318 replies to this topic

[Harry Fawkes]

Can't stop watching it. This is what I call a Bond teaser!!!!

[dirtymind]

I think it's the best Bond teaser I ever saw. Much better than the CR teaser with Craig breaking the fourth wall.

[thecasinoroyale]

I keep watching it too!

"Skyfall."....Bond's expression...Chilling stuff.


2.5million hits nearly on You Tube after 1 day...pretty damn good!

[Vauxhall]

2.5million hits nearly on You Tube after 1 day...pretty damn good!

Well over 4 million views if you add the jamesbond007 and SonyPictures YouTube accounts together. Very impressive!

[Mooredefinitive]

I just hope to see the elements every Bond goer goes to see. The trailer doesn't show much hope.

Whilst we're on the subject of what “every Bond goer” wants - I’m a Bond goer and the teaser trailer gives me plenty of hope.

Nah, Casino Royale had them all. It accurately portayed Bond's acceptance as a Double O, great stunts, gadgets, exotic locations, pretty women and the typcial relationship between M and James...they even took the time to play the 007 Theme.

What I gathered from Skyfall is that James gets interrogated, takes a jog, then gets shaved. Meanwhile a bunch of loud drums play in the background.

Seriously...I'm as excited as the next guy but I'm a stickler for tradition....It's no wonder Topol is my favorite of Bond's Allies.

Edited by Mooredefinitive, 22 May 2012 - 11:44 PM.

[Vauxhall]

I just hope to see the elements every Bond goer goes to see. The trailer doesn't show much hope.

Whilst we're on the subject of what “every Bond goer” wants - I’m a Bond goer and the teaser trailer gives me plenty of hope.

Nah, Casino Royale had them all. It accurately portayed Bond's acceptance as a Double O, great stunts, gadgets, exotic locations, pretty women and the typcial relationship between M and James...they even took the time to play the 007 Theme.

What I gathered from Skyfall is that James gets interrogated, takes a jog, then gets shaved. Meanwhile a bunch of loud drums play in the background.

Seriously...I'm as excited as the next guy but I'm a stickler for tradition....It's no wonder Topal is my favorite of Bond's Allies.

Take our word for it that SKYFALL will have all the Bond elements from CASINO ROYALE plus more. Never fear.

[GardenerJames..Gardener]

The flying cars....this is hard boiled Connery meets Dalton and wow does it look good....

traditions change....baseball was top dog when Dr No came out, to some people London, Macau (China in general) and Turkey are exotic. I think you missed everything passed the shaving...a straight razor to the neck i dont think so...never.

[007jamesbond]

I guess some dont like the teaser because they expected to hear Bond, James Bond, and showing him drinking Volka Martini, etc in this teaser..........

[solace]

Good Evening. Loved it.

[Mooredefinitive]

I guess some dont like the teaser because they expected to hear Bond, James Bond, and showing him drinking Volka Martini, etc in this teaser..........

That would certainly be appreciated! Always remember to pay homage to the greats ones.

[Dustin]

Seriously...I'm as excited as the next guy but I'm a stickler for tradition....It's no wonder Topal is my favorite of Bond's Allies.

Topol. Think I've heard it said he's a great stickler for spelling. I'd be too if I were a rich man...

[conneryboy]

Hi all been away for quite a long time, but then again so has Bond, think the trailer looks amazing, some really interesting shots there, anyone reminded of TMWTGG (novel) when Bong is being questioned about Skyfall?

Edited by conneryboy, 22 May 2012 - 09:19 PM.

[dirtymind]

I just hope to see the elements every Bond goer goes to see. The trailer doesn't show much hope.

It's a new movie, so I like to see new stuff. The traditional elements are a little bit boring for a trailer. Not including them shows that this movie has more to offer than just the traditional elements. You're not going to see Skyfall just to hear Craig say: "Bond... James Bond". You go because you want to see a new story, new characters, new action scenes, new girls and a new villain.

[Mooredefinitive]

Seriously...I'm as excited as the next guy but I'm a stickler for tradition....It's no wonder Topal is my favorite of Bond's Allies.

Topol. Think I've heard it said he's a great stickler for spelling. I'd be too if I were a rich man...

Well, as King David said, I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue

[MarcAngeDraco]

My two cents worth...

First of all, it looks absolutely fabulous. I am now certain that this will be the best looking Bond film ever.

Second, I really like the teaser. It actually left me excited for the film and wanting more.

Lastly, there are so many specifics I could comment on, but I am most blown away by the little details. Like the look on Bond's face after hearing 'Skyfall' and the reactions from those watching. Just a brief glimpse really, but so much is going on there. You can look at each of them and catch something different. The way Tanner looks down, Mallory looks disapprovingly over at M, while she almost forces herself to keep her head up. Wow, I am blown away...

[Kristian]

So does this mean every copy of the teaser poster has to be taken down? I can understand unreleased stills, scenes taken directly from the film etc. but surely the posters/teasers/trailers should be allowed as Eon has released them for publicity - they will be on nearly every news website, let alone Bond forums.

I understand CBn is being cautious after the trouble during the DaD production, but promotional material officially released by Eon should be ok surely?

Sorry. I'm confused. The SKYFALL IMAGE THREADS are full of productions stills, and also the Teaser Poster. Is that allowable there but not here? I only ask because my cousin has a film blog where he has embedded the teaser trailer and posted some of the released productions stills. Would EON frown on that? The stills and the teaser trailer are on blogs everywhere, not just his.

Sorry for my confusion. THanks.....

[Bill]

Forgive me if this has been asked but is Bond's interviewer supposed to be Sir James Moloney?

Tralier is awesome, by the way.

[mrevans]

It didn't leave me pumped for a bond movie but it did what a teaser trailor is supposed to do: tease me. I definitly want to know more and I can't wait to see what direction the series takes from here. Its been far too long. Can't wait til November.

[thecasinoroyale]

Just found a glowing review of the Teaser from the UK broadsheet, The Telegraph, by Tim Stanley, a US historian.


I mention his name and his picture so you can seek him out as you wish after and hunt him down a strap him to a seatless wicker chair....



RIP James Bond: killed by political correctness and an overdose of oestrogen.

The trailer for the new Bond movie Skyfall has landed– and it looks rubbish. Sorry, but Bond ain’t Bond unless he’s flying into space with a Russian minx called Tatyana Innerthigh on a deadly mission to kill a fat bald man with a cat.

The rot set in with the casting of Daniel Craig. Things had been going a little haywire since the late 1980s, when the producers first caved into the non-existent popular demand for political correctness. But being the 1980s, they interpreted that to mean people would like to see beautiful ladies with big chests occasionally firing a gun (Hell, yeah!). Then along came Pierce Brosnan and things returned to their campy natural order. “I thought Christmas only came once a year,” etcetera, etcetera.

But Craig was all wrong for the part and signalled the intention of the moviemakers to turn Bond into Raymond Chandler without the laughs. They fail to pull it off because the pressure to sell theatre tickets means they have to betray their own vision. So, on the one hand we have Bond going to psychiatrists, emoting, feeling pain, getting angry, breaking fingers, pulling out a man’s spleen with his teeth, yada yada. On the other hand, we have him leaping 30 foot chasms, turning cars upside down, or sinking half of Venice. Through it all there’s the mawkish “family” of MI6, headed by Judi “Brave But Fragile” Dench. Bernard Lee’s “M” was a gruff Head Boy. Dench is a prissy school mistress with a crush on one of her pupils – Grazia Magazine’s idea of a strong woman.

As for Craig himself, his body is all wrong. Roger Moore’s body was always that of a slightly overweight middle-aged man with a taste for brandy and cigars. He probably required a stunt double for strenuous walking. Connery, whilst lithe to begin with, was a hairy bread pudding by the early 1970s (hairy everywhere but his head). There’s a scene in Diamonds Are Forever where the delicious Jill St John (who also bedded Henry Kissinger) looks at the naked Connery and says, “Why James, there’s more to you than meets the eye.” Yeah, about 4 stone I’d imagine.
Connery and Moore played their parts in an age when character trumped looks and women were encouraged to find a man attractive well into his seventies. They might have had prostate trouble, but they also had wit and charm. And we, the heterosexual men for whom these movies are made, could watch them and aspire to be them. For the price of a safari jacket, at least.

By contrast, Daniel Craig is the Bond for the Men’s Health Magazine generation – an absurd body that no human being could replicate squeezed into a pair of orange trunks. Gentlemen, Bond has been stolen from us and redesigned to appeal to women. In order to keep the men glued to their seats, the producers throw in lashings of sadistic violence. Without innuendo, Bond has thus become violent feminine pørn. It’s not much fun unless you’re into hard pecs and snapped necks.

How to rescue the series, if we must? Follow this simple formula.
1) Replace Daniel Craig with a slightly older, arthritic actor with a twinkle in his eye. Frankly, I think Roger Moore could still do it.
2) Think big. Have Bond save the world from a giant death ray on Mars. And make sure the villain goes waaaay over budget on uniforms.
3) Give the evil mastermind a strong foreign accent and a parrot.
4) Don’t forget that beyond all this War on Terror stuff, Britain’s nemesis is always Russia. So lots of blonde women in KGB uniforms.
5) Replace the unfunny John Cleese with Rolf Harris.
6) More girls, more guns and a piranha tank

Modern moviemakers increasingly don’t understand what the movies are for. They’re about the creation and nurturing of myth. Folks buy movie tickets to see Johnny Weissmuller swinging through the trees, Raquel Welch fight a pterodactyl, or Beatty and Dunaway evaporate in a hail of bullets. They don’t pay to watch someone else’s idea of what is clever or “zeitgeist defining.” We want magic and mystery. We want invisible cars and Union Jack parachutes. We want Roger Moore. We want the biggest, we want the best, we want Bond. And beyond.




Not a fan of the Craig-era then or anything about what actually WORKS in a James Bond film??

Don't get me started...

[Shamelord]

lol thats' called not living with your times

[Dustin]

Well, some consider themselves experts on Bond and how he should be depicted on screen. And some even know what they are talking about. Not necessarily the same guys...

Although in all fairness this one obviously acts the utter buffoon on purpose, methinks.


EDIT: Oh, at first sight I took the fellow to be an American. I hereby beg the pardon of the American CBners.

[Vauxhall]

Having come across Tim Stanley before, I wouldn't worry too much about his opinions... Not a fan.

[d21089]

sounds like a tosspot but he is welcome to his tosspot opinion i guess

[SecretAgentFan]

It´s not to be taken seriously.

... is it?

[YOLT]

Something missing about the trailer ? Umm I think Istanbul and Turkey (Türkiye indeed) scenes

[DamnCoffee]

Something missing about the trailer ? Umm I think Istanbul and Turkey (Türkiye indeed) scenes

There's some shots at the end of the trailer including Bond jumping onto the train, Bond turning round and firing a gun and the cars falling off the train in front of a jeep. Actually suprised they included them really. Considering they were only filmed a few weeks ago. They must've tweaked the trailer after showing it at the film festival. Also, the flash of Bond with the gun leaning over a dead man in a chair at the start of the trailer is thought to be Turkey, and Bond stepping into the light, before we see Silva walking toward the Lodge.

[x007AceOfSpades]

The man is a troll at best, dealt with these before. They are quite annoying for shore as they cant look and be open minded about Skyfall.

[DamnCoffee]

I know. I originally had a massive post lined up to reply with, but I deleted it. I didn't think it dignified a proper response.

[x007AceOfSpades]

I had dealt with people like him and ignorant people last night that I wrote a post on and a pretty lengthy one too. I had wanted to make a long post too, but I decided that hes not deserving enough of my response (and yours too). He's had his Five minutes of fame already. I mean seriously? Replace Craig with someone who is slightly older? Sure lets get Liam Neeson as if he doesn't get enough action suspense roles nowadays. I mean he's trained Obi Wan, trained Bruce Wayne into becoming Batman, saved his Daugher from sick Albanian sex slavers and creepy sheiks, led the A-Team, hunter down and killed Wolves, and fought his way to get his identity back Let's replace the man whose two Bond films have been the first to gross in the 500 millions and both made a combined total of $1.1 billion dollars.

Edited by x007AceOfSpades, 23 May 2012 - 02:34 PM.

[Mooredefinitive]

The man is a troll at best, dealt with these before. They are quite annoying for shore as they cant look and be open minded about Skyfall.

Then I'm happy to be a troll as well. Curious....how have you "dealt" with these before? Being "open minded" about 007 may very well be the eventual downfall of the series. If you read his column, this is exactly what he is getting at. A recipe is a recipe. Sure you can add a little here and there but eventually it's not going to taste like it was originally intended.

I eluded to what Mr. Stanley said a few days ago...he just put it a great deal better than myself. The tosspots may very well outnumber the lemmings here. They just don't have to courage to step forward.

Then again, courage is no match for an unfriendly shoe.