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Bruce Wayne said:
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.
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Agree on the henchmen shooting ability being laughable but...

Pretty sure he purposefully shot around her to break the ice and save her. He talks about saving her when he has captured her later on

Anyway, I enjoy the Bond films on the whole. Switch the brain off for a couple of hours. Obviously they are ridiculous but they always have been.
 
Woolverhampton_Blue said:
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.




I’d love to go and see an opera but have yet to have a chance. What are you taking her to see?
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Engines of Creation is K. Eric Drexler's masterpiece on the potential of nanotechnology. It was published in the 80s and spawned fears (as all new technologies do) that terrorists would develop bots to go inside people and kill us. Obviously that hasn't happened in the 30 odd years since its been published (and nanotech generally hasn't achieved the heights predicted in the book) so it was funny seeing it as the central plotline, devised by a corrupt Russian scientist straight from central casting. We're going to see The Valkyries at the ENO.
 
Wizard said:
Agree on the henchmen shooting ability being laughable but...

Pretty sure he purposefully shot around her to break the ice and save her. He talks about saving her when he has captured her later on

Anyway, I enjoy the Bond films on the whole. Switch the brain off for a couple of hours. Obviously they are ridiculous but they always have been.
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I don't mind a bit of escapism and silliness. Heck, Killing Eve is largely ridiculous (with whatshername a co-writer on this Bond movie), but you sense it doesn't take itself seriously and is quite understated in a British way. Bond seems to have veered away from that and is now more of an identikit American action movie with car chases, huge explosions, and a kill count into the thousands. It doesn't really seem any different to the various Marvel-style superhero movies anymore, except you kinda sense that it thinks of itself as slightly better than those churned-out Hollywood money spinners.
 


longers said:
About to watch the new Jake Gyllenhaal film on Netflix, great actor but the fact its a Netflix film makes me dubious, especially as his last Netflix film was absolute trash.
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Really enjoyed this last night, more than I thought I would when the missus said about watching it
 

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