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No Time To Die: Why It Should Not Have Been Made (The Way It Was)

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Venutius wrote: »
    Needles to the brain? Mere pinpricks!

    Maybe it worked like acupuncture?

    Blofeld was just making stuff up to scare them. It was just painful, not crippling.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Venutius wrote: »
    Needles to the brain? Mere pinpricks!

    Maybe it worked like acupuncture?

    Blofeld was just making stuff up to scare them. It was just painful, not crippling.

    Nicked from the Colonel Sun novel...😁
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Venutius wrote: »
    Needles to the brain? Mere pinpricks!

    Maybe it worked like acupuncture?

    Blofeld was just making stuff up to scare them. It was just painful, not crippling.

    Nicked from the Colonel Sun novel...😁

    Quite.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited January 2022 Posts: 3,152
    Maybe it was just like acupuncture? Arf :))
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited January 2022 Posts: 3,152
    Course, the one-man killing of the crater base could just be a coma vision caused by the needles.
    It'd explain downing a helicopter with a pop gun too. And that fantasy about having a kid and taking a missile to the face... ;)
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Whatever people need to sleep at night.
  • GBFGBF
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    Venutius wrote: »
    Course, the one-man killing of the crater base could just be a coma vision caused by the needles.
    It'd explain downing a helicopter with a pop gun too. And that fantasy about having a kid and taking a missile to the face... ;)

    So maybe the next Bond film begins with Bond waking up in the torture chair being rescued by Felix who tells him that Blofeld unfortunately managed to escape.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited January 2022 Posts: 3,152
    GBF wrote: »
    So maybe the next Bond film begins with Bond waking up in the torture chair being rescued by Felix who tells him that Blofeld unfortunately managed to escape.

    PTS is a CIA-led Navy SEAL assault on a crater base. Helicopters, explosions, gun battles, firefights through the complex to the torture room. SEALS secure the room, mission commander walks in, raises visor - Jeffrey Wright. Kevin McKidd regains consciousness in the chair. 'Felix?' 'Sleeping on the job, James?' 'But...' 'Bad dreams - you're Bobby Ewing, brother! Ha-hah.' Cue titles...

    Kidding, obvs. But I've got a sort of sly grin creeping up my face at the thought...

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Venutius wrote: »
    GBF wrote: »
    So maybe the next Bond film begins with Bond waking up in the torture chair being rescued by Felix who tells him that Blofeld unfortunately managed to escape.

    PTS is a CIA-led Navy SEAL assault on a crater base. Helicopters, explosions, gun battles, firefights through the complex to the torture room. SEALS secure the room, mission commander walks in, raises visor - Jeffrey Wright. Kevin McKidd regains consciousness in the chair.
    'Felix?'
    'Sleeping on the job, James?'
    'But...'
    'Bad dreams - you're Bobby Ewing, brother! Ha-hah.'

    Cue titles...
    The Dead Don't Die
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
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    I think this thread did, though...
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    No Time to Die Thread: Why It Should Not Have Died (The Way It Did)
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Venutius wrote: »
    Needles to the brain? Mere pinpricks!

    Maybe it worked like acupuncture?

    Blofeld was just making stuff up to scare them. It was just painful, not crippling.

    Actually I read somewhere an interview with a neurologist who said it was possible what Blofeld said, but he got the location wrong in the film. So yea, it was just a very painful prick.
    Catching up on a helicopter by boat and then shooting it down with a handgun, however, is almost as bad as the Vanish.

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Venutius wrote: »
    Needles to the brain? Mere pinpricks!

    Maybe it worked like acupuncture?

    Blofeld was just making stuff up to scare them. It was just painful, not crippling.

    Actually I read somewhere an interview with a neurologist who said it was possible what Blofeld said, but he got the location wrong in the film. So yea, it was just a very painful prick.
    Catching up on a helicopter by boat and then shooting it down with a handgun, however, is almost as bad as the Vanish.

    In the theatre I not only bought it as a Bond improbability made possible (in my mind I saw the bullet ricochet harmlessly off the fuselage but bounce into a port allowing it into the turbine chamber & get lodged in a gear head), but I laughed my a*s off!
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Bond and Madeleine jumping into the netting and surviving is far more improbable to me than a handgun taking down a helicopter.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Shooting down a helicopter over a city is pretty reckless, isn t it?
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Yes
  • AstonLotusAstonLotus
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Shooting down a helicopter over a city is pretty reckless, isn t it?

    Yep.Bond is EXTREMELY lucky that bridge was deserted when the chopper crashed.Blofeld could have had the last laugh if Bond had been arrested for causing the deaths of lots of civilians.

  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    It's a good thing this is the first and only time he's acted recklessly.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    NickTwentyTwo wrote: »
    It's a good thing this is the first and only time he's acted recklessly.

    Also a good thing it was a Mendes film.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Also a good thing that it was nighttime.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    And that it was a prop.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Well, when Bond ordered two nuclear subs to fire at each other, luck was on his side too. 😉
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    echo wrote: »
    Bond and Madeleine jumping into the netting and surviving is far more improbable to me than a handgun taking down a helicopter.

    The entire third act is the worst of the series.

    Appalling in every department.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    DIE ANOTHER DAY says "hold my beer".
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited February 2022 Posts: 3,152
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    The entire third act is the worst of the series.
    Appalling in every department.

    And that's after the Sony and MGM suits demanded several third act re-writes - imagine what it must've been like before they were happy with it...
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Venutius wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    The entire third act is the worst of the series.
    Appalling in every department.

    And that's after the Sony and MGM suits demanded several third act re-writes - imagine what it must've been like before they were happy with it...

    I dread to think...

    Fans have come up with much better ideas...
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    echo wrote: »
    Bond and Madeleine jumping into the netting and surviving is far more improbable to me than a handgun taking down a helicopter.

    The entire third act is the worst of the series.

    Appalling in every department.

    Hands down. I legitimately can’t believe how dull and ludicrous it all is the rare times I’m forced to sit through it.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Jeez, you'd swear none of you have seen 'DAD'!
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Everyone is being so mean to my beloved Spectre! :'(
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Jeez, you'd swear none of you have seen 'DAD'!

    DAD has a pretty bad climax I admit mate, but it doesn't have past villains pictures blutacked to the side of the plane...

    Let's call it a tie...😁
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