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Hot damn do we have something tasty for you to ogle at this Tuesday afternoon. Q’s back with the classic Walther PPK, upgraded, of course; Bond gets shot clean off a train, and MI6 gets blown up, again. If you needed a good excuse to get excited about the next epic-looking Bond film, Skyfall, this is it.
Even Javier Bardem seems truly badass as a seriously creepy-looking Bond villain. With this and watching Bond escort the Queen to the Olympics on Friday, I simply can’t wait till October 26th. Hopefully the film will be just as good as the trailers look, and there won’t be heaps full of horrendous product placement. But even then, I’d still go watch it. This is Bond we’re talking about — Britain’s coolest export. [YouTube]
He looks a bit young, but I can see Ben Whishaw working very well as Q. The rapport between them is just about the right level of dry sarcasm.
Hmmmmm, this or Windows 8? I know which I’m going to be watching!
Not much of a contest.
As long as M isn’t typing that out on a Win8 laptop….
Probably a Surface Pro
Bet she’s got a copy of the Metro’d Office 2013 as well
It’s M. She’d have a copy of Office 2023.
Finally, more Bond than Bourne!
Aye, true. Bond’s been a bit rough and tumble of late eh?
It’s just been lacking in the Bond charm – it’s been kind of sterile and, like you say, a bit too serious.
The namesh Bourne, Jashon Bourne.
Sounds crap.
Mate u made me laugh out loud …haha I just imagined Matt Damon saying that in Sean Connery’s accent
Ahhh! Good fun!
Between The Hobbit, Bourne Legacy, Total Recall and Skyfall, I think this might be a bit too much excitement for one guy. 2012 is turning out to be a great year for cinema.
Don’t forget The Dark Knight Rises too. I thought that was pretty darn great
Finally managed to catch that at the weekend, a very good end to the trilogy. You knew it was a 2h45 film, but it didn’t overly long.
Yeah, totally. I wasn’t ever thinking, argh, when’s this going to end. I actually want to go watch it again — Bane’s lines were truly awesome.
I might be alone on this one, but I wish that there would be more of this movie. This could be a series of movies kind of like Game of Thrones.
Meaning not just the trilogy. I can’t believe Hollywood let this money magnet die with only three films.
I think they’re planning a reboot
And rip the arse out of it like they’ve done with the Spiderman films and so many others?? Some things are best kept to just a trilogy or quadrilogy
Seriously tempted to see if there are any IMAX showings left and try getting one of those – I already know the plot, so can better appreciate the wow-factor
As a self-confessed, massive Batman-geek I’ve IMAX-ed TDKR twice already. It’s WAY better the second time.
Skyfall looks good, but then QoS looked pretty decent in the trailers too. I’m not counting those poultry any time soon
I think they’ve got over the ‘re-establish new style Bond’ phase, at least I hope they have!
I’m hoping to go to the imax on Saturday night, should I be worried about getting tickets?!
IF you haven’t booked already, do so now!
Thanks for the advice
Needs more Royal Family cameos :p
Chuck a couple of corgis in there, and suddenly that makes Odeon’s £20 tickets (or whatever they cost) a lot more palatable.
If LOCOG can justify it, so can Odeon
£20!? And I thought £8.90 was steep…
£22 to be exact. £19 if you are a student.
Premier seating for DKR was £16.80
£9.90 each for 2 seats
15% online booking discount
£1.50 online booking fee
I am talking about the one in Leicester Square at 21:00.
OUCH!
Note to whoever did the Prometheus trailers: This is how you tease a film without giving away the whole frigging story!
To be fair the whole “I’ve been dead for a few months” reveal does seem like a major plot point to me! Wasn’t needed imo
They might end up doing it in the opening credits like the torture in Die Another Day
I’m guessing it’ll be like the pre-title sequence in You Only Live Twice. Still not as bad as the Prometheus trailer showing the titular ship’s crash…
That helicopter at 2:17 as the OnLive logo
I hate the fact that bond is older than Q,
I hate the fact they brought Q back (should have continued with R as they did in the brosnan era),
I hate the fact “Vodka Martini. Shaken, Not stirred” has been kicked for a heineken product placement.
…. and yet im still hyped ^_^ thoroughly looking forward to this, 2012 has been stellar movie-wise
Shaken vodka martini is a horrible drink anyway! Gin and stirred please.
“I hate the fact they brought Q back (should have continued with R as they did in the brosnan era)”
Q is his Quartermaster (as stated in the trailer). A quartermaster is someone who provides supplies and weapons to a soldier. To call him R is completely incorrect and showed how little attention the production team were paying to the script in favour of giving Madonna a fucking cameo.
As much as I like John Cleese, I don’t think he’d have been right for the role, Q has to be as amazed and in love with his tech as we are, Desmond Llewelyn was like a mischievous schoolboy and so was perfect for it, Cleese simply put Bond down, without managing the love of tech side.
I got half way through, but then it seemed so awesome I didn’t want to see any more spoilers.
Casino Royale = WOW
Quantum of Solace = Meh
Skyfall = Oooooooooo
Ahh finally the style and the finesse is back!! Now cant wait for it!