A question for all the #JamesBond fans:
Apart from OHMSS, which Bond film do you most personally associate with Christmas. Is it a feeling? A memory? A cinema release? A TV premiere? A gift? Please share some festive Bond stories. 🍸🎄
Sorry to say, I won't be preordering this, but may pick it up at some point down the line.
It's not that it's a bad score, but all the best bits are repurposed from Skyfall.
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@SpyHards Really glad he was back, and it worked well. My only complaint is retconning him into being the creator of the Black Vault. If he's a designer of impregnable rooms, then why does the CIA have him doing admin work in the vault?
@Har1felt Granted, Milton Krest didn't deserve to be exploded in a decompression chamber by Sanchez, because he didn't steal his money and try to have Sanchez killed.
I would say he learnt his fate for being a drunken, lecherous cocaine smuggler. 😆
@SpyHards I can't fathom not bringing Paula Patton back in any of the films after Ghost Protocol. I get that Rebecca Fergurson and Hailey Atwell fill her role, but if we can have Benji and Luther together, then why not?
I first started my blog as a way to share my thoughts and ideas with James Bond fans for discussion and debate, helping me through a bad mental health spell.
I post less now as I'm bombarded by trolls telling me that my opinion means nothing as it's different than theirs.
Em 2016 a TT Games, do Lego Batman, fez um trailer conceitual de um LEGO 007 para apresentar a ideia para a Lego Company esperando que aprovassem
A ideia foi descartada porque “a franquia não era adequada para o público da LEGO”
Em 2024 o vídeo vazou
Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition.
Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event.
Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen.
Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade.
The parade that did not exist.
Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials.
Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie.
That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.
007 First Light Faces Backlash After Denuvo Added Days Before Launch
The Steam page confirmed the addition of Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM shortly before release.
Many players were surprised by the late confirmation, as they thought the game might launch without Denuvo.
Denuvo remains one of the most hated antipiracy tools among PC gamers due to concerns about performance impact, preservation, and long-term accessibility.
@SpyHards I enjoyed Tenet, but I have to try not to think too much about how it works at the expense of screenplay convenience. Like, where the hell did that bullet in the wall come from during the explantation scene (and other mind-bending mysteries)?