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Casino Royale is such a good-rear end movie and a high-stakes poker game being the method he takes down the bad guy works so well. The relationship arc with Eva Green and her betrayal owns too and is well done. Also, and this is from a YT vid I saw on it, it's the one Craig Bond movie where he is actually smiling a lot which is why it's the best/not mopey.
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Nov 4, 2021 13:56
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the scene I remember most vividly from any superhero movie of the past, idk, 20 years is when the dude pops Batman in the head point blank
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Superhero movies are just like the modern versions of "Abbot and Costello meet the Wolf Man" or whatever the poo poo lmao this triggered some long buried childhood memory of my dad talking about how excited he was as a kid for abott and costello meet the wolfman
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indigi posted:the scene I remember most vividly from any superhero movie of the past, idk, 20 years is when the dude pops Batman in the head point blank from the trailers the new batman film is made entirely out of this scene
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Nov 4, 2021 14:00
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Justin Tyme posted:Casino Royale is such a good-rear end movie and a high-stakes poker game being the method he takes down the bad guy works so well. no it doesn’t lol it’s an awful scene. bond plays baccarat in the other movies because it’s a fully luck-based game and it highlights bond’s supernatural cockiness. anyone can win a hand of poker if they get a straight flush on the river. it doesn’t work narratively or thematically. that’s the only thing I remember from casino royale cause it was forgettable like every other Craig bond movie
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Nov 4, 2021 14:02
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Crusader posted:lmao this triggered some long buried childhood memory of my dad talking about how excited he was as a kid for abott and costello meet the wolfman The dissolving barriers between IPs as a compensation for lack of creativity have spoiled us to the point where we can no longer appreciate a good crossover. Abott and Costello meet the Wolfman 1000 times a day in Fortnite, and they're all doing the Macarena.
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indigi posted:no it doesn’t lol it’s an awful scene. bond plays baccarat in the other movies because it’s a fully luck-based game and it highlights bond’s supernatural cockiness. anyone can win a hand of poker if they get a straight flush on the river. it doesn’t work narratively or thematically. that’s the only thing I remember from casino royale cause it was forgettable like every other Craig bond movie I don’t know the rules to baccarat so I’m probably misunderstanding you, but are you saying “baccarat is all luck which makes it unlike poker which is all luck.”?
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Nov 4, 2021 14:09
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wasn't the whole deal with Le Chiffre that he had a good enough memory that he could remember all the cards that came up in previous hands, plus what he could see of his own, plus what was already laid out by the dealer, and from there draw a probability of how the rest of the hand would play out
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Nov 4, 2021 14:14
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Bond traditionally played baccarat in the books and in previous movies, so switching it to poker in Casino Royale seemed kind of cheesy to me. Bond probably is a glorified frat boy deep down, but I would like at least a layer of Monaco-style glamour on top of that rather than something that reminds me of my childhood friends' dads' "guys nights."
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Nov 4, 2021 14:20
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I think this was also in the context of poker being a big thing during those years. Remember that?
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gradenko_2000 posted:I think this was also in the context of poker being a big thing during those years. Remember that? Oh yeah. I met a lot of law school/law firm burnouts deciding to try to play poker for a living between 2008-2012 or so. Is that no longer a thing? I thought getting old just disconnected me from what younger people with few real life commitments can do.
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indigi posted:no it doesn’t lol it’s an awful scene. bond plays baccarat in the other movies because it’s a fully luck-based game and it highlights bond’s supernatural cockiness. anyone can win a hand of poker if they get a straight flush on the river. it doesn’t work narratively or thematically. that’s the only thing I remember from casino royale cause it was forgettable like every other Craig bond movie No one cares about the cards nerd
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gradenko_2000 posted:I think this was also in the context of poker being a big thing during those years. Remember that? It's this plus nobody knows how the gently caress to play baccarat so it would have been confusing. Also the bluffing and interaction during the game, Mads Mikkelson crying blood as a character trait is great.
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Nov 4, 2021 14:26
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Casino Royale : opens with one of the only cool parkour chases ever filmed, got tons of nerds into parkour Other than that and poker, Bond had fun, fell in love, got betrayed, got whipped by a rope in the nuts
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Nov 4, 2021 14:28
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Justin Tyme posted:It's this plus nobody knows how the gently caress to play baccarat so it would have been confusing. I guess. I've run into a couple of poker nerds who thought the way the game unfolded "ruined the movie." I don't care much for poker so I just tuned out, but I think it was something to do with the odds of the scenario. Which is why everyone watches Bond movies. Realism.
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James Bond needs to have fun. Quantum of Solace? Goes to dry desert, gets all sandy and oily, very unpleasant. Skyfall? Joints are all achey, unpleasant family memories, goes to creepy island. Spectre? Has overwhelming social anxiety at a Spectre party, gets tied to a torture chair- not fun!!!
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Justin Tyme posted:James Bond needs to have fun. Quantum of Solace? Goes to dry desert, gets all sandy and oily, very unpleasant. Skyfall? Joints are all achey, unpleasant family memories, goes to creepy island. Spectre? Has overwhelming social anxiety at a Spectre party, gets tied to a torture chair- not fun!!! He does get to have sex with Gemma Arterton in QoS though, which I imagine is tons of fun.
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Nov 4, 2021 14:36
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galagazombie posted:I don’t know the rules to baccarat so I’m probably misunderstanding you, but are you saying “baccarat is all luck which makes it unlike poker which is all luck.”? poker isn’t all luck lol Justin Tyme posted:It's this plus nobody knows how the gently caress to play baccarat so it would have been confusing. there’s somebody standing off screen for the entire scene explaining the rules of poker to another character
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indigi posted:poker isn’t all luck lol Yeah you're right it is a game of cat and mouse where your opponent looks for a sign of weakness so you have to put on sunglasses and a hat
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Judakel posted:Yeah you're right it is a game of cat and mouse where your opponent looks for a sign of weakness so you have to put on sunglasses and a hat precisely. also you have to be an egghead to calculate pot odds
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indigi posted:precisely. also you have to be an egghead to calculate pot odds Real geniuses
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/PhilstarShowbiz/status/1456189633255989253 was Chris Pratt not available or what
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galagazombie posted:I loved the marvel movies and all but they really have no reason to keep going after endgame (yes yes I know it’s about money). The formula is played. You can only really use such a narrow repetitive formula so many times before it becomes unpleasant. And the whole premise reached its logical endpoint. We got to see heroes from multiple movies all come together, we got to see the crossover persist after the first crossover movie ended, and we got to see everyone all charge across a field to triumphant music to punch some evil robots and save existence. All character arcs completed. All dangling plot threads tied up. All main characters retired or martyred. Everything that could be done with the premise has been explored. It’s done let it die. Who the gently caress cares about watching nobodies like Shang Chi and the Eternals repeat what the actual famous characters just finished doing. I just want to see my favorite super hero beat up my favorite super villain. Most of the later marvel movie require you to have watched several others so you can understand the context of what is happening. All the characters were drawn up in labs to get the highest approval rating from the audience so there is absolutely 0 character development.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I just want to see my favorite super hero beat up my favorite super villain. I want a bunch of movies about how magneto and Dr doom are right
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I just want to see my favorite super hero beat up my favorite super villain. this is why I enjoy a bunch of Marvel movies even if I don't think they're "good." Josh Whedon gets a lot of deserved poo poo as a writer and director, he sucks and has done serious damage to action movie writing but when Cap turned around and said "Hulk... smash." I wanted to get out of my seat and stomp around in the aisles like it was night at the loving Apollo
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mastershakeman posted:Casino Royale : opens with one of the only cool parkour chases ever filmed, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xop8yqgDMo4
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Blood Boils posted:Everyone in that is great, it's a brilliant move to not bother casting for physical resemblance and just speaking in their natural accents. Glad I never got around to reading the comic than, but yeah the entire casting was fantastic, I remember at the time a lot of people saying it was a brilliant move to use all these different English accents as an analogy for the different accents found among Soviet leadership. The part where theyre jockeying for position at thr funeral was fantastic
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Judakel posted:You weren't vindicated, because your answer to "what is good?" was a dude who got driven out of the industry and now makes direct-to-streaming fare. No I was vindicated in more peeps thinking critically about Joss' writing & directing and realizing he was incredibly bad at it. That he was also a lovely person was not a surprise but less relevant. Snyder is a better storyteller yes, so are most film makers! I would even hazard to say that some of them who cite Whedon as an influence/inspiration are probably better than he is, tho big time lol I'm not gonna check A different medium of film release doesn't really sound like a separate industry but out of pity I will give you this one: Wow! Rip Snyder man, career over! Plus I'm obviously someone who bases their bad taste in art on the popularity of the art and the official authoritative status of the artist, so really, double whammy! :'( quote:Ok liberal *sadly shredding my copy of the Regina manifesto 
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Blood Boils posted:No I was vindicated in more peeps thinking critically about Joss' writing & directing and realizing he was incredibly bad at it. That he was also a lovely person was not a surprise but less relevant. Snyder driven out to the fringes of the industry, like the lunatic he is! Pity is for the weak! Direct-to-video Zack
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Casey Finnigan posted:the snyder guys are weird I like how they joined up with the prequel dorks into one big clique of of dweebs who feel marginalized by the nerd-trash discourse and need to post about their victimization
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anti-snyder posting is a disease that will consume you. only honestly enjoying the fun films of the actual nice-guy director will free you from years of bitter posting about how everyone who likes the mass media you don't are all in one big conspiracy together.
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i am begging you guys to grow a personality
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josh04 posted:anti-snyder posting is a disease that will consume you. only honestly enjoying the fun films of the actual nice-guy director will free you from years of bitter posting about how everyone who likes the mass media you don't are all in one big conspiracy together. he is nice yes. but his films are bad
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Posting on discord with my superhero film buff crew
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I still don't get the whole Zack Snyder thing, but everything about pop culture confuses me now.
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Casey Finnigan posted:the snyder guys are weird Harsh, but fair. There's no denying the truth  mandatory lesbian posted:Never again...the transformers fetishists must be stopped "Freedom is right of all sentient creatures!!" *tears the head off a defenseless sentient creature while dressed as the American flag Justin Tyme posted:It's this plus nobody knows how the gently caress to play baccarat so it would have been confusing. https://youtu.be/vlwE51tDS5Y
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