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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. 
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Quoted from the End of September:hand-fed baby bird posted:Is the media exaggerating to promote it or are there actually that many Bond fans? I’m glad people are going the cinema because I want Dune to do well and get a sequel but I think even without Partridge parodying Bond fans the films surely only appeal to a certain type of Home Counties dickhead. You're missing a whole middle-aged - elderly female demography here - class and location irrelevant - whose hearts have a little pitter patter "Take me, Dzjames, take me" at a masterful man, especially when he actually did a woman older than him in whichever one Monica Bellucci was in* for all of 5 minutes but all the women's magazines had articles about Bond and the Older Woman in them. (I'm not one of those. More of a Russell Crowe woman myself.) *Spectre. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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I don't care about cars, watches, guns, or Britain but I like when the alcoholic man beats people up and jumps off bridges and stuff. But mostly, Ana de Armas
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More proof that there's a place in the world for a film franchise based on Boris Johnson's attempts at avoiding negative press and child support payments.
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Guavanaut posted:More proof that there's a place in the world for a film franchise based on Boris Johnson's attempts at avoiding negative press and child support payments. Johnson is a considerably better example of what our intelligence officers get up to - shouting a lot, demanding special treatment, and rutting like a boar, yet somehow escaping any consequences for any of it.
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I think I've seen every single Bond film but I started to fall asleep halfway through Casino Royale and never went back or even bothered with any of the subsequent entries.
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Petitioning the government to replace nelson on nelsons column with Karl Marx so the newspapers editors and readers get a collective aneurysm and die.
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Having an opinion on the next James Bond should disqualify you from most facets of adult life, certainly from an involvement in politics. Watch the movies, fine, it's big dumb action film nonsense. But next Bond is so banal and Brits seem to spend 1 20th of their life thinking about it
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James Bond is the Sonic the Hedgehog of films - cracking theme tunes, occasionally great moments, has enough fun elements that make you wish it was better than it frequently is, somehow doesn't stop you looking back on it wistfully in a way that's hard to actually justify.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:James Bond is the Sonic the Hedgehog of films - cracking theme tunes, occasionally great moments, has enough fun elements that make you wish it was better than it frequently is, somehow doesn't stop you looking back on it wistfully in a way that's hard to actually justify. If Snake Eater is the best Bond theme, what's the best Sonic theme?
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endlessmonotony posted:If Snake Eater is the best Bond theme, what's the best Sonic theme? Red Sun from Metal Gear Rising. Metal Gear conquers all.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:James Bond is the Sonic the Hedgehog of films - cracking theme tunes, occasionally great moments, has enough fun elements that make you wish it was better than it frequently is, somehow doesn't stop you looking back on it wistfully in a way that's hard to actually justify. A lot of people probably have some nostalgia for it, because it's been around for 60 odd years and they watched one or two or many as a child. That's sort of how I feel about it anyway having grown up watching some of them with my dad. I don't particularly care about the series, I do think that a lot of its films are complete guff, but there are still fond memories there and I'm vaguely interested if it sounds like they've made one of the occasional not poo poo ones
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forkboy84 posted:Having an opinion on the next James Bond should disqualify you from most facets of adult life, certainly from an involvement in politics. https://twitter.com/ActNormalOrElse/status/1443356654465134596?s=20
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https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1443811017105059850 Tell me a white man wrote the article without telling me a white man wrote the article.
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How to ruin a banger of a tweet at the last word
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Bondchat: I’m not going to see the new one because it’s nearly 3 hours long and time is precious
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Woodlouse chat - how do you dispose of extra woodlice given they're not a native species so can't just be released?
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Angrymog posted:Woodlouse chat - how do you dispose of extra woodlice given they're not a native species so can't just be released? Send them to twisto in the post
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Skyfall was a bad, boring and stupid movie and I'll die on that hill. But it was still better than Spectre. "Remember how ludicrous it was in the last film when the villain had perfectly manipulated events to be exactly where he wanted to be at a precise time, even though there were countless potential points of failure and an almost infinite number of variables he couldn't possibly predict? We're going to quintuple-down on that with an arch-villain who not only secretly controlled the events of the previous three movies, but is also James Bond's previously-unmentioned adoptive brother, and oh yes, he's Blofeld!"
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I have a vague memory of a james bond film where they're being chased by a helicopter and the helicopter corners them in an alley and then it pitches forward and chops through the buildings with the rotors and starts coming towards them, and they do like a sick motorbike slide under the rotors and the helicopter crashes. It's the stupidest loving thing lmao.
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sebzilla posted:Send them to twisto in the post Good plan.
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I liked the Bond film where he got arrested and tortured for months in a North Korean jail. Don't remember the rest so assume it just involved him wasting away doing forced labour and the occasional anti-West propaganda video.
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OwlFancier posted:I have a vague memory of a james bond film where they're being chased by a helicopter and the helicopter corners them in an alley and then it pitches forward and chops through the buildings with the rotors and starts coming towards them, and they do like a sick motorbike slide under the rotors and the helicopter crashes. Tomorrow never dies
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notaspy posted:Tomorrow never dies Probably, I've only ever watched pierce brosnan bond films so that would fit.
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What's the one where he uses the woman that he's literally loving as a human shield against an assassination attempt. Bond films are the worst.
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Noxville posted:time is precious I think the last year has demonstrated that time is not, in fact, precious. I'll hatewatch the new Bond and I'll hatewatch the next one after that. Such is life.
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goldeneye was pretty fun as a traditional format bond film and casino royale teased at a darker reboot and then wimped out entirely in the later films majority of the older films are poo poo
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Bond has a pretty big overseas following from people who have never been to the UK except to go see a football match.
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serious gaylord posted:https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1443811017105059850 Also she literally did this and he produced his warrant card because he was a legitimate police officer.
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notaspy posted:Tomorrow never dies The one with Rupert Murdoch as the baddie
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A good QT question (and lots of butthurt forelock tugging in the comments) https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1443704254951215106 Completely unrelated https://twitter.com/stephenianson19/status/1443804962786619396
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What annoys me most about modern Bond is that to my ears Adele is clearly singing flat in the song Skyfall, and doesn't hit any of the high notes. It's like listening to T2 - Heartbroken. To me it's like "how did this get released". e: not saying Heartbroken isn't a banger btw cus it is 
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keep punching joe posted:I liked the Bond film where he got arrested and tortured for months in a North Korean jail. Don't remember the rest so assume it just involved him wasting away doing forced labour and the occasional anti-West propaganda video. This is the oddly brutal opening to Die Another Day, a film otherwise about space lasers and invisible cars. Bond is, correctly or not, perceived as one of the symbols of British cinema production, one of our pitifully few post-Brexit industries.
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Moving chat: There's a distinct possibility that my wife and I are going to have to move from Fife, Scotland to Exeter in January. Unfortunately, while my wife has her driver's license here, I don't yet (I'm Canadian and have to take a driving test to switch my license to a UK one, but COVID delays have meant that I can't any time soon). This pretty much rules out us renting a truck and then moving that way, so I'm considering pod or container delivery services. Has anyone had experience with moving within the UK via pod or container delivery? Any advice, either in how to proceed or what companies are good/bad?
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Payndz posted:Skyfall was a bad, boring and stupid movie and I'll die on that hill. The Craig bond films have overall been disappointing personally, mostly because Casino Royal was genuinely fantastic, but every one since has gotten sillier but also tried to take itself serious like Casino did. The Brosnan ones were were dumb but at least they knew it.
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Mega Comrade posted:Craig Bond
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The best things about the Craig films was the Adam & Joe Quantum of Solace themes from their radio show way back in the distant past.
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