Bond 23 - Skyfall

[SWoll]

marcosgt said:

Everyone raves about Ronin, but I that's a bit of a duffer as a film (and not even a particularly good car chase to be honest)

M

Finally, someone else who feels the same way as I do about Ronin. Watched it again recently having convinced myself I must have missed something. I hadn't. Very average in ever way.

[davepoth]

Twincam16 said:

Also, it was an Autodelta 159. Maybe not as outright fast as a DBS but very quick in its own right. Also, it was on tight, traffic-filled roads. Having a load of extra horsepower doesn't necessarily help.

I expect it was being driven by an Italian minicab driver too.

[PaperCut]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-20989...

Apologies for the Daily Mail link. It's the only 'news' website that loads on my computer!

[gtdc]

Halb said:

That wasn't all on him.
The most annoying thing for me about OHMSS was the fact they dubbed him for half of it.

Did they? Had no idea.

[KB_S1]

Filming in Glencoe over the last week. Craig and Dench turned up yesterday and apparently a formerly tame racing driver has been spotted in a DB4 (5 or 6, source not great).

[RichB]

marcosgt said:

...Lazenby. Sure he looks confused and bewildered in the scene someone mentioned earlier, but he looks like that for most of the film! I guess that's what an actor hopelessly out of his depth looks like... The same person mentioned "Sure he fluffs a few lines"...

Surely he can be forgiven? I reckon I'd have fluffed a few lines if I were him doing close up and personal scenes with Diana Rigg in those days.

[PaperCut]

KB_S1 said:

Filming in Glencoe over the last week. Craig and Dench turned up yesterday and apparently a formerly tame racing driver has been spotted in a DB4 (5 or 6, source not great).

You did see my post above, didn't you?

[KB_S1]

PaperCut said:

You did see my post above, didn't you?

No sorry.

I would never click a DM link without a description.
Even then it is unlikely.

[anonymous-user]

Rich_W said:

You do know it's not real...

When watching a film the makers do hope the audience will suspend a little disbelief at times. Not like the film fell apart as a result of a 159 keeping up with a DBS is it?

...and let's be honest, even after driving through a house and falling down a cliff that Defender would've driven away easily.
Or at least cost no more than a weekend and £500 on eBay to put right.

[Twincam16]

gtdc said:

Halb said:

That wasn't all on him.
The most annoying thing for me about OHMSS was the fact they dubbed him for half of it.

Did they? Had no idea.

To be fair, the dubbed bits are where he's impersonating Sir Hillary Bray (George Baker), and it's Baker doing the dubbing, the idea being that Bond is impersonating his accent so Blofeld won't realise the difference having spoken to the real Bray over the phone. It's part of the plot rather than a result of Lazenby's acting skills.

[gtdc]

That makes more sense. Thank you.

[Halb]

RichB said:

Surely he can be forgiven? I reckon I'd have fluffed a few lines if I were him doing close up and personal scenes with Diana Rigg in those days.

And Joanna Lumley!

Twincam16 said:

To be fair, the dubbed bits are where he's impersonating Sir Hillary Bray (George Baker), and it's Baker doing the dubbing, the idea being that Bond is impersonating his accent so Blofeld won't realise the difference having spoken to the real Bray over the phone. It's part of the plot rather than a result of Lazenby's acting skills.

Wouldn't be surprised if the skills aspect had influenced it somewhat.

[mattdaniels]

P-Jay said:

In regards to the Bognor thing - is it being filmed in Bognor, or based in Bognor? Hell they filmed Full Metal Jacket in London.

Some scenes filmed in Bognor, pretending it's somewhere exotic.

They do this a lot. When I was at school we went to Amberley Chalk Pits museum the day after they had been filming A View To A Kill there (it was the Silicon Valley mine in the film). We had all these worksheets to fill in but instead spent all the time asking the staff about what it was like and what happened and did they get to meet James Bond and ride on the American Fire Engine.

[Halb]

It happens, Liverpool was almost Gotham in The Dark Knight, and it did pop up in Captain America.

[Ari]

garrykiller said:

Maybe so. i thought both movies were too "dark". Bond had no class what so ever. to me bond is cheesy one liners, gadgets and sleeping with the hot chick. i mean he didn’t even have sex with the girl in QoS because he was so emotionally fked up from CR! What the hell is that about? Plus Daniel Craig is an utter douche bag of the highest degree.

Yes, Bond had no class in Casino Royale, that was kind of the point!! It was back to the very beginning for the story.

"shaken or stirred?"

"Do I look like I care?"

Bond becoming Bond, that was the point!

[Rich_W]

Ari said:

...Plus Daniel Craig is an utter douche bag of the highest degree.

Curious about that viewpoint. Never met the bloke, but having seen some interviews he always seems relatively normal.

[Halb]

garrykiller said:

...Plus Daniel Craig is an utter douche bag of the highest degree.

What has he done to upset you?

[Zod]

Halb said:

garrykiller said:

...Plus Daniel Craig is an utter douche bag of the highest degree.

What has he done to upset you?

Perhaps garry was waiting for Rachel Weisz to sweep him off his feet.

[RichB]

Ari said:

Yes, Bond had no class in Casino Royale, that was kind of the point!! It was back to the very beginning for the story. "shaken or stirred?" "Do I look like I care?" Bond becoming Bond, that was the point!

You have read Fleming's book haven't you?

[garrykiller]

Zod said:

Perhaps garry was waiting for Rachel Weisz to sweep him off his feet.

haha

no...

i just dont like him as an actor, never have done.