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Michael Mann's BlackHat was heavily criticised but according to IT people, he got the computer stuff right. We see people look at lines of code the way they should look in real life.
Ever since THE NET, computer hacking has been farcical. But if I can't believe that this could be even remotely like the real thing, I have a hard time buying it.
Now, I am willing to roll with it in a Bond film. I just wish they wouldn't treat us like little kids who equate flashy and beepy to computering like a boss.
Real hacking is far less spectacular visually. But that's the thing: sexing it up is common to most if not all movies.
You blew my mind a bit there: mouse use is indeed rather uncommon in films! :))
Yeah, and I kind of remember the map appearing from Q using a method of visualisation that it seemed unlikely Silva would have been able to predict: especially as the film makes it clear that Q is new to this bit of MI6.
It’s a Unix system, I know this!
Weeeeellllll !
From the TV Tropes page about the movie you're quoting from.
Don't we see Q using one in SF?
And all exaggerations aside, the plots of both SF and SP are fairly plausible. Heck compared to some cyberthreats we've had recently Silva comes off as a borderline amateur.
Other controversial opinion and a bit paradoxical as I love the film: FYEO is maybe the most tonally inconsistent Bond movie. I think it sort of works, but I have no idea how.
I think this applies to both FYEO and OP, but there's a difference. FYEO jumps from its over-the-top PTS to a more dramatic film with a funky car chase in it. But overall, I think FYEO knows what it's doing and keeps a straight face.
OP, by contrast, is essentially a very light-hearted semi-slapsticky comedy with a few relatively tense and darkly dramatic scenes dispersed in it.
Well, there is a mouse in SP. And there are even three of them in DN ;)
Yes, OP is generally light-hearted with a few dark moments, FYEO is a bit of a tonal mess, might even beat DAD as the most tonally inconsistent Bond film because at least when that film starts not to take itself seriously, it continues to do that.
Yes, John Glen used his pigeon motif a lot. Every Glen Bond film has that type of animal jump scare moment when you think about it though it's a cat instead of a pigeon in AVTAK. Pigeons feature I FYEO, OP, TLD and LTK. You could say that AVTAK is a cat among the pigeons. ;)
All the movies have darker and lighter moments, but none of them are really all that dark. Bibi isn't exactly Jar Jar Binks, and the car chase is another statement of intent: Bond won't be saved by gadgets this time.
Here's another controversial opinion: Bibi in FYEO is a great character and helps to establish a dark side to Kristatos: he's potentially a sexual predator.
+1 I love Bibi!
Along with he liked to get Tim Dalton to tap fuel gauges :D
Bibi doesn't bother me in the slightest. She's the comic relief (for Bond) in a rather dark story.
It's also the series starting to acknowledge Moore's age, and besides that, he is rather gentlemanly and turns her down.
Now the iceberg submarine woman in AVTAK...*that* scene is creepy. (At least Pola and Stacey seem a bit more age-appropriate.)
Imagine, instead, if it had been Octopussy waiting in that submarine. It wouldn't have made a lot of sense, but it wouldn't have been creepy, either.
Ha! Good one! I'll have to watch our for how often he dies that now! I suppose that tap could release another 50p of fuel and that could make all the difference! ;)
5 days to Alaska...
That sub would be absolutely minging after that long. I hope there’s a toilet on board, and more food than just vodka and caviar.
I dunno, stuff like a hockey rink full of goons disguised as hockey players I would definitely count as silly. And Bibi basically solely existing as comic relief via her constant fawning over Bond is a low-brow trope I found pretty grating, and adding her to many of the villain’s scenes really diminished an antagonist who was already lacking in menace. I like FYEO quite a bit, mind, but I find it pretty uneven.
It was not developed but it's definitely there.