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I agree! LOL!
Really have to applaud all of this.
Rory Kinnear's Tanner in particular is an absolute embarrassment.
In the books (although I can take him or leave him) he's a guy who's second in command to M so exudes some authority. He's seen action and you know he can handle himself and he actually has banter with Bond.
Compare this to Kinnear. Are you telling me if M is indisposed this bloke could run the service? If the ATAC was lost Kinnear could deal with a truculent minister and dish out orders to Bond?
This is a guy who just sits on his arse as he gets warning after warning to get M out of the building and then when it all kicks off he's the first one under the desk.
And banter? The bloke just stands in the background all day, as grey as a John Major tribute act, and is occasionally asked to spout some exposition.
If I was making a film called 'Watching Paint Dry' I'd certainly be interested in giving Rory an audition for the lead role of 'Paint' but you shouldn't really be putting someone with negative screen presence on the big screen. If for example you put Rory and Connery in the same scene the net effect of Rory's drag factor on Sean means the sum total of screen charisma would be like watching Ken Barlow.
I'm sure Kinnear's a nice enough bloke and if he was playing assistant manager of a branch of M&S I think he'd be quite convincing but deputy head of MI6? Really?
Shockingly miscast in a horribly written role.
Totally agree, Crown, love TB. That guy grabs the poker and clubs Bond with it! Brutal.
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Take out that whistle!
I can't stand Mary Goodnight/Britt Eckland. A horribly written, horribly dated, horribly unfunny character played by an annoying actress. Moore disliked her and, listening to Britt Eckland being interviewed, she sounds like one of those washed up trollops from the 60s and 70s who thinks she's still sexy.
Wow...I surprised myself there :-O
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Have you seen The Imitation Game? He's in that and plays one of the Detectives investigating Turing.
Yeah and he's as bland as a boiled potato served in a water jus in that too.
Again the only purpose he serves is as a conduit for Turing to deliver exposition.
Didn't he play Hamlet or Macbeth at the Old Vic a while back? That must've been the hottest ticket in town: 'To sleep, perchance to dream' - yep that would be most members of the audience watching anything you're in Rory.
I'll give you that one too. I saw her at the launch of the 50th Blu Ray box set at HMV with Richard Kiel. She reminded me of that episode of Red Dwarf where they find a pod containing a woman and it turns out to be some bird who's been dead for 10 million years.
Sorry but these are WAY funnier...
He seems to be trying to suck the girl's face likes she's a drinking straw or something. I try and mimic the action, and its surprisingly hard.
Speaking of absolutely stupid and ridiculous, MR has what can only be called both the best and worst PTS of the entire series. The conceit is a great one and the stuntwork is utterly breathtaking. However, just like the rest of the movie, anything good about it is completely ruined by the onset of juvenile silliness. Jaws flapping his arms like a bird, the circus music, Jaws even surviving in the first place...disgusting. AND WHY IS HE EVEN ON THE PLANE?! DRAX DOESN’T CALL UP HENCHMEN-ARE-US UNTIL HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE! Oh, wow, just thinking about it makes me want to punch my fist through a wall. Or a MR fan. Either one will do.
Lee Tamahori is the devil. Everything he did with DAD, from the bullet flying towards the screen during the gun barrel (and that’s the least of his offences), from directing Halle Berry to emphasize every stupid double entendre (“I think I got the THRUST of it!”) to the absurd speed-up/slow-down editing, to the horrible CGI (especially the ice-filled “wave”) to Toby Stevens’ nails-on-a-chalkboard overacting to the sheer fact that Michael Madsen is even in a Bond movie in the first place...the whole thing gets me so worked up that I’m pounding so hard on my keyboard as I type this that my wife just came into the room and asked if I was all right. Ugh. Lee Tamahori...why do you exist on the planet? Can’t you just fly away and live on, like, Neptune or something, far away from any movie cameras? On a side note, I will allow for the probability that choosing Madonna for the opening title song and casting her in a cameo role was probably EON’s decision, not Tamahori’s – but if it WAS Tamahori’s decision, then he has been downgraded in my estimation from insect to pond scum.
Okay...I’m done. I have to go somewhere to calm myself down.
For me the funniest one hands down isn't included here. The moment when Mr Kil is strangling Bond during their fight in DAD.
Tbh I never noticed his "pain face" until I saw it mentioned on here when I first joined.
Someone should arrange for him to do a special Q&A to mark the 15th anniversary of DAD. I would be prepared to pay BIG money just to be at that special event. >:)
It would make Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time seem tame in comparison.
Totally agree about the TB PTS - dreadful. One of the absolute worst. And Kinear as Tanner is shockingly bad - it's like someone's flung a wet, limp flannel onto the set everytime he appears.
Harris as MP is also pretty bad but hope she can redeem herself somehow in SP otherwise I'd be happy to see her replaced.
Too bad it doesn't show the look a second later, that was even better. :))
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What were they trying to say with that?
That was just taking the piss
That's a not very good gag at the end of a pretty good fight sequence, yes.
I'll take NSNA over the clown costume, tarzan yell and unthreatening deadly yo-yo any day of the week.
Not perfect, but does not embarrass the franchise either.
@chrisisall, Sean's pain face above makes him look like a mad hamster!
Personally I find the swordfight in DAD more entertaining.
Please leave out the "GD" level of swearing, sir. It's a family friendly forum. ;-)
Besides that, I agreed with everything you said. :-)