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Just to confirm, that wasn't directed at you. There should have been a line break after 'masterpiece'. Although feel free to drink and shag at will.
It's pretty obvious Bond was waiting for the latest Aston to come out. Problem solved! Hahaha
You must be trolling, now. You're not that dumb. The only genuine ambiguities that arise are narrative ones that are retconned in SP. There is no conundrum regard the end of CR and beginning of QoS.
We dont need to see Bond's life in real time you know. The mission handed to him at the end of SF could have been something dull and mundane like the plots of Fleming's 'Property of a Lady' or '007 in New York' that was over and done with in an afternoon and would make for a crap film.
Do you want actually want EON to make a 3 year long film showing Bond clearing his inbox every day, going shopping in Tesco and reading the Times on the bog just so every moment is accounted for between films?
By jove I think you might have nailed it!!
So Bond takes this yacht which clearly has a cabin in brown wood:
http://screenmusings.org/movie/dvd/Casino-Royale/pages/Casino-Royale-1351.htm
Then he paints it all white to turn it into this one:
http://screenmusings.org/movie/dvd/Casino-Royale/pages/Casino-Royale-1565.htm
Once hes done that he sails it from Venice to Porto Viro, then hundreds of kilometres along the river Po as far as Cremona, before branching off on the river Adda for several hundred more kilometres up to Lake Como. Having first, of course, stashed his Aston Martin near the villa before he set off.
If you add up all this yacht DIY, weeks of sailing, dismantling his mast at every low bridge he encounters, stashing the Aston not to mention a decent amount of time for being grief stricken over Vesper and tracking down Mr White then I reckon the missing two years could largely be accounted for.
This really does have to be the most ridiculous notion since @Mendes4lyfe came up with his legendary 'Roger Moore is visiting his predecessors wife's grave in FYEO' to vindicate the codename theory!
Finally some sanity.
Just FYI, that wasn't my theory, it was Oddjobshat's.
Absolutely superb sir. Stunning to think that this debate derives entirely from a split second glance at a party invitation. We must be getting desperate.
I don't think it's much of a stretch to assume that SP takes place three years after SF. I know Skyfall made it look like locating an assassin requires no more than a Google search, but Sciarra was obviously harder to track down. And Moneypenny does say "forensics finally released" Bond's personal effects. They probably had a backlog going through the blown-to-shit MI6 HQ.
When I first watched CR I didn't notice the differences in the boats and as Mr white seems to eye it suspiciously I drew a conclusion, wrongly as it turned out when qos was released, but knowing Italy quite well the geography of the films namely using siena didn't make sense. As for Bond's Aston, it's obvious mi6 has some input into the Mr white snatch and certainly the Aston is not present in the arial shots of the villa and I doubt there's a pay and display handy so Ive connected the dots in a way that makes sense to me, half serious and half flippantly as these details don't really irk me at all :)
Fair point about Siena. Its miles from Como and the QOS PTS car chase is actually Garda so if we're being strict about the geography the whole thing is all over the shop.
Not to mention Karoly Vary now being mysteriously located in Montenegro.
Which you were happy to defend. Just re-read that thread and it is priceless stuff. I do salute you Sir for being the instigator of an absolute comedy classic.
Meanwhile back on topic can anyone explain where the CNS building is in this shot:
http://movie-screencaps.com/skyfall-2012/14/
Between SF and SP they had to demolish the building on the right and build the CNS building from scratch. 3 years seems pretty generous to get all that done.
It's a sequel. These things happen an awful lot and it's really not worth getting hung up on.
It's a sequel. Precisely. You can mock the anomalies that retcon creates, but to aim criticism at a lack of prescience is pointless. They never know what they're doing next (and yes, I know that annoys people).
They must have been incredibly boring missions, considering the boredom of QoS's non-mission was made into a film. Come to think of it, Bond doesn't have an officially sanctioned mission in Spectre, either. He's basically turned into Silva - "you can pick your own secret missions, as I do."
Yeah, this strikes me too. They keep hinting they understand people want a normal Bond film - the end of Skyfall seems to acknowledge how atypical that film is - but they just can't help themselves and keep doing bizarre ideas (Bond's revenge, death of M, whatever the hell Spectre was supposed to be) instead of a normal Bond film.
If only QoS and Spectre actually were entertaining. They don't amount to much more than multi-million dollar post-scripts to actual stories (CR and Skyfall) and don't stand on their own in the slightest.
Craig is just super enjoyable to watch lol.
I could do that too. I love Craig as Bond and I desperately want him to return for B25.