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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    Besides, when the question is who would win in a fight, the answer is always Alec Baldwin's character from Glenn-Gary Glennross

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Munkus Bieber wrote: »
    Besides, when the question is who would win in a fight, the answer is always Alec Baldwin's character from Glenn-Gary Glennross

    What's his name in that movie again?

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Veretas wrote: »
    SMERSH sounds stupid

    SPECTRE sounds cool

    q e d you smell

    Of course
    But I just found it strange
    SMERSH was a real organization
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    Didgeridoo wrote: »
    Orikaeshigitae wrote: »
    Not stopped or pulled over: nothing routine. I always drive properly. A bit fast, perhaps, but always with consummate skill and a natural feel for the road that even cops recognize. No cop was ever born who isn't a sucker for a finely-executed hi-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

    Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side when he sees the big red light behind him . . . and then we will start apologizing, begging for mercy.

    This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. The thing to do - when you're running along about a hundred or so and you suddenly find a red-flashing CHP-tracker on your trail - what you want to do then is accelerate. Never pull over with the first siren-howl. Mash it down and make the bastard chase you at speeds up to 120 all the way to the next exit. He will follow. But he won't know what to make of your blinker-signal that says you're about to turn right.

    Now that right there is a mighty fine quote :^:

    i thought that he meant a roundabout until i posted that quote

    now i realize he meant this, which is badass as hell:

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Houk wrote: »
    Bogey wrote: »
    Like, what kind of thing? Big thing like Disneyland, or something smaller like Taco Tuesdays?
    No, something at someone's place where we can just relax and enjoy ourselves. Also, where I don't have to spend a lot of money. What happened to game night?

    Goddammit, we live in LA! Why don't we know someone with a bigass mansion?!

    I'm down for this btw

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Munkus Bieber wrote: »
    Besides, when the question is who would win in a fight, the answer is always Alec Baldwin's character from Glenn-Gary Glennross

    What's his name in that movie again?

    Blake. I'm not sure they ever actually say it.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Munkus Bieber wrote: »
    Besides, when the question is who would win in a fight, the answer is always Alec Baldwin's character from Glenn-Gary Glennross

    What's his name in that movie again?

    Fuck You

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Munkus Bieber wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Munkus Bieber wrote: »
    Besides, when the question is who would win in a fight, the answer is always Alec Baldwin's character from Glenn-Gary Glennross

    What's his name in that movie again?

    Fuck You

    That's Mamet, all right

    also it's Glengarry Glen Ross

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  • Day of the BearDay of the Bear The Qun demandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Thanks to this thread I am now about to embark on watching Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace back to back.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2011
    I'll send you my condolences in about 2 hours.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    ugh quantum of solace is such a bad name

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  • Day of the BearDay of the Bear The Qun demandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    It really is. Who green lit that title?

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    It was the title of a collection of short stories with bond in it if I recall correctly

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  • Day of the BearDay of the Bear The Qun demandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Well it's dumb regardless of the source.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    They just took an old Ian Fleming short story title and ran with it. As soon as they chose it, pretty late on, they managed to work in the quantum organisation and Bob's your Uncle...

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    it ain't that bad

    man that movie gets too much flak

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  • Day of the BearDay of the Bear The Qun demandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm not sayin' anything about the movie I've never seen it before! I just think the title could've been better.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    It's certainly a bad title.

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    well that's because it followed Casino Royale.

    It's bound to catch a lot of flack for not being as good.

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  • Day of the BearDay of the Bear The Qun demandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I am just in the opening and already I am remembering how great Casino Royale is.

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The only thing wrong with Casino Royale is that after it ends

    it keeps going

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    what

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    he means quantum of solace

    seeing as it's pretty much the casino royale story continued.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    because if theres one thing james bond needs its continuity

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    quantum suffers from being the middle child

    i think it works fine in sequence with casino royale

    i am confident this will be even more true once the trilogy is finished

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Wasn't that Blood Stone 007 game supposed to be that third in the trilogy?

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I appreciate what they were doing with QoS. Just think it could have been done better.

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    n-no?

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    yeah I wish bad movies could have been better too.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Well there's a difference between a good idea being made into a bad movie and a bad idea being made into a terrible movie.

    Stuff like the "villain" not having any kind of disfigurement or abnormality was a good idea with their 'bad guy isn't always obvious' theme. Plus Bond going off the fucking chain for most of the film could've worked seeing as, in the CR continuity, he wasn't the awesome agent he is in all the others.

    But they forgot that it was a Bond film. The series hasn't been popular for so long because they kept changing everything about Bond. Casino Royale worked because it was an evolution of Bond's character. QoS showed us a drunk Bond for the first time. That's worse than him decapitating a puppy.

    Good film, bad Bond film.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Brosnan did a great job

    Craig's version has been very good as well.

    Connery is my favorite classic Bondsman

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Bad-Beat wrote: »
    Well there's a difference between a good idea being made into a bad movie and a bad idea being made into a terrible movie.

    Stuff like the "villain" not having any kind of disfigurement or abnormality was a good idea with their 'bad guy isn't always obvious' theme. Plus Bond going off the fucking chain for most of the film could've worked seeing as, in the CR continuity, he wasn't the awesome agent he is in all the others.

    But they forgot that it was a Bond film. The series hasn't been popular for so long because they kept changing everything about Bond. Casino Royale worked because it was an evolution of Bond's character. QoS showed us a drunk Bond for the first time. That's worse than him decapitating a puppy.

    Good film, bad Bond film.

    this is pretty much how i feel

    i just think that in the grander narrative of the trilogy it will work better than just as a stand alone bond movie

    but i'm just repeating myself now

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  • beefbeef Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I like Quantum of Solace and its continuity with Casino Royale. I also do not see the problem with the title.

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    My problem with Quantum of Solace is Quantum's whole plot to make Peru pay out the ass for water.

    I really have trouble respecting an organization whose major plans involve becoming the douchiest utilities provider in the world.

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    since they have agents in MI6 i doubt that is their only major plan

    but it also happens to be one that makes them incredible amounts of money while oppressing and entire country

    pretty good start for an evil villain

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    That's true, I guess.

    Not that it's their only plan, but it all seems like a pretty convoluted way to make money, especially when the majority of your members are loaded anyway.

    EDIT: As long as we're analyzing Bond plots, sunlight doesn't work that way, bullets don't do that, and Denise Richards would be a shit nuclear physicist.

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  • DudBoltDudBolt Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    People don't stop wanting to make money.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    Munkus Bieber wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Munkus Bieber wrote: »
    Besides, when the question is who would win in a fight, the answer is always Alec Baldwin's character from Glenn-Gary Glennross

    What's his name in that movie again?

    Fuck You

    That's Mamet, all right

    also it's Glengarry Glen Ross

    I'm just sad that my joke was not more appreciated.

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Romanian My Escutcheon, Doxy wrote: »
    My problem with Quantum of Solace is Quantum's whole plot to make Peru pay out the ass for water.

    I really have trouble respecting an organization whose major plans involve becoming the douchiest utilities provider in the world.

    Wasn't Casino Royale basically about the villain staging a poker game to pay off his debts.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    Der Waffle Mous wrote: »
    Romanian My Escutcheon, Doxy wrote: »
    My problem with Quantum of Solace is Quantum's whole plot to make Peru pay out the ass for water.

    I really have trouble respecting an organization whose major plans involve becoming the douchiest utilities provider in the world.

    Wasn't Casino Royale basically about the villain staging a poker game to pay off his debts.

    No.

    It was about gaining information about the villain and using his own manipulation of stock prices to force him to stage a poker game to pay off his debts so he would lose and have to give up valuable information about his clients in exchange for asylum.

    *breaths*

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