Things We've Learned from…..Spectre

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  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    55. Bond can be blonde.
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    56. In Montenegro the bartender will actually ask you if you wan't your Vodka Martini shaken or stirred.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    57. But Bond doesn't give a damn.
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    suavejmf wrote: »
    57. But Bond doesn't give a damn.

    He follows the Clark Gable philosophy.
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
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    58. That didn't even look close to what Miami Airport actually looks like.
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    58. The expertise in dealing with the after effects of testicular torture at a luxurious hospital near Lago di Como in Italy, is obviously so good that they decide to send Bond there all the way from somewhere neraby Montenegro.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    Ha ha! Good point! :)
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    59. Bond will win the most beautiful car in a poker game, ask the valet to bring it to him, and then drive it around the parking lot right back to the same place, apparently just to impress the woman married to its previous owner. It doesn't matter, that car is damned beautiful.
    60. A known and wanted bomb maker will run to his embassy for asylum and speak to the man in charge of said embassy, who won't even consider turning the bomb maker in.
    61. M has been around since the Cold War, despite the fact that her track record for agents (Bond, Silva, possibly at least one agent who defected, based on her comments) isn't very good. Not to mention a major section chief is selling secrets right under her nose.
    62. They really wanted to drive Felix being black home by making him introduce himself as a "brother from Langley".
    63. It truly is amazing what you can do with Photoshop these days. Get the film's producer arrested by the police.
    64. Now that I think of it, the chief of police looks an awful lot like that guy who was gonna "slime the President" for Elliot Carver back in 1997... And a member of Mishkin's table in 1995...
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    65. Bond has an ego - just in case it wasn't heard the first time, it's drilled in again to the ADHD among us, ad nauseum.
    66. It's "Omeeega"
    67. Vesper can tell Bond's arse is perfectly formed even while he's sitting
    68. M wants Bond to be half monk - Le Chiffre almost succeeds in making that a reality near the end of the film
    69. Eva Green did for wannabee Bond women in one film what Halle Berry & Denise Richards did for Bond bimbos in two - namely showed everyone how to do it
    70. That Daniel Craig fella, despite being short and blond, is going to make a fine James Bond after all
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    (adjusting the numbers, I cocked up earlier...)

    72. Even accountants have imagination, and some of them are lovely people.
    73. And they are every penny of the money they are...
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    71) Accountants have imagination.
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    71) Accountants have imagination.

    Sorry, but I beat you to it... ;)
    jobo wrote: »
    (adjusting the numbers, I cocked up earlier...)

    72. Even accountants have imagination, and some of them are lovely people.
    73. And they are every penny of the money they are...
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    74. Blonde men can be pretty good at playing Bond
    75. Catherine Munro's appearance can provide the same results as overdosing on Viagra.
    76. Always go all in with 6 and 8 of spades.
    77. Weeping blood is not a bluff sign.
    78. Any film franchise can go from worst to first.
    79. Free running can provide awesome chase effects.
    80. Judy Dench suddenly became an overbearing mother.
    81. Eva Green would look great in curlers.
    82. Daniel Craig literally has brass balls.
    83. CR's pacing was excellence. Hopefully the next film follows suit.
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
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    84. The World Is Not Enough having 3 scripts..
    85. That it is nothing without Quantum Of Solace
    86. That you can drink next to somebody in silence and not make a difrence or it be statue or human.
    87. That a pleasent drive in Astin Martin DB 5 always be death end at the end of the road.
    88. That Judi Dench M be next in line... to die...
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    89. No scantily clad women in the title scenes ? That's a second ! (the first one was DN).

    90. In fact, no woman at all (apart from a brief glimpse of Eva's face as (of course) the Queen of Hearts. That's a first.
    jobo wrote: »
    50. ...I am not sure exactly how that works, but then I'm obviously not an expert in economy...

    91. Watch "Trading Places", and you'll know exactly how it can happen (and it has happened IRL quite a lot of times).

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    92) You can shoot someone live on camera in a foreign embassy after wrecking said embassy and not cause an international incident.

    93) You will not be dishonourably discharged from the secret service for shooting a suspect live on camera for the world to see.

    94) You will not be dishonourably discharged from the secret service for losing their money to international terrorists and thereby funding terrorism.

    95) James Bond does not know how to perform CPR properly.
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    AstonLotus wrote: »
    92) You can shoot someone live on camera in a foreign embassy after wrecking said embassy and not cause an international incident.

    93) You will not be dishonourably discharged from the secret service for shooting a suspect live on camera for the world to see.

    94) You will not be dishonourably discharged from the secret service for losing their money to international terrorists and thereby funding terrorism.

    95) James Bond does not know how to perform CPR properly.

    Bond didn't fund the terrorist organization. He temporarily lost the money but then won it all back and alot more. Besides that was always a risk and possibility in the mission. They even gave him an additional 5 mil in case he went bust but Vesper decided against it.
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    AstonLotus wrote: »
    92) You can shoot someone live on camera in a foreign embassy after wrecking said embassy and not cause an international incident.

    It does cause an international incident...
    AstonLotus wrote: »
    94) You will not be dishonourably discharged from the secret service for losing their money to international terrorists and thereby funding terrorism.

    He doesn't. He retrieves them at the end of the film...
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    96. MI6 gets its information from a French news channel. Apparently, they don't trust Auntie Beeb.

    97. I don't even want to visit the exhibit in Miami.

    98. It seems Poker has replaced Baccarat in the casinos. One can regret it.

    99. Nice to see that Fu Manchu's daughter is still alive and well after YOLT.

    100. That's a really loud shirt the dealer is wearing. As they sang in "Chicago" : Whatever happened to class ?"
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    101 Weeping blood is not sinister.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    jobo wrote: »
    71) Accountants have imagination.

    Sorry, but I beat you to it... ;)
    jobo wrote: »
    (adjusting the numbers, I cocked up earlier...)

    72. Even accountants have imagination, and some of them are lovely people.
    73. And they are every penny of the money they are...
    eye. Well, great minds.. ;-)
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    102. A game of poker can be decided with four remaining players all going all in with flush, to full houses and a straight flush respectively, with a total pot of 115 million. It shouldn't be possible unless you dreamt it up... which someone did...
  • AceHoleAceHole Belgium, via Britain
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    Martin Campbell is the only truly reliable Bond director still working today.
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    103) An airport will not close down and carry on with business as usual during an explosive truck chase where police cars are trying to stop a terrorist attack.

    104) It is perfectly reasonable to chase a parkour expert up a crane at a construction site and not simply stay on the ground and wait for him to come down.

    105) Hotel receptionists in the bahamas are even sexier than than the main Bond girls.

    106) Anyone can log on to M's laptop.

    107) Bond girls in the bahamas are turned on when Bond gives them a creepy serial killer stare after inviting them back to his apartment for a '' drink ''.

    108) You can stab someone to death in a crowded room of people and nobody, i mean NOBODY will notice.

    109) James Bond will purse his lips during a fight to the death like he is trying to kiss his opponent.
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    I'd be lying if I said I wasn't surprised that CR has taken the #2 spot on the list. Although it still has to ways to go before catching up to DAD's score of 211.

    I'd like to add one more for The World is not Enough that I forgot.

    93) The trend of a Bond actor's third film being their most iconic and defining movie was officially killed.

    I figure now is a good a time as any to recap the scores for the second half of this thread beginning with TLD.

    Film Score
    The Living Daylights- 81
    License to Kill- 79
    Goldeneye- 77
    Tomorrow Never Dies- 52
    The World is not Enough- 93
    Die Another Day- 211
    Casino Royale- 109 (and counting)
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    110. (I am shocked we have gotten this long though some of the things we learned are positive) Vesper will pray the first time bond goes all in
    111. Vesper will pray a second time when he goes all in again I still to this day have no idea who or what she prayed for either time.
    112. Casino Royale is still my favorite bond film of all time.
    113. I am Still shocked everything I could ever want in a bond film but thought I was never going to get after Die another Day I got.
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    Why is a big number necessarily a bad thing? :-/

    114. This is the first time Bond has an explanation for blowing his cover early on.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    115 It was too soon to write off the Bond franchise for good.
  • SirHilaryBraySirHilaryBray Scotland
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    116. PTS should not be edited down
  • SirHilaryBraySirHilaryBray Scotland
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    117. Felix Leiter doesnt like fruit in his drink.
    118. Le Chiffre does'nt date women with bigger breasts than him.
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