Last Film You Watched

[JimmyJeffers]

Went to see it yesterday with the missus. All cartoonish nonsense isn't it? Bond kills about a million henchmen, all of whom appear to have gone to Stormtrooper shooting school, some vague nonsense about nanobots being used for terrorism as though the screenwriter read Engines of Creation 35 years ago and decided it would be a suitable plot distraction from the "love" story that was shoehorned in.

With the big guns, fast cars, and buffed up Craig it was like a homoerotic love message to over-the-hill blokes everywhere. And the worst thing is that they've done about 20 of these pieces of garbage and they're all exactly the same.

I just don’t get it. It can’t have any insane twists or radical story line and every film is practically the same.
It’s like comfort food for middle aged men who like car chat and refuse to believe that the U.K. is no longer a super power.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Certainly something that should have just ended in the 90's and people could have just forgot about it.

Brain dead nonsense has its place, but there have been "so" many of these films and the only thing that's changed is the action now is more cartoonish and less believable than ever.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Brain dead nonsense has its place, but there have been "so" many of these films and the only thing that's changed is the action now is more cartoonish and less believable than ever.

Like a batmanmovie?
Only bond I (still) like is Casino Royale.
Loved Goldfinger & The Man with the Golden Gun as a kid.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I just don’t get it. It can’t have any insane twists or radical story line and every film is practically the same.
It’s like comfort food for middle aged men who like car chat and refuse to believe that the U.K. is no longer a super power.

It's utter drivel. There was some other agent introduced for some scene in Cuba yesterday. No idea who she was, and of course she had a dress where her tits were practically falling out before doing more backflips than The Bride and killing about 100 henchmen (still in high heels). I think that was the only scene where wanton death and destruction resulted in any local law enforcement emerging, at which point the spy just shot down some electricity pylons to run away. Ffs. Even the opening scene saw a kid trapped under ice, at which point she was rescued by the villain who didn't stick his hand in. Oh no. He shot a round of fecking bullets through the ice, not one of which hit her (he's a henchman remember so can't aim for shizzle) and THAT'S how she got out of freezing water.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Like a batmanmovie?
Only bond I (still) like is Casino Royale.
Loved Goldfinger & The Man with the Golden Gun as a kid.

Batman is a comic book story though. Is that what they're branding Bond as now? I mean if they made a Hot Shot Hamish movie then you kinda know what to expect, but if they make a football movie in which the star player is like Hot Shot Hamish, that's surely a bit daft?

 

[JimmyJeffers]

It's utter drivel. There was some other agent introduced for some scene in Cuba yesterday. No idea who she was, and of course she had a dress where her tits were practically falling out before doing more backflips than The Bride and killing about 100 henchmen (still in high heels). I think that was the only scene where wanton death and destruction resulted in any local law enforcement emerging, at which point the spy just shot down some electricity pylons to run away. Ffs. Even the opening scene saw a kid trapped under ice, at which point she was rescued by the villain who didn't stick his hand in. Oh no. He shot a round of fecking bullets through the ice, not one of which hit her (he's a henchman remember so can't aim for shizzle) and THAT'S how she got out of freezing water.

lol I mean you must have known what you were getting yourself into.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's utter drivel. There was some other agent introduced for some scene in Cuba yesterday. No idea who she was, and of course she had a dress where her tits were practically falling out before doing more backflips than The Bride and killing about 100 henchmen (still in high heels). I think that was the only scene where wanton death and destruction resulted in any local law enforcement emerging, at which point the spy just shot down some electricity pylons to run away. Ffs. Even the opening scene saw a kid trapped under ice, at which point she was rescued by the villain who didn't stick his hand in. Oh no. He shot a round of fecking bullets through the ice, not one of which hit her (he's a henchman remember so can't aim for shizzle) and THAT'S how she got out of freezing water.

I mean I cast my mind back to Inglorious Bastards and the opening scene where Shoshanna runs away, before then reuniting with Waltz for strudel at a later date, and both scenes are among the most gripping and tense I can imagine. By contrast, the girl being threatened by Malik's character and then reuniting with him later in the film here was utterly devoid of emotion and tension.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

lol I mean you must have known what you were getting yourself into.

The other half wanted to see it, and I vaguely recall Craig saying he wanted to go out on a strong note, so I thought perhaps it would be a little bit less absurd.

 

[woomy]

I think sometimes films are taken too seriously.
There's guns, explosions, hotties for everyone to perv at and a story that takes you away from the mundane rubbish that is the world right now.
Just sit back, watch the nonsense and switch the brain off for a few hours.

 

[Acrobat]

Went to see it yesterday with the missus. All cartoonish nonsense isn't it? Bond kills about a million henchmen, all of whom appear to have gone to Stormtrooper shooting school, some vague nonsense about nanobots being used for terrorism as though the screenwriter read Engines of Creation 35 years ago and decided it would be a suitable plot distraction from the "love" story that was shoehorned in.

With the big guns, fast cars, and buffed up Craig it was like a homoerotic love message to over-the-hill blokes everywhere. And the worst thing is that they've done about 20 of these pieces of garbage and they're all exactly the same.

So, I ask you, why do you bother still watching them?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

So, I ask you, why do you bother still watching them?

She's coming to the opera with me so it was a quid pro quo.

 

[Acrobat]

She's coming to the opera with me so it was a quid pro quo.

Perfectly understandable mate! lol

 

[navidson]

I enjoyed the latest Bond - escapist cinema has a place

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Went to see it yesterday with the missus. All cartoonish nonsense isn't it? Bond kills about a million henchmen, all of whom appear to have gone to Stormtrooper shooting school, some vague nonsense about nanobots being used for terrorism as though the screenwriter read Engines of Creation 35 years ago and decided it would be a suitable plot distraction from the "love" story that was shoehorned in.

With the big guns, fast cars, and buffed up Craig it was like a homoerotic love message to over-the-hill blokes everywhere. And the worst thing is that they've done about 20 of these pieces of garbage and they're all exactly the same.

Are these sort of films not always completely ridiculous? I haven’t enjoyed any of the recent Bond films but thought this one was much better than the recent offerings.

No idea what Engines Of Creation is about but lets be honest, most interesting ideas in films have been done in a novel or play a long time before it gets used in the cinema.

She's coming to the opera with me so it was a quid pro quo.

I’d love to go and see an opera but have yet to have a chance. What are you taking her to see?