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CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Basebf555 posted:

There was no point in bringing Blofeld into the mix when they had a Bond who was already so close to being done with the role.

Story wise, yeah.

But they waited and worked so hard getting this character and organization name back, they had to use it. But they hosed it up.

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CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Writings on the wall is bottom tier trash. Right up there with die another day.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Wasn’t he drunk? He sounded drunk lmao

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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When I was 11 yeah.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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New 007 is almost certainly getting killed in a
mission, and that’s what brings Bond back. Either for revenge or they need a replacement

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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No the plastic surgery is in Diamonds, it’s just for Blofeld as Timby said.

The fourth wall break if anyone was wondering was when Lazenby looks at the camera during the cold open and says “this never happened to the other fellow..”

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Hey it’s good!


Thank goodness

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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It’s not.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Groovelord Neato posted:

GOLDENEYE I FOUND HIS WEAKNESS.

GOLDENEYE HE’LL DO WHAT I PLEASE

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Another way to die sounds like two cats fighting each other.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Coffee And Pie posted:

I think I really connected to the Bond series with the Pierce Brosnan ones, I think The World is Not Enough had just come out when I was starting to get into it. Die Another Day was my first one I saw in theaters though :smith:

This is about the same for me except it was Tomorrow Never Dies and I wanted to see it so bad but my dad ended up seeing it before me and said it sucked and refused to take me lol.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Mantis42 posted:

I like the A-Ha song. The Bonding podcast seems down on it but they have a lot of bad takes.

They don’t like you know my name. Awful thought imo

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Lobok posted:

It's not totally different but I love the rock version. It's the one I got used to before the movie came out so the theatrical version always sounds odd to me.

Same goes for a lot of the movie theme songs actually. The old 30th Anniversary Collection CD tracks are burned into my brain as the "real" songs so whenever I'm watching one of the movies the theme usually is different in some way. A slightly different arrangement, or different ending, or it's just shorter, etc.

I'm the opposite. I loved the rock version but the orchestral is so cool. I wish that one was more available. I have to always just go to YouTube to hear it.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Prince Myshkin posted:

I think in the years since its release this has become a decidedly uncontroversial opinion.

Outside of that scene which I had issues with from the first time I saw it, it’s still up there for me. The way it looks and sounds is pretty fantastic and really shows what a Bond movie with a vision could look like.

Also I really love Javier Bardem as Silva. Best modern Bond villain for sure. Madds comes very close second but Bardem is just a bit more classic to me.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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I’d miss the murder though. I like when he kills

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Casino Royale ya dingus

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Brosnan is the best Bond in the worst movies. He’s constantly great in them. Such a shame. Oh well. At least he’s looked on fondly, and he was technically my James Bond growing up.

I just prefer Craig who’s my favorite.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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James Bond shoots at the audience but it’s Covid

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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And spy who loved me

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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I’m kinda sad after this ngl.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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It’s my favorite bond song of all time

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9O94UTDAJQ

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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I’ll have to see it again but it seemed like he’d release the nanovirus and then at any moment trigger the dna thing and start murdering whole families of people of his choosing or to the buyers choosing. Whoever they were. I don’t think they got mentioned again after the island blew up.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Presto posted:

Wait, was the love interest in this one in Spectre? I'm not joking, I saw Spectre in the theater, and I can't remember a single thing about it, except I think I recall something blew up at the end.

Yes

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Roadie posted:

This and the suddenly dropped plot thread about how, exactly, Blofeld was still in communication with all these people is what made me say that this feels like two films edited into one. There's like a missing half-a-movie for a bunch of this stuff.

Blofeld’s fake eye.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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I heard everything perfectly so it must’ve been your theater

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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He’s just a crazy man with issues

Idk I want to rehear it because it wasn’t totally clear but I also don’t care because it’s probably not quite as dumb as Stromberg’s sea world plot

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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It’s a James Bond movie.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Professor Shark posted:

Weird request here, but hear me out. I promised one of my classes that, if the latest James Bond movie DIDN’T end with JB drinking champagne with a beautiful woman, we could have a pizza party (this came up after a discussion on how many types of media follow predictable formulas).

Without spoiling too much, can someone confirm if this is how the movie ends?

Lmfao

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Probably straight up the world is not enough.

Die another day was close but he was more fuckin on some diamonds.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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I showed him your watch. And he died.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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I showed him your watch and he thought it sucked rear end. And then he died because he hated it so much. He also told me to tell you gently caress you.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Y’all forget bond movies have a very very very loose continuity and only the Craig films really made each film connected.

Just start it up with a new bond. It doesn’t matter. New bond new story.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Bond would rather die than lose another person he loved. It makes perfect sense with his character through the films.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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QoS is only bad on the editing front. The film itself is decent. I like the low stakes story and I especially love Camille and her relationship with bond.

But gently caress the action and editing are so bad I can’t get over that. It’s near unwatchable for me.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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It’s not hard to understand why skyfall worked box office wise. It was big, it was the 50th anniversary of Bond, and it didn’t really require you to see anything else.

It’s also went back to bond formula with it. Hence the misogyny. Not the best part of the movie, mostly because it doesn’t really go with Craig’s character but whatever.

Idk I think it’s a blast

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Le Chiffre was killed on screen. And it rules how he was thrown away. The whole movie subverts the entire bond formula and is better for it.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Payndz posted:

Great, so now the audience doesn't get the cathartic payoff that's kind of expected. But never mind, some mooks and a guy we've barely seen before will surely make up for it. "Bond is a washed-out wreck who fails at every task!" Bah-da-baah-DAAAAH!

I loved this though. There is no cathartic release for Bond and that’s the point.

And also this happens in the book too. The Smersh agent comes in and kills him right after the torture.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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He’s checking his bitcoin

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CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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License to Kill is really good and brutal as hell. Plus the first time we ever got Benico. Who honestly was a pretty fantastic insane henchman.

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