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If we go back to the novel CR. Bond and Vesper are eating dinner to celebrate. She receives a paper from "Mathis" telling her to meet. Bond suspects Vesper is in danger when it clicks in his head that Mathis would have a face-to-face meeting, and never use a piece of paper. He just didn't do things that way. So, lets relate this to the film. Bond suspects Mathis because possibly Mathis should've come to Vesper directly, face-to face for the meeting. They were all allied, so why not? This is the moment Bond realizes something is wrong. He runs to try and save Vesper. So, Mathis not coming to meet face-to-face could mean Mathis was working with Le Chiffre to draw out Vesper. Though he wasn't, this is initially what Bond may think. We go to QoS and Mathis is freed of charges(rather quickly). I still don't know how Mathis was proved not guilty. Just one of the many things QoS wanted us to apparently "think about ourselves". Either that or sloppy writing. Or both... AHHH THE HEAD!!! #-o
It's confusing. I read it as Le Chiffre wants to make Bond think Mathis is the traitor so that if Le Chiffre can't get the password out of Bond, Vesper can try as well. Or maybe it's just to take Bond's focus off Vesper (the same reason why she screams on the boat when she is not in danger).
Maybe Bond goes on many assignments between the ones we see in the films. That way it does line up. Still rather silly to do it a second time anyway, though I suppose he had no choice.
your missing the more important fail.
It took Bond and Kissy ALL day to get to the volcano. How the hell did she get back to the village and back again with Tanaka's Ninjas in such a short time??
he really had no choice in TWINE, because if you recall - after the banker was killed by cigar girl, he goes to the door - sees her runaway - and then from the bottom of the steps a lady yells in spanish "is everything okay?"... not long after the police are shown arriving outside.... so had Bond grabbed the money, then decided to try and leave the conventional way, he would've been arrested...
the bigger question with TWINE (other than one i posed earlier).. is how did that small strap from the blinds, suddenly become long enough to lower Bond to the street - much less support his weight.
If anyone else had used a flimsy blind cord along with the extra weight he was carrying it would have been curtains for them
I'll get me coat
what makes it even more hilarious, is how different it looks from when he pulls it from the blind, to when he starts to tie it to the knocked out guard's belt.... it's like they didn't even try to hide it lol..
I think Haphazard was overthinking things in that review. It's called suspension of disbelief. I assumed they would stage Trevelyan's death, capture Bond, release him later back to Mi6 (presumably after torturing or interrogating him) where he can confirm Alec is "dead".
Yes it's contrived but its called suspension of disbelief and there's the whole "the villian could have just shot Bond but chose an overly elaborate method instead" situation. I've never been bothered by it and its silly to pick it apart like HH did.
In regard to the avoiding hundreds of bullets and catching a plane in mid-air, what about in the Dr No book where he avoids death traps, falls down a cliff and then battles a giant squid? Pretty proposterous also don't you think but no one batters an eye-lid at that.
Yeah, I never understood this either. It could probably happen, but I don't see how it worked in the movie. Then again, the lightning-fast editing of QoS makes you miss a bunch of things!
I think that boat chase is a strong candidate for "worst action scene in a Bond film" and that includes some of the stuff in DAD. At least with DAD you could see what was going on.
That's true. I hope that SkyFall will return to actual camera-editing work and stop trying to copy the modern day spy movies, which hold no weight when compared to JAMES BOND 007!
Yeah, it never works when you try to incorporate elements of other movies into a series that doesn't need to feel "equal" with the other movies of the day. Like Moonraker, trying to cash in on Star Wars just doesn't work. Star Wars never needed to use other movie elements to get ratings up, so neither should the Bond series, considering by the time SW was released Bond already had 10 movies!
Another one from that film. How did M know Scaramanga's phone number, at the end, so he could call Bond?
I'd guess there were already tracking devices in 1974... satellites too.
Ah, but his original assignment was for Canada. The only basis they had for sending any of the 00's anywhere was where they thought it might be possible to land the Vulcan. A picture is far better than the educated guess they had previously.
I'm aware; my mistake. Relax.
Ah, there he is! Back again! Hello Creasy, good to see you!
And trust me, @Virage, I would know what it is. Not sure what mindset I was in that caused me to state it was a helicopter, but a huge error on my part, nonetheless.
Also from the same film, how did a fish get into the submarine car that Bach and Moore emerge from the sea in, not really possible if you think about it
Oh wow, I've never thought of this before. Nice observation! I always assumed that she switched it off, and she did, but I just remembered that she switched it BACK on again to tell Renard to dive, and then Bond killed her.