Adaptation from McEwan’s Atonement and amazing one long take
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Guardian Film Show, shit production values, best film critics …
Peter Bradshaw most intellingent and literate man. I’m in unrequited love with Catherine Shoard.
Xan Brooks is ok too.
I’m still waiting for my Name-dropper badge. Just in case you’ve forgotten Pap I thought I’d ramp up the pressure by letting you know my dad’s cousin was the first man to be bumped off in a Bond movie…006 Strangeways…one line of dialog and he’s made history. 
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I watched Skyfall again yesterday. Much better than I remember it the first time round although I thought bringing in a spotty kid to play Q was a bit of a lame new against old trick. And all that stuff about operating in the shadows, that is what espionage has been all about since day 1. Still, a good watch all the same.
Finally got round to seeing Spectre.
Enjoyed it immensely, but probably not as good as Skyfall.
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Watched it just now.
Pretty entertaining once Sam Smith stops warbling - some weak moments plotwise but all in all a good night out.
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Just back from watching it too. Aside from the fact that the majority is mostly bland and unremarkable (it really doesn’t get going until the second half) I have two main issues with it.
*OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS LIE AHEAD*
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The ‘big’ threat is global surveillance. Whoop-de-freaking doo. The proposed system was little scarier than what’s already in place. And it’s SO transparent that C is involved! He might as well have walked in with a post-it note on his head saying ‘IN COHORTS’.
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Blofeld is supposed to be the architect of all of Bond’s pain, yet is less menacing than pretty much all of the ‘puppet’ villains that he was supposedly pulling the strings of. We witness barely any character development, mainly because he gets bugger all screentime. “Well we were sort of brothers” just doesn’t cut it as a motive without elaboration. Plus his downfall is just so, so weak.
I mean the action sequences are present and correct, as are most Bond staples for that matter. But it’s not stitched together with any panache. It’s almost po-faced, when Bond should be conducted with a cheeky wink and a slap on the bum.
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And what happened to Monica Bellucci? She just got forgotten about!
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They should’ve made her the first Bond Girl to bare her nawks. If they done that, I might almost have been tempted to go + watch the dumb film.
‘Nawks’ Bearsy, my fine breast term confused ursine friend… it’s ‘Norks’ FFS!
It is a shame that they didnt take as long over the scene in the library!
You not been getting it enough recently, Bear? You’ve get a one track mind at the moment.
Lack of easy access to desperate bird now he’s been laid off be McD’s
Spoilers for Spectre ahoy
I have now seen Spectre. I liked it lots, and while I have a bit of sympathy with one of ant’s two main gripes; I agree - it really doesn’t need to be as interconnected as it is, I’d probably disagree with the points about Blofeld. He’s a mentally vicious bastard that toys with his prey for sport. I also like his reveal, his disfigurement, and the fact that he’s still alive at the end of the movie. It’s Blofeld; he’s a several movie villain. I like that they kept him around, much as I loved how the villains in the Nolan Batman films generally survived to the end credits.
I’ve read some reviews online that moan about this being like a load of other Bond films, and it is, but I really can’t see where the criticism comes from after the way the last film ended. Bond leaving a wood-panelled room, new Q, new M and Moneypenny all in place. A traditional Bond film was exactly what I expected; that’s what Spectre is.
Hidden villains, secret organisations, uncharted lairs, fast cars, lovely ladies (although Monica Belucci is once again underused), large explosions, sense defying stunts and a cocky bollocks cracking wise after plugging a bad guy.
The modernity came from the plot, which sees the 00 branch about to be dissolved in favour of the sort of mass surveillance uncovered by Edward Snowden. The movie sticks firm to its conviction that an armed psychopath operating with near total autonomy is better than monitoring everyone’s porn habits and sharing that information with eight other countries 
There’s talk of Craig being tired of the role. I hope he does at least one more. The best Bond since Connery, appearing in a Connery-like Bond movie. What’s not to like?
He’s back!
He’s a great Bond - good news for anyone who likes to see men jumping off buildings into helicopters while maintaining a vague love interest during a hunt for a bloke who wants to destroy everything - with Aston Martins as eye candy.
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Agree with that, especially when Tom Hardy’s best role (imho) involved us not seeing anything of him apart from some eyebrows. And eyebrows have already been done to death in the franchise
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