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Topic: SkyFall: James Bond #23 (Read 41995 times)
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K9
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« Last Edit: November 04, 2011, 09:02:12 AM by K9 »
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Sky
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Eh, James Bond is just a Sam Fisher knock-off, anyway.
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schild
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Sky, stop being retarded.
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stray
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lol gotta admit that was the funniest one.
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schild
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When it takes someone like 4 tries to get something funny, it's not funny anymore. He should waste his energy at open mic with a bunch of other aging hipster metal burnouts instead of trying his jokes on f13.  |
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stray
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Not to derail (or maybe I'm setting it back on track), but I guess Mendes is like the new "it" guy (not really new, but he keeps confirming it) for character study or some shit. As for whether he has the chops for action, I don't know. The closest I think of his that might be action was Road to Perdition, but I don't remember a lot about that movie. And Jarhead was sort of the anti-action action movie.
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I see this announcement as a response to "Quantum of Solace" - after a great start in "Casino Royale", things sort of fizzled.
Or is Mendes a friend of Craig?
"Road to Perdition" did have some neat action scenes, but they were very art-y. Don't know if that will work in a Craig Bond movie.
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HaemishM
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Solace was fine for the first hour or so - but that ending set piece was super stupid. I don't know that Mendes is the best guy for action, but it can't be worse than the exploding hydrogen hotel.
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Solace had the worst fucking camera work for any action movie I think I've ever watched. I can handle shaky camera Bourne stuff ok but I hadn't got a fucking clue most of the time what was going on in Solace because they insisted on switching perspective every 2 seconds when anything was happening. I'd barely figured out what I was looking at by the time it had switched and it would do that for the whole fucking scene. Mendes cannot do any worse unless he decides to shoot the scenes from 4 miles away and uses shaky cam.
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Solace's shaky cam was the worst shaky cam in modern action flicks, period. Even the Solace plot wasn't terrible, really. The shaky cam took a so-so flick and basically dumped into the toilet of forgettable.
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Segoris
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Live again! The good news: The movie is back on and due for Fall 2012 release with the title Skyfall, they started shooting today, this isn't tied to Casino or Solace, and Albert Finney is in it somewhere, and who doesn't love Albert Finney?! The news that annoys me: James Bond can now be found on twitter. Fuck twitter. msn link and yahoo link |
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K9
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Javier Bardem could be a pretty awesome Bond villain.
I hope they can get the franchise back on track, I would love to see Idris Elba and Tom Hardy playing bond sometime.
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K9
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Mrbloodworth
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I like Mr.Craig as bond.
But you know, I liked when Bond was more campy, and not over the top violent and dramatic. The new ones feel less like an adventure, and more like a super serious episode of CSI. All the humor and grandeur is gone from this series.
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Segoris
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I do think they could use some more humor. It's more scarce now than it was originally, and I'm hoping that was more due to Casino + Solace being about Bond's first missions and the humor will be developing as Craig's playing of the Bond character develops.
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Mrbloodworth
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That's what I had hoped, it was just his character for the time frame. But its more than that, The ball busting scene....... Bit over the top for a Bond film. I mean, really:  Some scenes are less batman the TV show, and more Hostel or Saw at this point. |
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« Last Edit: April 13, 2012, 10:14:23 AM by Mrbloodworth »
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K9
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But you know, I liked when Bond was more campy, and not over the top violent and dramatic. The new ones feel less like an adventure, and more like a super serious episode of CSI. All the humor and grandeur is gone from this series.
I'd take Craig's Bond over the abomination that was the fourth Brosnan movie. I do love to go back and watch Goldfinger or Octopussy or Moonraker, and they are great fun; but equally I enjoy the minimalism of the current set of films. |
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K9
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Surlyboi
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But its more than that, The ball busting scene....... Bit over the top for a Bond film.
The ball busting scene was almost straight out of the novel though. I like the fact that Craig's Bond is almost the closest to Fleming's earliest descriptions. |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Speedy Cerviche
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All the novels are quite a bit more violent than anything that made it onto screen previous to the Casino...
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Surlyboi
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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I like the fact that Craig's Bond is almost the closest to Fleming's earliest descriptions.
Yes! Just the right combination of tough, grit, and class. Best Bond since Connery. |
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K9
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Riggswolfe
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Solace's shaky cam was the worst shaky cam in modern action flicks, period. Even the Solace plot wasn't terrible, really. The shaky cam took a so-so flick and basically dumped into the toilet of forgettable.
It cannot be worse than Bourne. That shaky cam was so horrible it retroactively ruined the first Bourne flick for me and erased the novels from my mind. Solace's was mildly annoying but not nearly as bad. |
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Khaldun
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I dunno, the shaky cam in the big finale of Solace is so so so painful.
The Skyfall trailer isn't wowing me. I think they're staying with dour, depressed Bond, or that's what it feels like. I like dangerous Bond with a darker edge, but he's also got to have class, panache, etc.
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Riggswolfe
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I dunno, the shaky cam in the big finale of Solace is so so so painful.
The Skyfall trailer isn't wowing me. I think they're staying with dour, depressed Bond, or that's what it feels like. I like dangerous Bond with a darker edge, but he's also got to have class, panache, etc.
We'll agree to disagree. I didn't like the shaky cam in Solace but it was like art compared to the Bourne series which was filmed by a monkey in the midst of a seizure. |
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Ubvman
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A grim, dour and angsty James Bond has been done. In fact I think Timothy Dalton does a glum JB better than Daniel Craig.  While I appreciate the perceived need for a reboot after Brosnan's run, I think Craig's version of a permanently angry and humorless Bond to be pretty depressing.  Lighten up the mood and yes, go easy on the shaky cam too. |
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« Last Edit: August 02, 2012, 07:56:30 PM by Shannow »
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Just to chime in Craig is my favorite bond so far.
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Typhon
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Tied with Sean Connery for me. Really looking forward to Skyfall.
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