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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Let's not forget he turned several (if not many) supporters around to the other way of thinking, as well.

    I know. I meant both ways.
  • edited February 2016 Posts: 613
    Watched QoS last night, and it was rather enjoyable.Thought the editing would bother me more then it did.It has been a couple of years since I've watched it, and I've forgotten how much action is in this movie.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Watched QoS last night, and it was rather enjoyable.Thought the editing would bother me more then it did.It has been a couple of years since I've watched it, and I've forgotten how much action is in this movie.
    It's certainly wall to wall. I'm always surprised how much dialogue they were able to squeeze into such an active flick.
  • edited February 2016 Posts: 1,596
    Lots of dialogue squeezed in with M globetrotting around the world for no reason other than to chastise Bond for being an unruly child. Mommy is not happy James. It's the same unbelievable shit from TWINE, and yet that film is rightfully thrown under the bus while the former is exonerated of blame for its stodgy script elements. For what it's worth, I think QoS is a better film overall, but I just thought it would be worth throwing out. Food for thought :)

    SF is the one Bond film where M out in the field makes some slight sense to me.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited February 2016 Posts: 23,883
    "Could you help me find the erm... the stationary?"
    Horrid. Unworthy of Bond imho.

    However, it was a nice enough hotel and bed (compared to the dump they were going to stay in), and she was impressed with his confidence, and so succumbed.
  • Horrible line. I posted it sarcastically. It's very apparent that Craig and Forster took up the pen for that film.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I posted it sarcastically.
    I know.

    Strangely, it worked in the film. Arterton sold it imho. They really shouldn't have killed her off. Great character.
  • @bondjames - Indeed, great Bond girl. Not only did they kill her off, but they added in that disgusting, shameless self-reference. Travesty.

    And yeah I figured you knew, just wanted to clarify in case you thought I was praising the line's quality haha
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    edited February 2016 Posts: 4,423
    Spectre


    So, what did I think? Well, actually... I enjoyed it.

    Glad you enjoyed Spectre Major. I thought it was an old fashioned romp, a'la Spy or Thunderball. It was the most Bondian of Craig's era. Like you, I need to think about my feelings on Craig. Maybe I'll move him up to third, behind Connery and Dalton. Or fourth behind Sir Rog, or fifth behind the Brozz.

    Oh, and cock block!
  • I thought it was an identity crisis of a movie - wanted to be an "old fashioned romp" but also wanted all of the "Craig Bond This time it's personal" tropes as well and the two jarred wildly for me.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    royale65 wrote: »
    Spectre


    So, what did I think? Well, actually... I enjoyed it.

    Glad you enjoyed Spectre Major. It thought it was an old fashioned romp, a'la Spy or Thunderball. It was the most Bondian of Craig's era. Like you, I need to think about my feelings on Craig. Maybe I'll move him up to third, behind Connery and Dalton. Or fourth behind Sir Rog, or fifth behind the Brozz.

    After all I have said of Craig in the past, I can't find fault in his peformance in Spectre.
    royale65 wrote: »
    Oh, and cock block!

    Too on the nose? ;)
  • edited February 2016 Posts: 11,189
    The film certainly alternates between being VERY brutal and intense (the Spectre meeting) and being almost like a PS2 game (the car chase, the escape from Blofeld's base). Having said that, when it's good - it's great. Wasn't too wild about the helicopter fight when I first saw it either, however, I've come round to it and now think its a great opening.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    It was a great opening, but I did wonder what it would have looked like at night. :-?
  • I'm not sure about that. I think it'll fall into the dregs of "just another Bond film" once Bond 25 is released. A decade from now etc.

    QoS is the only one REALLY being debated. I mean we're all fanatics so we debate them all, but that's the one that really gets talked about a lot. SP does but only because it's "the newone."

    I haven't seen quite as much QoS debate around here lately, but I think it's destined to go down like LTK, a real love it or hate it type. SP I see ending up more like TWINE, where fans have opinions all over the map. Still, it seems as though it will be more important to Craig's tenure as a whole than TWINE was for Brosnan's.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited February 2016 Posts: 23,883
    SP I see ending up more like TWINE, where fans have opinions all over the map. Still, it seems as though it will be more important to Craig's tenure as a whole than TWINE was for Brosnan's.

    Given SP & TWINE are both the lowest rated of mine from the respective actor's 4 films, I tried to see if there were any similarities which caused me to rate both lower. Here's what I found (from my view):

    1. lacklustre action which seems tacked on & isn't all that engaging
    2. tonal imbalances everywhere (is it serious? is it jokey? are we supposed to care?)
    3. acting which doesn't quite work perfectly in the film. Over melodramatic in TWINE (particularly from Bond) and not caring at all in SP (again, particularly from Bond)
    4. humour that doesn't quite work all the time
    5. poor dialogue in relation to other films
    6. a villain that promised so much at the start but failed to really deliver to expectations by the end

    So I suppose the above are things which I don't like to see in a Bond film.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Last night I did a double feature of TLD and OP.

    Splendid way to spend 2 hours. I started with a classic Bond adventure with an intense Dalton, mixed with a superb Barry soundtrack. This really is one of my favorite Bond films. Then, I continued with a world weary, veteran, gentleman spy thanks to Sir Rog, in the fantastic OP. Great plot, lots of humour at the start and nerve-racking tension in the 2nd half. An excellent all-time-high for Sir Rog.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited February 2016 Posts: 23,883
    Birdleson wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    I posted it sarcastically.
    I know.

    Strangely, it worked in the film. Arterton sold it imho. They really shouldn't have killed her off. Great character.

    I bought it. In my hay day I got laid using way lamer lines!
    @Birdleson, you stud! 'Making hay' at every chance.
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    edited February 2016 Posts: 4,423
    Today I watched Diamonds Are Forever in my ongoing, Fleming inspired Bond-a-thon. Interestingly both Die Another Day and DAF have diamonds in their plot, so it was a nice segue into DAF.

    Apart from the oil rig climax where the film runs out of puff, I thoroughly enjoyed my latest viewing. I don't think I've appreciated DAF this much, for about ten years. Probably the wittiest script, Connery is confident and composed, as befitting a veteran agent. And, you know, Barry.

    The older I get, the things that used to pee me of in the Bond series, I just let go, and just go with the flow. If it didn't have the overt humour – a step in the wrong direction for the Bond series – I would've ranked it higher. If Diamond's had contained quips, it would have been fine; the reason why the Bond movies has lasted so long, is because the series has adapted, i.e. 60's chic, iconic and cool; 70's fantasy and humour; 80's conservatism, so having a lighter touch to the Bond films, by having quips, dialogue exchanges achieved that; after all the Bond would be rather dull if they were all the same. However introducing sight gags and overt humour, was a step in the wrong direction. This isn't a complaint with the befit of hindsight, as some reviewers commented in 1971;
    “it looks like a sequence of the same kind in the Bond imitations”, Pauline Kendel wrote in the New Yorker.

    That tangent aside, I find the pre-GE era Bond films, to have an ineffable charm about them. With the more recent efforts, however, they just come of as more calculating.


    Worst Bit – The below par production values, be it the bad dubbing “Ca-Ca-Cario!” or the Moonbuggy wheel appearing from nowhere.

    Best Bit – Connery and Jill's chemistry. And Gray's entertaining villainy.



    7/10

    Royale's Ranking

    Casino Royale - 9.5
    Live and Let Die - 7.5
    Moonraker - 7
    Diamonds Are Forever - 7
    Die Another Day - 7

    CR
    LALD
    MR
    DAD
    DAF

    FRWL
    DN
    GF
    AVTAK 
    FYEO
    QoS
    GE
    LTK
    SP
    OP
    TLD 
    TSWLM 
    TND
    TB 
    OHMSS 
    YOLT 
    TMWTGG 
    TWINE
    SF
  • edited February 2016 Posts: 9,846
    it dawned on me if only do 1 film per weekend and add in Casino Royale 67 Never Say Never again a weekend for James Brolin's almost bond film Diamonds Aren't forever in 1989 and Everything or nothing and still do this only when my wife is working I will be at Spectre by the last weekend of February 2017 lol

    by that time we should know a LOT more about Bond 25

    anyways Goldfinger tomorrow
  • Spectre Sixth viewing, this film is growing on me fast. Without a doubt this is one of the most visually stunning Bond films ever made. I think in a few years I may regard this as one of the best films of the series. Its a visual masterpiece, I don't care if this film lacks supposed originality, every Bond film borrows from another. Drink in the stunning visuals in HD.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Spectre Sixth viewing, this film is growing on me fast. Without a doubt this is one of the most visually stunning Bond films ever made. I think in a few years I may regard this as one of the best films of the series. Its a visual masterpiece, I don't care if this film lacks supposed originality, every Bond film borrows from another. Drink in the stunning visuals in HD.

    ^:)^
    \m/
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
    edited February 2016 Posts: 4,581
    Good to have you back @BondJasonBond006
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    :-bd

    High praise to Spectre that the film I watch immediately after is OHMSS
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Good to have you back @BondJasonBond006

    It was until I remembered.

    :)) ...I think...
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
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    THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

    One of my best all time viewings of this film. Exquisite stuff. Dalton is superb, Kara is a naive but charming Bond girl, Krabbe is suitably slimy as Koskov (Whitaker is the weak link, but is still tolerable nonetheless), the action is probably the best of any Bond film (along with TSWLM), the score (oh the score!), the title track is one of my favourites. I do have some niggles with the film, such as Terry's Leiter, the Muhjahideen inexplicably turning up at the end, the shoot out with Whitaker. But overall, a classic entry and deserving of a strong position in my top ten.

    2016 Bondathon Ranking-

    -OCTOPUSSY/THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (never had a draw before, but I love them equally)
    -LIVE AND LET DIE
    -GOLDENEYE
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

    One of my best all time viewings of this film. Exquisite stuff. Dalton is superb, Kara is a naive but charming Bond girl, Krabbe is suitably slimy as Koskov (Whitaker is the weak link, but is still tolerable nonetheless), the action is probably the best of any Bond film (along with TSWLM), the score (oh the score!), the title track is one of my favourites. I do have some niggles with the film, such as Terry's Leiter, the Muhjahideen inexplicably turning up at the end, the shoot out with Whitaker. But overall, a classic entry and deserving of a strong position in my top ten.

    2016 Bondathon Ranking-

    -OCTOPUSSY/THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (never had a draw before, but I love them equally)
    -LIVE AND LET DIE
    -GOLDENEYE

    =D>
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

    One of my best all time viewings of this film. Exquisite stuff. Dalton is superb, Kara is a naive but charming Bond girl, Krabbe is suitably slimy as Koskov (Whitaker is the weak link, but is still tolerable nonetheless), the action is probably the best of any Bond film (along with TSWLM), the score (oh the score!), the title track is one of my favourites.
    Yes!I concur!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Watching LALD tonight on ITV, I thought they'd just repeat the version they showed
    during the week, ( where they cut most of Roger getting his arm sliced ). In this one
    The showed all three cuts to Rogers arm. Just thought it odd they'd go to the bother.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Watching LALD tonight on ITV, I thought they'd just repeat the version they showed
    during the week, ( where they cut most of Roger getting his arm sliced ). In this one
    The showed all three cuts to Rogers arm. Just thought it odd they'd go to the bother.

    They cut out THAT???
    I don't want to know, what they would cut out of QOS for example. I guess the running time would be 35 minutes :))
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    Remember to update the Bond Meter 2016 thread with your viewings. :)
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