ago) link

literally just learned that Sam Worthington went to America and starred in lots of films and video games, also that he married the "where the bloody hell are you" footballer-fucking girl, and they have a baby called Rocket Zot Worthington

glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 03:10 (eight years ago) link

waht

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 03:14 (eight years ago) link


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