Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
I could look at Daniel Craig all day long.
Big chase opening, fights, car chases, gadgets and girls.
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
It's better than driving Aston Martins all day long. I was underwhelmed by the driving experience when i borrowed my brother's. They promise more than they deliver.
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Profpointy
Legendary Member
I could perhaps afford a DB5 if it wasn't for Bond - half-a-bloody-million quid !
Have to settle for a Jag or alvis I guess
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
My 15 yr old said it was 'average'. I don't think I'll waste my money on this one
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
I felt like I was watching an 'identi-kit' movie based on bits from all the other Bonds. Works OK as 'Skyfall part 2'.
SPOLIER ALERT
The opening scenes at a festival - Live & Let Die/Moonraker
Villain has lair in crater- You Only Live Twice
Assassin with titanium (?) finger nails - Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me/Moonraker
Escape from MI5 HQ by boat and chase on Thames - The World Is Not Enough
Train fight - From Russia With Love/Spy Who Loved Me/Live & Let Die
Austrian scenes - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Bond gets suspended ....again - Licence to Kill/Moonraker
Other bothersome bits:
Just how powerful was that exploding watch?. It must only have the explosive force of a hand grenade, yet managed to destroy Blofeld's entire complex!.
Blofelds lair - seemed to have a lot of astronomical observatory domes in it.
Q's laptop - amazing how it has a Star Trek style of scanner on it to analyse the ring. But why did he start work on the cable car?. Couldn't he wait until he got back to his hotel room?. After all, his laptop must have loads of secret stuff on it!.
Wondering who the 'Americain' is. Why didn't anyone think of Googling it?
London at night - Ok, so where's all the traffic jams, buses, taxis???.
For the next one, lets team him up with Felix Leiter - the only Bond 'regular' not to have undergone the 'dark gritty realistic makeover for the 21st century'.
It seems to have taken them four movies to get all the 'reinvention' process done.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
My pal enjoyed it but then he likes Kylie too.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Saw it last night and I can confirm that ,whilst enjoyable enough...it did drag a little bit, especially in the middle.
I don't mind the rebooting of previous film scenes, some are mentioned above, as this is kind of cool in my view but the fact that we covered much of the same ground emotionally as we did in the previous installment, is frustrating...on the verge of boring.
In particular with the relationship between Craig and Feinnes, which ended strong in the last episode and seems to start from scratch again thIs time round, this made the ending feel predictable.
I have also mentioned this before (I think on Shaun's movie site) that I fear the Craig version of bond, whilst starting new and fresh in casino royale, has been inheriting more and more cliches ever since. In royale, he refused a "shaken not stirred" cocktail with a " do I look like I Care" responce and the big brassy section of bond music was never played ( that ...ta-da...de daaah, de dada) at that critical victorious moment.
It's crept back in now and Craig's bond is struggling to look fresh....I dont...for the record, blame Craig at all for that.
I don't mind the rebooting of previous film scenes, some are mentioned above, as this is kind of cool in my view but the fact that we covered much of the same ground emotionally as we did in the previous installment, is frustrating...on the verge of boring.
In particular with the relationship between Craig and Feinnes, which ended strong in the last episode and seems to start from scratch again thIs time round, this made the ending feel predictable.
I have also mentioned this before (I think on Shaun's movie site) that I fear the Craig version of bond, whilst starting new and fresh in casino royale, has been inheriting more and more cliches ever since. In royale, he refused a "shaken not stirred" cocktail with a " do I look like I Care" responce and the big brassy section of bond music was never played ( that ...ta-da...de daaah, de dada) at that critical victorious moment.
It's crept back in now and Craig's bond is struggling to look fresh....I dont...for the record, blame Craig at all for that.
Joshua Plumtree
Approaching perfection from a distance.
Since hitting puberty most action adventure films have bored the pants off me. 
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Weakest of the Craig reboots but quite some margin imo. Becoming increasingly cartoonlike and over-simple. The product placement is becoming increasingly clumsy irritating and inconsistent. And seemingly intended to boost sales of double-oh branded goods and accessories in the real world; e.g. Craig wore Persol shades in Casino Royale but has now gone all Tom Ford and stands stock still so the camera can lovingly pan around with said shades in shot the whole time.
