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[details=Spoiler]And he was a Bond villain who won. Aside from arguably Blofeld at the end of OHMSS, I’m trying to think of others who did.
The way he wanted to go out – one bullet to take out two people – he didn’t care about his life anymore after living through the cyanide and the other horrors he experienced as a former agent.
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Saw the movie last weekend. Really liked it and thought it was as good (but not better) than Casino Royale and the 2nd or 3rd best Post-Roger Moore Bond film after Goldeneye.
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I can’t remember the comment Bond makes at the end.
so everyone who doesnt like the direction the recent bond films are going is a troll? ok…
i agree with this guy
fuck this new direction
lets go back to halle berry and denise richards and that dude with the bullet in his brain that made him stronger everyday and also the invisible ice car SHIT WAS DOPE
these new bond movies are gay and faggoty because they are all like about amazing individual performances of actors and the most character development in the history of the franchise and other homosexual shit like eye blowing cinematography which is gay as hell
lets get back to EXPLODING PENS NIGGA
Bahahaha 
If someone claims that the movie is shit, demands that people offer evidence for why it was good, then retreats behind a litany of spurious arguments when the same demand is made of him, then he’s either a troll or he’s soul-crushingly stupid. I suspect that the conclusion you lean toward depends on which one brings you more comfort.
I just saw this last night so I’m still biased.
But that rats speech…goddamn, son! The most heinous villain Bond has ever faced…because he is one that attacks…HIS SEXUALITY!!!
And Bond just cold rolled with it, that was so boss. Dat MI6 gay training son.
But yeah, those old classics…much better. Such a shame for this new arc of movies to disavow all the hokey campy feel of the old classic movies and god forbid, make them like semi-realistic spy action movies instead with a focus on accomplished individual actors. Clearly anyone that thinks these new movies aren’t complete shit haven’t watched the old movies where James Bond underwent surgery performed by a bunch of Japanese girls in miniskirts so that he could go terrible Cloud Atlas style yellowface, or WHEN HE DRESSED UP LIKE A FUCKING CIRCUS CLOWN to defuse a bomb, when they named all the girls like Cockina Vaginapussy, or when Bond had such high tech gadgets like…TWO WAY RADIO HAIRBRUSHES.
ALSO EXPLOSIVE MILK BOTTLES, CROCODILE SUBMARINES, AND ROCKETS FIRING WHEELCHAIRS AND CIGARETTES
That is what Bond movies are about, the absolutely retarded and campy gadgets that remind you that this is like Spy Kids but for horny teenagers.
Yeah, those were 100% serious, no nonsense movies, and anyone who likes these new movies clearly forgets the amazing standard of quality that the old movies set.
For fuck’s sake, the last Pierce Brosnan movie was about a fucking satellite laser from space threatening to remake Waterworld, featured an acting tour de force from former Catwoman Halle Berry, a Korean dude with diamonds in his face (why doesn’t he get him taken out by a doctor?), an invisible car, a fucking ICE PALACE, and had a cameo from Madonna. And people have the nerve to complain about any of these Daniel Craig movies? They fucking resurrected this franchise from the Batman & Robin ashes it became, are you shitting me?
Why are people holding James Bond movies to some weird golden standard when Mike Myers made like hundreds of millions of dollars by shitting on them? Do people not remember how wack some of the previous Bond movies were?
THE BULLET IS IN HIS BRAIN AND HE GETS STRONGER EVERY DAY THAT IT CONTINUES TO PUSH INTO HIS CEREBRAL CORTEX
ALSO THE CHICK IS SECRETLY BANGING THE VILLAIN BECAUSE…STOCKHOLM SYNDROME…?
ALSO DENISE RICHARDS IS A NUCLEAR SCIENTIST NAMED CHRISTMAS
FUCK YOU anyone that cites the proud tradition of classic Bond movies like it carries any weight at all.
While some Brosnan films were kinda bad, I don’t blame Brosnan himself. Just don’t go badmouthing Goldeneye. And I could be alone, but I thought the exploding rocket cast thing from that wheelchair dummy was kinda awesome.
My personal favourite was the phone booth airbag trap.
The Q Lab scene in GoldenEye is brilliant.
I know, lol. “Don’t touch THAT! It’s my lunch!”.
Finally saw Skyfall this last weekend. I liked the opening credits alot. It’s like MGS3’s intro and a Bond intro’s love child. Although I’m not well versed in the Bond movies I noticed and appreciated a few of the throwbacks to previous films I got around to watching.
[details=Spoiler]One of the only gripes I remember about the film was that I thought Judi Dench M’s death scene could have been a bit more ‘realistic’. She seemed fine when confronted by Silva and suddenly she collapses and dies after Bond arrives. I know she bled a ton on the way to the chapel and there were signs of fatigue but I think she should have at least looked closer to death and not able to stand when Silva came to the chapel.
I wonder if the reintroduction of Q, Miss Moneypenny, and new M…
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would mean reboots of older Bond films. Seeing a more modern take on some of the older films would be interesting, to say the least. Maybe SPECTER could be replaced by Quantum but still have the same/similar key members from the older films. It would be cool to see more modernly choreographed fight scenes because seeing some guy get killed/floored by attacks with no impact was hilarious to watch, especially some of the fights/killings in From Russia with Love.
I watched it.
Car spoilers
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Them destroying Audi’s and Beetles at the beginning was awesome and bringing back the classic DB5 equipped with ejector seat and front firing machine guns was a good throwback to classic bonds.[/details]
It’s the Nolan effect. Every film franchise nowadays needs to be rebooted and set in a gritty, more realistic world.
Weren’t they planning on rebooting TMNT but instead of Mutant Turtles turn them into Aliens? Holy shit.
^^^ Not necessarily in this case. With the 007 movies, it was more an effect of MGM finally getting the rights to the Casino Royale novel. As it is the first story in the series and it contains material relevant to that fact, doing Casino Royale as a movie kind of necessitated a reboot/prequel/whatever.
As for the gritty realism (more pseudo-realism, really), that’s in the book too. A nice change from the course that the films had been on, which rarely contained more than broad strokes from the books starting with the Moore era and contained nothing at all from the books during the Brosnan era.
Didn’t like it.
The script and the direction itself was polished and did well in establishing the theme but all garnishes they have included to add a bit more “fun” compared to previous “gritty” Daniel Craig Bond movies were completely off-mark and tonally jarring (perhaps it was in the delivery). It reminded me a lot of the Timothy Dalton Bond movies. Even the absolutely improbable and anti-climactic Poker scene in Casino Royale was forgivable compared to the ridiculous Q-branch computer scenes (“Try this password!”). They wanted to point out that he couldn’t shoot worth shit anymore but he takes down multiple armed guys with a gun in a split-second? That scene could’ve been a lot more creative than just “he can’t aim but he can now!”. Lazy. Great cinematography though.
The movie is funnier if you think the old guy was probably looking for some condoms in the chapel in the end, that is why he was gone for a while.
PS.
Eve was carrying an assault rifle when she shot Bond, considering it was a matter of national security, why didn’t she just shoot a few more in burst until the target was down? If it was because she was too shocked to fire after that then she is thoroughly incompetent and shouldn’t even be working that high up even as a secretary. Easily fixed by giving her a bolt action sniper rifle and have the target completely gone under the tunnel by the time the next shot is ready.
i loved this movie, it was great. granted i went in with the sour taste of QoS still in my mouth, but it was very good. beautifully filmed, sparing use of CG, bardem’s intro scene was brilliantly executed. vast improvement over QoS, better than Casino Royale? I dunno. it felt a little long at times and the attempts at humor were generally eye-rolling.
what in the fuck?!
The only reason I liked this more than Casino Royale was due to it feeling like the prefect mix between it and older Bond films. Definitely in my top five bond films.
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