• James Bond SKYFALL - (1/11/12)
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[QUOTE=acds;38465635]Except he's right.[/QUOTE] yeah suddenly i agree and i don't like the movie anymore. scot's opinions are genius.
I don't think any of those detract from the quality of the movie, [sp]except maybe the Chinese girl that he boned. Her death was a little sudden.[/sp]
what about the spanish bird in casino royale. she was significant compared to the one here?
I want a bond movie with more gadgets and stuff. Like the lazer watch thing.
[QUOTE=mark6789;38466011]I want a bond movie with more gadgets and stuff. Like the lazer watch thing.[/QUOTE] You know, I don't even have anything against that, I just hope they don't do it to the Craig Bond.
I thought this was a great movie, despite the pseudo-hacking shit, but that's in pretty much every action movie these days, so I can ignore it.
Bond girl was disappointing. Not enough sex
[QUOTE=acds;38465635]Except he's right.[/QUOTE] you still need to explain that. all he moans about is how it isn't a lot longer (it's a 2 and a half hour film..). This is the kind of person who ruins films for people by dulling them down, he's successfully convinced 18 people and he's a complete moron for doing so. There's only one bit that didn't gel with me about this film, that's the part where Bond makes the [sp] waste of good scotch remark[/sp], it fits the theme of bond but at the time at which he said it, it makes him seem cold-hearted towards a person he seems to have cared about.
Did Kincade call M [sp]Emma[/sp] in Skyfall?
[QUOTE=AK'z;38477233]There's only one bit that didn't gel with me about this film, that's the part where Bond makes the [sp] waste of good scotch remark[/sp], it fits the theme of bond but at the time at which he said it, it makes him seem cold-hearted towards a person he seems to have cared about.[/QUOTE] I think that [sp]from around the point where he uses the radio to the point where the helicopters show up, he's just putting on a show, playing for time, and making sure he says all the right stuff so that he doesn't get shot too quickly. All through the interrogation scene, when Silva's right up close to him, he's just going along with it, knowing that he has to stay on Silva's good side so that he can buy himself enough time until the helicopters show up. If he'd reacted any differently to her death, he might've got himself shot. So he tried to buy himself enough time, waiting until the very last second to do something.[/sp] [editline]16th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=laenger;38478305]Did Kincade call M [sp]Emma[/sp] in Skyfall?[/QUOTE] Yeah, [sp]Bond says her name's M, and Kincade just assumes he said Emma but misheard.[/sp]
[QUOTE=laenger;38478305]Did Kincade call M [sp]Emma[/sp] in Skyfall?[/QUOTE] Will have to check subtitles when released but I'm saying no, he's just a farmer. [editline]16th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=evlbzltyr;38478610]I think that [sp]from around the point where he uses the radio to the point where the helicopters show up, he's just putting on a show, playing for time, and making sure he says all the right stuff so that he doesn't get shot too quickly. All through the interrogation scene, when Silva's right up close to him, he's just going along with it, knowing that he has to stay on Silva's good side so that he can buy himself enough time until the helicopters show up. If he'd reacted any differently to her death, he might've got himself shot. So he tried to buy himself enough time, waiting until the very last second to do something.[/sp][/QUOTE] Now that's true, I was a bit worried there. Thanks :-)
[QUOTE=AK'z;38478645]Will have to check subtitles when released but I'm saying no, he's just a farmer.[/QUOTE] You can watch the B-Roll footage of that very moment. Leaves no doubt. [url]http://youtu.be/N68m61HMtfc?t=1m5s[/url]
[QUOTE=AK'z;38478645]Will have to check subtitles when released but I'm saying no, he's just a farmer[/QUOTE] He did. 100%. Like it's been said, we're meant to assume he misheard M as Emma.
[QUOTE=Scot;38409358]Some negatives I've thought of. [sp]Bérénice Marlohe's character was almost entirely pointless. She was in about three scenes and got killed just like that, never to be spoken of again. All she did was get Bond to the baddie. I thought they could have tried a little harder to develop her other than 5 seconds of exposition.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Don't really feel she needed much development. She only needed to get Bond to the baddie and her death established Silva as a serious villain[/sp] [QUOTE=Scot;38409358][sp]Naomie Harris was also barely in the movie. She was just there, never really doing anything other than the opening scene.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Where else could they have shoehorned her in? She wasn't the Bond girl. If anything, M was the Bond girl here.[/sp] [QUOTE=Scot;38409358][sp] I thought the bad guy's plan was absolutely terrible. They built him up to be this insanely smart supervillain and while his escape was cool his plan to kill M was shite. It consisted of taking the tube to the court and shooting her with only two other guys for backup. I just thought he didn't do a lot for a bond villain.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Disagree. Silva's primary motivation was to kill M, I doubt he expected to, or even planned to, escape after the ambush at court. As he said at the end, he wanted release[/sp] [QUOTE=Scot;38409358][sp]The transition between M dying and that guy replacing her was very sudden, an extra scene would have been nice. Same thing with Bond after he was shot in the opening. He just appears in a beach house right as rain after being sniped off a bridge. I know it's a movie and he's James Bond, but still.[/sp][/QUOTE] Only point I agree on.
nah, the ralph fiennes [sp]succeeding as M[/sp] felt kind of neat. Why do you need a whole 10 minute scene just to discuss why he came to be in that role, the movie was mostly concerning Judy Dench anyway. As for the start... honestly a whole aspect of the movie was to be nostalgic. Did people miss the [sp]digger on train[/sp] stunt, that was completely ABSURD, he just got into it and operated it. That's the essence of Bond, and "Scot" thinks he can just shit all over it.
[QUOTE=AK'z;38486060]nah, the ralph fiennes [sp]succeeding as M[/sp] felt kind of neat. Why do you need a whole 10 minute scene just to discuss why he came to be in that role, the movie was mostly concerning Judy Dench anyway.[/QUOTE] I agree with you. I'm fine with Ralph Finnes, but I'm just saying that [sp]the sudden jump from Judi Dench's death to the credits[/sp] was just so sudden. The movie is totally about Judi Dench, but [sp]the moment she dies, the movie just drops her. Could've just shoved in a funeral, or had an obituary as Bond had[/sp]
[QUOTE=Kinversulath;38490495] [sp]Could've just shoved in a funeral, or had an obituary as Bond had[/sp][/QUOTE] shoved [sp]funerals/obit[/sp] scenes are dumb
[QUOTE=Corporal Yippie;38490524]shoved [sp]funerals/obit[/sp] scenes are dumb[/QUOTE] I think an [sp]obituary[/sp] could've been done well though, something to contrast with [sp]the one she wrote for Bond. [/sp]
[QUOTE=Useful Dave;38490759]I think an [sp]obituary[/sp] could've been done well though, something to contrast with [sp]the one she wrote for Bond. [/sp][/QUOTE] who would think we'd be discussing lack of obituaries in a bond movie....
The only thing that bothered me was [sp]the whole thing after bond getting shot and ending up in the beach-house. How did he survive? How did he get there? Who was that girl?[/sp]
Thinking back on it,[sp]could the ultimate lack of presence of Harris and the Asian lady have been more toying with Bond tropes? The Bond Girl is one of the most well known Bond tropes and both Harris and the other girl were introduced, key for small portions of the film and ultimately dropped out of sight. Both were hinted at as being potential Bond girls, but neither were and the closest we got, as I said before, was M.[/sp]
One of the only complaints I have is [sp]why weren't there any passengers on that train that Silva derailed? It was rush-hour, it would have been packed. My only guess is that it would be too hard to get extras to be on a CGI train without looking terrible.[/sp]
[QUOTE=ss1234;38432300][URL="http://gizmodo.com/5959717/skyfall-filmmakers-3d+printed-this-rare-aston-martin-so-they-wouldnt-damage-the-original"]They printed the 1960 Aston Martin DB 5.[/URL][/QUOTE] phew! [editline]18th November 2012[/editline] [sp]I was really hoping Bond would eject the ejector seat up in the helicopter's rotor. that would have been so cash[/sp]
I liked how the setting ended [sp]with what the old Bond Mi6 place should look like.[/sp] Anyway I watched all of the Bond films and I found The Living Daylights and From Russia with Love my least favorites. I disliked FRWL due to its slow pacing. Despite it, the Robert Shaw fight was good. Of all the Bond movies, my favorites were On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Thunderball.
[QUOTE=TheKritter71;38501149]I disliked FRWL [B]due to its slow pacing[/B]. Despite it, the Robert Shaw fight was good. Of all the Bond movies, [B]my favorites were On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Thunderball[/B].[/QUOTE] How ironic, those two films are literally the slowest in the entire series
Am I the only one so freaking happy with the practical effects in this movie? I mean, it's so good to see a movie that's not 90% greenscreen these days.
Just got back from this. Loved it. [editline]19th November 2012[/editline] I have to admit, I cringed with the whole [sp]DB5 getting destroyed[/sp]. I mean, how could they?
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;38506602]Just got back from this. Loved it. [editline]19th November 2012[/editline] I have to admit, I cringed with the whole [sp]DB5 getting destroyed[/sp]. I mean, how could they?[/QUOTE] They blew up a model of it??
I've now found that out.
the thing that I know should have checked at the door is the whole multi-actor thing if each actor series is the only bond to exist, then why does he ask [sp]q about a exploding pen and has a old movie rigged db5[/sp] but then if its a codename [sp]why did the gravestones have bond on them[/sp]
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