Certainly is. They don't have any scary bacteria, in fact they're quite clean and have less bacteria in their gobs than mammals. Except perhaps Higgins.
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you naughty boy....
1. For Your Eyes Only 2. The Living Daylights 3 From Russia with Love 4. Casino Royale 5. OHMSS 6. Skyfall
Well, then there's Oddjob not having the gold removed from the car before it's crushed??? Or, Moore wrestling with a stuffed snake in the water...or...
All notable features in the films but always with flaws (and those are just a couple out of how many??).
Iconic moments for me? The opening credit sequence (brilliant and imaginative).
London in the rain, very atmospheric - about time EON. M/Bond meeting in her flat.
The underground HQs. The fight in the skyscraper. The dragon pit fight. Bond/Q's museum intro. Bond running to the inquiry and subsequent battle. The Glencoe scenery. Skyfall itself.
Bond's meeting with Mallory at end in old office.
The dragon CGI was fine enough for me. Not only was CGI necessary because of the danger of the real animals but also because no one would have allowed them to use an endangered species (and one that is not trained to begin with) as well as the fact that they made the recreations in the scene much larger than real ones. Though it may have been rendered better by another FX company, I can live with it as it stands.
Silva's elaborate planning is always considered impossible, but not from how I perceive it. To me, getting caught was always a possible contingency he foresaw and not his goal - so he planned on the possibility by having several escape plans in place. We just happen to only witness one of them. The switching to a police uniform was to blend into London security so he could escape and try another plan to kill M if he failed at getting her at the inquiry. Her inquiry was planned before he was captured, so he learned of it and was planning the assassination whether he was captured or not. The train crash in the tube was supposed to be a diversion - not meant for Bond personally. It just turned out he caught up with him before he could get out of that section of the tube. Yes, the laptop virus in Q's mainframe was not very forgiving - and Q should have figured out the map not Bond. However as I mentioned, it's not the first nor will it be the last banana slip the writers will make in the films (though it would be nice if it were the last!). As far as Moneypenny not revealing her last name - I assumed she may have
had a code name ( I don' recall him saying her name in the their first scenes together) and
that may have been all he needed to know her by for that mission for security.
Despite these lapses, for me it does have iconic moments which is one of the reasons I've rewatched it many times.
I did enjoy this, with the old leather padded / studded door and especially Mallory being grumpy when Bond first walks in and asks about the arm, Throw back to the old M.
I like Skyfall and it is one of my favorite Bond films. The acting, direction, writing and cinematography are all outstanding.
It does, however, seem to lack iconic scenes (original, memorable, representative of the series and the Bond character, influential, much copied).
Obviously whether a scene is iconic is something that develops over time, but even after three years there only seem to be a few. The ones that might qualify would be:
1. When Silva removes his prosthesis.
2. Silva's island (an original villain's lair).
3. Silva's story about the rats.
4. When the train carriage comes through the tunnel roof.
5. The Komodo Dragon scene.
I can't think of many others (notice all except the last involve Silva, who was a terrific villain).
Obviously, the early films had a disproportionate number of iconic scenes but even CR had a large number (the Parkour chase, which alone features a half-dozen iconic moments, the torture scene, the scene with Bond and Vesper in the shower, the fight scene in the stairwell, the climax of the poker game, Vesper's death).
Did I miss any for SF?
Nothing really. Much of Skyfall is pretty pedestrian in that respect, but somehow it is greater than the sum of its parts. The closest might be Craig's run down the street with the voiceover by M. It's cheesy -- how convenient for M to suddenly want to share poetry, let us know her husband is gone, and do a voiceover for Bond's efforts -- but it stirring if you don't think too terribly hard about it.
I'll say, too, that the bits that seem more than they are work mostly because they remind us of things we've seen before. The battle in the skyscraper reminds me of the fight in Moonraker; the drive along the Scottish countryside (every movie by the director seems to have one of those scenes) reminds me of the drive in Goldfinger. Silva's interrogation reminds me of Silence of the Lambs.
If one has been around long enough and seen enough movies, one can see how hard it is for directors to come up with original staging. After a century of cinema and this many Bond films, almost every bit of staging reminds me of something I've seen before. As long as it is working within the context of the film, it doesn't bother me.
I've always wondered - is this office supposed to be the original office used before the Brosnan era and M and some of his staff are using it temporarily until the damaged HQ is repaired?
I've always wondered - is this office supposed to be the original office used before the Brosnan era and M and some of his staff are using it temporarily until the damaged HQ is repaired?
It's supposed to be the same office (well, not exactly the same since it's a new continuum), likely in a building on Whitehall. I wouldn't be surprised if it's permanent and not temporary. I've never understood why a secret agent's office is in such a bold building (even in real life).
If one has been around long enough and seen enough movies, one can see how hard it is for directors to come up with original staging. After a century of cinema and this many Bond films, almost every bit of staging reminds me of something I've seen before. As long as it is working within the context of the film, it doesn't bother me.
I'm pretty sure that these were intentional, as a celebration of the Bond series.
If one has been around long enough and seen enough movies, one can see how hard it is for directors to come up with original staging. After a century of cinema and this many Bond films, almost every bit of staging reminds me of something I've seen before. As long as it is working within the context of the film, it doesn't bother me.
But they usually don't try to recycle something so quickly or from such well known sources. Either way, since the question on the table is about what is iconic, I'd maintain it's nothing special to do something already pretty familiar to viewers, especially if it isn't really being done as an homage.
"Everybody needs a hobby."
"Well, what's yours?"
"Resurrection."
Not sure if it counts as an iconic moment, but it does rule for me.
"Hostile takeovers. Shall we?"
New 2020 ranking (for now DAF and FYEO keep their previous placements)
1. TLD 2. TND 3. GF 4. TSWLM 5. TWINE 6. OHMSS 7. LtK 8. TMWTGG 9. L&LD 10. YOLT 11. DAD 12. QoS 13. DN 14. GE 15. SF 16. OP 17. MR 18. AVTAK 19. TB 20. FRWL 21. CR 22. FYEO 23. DAF (SP to be included later)
Bond actors to be re-ranked later
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you naughty boy....
All notable features in the films but always with flaws (and those are just a couple out of how many??).
Iconic moments for me? The opening credit sequence (brilliant and imaginative).
London in the rain, very atmospheric - about time EON. M/Bond meeting in her flat.
The underground HQs. The fight in the skyscraper. The dragon pit fight. Bond/Q's museum intro. Bond running to the inquiry and subsequent battle. The Glencoe scenery. Skyfall itself.
Bond's meeting with Mallory at end in old office.
The dragon CGI was fine enough for me. Not only was CGI necessary because of the danger of the real animals but also because no one would have allowed them to use an endangered species (and one that is not trained to begin with) as well as the fact that they made the recreations in the scene much larger than real ones. Though it may have been rendered better by another FX company, I can live with it as it stands.
Silva's elaborate planning is always considered impossible, but not from how I perceive it. To me, getting caught was always a possible contingency he foresaw and not his goal - so he planned on the possibility by having several escape plans in place. We just happen to only witness one of them. The switching to a police uniform was to blend into London security so he could escape and try another plan to kill M if he failed at getting her at the inquiry. Her inquiry was planned before he was captured, so he learned of it and was planning the assassination whether he was captured or not. The train crash in the tube was supposed to be a diversion - not meant for Bond personally. It just turned out he caught up with him before he could get out of that section of the tube. Yes, the laptop virus in Q's mainframe was not very forgiving - and Q should have figured out the map not Bond. However as I mentioned, it's not the first nor will it be the last banana slip the writers will make in the films (though it would be nice if it were the last!). As far as Moneypenny not revealing her last name - I assumed she may have
had a code name ( I don' recall him saying her name in the their first scenes together) and
that may have been all he needed to know her by for that mission for security.
Despite these lapses, for me it does have iconic moments which is one of the reasons I've rewatched it many times.
I did enjoy this, with the old leather padded / studded door and especially Mallory being grumpy when Bond first walks in and asks about the arm, Throw back to the old M.
Hopefully it continues like this! -{
I've always wondered - is this office supposed to be the original office used before the Brosnan era and M and some of his staff are using it temporarily until the damaged HQ is repaired?
It's supposed to be the same office (well, not exactly the same since it's a new continuum), likely in a building on Whitehall. I wouldn't be surprised if it's permanent and not temporary. I've never understood why a secret agent's office is in such a bold building (even in real life).
I'm pretty sure that these were intentional, as a celebration of the Bond series.
"Well, what's yours?"
"Resurrection."
Not sure if it counts as an iconic moment, but it does rule for me.
New 2020 ranking (for now DAF and FYEO keep their previous placements)
1. TLD 2. TND 3. GF 4. TSWLM 5. TWINE 6. OHMSS 7. LtK 8. TMWTGG 9. L&LD 10. YOLT 11. DAD 12. QoS 13. DN 14. GE 15. SF 16. OP 17. MR 18. AVTAK 19. TB 20. FRWL 21. CR 22. FYEO 23. DAF (SP to be included later)
Bond actors to be re-ranked later