Skyfall

[MajorFubar]

No Septics?

(unrelated, but I did notice one dropping of the F-bomb, which I didn't expect to hear in a 12A film, especially as I had my kids with me.)

 

[6th.replicant]

No Septics?

Tah-dah!

Specifically, Skyfall is the first Bond film without any actors from the Americas - while From Russia With Love had no actors from the USA, it did have a Canadian playing 'Moneypenny' and a Mexican playing 'Kerim Bey'

 

[the record spot]

Just saw it last night and it was one of the best Bonds I've seen. With the best Bond since Connery. Clive Owen would be good, but Craig's the pick of the current crop. Hard edged, but vulnerable, steely, gritty and with the kind of delivery that reminds me a lot of Connery's style. Suits the present style of the films too. Clean cut, sharp and plenty of style.

 

[laserman16]

(unrelated, but I did notice one dropping of the F-bomb, which I didn't expect to hear in a 12A film, especially as I had my kids with me.)

Even more surprising was where it came from.......... 🙂

 

[MajorFubar]

Quite 🙂

Tah-dah!

:dance:

 

[jjbomber]

Spoiler,

Bond saves the World, gets the sexy lady and crashes a few cars on the way. I hope I haven't spoiled it for anyone.

 

[6th.replicant]

Spoiler,

Bond saves the World

Specifically - nope.

gets the sexy lady

Only half correct...

and crashes a few cars on the way

No, he doesn't...

I hope I haven't spoiled it for anyone.

Not even close.

 

[jjbomber]

gets the sexy lady

Only half correct...

Which half did he get?

 

[woodster]

A reasonable film, kept my attention all the way through, some gritty and convincing performances. Q just annoys me, I didnt like him in that BBC on the bbc drama, where he plays a radical type. Preferred the Quantum of Solace to be honest, but I guess we have set ourselves up for a Sean Conneryesque period for the next couple.

The DB5 end saddened me too....

 

[Anonymous]

Not good at all............Bond is well past his sell by date. Same format and style. A big car chase to start off with and a shoot out to finish. Nothing in between to capture or hold the imagination or keep you at the edge of your seat. No doubt another epic will be rolled out in a few years to milk the cinema going public. It's just a great way to print money.

 

[Anonymous]

Not good at all............Bond is well past his sell by date. Same format and style. A big car chase to start off with and a shoot out to finish. Nothing in between to capture or hold the imagination or keep you at the edge of your seat. No doubt another epic will be rolled out in a few years to milk the cinema going public. It's just a great way to print money.

unpublished by mods - duplicate

 

[chebby]

Not good at all............Bond is well past his sell by date. Same format and style. A big car chase to start off with and a shoot out to finish.

Yep. We need something different. Maybe opening with Bond baking a Victoria sponge cake to take to a charity whist drive that evening and ending with him reading a good book in front of a log fire with a nice glass of Cherry and his faithful golden retriever asleep at his feet.

In between we are treated to some taut action as he remonstrates on the phone with his accountant over his annual tax return before he goes out to buy some fresh bread and a nice piece of haddock for his tea.

 

[MajorFubar]

Not good at all............Bond is well past his sell by date. Same format and style. A big car chase to start off with and a shoot out to finish. Nothing in between to capture or hold the imagination or keep you at the edge of your seat. No doubt another epic will be rolled out in a few years to milk the cinema going public. It's just a great way to print money.

That's the formula though. It's a bit like watching your 23rd Laurel & Hardy film and saying that yet again it's about how a fat American and his thin gormless English mate degenerate some theoretically-simple task into a catalogue of blunders and slapstick set-pieces.

 

[Paul.]

Not good at all............Bond is well past his sell by date. Same format and style. A big car chase to start off with and a shoot out to finish. Nothing in between to capture or hold the imagination or keep you at the edge of your seat. No doubt another epic will be rolled out in a few years to milk the cinema going public. It's just a great way to print money.

That's the formula though. It's a bit like watching your 23rd Laurel & Hardy film and saying that yet again it's about how a fat American and his thin gormless English mate degenerate some theoretically-simple task into a catalogue of blunders and slapstick set-pieces.

Or watching a Korean film and expecting it to have a happy ending. And no one gets murdered with a hammer.

 

[John Duncan]

Saw it today. It was alright.

 

[Paul.]