Die Another Day
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Prince Atom
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I enjoy Bond. I think most of the movies are good for laughs. He's so over the top, I find it impossible to take him seriously.
So I guess I'm not inclined to get too worried about the implausibility of his gadgets or his stunts. It worried me more that the red sports car was able to fall out of an airplane and NOT shatter on the ground below, than that the helicopter's rotors would have been snapped off if I tried that last stunt.
I went, and I saw, and I had a good laugh. And I just realized: Jinx is a real secret agent now -- she's been almost killed by a laser! Now all Bond's got up on her is the Mile High Club....
BTW, Goodsport, where'd you get that smiley?
TWK
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So I guess I'm not inclined to get too worried about the implausibility of his gadgets or his stunts. It worried me more that the red sports car was able to fall out of an airplane and NOT shatter on the ground below, than that the helicopter's rotors would have been snapped off if I tried that last stunt.
I went, and I saw, and I had a good laugh. And I just realized: Jinx is a real secret agent now -- she's been almost killed by a laser! Now all Bond's got up on her is the Mile High Club....
BTW, Goodsport, where'd you get that smiley?
TWK
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Piratecat
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I really enjoyed it, especially because I've been prepping a Spycraft game and TNT had a James Bond marathon over Thanksgiving Day weekend.
The only thing that really rankled for me was the space laser. A giant heat projecting beam homes in on Bond's heat signature, hundreds of miles away through the atmosphere, when it's projecting an incredibly hot beam? It could keep up with a car going several hundred miles an hour, but later took more than five minutes to travel a thousand meters? Suuuuure. I also detested the fakey CGI ice car going over the cliff, and how Bond escapes from it. Didn't work for me at all.
Everything else was dandy, though. I can even forgive the unrealistic amount of time in which Jinx's room filled with water, assuming I don't think too hard about it. Good bad guys, fun repartee, and a decent plot using a real-life problem (African conflict diamonds). Works for me!
Hey, Ford Thunderbird is advertising a limited edition James Bond Thunderbird model. When in the film did he drive this car, instead of his gorgeous Aston Martin?
The only thing that really rankled for me was the space laser. A giant heat projecting beam homes in on Bond's heat signature, hundreds of miles away through the atmosphere, when it's projecting an incredibly hot beam? It could keep up with a car going several hundred miles an hour, but later took more than five minutes to travel a thousand meters? Suuuuure. I also detested the fakey CGI ice car going over the cliff, and how Bond escapes from it. Didn't work for me at all.
Everything else was dandy, though. I can even forgive the unrealistic amount of time in which Jinx's room filled with water, assuming I don't think too hard about it. Good bad guys, fun repartee, and a decent plot using a real-life problem (African conflict diamonds). Works for me!
Hey, Ford Thunderbird is advertising a limited edition James Bond Thunderbird model. When in the film did he drive this car, instead of his gorgeous Aston Martin?
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jdavis
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I haven't seen the new film yet but the next bond film is already in the works (21st bond film) http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/jb21.html
I have also heard rumors that Jinx might return in the next Bond movie.
I have also heard rumors that Jinx might return in the next Bond movie.
Chain Lightning
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Jinxed arrived at Graves' ice palace in the Thunderbird. Its Jinx car.
Prince Atom
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But Jinx's TBird has been hyped almost as much as the Aston Martin. I was disappointed to see that it didn't get as much screen time as I expected.
The only reason they didn't hype Xao's car is because he is the bad guy, diamond-studded though he may be.
On a side note, as they're chasing through the melting ice palace, both cars are running their windshield wipers. It just struck me as funny that, with all the gadgetry in the cars already, they had to rely on something as mundane as windshield wipers in the rain! Maybe it's because they felt like they weren't cars based on our time, but from the future.
Of course, everyone knows that cars from the future are immune to rain.
Or maybe it's the futility -- here they are, inside a melting ice palace, and the only things they have to help are not up to the job.
TWK
The only reason they didn't hype Xao's car is because he is the bad guy, diamond-studded though he may be.
On a side note, as they're chasing through the melting ice palace, both cars are running their windshield wipers. It just struck me as funny that, with all the gadgetry in the cars already, they had to rely on something as mundane as windshield wipers in the rain! Maybe it's because they felt like they weren't cars based on our time, but from the future.
Of course, everyone knows that cars from the future are immune to rain.
Or maybe it's the futility -- here they are, inside a melting ice palace, and the only things they have to help are not up to the job.
TWK
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Black Omega
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It's hard to say. After Tommorrow Never Dies I remember hearing Michelle Yeoh's character might spin off or return. Nothing's come of it yet though.jdavis said:
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