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Hi, welcome aboard. Dusty and Luds are on a sort of sabbatical, but will be back I'm sure.
Still a few of us around from the early years though!!
Welcome, @Lord_Brett! You'll find quite a few people will agree with you, including me: Brosnan is my favorite Bond, but DAD was...well, you know.
I stumbled across your erudite, informed thread of comments by chance today, and consider it a great gift on this last day of 2012. I am American and have been driven, by some kind of inner compulsion, to see "Skyfall" four times since it opened, each time appreciating more the well-knit production. I consider it a virtually flawless film. Incidentally, I see two scenes in the film --the fireworks over Macao harbor and the burning of Skyfall-- as a backward glance to a great British filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock.
Specifically, I interpret the fireworks over Macao harbor as an homage to the cut to fireworks over Monte Carlo after Cary Grant and Grace Kelly's long kiss in Hitchcock's "To Catch A Thief", and the burning of Skyfall, to the burning of Manderley in Hitchcock's "Rebecca".
There are so many purely "British" tropes for Anglophiles to glory in: The scene with Silva/Rodrigues' dozen henchmen stretched out in a line as they sweep down the land towards Skyfall, reminds me of beaters on a shoot flushing out the game --as it was probably meant to.
There is so much to plumb in the film, I look forward to reading further on the MI6 site. "Skyfall" is a "classic", as Ezra Pound defined it: "News that stays news".
The only "nit" I found in the film was Javier Bardem's substitution of "wreak" for "wreck" when, on the abandoned island, he says "wreak an election". Entirely pardonable: Bardem's English does not have to be perfect --his performance comes close!
A Happy New Year To All,
Lark
Jump into the conversations soon, as we'd love to have you here.
Also, in terms of Bardem's English, I don't believe he says either of those words; I'm pretty sure he says "rig an election," but his accent sounds like "reeg."
Oh, and, I haven't introduced myself at all, I just jumped in head first. :D So... I'm a recent arrival here, trying to catch up on stuff. I like to talk. :P I love to read analysis and different views. I suppose I ended up here, because I was desperate for other opinions and discussion about Skyfall and my real-life friends just aren't interested and seem somewhat bored of me going on and on about it...
Daniel Craig became my favourite Bond on first viewing of Casino Royale. I like all the previous Bond actors to an extent, apart from Lazenby, I'm afraid... though it's been a couple of decades since I saw OHMSS, and I should try and give it, and him, another chance some day soon. I grew up with Roger Moore as Bond, and his movies were the first I saw at the cinema. Unfortunately I can't remember which one my dad first took me to watch - and neither can he - but anyway, thanks dad! I kept the tradition up as I grew up, always checking out the new films, and rewatching them (as well as older ones) on tv. My interest went up post Casino, and has now really shot up after Skyfall. I've never cared about the character of Bond as much as I do now. Can't wait what they'll do next.
My name is Nikolay and Im 13 years old. I love Bond, obviously, and making fan-media. I hope to get along with all of you well and have a good time!
And I've got to be in DC's corner- we're both massive Liverpool supporters!
Going off of your profile picture, you're 13 years old AND you've seen Brosnan's 'The Matador'? If so, you're leagues cooler than I was at that age.
http://www.thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk
You can also visit my blog dealing with more lengthy articles of an alternative James Bond nature, The Alternative James Bond Blog, under my Dragonpol moniker here:
http://www.thealternativejamesbondblog.blogspot.co.uk
http://emerdelac.wordpress.com
i have been a big Bond fan since i was a kid, in fact i could say Thunderball shaped my life. living in a small mining village in the northeast of england things in the bond movies were out of reach or so i thought
however at 18 i started working in casinos, travelled a lot and learned to scuba dive
i now teach diving for a living and still enjoy watching all the bond movies, shame i didnt get to be a bond girl!!!
I look forward to to discussing all things 007...........
I have been following this website for a few years now, and have finally decided to join as an official and registered member. My wife and I have both been employed in the entertainment industry for a number of years, and it was my father who took me to the cinema to see "Dr No" for the first time, when I was still a very young lad. Back in 1982, I was the ABC-TV member of staff who was assigned to look after both Roger Moore and Albert R. Broccoli (for 3 days) when "Cubby" was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at that year's Academy Awards. I can share that they were both consumate gentlemen and a joy to converse with (and who made my life that weekend a whole lot simpler). You have an enjoyable and very informative website here. Keep up the great work.
You have been blessed to be around such living legends.
I'm kind of new/kind of old here. I used to be a semi-regular poster back on the old MI6 forums (under the same name) from around the production of DAD to a little after the release of CR. Not sure why I quit posting, but when SF came out, I figured it was time to see what the buzz was here. I'm sorry to see the old forums gone, but happy to see many familiar names. So, I have been lurking for about a month and catching up on conversations, and now I'm back to it.
For those who don't know me and those who don't remember me (as I'm sure most don't - like I said: semi-regular poster), my favorite Bond movie is LALD (I get a lot of flak for that, but will happily defend it), and my least favorite is probably TND. I have liked aspects that all of the Bond Actors have brought to the table (even Lazenby: never understood all of the hate). Looking forward to posting all of my thoughts on the series and the lively debates....
See you out there on the forums.
I've always loved Bond, since I was a kid and read the novels. My first Bond film in the theater was Moonraker, which my older brother snuck me into. I was like 3 or 4). The first Bond I remember seeing was A View to a Kill, which I LOVED. I enjoy all the Bonds on their own terms, but I have a total soft spot for T-Dalt.
I might be the only person here who really likes the Jack White Quan of Sol song. Please don't beat up on me too much.
My favorite themes, however, are 'We Have All the Time in the World' and 'Moonraker'