The Award Winning : 'Bond...comments while you watch...'

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  • Posts: 16,223
    I know you dream a lot...............holding onto lies.................

    Good viewing, though there's a feeling of melancholy here.
  • Posts: 7,616
    Good to have you baaaaaaaaack, @ToTheRight 😅
    Though pity you picked something as lame as GE!!! 🤣
  • Posts: 16,223
    Hahahaha! Good point, @Mathis1. There was kind of a downer feeling after that viewing. Like it didn't hold up as well as CR or most of the other Bonds.
  • Posts: 7,616
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Hahahaha! Good point, @Mathis1. There was kind of a downer feeling after that viewing. Like it didn't hold up as well as CR or most of the other Bonds.

    It has a lot of fans on here. And good luck to them, but I was never a fan, and considering it was meant to modernise Bond in 1995, it seems horribly dated now! Plus, J just find it deathly dull 😄
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Hinx fight is impressive.
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Hahahaha! Good point, @Mathis1. There was kind of a downer feeling after that viewing. Like it didn't hold up as well as CR or most of the other Bonds.

    It has a lot of fans on here. And good luck to them, but I was never a fan, and considering it was meant to modernise Bond in 1995, it seems horribly dated now! Plus, J just find it deathly dull 😄

    Ha, show me something from the nineties that doesn't feel dated. Allthough the bloodless mowing down of russian soldiers remains painfully bad. As the stupid 'see, they crawl out of smashed policecars after a tank ran over them' snippets.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Hahahaha! Good point, @Mathis1. There was kind of a downer feeling after that viewing. Like it didn't hold up as well as CR or most of the other Bonds.

    An interesting observation @ToTheRight.

    While I like GE (it’s in my top ten), I can’t deny that there could possibly be a “Halo Effect” caused by the popular video game. Especially for younger fans.

    And in the US, the November 1995 release of GE also coincided with a major wave of nostalgia for all things British. Not just Bond, but Oasis, Blur (and even The Beatles were back) – on the radio and magazine covers.

  • edited November 2023 Posts: 16,223
    Here we are yet again, this time with my hero, Daniel Craig.
    Going with SKYFALL.


    Moneypenny giving Bond an old school shave. There's a barber in my town that does this. I should get a shave there sometime. A very old school thing to do.

    I love this casino sequence.
    I'm already enjoying this one more than I did GE last night.
    The pacing here is smooth and tighter.

    This film has my favorite Craig reading of "Bond, James Bond". Sacrilege, I know. I just love the simplicity of this delivery. He has nothing to prove here.
  • Posts: 16,223
    Dwayne wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Hahahaha! Good point, @Mathis1. There was kind of a downer feeling after that viewing. Like it didn't hold up as well as CR or most of the other Bonds.

    An interesting observation @ToTheRight.

    While I like GE (it’s in my top ten), I can’t deny that there could possibly be a “Halo Effect” caused by the popular video game. Especially for younger fans.

    And in the US, the November 1995 release of GE also coincided with a major wave of nostalgia for all things British. Not just Bond, but Oasis, Blur (and even The Beatles were back) – on the radio and magazine covers.

    Those were the days, @Dwayne. It was such a huge event to have Bond back. I had a lot of fun in the mid 90's.
  • Posts: 16,223
    I love the casino fight.
  • Posts: 16,223
    I like Severine. Great Bond girl, IMO.
    Here we go.........the great Silva monologue.
    I laughed my ass off during this scene in the cinema.
  • Posts: 16,223
    The Severine death scene. Craig's hair looks incredibly short in this scene. Reminds me of Joe Friday, Jack Webb.
  • Posts: 16,223
    I really love the public transit tube sequence. This is great. Q is excellent.
  • Posts: 7,616
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I love the casino fight.

    Really? I thought it was so poor. They had a great build up to it, the dialogue with Severine, and she warns Bond They're going to kill him, and he does that salute with the martini, and I was expecting a brutal punch up like the stairwell fight from CR, and all we got was this jokey effort , Bond swinging this obviously empty case, and then we get terrible cgi komodo dragons amid stagey choreography, it was such a letdown!
  • Posts: 16,223
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I love the casino fight.

    Really? I thought it was so poor. They had a great build up to it, the dialogue with Severine, and she warns Bond They're going to kill him, and he does that salute with the martini, and I was expecting a brutal punch up like the stairwell fight from CR, and all we got was this jokey effort , Bond swinging this obviously empty case, and then we get terrible cgi komodo dragons amid stagey choreography, it was such a letdown!

    Haha. Yeah. The cgi is questionable. I really don't mind the jokiness of this scene. I like an occasional lighthearted fight sequence here and there. We'd get a better, more intense fight in the next film anyway.
  • Posts: 16,223
    Judi Dench gives a superb performance in this one.
  • Posts: 16,223
    Mallory takes a bullet for M. Mallory is kicking ass in this scene.
    It's pretty funny when Tanner puts M in the car and Bond drives off.
    Rory Kinnear is great. He has the best facial expressions.
  • Posts: 16,223
    Bond stops to take a pee and gets distracted contemplating their situation.
  • Posts: 16,223
    I love Bond's childhood home in that isolated area. Great setting.
  • Posts: 16,223
    I'm still sad we lost Albert Finney. Great actor. I find his performance as Scrooge genuinely moving, as well as funny. He was always excellent, especially in this Bond.
  • Posts: 16,223
    The triumphant shot of Silva after the DB5 gets demolished reminds me of Denis Leary in JUDGMENT NIGHT.
  • Posts: 16,223
    The frozen lake fight is superb. Damn, I may stay up and watch NTTD tonight as well.
  • Posts: 16,223
    .........and we lose M. Bond's remaining days are now numbered and the rest of his life will be flushed down the toilet.
    Well, that''s what happens when jobs change leadership.
    Thanks a lot, Mallory. :D
  • Posts: 16,223
    Now I'm watching NO TIME TO DIE. I just gotta see Mallory eff everything up. :D
  • Posts: 16,223
    I'm glad the US version doesn't have that Universal logo transition in the gunbarrel.
    And I do like this gunbarrel sequence.

    Madeleine's mom is kind of cute, even thought she's completely smashed here.

    I love frozen lakes. We get them where I live. I love the horror movie feel of this opening.
  • Posts: 16,223
    Time for some OHMSS love in this one.
    Everytime a new Craig movie came out I had been going thru some tough times, and these Bonds helped me get thru it.
    My longtime girlfriend had passed before this one was released and never got to see it. There's a lot of emotional relevance for me in this film.

  • Posts: 16,223
    Maybe I should try that burning ceremony to let the past go?
    This is a moving scene.
  • Posts: 16,223
    Yay! It's Primo! Great henchman, IMO. So classic.

    Hmm. I think Bond already knows she's the daughter of Spectre. Didn't he witness her dad off himself in the last film?
    Here we go. Bond and Madeleine in the DB5. Another superb scene.
  • Posts: 16,223
    Madeleine is my favorite Craig era leading Bond girl.
  • Posts: 16,223
    .........and into another wonderful title sequence. My favorite since CR.
  • Posts: 16,223
    The great Dr Valdo.
    I LIKE ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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