Showing posts with label james bond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label james bond. Show all posts
Monday, December 15, 2025
Saturday, April 2, 2022
The action thriller "Black Crab" on Netflix is good, and so is the director's James Bond-tie in commercial for DHL
Terrible scores at Rotten Tomatoes?, but it's fast-paced and competently executed, with a likable cast led by Noomi Rapace.
The director also directed this fun "License to Deliver" commercial for DHL as a part of the promotion for "No Time to Die":
A short making of video:
The director also directed this fun "License to Deliver" commercial for DHL as a part of the promotion for "No Time to Die":
A short making of video:
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Dungeons and Dragons Romance novels; How Roger Deakins uses color in "Skyfall"; Nightmare mushroom
When it comes to paperbacks, I love a good gimmick. These 1983 Dungeons & Dragons romance novels have gorgeous stepback covers and choose your own adventure narratives. Thanks @BGSU_PopCultLib @stegan for introducing me to these! See thread for more... pic.twitter.com/gUjBKSHiP0
— Rebecca B (@arkhamlibrarian) December 2, 2019
And of course each heroine must choose between two lusty love interests... pic.twitter.com/Rom6DBJeG2
— Rebecca B (@arkhamlibrarian) December 2, 2019
(I saw a few at Amazon and ebay.)My mother wrote this. The heroine Chandelle is named after my sister. She wrote all of her other 200 books as Jean F. Blashfield but TSR insisted she write this under the more feminine “Jeannie”. She hated it.
— Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies (@WinstonEBlack) November 10, 2021
(From a long thread.)And how does the Shanghai sequence close? With a foreshadowing of the palette of the following sequence in Macau! pic.twitter.com/8FvuQevEAu
— Devan Scott (@SadHillDevan) November 11, 2021
A member of one of the mushroom ID Facebook groups I’m in shared a photo of a porcini he found that is literally the length of his backpack and the diameter of my bicep at its base, I know I say “literally” a lot so I asked if I could share the photo, and pic.twitter.com/Zcn6FxqiYl
— Jeeyon Shim 심지연 (@jeeyonshim) November 9, 2021
#gbbo free from week is a cake inspired by the graph that gave me hope we could be free from covid (from the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial). Things are still complicated, but we would be in a much worse place without vaccines. pic.twitter.com/4crgxFW7hJ
— Dr Emily Thornton (@emilyethornton) November 9, 2021
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Great video about "Quantum of Solace," showing an alternate final scene and a goofy moment I never noticed
Starting at 35:30, I noticed some of these absurd moments involving Elvis, but not the last (it's my favorite James Bond movie by a mile, and there are some good observations in this video about how it could have been improved):
Monday, March 2, 2020
James Bond meets Covid19; Thermal alarm gets confused by coffee; Dean Koontz predicted it
ภาพสตรีทรึเปล่าไม่รู้ แต่อิมแพค— NAWAPOL T. (@ter_nawapol) February 29, 2020
photo by mladen antonov pic.twitter.com/WYh8zGa1F5
.@cnn are you f-ing serious right now? pic.twitter.com/UciX4YLu5w— Wendi Muse (@MuseWendi) February 29, 2020
Temporary staffer at an Iwate hospital took 8 boxes of disposal masks and sold them online for roughly 10x the usual price. The hospital will file a police report. https://t.co/ki2owLcy8q— Mulboyne (@Mulboyne) February 29, 2020
Many checkpoints in China have thermal cameras that sound an alarm if they detect fevers. The problem is the cameras don’t distinguish between people and cups of coffee. Here’s my hot beverage getting me into trouble. pic.twitter.com/nQUDeLOblu— Paul Mozur 孟建国 (@paulmozur) February 28, 2020
Fox News just interviewed a Pennsylvania man who went through the coronavirus quarantine process -- but he couldn't stop coughing during the interview 😳 pic.twitter.com/kzoIYQM8x6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2020
A Dean Koontz novel written in 1981 predicted the outbreak of the coronavirus! pic.twitter.com/bjjqq6TzOl— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) February 16, 2020
Pandemic experts telling you to stop touching your face is a great way to find out that you LOVE touching your face. Can’t get enough of it— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) February 28, 2020
little stressed about *gestures broadly* all this but I’m going to relax by touching my face a lot— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) February 28, 2020
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020
No Time To Die fan poster; A cabin in the mountain; Portrait of a Lady on Fire fan art
Not sumitting to the contest...i'm just a big #jamesbond fan with extra time to explore new #vector techniques on my #zbookx2 😁— Orlando Arocena (@OrlandoArocena) January 9, 2020
Cheers & enjoy~ #thisisvector #madeonz @zbyhp @Illustratorhttps://t.co/Z2RswkGh7e#NoTimeToDie pic.twitter.com/T0bN6cw6hL
time to move onto the fourth book in the RING series, BIRTHDAY— A M R // A L-A A S E R (@siegarettes) December 26, 2019
it's a collection of short horror stories based around the theme of birth pic.twitter.com/BnqaGbL6BR
Portrait of a Lady on Fire pic.twitter.com/Aw1c7PcMRe— I̶D̶A̶ (@CheckPointSSS) December 30, 2019
CGI Dominic Toretto is the second most cursed thing I've seen in a 24 hour period where I saw Cats. pic.twitter.com/nEbkLyGJNf— The Dark Id (@TheDarkId) December 29, 2019
Real solid box design for JOY RADAR (from HAL!) ¥1,000 pic.twitter.com/P0jJerPkij— Cabel (@cabel) January 1, 2020
*Buy Joy Radar at ebay.
Friday, November 1, 2019
Strong rejected concept for the opening scene of a James Bond movie
Here’s John Landis’ proposed opening for THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. pic.twitter.com/5u7upS1qw8— Phil Nobile Jr. (@PhilNobileJr) October 29, 2019
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Ten funny tweets
Wife: So you write tweets about us?— Jon (@ArfMeasures) February 20, 2019
Me: Sometimes
Wife: Do you embellish them to make them interesting?
Dwayne Johnson: I bet he does
Me: Stay out of this, The Rock
Watch a whole ton of official ‘Avengers: Endgame’ VFX breakdowns in one place, with work by @ILMVFX @weta_digital @DigitalDomainDD @Framestore @dneg @lolavfx & @cinesite https://t.co/dWg1t4ERry pic.twitter.com/yLdXe0ULrF— Ian Failes (@vfxblog) September 7, 2019
All hail Turnover Pencil pic.twitter.com/6O3LcYmbO4— Paid man gets bored (@cjzero) September 7, 2019
Gangs Of New York is like if characters in a big splashy musical refused to sing for three hours— dave horwitz (@Dave_Horwitz) September 3, 2019
these #BachelorInParadise producers deserve a raise pic.twitter.com/5WTlTSTgXX— The Bitchelorette (@Bitchelorette_) September 4, 2019
disappointed to hear the fifth rambo film is called 'rambo: last blood' and not 'rambo no. 5'— Amanda Yeo (@amandamyeo) September 4, 2019
Terrycloth rompers and safari jackets aren't Bond's only questionable fashion choices. CASINO ROYALE caught some flack for Bond's loud Madagascar outfit, but it's likely that the costume designer was dressing 007 as his *cover*, the mention of which was cut from the final film. pic.twitter.com/cy672V44fD— Phil Nobile Jr. (@PhilNobileJr) May 14, 2019
Alabama did this by naming their visiting locker room after alum and donor James Fail pic.twitter.com/vm9cGdEYlF— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 10, 2019
— Lana Del Gay 🏳️🌈👻 (@McClellandShane) September 10, 2019
One of these QBs is 23 and the other is 42 pic.twitter.com/Drxlc8y6NB— sam esfandiari (@samesfandiari) September 10, 2019
I hope Minshew plays in the NFL for 16 years. he will be our spirit animal https://t.co/OrCabkgc6u pic.twitter.com/Vtj6W7qKE6— Chris B. Brown (@smartfootball) September 11, 2019
*Buy Gardner Minshew cards at ebay.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Performing the crocodile stunt in Live and Let Die
"As he's about to jump, the crocodiles all [lunge with their jaws] because they're saying 'here comes that guy again.' I mean they'd seen the act twice, and so they're waiting for the guy to jump again."
(The discussion starts 25 minutes in.)
*Buy James Bond Swatches at ebay.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Article comparing the USA's overseas military bases to Bond villain lairs
"Power Is Sovereignty, Mr. Bond"
Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, knew something about islands. During the Second World War, he’d served as the assistant to Britain’s director of naval intelligence. In 1943, he traveled to Kingston, Jamaica for a high-level intelligence conference with the United States. The Caribbean was then in dire straits, tormented by German submarines that evaded the Allied navies. Rumors floated that the boats were finding safe berth at a secret harbor built by Dr. Axel Wenner-Gren, a mysterious Swedish multimillionaire with Nazi ties who had established himself on an island in the Bahamas.*Previously: "Is the United States about to lose control of its secretive Diego Garcia military base?"
The accusations that Wenner-Gren was using his island as a secret Nazi base proved false. But Fleming nevertheless found it all irresistible. He bought an estate in Jamaica (named Goldeneye, after one of the intelligence operations he’d help run) and began writing his Bond novels from there.
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What, specifically, could the United States do with a base? A fine example is the Swan Islands, a small cluster of three islands in an isolated part of the Caribbean, not far from the fictional location of Doctor No’s island. In the 1950s, the CIA secretly built a landing strip and a fifty-thousand-watt radio transmitter on Great Swan. That single transmitter could reach South America, allowing the United States to cover with its radio beams territory inaccessible by ground.
Soon after the CIA built that radio station, a delegation of Honduran students carrying arms came to Great Swan to “liberate” the islands and claim them for Honduras. They had no idea of the CIA’s presence, and the agency was determined to keep them in the dark. give them plenty of beer and protect the family jewels read the frantic cable from Washington (i.e., don’t let them discover the broadcasting equipment). Marines sped to the island to repel the invasion.
What happened next can be best appreciated by reading the cable traffic from Swan to Washington:
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Ten funny tweets
This is how I want to be displayed at my funeral pic.twitter.com/WmtR4HzvEB— Brady Barnhart (@itsmeBradyB) March 4, 2019
Looks like the Turkey Cartel tried to put a hit on this guy pic.twitter.com/LUY7x1BTBD— YP🦈 (@YoungPageviews) March 6, 2019
36. sprinkling joy pic.twitter.com/2qO3NjyrUj— Your🐧Friend🐥Thaum! (@ThaumPenguin) March 3, 2019
me on ellen— ♛ Lina Claire ♛ (@UnifierLyone) March 4, 2019
ellen: so i heard you love the great old ones
me: yeah
(the studio trembles as it is approached by forms we cannot comprehend)
me: o m g ellen you didn’t
I didn’t vet this so salt well, but I’m told an autograph collector presented a SHATTERHAND logo to Barbara Broccoli for signing, and she wrote this. #Bond25 pic.twitter.com/JPEzn8kXmT— Phil Nobile Jr. (@PhilNobileJr) March 4, 2019
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) March 4, 2019
Lakers’ season in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/iICESwTnWF— GlassHalfFultz (@pickuphoop) March 3, 2019
i stared into the abyss and the abyss told me it wasnt looking for anything serious rn— jaboukie (@jaboukie) March 4, 2019
I would like to be Ratatouilled. where's the rat who's good at my job— crân-buri-ghân (@bromanconsul) March 5, 2019
got her nails did and now she don’t know how to act pic.twitter.com/zSwoDUT0bI— virgin who cant drive (@_littlenest) March 3, 2019
*More funny tweets.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
The time when Ricky Jay almost blinded Pierce Brosnan
AVClub interview from 2009:
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)—“Henry Gupta”Also:
RJ: Yeah, the father of techno-terrorism. A part that was originally cast for a 25-year-old Indian man, so I’m not quite sure how I convinced Roger Spottiswoode that that would be a good role for me, but I did somehow.
AVC: Did they change the part after you came onboard?
RJ: They did. At one point, they wanted me to throw cards as weapons to attack Bond, but the first time they asked me to do it in rehearsal, I was an enormously long distance away from Pierce Brosnan, and I warned them that the cards went very, very hard and fast, and they said no no, they had someone in front of it to block the shot, and I again said, “I don’t think you should do that,” they said, “No, no, it’ll be okay.” And Pierce seemed to be fine with it. So I whaled a card, I don’t know how, 50 or 75 feet away, and they said, “Just throw it at his face,” and I hit him right above the eye, and realized that I almost ruined the most lucrative franchise in the history of film.
My favorite Ricky Jay story, from Paul Thomas Anderson's WTF interview, about Jay cracking up while filming Boogie Nights whenever Burt Reynolds said "nevertheless." pic.twitter.com/hhIMY3pg0B— Tony Tost (@tonytost) November 25, 2018
Friday, June 8, 2018
Ten funny tweets
DID YOU GUYS KNOW OTTERS WAG THEIR TAILS LIKE DOGS WHEN THEYRE HAPPY pic.twitter.com/bp7T0lAStI— Nature is Amazing 🌴 (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 4, 2018
These fish turn their eyes black to show that they're mad.— Ed Yong (@edyong209) June 4, 2018
Their eyes are usually silver, but black is the default color. They’re constantly suppressing that darkness, and then releasing it when it’s time for a fight
Nature is METAL.https://t.co/BJn0L4tAMa
Anyways, here's Lionel Messi in a photo shoot with real goats. pic.twitter.com/6wFXRbwnfx— Faizal Khamisa (@SNFaizalKhamisa) June 4, 2018
Never forget the first tweetstorm to go viral pic.twitter.com/qKFJJxLYh1— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) June 3, 2018
Walking lane for cell phone addicts. pic.twitter.com/WMtysoVLP9— Connie Chan (@conniechan) June 7, 2018
Me self-isolating from friends to focus on a writing deadline but then spending the entire time on twitter pic.twitter.com/oqIFxy7jc7— Gaycey Musgayves (@ChrisDStedman) June 7, 2018
ONE PERFECT SHOT: Quantum Of Solace (2008) Dir. Marc Forster DoP. Roberto Shaefer pic.twitter.com/7EgHfBYzoH— timpelan (@johnneyred) June 6, 2018
Today’s EFR had a “patient” on the Maxwell Falls trail who was exhausted and most likely dehydrated. About 5 1/2 years old, 120lbs and a fluffy Great Pyrenees named Kate. Good thing Kato’s humans reached out for assistance as they were about 1 mile away from the trail head. pic.twitter.com/Zrb7G28T1e— Evergreen FireRescue (@efr_co) June 3, 2018
when u show up in a thread where they were subtweeting u pic.twitter.com/hRFZUTEjRv— jon hendren (@fart) June 7, 2018
This is super super smart from @ConanOBrien.— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) June 7, 2018
Full interview: https://t.co/xTzLrMEfIS pic.twitter.com/fXT7ikGFZy
The role of PotCoin in brokering North Korean peace has been consistently underreported by a journalistic establishment stubbornly clinging to the idea that life makes sense— Pinboard (@Pinboard) June 8, 2018
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Monday, December 12, 2016
"Maurice Binder, who created many of the famous [Bond] title sequences...was so horrified by the butchering of his work for television...that he would later start filming both theatrical and television versions of his opening titles"
007D:
In 1975 ABC started to become more bold in it's edits: Diamonds Are Forever was edited to remove any hint of the homosexual nature of the relationship between Mr. Wint and Mr Kidd and later that same year, You Only Live Twice was shown with the beginning of the movie confusingly and needlessly re-edited. The film began, as it should, with the space capsule but eighteen seconds into the scene it cuts to Bond already dead in his bed and then the credits begin to roll! (If anyone has a recording of this that they would like to share please let us know!)
However, all of this pales in comparison to the abomination that was the "ABC cut" of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. OHMSS was first broadcast on American television in February 1976. By then they had shown all of the Sean Connery James Bond films, and Live And Let Die would not be shown until the fall of 1976, so all that left was On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which starred that other chap that nobody had heard of again since he left the role. The ABC television promos for On Her Majesty's Secret Service did not mention George Lazenby at all, instead they described the movie as starring "Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas"
Friday, October 7, 2016
"Why Pierce Brosnan is causing a 'spit storm' in India"
"Former Bond star Pierce Brosnan has left Indians both shaken and stirred after his appearance in an advertisement endorsing a product that many associate with a highly addictive and dangerous form of chewing tobacco"
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Creating the title sequence for Spectre
From an interview at Art of the Title:
Well, we do a casting session that’s like anything else. I mean, it’s slightly embarrassing, you get these two people who don’t really know each other, get them to smooch a bit and to pretend that there’s an octopus in between them.
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Let’s talk about the music a little bit more. Radiohead recorded a version of the SPECTRE opening and released it online recently. Was that ever part of the conversations you were involved with?
Daniel: I haven’t heard it! I think I did know that they’d done one, but I hadn’t heard it. Is it any good?
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Actually, this one bit that the producers and Sam just wouldn’t let me do — at the end of that little sequence with all the lovers kissing and the octopus, there’s this close-up of two mouths coming together. Originally I was going to have the girl’s tongue coming out of the girl’s mouth going into the male mouth, but it wasn’t a tongue, it was an octopus tentacle. And they all just went, “Yeccchhhh, that’s too much!” So that hit the cutting room floor! [laughs] I’d gone too far!
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
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