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exquisite tea posted:I caught Goldeneye a couple years ago on TV and it still holds up imho. The opening sequence leading up to the runway stunt is still insane, the script isn't too terrible, and most importantly it does not waste the viewer's time, which is a rarity in Bond films. It does have the most hilariously air-conditioner-cool-beats 90's remix of the Bond theme imaginable, though.
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What is meant by "air conditioner"?
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Mar 22, 2018 03:29
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Super cool, my dude.
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Mar 22, 2018 03:35
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Fart City posted:It does have the most hilariously air-conditioner-cool-beats 90's remix of the Bond theme imaginable, though. The trailer is pretty good too.
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Mar 22, 2018 03:40
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Fart City posted:It does have the most hilariously air-conditioner-cool-beats 90's remix of the Bond theme imaginable, though. it did not really click until this thread that Graeme Norgate went to a lot of effort to emulate the style of Eric Serra's score for the game. Rare always seemed to get the right people for their games
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Aces High posted:it did not really click until this thread that Graeme Norgate went to a lot of effort to emulate the style of Eric Serra's score for the game. Rare always seemed to get the right people for their games Yeah, it's actually really impressive. It's kind of rote to praise Goldeneye 64 in this day in age, but it really was that great of a game.
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I really wish Martin Campbell would make another Bond. I mean, not as much as I want Villeneuve to make one, but close.
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I'd like to see what someone like Kathryn Bigelow, or an up-and-coming director like Roseanne Liang could make of a Bond film.Payndz posted:I thought Silva's Joker-style super-mega-hyper-masterminding was bullshit, and Spectre doubled down on it by adding a layer of ultra-masterminding on top. Yeah, Blofeld is a smart guy, but don't have him predicting Bond's actions to the micron from the flap of a butterfly's wing on the other side of the world twenty years earlier. I also felt like Skyfall was a great commentary on the Bond franchise's relevance in an age where action film franchises were being increasingly dominated by superhero films (the golden standard at the time, of course, being The Dark Knight - it arguably still is, to be honest), like it was saying "gently caress your Batmans and Iron Mans, I'm still relevant, goddamnit!" I particularly love the scene where Q and Bond have a discussion at the art gallery about a painting of the old battleship being hauled away for scrap. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Vagabundo posted:
The problem is this has been the commentary of every bond film since at least Goldeneye. With no payoff.
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Baron Porkface posted:The problem is this has been the commentary of every bond film since at least Goldeneye. With no payoff. Again the whole problem isn't the character's relevance, is that the UK has no real standing in major world politics and intrigue. Russian government kills a bunch of former soviet/Russian spies in downtown London with gas and all the Brits do is not let the prince go see the world cup. 
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It happens a lot because almost every modern Bond movie is a response to the last one. QoS got a middling response and Skyfall responded to that. Can Bond exist in a world where half the cool poo poo that made Bond Bond is what everyone movie has now? If you do it just right, yes. Then they hosed it up with Spectre. This last one will be about making amends in some way.
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Baron Porkface posted:The problem is this has been the commentary of every bond film since at least Goldeneye. With no payoff. casino royale and quantum did their own thing and were the last really strong bond movies because of it
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R. Guyovich posted:casino royale and quantum did their own thing and were the last really strong bond movies because of it They were part of the M gets fired for being too old fashioned and cavalier arc.
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The original teaser. I thought this about as perfect a reintroduction to Bond after a gap of several years as you could get; the full trailer had an ultra-cheesy voiceover and gave way too much away.
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It's weird that it says "own yourself because no one else here will save you" when James Bond has always constantly been saved by his girls when he loses fights Maybe they stopped doing that in the Craig movies though, I never watched any of them
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Mar 23, 2018 06:37
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That was propably the most 90's trailer there is.
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Fish of hemp posted:That was propably the most 90's trailer there is. I'd say the most early-90s trailer is Super Mario Bros, and the most overall 90s trailer is Jumanji
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Jeb! Repetition posted:It's weird that it says "own yourself because no one else here will save you" when James Bond has always constantly been saved by his girls when he loses fights Nope, a woman saves his life I think in each Craig movie. He’s brought back from the dead at least once by a woman.
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Watched Skyfall for the first time last night and it was pretty good, even if it lasted way too long and got more into James Bond's past than I would have liked, and it was hard to tell what was possible because the bad guy was basically omnipotent when computers were present, and didn't explain things that could have had interesting explanations (like how Bond survived at the beginning or how the bad guy kept getting all those resources and henchmen after his base was taken) Now I'm watching Spectre and I'm a little annoyed with how long this continuous shot at the beginning is lasting. IMO long takes are like guitar solos where they don't actually make the movie/song better but certain people cum instantly when they experience them
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Are we sure JB is the good guy when he's beating up the pilot of a helicopter over a dense crowd of people
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Mar 24, 2018 19:20
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This opening song is bad even by the extremely low standards of 007 opening songs
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Mar 24, 2018 19:24
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Lol replacing secret agents with drones
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Jeb! Repetition posted:This opening song is bad even by the extremely low standards of 007 opening songs I pretty much disengaged with the film because of that song and it never really recovered for me. It keeps building towards something, only to peter off, and amounts to nothing. Like, how can a Bond theme song be so loving boring?
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Mar 24, 2018 19:59
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Jeb! Repetition posted:This opening song is bad even by the extremely low standards of 007 opening songs We need an official recut that inserts this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4mIWoLg69Y&t=45s
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The song's better with a female vocalist. https://youtu.be/lSgQNpZoiqg
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Best unused Bond theme: https://youtu.be/h6CoNUE5Zho (From the director of Attack The Block.)
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Jeb! Repetition posted:It's weird that it says "own yourself because no one else here will save you" when James Bond has always constantly been saved by his girls when he loses fights It's "arm yourself." Also, the lyrics to Bond theme songs are almost never literal nor do they apply to the movie.
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Timby posted:It's "arm yourself." "He looks at this world, and wants it all, So he strikes, like Thunderball." "He knows the meaning of success." His needs are more, so he gives less. They call him the winner who takes all. And he strikes, like Thunderball." "Any woman he wants, he'll get. He will break any heart without regret." "His days of asking are all gone." Only the start: "He always runs while others walk. He acts while other men just talk." And the end: "His fight goes on and on and on. But he thinks that the fight is worth it all. So he strikes like Thunderball." Make it super clear who the song is about because they're pretty positive by modern standards. The rest is either sociopathic or rapey as hell. I still like the song though! Also, TWINE is absolutely perfect because it is about the villain (practically sung by her) but you wouldn't realize it until after you watched the movie. It's also really, really good. Much like the movie, fight me.
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tWiNE has a loving amazing theme and a++ villain. but it also has denise richards as a nuclear physicist so
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If you want to know what I really think about TWINE, there's three posts by me about it linked in the OP of the last Bond thread. (I went a little overboard)
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Timby posted:It's "arm yourself." The best song, Goldfinger, is literal and applies to the movie
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Jeb! Repetition posted:This opening song is bad even by the extremely low standards of 007 opening songs Amazingly, the only James Bond song that was a number-one single in the UK (the others that came closest were "A View to a Kill" and "Skyfall" which both got stuck at number two).
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Jeb! Repetition posted:The best song, Goldfinger Nah.
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Both Skyfall and You Know My Name are better than almost every pre-Craig theme. Bond themes are loving terrible overall.
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Timby posted:Nah. Then what is
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My personal favorite is The Living Daylights, which I adore so much that I bought a best of A-ha CD, as the only other song by them I knew before is Take On Me and that's a good song. Surprise everything else they ever did is loving garbage. Oh well, it was 2€. My second fave is Surrender, and I checked out kd lang and I didn't find a better song in her repertoire either. Same with Garbage. Something about typical Bond instrumentation just does it for me, I guess! EDIT: vvvv yes it is, but I like TWINE more. Come to think of it, I bought a Garbage album at the same used CD shop where I also got the A-ha one... Simply Simon fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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Simply Simon posted:Same with Garbage. The Garbage song used in the MGSV trailer is really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k4os5vzyag e: Jesus that trailer came out five years ago. The times they are a-changin'. stev fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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My actual favorite song You Know My Name but my favorite visuals are Goldeneye's
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Steve2911 posted:Both Skyfall and You Know My Name are better than almost every pre-Craig theme. Bond themes are loving terrible overall. Terrible opinion. All of Connery's movies have great songs, Roger Moore had Wings and Duran Duran, etc. There are a few stinkers, and they're basically all love ballads.
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I got kind of bored watching Spectre after an hour and a half and haven't been fully paying attention as it plays on my second monitor and now I don't know why anything's happening
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