The Award Winning : 'Bond...comments while you watch...'

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  • Posts: 16,169
    I'm loving Craig's leather jacket and casual attire in these scenes.
    The haircut looks great on him as well. Thinking of going back to that haircut myself, actually.
    Mickey G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Blink and you miss him.
    John Barry's flat where he performed GOLDFINGER for house guest Michael Caine.

    Bond breaks into her flat once again.
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    Rory Kinnear is my favorite Tanner, hands down. He is the business.

    Craig working out.

    Daniel Craig really gets himself into shape to play Bond. On this occasion, I think he should have done the opposite and gone for the Connery in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER physique instead. It's easier to look tired and out of breath when you're doing pull ups with that physique, and that physique is easier to maintain.
  • Posts: 16,169
    I like scenes where Bond is told not to cock things up.
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    Ben is an outstanding Q. I think Desmond would be proud. Brilliant move to sort of re-create Q for the Craig era rather than going for a Desmond look-alike.


    I love the sequences that follow: Bond vs Patrice is excellent.
  • Posts: 16,169
    The YouTube scenes have dated badly.
    M should be looking at reaction videos to leaked MI6 agents.
  • Posts: 16,169
    Love the casino sequence with Severine. Underrated Bond girl, IMO.
  • Posts: 16,169
    Silva pulls his mouth out. Decent CGI effect, but has nothing on what Lon Chaney Sr.
    could have done with his simple make up kit during the silent era.
    My favorite set piece is coming- the underground train bit.
    Love this sequence.
    Definitely back to being my favorite Craig era film.
  • Posts: 16,169
    The wonderful Albert Finney! One of my all time favorite actors.
    I love this climactic finale, actually. My favorite of the Craig era, TBH.
    I'd love to see a Blu-ray release that utilizes the IMAX version aspect ratio. I had a blast seeing SF in IMAX.
  • Posts: 16,169
    Here we are, my 11,000th post . Made it this far! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Still on SKYFALL as Bond is inspired by his favorite Christmas movie HOME ALONE to defeat Silva. Actually his favorite Christmas movie should be the 1970 SCROOGE.
    Craig looks damn tough in these scenes.
    M uses the "F" word.
    She dies a heroic death and the audience weeps. Great performances by Dench, Craig, Finney and Bardem.

    Great viewing, I must say. I always enjoy this film.
  • Posts: 16,169
    The original SKYFALL

    NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN

    Okay, that was a little harsh, but the similarities are impossible for me to ignore:
    Bond is back in training getting into shape and a little bit past his prime. He has a new M to get used to and a blond haired Bond villain.
    No opening gunbarrel, either.

    At the moment Fatima beats up Chuck Cunningham.

    That joke got old the first time I posted it, years ago.
    He was great the same year in SUPERMAN III.

    I love Prunella Gee. Amazing. Also in Hammer's WITCHING TIME episode, and RETURN OF THE SAINT.

    Lippe vs Bond.
    Pat Roach was a legend.
    I remember this scene in the cinema.
    Great stuff.

  • Posts: 16,169
    Bond wears a gray sweat suit. I remember going into middle school (AKA junior high) and the physical education class mandating a gym outfit. We could either wears shorts and a T-shirt or sweats.
    I had my folks take me shopping to find a gray tracksuit like Sean's. Well, it wasn't really like his, but it was the best we could do. I suppose I could have gone with dark blue like Roger's, but oh, well.
  • Posts: 16,169
    Bond looks like he's wearing heavy make-up and eyeliner as M scolds Bond for effing up Shrublands.

    I love the bit where Fatima kills Jack. I suppose that jazzy cue is intended to be the music playing on Fatima's car radio?
    Works for me.
  • Posts: 16,169
    I do like Connery's wardrobe in this film. Subdued sports jackets and blazers,
    His look is very minimal , not too flashy. He's comfortable with looking like man in his fifties.
  • Posts: 16,169
    I've always liked the Q scene. I think this incarnation of Q branch is similar in look to SPECTRE's.
    Looks like a converted garage or warehouse.

    "You unscrew it, then stick it up your a$$."

    Alec McCowen is a great Q, IMO.
  • Posts: 16,169
    Bond catches Fatima with one arm, and seamlessly holds his martini in the other. You don't get any more suave than 007.
  • Posts: 16,169
    I miss Sean. :(
  • Posts: 16,169
    I love the touch of Bond munching on an apple as he returns from the casino. He arrives at dawn and looks as though he had returned in a cab.
    I love how he sticks the apple on an ornament while reaching for his P5.
    I don't mind the jazzy score here, either. At least it's not Ladies First.
    The motor bike chase is great, IMO.
  • Posts: 16,169
    As the film enters it's 3rd and almost unanimously decided weak act, I actually enjoy this section of the film. The Palmyra sequence I find wonderful.
    Why is Bond wearing a completely different outfit after being escorted out to be chained up? He loses the gray jumper and polo shirt for a jacket.
  • edited December 2020 Posts: 16,169
    Connery had good chemistry with Basinger, here. He seemed to have consistent solid chemistry with his leading ladies.
    Billy J Mitchell years before being crushed by Xenia.
    Looking him up on imdb. I didn't realize he died in 1999.
  • Posts: 16,169
    Those rocket thingies Bond and Felix fly in are a bit silly looking, but I love it regardless.
    I can envision Dalton flying one with his hair blowing in the wind and him making classic Dalton faces.
  • Posts: 16,169
    I like the Tears of Allah cave set. On the audio commentary I recall Kershner lamenting the scene wasn't well lit, but I don't mind it.
    It's not the YOLT volcano by any stretch, but it's a decent Bond set. It has a RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK feel, IMO.
  • Posts: 16,169
    Sweet.....like money!
  • Posts: 7,438
    Another enjoyable read ToTheRight.
    I was bitterly disappointed when I went to see NSNA at Christmas 1983!
    But i have learned to appreciate it more over the years! The bluray I own now also helps. Sean is great, no matter how much make up he's wearing or how many wigs he has on, he still has great magnetism! And Barbara Carrera is marvellous and sexy in spades!
  • Posts: 16,169
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Another enjoyable read ToTheRight.
    I was bitterly disappointed when I went to see NSNA at Christmas 1983!
    But i have learned to appreciate it more over the years! The bluray I own now also helps. Sean is great, no matter how much make up he's wearing or how many wigs he has on, he still has great magnetism! And Barbara Carrera is marvellous and sexy in spades!

    Glad you enjoyed my posts, @Mathis1 . I have a soft spot for this film since I was a young kid when my folks took me to see it. I remember getting a bike for Christmas that year and pretending it was my Bond motorcycle. I also got a black wrist watch and pretended it had a laser beam. A satisfied third grader I was that Christmas.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    Posts: 7,021
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    The original SKYFALL

    NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN

    Okay, that was a little harsh, but the similarities are impossible for me to ignore:
    Bond is back in training getting into shape and a little bit past his prime. He has a new M to get used to and a blond haired Bond villain.
    No opening gunbarrel, either.
    Interesting, never thought of that.

    I love Prunella Gee. Amazing. Also in Hammer's WITCHING TIME episode, and RETURN OF THE SAINT.
    She's sexy and lively. I've never seen her in anything else but she adds a lot to the film in her brief appearance. I love that scene when she fixes Bond's back, and his facial expression as she's doing that.

    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Bond looks like he's wearing heavy make-up and eyeliner as M scolds Bond for effing up Shrublands.
    It's a tad too noticeable. I remember someone in a film fan edit forum had intended to do a fan edit of NSNA, wishing to alter the color timing to make Connery look better. There were some sample screenshots and there was a noticeable improvement.

    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I do like Connery's wardrobe in this film. Subdued sports jackets and blazers,
    His look is very minimal , not too flashy. He's comfortable with looking like man in his fifties.
    I like it in general, especially his attire when he arrives at Shrublands, but I don't really like his light blue shirt and dark pants combination when talking with Domino at the exercise room of the Flying Saucer.

    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I've always liked the Q scene. I think this incarnation of Q branch is similar in look to SPECTRE's.
    Looks like a converted garage or warehouse.

    "You unscrew it, then stick it up your a$$."

    Alec McCowen is a great Q, IMO.
    Good point about the look of the place. Really feels like Q Branch is underfunded.

    This film is well cast and acted. Brandauer, Carrera, McCowen, Atkinson, Casey... the only weaknesses I find are that Edward Fox's M is a little too comedic perhaps, and that Kim Basinger is slightly flat (though not awful by any means), but even so, Fox provides some fun moments ("that is the kind of attitude that tempts me to suspend you, doubleohsevemm!"), and Basinger is so overwhelmingly beautiful that anything else doesn't matter.

    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Billy J Mitchell years before being crushed by Xenia.
    Looking him up on imdb. I didn't realize he died in 1999.
    Yeah, I didn't know myself until about a year ago. I've mentioned before that I remember him fondly from 1990's Bullseye!, co-starring Roger Moore and Mr. Micklewhite. Mitchell plays a tourist that shows up at random places, and whose wife always gets accidently hurt in over-the-top fashion, as a side effect of the events of the main plotline, prompting Mitchell to offer to buy the unintentional attacker a drink. Highly silly stuff!

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    NSNA has the interesting touch of featuring more explicit sex than the EON Bond films. We see Bond with Fatima and Valerie Leon in "the midst of things" rather than "at the beginning" or after "it's all over." I don't know what's with the "quotes" but "whatever."
  • Posts: 16,169
    @mattjoes, Yes, that outfit aboard the Flying Saucer is pretty dull. I think the SUITS OF JAMES BOND described it as boring as well.
    My impression is that the outfit is part of a suit, and Bond ditches the jacket and tie. There are some stills from a deleted scene in which Bond, Domino and Largo are lunching, and he's wearing the full attire.
    I also love the turtleneck and sports jacket he wears as he's driving up to Shrublands in the Bentley. He looks classic.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    Posts: 7,021
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    @mattjoes, Yes, that outfit aboard the Flying Saucer is pretty dull. I think the SUITS OF JAMES BOND described it as boring as well.
    My impression is that the outfit is part of a suit, and Bond ditches the jacket and tie. There are some stills from a deleted scene in which Bond, Domino and Largo are lunching, and he's wearing the full attire.
    That makes sense. With the full attire, I imagine he would look somewhat similar to his scene with Algernon, though he wasn't wearing a suit in that one.

    Connery wears some outfits in NSNA that are unusual for him in a Bond film. Like that light brown suit in France. IIRC he never wore something like that in the other films. And let's not talk about the dungarees, etc.
  • Posts: 16,169
    Birdleson wrote: »
    Roger is absolutely great in FYEO.

    An excellent performance, and arguably his BEST performance as Bond. I should pop that one in soon as well.

    My first Bond movie for the new year is

    THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

    In a Dalton/Bond mood if only for the snow sequence. We had a nice snow storm the other night, and I'll be driving around in the snow a bit later. I need inspiration, so Timmy D it is!

    At the scene in Kara's apartment. the KGB's re-modelling of her flat should inspire her to re-decorate. If that were my apartment, I'd want it to look like Bogie's in THE MALTESE FALCON.. I see the potential: get rid of that wallpaper and replace those lamps with old school '40's noir lamps. Get a nice burgundy leather chair and viola.

    No time for that, however as she and Bond have to split.......
  • Posts: 16,169
    Here we go.............the roads in this Aston Martin chase are exactly what the roads in my town look like now. I think while I'm driving tonight I'll squint my eyes and make Timothy Dalton wolf eyes facial expressions.
    I wonder where I can get an oversized black leather coat like Tim's?
    Bond drives over the frozen lake. Our lake is frozen here as well. I'd take a short cut, but that won't be necessary.
  • edited January 2021 Posts: 16,169
    Bond accidentally decks Kara in the head with her cello as they slide down the hill. Blink and you miss it. I assume @barryt007 played that bit repeatedly.

    I do miss his posts. I have the extreme opposite opinion of Kara though, as she is absolutely one of my favorites.

    Bond and Kara walk into the Vienna hotel lobby. I imagine Roger would have changed into something more suitable for this scene. Although he did check into the Cortina hotel wearing that suede jacket and turtleneck.
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