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edited December 2008 in Artist's Corner
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  • LoomdunLoomdun Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    om nom nom nom

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    splat
  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    What kind of tea?

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Green of course

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    the kind harvested by small brown people

    me

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I just got back from seeing the new Bond film.

    Fun times all around, but I think the first one had better fight scenes.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    we're going to have Tam Tea?

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Can you say it wouldn't be delicious?

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  • ProspicienceProspicience The Raven King DenvemoloradoRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I know I can't... wait... awwww crap.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'd rather not know.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Godfather wrote: »
    I just got back from seeing the new Bond film.

    Fun times all around, but I think the first one had better fight scenes.

    But the car chase at the start was all win!
    I really liked it, thought it tied up all the loose ends of casino royale (with cheese) quite nicely.........except for that fucking awful Jack White/Alicia Keys song at the start...worst bond song ever, sounded like cats fucking on a hot tin roof.

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  • winter_combat_knightwinter_combat_knight Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Yeah, it wasn't as good as Casino Royale, but it was better than the Pierce Brosnan ones. Oh, and i hate how people call it 'James Bourne'. Bloody idiots. Nothing like a Bourne movie.

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Anything is better that Die Another Day.....I still want to puke everytime I think about that piece of shit. Parasailing on an iceberg, really, what the fuck were they thinking?

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Mustang wrote:
    Parasailing on an iceberg, really, what the fuck were they thinking?

    That parasailing on an iceberg is cool?

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Peach flavoured ice tea. GURGLEOOOOORRRRRRRRRR

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Yeah, it wasn't as good as Casino Royale, but it was better than the Pierce Brosnan ones. Oh, and i hate how people call it 'James Bourne'. Bloody idiots. Nothing like a Bourne movie.

    That's because the second unit director from the Bourne series did the second unit work on Quantum of Solace. It's the reason the camera is so infuriatingly shaky and why the parallels to the Bourne series are drawn in the first place.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Aren't they doing a fourth Bourne movie in a few years.

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The Bourne movies are so good. They're easily amongst the top ten of my most favourite action thriller spy Jason Bourne-related movies starring that Matt Damon guy. Easily.

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  • winter_combat_knightwinter_combat_knight Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    If you ask me a bit of bourne injected into an almost comically rediculous bond (Brosnon & Moore) can only be a good thing. More to the point Daniel Craig is a fucking good actor, which they haven't really had since Sean Connery.

    Also
    James Bond wrote:
    "We are teachers on sabbatical. And we've won the lottery. We'd like a room".
    Is now one of the best bond quotes ever.......but you have to see it for it to be funny.

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  • D-RobeD-Robe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Moonraker! Good choice indeed.

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    Cheese.
  • PROXPROX Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Toaster: Travel Visas were handled by my travel agent. I gave them the necessary information and they did the rest.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Mustang wrote: »
    If you ask me a bit of bourne injected into an almost comically rediculous bond (Brosnon & Moore) can only be a good thing. More to the point Daniel Craig is a fucking good actor, which they haven't really had since Sean Connery.

    Brosnan was damn good- I don't care what anyone says. He looked the part and did the balance of suave and action right.

    I'm not going to tear him down just for Die Another Day.

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  • winter_combat_knightwinter_combat_knight Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Hmmmm... Brosnan may have been a good Bond, but the writers didn't do him Justice. (Golden Eye was ok) Daniel Craige is the best, for seriousness. But i still love a good old Roger Moore Bond film.

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Brosnan was good; the scripts were baaaaad.

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  • D-RobeD-Robe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Its like they hated Bond.

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    Cheese.
  • bombardierbombardier Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited December 2008
    Yeah, it wasn't as good as Casino Royale, but it was better than the Pierce Brosnan ones. Oh, and i hate how people call it 'James Bourne'. Bloody idiots. Nothing like a Bourne movie.

    That's because the second unit director from the Bourne series did the second unit work on Quantum of Solace. It's the reason the camera is so infuriatingly shaky and why the parallels to the Bourne series are drawn in the first place.

    UGH.

    That fucking explains it.

    That guy needs to get hit by a bus.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So does Tetsuya Nomura.

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    bombardier wrote: »
    Yeah, it wasn't as good as Casino Royale, but it was better than the Pierce Brosnan ones. Oh, and i hate how people call it 'James Bourne'. Bloody idiots. Nothing like a Bourne movie.

    That's because the second unit director from the Bourne series did the second unit work on Quantum of Solace. It's the reason the camera is so infuriatingly shaky and why the parallels to the Bourne series are drawn in the first place.

    UGH.

    That fucking explains it.

    That guy needs to get hit by a bus.

    Yeah, basically. I think there was a car chase in the beginning of that film, but I can't be too sure. For the fight scenes it's worse because it's sad to think a choreographer put time and effort into a good fight scene only to have it pissed down the film's leg with Bourne-style editing.

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  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Oh hey a new thread and such. Also I liked the new Bond movie, and the one before that...and the one before that, and the one before that.....and the one before that...and especially the one before that. You know, I am not really that difficult to please when it comes to movies.

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Brosnan was passable (nowhere near Craig's level though) and GoldenEye was a good flick, but yeah, the writing and directing was shit on a stick from then on. It's like they tried to give everyone what they wanted without stopping to think if the film was any good, which most of the time it wasn't. Still when you think about it, every bond (bar lazenby obviously) has ended their bond career on a pretty sour film.

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Honestly my favorite fight for both of those movies would be the bathroom brawl in the very beginning of the first one. The struggle between those two was intense, it was like you were really there.

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  • winter_combat_knightwinter_combat_knight Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Yeah, as soon as i saw that, i knew it would be awesome. Great opening song too. But the singer looks like a full bogan.

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Chris Cornell says you look like a full bogan.

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  • bombardierbombardier Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited December 2008
    Yeah, basically. I think there was a car chase in the beginning of that film, but I can't be too sure. For the fight scenes it's worse because it's sad to think a choreographer put time and effort into a good fight scene only to have it pissed down the film's leg with Bourne-style editing.

    It's like they spent $300,000,000 on what? They could have pulled that shakey cam nonsense on probably a tenth the budget and nobody would notice because you can't tell what is going on.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Where did all the shakey cam business start? It must have been before the Bourne movies... I seem to remember it in that Jamie Foxx/Tom Cruise flick.

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  • bombardierbombardier Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited December 2008
    I want to say something around Saving Private Ryan but I am nowhere near a film buff and am probably way off base and SPR is not horrible in any way cinematography wise (cinematographically?).

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    bombardier wrote: »
    Yeah, basically. I think there was a car chase in the beginning of that film, but I can't be too sure. For the fight scenes it's worse because it's sad to think a choreographer put time and effort into a good fight scene only to have it pissed down the film's leg with Bourne-style editing.

    It's like they spent $300,000,000 on what? They could have pulled that shakey cam nonsense on probably a tenth the budget and nobody would notice because you can't tell what is going on.

    If they're anything like me, they did exactly that and blew the rest on whiskey.

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  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited December 2008
    I tend to be pretty forgiving of Bond theme songs because they remind me of Bond movies. Both "You Know My Name" and "Another Way to Die" have grown on me.

    I definitely preferred Casino Royale but wasn't disappointed by Quantum of Solace either. It felt more like a "bridge" movie but I'm okay with that. I watched Casino Royale again this weekend and realized that, for the most part, I'm waiting for the action scenes to be over so that it can get back to Bond being smooth. I hope the next movie gets some of that slower pacing back. Trying to one-up the action sequences is what made the Brosnan movies go from fun to ridiculous.

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The only problem I had with Casino Royale was all the romantic shit thrown in at the end. Yes I know he loved her, but that whole segment felt like it went on forever, enough for me to think "ALRIGHT WE GET IT MOVE IT ALONG ALREADY!"

    And then it went to another chase scene and all was right with the world.

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Sadly, another reason QoS was so reliant on action scene pacing is because of the confounded writer's strike. The script was finished two days before the strike, so they didn't really get the opportunity to go back and finesse the script to add the level of polish and filigree Casino Royale had.

    And for what it's worth, I love "You Know My Name", but then, I'm a pretty big Chris Cornell fan to begin with.

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