SomethingThatAteHim
About
- Username
- SomethingThatAteHim
- Joined
- Visits
- 3,429
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Favourite Fleming Novel
- Moonraker
- Favourite Bond Film
- Casino Royale
- Favourite Bond Actor
- Sean Connery
- Posts
- 532
Comments
-
After Masters of the Air I’m personally pulling for Callum Turner. He’s got great screen presence and the right physicality for the role.
-
Just need Octopussy to complete the collection, and as with many of these Folio’s it’ll be my first time reading it. I imagine it got delayed due to Fay Dalton’s schedule, that’s the only factor I can think of that might throw a spanner in the works…
-
Yeah, gonna echo all the praise in here — really fantastic work that 100% captures the spirit of both the posters it’s aping and the film itself. Very impressive.
-
Largo in chemin de fer, easily. Poker has much more skill involved and I can’t say I have a great aptitude for it so I’d stand no chance against Le Chiffre. With chemin de fer you have greater odds for success.
-
Yeah I feel similarly about Goldfinger. It’s not bad, but it’s a bit of a slog for how long it is and feels like many of its best bits are repurposed from other, better, Bond books like the card cheating is just a not-as-good refresh of the Bridge g…
-
Though I much prefer TLD, which ticks many of my Bond highlights, I find the two pretty neck and neck in terms of rewatchability since LTK has a lot of great action highlights that make for a tantalizing revisit. I’ll stick with TLD though overall, …
-
I didn’t have too much of an issue with the number of locations but it did have the Spectre problem where the heavy yellow color grading made some of the different countries look and feel like the same setting.
-
mtm wrote: » SomethingThatAteHim wrote: » Rewatched Skull the other night and it reiterates that I think it’s a much better Indy film than Dial for my tastes. I actually find it a bit surprising how much they share thematically (both films set…
-
Rewatched Skull the other night and it reiterates that I think it’s a much better Indy film than Dial for my tastes. I actually find it a bit surprising how much they share thematically (both films set up Indy in old age at a point where he’s more o…
-
I’m surprised at all the positive comments in here, I got out of it and thought it was by far the worst one. Muddled motivations, plethora of nothing side characters, sluggish action beats, lots of unconvincing VFX, all the Indiana Jones tropes you’…
-
A decade ago I’d probably be thrilled with a Nolan Bond film, but these days I just don’t think his sensibilities really line up with what I want out of it. I also think at this point the script is more important than the director and that’s an area…
-
The one-two punch of FRWL and DN is certainly the creative high point of Fleming’s run on the series for me. The former is his most structurally engaging narrative and a terrific exercise in sustained suspense, and the latter is pure escapism bliss …
-
Historically I’ve always preferred Goldfinger, but since my last couple of rewatches I find myself enjoying Thunderball more these days. I prefer Terence Young’s more low-key espionage-adventure directorial style to Guy Hamilton’s more gag-driven ap…
-
I think Pattinson probably gets immensely more to work with in Reeves’ Batman as an actor than he ever would with a Nolan Bond, I’m afraid. He’d manage to turn “Bond, James Bond” into 6 pages of exposition.
-
Finally got around to reading For Your Eyes Only after going through all Fleming’s novels. Part of me is glad I read it out of order as it’s a wonderful palette cleanser after TMWTGG largely failed to satisfy, but I think reading it in its proper pl…
-
No, it’s too melodramatic for my tastes. OHMSS ending on the gut punch is more my speed. I also prefer Casino Royale and Skyfall’s endings by quite a lot, and even Quantum of Solace as far as Craig is concerned.
-
Feeling cautiously optimistic about this. The action setpieces look quite fun and the look feels more right than Kaminski’s overblown lighting in Crystal Skull. A bit worried about the nostalgia pulls with stuff like Sallah returning *again* and cal…
-
Don’t think the round glasses and fedora were standard issue. And, even if he’s not Toht due to time travel shenanigans or it *were* gestapo standard issue, it’s a bit irksome to me that they’re giving him the exacts same costume to clearly recall T…
-
Glad to hear the trailer is inspiring confidence. After doubting this for so long, particularly with Spielberg not involved, it’s nice to start getting excited about Indiana Jones again.
-
I had FRWL as #1. I didn’t totally love it the first time around, probably because of the structural gambit I now hold in such high esteem, but the second time it really opened up to me. It’s patience and more-detailed-than-average plot pay dividend…
-
Gonna guess 3.OHMSS 2. MR 1. FRWL
-
They also seem to want these (or at least used to want these) to be big, globetrotting action adventure blockbusters filled with special effects and whatnot. That not only plays against the strengths of the material, but it also forces them to compe…
-
My #3. Probably the most readable Fleming novel in that it’s just a gripping pulp thriller from start to finish. It’s no accident that there are many callbacks to LALD in this book since, beyond the setting, it also recaptures and perfects the pulpi…
-
YOLT was my #4. Definitely Fleming’s most thematic exploration of Bond, as so much of the book pertains to death (specifically Japan’s cultural relationship to it) which is obviously a way to have Bond process Tracy’s death as well as his, and Flemi…
-
I suppose if you want to just fill up time a 3 hour movie is ideal. But I can see why you would think the visuals are uninteresting if you watched it on like an iPad or, gasp, one of those shitty seat-back screens — I don’t think I’ve seen a greater…
-
It’s not a very airplane friendly movie, I’ll grant you that
-
Yeah the sound design and music are both great. Proper themes for each character, subjective sound design to go with the point of view oriented cinematography, etc. It’s a very meticulously crafted movie in a way that Nolan can sometimes be a bit sl…
-
I think I still might ultimately prefer the dark knight (I’d have to revisit it to be sure) just because of how propulsive and gripping it is, but many of the individual elements of The Batman are much more to my taste. I love the look of the film, …
-
Very surprised by the placement, I hd CR at number 2. There’s so much energy in Fleming’s writing here, it makes for an incredibly propulsive read — and though I wouldn’t want Bond to be characterized like this for the whole series, I do admit I enj…
-
7 for me. From here on out it was very difficult to rank as they’re all pretty great. Live and Let Die is one of the best as a pure thriller — there’s a reason so many of its set-pieces have been pilfered across the movies, and they’re just as excit…
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine