Things We've Learned from…..Spectre

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    31 Damn! Connery, Lazenby, Moore and Dalton were awesome as Bond.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    31. Bond's Remote mines were refurbished PC Joysticks.
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    Murdock wrote: »
    31. Bond's Remote mines were refurbished PC Joysticks.
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    MI6 must've been going thru budget cuts. What with all the government money Bond blows on fancy hotels and Don Perignon.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    @DoubleOhhSeven, Hey that's okay, now I can have my own. ;)
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    33 Bond composers may sing, but please no recording.
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    34. Bond likes going to the pub for a pint.

    35. MI6 are REALLY incompetent. First they rehired a vengeful rogue agent in the blink of an eye then fail to discipline Bond after he destroys half of St. Petersburg.
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    36. How cold the winters are in Russia.

    37. Natalya tastes like strawberries.

    38. Bond solves crossword clues with ease.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    39. you can pull an aircraft out of a steep dive by shaking its stick as hard a you can.
    40. Natalya isn't just a level two programmer, but minister of transportation of Russia as well.
    41. Russia has a stunningly beautiful minister of transportation.
    42. Natalya likes boys with toys
    43. Bond gives rules only lip service.
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    44) A whole troop of US Marines, complete with helicopters, can hide in the middle of Cuba without anyone being the wiser.

    45) Now we know how Nightcrawler got his skin colour.

    46) Tina Turner is still in great vocal shape.

    47) I didn't know you could put an ejector seat on a helicopter.

    48) Re 47 : Bond knows how to use his head.

    49) Perrier is apparently well-known in Russia.
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    50. French plays are weird
    51. Apparently it's really easy to steal a helicopter
    52. And it's not worth going after
    53. M has children
    54. Said children are sarcastic to M
    55. The movie makes fun of America twice.
    56. M doesn't like CNN
    57. Trevellyan keeps putting bond in easily escapable traps
    58. Q hunts
    59. Q is also bad at hunting as he clearly misses the target
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    60. Being in the chemical weapons room when it explodes will leave you nothing but a scar on one side of your face.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    61 Tina Turner watched Bond from the shadows as a child.
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    62) Russian cars have not changed since the days of "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" A little percussive maintenance still get them going.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    63. The bumper is very much for hitting people.
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    66. A soviet missile train can be outrun and destroyed by a tank

    67. Narrowly escaping death can be a turn-on (I suppose in fairness we already knew this from previous Bond films).
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    68 M should be a man, not a mam.
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    68 M should be a man, not a mam.

    Do you think Ian Fleming would approve of M being a woman? Haha.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    BAIN123 wrote: »
    68 M should be a man, not a mam.

    Do you think Ian Fleming would approve of M being a woman? Haha.

    Who is Ian fleming?

    69 Six years was not long enough.
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    Well, it kind of happened in real life.
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    70) Apparently during the gun barrel sequence Bond was modeling a new spring fashion line on a runway while being targeted by the sniper in question.

    71) Pierce Brosnan will very publicly piss and moan about not getting the role of Bond in 1987 only to grace us with one of the blandest and most uninspired Bond performances in the series some 8 years later. Seriously the Pierce Brosnan simulation in Nightfire gave a more compelling performance as 007 than real-life Pierce Brosnan in Goldeneye.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Hahaha! Well said on both accounts.
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    I will just leave this here....

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    72) "A Rose by any other name would smell just as sweet"... although not in this place.

    73) Xenia loves a good squeeze. So do her victims.
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    74) Clearly Bond had developed Spiderman's powers of sticking to surfaces as evidenced by the fact that Bond's legs clearly weren't connected to anything while hanging directly upside down over the russian toilet.

    75) Bond can sneak a tank onto a bridge right above Xenia, Orumov, and Natayla and somehow none of them will notice.

    76) Bond and Natayla apparently booked a vacation and a beach house in Cuba before getting to the relatively smaller matter of saving London.
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    77) Trevelyan speeks with a very unnatural, uncomfortable British upper class accent.
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    Time to move on to Brosnan's sophomore effort.
    Yesterday is a memory. Today is history. Tomorrow is in the hands of one man in
    Things We've Learned from…..Tomorrow Never Dies

    1) I rag on Brosnan alot and I still maintain that he was the worst Bond but at the end of the day some Bond is better than no Bond. Thanks for manning the helm Pierce.

    2) A simple computer typo will change the title of this film from one that makes sense and sounds pretty cool to one that makes absolutely no sense and sounds dull and cliched.

    3) Bond really needs to work on where he decides to place his surveillance cameras.

    4) The filmmakers, realizing the crappy (pun intended) way they introduced Brosnan's Bond, will give us a newer and much cooler built up reveal for 007.

    5) Bond will punch someone over smoking despite his own past of smoking like a chimney.

    6) Upon the sound of an explosion, terrorist gatling guns will frantically fire at nothing in particular.

    7) A fighter jet's ejector seat is apparently powerful enough to send an ordinary flesh and bones man thru solid steel like a blowtorch thru buttah.

    8) I need to start taking Danish lessons.

    9) To infiltrate Carver's organization M will send the one agent who not only personally knew Carver's wife but scorned her aswell. Because there's no way that can possibly backfire.

    10) Terri Hatcher can't act her way out of a paper bag.

    11) Bond doesn't quite understand the subtleties of blending in and not attracting attention to himself when infiltrating Carver's party.

    12) The performance between Pierce Brosnan and Terri Hatcher in the hotel room was a perfect storm of hack soap opera acting. It almost brought a tear to my eye.

    13) Like a 13 year old boy, Gupta will keep porn stashed away in a safe as if it's a valuable or very incriminating item.

    14) Carver will send one fifty something year old doctor to kill the highly trained government agent and half a dozen burly thugs to simply break into the agent's car.

    15) Bond will completely forget about the brutal murder of a woman he deeply cared for some 2 minutes earlier when faced with the prospect of joyriding in his shiny new BMW.

    16) Q used his clairvoyant powers to know precisely how high to make Bond's BMW buzz saw to cut thru the steel wire blocking him.

    17) Apparently EON forgot the techniques that they utilized in LTK as evidenced by the film's underwater sequences being slow and boring again. To quote Rob Schneider, "Oh no! We suck again!".

    18) Carver's henchmen will attempt the very difficult and dangerous task of hacking up Bond and Lin with their helicopter's blades rather than simply shooting them.

    19) People shower and bath outdoors and in public in Shanghai.

    20) It doesn't speak very highly of Pierce Brosnan's fight scenes when the best hand-to-hand fight of this film doesn't even feature Bond.

    21) Although it makes practical sense (something the Bond films were never very concerned about in the first place) Bond ditching his PPK after 17 films in 35 years for a P99 was sacrilege.

    22) Bond and Wai Lin will easily find Carver's stealth boat simply because the plot requires them to.

    23) The film will forgo the traditional "good guy army vs. bad guy army" finale in favor of Bond becoming the spawn of Rambo and the Terminator and single-handidly taking on Carver's forces by himself.

    24) In the interest of ticking as many boxes as possible, the film will force a sex scene between Bond and Wai Lin despite the fact that they displayed little to no romantic chemistry and were seemingly working as plutonic partners.

    25) Despite being ruthless and making some imperfect decisions, the late Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli was in many ways the father of the cinematic James Bond.
    Mr. Broccoli, I salute you.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    26 It is easy to slime Clinton.
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    27) Even though Bond only narrowly escapes the army base explotion, the pilot behind him survives too although he was not even in the air when the missile hit.

    28) For the amusement of the audience Carver chooses a highly unorthodox drill to sink the British army boat instead of torpedoes, which would be both more efficient and also more realistic as the weapon the Chinese would use. I appreciate the effort!

    29) Carver wants to know the exact amount of survivers, yet orders Stamper to murder all remaining survivers... And later on nobody seems interested in finding the 'missing survivers' Carver's news medium has reported to be there....

    30) Although the ship allegedly sinks close to the coast and the Vietnamese boarder, and the captain reports the danger through radio, the incident seems to happen in complete isolation with no rescue ships or helicopters in sight.

    31) Carver can match even Roger Moore in the art of eyebrow raising.

    32) James Bond is the worst undercover agent in the world, and will immediately blow his cover and state his purpose and reveal what he knows right in the face of the man he is supposed to investigate.
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    33) Now we know that the marriage of Jean Mary and Lionel ended in an acrimonious divorce.

    34) That joke went well over the head of most of the non English speaking world (it took me a while to understand it, I must say).

    35) We also know that Superman doesn't exist in the Bond universe.

    36) They let the opportunity for a great musical in-joke pass them by when they went to Ho Chi Min City.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    37) Carver doesn't care much for martial arts.
    38) M has such haste bringing Bond to a party she briefs him under way and takes moneypenny with her just for fun.
    39) keyboards of the chinese secret service may have the exact same amount of keys as western keyboards, they still use Chinese characters.
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