Brian Fowler Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Excitement level: High and rising. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Is it wrong to expect a swerve and andrew scott will be Blofeld? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 That's what I'm expecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 The song had better be fucking epic because it always sets the tone for the movie. Adelle, Shirley Bassey, Carly Simon, Duran Duran, and A-ha have set a high bar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 I'm really disappointed that the women don't have sexual double entendre names but that's what you get with Serious and Grim Bond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 I'm really disappointed that the women don't have sexual double entendre names but that's what you get with Serious and Grim Bond. I think it is simpler than that. Bond villains are comic book villains so even the semi-serious stuff is still tongue-in-cheek. I just think that the double entendre for female character names just isn't as acceptable as it used to be. Part of me thinks that is a good thing even if it used to be tradition. Also, blame the success of the Borne movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Good point. Also, that and many of the other silly Bond tropes were mercilessly parodied in Austin Powers so you probably can't come back from that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 That, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 The logo for SPECTRE is this Yup. The cracked glass shape resembles the classic logo of SPECTRE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Hail Hydra... i mean Hail SPECTRE 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I hope Waltz has another trick in his book other than playing Hans Landa again. It was great the first time I saw it, but the magic has faded quickly. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Not with me. He can play either Hans Landa or Dr. Shultz in every movie he's ever in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Hail Hydra... i mean Hail SPECTRE Hopefully this won't devolve into a OMG MARVEL RIPPED OFF JAMES BOND, because Lee has already admitted in several interviews that HYDRA was patterned after SPECTRE. I don't even think you can count the number of Bond references in the classic Jim Steranko art run of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD. Valentina de la Fontaine was every Bond girl of the time rolled up into one with a little badassery thrown in for good measure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Everyone was ripping the Bond formula then... SPECTRE -> HYDRA, THRUSH, KONTROL, KAOS, and so on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Everyone was ripping the Bond formula then... SPECTRE -> HYDRA, THRUSH, KONTROL, KAOS, and so on Yeah, John Le Carre was famous for his disdain for the effect that Bond had on the espionage genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 And Cobra, of course, was a direct lift of Hydra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 cobra doesnt spell anything, does it? I was only thinking of the heel Acronym groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 There was an urban legend that COBRA stood for COnversion by Blackmail, Revolution and Anarchy, but that was proved false by Larry Hama, GI Joe comics co-creator. The organization got its name for Cobra Commander's creed that the organization would one day entwine the world in its coils like a cobra swallowing its prey.. The movie version of "Gi Joe" is supposed to be an acronym (Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity) but it is never presented that way in the film title. The comics and cartoon series say that Gi Joe is a code name. SMERSH is also a villainous, fictional espionage organization where the name isn't an acronym. It is a portmanteau of the Russian phrase, "Death to Spies." (Smert shpionam.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Good point. Also, that and many of the other silly Bond tropes were mercilessly parodied in Austin Powers so you probably can't come back from that. Holy shit I was right dudes Daniel Craig: Bond movies had to go darker because "Mike Myers fucked us" http://io9.com/the-james-bond-movies-had-to-go-darker-because-mike-my-1667143453 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 What he should've said is, "The Bourne movies fucked us and didn't give us cab fare the next day." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 As successful as Craig movies have been, i would love to see retro Bond movies set in early 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 As successful as Craig movies have been, i would love to see retro Bond movies set in early 60s. Skyfall and the Bourne movies pretty much guaranteed that will never happen. If the new devs were smart, they'd have set Casino Royale in the 60's. The retro time dilution has actually helped the new X-Men franchise rather than hindered it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Well if you want goofy old school Bond, you can't get more wacky than Skyfall's "Home Alone" sequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 The Bourne movies fucked nobody except people wiling to accept film editing by mentally ill people as professional work. Which, I guess, explains Quantum of Solace. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 The Bourne movies fucked nobody except people wiling to accept film editing by mentally ill people as professional work. Which, I guess, explains Quantum of Solace. I couldn't sign in fast enough to like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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