Craig doesn't live up to "what it is to be Bond" if you take the sum totality of all of the Bond movies, with all of the crappy movies included, as defining "what it is to be Bond".
The problem is that shit like half of Roger Moore's films, and Tim Dalton's films, and the later Brosnan films made "what it is to be Bond" essentially campy crap.
So Craig is awesome because his Bond chucks out all that shit
I always considered what it is to be Bond is the whole suave, charming, sophisticated spy-thing. Which Craig isn't. Compared to Connery and Brosnan, he's not as suave, charming, or sophisticated. Perhaps not so much a problem with the actor as with the character in Casino Royale, but it's even written in that he wears his suit with disdain.
And I'll say again, Craig's Bond is more of a thug than any previous Bond. 007 is a lot of things, but a brute he is not.
Considering these movies are sort of origin type stories for Bond, I don't mind his brute-ishness
He didn't make it. His death was one of the most ghastly and agonizing things I've ever witnessed- and I've seen suicide attacks. I haven't slept in 40 hours.
All of the presentations in tonight's class utilized either power point or index cards.
I need a gimmick that will ensure a high grade, and I have one week to prepare it!
Is this a college class? Use a presentation board. Alternatively, whenever I did a speech or presentation on operant conditioning, I carried around party-size bags of M&M's, chose a random behavior, and conditioned the audience.
Actually one of the presentations started with the student handing out Reeses cookies.
No attempt at conditioning the audience for any specific behaviour, though.
Well, my point was always to illustrate just how ineffective it is for certain applications. If I picked a behavior like hand raising, I'd have to intially award behaviors that were so generally approaching the desired behavior that they gave almost no indication of what I was actually rewarding.
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All of the presentations in tonight's class utilized either power point or index cards.
I need a gimmick that will ensure a high grade, and I have one week to prepare it!
Include movie and television clips at significant points in your presentation, like use them to highlight salient topic groups.
I was thinking about very short videos.
I was also planning on filling any powerpoint presentation I do with just images, instead of pasting an essay on ten slides and then rearranging them with neat transitions.
This was a point of the guy speaking on effective powerpoint: sometimes you don't need words at all
his example was a powerpoint for a case in which a girl was killed by a drunk driver (or something like that). the slides he had were just pictures of this beautiful teenage girl in the prime of her life, one after the other, and he clicked through them slowly in silence.
I mean if I'm already engaging the audience verbally I don't need them reading the same exact thing on the screen.
Craig doesn't live up to "what it is to be Bond" if you take the sum totality of all of the Bond movies, with all of the crappy movies included, as defining "what it is to be Bond".
The problem is that shit like half of Roger Moore's films, and Tim Dalton's films, and the later Brosnan films made "what it is to be Bond" essentially campy crap.
So Craig is awesome because his Bond chucks out all that shit
I always considered what it is to be Bond is the whole suave, charming, sophisticated spy-thing. Which Craig isn't. Compared to Connery and Brosnan, he's not as suave, charming, or sophisticated. Perhaps not so much a problem with the actor as with the character in Casino Royale, but it's even written in that he wears his suit with disdain.
And I'll say again, Craig's Bond is more of a thug than any previous Bond. 007 is a lot of things, but a brute he is not.
Considering these movies are sort of origin type stories for Bond, I don't mind his brute-ishness
Not to mention his motivation this time out. And it was made pretty clear in Casino Royale that this Bond doesn't actually care about randomly dipping the wick with every woman that blushes at his gorgeously toned abs.
novel Bond and early Connery Bond are considerably rougher, and more misogynistic, than any of the later outings
Fact remains that the character portrayed in the movies up until Craig, with few exceptions, is different than the character portrayed by Craig. A reinvention of the Bond franchise was necessary, but drastic. Craig's Bond differs too much from what I, as a longtime fan of the series, have come to consider 'what is Bond'. Novel Bond is irrelevant; Craig's too different from what matters - movie Bond - and what the franchise has crafted up 'till now to be one of the best.
It's a fairly realistic non-horror apocalypse story - a plague kills almost everyone and then people struggle to survive.
Got the guy who people say will be the new Doctor Who in it too.
I was anoyed that all the family members were killed off, didn't make much sense to me (I would've thought that the immunity would be genetic right, at least some of the time your kids would get it?) and it seemed like it was played for cheap tragedy points. As well as the fact that they all met in the last five minutes, but apart from that it was pretty enjoyable. I'll certainly give the next episode a try, as it seems like it's got more plot.
Man you'd be suprised Inquis, I've seen some pretty unassuming Royal Marines (old house is about a minutes walk from a base).
It's a fairly realistic non-horror apocalypse story - a plague kills almost everyone and then people struggle to survive.
Got the guy who people say will be the new Doctor Who in it too.
I was anoyed that all the family members were killed off, didn't make much sense to me (I would've thought that the immunity would be genetic right, at least some of the time your kids would get it?) and it seemed like it was played for cheap tragedy points. As well as the fact that they all met in the last five minutes, but apart from that it was pretty enjoyable. I'll certainly give the next episode a try, as it seems like it's got more plot.
I liked that
The people who seemed like they would be the heroes - the two from Dr Who for example - just died. It was a nice touch to have your apparent POV characters die of the plague. Just a touch of bereavement for the viewers.
The few reallly astonishingly tough professional soldiers (SEALs, ex-SAS, a couple of paratroopers) I've known have been quite boring people. Especially a fighter pilot I knew - I guess you don't get the expensive plane and the ability to stupid us into WW3 without being very predictable.
the chick who plays Martha. I was certain she'd be one of 'em.
And since she isn't a very good actor, I'm double-happy.
I was impressed by Paterson Joseph - all the characters I've seen him do are quite different from each other. He seems to be a proper actor, like Edward Norton. Not one of those 'isn't my screen persona awesome, let me reprise it indefinitely' types.
The few reallly astonishingly tough professional soldiers (SEALs, ex-SAS, a couple of paratroopers) I've known have been quite boring people. Especially a fighter pilot I knew - I guess you don't get the expensive plane and the ability to stupid us into WW3 without being very predictable.
But I love Craig and would have his babies.
I have to imagine that you really have to like, desensitize yourself to a lot of stuff to make yourself into the kind of killing machine a really tough professional soldier is.
SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
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The High Speed Rail thread reminds me of the Sprawl, the high concentration of urban development that stretches unbroken across the entire east coast in Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. You can enter the sprawl at one end and take a train to the other end in very little time.
I thought gas didn’t explode, and shooting a gas tank wouldn’t do anything since it’s actually the fumes that burn.
Maybe I’m wrong?
You're correct. It takes a pretty specific ratio of fumes to air to be explosive too, not something that will happen in an outdoor environment, generally.
Shooting tracer rounds into a gas tank didn't even cause one to explode, though there was some minor flames.
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Well, my point was always to illustrate just how ineffective it is for certain applications. If I picked a behavior like hand raising, I'd have to intially award behaviors that were so generally approaching the desired behavior that they gave almost no indication of what I was actually rewarding.
I mean if I'm already engaging the audience verbally I don't need them reading the same exact thing on the screen.
Also thank you for the interesting link, Stilist.
Not to mention his motivation this time out. And it was made pretty clear in Casino Royale that this Bond doesn't actually care about randomly dipping the wick with every woman that blushes at his gorgeously toned abs.
I watched it last night and really enjoyed it.
It's a fairly realistic non-horror apocalypse story - a plague kills almost everyone and then people struggle to survive.
Got the guy who people say will be the new Doctor Who in it too.
Fact remains that the character portrayed in the movies up until Craig, with few exceptions, is different than the character portrayed by Craig. A reinvention of the Bond franchise was necessary, but drastic. Craig's Bond differs too much from what I, as a longtime fan of the series, have come to consider 'what is Bond'. Novel Bond is irrelevant; Craig's too different from what matters - movie Bond - and what the franchise has crafted up 'till now to be one of the best.
I was anoyed that all the family members were killed off, didn't make much sense to me (I would've thought that the immunity would be genetic right, at least some of the time your kids would get it?) and it seemed like it was played for cheap tragedy points. As well as the fact that they all met in the last five minutes, but apart from that it was pretty enjoyable. I'll certainly give the next episode a try, as it seems like it's got more plot.
Man you'd be suprised Inquis, I've seen some pretty unassuming Royal Marines (old house is about a minutes walk from a base).
I liked that
But I love Craig and would have his babies.
I was impressed by Paterson Joseph - all the characters I've seen him do are quite different from each other. He seems to be a proper actor, like Edward Norton. Not one of those 'isn't my screen persona awesome, let me reprise it indefinitely' types.
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I have to imagine that you really have to like, desensitize yourself to a lot of stuff to make yourself into the kind of killing machine a really tough professional soldier is.
Craig's a very good Bond in very good Bond movies.
Connery was a great Bond in good Bond movies.
The top three (not in order), as far as I'm concerned.
but they're listening to every word I say
Isn't gasoline's explosiveness vastly exaggerated? Like, doesn't it take a rather specific amount in the air to actually be explosive?
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I knew I was forgetting something.
Ever seen some explode?
It's the vapors not so much the liquid. And they disperse quite quickly.
I've seen people drop lit matches into gasoline and have nothing happen.
Maybe I’m wrong?
You're correct. It takes a pretty specific ratio of fumes to air to be explosive too, not something that will happen in an outdoor environment, generally.
Shooting tracer rounds into a gas tank didn't even cause one to explode, though there was some minor flames.
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