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I don't remember Fleming gifting Bond with an aversion to Heineken. It would be different if he started drinking tea (something explicitly mentioned as being "muddy water" in the books). I've also never seen Bond make scrambled eggs in the films, etc. If you're going to invoke Fleming here then most of the series is automatically out in terms of what "Bond would and wouldn't do".
Smoking is even more so part of the character than drinking a specific brand of beer. Bond was out of touch and didn't care about anything so he resorted to a lesser label or whatever. I imagine Bond as a heavy smoker and lament this loss more than this whole brouhaha over Heineken. But I'm not going to rate the last 7 films a 1/10 only because he doesn't smoke. It's nitpicking.
However, they keep the production costs down so we have to live with it. Smoking may kill some box office (people are so judgemental these days).
But didn't Sam and Dan nix Bond using Sony's phone because it wasn't the absolute best and Bond uses the best?
Well how does Heineken fit into this ethos?
They paid the best!!
Madeleine: James, do you want your eggs scrambled or over-easy?
Bond: Do I look like I give a damn?
Madeleine: You are so grumpy since you quit. And why does Eve Moneypenny keep calling every time we take the Aston for a spin? I've had enough. I'm splitting.
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We have the PTS for Property of a Lady AKA Bond 25! Bond then spends the rest of the movie tracking down the DB5, which Madeleine steals out from under Bond's nose. More antics from "Team Bond". Along the way, Bond tries to get intel from Blofeld as to where Madeleine might be going, ala Silence of the Lambs. Movie ends with Bond resignedly realizing that he doesn't need the DB5 anymore, lets Madeleine go, cue more navel gazing, cue end credits.
What makes Bond so different from all other action heroes is his snobbery, his taste for the finer things in life.
Anyway, being a fan of the novels I just hated how he was portrayed in that scene. Something in the line of: "If Bond wasn't on duty, he couldn't care less about quality. He'd watch reality shows, drink beer and eat cheeseburgers."
Nevertheless, and I did point that out, I loved Skyfall and I won't rate it 1/10 just because of a two-minute scene, but it won't get a 10/10 either.
I'd still give it 8 or 9.
Nothing takes the biscuit greater than SF and "Volkswagen Beetles...I think" and then insult added to injury with the very next shot being a close up of Bond's watch...still I guess you could say at least they got it out of the way early on.
1. Bond going rogue. Sure, Bond can bend the rules, but this angle has been overused.
2. Bond threatening he's never coming back. He's coming back already.
3. Needles drilling into someone's head. This was purely a hokey shockfactor with no real payoff.
4. MI6 getting shutdown. This angle has been well played out.
5. Leading Bond Girls that are Doctors. Good grief we get it. Women are smart creatures too.
Yeah be better if just Tanner drank it ...that annoys me too. Kudos to Mendes and Craig to standing up to at least one product placement.
Good list, I concur.
And no more tie-pins, this isn't a Givenchy ad.
This is simply mirroring the current political climate, hence why it plays a more significant role in SF/SP. We're in a completely different world to that of Bond's gone by, where questions over surveillance and security were not front and centre. The need for transparency creates a very different set of circumstances. When Fleming created Bond the idea that our own services could intentionally/unintentionally compromise our safety wasn't something to be concerned about. Things are so much more opaque these days. For that reason I don't have a problem with a threat to the future of the 00 program (which is essentially what we're talking about).
Great that it doesn't bother you - I for one am tired of this being used a plot-device twice in a row now. It smacks of lazy writing.
:)) :) =)) Hilarious. Made my day!
Bond wearing strange moustaches.
Bond wearing strange costumes.
The films are linked and it's still a current concern, so I don't see why it wouldn't be addressed in SP. It bolsters the position that the 00 program is, while small, a conversely powerful and unique entity. In the overarching narrative it makes little sense to say, 'Ok guys, we're all good now. M's poetry did the trick'. It wasn't resolved in SF, so to me it makes sense that it would be reprised in SP. It's not lazy at all.
Your positivism on the issue is admirable, but I still don't agree that it was necessary to expand the 'Is MI6 still a good use of the UK's resources?' story device quite so heavily into the next film (ie. SP). To me it just felt like a massive re-tread.
Perhaps it was because I was expecting it that I don't find particularly off-putting. When Mendes suggested there were threads of ideas he wanted to explore further, it was pretty obvious to me that this would be one. In SF, it is Bond himself who provides a symbolic resolution for the audience, but the repercussions of M's actions and the subsequent court hearing are never resolved in the world of the film. The fact SP does that job and works Spectre (as organisation) into the narrative makes sense to me.
What?! The whole assortment of innuendo around that Piz Gloria dinner scene is Bond-comedy gold! :>
I was reading between the lines of his initial comment regard the angle being 'played out' as meaning the spotlight being on the 00 program. They weren't closing MI6. It's the idea of recruitment shifting from field work to office based intelligence gathering that it mirrors.
So no black person is allowed to eat a banana in a bond film because... .you feel black people are associated with chimps?
Please tell me who are the racists?