AJB live commentary on SKYFALL

Higgins · April 2020

Time for another group-viewing, this time, it‘s

SKYFALL

London Summertime: 20:00
Paris Summertime: 21:00
New York local time 15:00
LA local time 12:00

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE ALL STARTING 10 MINUTES LATER !

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE ALL STARTING 10 MINUTES LATER !

The 19:00 deadline is set so that everybody has enough time to find their DVDs/Blu Rays, boot their players and get done with the menus and pause right before the gunbarrel sequence.

WE ARE STARTING PRECISELY AT 19:10

- Please make sure that everybody has their BluRay/DVD/VCR ready and start the player latest 19:00 GMT to get done with all the dodgy menus.
- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE WHERE IN ALL RATIONALITY THE GUNBARREL SEQUENCE SHOULD BE AND
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.
I‘ll post some timecodes during the thread just in case that somebody has messed it up

Higgins · April 2020

Barbel, can you please stickie this one and unstickie the other one?

Thanks! :x

JTM · April 2020

Haven’t seen Skyfall in ages—very keen for the rewatch!

Shady Tree · April 2020

Happy to be able to join in for this on Friday.

Shady Tree · April 2020

Higgins wrote:

- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL SEQUENCE STARTS AND
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.

Wait... does this mean we're watching only the end titles, this time?!

bosoxfan · April 2020

Hope to join in, a bit confused by the column on the time chart above that says "Planner" please educate me.

JTM · April 2020

bosoxfan wrote:

Hope to join in, a bit confused by the column on the time chart above that says "Planner" please educate me.

It’s the date at that current time in the listed location. That picture showing all the time zones is old though—from April 4 (04/04)—or the date on it is incorrectly set. But going by that image, 2000 on the April 4 in London makes it 0700 on April 5 in Wellington.

Below is an updated version (with correct dates) for the Skyfall viewing.

Higgins · April 2020

Thanks, and I have updated the chart.

I have been recycling the old one from early April, never thought that anyone would care about the date

Barbel · April 2020

Shady Tree wrote:

Higgins wrote:

- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL SEQUENCE STARTS AND
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.

Wait... does this mean we're watching only the end titles, this time?!

Don't worry, Shady, I've fixed it... :007)

Higgins · April 2020

Now I know, why in most of my posts come over like I am a total jackass.
That‘s just because Barbel has been fiddling around with them and nobody can see! X-(

Barbel · April 2020

Higgins wrote:

Now I know, why in most of my posts come over like I am a total jackass.
That‘s just because Barbel has been fiddling around with them and nobody can see! X-(

1st sentence, true.
2nd sentence, false.

Higgins · April 2020

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Asp9mm · April 2020

Barbel wrote:

Higgins wrote:

Now I know, why in most of my posts come over like I am a total jackass.
That‘s just because Barbel has been fiddling around with them and nobody can see! X-(

1st sentence, true.
2nd sentence, false.

Shady Tree · April 2020

Barbel wrote:

Shady Tree wrote:

Higgins wrote:

- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL SEQUENCE STARTS AND
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.

Wait... does this mean we're watching only the end titles, this time?!

Don't worry, Shady, I've fixed it... :007)

Cool! So with SF, it begins with the MGM logo, followed by the Columbia Pictures logo. Our starting point, I'd venture, should be when the Columbia Pictures logo fades, just before the first shot of the movie proper...

Number24 · April 2020

I'm looking forward to Skyfall :007)

https://giphy.com/gifs/skyfall-3LOi5dAB1XPxu/fullscreen

Barbel · April 2020

I'm looking forward to it, too. This time I won't be doing my usual discussion of the musical cues, since there are a lot of them and they're mostly very similar.

Higgins · April 2020

I‘ll be missing your comments, Barbel.

Barbel · April 2020

They will be back, when you pick a film with a better score! Newman's work hasn't impressed me, I'm afraid (even less with SP). I do like Adele's song, though.

Number24 · April 2020

If there only was some other aspect than the music you could comment on …

Barbel · April 2020

8-) Yes, cos that's all I have ever commented on previously.

Higgins · April 2020

He has a broad knowledge about german beer and Scotch whisky - not sure how helpful that would be

Number24 · April 2020

Barbel wrote:

8-) Yes, cos that's all I have ever commented on previously.

Good, because that's what I thought.

On a slightly other topic: At some point we'll run out of Bond films or we'll feel the need for more variation. Do you (plural) think we can expand to other films? I know the chanses everyone has excess to a particular movie, but this is so much fun I think we should consider it. We won't get everyone each time, but I think it could work. Perhaps other spy movies (Jason Bourne, Mission Impossible etc.) or classical special operations films like "The guns of Navarone" or "The eagles nest". I think there'll be enough of us for it to work.
Discuss.

Barbel · April 2020

Hey, hold on there N24!!!! Far too soon!!!

Number24 · April 2020

It's far too soon to do it, but I don't think it's too soon to talk about it. I look forward to watching the Bond films we skiped in the first round, but I think it could be nice to watch for example "The guns of Navarone" together at some point.

Barbel · April 2020

It's a good film, and David Niven is in it, but it'll be a while before we get to that.

Alistair MacLean is a good subject for us Bond fans to get into, but if we go there eventually I'd suggest "Where Eagles Dare" first.

Number24 · April 2020

I was actually thinking of "Where eagles dare" when I wrote "The Eagles nest", I just translated the Norwegian title without thinking.

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I don't think we'll watch it in May, but we may be ready in June.

JTM · May 2020

The issue with non-Bond films, even some big ones, is that a lot of members won’t have them on disc or might not be subscribed to a streaming service that has them. But this being a Bond forum, there’s a pretty good chance that most have access to all the Bond films; which is why these rewatches have worked.

Barbel · May 2020

But guys, plenty more Bond movies to watch first!

JTM · May 2020

Barbel wrote:

But guys, plenty more Bond movies to watch first!

Including Skyfall...which is what this thread is meant to be about

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Barbel · May 2020

{[] Exactly!

Shady Tree · May 2020

Barbel wrote:

They will be back, when you pick a film with a better score! Newman's work hasn't impressed me, I'm afraid (even less with SP). I do like Adele's song, though.

I know nothing technical about music, but I think this is a gem; from an article by Warren Ringham, 'What Is The James Bond Sound?' in his 2019 souvenir programme for Q The Music's James Bond Concert Spectacular:

"In 2012, Paul Epworth called the Minor 9 chord the 'Bond chord' [courtesy of John Barry] and used it at the start (and end) of the song 'Skyfall' which he composed with Adele."

AJB live commentary on SKYFALL

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