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I watched them in order, which made me appreciate the ones that were a bit more out there (like Live and Let Die or You Only Live Twice), but aside from a throwaway line or two there's not really much you miss by watching them out of order.
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twistedmentat posted:He's a clone. He's a Time Lord.
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Nuke Goes KABOOM posted:James Bond is just a code name. I would hope so. What kind of spy goes around telling everyone his name?
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Yannick_B posted:He's a Time Lord. He's either a Time Lord or a Dread Pirate Roberts.
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Mar 17, 2010 05:23
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Binowru posted:I would hope so. What kind of spy goes around telling everyone his name? Bond. James Bond.
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Mar 17, 2010 11:52
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If there was continuity in Bond he'd have to be, what, in his seventies by now? At least that...
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Mar 18, 2010 00:06
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Howards Bellend posted:If there was continuity in Bond he'd have to be, what, in his seventies by now? At least that... I actually posed a friend of mine the challenge of fitting all of the original 20 Bond movies into a single continuity short enough to fit inside the lifetime of one guy. He politely declined, though.
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Howards Bellend posted:If there was continuity in Bond he'd have to be, what, in his seventies by now? At least that... Not to mention dying of cirrhosis/lung cancer and bedridden from all the physical activity wearing his body out prematurely. Not to mention bankrupt from paying child support to 500 random women who tracked him down after he knocked them up (unless part of the benefit of being James Bond is shooting blanks in bed)
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qntm posted:I actually posed a friend of mine the challenge of fitting all of the original 20 Bond movies into a single continuity short enough to fit inside the lifetime of one guy. He politely declined, though. I'm reasonably sure that the only date that actually appears onscreen is 1969 (the date of Bond's wife's death on a tombstone in For Your Eyes Only), so if you reaaaallly wanted to you could pretend that the first six movies all take place in like 1968 and 1969 and Bond was like 30 at the beginning. But there's some alluding-to-9/11 dialogue in Die Another Day about how "the world changed while you were away," so it's hard to place Die Another Day anywhere except 2002, so even with that obscene stretching at the beginning, you still have a Bond in his early 60s.
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Mar 18, 2010 02:48
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Ytadel posted:I'm reasonably sure that the only date that actually appears onscreen is 1969 (the date of Bond's wife's death on a tombstone in For Your Eyes Only), so if you reaaaallly wanted to you could pretend that the first six movies all take place in like 1968 and 1969 and Bond was like 30 at the beginning. But there's some alluding-to-9/11 dialogue in Die Another Day about how "the world changed while you were away," so it's hard to place Die Another Day anywhere except 2002, so even with that obscene stretching at the beginning, you still have a Bond in his early 60s. Don't they make it pretty clear that all the Brosnan movies are after the Cold War ended?
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Yeah, in Goldeneye it's made pretty clear that the Cold War's over. What's interesting is that (correct me if I'm wrong) throughout the entire series the Soviets are never portrayed as the villains. You have rogue generals who happen to be Russian in a couple of the films but they're acting of their own volition. With the Moore films you even had Gogol who was basically an ally. However in the Connery films the producers didn't bat an eyelid in portraying the Chinese as behind two of the villains' plots (Goldfinger & You Only Live Twice), the latter if carried through would have ended in nuclear war.
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walkenator posted:What's interesting is that (correct me if I'm wrong) throughout the entire series the Soviets are never portrayed as the villains. You have rogue generals who happen to be Russian in a couple of the films but they're acting of their own volition. With the Moore films you even had Gogol who was basically an ally. In For Your Eyes Only the British and the Russians are competing to try to get the ATAC, a submarine wake tracking device, and the villains are kind of working for Gogol (he doesn't condone or endorse any of their actions, but has an agreement to buy it from them). But at the end when Gogol arrives to collect it Bond throws it off a cliff and dashes it to pieces ("That's détente, comrade. You don't have it; I don't have it.") and Gogol stops his henchman from killing Bond and instead gives an understanding smile and gets back in his copter and flies off. And yes, as you mention, there is General Orlov in Octopussy but he's a crazy rogue so he doesn't count.
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walkenator posted:Yeah, in Goldeneye it's made pretty clear that the Cold War's over. Pretty much. In most of the novels, SMERSH was the bad guys and as such, were the de facto Russian force. But I think it was Broocoli and Saltzman who decided against out-and-out using the Russians, and instead ended up expanding SPECTRE's role in the movies.
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where does this fit into the James Bond continuity then? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwFn-VaV1NM
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Did people not like Ghost Writer enough to warrant it having its own thread?
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Tatrakrad posted:Did people not like Ghost Writer enough to warrant it having its own thread? I didn't like it much. None of the performances were particularly good outside of Olivia Williams, the political message was laughably heavyhanded, and the ending was bizarre.
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Encryptic posted:(unless part of the benefit of being James Bond is shooting blanks in bed) He's shooting blanks because of the ball beating he received from Le Chiffre in Casino Royale.
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Mar 22, 2010 03:17
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Doesn't Bond actually have an illegitimate half-Japanese son?
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Tatrakrad posted:Did people not like Ghost Writer enough to warrant it having its own thread? Should I assume you aren't talking about the mid 90s children's show?
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Dr_Amazing posted:Should I assume you aren't talking about the mid 90s children's show? The new Polznski picture. But they both touch children, just in different ways.
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Rake Arms posted:Doesn't Bond actually have an illegitimate half-Japanese son? 
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Rake Arms posted:Doesn't Bond actually have an illegitimate half-Japanese son? (If you haven't read "You Only Live Twice" or "The Man with the Golden Gun", here be spoilers) No. That was all faked by Kissy because she wanted to keep him as her husband or something. I don't quite remember, but the kid wasn't his.
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Rake Arms posted:Doesn't Bond actually have an illegitimate half-Japanese son? Doesn't look Japanese to me.
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LDJohnson posted:Doesn't look Japanese to me. That's his nephew 
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LDJohnson posted:Doesn't look Japanese to me. Wasn't the point of the character that he was Bond's nephew? Despite the name.
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Mar 23, 2010 03:53
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Maybe James had a brother names James as well?
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Does anyone know AMC speeds up songs in movies? I first noticed it the other week when they had a Forrest Gump marathon, and many of the songs (e.g. "Free Bird") were noticeably sped up. The other day, Pulp Fiction was on and "Son of a Preacher Man" was sped up. What's the deal with that?
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Butthole Prince posted:Does anyone know AMC speeds up songs in movies? It's a new technique for time compression. Rather than cut off a few contiguous seconds at a specific moment, you can have a computer cut single frames from all over the place, then speed up the audio so that it still synchs up to the action.
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haveblue posted:It's a new technique for time compression. Rather than cut off a few contiguous seconds at a specific moment, you can have a computer cut single frames from all over the place, then speed up the audio so that it still synchs up to the action. HAHAHAHAHAH gently caress TV so hard. Also, Forrest Gump is like the worst major motion picture of the 90s.
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penismightier posted:HAHAHAHAHAH gently caress TV so hard. That's such ridiculous hyperbole it goes past even being funny.
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the Bunt posted:That's such ridiculous hyperbole it goes past even being funny. There's a good number of movies I don't like that others do, and for the most part I can understand the appeal of them - but I legitimately cannot understand how anybody can like Forrest Gump even a little bit. I hate it as much as anything I've ever seen and, except for the soundtrack and the effects, I think it's totally without any sort of merit at all.
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You've got to elaborate. I'm not a huge fan of the movie and think it's pretty overrated all in all but it's one movie I just never imagined someone loathing to that extent. It's worse than Titanic? Armageddon? Star Wars? The Lost World? Pretty Woman? Mrs. Doubtfire? Flintstones? edit: I feel this way about Fight Club, actually. I hate hate hate HATE Fight Club. the Bunt fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Mar 23, 2010 |
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the Bunt posted:You've got to elaborate. I'm not a huge fan of the movie and think it's pretty overrated all in all but it's one movie I just never imagined someone loathing to that extent. It's worse than Titanic? Armageddon? Star Wars? The Lost World? Pretty Woman? Mrs. Doubtfire? Flintstones?
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the Bunt posted:You've got to elaborate. I'm not a huge fan of the movie and think it's pretty overrated all in all but it's one movie I just never imagined someone loathing to that extent. It's worse than Titanic? Armageddon? Star Wars? The Lost World? Pretty Woman? Mrs. Doubtfire? Flintstones? Titanic is a very good film which gets a little hokey at times, but is more than saved by the solid acting, beautiful set design, and fantastic direction of the sinking climax. I like Armageddon the way I like old Fantastic Four comics- it's a witty and decent action movie. The Lost World had Jeff Goldblum and some solid suspenseful scenes, pretty lovely overall but not unberable. Pretty Woman and Mrs. Doubtfire are not my style, but decent examples of their genres. The Flintstones had that sweet John Goodman action. Forrest Gump is like a feature-length version of that scene in Dumb and Dumber when he makes the most annoying sound ever. Tom Hanks, who I usually like, was so terrible that I get embarrassed watching him in it. Jenny is a wasted, useless character. Bubba is pretty dull. Gary Sinise is solid.
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This could be a thread in itself: "Why you hate movies that others love".
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Ninja Gamer posted:This could be a thread in itself: "Why you hate movies that others love". "Unloving the Loved"?
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haveblue posted:It's a new technique for time compression. Rather than cut off a few contiguous seconds at a specific moment, you can have a computer cut single frames from all over the place, then speed up the audio so that it still synchs up to the action. It's not really that new. I know TBS and TNT were doing it in the mid-90s at the very least. I think it was slightly controversial back then so they added a disclaimer at the start of the film (where they normally tell you it's been edited for content, etc.) that it has been time compressed. Oddly, they also sometimes said the movie had been "Time Expanded", though I'm not sure how that works unless they just meant they stuck an assload of commercials into it. I'm pretty sure basically any TV channel that airs movies does stuff like this so that they can make the movies fit into a neat schedule. It was even fairly common on home video I think, back before DVD when there were real time constraints on VHS and laserdisc. Schlitzkrieg Bop fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Mar 23, 2010 |
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The Lifetime Network sometimes airs Goodfellas, but they compress all the scenes without Lorraine Bracco, so it makes it look like the movie is all about her.
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Ninja Gamer posted:This could be a thread in itself: "Why you hate movies that others love". I can't count the number of times we've had that thread, or variations of it.
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haveblue posted:It's a new technique for time compression. Rather than cut off a few contiguous seconds at a specific moment, you can have a computer cut single frames from all over the place, then speed up the audio so that it still synchs up to the action. If you use a media player like VLC player or KMPlayer on the PC these actually have this feature built-in. More than a few times I've hit a key by mistake and launched everything into Benny Hill-o-vision.
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